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After the vice presidential debate this Thursday between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, the next presidential debate will be Oct. 16 in a town hall format at Hofstra University in Long Island.
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Also, after the last debate, in which Governor Romney seemed to assert that the rich will not be getting a tax cut after all under his proposals (as presumably all the deductions reform will take care of any tax rate cut), I would like him to walk me through an example of a high earner and show me how his 2013 real tax rate would compare with the 2011 real tax rate, under Mr. Romney’s proposal. Oh, and if you need a real life example, let’s use Mr. Romney’s 2011 tax returns (that he has already disclosed). In other words, will Governor Romney indeed not get a tax cut under his proposal.
The easiest way to test this theory and establish the truth is to ask the people who know. WND's veteran White House correspondent Les Kinsolving tried to do just this at a press briefing a few years back. Predictably, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs laughed Kinsolving off and switched the subject to the birth certificate. In a televised address two years ago, Obama famously said, "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." So could someone in the media please ask him about that "042"? We can be sure they would be asking questions if Mitt Romney had a Hawaii-based SSN, and they would not be satisfying themselves with "clerical error." Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/a_possible_explanation_for_obamas_connecticut_social_security_number.html#ixzz28ix1L400
A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this? The president who campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii. What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/paul_ryan_obama_birthers.php Even he realizes the Birthers are full of crap.
Recently Dr. Jack Cashill, an Emmy-award winning writer and producer wrote a book: Deconstructing Obama. He finds many trouble aspects to the identity of Barack Obama. Cashill said, “If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 25 years than from his birth certificate. Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels has seen to that. On Monday, July 2, she filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court demanding that Jon Husted, Ohio secretary of state, remove Obama’s name from the ballot until Obama can prove the validity of his Social Security Number. Daniels has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent, misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number.”
The former head of a Special Forces “Site Security Team” in Libya tells CBS News that in spite of multiple pleas from himself and other U.S. security officials on the ground for “more, not less” security personnel, the State Department removed as many as 34 people from the country in the six months before a terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Lt. Col. Andy Wood will appear this week at a House Oversight Committee hearing that will examine security decisions leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. Speaking to CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, Wood said when he found out that his own 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force were being pulled from Tripoli in August – about a month before the assault in Benghazi – he felt, “like we were being asked to play the piano with two fingers. There was concern amongst the entire embassy staff.” Read more: http://patriotupdate.com/30634/ambassador-made-multiple-pleas-for-more-security#ixzz28j4s40h3
Despite two explosions and dozens of other security threats, U.S. officials in Washington turned down repeated pleas from American diplomats in Libya to increase security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador was killed, Republican leaders of a House committee said Tuesday. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said their information came from "individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya." Issa, R-Calif., and Chaffetz, R-Utah, said the attack three weeks ago in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months before the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S. There was allegedly even a direct threat on Facebook, the Daily Beast reports. In June, militants associated with the late dictator Muammar Qaddafi allegedly posted a threat referencing Amassador Stevens' jogging route, even posting a picture of him. Intense questioning over the White House's handling of the situation in Libya has gained a lot of traction in Republican circles recently, On Sunday on "Face the Nation", former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested the ambassador was without security on 9/11, and that was a terrible mistake.
His stance on this issue is so extreme, uncaring, and misguided that I can't understand how people are taking him seriously as a potential vice president. He should be disqualified for wanting to make an important medical procedure illegal. This should get more press, since 10-15% of couples in the US suffer from infertility. People need to hear that he wants to take away their medical options. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infertility/DS00310
I would like to know since your viewpoint or stance on policy and topics (education, abortion, taxes, Social Security, Medicare, etc.) has changed according to which polls rate the highest, what and how will you consider keeping your word on the very topics you did not agree with in the beginning phase of your campaign? More importantly, what policy should we most believe you to stand firm on?