| Ndugu Mpenzi Rukoma, Hapana, hujashika mita........hilo ni pengele la propaganda yao ambalo lina wika juu ya pesa la kuhongwa.......Laukweli ni kwamba, Nduguye Obama ndiye msema kweli........yeye ana sema na kutenda.....lakini Mitt Romney ametutosheleza na maneno tamuchungu yasio na msingi. Ripoti hilo limeundwa na wenye habari wana Jornalists kwa malipo.... naina julikana ni uongo........Kwahivyo, hatuna wasi wasi...... Ana sema ataleta mabadiliko humu nchini na kutosheleza makazi, na huku ana hamisha makazi nje ya nchi na kufanya watu kuwa maholela bila namna.......watu wafukuzwa makazi kisha ana hamisha na kupotosha makazi kisha duni la nchi inapungua tuna dhiki na raslimali ya uchumi la nchi.......kisha kueneza shida na dhiki dunia nzima........Hana chake ila hata wa Boston na Massachussetts ni kwao nyumbani hana kura, na jee Paul Ryan huko Wisconsin pia kura imeenda kwa Obama.......sasa hata kama hawawezi kufua dafu kwao nyumbani kwa jamii yao, wataweza kupata kura za wanaichi nzima....labda je, wanamuelewa zaidi tabia....? Sasa, ni yupi anafaa.......msema kweli au mtu wa porojo na uongo juu la shibe lao wala makabwela wa 1% wenye mali na kutawala dunia nzima.... WaaFrika pia wajibuni, wajue kupiga bei siyo maliyao inakwepwa na waizi kisha wana kaaaaaaa Fwaaaaaaa.....!!! Sasa basi, elimu ni baraka, walio fungua macho wamemuhama Mitt Romney. Hata Vijiji Jamii la Mormon wa Kanisa lake huko Salt Lake City, 90% of the Community there, wamemuhama wameelekea kwa Obama........natena, je, mwajua kwanini alibubujika na kutokwa na maneno......hebu tizama hilo stori la Detroit........hilo ni mbiu la mgambo nduguwapenzi.....Kuna jambo.....!!!! Waonaje pale, na kisha kura la sawa pia laja.....hilo litatenga na ku hakikisha ukweli wa mambo........kwenye uchaguzi wa haki.........Lisemwalo, liko, na kama haliko iko njiani laja.......Na ukweli ina mulika.......Ama ????? Hakuna mwisho wa kisomo.....Mwenye hekima ata waza na kufumbua mafumbo. Kusoma ni kujielimisha kisha ni kujua hali ya mambo kujimakinika na kujimudu. Usalama wenyu ni usalama wangu ndio sababu nimejitokeza kutoa sauti......na Mungu atatuwia radhi na kutuhepusha maovu na mabaya....... Hebu tujadiliane........!!! Obama wins massive endorsement from ... Mormons? Well, this must be awkward. The Salt Lake Tribune, the paper of record in Salt Lake City — which is also the city with the largest Mormon population in the country — has just gone and endorsed Barack Obama rather than fellow Mormon Mitt Romney. In an editorial, the paper praises and thanks Romney for his outstanding work in 2002, when the Olympics, organized by Romney, showed the world the city's best. But the editors say it was Romney's "shape shifting" during the nomination process, from courting the Tea Party to the GOP's far-right contingent that made them wary of the candidate. The paper calls Obama's leadership "decisive," and says he has earned a second term, whereas Romney "does not deserve a first." [ Source] Click to see more on msnNOW.com, updated 24 hours a day. Romney's Bain Selling Out American Workers to China Mitt Romney and Bain Capital continue to move good, American jobs overseas for big profits. Watch and share the story of Sensata workers in Freeport, Ill., to see how selling out American workers and moving jobs to China continues to line Romney's pockets. nothing against these people - but romney has done worse search Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza. but that is capitalism for you - all the power is with the capital - people without capital - are workers for capital - not his fault -yes, hes a liar and an exploiter - but that is the system. MrIzzyDizzy 2 days ago Greg Palast: "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions From The Rescue of Detroit" DemocracyNow.org - We turn now to a major new exposé on the cover of The Nation magazine called, "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions From The Rescue of Detroit." Investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals how Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made some $15 million on the auto bailout and that three of Romney's top donors made more than $4 billion for their hedge funds from the bailout. Palast's report is part of a film-in-progress called, "Romney's Bailout Bonanza." Palast is the author of several books, including recently released New York Times best seller, "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal An Election in 9 Easy Steps."
To watch the entire weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org. "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit" (1 of 2) The Nation magazine called "Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit." Investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals how Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made some $15 million on the auto bailout and that three of Romney's top donors made more than $4 billion for their hedge funds from the bailout. Palast's report is part of a film-in-progress called "Romney's Bailout Bonanza." Palast is the author of several books, including recently released New York Times bestseller, "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps."
http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) This investigation was supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and by the Puffin Foundation. Elements of it appear in Palast's new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories). Research assistance by Zach D. Roberts, Ari Paul, Nader Atassi and Eric Wuestewald. Mitt Romney's opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney's November 2008 New York Times op-ed, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney's most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys', were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment. About the Author Greg Palast is an economist and financial investigator turned journalist whose series on vulture funds appeared on BBC... Also by the Author Globalization advocates must realize that they're dealing with a new world. It all starts with Delphi Automotive, a former General Motors subsidiary whose auto parts remain essential to GM's production lines. No bailout of GM—or Chrysler, for that matter—could have been successful without saving Delphi. So, in addition to making massive loans to automakers in 2009, the federal government sent, directly or indirectly, more than $12.9 billion to Delphi—and to the hedge funds that had gained control over it. One of the hedge funds profiting from that bailout—
$1.28 billion so far—is Elliott Management, directed by
Paul Singer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Singer has given more to support GOP candidates—$2.3 million—than anyone else on Wall Street this election season. His personal giving is matched by that of his colleagues at Elliott; collectively, they have donated $3.4 million to help elect Republicans this season, while giving only $1,650 to Democrats. And Singer is influential with the GOP presidential candidate; he's not only an informal adviser but, according to the Journal, his support was critical in helping push Representative Paul Ryan onto the ticket. Singer, whom Fortune magazine calls a "passionate defender of the 1%," has carved out a specialty investing in distressed firms and distressed nations, which he does by buying up their debt for pennies on the dollar and then demanding payment in full. This so-called "vulture investor" received $58 million on Peruvian debt that he snapped up for $11.4 million, and $90 million on Congolese debt that he bought for a mere $20 million. In the process, he's built one of the largest private equity firms in the nation, and over decades he's racked up an unusually high average return on investments of 14 percent. Other GOP presidential hopefuls chased Singer's endorsement, but Mitt chased Singer with his own checkbook, investing at least $1 million with Elliott through Ann Romney's blind trust (it could be far more, but the Romneys have declined to disclose exactly how much). Along the way, Singer gained a reputation, according to Fortune, "for strong-arming his way to profit." That is certainly what happened at Delphi. by Laura ClawsonFollow for Daily Kos Labor Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 09:27 AM PDT When, in his first debate with President Obama, Mitt Romney claimed to know nothing about tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, did he spare a thought for workers at Sensata Technologies, a company controlled by Bain Capital with significant investments from Romney himself, who are about to become unemployed as their jobs are moved to China? Romney said to Obama that "you said you get a deduction for taking a plant overseas. Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. I maybe need to get a new accountant." Obama was right; Romney was wrong. Romney wasn't just wrong, though. He was heartless, dismissing the possibility of tax breaks for offshoring plants as a matter for his accountant, not a matter of people's lives and livelihoods. And at the very moment he was saying this, Sensata workers in Illinois were fighting to keep their jobs from going to Chinese replacement workers they had been forced to train themselves. Though Sensata is very profitable, Bain saw a chance for more profits in China, and saw 170 American jobs as disposable in pursuit of that profit. The Sensata workers have been fighting for months, fighting to save their jobs or even to get people to pay attention to what's happening to them. They're not just losing jobs they've held for decades, in some cases. Workers close to retirement won't get their retirement. Instead, they'll get severance. But severance packages were cut shortly before the layoffs were announced, so that, for instance, one worker who would have gotten more than a year of severance pay will now only get 26 weeks. This is a fight for what they've earned through years of hard work. It's a fight for their ability to pay the mortgage or send their kids to college, for their lives as they have lived them for decades working in this plant. They've fought to get a moment of Mitt Romney's attention, anything beyond a canned statement that he has nothing to do with the offshoring he'll profit from. They've camped out outside the factory, and three of their supporters, including the teenage daughter of a Sensata worker, have been arrested trying to block equipment from being moved out of the plant. And for Mitt Romney, this is a glib line about needing a better accountant. It's about squeezing a little more out of the tens of millions of dollars he gets from Bain every year. Not that voters would know anything about it if he did, since he's so determined to hide his tax returns from us peons. We do know that Romney has already gotten personal tax savings for donating Sensata stock to charitable foundations. Beyond that? He won't let us know what he's been up to. It is true that the amount of the tax break Sensata stands to get for moving operations overseas is small compared to the amount it will save by cutting well-paid jobs in America and replacing them with jobs paying 99 cents an hour, 12 hours a day in China. But I guarantee you Romney's accountant knows all about it—and that Romney does, too. Even in the middle of a tight race for president, Mitt Romney doesn't care to help these workers. Maybe if they were from Ohio, not Illinois, things would be different. But they're just workers making him profit, not valuable swing-state voters, so to Romney, these Americans are disposable. Lee Fang on October 12, 2012 - 8:10 PM ET The private equity firm run by Tagg Romney—Mitt's eldest son, who is now taking a leadership role in guiding his father's presidential campaign—misled reporters last year about its involvement with a company run by men accused of taking part in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Last year, I reported that Tagg had formed a business partnership with several North Carolina investors who are still facing a lawsuit for receiving bonus pay for selling CDs as part of the $8 billion Stanford Financial Group Ponzi scheme. In a nutshell, Tagg helped these investors form a company—called Solamere Advisors, a nod to Tagg's firm Solamere Capital—shortly after their boss, Allen Stanford, was caught by law enforcement for his elaborate Ponzi fraud. When I interviewed him in Las Vegas, Tagg told me that his associates were " cleared" of any wrongdoing associated with the Stanford Ponzi scheme. Court documents directly contradict Tagg and show that the lawsuit has not been dismissed. The New York Times followed up on my story with its own report and confirmed that Tagg's business partners received incentive pay for selling bunk Stanford CDs. They wrote about one Stanford victim, a local Charlotte businessman and philanthropist named Herman Stone. Stone was pressured by Brandon Phillips, an executive working now for Tagg's firm, into putting $2 million into a fraudulent Stanford CD and lost everything. Solamere Capital attempted to distance itself from the story by claiming that their business was not actually connected to the Ponzi-tainted firm, Solamere Advisors. In a statement to ABC News, they claimed that their managers, not Solamere Capital itself, were involved (emphasis added): "It is inaccurate to suggest that Solamere Capital made an investment in this firm [Solamere Advisors]. Solamere Capital was approached to invest in a new wealth management firm being launched by these three individuals. After extensive due diligence, Solamere Capital decided not to invest because the business was at an early stage and did not meet our investment criteria. However, Spencer Zwick, Tagg Romney and Eric Scheuermann each own a minority stake in the business as individual investors." However, Solamere Capital's statement, provided to ABC News, is false. Disclosures from the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Tagg's company indeed maintains ties with the Ponzi-linked firm, Solamere Advisors. The claim that Solamere Group didn't invest directly in Solamere Advisors, the firm employing former Stanford employees, appears to have been an attempt to shield Mitt Romney. Mitt invested about $10 million into Tagg's Solamere Capital venture, which would suggest Mitt has a direct financial relationship with folks involved in a Ponzi scheme. That's because Solamere Capital pools together investment money to co-invest in other companies. According to this form and this form filed with the SEC, Solamere Group owns a large stake in Solamere Advisors (referred to in the documents as " CAMG Solamere.") So it is impossible to argue that Solamere Capital—the Romney family's investment company—does not have direct financial ties with Solamere Advisors, the firm filled with executives who sold CDs as part of the Stanford fraud. The Stanford scandal is second only to the case of Bernie Madoff. The disclosures are made on part of the SEC website enhanced by the new Dodd-Frank law, the Wall Street reform Romney says he wants to repeal. For more on the complex web of relationships spun by Tagg Romney's private equity firm, see my new story for The Nation and the Nation Institute. Republican Party voter registration worker: 'I don't get credit for Democrats' By David Edwards
Thursday, October 11, 2012 14:01 EDT A man registering voters in Nevada may have implicated the Republican Party in a felony when was caught on video recently telling potential voters to register "non-partisan" because "I don't get credit for Democrats." Nevada television station KOLO obtained cell phone video of a man, who claimed he worked for the Republican Party, revealing that he was paid by the number of voters he registers, but only if they were not Democrats. "Could you do me a favor?" the man asked a potential voter. "Mark non-partisan on there. I'll get credit for it. I don't get credit for Democrats." "I am a Democrat," he added. "So I still do Democrats if I have to, but I'm working for the Republican Party. I have to get two an hour and I don't get credit for Democrats." According to the Nevada Revised Statutes, "It is unlawful for a person to provide compensation for registering voters that is based upon: (a) The total number of voters a person registers; or (b) The total number of voters a person registers in a particular political party." Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, told KOLO that he prosecuted ACORN in 2008 for paying bonuses based on the number of registrations, but enforcing the law might not be possible in this case because there was no clear violation. "It is alarming that he was making some suggestion that he wouldn't be credited for a registration if it came under a particular party affiliation, but there's no explanation what that meant," Miller said. A spokesperson for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said that he was not aware of any paid workers registering voters on behalf of the campaign when that video was recorded last Friday, the station reported. Watch this video from KOLO, broadcast Oct. 10, 2012. Voter Register Caught On Video: "I Don't Get Credit For Democrats" Posted: Fri 12:25 PM, Oct 12, 2012
As the final deadline for voter registration draws near, political parties are scrambling to get their people signed up. Along the way some of their tactics are raising eyebrows. A KOLO 8 viewer caught one example on his cell phone Friday. Noticing a man registering voters outside the main post office on Vassar he says he couldn't believing what he was hearing as he passed. So he returned to engage the man in conversation and took video of it all on his cell phone.. It all seemed normal at first. "It's your last hour to register to vote," the man said. "Are you registering both parties?" our viewer asked. The man said yes, but then the conversation took the same strange turn our viewer thought he'd heard in passing. "Could you do me a favor?" the man asked. "Mark non-partisan on there. I'll get credit for it. I don't get credit for Democrats. I am a Democrat," he continued. "So I still do Democrats if I have to, but I'm working for the Republican Party. I have to get two an hour and I don't get credit for Democrats." There are legal boundaries which can be crossed when you pay someone to register voters. According to Secretary of State Ross Miller it's a felony to compensate someone for registering if you compensate them based on the total number of voters they are registering. In fact, in 2008 Miller did prosecute the now defunct ACORN organization. "In ACORN we obtained a criminal conviction because they were paying bonuses based on the total number they were able to register. The Supreme Court upheld that," says Miller. But the law does allow for an employer to set performance standards. in this case. It's not clear what the payment arrangement was, "It is alarming that he was making some suggestion that he wouldn't be credited for a registration if it came under a particular party affiliation, but there's no explanation what that meant." Bottom line: The man's request was inappropriate, perhaps even disturbing, but the video didn't show a clear violation of the law. Once someone has filled out a voter registration form, that form must be turned in within 10 days. There have been allegations that may not always happen. "We have had complaints this cycle that forms have been destroyed by political parties if people don't register with that political party and so we urge people to log onto our website and make sure that they are, in fact, registered." That website is http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=3 Miller says if they see a problem they should report it to his office for investigation. A spokesman for the Romney campaign says to his knowledge, they had only volunteer, no paid voter register people in the field last Friday. He acknowledged that independent groups have had voter registration drives. Republican worker hired to collect voter registration forms caught 'dumping them in the trash'
PUBLISHED:23:00 EST, 18 October 2012| UPDATED:13:13 EST, 19 October 2012  Fraud: Colin Small, 31, of Pennsylvania, has been arrested for alleged voter fraud after he was caught trying to destroy voter registration forms in Virginia A man hired by the Republican Party of Virginia to register voters in the state has been arrested for alleged voter fraud after he was caught trying to destroy registration forms, according to police.
The suspect, 31-year-old Colin Small of Pheonixville, Pennsylvania, was described by police as a 'supervisor' in a Republican-financed operation to register voters. Small was arrested after a store owner in Harrisonburg, Virginia spotted him throwing a trash bag into a dumpster belonging to the store -- which is located in the same shopping center as the town's local GOP headquarters.
The store owner, Rob Johnson, says he was agitated by Small's use of his 'private' dumpster so he marched out to the trash container to fish out the bag.
'When I reached in and picked up the bag, I thought it was an empty bag and that's when I opened it up and saw just the single manilla folder with the eight or nine applications inside,' Johnson toldWHSV in Rockingham County.
'If I really wanted to take advantage of the situation, I could have had eight or nine nice credit cards,' Johnson added. 'All the information was there!'
Small was charged Thursday with 13 felony misdemeanor counts relating to voter fraud, including one count of obstruction of justice, four counts of destruction of voter registration applications and eight counts of disclosure of voter registration applications.
 Spotted: Harrisonburg store owner Rob Johnson caught Small tossing voter registration forms in a dumpster that is in the same shopping center as the town's GOP headquarters
Police say that while Small was working for the Republican Party, his crime was not politically motivated because in Virginia, voters do not indicate a political party on voter registration forms. There was no way for Small to know whether the forms he was tossing belonged to Democrats or Republicans. The forms were thrown out on Oct. 15, the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming Nov. 6 election.
Small was employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was contracted by the Virginia Republican Party to register voters in the battleground state.
Small's employment was terminated upon his arrest and Virginia Republicans have since tried to distance themselves from the incident.  Working for Republicans: Small was employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was contracted by the Virginia Republican Party to register voters in the battleground state
Party chairman Pat Mullins said he alarmed by the allegations, which he noted are a 'direct contradiction' to Small's training and instructions.
Pinpoint, the company Small worked for, has been hired in the past by Republican consulting firm Strategic Allied Consulting, which was recently fired by the Republican National Committee following reports that its workers had submitted hundreds of suspicious voter registrations in Florida, according to NBC News.
The Virginia Democratic Party is requesting an investigation into whether the alleged voter fraud is widespread, although Harrisonburg police said it appears to be an isolated incident.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220265/Republican-worker-charged-voter-fraud-throwing-voter-registration-forms-dumpster.html#ixzz29x0vBbIh
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Unsuspecting voters caught in GOP registration scandal Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Posted: 7:44 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 South Carolina residents George and Carolyn Schiessl won't be voting in Palm Beach County this November. But somebody tried to make sure they could. Carolyn Schiessl said the only recent political conversation she had was to allow her name to be used as a supporter of Mitt Romney. But no one has contacted her about voter registration in Palm Beach County — and why would they, she added: "I live in South Carolina." Paperwork using the Schiessls' name is among 106 suspect voter registration documents at the heart of a criminal investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. All were submitted by Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm linked to controversial Arizona political consultant Nathan Sproul. Sproul, who has done millions of dollars in business for Republicans over the years — including work for the Mitt Romney campaign — was fired by both the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Florida when irregularities here and in 10 other Florida counties surfaced last month. A Palm Beach Post review of the 106 Palm Beach County voter registration forms shows that the overwhelming majority are for Republican voters. Few were for new voters; instead, more than half involved obtaining a replacement voter registration card or placing a new signature on file with the supervisor of elections. Among the red flags: • Out-of-state residents from Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, New York and South Carolina all filed registration paperwork for Palm Beach County voter credentials. Dozens more listed addresses in Florida cities outside the county, including Orlando, Clearwater and Jacksonville. • Several people filed paperwork requesting replacement voter cards from Palm Beach County, yet there was no record of them ever having been a registered voter. • Of the 106 voter forms, roughly 45 did not provide mandatory identification such as the last four digits of a Social Security number or a driver's license. • More than a half-dozen forms listed business addresses, rather than residences, as required. For instance, a couple identifying themselves as Anna and Abraham Abramovich tried to register using the address of a Shell gas station on Alton Road in Miami Beach. Signatures for both were very similar in style to other signatures in the batch of 106 registration forms, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said. Two registrants offered the same address — 915 S. Dixie Hwy, the address of Palm Beach Motorcars, the Jaguar, Aston Martin, Land Rover and Fisker luxury auto dealership in downtown West Palm Beach. They were signed with the names Sam Samuel and Robert Simpson. Robert W. Simpson Jr. is the president of Palm Beach Motorcars. Contacted at his office on Wednesday and asked if he had legitimately submitted the flagged voter registration paperwork, Simpson said he was aware of the situation but couldn't discuss it because "it's being investigated by the Florida law enforcement agency." Other items concerned Bucher. A voter who wrote down a Boca Raton address reportedly moved to North Carolina in 2009. An Orlando man had a signature substantially different from the signature already on file. In fact, a number of signatures looked alike, Bucher said. Strategic Allied fired William T. Hazard of Boynton Beach on Sept. 18, about two weeks after Bucher's Palm Beach Gardens office detected irregularities with forms he collected. Hazard, 50, told the Los Angeles Times that he was paid $12 an hour and not paid by number of forms, so he said he would have had no incentive to falsify applications. Brian Burgess, communications director for the Republican Party of Florida, said he's convinced the irregularities were the result of a few bad employees. "The media would love to think this was an organized effort. Obviously what you have here is a bad apple, maybe two or three," Burgess said. Strategic Allied was paid $1.3 million this summer by the party at the behest of the Republican National Committee, which sent it and other swing states "victory dollars" to pay for voter turnout initiatives, he said. "They had a program already designed, they had a vendor in mind and so we followed their lead," Burgess said of the RNC. Sproul's company was assigned with "registering as many people as possible before the deadline," Burgess said. FDLE investigators need to move quickly, said Scott Arceneaux, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, so that that election supervisors can weed out problem registrations before Election Day. He called on the Republican Party of Florida to be more forthcoming about what they knew and when they knew it. "It takes a lot of brass to argue and scream about voter fraud for a year and a half when you are the ones committing the voter fraud. And that's what we have seen here." It's not the first time a Sproul firm has encountered controversy. Sproul and his companies never have been formally charged with wrongdoing. But starting in 2004, two U.S. senators and a congressman asked for federal investigations of Sproul's voter registration activities. Allegations of possible criminal activity in registration campaigns triggered inquiries by attorneys general or elections officials in three states. In Washington, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., this month asked Sproul to appear before staff of the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Sproul refused. Writing on behalf of his client, attorney Frederick Petti said, "Although Mr. Sproul appreciates your offer … he believes that the most appropriate avenue is to remain clear of the realm of politics, especially given the closeness of Election Day." 'Irregular' registrationsThe state is investigating whether 106 registration forms filed in Palm Beach County by one company working for the GOP constitute criminal fraud. The Palm Beach Post inspected the records Wednesday through a public records request after pursuing them for two weeks. Obama camp knocks Romney's 'chest-pounding' foreign policy White House CorrespondenThe Ticket – 3 hrs ago  A girl wearing a Big Bird sweater waves at President Barack Obama at the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene, …KEENE, Calif.—President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the White House defended his handling of world affairs from a scathing attack by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, arguing that the former Massachusetts governor is fond of "chest-pounding" and "saber-rattling."
"This is somebody who leads with chest-pounding rhetoric," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One. "He's surrounded himself with a number of people who were advisers to past President Bush, people who have used saber-rattling rhetoric when it comes to Syria and Iran," she said. "And that's something that we think the American people should take a look at." But she also claimed that Romney's speech at the Virginia Military Institute aimed to "reboot" his foreign policy after a series of troubled attempts—notably a summertime overseas trip marred by verbal missteps. "When you're commander in chief you don't get to bring an Etch A Sketch into the Oval Office. You don't get second chances, never mind seventh chances," she said. (But presidential foreign policy has to adapt: Obama's approach to Iran, for example, went from offering unconditional negotiations during the 2008 campaign to overseeing the toughest economic sanctions regime against Tehran by 2012.) Psaki noted Romney's criticisms of the troop withdrawal from Iraq, saying "that's one of the president's proudest accomplishments." And she scolded the Republican for saying Obama had not signed any trade agreements, calling that charge "absurd" and "inaccurate" since the president "renegotiated" commercial pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama and then signed them. White House press secretary Jay Carney accused Romney of making "an attempt to draw a distinction and to suggest that this president's commitment to Israel's security is not strong." "And yet Israel's leaders themselves have said that military cooperation and support, and intelligence cooperation and support from this president and this administration is unprecedented in the U.S.-Israeli relationship," Carney said. Obama's personal relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is famously frosty, and Romney is closer to Netanyahu on the Iran nuclear issue. Obama has said he won't rule out the use of military force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Romney (and Netanyahu) has said the key is preventing Tehran from attaining the ability to build a nuclear weapon. On Iran, "there has been a lot of heated rhetoric and chest-thumping," Carney told reporters. "But every concrete prescription that the president's critics, including Gov. Romney, have put forward—concrete prescriptions that make sense—have been acted on," he said. Psaki and Carney also defended Obama's handling of the broader Middle East. Romney "said that the president and his team are not doing enough when it comes to Syria, when it comes to Libya, and several events in the Middle East," Psaki said. "What exactly are they suggesting we do? What exactly is their plan and their proposal? So if they're going farther, they should say that."
--- On Sun, 10/21/12, Augustine Rukoma <arukoma66@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Augustine Rukoma <arukoma66@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mabadiliko] Romney Hijacked and Running away with President Obama's Reform/Recovery Plan......
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Date: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 6:05 AM
KAMATA HIYO JUDY UZIDI KUTUDANGANYA VIZURI Mitt Romney Surges in Presidential Polls; Leads in Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado Presidential Poll Roundup - Oct. 9By Micah Taylor | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Tue, Oct 9, 2012 Mitt Romney continues to surge in the polls after a strong performance in the first presidential debate last week. Romney now leads in three swing states; Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado. He is also tied with President Barack Obama in another important battleground state, and has taken the lead in some national polls as well. Ohio In the week before the first debate, Obama was routinely winning polls in the Buckeye State. Since his defeat last week, Obama has lost two out of three. The latest poll by ARG shows Romney up 1 point, 48-47 percent. The poll surveyed 600 likely voters with a 4 percent margin of error. The polling sample was taken entirely after the first debate, showing the race there may have significantly shifted in Romney's favor. Colorado A second ARG poll taken in Colorado also shows Romney ahead. In the survey of 600 likely voters, Romney led by 4 points, 50-46 percent. Obama had lost only one poll of Colorado in all of September. Since the debate, the president has lost two out of four. Nevada A new Rasmussen poll of Nevada shows the race tied. The survey of 500 likely voters found Obama and Romney knotted at 47 percent each. The poll had a 4.5 percent margin of error. Prior to the debate, the president had led in every poll of Nevada except one. North Carolina Romney has expanded his lead in North Carolina. A new poll by Gravis Marketing has Romney up by 9 points over Obama, 50-41 percent. The poll surveyed 1,325 likely voters with a 2.9 percent margin of error. This is a five point increase over the last poll, conducted by Rasmussen the day before the first debate. Pennsylvania It's not all bad news for Obama, although a new poll out of Pennsylvania could have been better. Obama remains in the lead in Pennsylvania, but his large lead has vanished. A Siena poll found Obama up by 3 points over Romney, 43-40 percent. The poll of 545 likely voters had a 4.2 percent margin of error. The poll was conducted from Oct. 1-5, straddling the debate evenly. Obama had led in every poll of the state in September, sometimes by double digits. This new result indicates the state may be swinging back to a toss-up. National Polls Two national tracking polls show the race continues to narrow nationally. The Gallup Seven Day Tracking Poll shows Obama's lead in the poll down to 3 points, 49-46 percent. The Rasmussen Three Day Tracking Poll has the candidates tied at 48 percent. Gallup released a separate report showing Romney ahead of Obama by 2 percent among likely voters, but Obama ahead 3 points with registered voters. The report indicates that get-out-the-vote operations are going to be key to the success of both campaigns.
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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Mabadiliko] Romney Hijacked and Running away with President Obama's Reform/Recovery Plan......
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Folks, Without Mitt Romney producing his own principles of his Plan, he is busy eating away from President Obama's Recovery Acts Agenda; which he must not be let to settle on. Mitt must be thoroughly exposed to force him to produce his own plan. Why wouldnt Romney produce his plan for which he should remain steadfast and consistent so to be trusted........???......Will he win without a concrete plan or should he be left to run away with President Obama's........??? Is Romney being Truthful.......??? Why wont he be cornered......??? OR should he be left to keep a secret which many people suspect that he is running in someone elses shadow; where many speculate he could be running for Bush Plan..........it is why people want to know........ President Obama must own his Recovery Acts Agenda, state them in point form and continue to expose Gov. Romney on his diagnosed condition of Romnesia.....so he can produce what he stand for without taking people for a ride. Yea, President Obama must not let Mitt Romney cloth himself with Obama Recovery Agenda and be let to run away with it. It is the reason why Mitt Romney and Team are now claiming that President Obama has no plan for his second-term........Very tricky calculation.....Do you see that ? Which is why Romney does not have a trusted New Deal, the square deal, or the fair deal .....but Romney is trying to sell a "sketchy deal". This is for sure unacceptable trading practice......It is a practise which has failed the test of time and is bound to put many people to unprecedented risk which must be rejected by all good people and for cover-up, Romney is running with Obama Plan.
This is where President Obama must attack and hit with deadly jabs and expose the condition of Romnesia even more........President Obama must stay in form and beat the condition boxing Mitt to the corner till he tells American people his plan........ There is no otherwise.......Mitt must not be left to get away with it....... Every time Mitt open his mouth telling a lie, Obama must pounce him with a solid jab of facts.......while he asserts is Achievements and Way Forward Strategy of Recovery Agenda......Lists from Jobs, Education, Healthcare, Security and Foreign policy must be well articulated in point forms........ Obama chides GOP: Help homeownersBy Mary Bruce | ABC OTUS News – 3 hrs ago | President Obama uses his weekly address to tout his efforts to revive the housing industry, casting himself as a take-charge president and slamming Republicans for standing in the way of progress. "I never believed that the best way to deal with the housing market was to just sit back, do nothing, and simply wait for things to hit bottom. That would have been a disaster for all the responsible families who - through no fault of their own - were struggling to make ends meet," Obama says in a not-so-subtle jab at GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Instead, the president says he has made helping homeowners a top priority. "Construction workers are breaking ground on new homes in America at the fastest pace in more than four years," Obama boasts. "More homes are being sold. Home values are back on the rise." The president admits, "we're not where we need to be yet," but says "one of the heaviest drags on our recovery is getting lighter." Obama urges lawmakers to act on his proposal to help responsible homeowners refinance at today's lower rates. "It's a plan that we know will work. It has the support of independent, nonpartisan economists and leaders across the housing industry. It's a no-brainer that should have passed easily," he says. "But Republicans in Congress banded together and kept this plan from even coming to a vote." The president accuses Republicans of holding back the economic recovery: "Let's be honest - Republicans in Congress won't act on this plan before the election. But maybe they'll come to their senses afterward if you give them a push," he says. Romney Backs Away From Own Tax Plan  Mitt Romney
At the first presidential debate in Colorado Wednesday night, former Gov. Mitt Romney disputed a central criticism of his tax reform plan — and appeared to disavow one of its central features. Responding to President Obama's description of Romney's proposal, Romney claimed: "I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of the scale you're talking about. I think we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class. But I won't reduce the share of tax paid by high-income people. … I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce revenues going to the government. My number one principal is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. I want to underline that no tax cut that will add to the deficit." So who's right? Romney has run for months on a plan to lower everyone's tax rates by 20 percent — an amount that independent analysts have concluded will reduce revenues by $5 trillion over 10 years. Romney has also insisted that his plan will be deficit neutral and that it won't increase taxes on the middle class. But according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center and other analysts, Romney won't be able to make good on both of those latter promises. According to TPC, even if Romney closes all loopholes and deductions for high-income earners, that alone will not account for all the revenue he loses because of the rate cut. Thus, to make the overall plan deficit neutral he'd have to raise the tax burden on middle income Americans. Faced with this basic description, Romney said, "If the tax plan he described were a tax plan I was asked to support, I would say absolutely not." Bill Clinton Breaks Down Mitt Romney's Tax Plan 'Illusion' For Obama Campaign (VIDEO)
President Clinton Explains Mitt Romney's $5 Trillion Tax Cut
Share this: http://OFA.BO/7GJS7jTweet this: http://OFA.BO/GAjtKEPresident Clinton explains Mitt Romney's $5 trillion tax cut and how middle class families with children will get an average tax increase of $2,000 to pay for $250,000 in tax cuts for multi-millionaires.
As President Clinton shares:
"In the first debate, Governor Romney said that he wasn't really going to cut taxes on upper income people—he only wanted to cut taxes for middle class people. That's not true." Posted: 10/16/2012 10:19 am Updated: 10/16/2012 6:02 pm Former President Bill Clinton reprised his role as President Barack Obama's " secretary of explaining stuff" on Tuesday, starring in a new video seeking to debunk the vague details of Mitt Romney's tax plan. The Obama campaign has frequently attempted to characterize Romney's plan as one that will provide a windfall to the wealthiest Americans and shift the tax burden onto the middle class. Obama has also repeated the conclusions of a number of analysts in attacking the blueprint as one that can not possibly remain deficit neutral, as Romney claims. Romney has said that he'll make up for lost revenue by eliminating tax loopholes, but he's refused to specify which ones, a detail that has left him open to criticism. During the first presidential debate, however, Romney argued that it was Obama's math that was incorrect, not his. Obama was subsequently criticized by some for not pushing back more aggressively. In the video above, Clinton explains some of the specifics that Obama could have used to make his case. "We simply cannot afford to give another round of tax cuts to people who got the benefit of the tax cuts and the economic growth of the last decade," Clinton says. "It hasn't worked before, and it won't work this time." The video likely won't receive broadcast airtime, as it's longer than 2 minutes, but it could be a sign that the president has gotten some useful advice from his "secretary of explaining stuff" in anticipation of Tuesday's meeting with Romney.
"Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and fewer regulations ...all of us will prosper. He'd double down on the same trickle down policies that led to the crisis in the first place." - Barack Obama Mitt Romney's 'new math' for jobs plan doesn't add up Posted by Glenn Kessler at 06:02 AM ET, 10/16/2012 TheWashingtonPost "Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs when President Obama couldn't. First, my energy independence policy means more than 3 million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing. My tax reform plan to lower rates for the middle class and for small business creates 7 million more. And expanding trade, cracking down on China and improving job training takes us to over 12 million new jobs." — Mitt Romney, "in his own words," in a campaign television ad Romney's 12-million-jobs promise has garnered a lot of attention. We became interested in this ad after a reader asked whether the campaign had provided much detail on how he would reach this total. This television ad is also prominently featured on the Romney campaign's " Jobs Plan" Web page. The math here appears pretty simple: 7 plus 3 plus 2 equals 12. But this is campaign math, which means it is mostly made of gossamer. Let's take a look. As we have noted before, the 12 million figure is not a bad bet by Romney. Moody's Analytics, in an August forecast, predicts 12 million jobs will be created by 2016, no matter who is president. And Macroeconomic Advisors in April also predicted a gain of 12.3 million jobs. In any case, four of Romney's top economic advisers — R. Glenn Hubbard (Dean of Columbia Business School), N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard professor), John B. Taylor (Stanford professor) and Kevin A. Hassett (American Enterprise Institute scholar) — co-wrote a white paper that lays out the case that Romney's spending, tax and regulatory policies would yield a more robust recovery — adding 250,000 jobs a month — that would result in 12 million jobs over four years. The analysis, which is prominently posted on the Romney campaign Web site, concludes: "If we had a recovery that was just the average of past recoveries from deep recessions, like those of 1974-1975 or 1981-1982, the economy would be creating about 200,000 to 300,000 jobs per month. By changing course away from the policies of the current administration and ending economic uncertainty, as proposed by the Romney plan, we expect that the current recovery will align with the average gains of similar past recoveries. History shows that a recovery rooted in policies contained in the Romney plan will create about 12 million jobs in the first term of a Romney presidency." But the specifics — 7 million plus 3 million plus 2 million — mentioned by Romney in the ad are not in the white paper. So where did that come from? We asked the Romney campaign, and the answer turns out to be: totally different studies … with completely different timelines. For instance, the claim that 7 million jobs would be created from Romney's tax plan is a 10-year number, derived from a study written by John W. Diamond, a professor at Rice University. This study at least assesses the claimed effect of specific Romney policies. The rest of the numbers are even more squishy. For instance, the 3-million-jobs claim for Romney's energy policies appears largely based on a Citigroup Global Markets study that did not even evaluate Romney's policies. Instead, the report predicted 2.7 million to 3.6 million jobs would be created over the next eight years, largely because of trends and policies already adopted — including tougher fuel efficiency standards that Romney has criticized and suggested he would reverse. The 2-million-jobs claim from cracking down on China is also very suspicious. This figure comes from a 2011 International Trade Commission report, which estimated that there could be a gain of 2.1 million jobs if China stopped infringing on U.S. intellectual property rights. The estimate is highly conditional and pegged to the job market in 2011, when there was high unemployment. "It is unclear when China might implement the improvement in IPR protection envisioned in the analysis, and equally unclear whether the United States will face as much excess labor supply then as it does today," the report says. The Romney campaign has already used this study, in a misleading way, to claim that Obama's China "policies cost us 2 million jobs." Now the campaign has just taken the same figure and credited the claimed job gain to itself, even though the report does not examine any of Romney's proposed policies. "The big point is the 3+7+2 does not make up the 12 million jobs in the first four years (different source of growth and different time period)," Hubbard acknowledged in an e-mail. This is a case of bait-and-switch. Romney, in his convention speech, spoke of his plan to create "12 million new jobs," which the campaign's white paper describes as a four-year goal. But the candidate's personal accounting for this figure in this campaign ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as long as a decade — which in two cases are based on studies that did not even evaluate Romney's economic plan. The numbers may still add up to 12 million, but they aren't the same thing — not by a long shot. In many ways, this episode offers readers a peek behind a campaign wizard's curtain — and a warning that job-creation claims by any campaign should not be accepted at face value. The white paper at least has the credibility of four well-known economists behind it, but the "new math" of this campaign ad does not add up. As readers know, we tend to judge more harshly claims in prepared speeches or ads that were the result of considered discussion by political aides. Clearly, some clever campaign staffer thought it would be nice to match up poll-tested themes such as "energy independence," "tax reform" and "cracking down on China" with actual job numbers. We just find it puzzling that Romney agreed to personally utter these words without asking more questions about the math behind them.
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