Considering the fact that prior to being elected President, Barrack Obama hardly had a job and quite possibly never even worked for a “for profit” company, he seems mighty confident in criticizing Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s record of achievement let alone his net jobs created record at Bain Capital.
The President stood there this week talking about how Romney’s work experiences from Bain Capital to the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics to Governor of Massachusetts hardly prepared him to be President of the United States.
President Obama seems to think his three years in office give him the experience edge even in light of the multiple failures of his administration. He can legitimately claim credit for taking out bin Laden. It took ten years to track him down and whether the Bush Administration contributed to the successful outcome or not, US military forces got the job done. So is that the foundation of his Foreign Policy? I read somewhere that right up to the hour before the mission was launched, Valerie Jarret was pushing Obama to abandon the mission.
The Arab Spring will prove to be significant in history as the time when America could have helped shape the evolution of free society in the Middle East but twiddled our thumbs as the opportunity faded away.
Then of course there is the Keystone Pipeline deal that had been through the approval process but needed Presidential approval that fell by the wayside in spite of the tens of thousands of jobs that would be created, the Solyndra half billion dollar debacle, the Fast and Furious guns to Mexico deal and the million dollar GSA junket to Vegas as examples of the President’s record of either personally deciding or delegating decisions to his appointees; example after example of failures of leadership to be sure but indicators also of a seriously incompetent or corrupt administration.
The President can talk about Romney’s record all he wants but how can he not expect us to compare Romney’s record to his own.
I’m still astonished with the way the General Motors deal was done. Rather than letting the company enter some form of bankruptcy protection that would give the share holders and managers time to renegotiate debt payments and labor contracts the President instructed the government to seize the company, infuse it with enough federal stimulus money to get it through the financial crisis in exchange for high priority shares of stock rendering privately held shares relatively worthless while at the same time preserving the labor contracts that contributed so much to the underlying problems. Is that even legal?
The President talks about how he is a job creator but in my mind, jobs that go away when the government money goes away are not jobs. A real job is a man or woman creating something of value that someone else is willing to pay a market price for. A real job sustains itself.
My final issue is the glut of regulation that flows out of the various federal departments. Anyone who has ever been in business knows the impact changing regulations to a business plan. If you don’t know how the Obama Health Care law will impact your business, it’s not likely that you will hire new employees unless your existing workers are being worked to the bone. Unpredictable regulatory times are a huge impediment to job creation. But it isn’t just the changes, it’s the volume of the regulations. Thousands of pages of new federal regulations fly out of the Environmental Protection Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Department of Education and the Department of Transportation each week.
President Obama needs to show us examples of how his buddy politics policies have created jobs since so many of his showcase plays have been unmitigated disasters.
The President should be careful how he characterizes Romney’s qualifications since his own record shows he clearly had no experience at anything except being a slick talking lawyer before he was elected.
I don’t believe Obama has ever served a full term of office in any job he ran for so his record as a legislator is bare as well.
If there were ever a “Do Nothing, Done Nothing!” president, Obama is tops.
No Loss for Words 
Trump: My candidate for America!
by Steve DanaWhere do I begin?
I’m getting tired of the right wing pundits pounding Trump as hard as the predictable left wingers will. Folks I know who have been good Republicans for many years are now crazy NEVER TRUMPERS. They suddenly become voters with a conscience with Trump when they were silent before with Romney and McCain before him. Talk about do nothing candidates.
Last year before the primaries started, there were sixteen other candidates running for president ranging from private sector smart guys Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to very experienced politicians with leanings from fairly middle of the road to very conservative; governors, senators and representatives in the congress. There has never been a more experienced and highly regarded gang of presidential wannabees.
So when the Republican primaries are over and Donald Trump is the winner of the election process, some of these pundits and party insiders are outraged because the voters chose a guy they don’t like. A guy whose persona offends them. A guy who is characterized as unqualified to serve because he lacks political experience. A guy they didn’t pick.
Let me tell you, the current president was elected enthusiastically twice without a lick of experience at anything besides “smooth talking”. Frankly, the candidates MY PARTY put out there mostly had a very common characteristic, that of being a lawyer. Remind me what lawyer you can remember who has a résumé with any accomplishments of note. Being a professional elected official with a lawyer background is not a case for accomplishment or qualification.
If you listen to some of our most respected inventors and innovators and they will tell you that their success was not the product of a single try, but a lengthy list of failures leading up to a winner. Jeff Bezos is a champion of trying and failing. Then we get a look at the characterization of Trump and he’s branded a loser because of his failures. Remember the smart guys tell you the only people not making mistakes are people not trying.
The right wing pundits are not happy with Trump even though he was the last man standing after a very lengthy, bloody primary process. Even after a campaign lacking decorum and a seeming lack of reverence and respect for the job he aspires to, the voters still chose Trump and rejected the field.
Now the never Trumpers are willing to vote for Clinton so there is a clear path for a “REAL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE” to run in 2020. Talk about major stupid! What about what happens during the next four years? How about those SCOTUS appointments? How about border security? How about family wage jobs fleeing our country to the beneficiaries of NAFTA, WTO and now TPP?
Let’s be clear, I was not a Trump supporter when this process started. I would love to have a Constitutional Conservative in the White House to help restore the Constitution in it’s original form as the guiding document for our government. I believe in States Rights. The corruption of the Constitution through crazy Supreme Court rulings that justify ignoring the words clearly outlined in the Bill of Rights and the Amendments distresses me to no end.
I have no illusions about Trumps conservativism. He’s not a conservative. But, he is an American patriot who recognizes the perils of GLOBALISM. The movement trying to diminish the sovereignty of countries in an effort to improve international trade to the benefit of who? Clearly not American workers. Where I would like to see opportunities for farmers and manufacturers in my state to sell their products overseas, it cannot be after we sell our working class down the river. The boardroom characters who see international borders as an impediment to profits can take a flying leap. If the folks running for office don’t put America and American interests first, then where will that leave Ameria? We are being reduced down to a supposed educated elite segment, public employee unions and a service sector economy riding roughshod over the remaining small business owners and middle American taxpayers. None of these groups contributes a thing to GDP. The measure of our economic health is GDP and growth of GDP.
Which of those reliable Republican candidates who lost to Trump were the ones the pundits and conservatives thought should have been the nominee? My first choice candidate was Ted Cruz since he was a Constitutional Conservative, but like Trump, those party elitists couldn’t stand Ted because he actually had principles and honored his promise to the voters in his state to fight for better government. Absolutely vilified by his colleagues in the Senate, by the members of the Republican caucus in the House and by the right wing media. Ted had balls and stood up for principles and he was torched.
Yet, the two candidates who were standing at the end of the election process were Trump and Ted. The darlings of the party were dispatched one after the other. What does that tell you about the sense of the traditional party insiders in measuring their voters?
It had to be very painful to the party insiders to have to hold their noses when they tried to get on the Ted Train to derail the Trump Train. They had to support one guy they hated to hopefully squash a guy they hated more. And, where are the darlings of the Party? Up the trail, whining in their beer!
What I hope to see from Trump is the side his family members tell us exists that will give me confidence that he can be a level headed leader who can appeal to American unity more than Obama. If he is a champion of women and minorities in his business empire, he needs to bring those folks out for the rest of us to see and hear from. I know that if I ask Clinton or Sanders or even Obama how many jobs they have personally created they won’t have an answer for me. Or, how many contracts or treaties they have negotiated personally that might demonstrate their negotiating skills and they won’t have any examples. How about listing any accomplishments in their working life that might suggest they have the skills or life experiences remotely qualifying them to run for anything, let alone President of the United States.
If the only qualification for the job based upon the pundits and the elitists is years in government and nothing else, we are in serious trouble. That is why the people are rising up today. The people are sick of the party elite picking lawyers and Goldman Sachs finance guys as the leadership since they will reliably kiss the ring of the industrialists. Surprise, surprise!
Donald Trump is the candidate that reflects the will of the Republican Party voters so the party elite better get used to the idea. What is troubling to me is the failure of our elected official to honor their voters in favor of the lobbyists and contributors. They need our votes but sell out for the money. A Donald Trump sends the message that our votes are not for sale and where we would have liked to support a traditional Republican candidate, there weren’t any out there we could trust. I’ll take my chances with Trump. He may not be a proper politician, but proper politicians are proven losers.
Vote for America this November by voting for Donald Trump!
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