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Money Threatens To Overwhelm Election

 

Today brings sobering news of the big piles of money the Mittens Romney is hauling in. It is something to be concerned about, true, but there are a couple of angles to view this from. Who is donating all of this money and what about the Super Pacs? Are they counting that in? Are the old, white Republicans scraping the bottom of their tea pots and sending all that in? Some, maybe, but it is mostly the other rich folks that are building up his coffers.Remember last election, Obama got millions in from the rank and file Democrats. Even though they don't seem to be breaking out the cash this time, maybe it is all relative. Maybe in comparison, it just doesn't seem enough this time. We know the rich folks are lining up to elect that elitist, little creep Mittens, so it's natural that they are giving all they can to him. Maybe their maximum trumps the $5-$10 bucks the idealists are sending to Obama.

That may be, but even if they have lots more spending cash, it doesn't mean they are automatically going to win. As a former advertising person, I know that a quality use of the money that you do have can be effective against a larger expenditure of funds. In other words, work smart, not hard. Make every ad count, use alternative methods, be strategic in placement and even if we don't have as much as the richie-riches of the world, we still have a big bunch of money to spend. Last election, Obama's people were so smart in the way they ran the campaign. Don't let their big bucks intimidate you guys, be like the pit bull in the back yard, "Sic "em."

It has to be pointed out, early and often, that this man cannot and will not represent the majority of Americans. The people that hate Obama may never be convinced but the fence sitters might be and we need to target them. It also has to be pointed out, as much as possible, that this Republican has huge, huge amounts of his own money. Not a few million, but millions and millions and yet he seems so low class and sleazy. Yeah, sleazy is a real good word for him and his pathetic wife. Show them in your ads, with their poor, dead dog, their crippled horse that they pawned off on some other unsuspecting rich people. These are just what we already know, there must be many more unsavory things to go after him with. I know, I know, that is sooo negative. You have to know at this point, if Obama doesn't go down and dirty and do it soon, it won't matter how much money both of them waste on this quest. Tax returns are an issue, get on it, Team Obama, every day! Go after this from every angle that make Mittens look bad. Use other Dems money, too. get after them!

Major Decisions Loom

 

So, we again find ourselves with a national election on the horizon. It's tense while the opposing sides spend millions to help us decide. The Super Pacs alone have spent more already than both sides in thelast election. All of this loose money being spent really breaks my heart. How many poor people could be fed with that money and how many teachers, firefolk and cops could be hired with it? Why do these politicians spend so much money to win us over, why is that power that they win so important? They can't want to get elected for the salary, it just isn't up to the standards of the private sector. The bankers and lobbyist make piles and piles of loot, every year. No, politicians aren't trying to get in for the money offered there. 352 members of Congress have left office since 1978 and 79% of them have worked as lobbyist since then. Hmmm...I guess we just never put two and two together; we trusted them to do their jobs for the reasons they were elected. Nearly 42% of the House are already millionaires and 67% of the Senate are in the same club, and they are the ones that will decide on how to tax the rich. Ha, funny that. For years, we let them just do whatever they wanted to do with only an occasional hiccup and their income has dramatically risen since 2008. Since the Occupy movement last year, we have been paying more and more attention to their actions and it is sobering. 

I am an Obama supporter, you don't need to look far on social networks or this blog to figure that out. I'm sure he will be rich when he is done, even though he was a pretty ordinary professor married to a lawyer before his election. I think he deserves to be rich after all the hideous things said and done toward him in the last 3 years. The vile ugliness that has surfaced in America makes me squirm in embarrassment, No matter how the Tea Party claims to be non racists, their words and actions show differently. Say and do what you will, Barack Obama will go down in history as the first black president and one that did the best he could with an almost constant onslaught of negativity and hatefulness. That being said, let's look at the opposition in this election. Mittens Romney, famous bon vivant and rich guy, lying and shrugging off huge deficits in character as he goes. The Republican party has fooled millions of poor and middle class people into thinking that he is worthy of the barest consideration. As a woman, once firmly ensconced in the middle class, I find him repugnant. He is not for me, he is not for anyone unless they are very, very wealthy. Why is that these hood-winked sorts think it perfectly fine to hound Obama about his Hawaiian birth but it is perfectly okay to have all of your money offshore in places where the IRS can't go? That is about as un-American as any presidential candidate has ever been. Add to that, Romney sent thousand of good paying industrial jobs overseas. These jobs will never be back, and he can no more "fix" our economy for the better than the man in the moon. Yet, Faux news has found a way to sell him to the lame,fuzzy brained of the right. They sold him piecemeal to to the public. To the anti-abortionists, hell, he's (now) against abortion. To the 1st Amendment folks, he's going to save their guns, even though Obama has never done a thing to try to restrict them. A little bit here, a little bit there and all the poor and middle class on the right have bought it, hook, line and sinker. 

The economy may be a problem for Obama in the fall but he has tried every step of the way to get it going. The Republicans have blocked him any way they could, every step of the way. Yes, he had a Democratic majority when he started but he underestimated how far the Republicans would go to stop him once they took control. Once he finally realized that they would never, for any reason, help him, it was almost too late. How the Republicans can justify complete and utter blockage of anything that might help us, I'll never know. It should be considered treason to give a pledge to Grover Norquist and abandon the people that elected you.

I think we will look back on this time in history as one of the bleakest periods of our contry. That is, if we get out from under the grasp of the ultra wealthy and are able to get back on track as a nation. If not, the history books will be written a whole different way.