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Is Mitt Romney the new Nostradamus?

Romney: Boca Raton debate

Romney in Boca Raton: “Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaida-type individuals.”

The last two weeks should go down as a period of vindication for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and earn him the nickname, “soothsayer of the Western World” — a modern-age Nostradamus.

On Jan. 14, Chrysler’s CEO acknowledged that Jeeps would be built in China, confirming a statement that unfairly earned Romney the moniker “liar of the year.”

Score one.

Then, when forces linked to al-Qaida captured the government-held town of Konna, Mali, on Jan. 10, they drove home a statement Romney made during the second presidential debate in Boca Raton, nearly three months earlier.

“With the Arab Spring came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women and — and public life and in economic life in the Middle East,” he said then. “But instead we’ve seen in nation after nation a number of disturbing events.”

Describing violence in Syria and Libya, he added this kicker: “Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaida-type individuals.”

This prompted, according to TheCommentator.com, a Bill Maher tweet: “Mitt, you do know that most of America thinks Mali is one of Obama’s daughters, right?” What far-left loon Maher doesn’t seem to understand is that it doesn’t matter if he knows what Mali is, so long as our president does.

Score two.

This week saw another Romney prediction come to pass — that a re-elected Obama would infringe on our Second Amendment rights.

“In a second term, he would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election,” Romney said at an April 2012 National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “As he told the Russian president last month when he thought no one else was listening, after a re-election he’ll have a lot more, quote, ‘flexibility’ to do what he wants. I’m not exactly sure what he meant by that, but looking at his first three years, I have a very good idea.”

Referring to the right to bear arms, Romney told convention-goers, “If we are going to safeguard our Second Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes. I will.”

The president’s signature on 23 executive actions on gun control this week, as well as his acknowledged support for a ban on certain weapons and magazines, show how right Romney was.

Score three.

Finally, Romney was ridiculed for using “binders of women” to describe what a Romney Cabinet would look like. Instead of mocking the poorly worded phrase, we should have listened to the words themselves.

The president’s announcement of his second-term Cabinet prompted ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to ask on Jan. 10, “Where are the women?” Apparently, they’re all still in Romney’s binders.

Score four.

In retrospect, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Romney is, after all, a businessman — a very successful businessman. What separates success from failure in the business world is an ability to assess a situation and to predict what will happen next.

This is called reality. Obama’s hallmark is “hope.” See the difference?

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Comments

  1. This makes me ill to read…if only he had won…

    • I know Huh?

    • but he lost says:

      Damn… too bad he could not predict the outcome of the election. Madame Cleo, step aside, here come Soothsaying Mitt. LMAO…Still crying over spilled milk….Too bad, time to raise some taxes and take some guns away from all these so called great, can’t never be wrong about nothing folks. Let the GOP continue to act like they are the only ones in the country and the only ones who know what’s best. See what it gets you come mid-term election…right out the door.

      • Different country? says:

        Time to raise some taxes? Only the rich are having their taxes raised? Funny, that isn’t what my middle income paycheck is saying.

        • brian guy says:

          yeah, my paycheck just went down again for Social Security. just a precursor for all the other taxes that are about to go up…. SS? what SS? it won’t be around when I retire in 30 years (or even around in 15, frankly).

          and I’ve already been paying in for over 20. yep, I started young. so how about they just agree to give me half my contributions back when I turn 62 and end the charade? because the Dems won’t allow anyone to reform that or Medicare, that’s why… it means Paul Ryan would be pushing granny off a cliff.

          • Maybe if McConnell and the rest of the GOP stopped giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to the pharmaceutical industry (in the latest, they gave $500Million back to a pharma house for a medication that was supposed to go unprotected four years ago), then Medicare and Soc Sec wouldn’t be going broke-which is a GOP/TP smokescreen for them stealing your money (and mine) all these years. Otherwise, can you explain why Mitch McConnell insisted that Medicare not be allowed to negotiate lower prices for medications? Bunch of hypocrites-you keep on supporting them-see where it leads you.

          • You do realize that Romney and Obama both publicly said before the election that they were going to let the 2% ss tax holiday expire. Even if Romney won your paycheck would look the same as it does today.

          • Leroy Johnson says:

            Hey, Brian, it would’ve been nice to be able to get 50% of what I contributed into during the last 52 years. I have been paying into SS since I was 15, I’ll never see even 33% of what paid in. I have also been paying into Medicare as long as I can remember, but when I turned 65 all of a sudden they are taking $165 out of my SS for Medicare each month. Oh yes, I am still working, with the economy the way it is, I can’t afford to retire. Jus’ sayin’.

          • Justin, I want to kick you in the head right now. No, our paychecks would NOT look the same because we wouldn’t have Obamacare. You know what Obamacare is? It’s a way for the government to check up on you. It’s a way for them to psychologically evaluate you and if you let something slip about having guns, and they deem you mentally unstable, they can take your guns. But you keep supporting Obama like he’s done nothing wrong. :)

          • Xavier Weed says:

            Justin the difference is that Obama said he wouldnt raises taxes on anybody making under $200k

          • Wow Edward, there is some serious paranoia there.. And Justin is correct, do some basic research before you say things like you want to kick him in the head for tying the truth. Anger management is always an option. Obama didn’t raise the taxes, he let the tax break expire, which is a big difference. Also, SS isn’t going to go bankrupt or anything like that, it’s a common misconception. It will be around for quite some time (the fund is solvent until 2033, and revenue past that point will pay for 75% of benefits past that point) to come and you get way more out of it than you ever put in.

          • Alex, so if the congress didn’ vote to make the Bush tax cuts permanent (except the top rate), that would be just letting that tax break expire and not be raising taxes? Because the media was touting it as a tax increase and not a tax break expiration.

        • That’s not what my LESS THAN MIDDLE CLASS check says either!!

          • All these people with talking paychecks! and you say you can’t find a way to make any money? See if you can get on Ellen deGeneres or something.

        • Exactly. O’ promised taxes only on the rich. The first ones to be taxed right off the bat are the poor and middle class through our payroll checks. Another Romney prediction that has come truy. We missed a great chance to elect a competent leader.

          • If, if only Congress regulated taxes!

            Damn you, Obama!

          • anonymous says:

            You don’t remember the day congress and the IRS decided to give you a tax holiday on your SS tax two years ago? Well, the holiday was set to expire in Jan 2013. Both Romney and Obama said the tax would expire.

            IT WOULD BE WORSE IF ROMNEY WAS PRESIDENT because he would have increased all the middle class taxes, not just the SS.

          • I’ve been reading a lot of the comments that have been made.I’m a small business owner struggling to get by.Whether liberal or conservative,raising taxes is more hurtful to the poor and the middleclass.The rich could care less if taxes go up,they’ll just pass the buck to everyone else.That’s what I will have to do.It makes no since what so ever and believe me I can’t afford to pay them as it is.That means either layoffs or higher prices on everything. What do you think that does to someone that is on government assistance (which a lot of my family members are on,me included if things keep going the way they are) grocery prices skyrocket,fast food,gas,ECT.So whether you pay income tax or not,your gonna be affected.Not to mention what Obama care will do.I don’t get it why in the world people would vote for that.It’s lunacy.

          • The way the campaign looked, I had high expectations he’d win :/

      • Steven Lundin says:

        Attention “But he lost”. If you love new higher taxes and fewer freedoms so damn much, why don’t you pay mine, and allow me the freedoms you gave up when you voted for this piece of SHIT. Better yet, maybe you can do us all a favor by moving to a different country. One where you can enjoy all the spoils of communist controls. Where you can do anything you want, as long as the government allows you. But in the meantime, you should stop drinking from the tainted Kool-Aid and open your foolish eyes to reality. Your candidate is a MUSLIM. He is a FRAUD. He is NOT a citizen of this country. SHUT the FUCK up and keep your obviously uneducated opinions to yourself, or to your handlers, whichever actually writes your verbal sloth.

        • Well Said Steven!

        • Alessandro says:

          You are so right! Obama is trying to ruin the USA! When you take away the guns from citizens, you open up the country from attacks “both domestic and foreign”. By the way, guns are not the problems, the people that use them for the wrong reasons are the problem!

          • They will never take away the guns of real Americans! There are a few million of us left! The majority of us will still be standing when the dust settles! Then our Republic will again rise to greatness!

        • Hatred and bigotry is not working…get it?

          • John H. Schoppe says:

            Hatred and bigotry seem to be working just fine for Democrat/Liberal hypocrites. The typical rhetoric, PC, and bad logic seems to work on the brain-dead, entitlement-oriented, loser, rude, crude, unrefined and low-class population of this once great country that voted this slug Obama into office for another four years. Now we really have to look to God, because the Devil has taken over everything else. Good luck, you dumb ass people!

          • Ralph? I agree….Obama must go. His hatred for America and the people who don’t worship him, is tearing us apart. And, sending us down the financial drain.

          • Clingon 1 says:

            Hatred and bigotry seem to be the norm for the First Orangutan with the new bangs!

          • Here, here!

        • This man ran on a campaign of wanting to “Fundamentally change America” and I’ve yet to figure out WHAT is fundamentally WRONG about America !! Steven you are right and this man is the ONLY President to SEAL all of his historical records. I ask one simple question, WHY ???

        • MIKE J. JUSTICE says:

          I AGREE 100% COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE, THEY CANT EVEN SEEM TO THINK FOR THEM SELVES AMERICA HAS SOLD OUT TO A BUNCH OF TERROIST IN OFFICE THAT WANT TO SPIN IT ON THE ONES OF US THAT KNOW THE TRUTH , ABOUT WHATS REALLY HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY OK FUCK UPS THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA NOW IS YOUR TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING IMPEECH HIS MUSLIM ASS!!

          • turns off caps lock, steps awy from keyboard momentarily to yell at kids on lawn.

          • CelticNana says:

            When a politician robs Peter to give to Paul, he will always have the support of Paul. Romney was absolutely correct when he said, after the election, that he knew he couldn’t win because Obama bought the votes. He meant, he bought them with our tax money by the handouts he gave to unions, welfare recipients, the chronically unemployed and the other leeches in our country. Those folks were not going to vote for a man who said he would stop those support checks and would make them go back to work. In fact, he became their enemy…he was a rich white man with integrity and business experience. I regarded the spectacle of yesterday as the funeral of this country.

          • Look, I don’t like Obama anymore than you all do, but some of you people come off as nut jobs. Romney lost by a fairly slim margin, and I for one am convinced that it’s the right wing nutters that lost it for him. You people need to understand that when you yell, NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING! You sound like a crazy person spewing mindless drivel. Let’s get some facts here: A) Obama is not a Muslim, or a foreigner. That was made up by right wing nut jobs. B) Obama is a horrible leader, his ideas are archaic and will fail for the same reasons every developed, socialist economy has. C) Right-wing nut jobs make me hate to call myself a conservative. I’m all for MY right to have guns, but with the crap that is spewed by uneducated people trying to “defend their rights,” it’s no wonder liberals want to take our guns. You make us look like a bunch of trigger-happy, backwoods rednecks. If we can’t trust you to even be civil in the course of public debate, why should we trust you to carry a gun? You all need to learn the meaning of a simple word: tact. You can spew your hate all day long but all that does is alienate the moderate voters (you know, the ones that we NEED to win an election). So thanks for that morons, and next time please hold your tongue. The adults are talking now. And allow me to assure you, we will do a better job of protecting your second amendment rights. Honestly, the best thing you nut jobs can do to defend your second amendment rights is to take your computer out to the yard and hit it with a shotgun. Then get back on the porch with a bottle of Jack and leave the talking up to those of us who understand the fine art of convincing people. I think you’ve done quite enough damage, thank you.

          • Good job, poor man. I know there are conservatives who have good common sense. You are just outnumbered and out shouted by them. However, it is the cost for bringing them under your tent.

          • Poor man
            What a sad state of affairs your mind is in. The republican party doesn’t need shallow minded individuals like you saying you are one of us. You my friend are a democrat with the same un- thought out beliefs that the others have. You may give your soul to the beast but millions of us will fight the beast and if you stand with him, so shall you fall. Don’t try to propagate the shallow minded because they are already democrats. The reason your poor man is because you stand inline with the other democrats living off of us hardworking Americans trying to get ahead. You don’t even know what it means to get ahead. Good luck partner and read the bible to understand what we are against isn’t totally of this earth.

          • Poor Man,
            Thank you for being a voice of reason. I too, consider myself conservative, and generally vote Republican in National elections. But all the extreme rhetoric I’ve heard and read lately makes all of us look like crazy people! I don’t want the right to bear arms to be taken away either, but let’s discuss this issue logically–instead of knee-jerk re-actively. The reality is that EVERYONE believes in some form of “gun control” (children? convicted criminals? mental patients?) but the phrase itself gets people all defensive and angry.

            In addition:
            I, too mourn a little that Romney was defeated–I think we had a chance of getting our economy moving with someone whose expertise is in business and economics. :(

        • Madwoman 9 says:

          Exactly my thoughts Steven Lunden. Between my paycheck and my husband’ paycheck, we are down $200 per month. My husband and I are now not able to have the FREEDOM to enjoy a few things a month that we had enjoyed before and there will be less food on our table. For all of you who voted for Obummer, I hope you are happy…..I’m even less happy now than I was before.

          • Yeah, thanks. I am happy.

          • Well the people that voted for this muslim are cheering because you are paying for their cigs and beer and they keep going up in price so somebody has to pay for them and don’t forget all those little vacation and wardrobes.

        • Lalunadawn says:

          My thoughts exactly, Steven Lunden. I retired early to care for an aging parent. I’m dreading what these new taxes (that weren’t supposed to happen) will do to my already limited paycheck.

          • Furious Citizen says:

            GenY you’re happy because you will continue to be receiving checks from the government. Obama bought your vote and all the other taker’s votes with his food stamps and welfare. You can rot in hell you lazy, incompetent, foolish, ignorant, indoctrinated swine!

        • Well say! I came from another Country to better myself and he just wiped me from middle class to nothing, His Taxes made a bigger dent on my family income , i went from middle class i do not qualify to anything because according to the gov i make good money and i have been diagnosed with Lupus but i can not have assistance, because of my income but if i quit my job i will loose the little my husband and i worked while he was alive, Yes i am a widow, one income home and my income can not stretch!
          I did not voted for him, He is not who i voted for and by the same talking i ignored for the last four years and Oh Boy, i got screwed!

          • Mcoco i know Lupus and it is like Celiac, try to get off of Glutin products. It might help?

          • Trevor Rees says:

            Actually, just do it like the dems. Get yourself a lawyer. Quit your job after documenting that the lupus is making it impossible for you to fulfill your job responsibilities, and collect disability and a government handout. It’s the American way! ugh.

          • Gen Y. Your grammar is atrocious! Which grade school do you attend? The teachers there need to do a better job teaching their students. Firstly in the context that you use You’re is incorrect. You even messed up twice on that because you initially failed to capitalize the Y in you’re. But you corrected that mistake…the problem is you used you’re as in “you are” the word that should be used is “your” You spelled atroshus I do not believe that is a word at all. Maybe you were trying to say atrocious? Either way, before you cast stones you need to be sure your grammar is in order first…maybe you ARE an Obamanite and follow the same mantra as he does, you know, do as I say not as I do.

        • Boy, I hope you have lots of guns! American really needs people like you so that the rest of the world will respect us. If you think your foul-mouthed rage brings you anything but pity, you are sadly mistaken.

          • Bill L. Before you cast stones about someone’s grammar, you need to be sure that your punctuation is in order. Your punctuation is atrocious! You used a question mark when not needed. You had three missed commas; five missed periods; three missed sets of quotation marks; three sentences that should begin with a capital letter; and one sentence that was started with the word “But”.

            I’m not an “Obamanite” and I did not vote for him. People who live in glass houses should be carefull of the stones they throw.

        • CommonSense says:

          Good thing that is not a polarinzing and discriminatory comment

        • Your an idiot!

        • “Verbal Sloth” – no, never mind.

        • Sancy Kng says:

          AMEN to that!

        • WELL said!!

        • Exactly!!

        • Love your comments! Thank U
          lelah

        • I can’t wait to see what the next few years will bring…..another Morsi, Chavez, to name just a few. He is evil and will do more harm to this country and we will never be the same. No cure will be possible. It will be too late.
          God help us all from this demon.

        • One “leader” said “To conquer a Nation, first disarm it’s citizens” ….. Adolf Hitler… I think the President is trying to introduce Socialism and Communism to the United States. Anyone here see “Dreams from my real father” . Educate yourselves and keep an open mind. Does anyone really think that criminals will turn in their guns… Hell no.. and the law abiding citizens will fall to home invasions and robberies because the criminals will still have guns. I’m a registered democrat and I may have voted for Obama the first term.. but I did not vote for him this term.. I’m fed up with this bullcrap and have been doing research on the republican party to educate myself. After things I’ve read, and documentaries I’ve seen… I wish Obama didn’t make a second term. Our paycheck deductions are just the tip of the iceberg… the rest is yet to surface.

      • Debbie Chaney says:

        @but he lost…thanks to you and all the morons just like you, you and all the rest of the other idiots are getting what you deserve for being fooled into buying the same old “hope and change” mantra for a second time…and unfortunately the rest of us have been sucked into the abyss for another 4 years too!

      • Your a joke, and will continue to be a joke because you can’t find it in your heart to admit that your were not intelligent enough to read between the lines and were duped into voting for your living God again. But you will soon feel the pain associated with your stupidity. I am just glad I am well enough off to wether the storm from a distance!

      • You are beyond an idiot. I am not even going to grace you with the specifics, but you are either an ex-pat of some other country who has become an American citizen’s or an over-educated, under-worked brainwashed liberal piece of trash that no one could reason with if they tried.

      • wHEN IT COMES TIME FOR THE DO OR DIE ACTIONS WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU ARE NO LONGER FREE AND THAT YOU ARE DEPENDENT ON OTHERS FOR YOUR (SAFETY) AND YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T EVEN PROTECT YOURSELF, i HOPE i’M NOWHERE NEAR YOU TO HEAR YOUR LIBERAL SOBBING AND LAMENTING, YOU WOKE UP TOO LATE.

      • As usual the ( but he lost types) have no real answers and can only slander. Can’t fight the facts so just throw whatever sticks. Please just keep holding your hand out and take, take, take and give nothing in return. We won’t let you have the America you are doing your best to destroy.

      • It doesn’t take a fortune teller to see our future, all you havedo is to look at the magnitude of failures of the past four years. Those who fail to learn from the past is destined to repeat it. The past with Obama was failure and dictatorship and this is what we are facing for our future.

        • Those who fail to learn from the past ARE destined to repeat it

          Just like you and third grade, apparently.

          • Clingon 1 says:

            Funny line, but it still doesn’t change the fact that you support an America-hating Marxist and his bitter, hateful pet who are bent on destroying this once-great country. Do you not see that you will also be negatively impacted by the intentional destruction of our economy? You think you are glib, but you are really just duped. Sad.

      • Lee Walker says:

        Get a job.

      • Too bad you are blinded by the communist muslim president. Soon the taxpayer money will run out and then you will be homeless !!!!

        • So, I’m just wondering. Communists don’t believe in religion. So, how do you reconcile being a communist AND a muslim?

          Am I asking the wrong questions for this crowd?

          • Recent Immigrant says:

            Communist in fact do believe in Religion (The Orthodox Church and Islam and Buddhism have thrived in hard core communist states) They only ask that this institution foster their totally domination propaganda and they agree to stay out of state business.

        • The republican party are a bunch of commies.

          • Furious Citizen says:

            that doesn’t make since AT ALL because Republicans believe in free-market economics. communists do not. do not sling out false labels for political ideologies like that. set yourself straight!

          • By midterm we won’t have elections with Obama in office, he will take away that, also! The only Commies are the Democrats with their liberal policies that counters what President Kennedy said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!’ Although he was a Democrat, the Republicans take his statement to heart, where the Democrats are following the policies of the communist regime!!

          • Hey Z, did your mommy tell you that?

          • Z,Just you wait. You will HAVE to face the same GOD as the REST of HUMANITY. And YES there is a HEAVEN. I”VE knelt at GOD”S FEET>. The ANGEL of the LORD(GOD) asked me to not look upon GOD”S FACE. AND I returned to earth and new why I should remain on earth! But I am very ready to return to Heaven to the most incredible peace anyone can feel. Maybe you should seek the peace of GOD.

          • Yeah, don’t you wish!

      • Lalunadawn says:

        But he lost must be a recepient of of some of those entitlements that a really deserving person can’t get for some reason. What a jerk. At least I can be proud of the fact that my vote had nothing to do with the direction this country is heading, thanks to his highness, Obama.

      • Aaron Hillibush says:

        Good luck taking my gun asshole. Ill be using it before anyone takes it, and I guess ill just stop paying taxes. There ARE ways. Good luck defending the country you live in with no guns or money. Dumbass. You are just another ignorant sheep follower.

        • And in four years, when you still have your AR-15 and your Spas-12, and the world hasn’t ended, you’ll feel pretty stupid for making this post, won’t you. Eh, who am I kidding, you’ll have long forgotten this and have moved on to the next cockamamie outrage/conspiracy theory cooked up by the right-wing fringe.

          • Furious Citizen says:

            the left wing is more far out there than the right, but the leftist media somehow makes the picture all fuzzy and then tells you what you’re looking at.

          • richard wendt says:

            Chip, As we thrive to be more like Europe in how we handle our governmental affairs. It should be noted that from the time of recorded history. About every 50-100 years that whole part of the world go’s to heck in a hand basket. The last time, you know THEY TOOK ABOUT 56 MILLION SOULS WITH THEM.
            To me guns are like a great big safe. Very very hard to get into. I feel safe putting my money into one. Leave it unlocked,I.E. take guns away, then I do not feel as safe. You could say that is what our government is for. I then again would put your beloved Europe up and say. It was the government that did most of the killing of the unprotected in WWII. We tend to forget what has happened in the past. We say we are now beyond all that. I say look around and understand what man is and always will be about. Self preservation.

        • Ya know, nobady’s actually a sheep follower. Sure, there are sheep, and there are followers. That part’s good. But sheep followers? You lost me there.

          And feel free to use your gun before anyone takes it. Just don’t hurt anyone else.

          • lol, Yeah Gen Y: Yeah I would say that you are indeed a blind follower. I can tell by the way you write that your education is lacking. Communist countries (not all mind you) do allow religion such as Cuba and Chechnya (BTW) they were a former member of the Soviet Block which means they were indeed Communist Muslims But of course I wouldn’t expect someone like you to know that, after all Liberals are program to repeat what their handlers tell them to say and ignore any facts that may be presented in front of them. Some of the things he was involved with include:
            The Communist Party, The Democratic Socialists of America, The (Communist) New Party and Progressive Chicago Political Party, The Communist Committees of Correspondence, The Chicago Socialist Movement, (Communist Organization) ACORN and Project Vote, (Communist Organization) SEIU, and Annenberg Challenge and Woods Fund, Ayres with the Weather Underground. Tell me again WHY people think he is a communist? He confessed several times about wealth distribution, American dream be damned.
            If you work hard you should be rewarded not punished.

        • Ha,ha,ha, it’s people like you who shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms in the first place! Look another Ted Nugent threatening the Federal Gov. You are the reason that law abiding gun owners have to be worried about amendments to an amendment.

      • Oh yeah raise taxes and more people will be out of work!! He lied and said he wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class, well that was a BIG FAT LIE. Between my husband and myself our taxes went up $30 a week and we are FAR from rich. The only people who don’t pay higher taxes are the rich and the entitlement crowd!! The rich don’t pay higher because they have tax breaks that keep them fine, and if they own a company they just start laying people off to recoup the cash. The entitlement crowd doesn’t pay a DIME in income tax, so the burden is placed right in the laps of the very people BO BO said he wouldn’t tax.

        • Uh… You realize that $30 came from a tax cut that Obama himself enacted as part of the “stimulus” and was always intended to be temporary? Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats had interest in extending it for another year (or four).

      • I find it refreshing that you are able to take such a cavalier attitude about the fact that Mitt Romney was called a liar by Biden and Clinton, ridiculed by Bill Maher and the media and then was vindicated when the facts proved him to be correct.
        That type of attitude should prove useful to you as the ship we are all on slips under the waves at the hands of Obama and his agenda.

      • We are AMERICA ~ we have always been strong because we have always held firm to our strong, moral beliefs and the fact that character counts. Where are we now? An educational system that has intentionally liberalized an entire generation or two of children, leadership in all levels of government that no longer exemplifies the best and brightest but the most deceptive and deceitful, and a President that does not believe in the greatness of our country nor does he appreciate the founders of this country or the constitution upon which this nation was built. If he can bankrupt our country, put a majority of our citizens out of work and dependent upon government, allow illegals to just be deemed legal, give criminals the guns and disarm the law abiding and walk all over the fundamental documents of law that have guided our country for over 200 years, there is no hope only change….very, very dangerous change.

        • BOY !!!!! I HAD TO DIG DEEP INTO THE SLOP BUCKET TO GET A GOOD BISQUIT. THANKS A LOT CINDY. NOW I CAN GO TO SLEEP WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT i AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS STILL SANE.

        • Cindy,
          You are very right. If people would stop and reak “Mein Kampf” writter by Adolf Hitler. They would find that Obummer has been parallelling the book for the last four years and will continue to do so. Hitler was a dictator and Obummer has that goal.

        • Unfortunately it was George Bush that not only nearly bankrupted America but the rest of the world economy to boot! Since then we’ve been digging out from that catastrophy.

          Mitt Romney lied or changed his position so many times that people could not trust him. It was just that simple. All one had to do was look at his record as Gov of Mass and compare it to what he said he would do as President to see it was polar opposite. He just couldn’t be trusted because he’d say anything depending on who was listening. A perfect example was his 47% comment when talking to his wealthy backers. Our country has spoken and the score for what really counts, The Presidential Election is actually Obama 2 and Romney 0.

      • Spoken so easily by somone who probably doesn’t remember other things Romney’s predicted. Among them:
        >A double-dip recession – even worse the 2nd time.
        >Unemployment back above 9% Not yet, but employers haven’t yet seen their 2013 healthcare/tax bills.
        >’Power-drunk rock star’ personal agenda that drives every decision he makes.
        >The least transparent presidency in many decades becoming even less transparent.
        >Blaming Republicans for what he has done for the last four years.
        >Obamacare making healthcare cost MORE, not less as he has repeatedly (REPEATEDLY) promised.
        >Remember this? “95% of all Americans will see their taxes decrease!”
        >Continued plummeting of median household income. It has dropped even faster under Barack Obama.
        >More “stimulous plans”. In other words more spending.
        >Foreign relations crumbling due to Obama’s lack of international respect. (read: he ain’t a rockstar everywhere)
        … and one that scares the &#!T out of anyone who understands foreign policy 101 – what is going to happen when Obama is truly forced to choose between Islam and Israel? Can you say Muslim Brotherhood???

      • I’m guessing you have a point to get across somewhere in all of what your spewing right? you dont care your taxes are up? or maybe your own of Obama dependents?

      • Ted Bishop says:

        Romney is not crying!! or maybe he is( all the way to the Bank). wait aare you one of the one’s that sales there food stamps at the corner market?? putcha pipe way an go ya azz to work like the rest do!!

      • SFCUSARMYRET says:

        Alright libtards, listen up. Gun control (confiscation) does NOT work for the UK or Australia or other free countries that have envoked such restrictions. Is that why more police in the UK have now resorted to carrying side arms and assault style rifles? Why have the home invasion and violent crime rates exploded in Australia since the registerd gun owners were forced to give up firearms? Do your diligence and research before your verbal diarreha shows your true colors.

        I get my information directly from family members and police officers that are in those nations. What do you think is going to happen when when legal guns are confiscated from the American citizenry? Will all the gangs, drug runners and criminal elements say, ok ya got me, here take my guns!! NO you idiots, they will have ANOTHER leg up on society to do as they will.

        I served 22 years in the military, I served 3 years as a police officer. I NEVER had to take a gun away from a registerd/legal owner. I sure as h**l took a lot of them off of the criminal elements. Why do the laws protect the mentally ill from intervention in cases where it is proven that they can and will be a threat to others? Because elements like the ACLU say it’s against their rights to infringe upon them! We can’t do anything to anyone that makes threats UNTIL they actually do something to harm, maime or kill another! By the time these ill people actually carry out their crimes, it is too late. Why do you think police and firefighters are called “first responders”? They aren’t allowed by law to get these people off the streets until they have a devistating event. Columbine, mentally ill. New town, mentally ill. Oklahoma city, mentally ill. I agree that ANYONE that has reported mental imparements be excluded from the ability to purchase not only firearms but ammunition as well!

        Liberals, progressives, socialists, communists and all other OWO (one world order) types are the real threat to this nation. Agenda 21 supporters and the morons that believe in such nonesense are complete fools. Do you think for one minute that China, Russia, North Korea or ANY muslim state is going to fall in line (in bed) with the UN on gun control? Your mad!

        I challenge EVERY American patriot and fellow veteran out there to take a stand against all of these illegal politicians and their anti-American agenda. Call, email, fax or even visit home offices (if your close enough) in order to make your voice and declarations to honor the oath you took to uphold and defend the Constitution and defend our great nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic!

        God bless America, all others can go back to where they came from if they dont like it here! Our way of life and our laws are NOT subject to change to suit your foreign beliefs or ways! For over two hundred years, our trust in God and our beliefs and laws derived from the beliefs in God have made this the greatest nation in history. The minorty rule is NOT in effect here (even though politicians bow to the loudest whiners out there).

        Time to clean house has come and gone. How Boehner stayed majority leader is past me!!?? We have two years to find leaders that will work for the people and the nation. Next congressional/sentate race/election will see a diverse change. Vote the bums out and put Americans in place that listen and fight for a free America!

        • Thank you

        • Calling people names is akin to a 3rd grader on the playground. The facts do NOT back up your verbal spew. My wife and I own a home in the UK and the States and there is no where near the gun deaths in the UK per capita. the facts are UK per 100k population 0.25. USA per 100k population 10.2. That is equiv. to a 1000% difference.

      • kicking the @$$ of "but he lost" says:

        It should never cease to amaze Americans, that there is a faction of liberals who are so incredibly dense, like you “but he lost”, and our Republic will pay a very heavy penalty in the economy and in our way of living. As far as I’m concerned we can and should institute Revolutionary War 2.0 and cull you ignorati from our land.

      • “Still crying over spilled milk”?!

        Are you referring to the insistence that every thing is still Bush’s fault when he’s been gone since 2008?
        Romney is saying none of what is in this article. They are just facts being recognized by the writer.

      • nochickenlady says:

        you may be right, the middle class is being eliminated – only poor, urban and very rich liberals voted for Obama. Very sad.

      • Final score…
        Obama 2. Romney 0

      • Don´t be fool boy. He isn´t crying on the spilled milk, he is back to his business and family. Those statement were made months ago, before elections. He isn´t even asking for credit. Magazines and yourselves might be too worried about the bad judgement you made. Just recognize the fact, you don´t have to support him. Enjoy your victory and let´s talk again in four years.

      • You are either one of the gimme bunch or you enjoy handing the government your money. Or possibly you didn’t make it someone else did.. Hope you enjoy living under communism if you don’t believe it will happen then you need to pull your head out of the sand open your eyes and start using that little brain you were born with to start thinking for yourself.. Cause it’s obvious you haven’t done anything like that in a long time if ever..

      • Behold: the kind of stupid that it takes to vote for Obama. Don’t let facts bother you, oh no, this is about FEELINGS! We must just be “hurt” that Romney lost/Obama won. And scr*w the Constitution — guns make me FEEL scared.
        Lord have mercy, 52% of the nation has the emotional age of toddlers.

      • fuck you .you mf Libroll

      • Now, now Mr. Liberal Guy…take you meds and rest. You’re getting delerious in your ramblings.

      • I only have one thing to say to you. I am a responsible, law abiding gun owner and I would love to see you try to come and take my guns. It is unfortunately people like you that are the problem with this country. You and your kind are the people who believe the country owes you something. As a veteran, this is no longer the country I once served. Your president is ruining the very foundation of this country. However, we will only let it go so far. Be careful what you wish for.

      • In case you didnt know mixing crack and heroin is not only lllegal it will also make you more insane.

      • but he lost,

        I see your mom has restored your keyboard privileges. Bad move on her part.

      • You’re an idiot.

      • MrAmazing says:

        How cute, another sore winner. The dimwitted left has no shame, and knows not what truth looks like. From the tax increases that they now rename “expired” but which they would have burned down DC had Republicans allowed, to the out of control spending, no budget for 4 years, to all of the Democrat leadership wanting to raise taxes on anything that moves, doesn’t move, lives or dies. Overspending is not a solution, nor is endless debt. The warmonger Obama is a failure by every measure except for 1, he knows how to win elections, rigged or not.

    • Jeff Done says:

      I believe that BO is implementing a devastating, calculated plan to undermine and destroy the integrity and strength of the nation, to allow for a hostile takeover, by foreign(with the help of domestic(BO’s goons)) enemies. He(Bo) has no interest whatsoever in the welfare of this once great nation. We are all pawns in his diabolical chess game-unless we put an end to his reign of tyranny.
      Jeff.w.done@gmail.com

      • I believe in the tooth fairy. I think my beliefs are perhaps more realistic than yours.

        • SaludoVencedores says:

          Such impressive commentary Gen Y. How does it feel to be excruciatingly self-satisfied?

        • You are a fairy!

        • Well that explains it! Does he still leave a quarter under your pillow?

        • Sums up everything wrong with your generation — think “belief” is the same as “fact” and that uninformed “opinion” is the same value as opinion based on critical analysis of concrete evidence/history, etc.
          But buck up — nothing much will change for you — you’ll be as worthless and pathetic on your death bed as you are now but you’ll remain completely oblivious to it, so you’ll FEEL happy (and really, that’s all that counts for you special little snowflake — how you FEEL).

        • I hope you also believe in FEMA Camps. I bet the American Indians didn’t and I bet the Japanese never saw it coming either. Can’t say our government don’t do things like that. We know from history that they do. Why do you think they are building FEMA Camps and trying to take all weapons above a pea shooter? Why do you think he wants to stay in office for at least a third term or more?

      • Amen Jeff! Amen!

      • You are right ON, Jeff? There is NOT ONE indication otherwise as to his intent! If Osama Bin Ladin was given the chance to destroy America this is the plan he would use. There could not be a more effective plan than the one BO is following to destroy this country and its people! It is really sad that there are so many uneducated and faithless people in this country that believed in this persons wanting to give them something for “nothing”. They don’t get it!!! He says, “No taxes, free phone and other handouts, just vote for me!” And all the while he is laughing like *ell, demonstrating that the freedom you enjoy is the price you are going to pay for your stupidity. It is often said that our faith as Christians is strongest when our faith is tested. I think we are seeing the beginning of the testing. God help us!

      • You bet he is in bed with the beast —–China! We should be very afraid. We all know what will happen if we wake the beast.

    • Every day notify your congressmen to IMPEACH THIS MORON.

      • What about congresswomen? I find your comment sexist.

        • Furious Citizen says:

          it’s like saying mankind. it includes men and women. you liberals need to grow a pair and stop feeling insulted after every word said EVER!

          • Exactly they are too worried about what they can get or what they don’t have -constantly sitting on their pridefull seats – i am so sick and tired of it sincerely. Maybe my hubby was right that they truely elected the anti-christ it would only make sense the wolf in sheeps clothes and they are all blind mice only looking at what is in there bubble not being able to see anything past the hand in front of their face.

        • You couldn’t find your backside.

    • now to get those people who have their heads stuck in the mud, that do not listen to news, read or do the internet. How do you get the word out. If all of these people who are now complainin would have voted for Romney perhaps the next 4 years would be better then what they are goin to be.

    • If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.

    • It made me ill to read too…..

    • Where the hell is Romney now? Why isn’t he talking, leading the Republican party? Why isn’t he helping to combat the imoral and illegal moves being made ? The election is over but his job is not ! As a very prominent American I for one would like to hear his voice.

      • WTF — the American people made their choice. Romney — contrary to the idiotic MSM/OFA talking points — isn’t a career politician — he’s a private individual who believed he had a certain skill set to help lead his country through these tough economic times. 52% of the electorate disagreed. American voters always claim they want a non-politician/outsiders to run for office, but Romney’s constant criticism during the election was that he “just wasn’t a good politician” and the voters went with the biggest career politician to be POTUS since LBJ.

        • Yeah? Well where ARE Jeeps being made now? Pack your bags. FEMA Camp for you. Compliments of your POTUS.

          • Oh my gosh the jeeps! This whole thread and it’s comments are like a Sat night live skit of why the GOP and The American Taliban are so marginalized. People like yourselves who think you are Patriots but in fact are nothing more then bigots will continue to ruin the GOP. All I can say is keep it up!

    • Ah yes! What a difference the most corrupt Chicago style election in American history can make.
      Popular Vote, No electoral votes, registered voting with a identification ID to verify election day, would change the face of our country and enable those and encourage those that do not vote to vote.
      For once we would have a true Democracy and the president would be voted in by the “Majority”. Not bussed in illegals being paid for their vote and given names of people that have already voted and then, even then ……………given ballots to vote by the pollsters! Oh yeah and the not forgotten voting machines making a Romney vote an Obummer vote and all paid for by our favorite sponsor….you may have heard of him…..George Sorros.
      Commonly known as the “Government Slayer” All while you slept and or did not vote!
      “Just Saying”

    • Molon labe

    • Jane Klassy says:

      What happened to the American dreams. I grew up poor and was on my own at 15 with no help. I lived behind a dog shelter in a 30 yr. old van and worked at a little bar. Started my saving with a peanut butter jar and .50 saved every penny i could save to have a future. I went from buying one property and ended up with 9 properties. Had to sell 2 made not one dime in fact lost 67,000.now the property value has droped so much by the time i sell and pay off the remaining morgages i will end up with nothing for my lifes work. Sixty yrs. old now servived cancer 3 times not doing traditional drugs. This country first started to fall when prayer and the Pledge of Allegence were taken out of the schools. The womens movement started by a communist women seperated families and made women dependent on government. Children lost respect as law took the rights of parents taken away. Tv went from good moral shows to violence and ill language. Music became filled with Satam’s messages. Gay became normal. Drug pipes and dirty book and stores for sex toys popped up everywhere to further damage what purness children had left.Distruction from with in to weaken America to exactly what is happening. God gave people 10 rules to follow the Ten Commandments now we have communists running the only free Republic left in the world for the purpose of power and money and evil deeds. With out the values of respect and love for this beautiful world that we all were blessed with history will repeat itself. We had one chance with Romney. Now that is gone. Obama is evil and so are his followers big pharma, Federal Reserve ect. ect. Allowing evil selfishness to penatrate more will only lead to billions of deaths and no future for any of us and our children will become the slaves to Government. The only way to save righteousness and good will is to fight at all costs in the Lords name. Really sad it is so far gone now i believe that God will finish his plan. Focus on the truth and the light God will take back the world he made Obama and all the evil that follows him of evil ways will burn in the depths of hell forever. Peace will come for the ones that love Jesus and goodness will come to sooth the hearts of the just and true. God Bless all the people in this world everywhere that want peace and to hot be hurt. So so sad.

      • See what I mean! Way to go Jane. If you were really a Christian you would have supported a fellow Christian and not a Mormon with magic underwear. Jesus would have supported President Obama and throw the money lender (Private Equity Mgr) Mitt Romney out of the temple!

  2. Frederick Hiller says:

    Soothsaying Nostradamus …? What a joke. Not one of these so called predictions of Mitt Romney is anything that the Obama team didn’t know long before Mittens got a peak at national security issues. As for Jeep “moving production” to China, it was known long before that Fiat would be opening up the China market. As for Obama “infringing on 2nd amendment rights” — let us not forget the rights of those tens of thousands of Americans which are abrogated each year when they are gunned down due to far too lax of gun policies in this ignorant, God forsaken country of scared little gun-mongers.

    • Chuck Hughes says:

      Frederick Hiller …..take it your not an American …so STFU …raghead………as for gun laws …….Chiciago has very strick gun laws….and over 500 murders this year….gun laws don’t prevent gun voilence ……and btw moron …..10 tens of thousands lol where you get your numbers from ……….Obama new press. Stupid little raghead.

      • John Thompson says:

        Nice little racist rant. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from this group.

        • Since you’re an expert on racism, perhaps you could explain how his comment was racist? Name calling was an effective campaign ploy used by the dems. You follow your masters well

          • Ya, Conservatives like Thorn and Chuck would never devolve into petty name calling like “moron” or “raghead” or calling someone “unamerican”… no only liberals do that

            Also if you couldn’t figure out what was racist, why not try googling “raghead” before getting all conspiratorial

            As for Chuck’s underlying argument, there’s plenty of evidence that gun control works, why do you think republicans banned research on gun violence? Maybe cause they knew what the research was going to say? If you don’t believe gun control works, look at Australia where they haven’t had another massacre since the last one 16 years ago, after which they instituted serious gun control (way more than we’ll ever do in this country). Or look at how on-the-job police mortality rates have exploded since the assault weapons ban expired.

        • Alan Larsen says:

          You are right John Thompson! You Libtards are experts on racism!

          • Only democrats! When I am campaigning for Romney here in Las Vegas I was called as a racist because I won’t vote for Obama. I am asian and my husban is white Obama supporter called me racist go figure!

      • YOU TELL HIM!!
        . YOUR RIGHT

      • but he lost says:

        Whoa Champ…pump your breaks. the real problem is manufacturing guns like cupcakes (supply & demand) that’s just stupid! Gun should not be part of the free market and if so where do you draw the line? Automatic weapons? Bazooka’s? Small drone plane circling your home? and what about the future? if this continues your grand kids (if around) will be fight over the right to have laser beams or some other form of destruction unknown to you. I always hear this founding father crap too. Trust me, if George Washington and his crew was around today they would think we lost our minds! MUSKETS! You have the right to own a Musket! that’s it that’s all. (damn always trying to get more than what you agreed too)…(just ask a native American…Oh I forgot, you shot and killed most of them off while changing the agreement)

        • So what you are saying is that because the Founding Fathers might not have envisioned what our weapons would be like now, that we are only allowed what they had back then? If that is the case then please refrain from using a computer, tablet or phone to access the internet to use your First Amendment because the Founding Fathers didn’t envision such devices.

          • Furious Citizen says:

            well said, frank. :)

          • OOOOH Yeah! Have we created a country of idiots or what? oh yeah and blind to ahwt is actually happening right before your eyes.
            It is not just about the ability to carry any gun.
            It is all bout the Constitution and our ability tkeep our Second Amendment right to stay free, have the freedom of choice and to keep what little liberties we still have left.
            Too bad there is so much crime people are so afraid that their seemingly last resort is to arm and defend their families and themselves.
            This fear is derived from the overwelming crime , amount of criminals and the current governments inability to control crime inthis country. WE need faster results for capital punishment for the moast violent crminals instead of letting them think they can live another 25 years hoping they can get a release and do the same thing in sometimes weeks from being released! . You want to look at statistics read who is committing the most crime, rape, murder and where it is happening. You may learn something about America! That is why we arm ourselves!

          • Computers, tablets and phones were not designed to kill things Frank. Bit of a difference.

        • WE ALL lost says:

          If the founding Fathers did envision such devices, the 2nd amendment would have probably still say what it says. The people, in order to preseve the security of a free state, need access to the same firepower as their opponents.

          • Well if that’s what the founding fathers meant by the second amendment why didn’t they just say it? Cause that’s not at all what it says. Perhaps you should try to amend the constitution to get it to say that, but in doing so you would be admitting that it doesn’t say that, so you won’t.

        • Brandon Hicks says:

          The Founding Fathers were concerned about a corrupt central government, like the one they just left. The 2nd amendment was added to ensure that the people are in charge not the government. It had nothing to do with protecting one’s self from the wild animals, hunting, or even defense against the unlawful. In some senses the pace of technology has made this fear impossible to counteract–there are no amounts of small arms that a person can bear that can be used to protect oneself from a corrupt central government. Only when nearly everyone feels this way, and maintains their 2nd amendment right to bear arms does this fear have any chance of being countered.

          The problem with gun violence is that the wrong people have guns, and the criminal are more expert in their use than the vast majority or Americans. We need more competent mental health evaluations, a better system of treating mental health, more readily available training for everyone else, not just in how to use a gun, but why and when. I lived in a country of very strict gun laws–Russia–where no one had weapons except for a corrupt police force and organized crime. And you know what–they had gun violence problems, too.

          • Alessandro says:

            I know first hand about taking guns away from competent people. I used to live in Florida and everyone on our street in Winter Park had a gun and we never worried about someone kicking in our doors to kill us cause they knew the chance of getting out alive was slim. I now live in Jamaica where it is almost impossible to get a gun license, and the criminals will just go in a neighborhood , kick off the doors and spray innocent people with bullets. The police commit killings of a lot of innocent people. It is as if we live in a police state as we the citizens are at the mercy of the criminals and cops. Be glad that you have the second amendment as you can sleep more peacefully. Americans need to fight to the last bit for that right. This is not about democrats and republicans but about your rights. If they take away that right, what is next? Freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, free speech? Be careful what Mr. “Hussain” Obama is doing!

        • Dear but he lost,

          You stated, “just ask a native American…Oh I forgot, you shot and killed most of them off while changing the agreement.”
          I never had anything to do with killing American Indians, nor did anyone else reading your post. The person responsible for that was President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat.
          May God remove the hatred from your heart and fill it with His love.

        • So you forgot about the flintlock pistol or you just forgot to read your history books?? Just wondering.

        • yes sad times are here for a bit, but they will pass obammal will be a bad joke of the past,and we will march on,they can put the world into a smart phone,need to use the same tec like fingerprint scan on gun triggers to keep them outa bad hands,,,gun control will never happen if it dose ,,they can have mine bullets first ,,god bless us all .

          • Another tough talking Rambo. Interesting how you’re a law abiding gun owner until the law is changed and you don’t agree with it!

        • Thank GOD Im allowed to purchase what I want! I have MANY guns!!!! I am a law abiding citizen that carries a 40 with a 15 round clip. The same clip Barry wants to take away. Im very fond of this gun because it saved me and my wife’s life. Oh yea, also my unborn baby’s life. She was 8 months pregnant at the time we got jumped. One didnt fair to good and the other has a permanent limp. You may ask me “Do You regret what you did?) Absolutely not. I suggest everyone arm yourself and get the proper training.
          16 years later I have a gun in every room of my house. You may call that crazy? I don’t. The same baby that was saved by my gun, saved her own life with a gun. This gun was in her room next to her bed when a intruder entered through her window. She shot but did not kill him. ( to bad ).
          I hope and pray you non carrying, law abiding citizens that don’t understand, never get put in the same situations me and my family were put in. You are being brain washed into believing guns are bad. Not for me!!!!!!
          As for the name calling on this post. Half these people make me want to cuss as well, but you lose all credibility when you do. Do your research and respond with facts. Its not hard to beat the liberals with facts when it comes to the bone head things they want to push on us.

          • BC, good for you. I am armed myself. My children are armed and I am proud of it. I sort of pity the non law abiding criminal that decides to come into my home, because he/she will not be feeling well when they leave. They will know what lead poisoning is.

          • People are quick to lay the blame for crime on firearms, but just think about all the crime we would have without a weapon to defend ourselves? Since when have criminals obeyed gun control laws? We would be killed, robbed, and brutalized with no protection whatsoever.

        • All I can say is, I CAN LIVE WITHOUT A HUSBAND BUT I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT MY GUN! any body wants to buy my stickers send it to: sancyking@gmail.com. I have this staker in my car and it selling like crazy.

        • but he lost, I think your research is faulty. The weapons (arms) mentioned in the 2nd amendment (ratified 1791) include much more than muskets. At the time of the amendment there existed a wider array than the musket for private arsenals; knives, swords, bows and arrows, crossbows, spears, pole-arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, and artillery such as cannons were commonly owned privately by the citizenry. Less commonly in private hands were heavily armed warships; but in private hands they were. The writings of those who produced and ratified this bit of legislation makes it quite clear that they made no distinction as to what arms would be in private hands but that the private citizenry should have at there immediate disposal and under their own care sufficient means to repulse any and all threats to person, property, community, or sovereign border that could present itself. Their intent was and remains a well armed citizenry.
          They further make it quite clear that they expected improvements and innovations to arms, as they could see the evolution from clubs and rock throwing to guns; they were not short sighted. If you cannot give them credit for wisdom, do not deny their intelligence; they new the exponential progression – if not by that term – of technology would apply to arms and they intended their legislation to include it and that the citizenry right to obtain and keep such arms be protected.

      • guns dont kill idiots do says:

        Well why don’t you tell the Mexican citizens how well gun control works if you have so much proof! Why is it that the states with the worst gun laws have the most crime? Explain why the crime rate has gone down since the assault weapons ban expired? You should know some facts before you speak. As far as the name calling I agree there is no need for that. And I will tell you the problem with this country is this stupid democrat or republican blame games! I am not either but I am an American! If you don’t believe in our constitution then you are not American and should leave this land!!

      • Just so you all know. More individuals are killed by abortion every day than are killed by guns in a year. Mitt was correct then and now. I’ll never believe that he got less votes than McCain. Something just doesn’t smell right to me.

      • *citation needed*

      • You had me at “raghead”!

    • Avey Owyns says:

      “Let us not forget the rights of those tens of thousands of Americans which are abrogated…”

      Right. Let us not forget the tens of MILLIONS of people who were FIRST stripped of their right to arms and THEN slaughtered by their own governments.

      Conservatives aren’t so stupid to believe that we’ll get it all perfect before Christ comes … but we understand that 10 000 people dying at the hands of roughly 10 000 individuals, is a hell of a lot better than 10, 20, 30 million people dying at the hands of one dictator.

    • What Matters says:

      Do you live in the same country we do. Take a look around. They take our guns and our rights, what will stop the goverment from taking more of our freedoms. I live in the United States of America not a communist country. I pray every day things get better.

      • What Matters I agree with you and people who think that things are not going to get worse best look at the last 4 years that the gay illegal American hating Muslim has been in office. I am not against anyone being gay but I am against a president who says one thing and does another. I am so sick of the bunch of corrupt liars in DC that it isn’t funny as most of us are. The Treasure of TX said anyone who voted for Obama were maggots and deserved what he did but I didn’t vote for him and I don’t deserve his Hitler, Stalin and Castro ways. I have great grandkids and it scares the hell out of me what they are going to grow up in and what this greatest country in the World is going to be like.

        We can’t say the pledge in school or salute the flag or even mention God in prayer before a big game but at the same time TX has put Obamas Allah in 80 % of the schools and in time it will be through out the whole country in all schools. Just like that stupid chip kids have to wear in Texas that tracks every move that the Supreme Court just ruled it is not unconstitutional for them to have to wear them. Like one article said that I read on those in which a girl was suing to get out of having to wear it because of religious reasons the communist take over by going through the kids and then on to the adults. Just like the FEMA camps and how long before he has all of us in them and steals all that he hasn’t stolen already. I hope all of the Obama supporters are happy and one posted something last week crying about the taxes taken out of her check after his tax hike and how she couldn’t live on her check before the tax hike and now she didn’t know what she was going to do. She voted for him so live with it.

        • It’s all going to go down anyways.. But the best is yet to come!!

        • Thank you, It’s time to tell this people who voted for OBAMA to stop crying and complain about it instead blame yourself for being stupid!

          • ThinksYou'reAllCrazy says:

            I voted for Obama. And I’m not crying or complaining. :) I’m happy and laughing and super excited about the next four years. I’m a successful small business owner and a Mom. I was born and raised in NC and now I live in CA. My parents instilled certain values in me of hard work, tolerance and compassion and everything else I learned how to be, I learned through my love of Jesus and what he focused on in his lifetime. I have worked hard my entire life, focused on my education, paid my way through an Ivy League college on my own and worked in the corporate world for 15 years before breaking out on my own and I’m doing well. Quite well actually but I digress. I’m just so glad God has blessed me with another four years of President Barack Obama!! I know you guys hate him and that’s okay. You seem to hate a lot actually which isn’t very Christ-like but, hey, maybe I’m the only one up here who loves Jesus. I don’t care if you dislike him. I could actually list some REAL statistics about what he’s done but why bother cause you guys are all FEMA camps and “He’s A Muslim” and “I’ll shoot anyone who tries to take my guns!” cause yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all. lol Thankfully more people LIKE him than think he’s a foreign gay commie who hangs out with leprechauns. His approval rating is at 55%. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINK HE IS AWESOME!! And next week he’s going to announce some sweeping immigration reform legislation so I suspect you’re going to have even more LEGAL Americans who like him pretty soon. lol This country has changed in the last 30 years. We are no longer middle right. Maybe in you and your friends and your town or your district, or hell, even in your state. I travel all over for work and have been to every state except Alaska and let me tell you, the majority of Americans are moderate, just like the President. I actually wish he was a progressive socialist, like myself, but he’s not. And in four years, I suspect you’re going to have to deal with losing to a certain Ms. Hillary Clinton but I don’t want your brain to explode on that one(but please be prepared cause no GOPer is gonna be able to beat her). You’re going to have to deal with that eventually. Or, you can just keep holed up in your Mom’s basement. I’m sure she’ll keep bringing you food. Best of luck to you all with your rants!! Wish you the best. GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! :) xoxoxoxo

        • He is no more a Muslim then u are. For all I know ur a secret Muslim out to restore the caliphate

          • And just how are U so sure he isn’t? He was born in Kenya to a muslin father, sheared rooms with 2 Pakistanies, sat under a RACIST pastor for 20 years. Sounds like he’s Muslim to me. And YES I have a copy of his birth certificate.

        • the darkprince says:

          U must be a secret. Muslim terrorist out to restore the caliphate if u know all that

        • sue jersey says:

          Maybe you don’t say the pledge in TX but we sure do in Jersey. Kids say it at school EVERY SINGLE DAY and at the games. Plus, at service groups my kids belong to. Why do people keep saying we can’t say the pledge when we do it every day?

      • I really do wonder weather or not we live in the same place. I have no gun because I’m not some scared recluse, hiding in my basement with a tinfoil hat on thinking we’re on the edge of dictatorship. Maybe its because conservative individuals out there have never used the political process to peacefully create change. I ask you conservatives, if you have such faith in our country and in our constitution, where is your faith in the FIRST AMENDMENT? This is the actual mechanism our founders intended for us to use to make change in the country. Anyone who studied history knows that the founders were most terrified not of the monarchy, but of mob rule. They wanted an ordered, deliberative democracy, using the 2nd amendment to overthrow a legitimately elected government is not the purpose of the 2nd amendment.

        I know its hard for you guys cause you lost an election and you’re now in the political minority and moving towards being a smaller minority. But why not try persuading people instead of preparing to shoot them? I know that our military is a volunteer one and the rank-and-file are people in their early 20s just like me. We love this country too, if they President did become a dictator and started doing things that were actually a threat to our country and way of life, why do you believe that our army is going to attack you? Wouldn’t they just refuse to kill their countrymen? Why does your world view entail preparing to kill the people that defend our country? Don’t you see the disconnect there? STOP BEING AFRAID! NOBODY IS COMING FOR YOU!

        • Aren’t we are the wordy person. Unfortunately the excessive use of verbiage precludes your capability of forming meaningful thoughts, Wake up ass hole and smell the roses.

          • What a well-reasoned, thought out response. Calling someone an ass hole is the best response you can come up with. Sad. Don’t try responding to the points made, just call him an ass hole. smh.

          • Another GOP tidbit of wisdom F Kaiser. No wonder the GOP is on it’s way out.

        • @Jason “They wanted an ordered, deliberative democracy, using the 2nd amendment to overthrow a legitimately elected government is not the purpose of the 2nd amendment.”

          “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” – George Washington

          AND, concerning gun control:

          “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)

          Now, I don’t think any sane person, conservative or liberal, is planning on rushing out to overthrow the government as you seem to imply in your response. Those who are up in arms over stricter gun control laws (ha, pun… I couldn’t resist) are balking at the violation of their 2nd Amendment rights, as Americans SHOULD. Yes, the Founding Fathers were concerned about the mob, but they also knew that a government established on good principles could still be corrupted by manipulative enemies and by an unfortunately ill-informed populace (“useful idiots”, as Lenin is speculated to have said). As George Washington stated, that IS the purpose for arming a free people. It is our right to “keep and bear arms”.

        • It is distressing to see how many here seem to spend their days in an alternate reality. Sure, I’m have fun making fun of the mentally weak, but THERE’S JUST SO MANY OF THEM!

          • Furious Citizen says:

            My oh my, you just don’t get it Gen Y, you are the mentally weak. Perhaps you didn’t read te article and receive the message that your side is wrong. meanwhile you make comments that are completely irrelevant and unsophisticated.

          • Hey dumbo, ever heard of Agenda 21??? Look and see what your beloved United Nations is up to.

          • Gen Y is a troll making stupid comments that IT thinks are funny and cute. Ignore the troll!

        • Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness says:

          Jason:

          I do not honestly believe that too many people of this site are afraid of our own volunteer military coming after us, however, you are evidently unaware of the standing army that “The Protection And Affordable Care Act” provides for among its 2,900 or so pages. This standing army provided for in this bill is to be used only and completely at the sole discretion of the President Of The United States and it is to be harmed with advanced modern weaponry and trained in every way possible equal to our own (volunteery) military forces. This arm is said to already be in the process of being armed and trained. I do not remember all of the details nor do I have them immediately where I can quote them to you. I believe that it is called the “Blue Army” or some such title but I am unsure as to its exact title. There are also the matter of several billions of hollow point bullets being purchased by the various departments of The Federal Government. These recent purchases have been reported and published by the ammunition manufacturers from whom these munitions were purchased. The various departments of the government reported to have ordered and received these shipments of these bullets used for nothing but for killing human beings is another immediate cause for concern. Exactly for what use do all of the major departments of government have for again in excess of at least a billion or more hollow point bullets–exactly who are they preparing to use them against? Another area of concern to many American Citizens are the large number of so-called “Fema Camps” that have already been constructed and with more currently being constructed just exactly who are the camps being built to imprison? I have read many published reports concerning the above related information by reputable sources of information. Our government has now openly declared that those who do not believe in abortion, but do believe in Jesus Christ as being the Son Of God–i.e. Christians and those who disagree with President Obama and his multitudes of “Executive Orders” which are unlawful under our United States Constitution along with anyone else whose beliefs differ in any manner from the current “Politically Correct” terminology and theology that is currently being espoused by our Federal Government are considered to be violent and dangerous terriorists. We as American Law-Abiding Citizens are not to be allowed to feel-free to express our own true beliefs if they differ in anyway from our Federal Government. Any Americans who are proud of our history as a nation and have a desire to see the same God-given opportunities available to our children and our children’s children for generations yet to come are also considered to be a dangerous militant group within our nation. Even the very honor of our nation’s military veteran’s is being held up to questions and unwarrented scruitney by those in positions of power and authority over us as though those who have already laid their lives on the line to protect and defend our nation are somehow now to be regarded as a dangerous threat that must be carefully monitored and watched for signs of violence against our own nation. Jason, you are a young man and I believe that you are no doubt an honorable young man and I thank you and your fellow brothers now currently serving our nation in our military services. My husband is a Vietnam Veteran and one of my sons is a Desert-Storm Veteran so you can believe me when I say that I truly love and appreciate all of our men and women currently serving our nation at home and overseas. Having lived a lot of years and having experienced a lot of things during those years let me assure you that our nation is at a cross-roads where it has never been since the “Civil War” and none of us who have enjoyed the blessings of liberty throughout our lifetimes have any desire except for the very best for all of our future generations of Americans. However, there are those who do not hold out those same convictions and feelings when it comes to the future of our nation. Many omissions have purposely been made in our recent history books and our nations true history is being twisted and turned into a lie to suit the purposes of those currently in power. Believe me or not but I have lived since the 1940′s and I know all about what it actually means to have the joy of growing-up in a “FREE NATION” which unless some major changes soon come about future generations will never live to see. Our freedoms have been being daily being eaten away at like a mouse chewing off chunks of a piece of cheese–just a little at a time–so that it is hardly noticeable at the time! So be aware and keep an eye out as to what freedoms are being weakened day by day all across our land!

          • Wondering says:

            Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness , You seem to Have wisdom , My friend said that the Federal Government could go through the HDTV and see us in our living rooms, and that they kept track of everything we buy at the grocery store, and can follow us by computer, I phone or smart phone.And watch or house by radar. Is that true, and why?

        • Small problem there, friend. This is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. You say that the Founding Fathers feared mob rule more than anything, but then say that they wanted an ordered, deliberative democracy. News flash – a true democracy IS mob rule. You picked apart your own argument rather quickly.

        • A “deliberative democracy”? Perhaps it has been a little too long since you have recited the Pledge of Allegiance. “and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands…” The United States of America is not a democracy, it is a republic. I would agree with many of the points that you made had I not been taught about what happened with the peoples of Germany before during and after WWI and WWII.

        • First they came for the socialists,
          and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.

          Then they came for the trade unionists,
          and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

          Then they came for the Jews,
          and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

          Then they came for me,
          and there was no one left to speak for me.

    • Fredrick your are a liberal moron. tens of thousands a year gunned down.hahah did you just make that number up?

      • Hey Fred, I hear BP is hiring in Mali. How about I buy you a one way ticket?

      • Fred only know what his mom tells him.

      • Alan Larsen says:

        Libtards like Frederick Hiller just make things up. You get three more Libtards to repeat your lie and it turns into fact! That is the way of the Left!

      • According to the CDC 31,940 Americans died of injuries sustained by guns in 2011

        • Just wondering says:

          Just a 3 question, on CDC 31,940?
          How many by accidently?
          How many by legal gun owners?
          How many by all others (criminals)?
          Just wonderin

        • TheDrifter says:

          According the FBI’s website:
          In 2011 there were:
          12,664 murders in the US. Total.
          8,583 were with fire arms.
          6,220 were with handguns.
          323 were with rifles.
          356 were with shotguns.
          1,694 were with knives (500% the rifle rate, yet knives are not banned.)
          728 were with hands, fists, feet, etc (200% the rifle rate, yet we haven’t banned your hands or feet yet.)

          Cite: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20 (a state by state breakdown of violent crime)

          • You left out a couple of stats:

            674 were with blunt objects (Hammers)(286% the rifle rate, yet hammers are not banned)
            10,839 were drunk driver (Alcohol is not banned) It was at one time but it was found not to work.

      • About 12,00 people were killed by guns in this country last year. A few seconds on Google would have told you that. But don’t let facts get in your way.

        http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

        (By the way, the CDC is the government. So you can blame Obama for lying as to how many were killed by firearms. Just trying to help you out some.)

        • Furious Citizen says:

          because everything on the internet is true.

        • Eric the Pilot says:

          Gen Y, if we follow your line if thinking (and I’m not saying we should, it aparently leads to a dead end…) we should ban all vehicles, because in the first half of 2012 we had over 16,000 deaths caused by these deadly items! No one is safe! Cars kill! They are sentient things that act on their own, trailing death and carnage wherever they go! For the rest of us that have the ability to think rationally, and not stoop to the level of demeaning one because they make a grammatical or punctuational error in their post (and reading some of your posts, you are not as innocent as you would put yourself off as being) the reason for this whole discussion is the FACT (something most hardcore liberals choose to ignore) that Mitt Romney, whether he intended to or not, made some very accurate predictions of what would and will happen during the second reign…I mean, term, of barak obama. And the really scary part is that people like you are still too blinded by the glamour to see this administration for what it really is. I, for one, am very thankful that I live in a region where we are able to protect ourselves should the need arise. I invite you to set aside your crass and demeaning attitude, to leave off with arguing and ‘shooting your mouth off,’ so that perhaps you might indeed learn something. We were created with two ears, two eyes, and only one mouth for a reason. I’m hoping you’ll figure it out very soon. God Bless the United States of America!

        • “Scuse me, is that 12,00? or 1,200? or 12,000? You evidently got a top-notch education in our great public school system…

    • Richard Mayock says:

      Hey Jo! Are you keeping score on who the people are, that are commiting these heinous attacks, and what they ALL have in common? They were ALL either registered democrats, or the offspring of liberal registered democrats Good try though! (Sheeple!, Geez!)

    • Look at the two most strict cities in America on gun control (New York & Chicago) They are also the highest in gun related murder.

      • Using guns that come up route 95 from the South. A strong argument for more rigid national regulations.

        • You are not aware of the guns purchased by Justice Dept. to send to Mexico drug cartels. It was called “fast and furious”. The president of the US, Justice Department and the BATF were in on it.

        • 95 doesn’t run to Chicago….nice work!

      • *citation needed*

        • Reply to You says:

          Reading your Comments Gen Y, it would appear that you have gained all of your vast knowledge from Wikipedia and the like. Apparently you do very little research on your own; Fast and Furious (F&F) was a neat little gun walking experiment where our Government allowed guns into Mexico via straw buyers from the US. One of those guns was traced to the Murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and even more troubling is that there were close to 2100 guns involved in this experiment under this Administration and of those approx 600 have been accounted for.

          • Gen Y doesn’t remember because Obama silenced the media before it could be put on Wikipedia.

        • You are actually asking for a citation on FAST AND FURIOUS??? Geeze, you are no match for this website, sir. Come back when you have read a newspaper (oh wait, you probably won’t find this subject the material you read.)

    • Richard Mayock says:

      My bad, Jo! that was intended for Mr. Fredrick Hiller, of “We the sheeple”!

    • Dave Stocker says:

      US murders from guns have been on a steady decline from a high of 10,225 deaths in 2005, to 8,583 in 2011 (last year stats are currently available. In 2011 there were 12, 664 murders, so 4,081 were committed knives or other instruments. The facts don’t lie, unlike the left.

      • And those numbers make the US one of the most violent countries in the entire world.

        • Eric the Pilot says:

          Mark, have you ever heard of Africa? And if so, how about Uganda, or Angola, or Syria, or Somalia, or any of the rest of those countries that make up the continent? You want to get into a discussion about violent countries? This United States of America is, by comparison, a very non-violent country. You might take a little more time, to think out your posts, before you make such statements…just saying. God Bless the United States of America!

    • Haha….I’ stocking up on weapons and ammo as you speak! Love this country! Hahaha

      • You’re typing that while in line at the gun store? Or do you have another tab open on your browser set to “GunsnStuff.com”?

        You do know how to have more than one browser window open at a time, right?

        • Furious Citizen says:

          obviously he does Gen Y, or else he wouldn’t be doing it. You are irrelevant, as are your arguments.

          • It is obvious to me that Gen Y is SUPER special and entitled. How else would you be able to keep up with these comments unless you didn’t have a job? Like that joke, “Over a million people attended the inauguration of Pres. Obama. Only 14 missed work!”.

    • Tens of thousands gunned down? What about the thousands per DAY that are killed in auto accidents? By that logic, shouldn’t we ban cars, too? What we shouldn’t forget is that’s how tyranny creeps in. It doesn’t happen overnight. It happens bit by bit, a small shift here and there, all in the name of “safety” or “for the children”. Hitler was especially good at making inroads with the youth of his country. And we all know how THAT turned out. If you want to live in a Socialist state that will assuredly become Communist sooner or later, go find one to move to. Let’s keep America a place where freedom still reigns!

    • Been to Auz says:

      Would you anti-gun nuts please explain to me why gun murders doubled the year the Aussies outlawed them? Or perhaps you can get some commentary out of Piers Morgan as to why the gun murder rate is so non zero in London where not even cops are allowed to have guns. Or why most robbers and home invaders in the UK take place when homeowners are at home.

    • kainoasgrl says:

      Mr Hitler you have your facts wrong!

    • There’s not tens of thousands killed by guns. There were eleven thousand and a few. and at least we have the balls to carry a gun and defend our family, not just be a victim and cry about how long police took to get there. There was between 3 and 400 killed by rifles in 2011. about the same as killed by lightning.

      • I’m a Texan, born and raised and I don’t see how carrying a gun makes you brave. If anything, carrying a gun around all the time kinda makes you a coward.

        I’ve never been a victim of a crime and its not cause I live in the nicest neighborhoods. If you’re brave enough to go meet you neighbors and be a part of the community, the community will watch out for you. Now I live in one of the most dangerous cities in the country, I don’t carry a gun, I’ve never been afraid here walking around or going for a bike ride at night. Some people are victims, some aren’t. I’m just not.

        You wouldn’t say that a child that carries around a security blanket is brave, but that’s really all you are doing. Your gun may make you feel safe or even brave, but its not really protecting you. I don’t have one and I’m just as safe as you, if not more so. If you did have one, statistically there’s just as good of a chance of your gun being taken and used against you as you successfully using it for defense.

        BTW, I agree with you about rifles, which is why even people on the far left (like me) aren’t interested in taking away single-action rifles – if any one tells you otherwise, its the NRA trying to make you afraid of us. But you shouldn’t be.

        • What’s all this “brave” stuff? You’re one of those people who think, “Well, this will never happen in my neighborhood.” We are pleased that you feel safe in your own little world.

        • Jason…by telling yourself that you are brave…….does that make you braver? I don’t carry a weapon either but I would if my state would allow it. Single action rifles? Are you talking about break action? Wow, that really gives hunters and shooters a lot of firearms to choose from. The style of firearm is not the problem. I can do more LETHAL damage to soft targets with a pump shotgun than anyone can with a Bushmaster style rifle. NRA scare tactics? What do you think your news outlets are feeding you….THE TRUTH?

    • R U one of those people that cant understand that for a gun to kill, a human has to pull the trigger ? Or do you think we should ban cars so people can not drink and drive for fear they will kill someone.

    • The difference, Frederick Hiller, is that Mitt Romney would have been proactive to resolve these issues whereas Obama DOES NOTHING when knowing the information. That can be best shown with the Benghazi debacle. Get it? A man like Mitt Romney would have be PROACTIVE to prevent this as much as possible with all the information provided BEFORE THE SITUATION. Regarding Obama’s 23 executive orders about gun control, that was just a thrill for him but does not prevent any mass shootings. He is fooling himself and you. Any further gun control measures only limit law abiding citizens rights. What BO hasn’t addressed is the mentally ill and the criminal’s access to guns. Oh, and by the way, Fast and Furious, funded and protected by our President, was putting guns into the criminals hands and killed MANY innocent people. This is so ludicrous and such hypocracy!!

      • But He Lost! says:

        After 200 years we have had our share of GOP Presidents and what did it get us. too many guns and too much debt. Check your fact and see that Reagan and Bush push us further into debt than any dems during the past 30 years. don’t take my word…look it up, READ, Learn, and stop all the jaw jacking.

        Fred never argue with a stupid person because from a distance you can’t tell who is who.

        • I assume you are not counting Obama in that. being as he will have doubled the national debt by the end of his second term. As for reagan and Bush. seems to me that this country was in a resession when Reagan took over and using J.F.K’s model he lowered taxes and regulations allowing the economy to recover and grow. Which is a big part of the reason there was such an economic boom in the 90′s. Its funny how everyone wants to blame bush, and in part they are correct, for what Obama is dealing with. Yet using the same logic they refuse to credit Reagan. Obama got a bad situation yes, but its the fact that he cannot make it any better. He does not even have the support of his own party. Thats why he is doomed to fail. As for gun control. I cant imagine any criminal willing to murder mass amounts of people stoping simply because he could not get a legal weapon. And being as just about anyone can walk into a major city and get a unregistered weapon, not that one is needed given the worse mass murders in the country did not even use guns, without much effort. The problem is not gun control. It enforcement of the laws in place. Gun control is a kneejerk reaction that in no way can or will address the reall issuses.

          • Do you realize that Reagan raised taxes 19 times on the middle class during his two terms? To say he lowered taxes is correct to a degree, but for the wealthy, for the other 98% or so of the country, he raised taxes 19 times.

        • Furious Citizen says:

          Reagan and Bush did that for the military because we had foreign threats, those sort of things can be taken care of. But making the citizens of this country dependent on government by social programs cannot be reversed. by the way, we could have easily repaid the Reagan and Bush debts if we didn’t have welfare and the likes.

        • Uh-oh, now he’s using capital letters in his name…

    • Alan Larsen says:

      Well Golly Gee Frederick, apparently you Libtards can’t tell the lies of your masters from the truth. Did you see that Dear Leader was anointed the title of “Burger King” this week because he has told so many whoppers.

    • You my friend are ignorant of the facts. More people are beaten to death or stabbed or killed by other means than guns. Thousands of babiea are murdered every day thru abortions than have ever been killed by guns.

    • Common Sense says:

      Ya gotta laugh–one guy posted of the tens of thousands of people gunned down each year in the U.S.—maybe during the Civil War !! Some people will just say anything—and come up with just plain wrong facts.

    • ritalouise says:

      Frederick needs a higher dosage of his meds.. Probably belongs in the 47% that pays no taxes and lives on the public dime.

    • Nick Fleming says:

      WOW! You must be really smart and better than everybody else! I dont even deserve to be on the same website you were on

    • Well Fredrick, you may be right, Obama knew alot of things Romney was criticized for claiming before “Mittens” did,
      he just lied about them.

    • Fredrick gun control will not help anything but the black market on guns.guns will be here no matter what.The ignorant believe this will help by having gun control.Guaranteed as we speak the gun control issues are creating guns as a new drug,there will be more out there than ever now.people want what they cant have or not suppose to have.Countries that have very little guns have the most brutal killings.I would rather myself and family be shot than chopped up with machetes.

    • PaintedTainted says:

      What more proof do you need that “gun control” is the government’s key step in total control over its people? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vNj2sb_00

    • The country is going to shit and all u want to do is find a way to make Obama look right. U asslicking jackass

    • Kat Yamada says:

      Perhaps folks wouldn’t be “scared little gun-mongers” if people like you didn’t help to create a society where people are scared. Move to Europe, please.

    • I’m sorry, How many gunned down each year? Where oh where do you get your statistics? Time for you to do some reading my boy!

      “It is better to be considered a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

    • Guns are tools… People are the ones killing… Last I knew a gun would not ever do anything until someone picked it up and used it. So when all the guns and our second admendmants right are taken away. The deranged idiots will use other things like homemade bombs and such to do what they think they need to do. sad fact of life but guns laws are not the way to stop incidents like school shootings from happening…The only way to do that is get people the help they need… by making the help cheap to get… meaning those quacks need to stop charging 300 dollars a hour.

    • Yes, because criminals buy their guns through legitimate means thanks to our lose gun laws. Too bad they buy them illegally through the black market, which doesn’t follow any type of laws.

    • ” tens of thousands of Americans which are abrogated each year when they are gunned down due to far too lax of gun policies”

      This is a PERFECT example of the average Democrat voter: COMPLETELY, and utterly UNEDUCATED. Holy cow! Do some damn research! Not only are there no where near that many people “gunned down” each year, but it’s proven that where there is mandatory gun ownership and training, the gun crimes are near non-existent. I’m sorry you’re too stupid to figure out that criminals are much less likely to attack an armed person, than an unarmed person, but WE figured it out! Don’t believe me? Do some freaking research! I’ll even give you a good place to start: Switzerland. Mandatory military service for nearly every man (with varying levels of involvement throughout the years) and nearly every home has a mandatory “ASSAULT WEAPON” ….the number of murders involving guns?? A ridiculously low FORTY in 2010!!!
      Stop believing everything you’re spoon fed by the democrats and get some knowledge!

    • Look at your name, who could ever take anything you say seriously, your a complete idiot. And there is really no need to address your complete lack of intelligence, because you wouldn’t understand it. But I will say one thing, if you don’t like it here, then go away, and take the man who is trying to ruin our country with you as well!

    • That’s exactly why we don’t want gun control, why take away guns? So we can get ruled over? If more people had guns we could stop the people who want to harm with guns and the gov’t wouldn’t try any sort of thing. They have way too much power as it is, don’t contribute into giving them free will of our country to do as they please.

    • Changing the constitution that we fight so hard to protect is us as a whole going in the wrong direction, if u dont want a gun dont buy one and most murders come from unregisterd guns or stollen filed untracable. Bad people will always find a way to get a gun nothing anyone can do about it that why good people with guns makes me feel safer!

    • Seriously Lets stand behind Obama and his gun control. He wants to protect the innocent our nations children .. ARE YOU JOKING he doesn’t care diddly squat or he wouldn’t be in support of hundreds of thousands of them killed every year by abortion . He dosn”t care if your kids are safe.. Him and his family and kids are escorted by armed guards with endless rounds every day .. HE IS A HYPOCRITICAL JOKE

    • You are so right. Obama knew this long ago and you voted for him. I can understand why you voted for The Obamanese Govt,you are most likely black and has never paid taxes !!! One day taxpayer money will run out and you will make thugary and dope dealing your full time job !!!! Take a bath and get a job like real working people.

    • gun owner says:

      You’re an idiot… do you think that these murderers will obey gun laws?

    • Tens of thousands gunned down every year? Where do you get these ridiculous numbers? That’s rhetorical. I know you pull them out of your ass. More people are killed w/hammers than w/guns every year. Let’s ban all assault hammers immediately!! You are either the dumbest person on the planet or a pathetic liar. Which is not uncommon for you progressives who are trying to turn this country into a socialist utopia. It will never work. As great as this country has been, it cannot survive socialism. And hopefully socialism cannot survive in this country.

    • Oh I’d love to see the day when that last phrase there come and bite you in the butt buddy. You wanna give up your guns to the Fed?! You think they can protect you better than you can protect yourself?! GO AHEAD BUDDY. They’ll be busting down your door and forcing you into anything they want when you and the rest of us are defenseless. Shame on you!

    • Frederick? I don’t know where you’re from but….please go back there and find your mind. Because you obviously left it behind.

    • Harry Klein says:

      Hey, how many americans did you quote? Doesn’t YOUR president give and support other countries to rebel? So he is giving guns to other nations but taking ours. You are so blinded.

    • dont let the door hiy ya on your fat ass on the way out if ya dont like it

    • If Obama’s team knew all about this, then why did they say Romney was lying when he said them, Einstein? You can’t have it both ways. Either Obama was lying or Romney was.
      Cognitive dissonance — how the eff does it work?

    • If Obama knew Jeep was moving to China why did he deny it during the debate when Romney brought it up? Oh wait! I know. He lied.

  3. Well if Obama knew all of this why didn’t he disclose it to the American people. And just where are all the women in his new cabinet? And why is he allowing Chrysler to outsource when he vowed to stop outsourcing? As far as gun control, he put a band aide on it. The laws were already on the books. What he did was disarm Americans or should I say limit Americans rights to defend themselves. Romney had it right and you all got it wrong.

    • Has Obama told the truth on anything since he stole the first election. He is being inaugurated now for a 2nd term and we the people are going to pay and as this country becomes a 3rd world country all of the Obama supporters can stand in line and take the blame. They worship the ground he walks on and he has the media kissing his ass and they won’t print anything about him unless it makes him look good. He is the most racist president we have ever seen and just like the 2. something billion he gave the black farmers for the sufferings they have had through the years. What about the other races who blacks have killed and went to prison for?

      Do Jesse Jackson or Sharpton ever bring anything up of what the blacks do to the white or other races? Hell no they don’t but if something happens to a poor black watch out they (Sharpton and Jackson ) are on TV screaming of race and or unfair to the poor black man. What about Obamas daughter and 12 of her friends and 25 Secret Service men going to Mexico on spring break last year. Did you read about it in the paper no you didn’t and it would not have even hit the news because Obama told them not to print anything about the little girl and her friends going to Mexico and who paid for it. You got it the tax payers and the only reason it got out is because of the Government watch group just like the reporting on all of the vacations the MS Obama takes her family and friends on plus staff. It has been said she has the biggest staff that any first Lady has ever had. They have to rent 2 or 3 places when they go on vacation because of the number of staff they take on the vacation. This country has a Hitler in office and God Save America and Bless her because the evil in DC is going to destroy what we have lived in forever.

      • And why do we have to pay the way for MS. Obama’s mother to live in the White House with all the vacations and amenities of the first family?

  4. It takes a businessman to know business … reality check! Community organizers make really good communists … reality check. WAKE UP AMERICA. Elections REALLY do have consequences & ours are just beginning.

  5. tHIS IS OUR TRUE PRESIDENT. HE WAS CHEATED OUT OF OFFICE BECAUSE OF VOTER FRAUD.

    • How was Obama cheated out of office because of voter fraud? I think you better read and see who the president of this country is and you will see it is the same gay illegal American hating Muslim that was in office the last 4 years and he is not going to be any better this term. All he wants is to turn this into a Muslim nation and he has a good start. The Muslim have more rights than the citizens. Check out the stoning of Christians in Dearborn MI and it was the Muslims who started it but the Christians who got threatened with arrest. Can’t mention God in our schools but Allah has been implemented into 80 % of the schools in TX and the chips are in the schools in TX that track a child’s ever move. It was found by the Supreme Court to be ok and not against religion. See where this great country is going? Controlled by a dictator, Hitler, Stalin and Castro all rolled up into one Barrick Obama. Go read the voter results and you will see Obama stole the election and only voter fraud got him into office.

    • I never could understand how whole large districts – major cities, even! – could have voted “unanimously for Obama.” No one in this country votes unanimously for ANYONE. And there were UN observers stationed at polling places to ensure there was no fraud??? Come on! Since when do we have to have ANY OUTSIDERS watch our elections, and especially the ones BO is catering to at the United Nations with all his gun-control legislation? But then we saw vast areas supposedly 100% FOR OBAMA. I don’t understand how that could possibly be, EXCEPT that there had to have been election fraud. I bet there were a lot of paper-shredders going non-stop as the ballots were being read, just to make those unanimous claims valid…. Yvonne, I totally agree with you – Mitt Romney SHOULD have been elected, and probably was – but we’ll never know because the evidence was destroyed. BO had his union thugs and radical environmentalists shredding paper and having it recycled into official White House toilet paper. That’s all he thinks of our “public opinions” regarding his plans for this country!

      • I thought the very same thing. How could the ENTIRE community vote for one person? Not ONE person voted against him? Come on! The answer is that the elections were bought and paid for. Let’s see, he made up his own rules regarding illegal immigrants and allowed them to stay…..just in time for any family member who can vote to be thankful and cast a vote for him. Then he sent millions of dollars to the farmers and ranchers to buy grain and livestock up………just to secure some more votes. $8.5 billion in wind farm grants that had the majority of it go overseas to foreign manufacturers. Here is a great read on where OUR money is going. http://obamanomicsoutsourced.com/

        He is a fraud!

    • The Machines were rigged for Obama to win. All of it was was a big fraud. I say lets ask all over for ID and a recount. Romney won and we all know it.

      • They didn’t even need to rig the polls. When Sandy went through New England, they let people vote on computers and you know how easy they are to manipulate.

    • Romney would make a better president . At least he’s a american, unlike bo the american hater.

  6. I dislike Obama and did not vote for him either time. Poor us!

  7. A number of years before Mitt Romney ran for president I heard him interviewed on the radio. He talked about the book “The Wealth and Povery of Nations”. He talked about the principles that lead a people to prosperity and why some nations succeed and other nations never seem to get it together. I went to the library and got the book. A great read! I recognized that Mitt Romney had spent a lifetime identifying righteous principles, living them and using them to lead businesses and people to prosperity. I was hoping he would get the chance to do that for this nation.

  8. ASTER GEORGE says:

    I think Mr. Romney should consider himself lucky that he did not win. President Obama sent America in a tailspin in his first term that no one could climb out of ( I know he inherited a bad economy, but a conservative president could have straightened us out) and President Obama has to take responsibility for all the failures the U.S. will have in his second term. The United States had a great run before President Obama got elected, now we must accept our punishment that he will give in his second term.

  9. Unfortunately everyone I’ve been talking to has been blaming the republican house for the mistakes made by the president. Romney would have been the perfect man for the job and Obama needs to change if he wants to help America.

    • GeorgiaGrandma says:

      Obama “Help America”?????? I don’t think that is his plan. He is out to help himself and the select few that facilitated his rise power. This isn’t about what is good for this country, it is about, how this country can help Obama realize his own goals. And In my opinion, none of those goals are for the betterment of the American People of this Great Country. God Help Us All.

      • Good point, I guess I gave Obama too much credit. One thing is for sure, Obama isn’t getting enough criticism for his blazing miscues as president. All of the blame is being forced on the House, which in my mind is the only thing standing between Obama and total control.

    • I know – it’s ridiculous that the Republican house is getting all of the blame for all of the mess. But who has presented a budget every year that Obama has been in office. Congress has. The SENATE (controlled by Dems) rejected any budget that was presented. President Obama even offered his own budget up to the Senate, and it was voted NAY by 99 Senators out of 100! So, who is really holding things back? The Republicans certainly ARE TRYING to get some good work done! It’s Harry Reid blocking the way, but the media refuses to report anything that is not supportive of Obama or any of his administration. It’s crazy. And to the people who rag on Fox News. They report ALL of the news, (ever hear of Benghazi, anyone?) and at least give a good try at showing both sides. Sometimes they tip to the Conservative side, but I figure it’s only fair – all the other news outlets, except for Talk Radio, are in Obama’s pocket. Listen to Fox plus any other station. You will see what I am talking about. Check this out, too – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack

      • Part of the problem lies with our public colleges and universities who actively participate in the brainwashing of students. I was sitting in an anthropology class and the masters student who was lecturing at the beginning of the class was very, very pro-lefty media and could barely get the word “FOX” out of her mouth and then proceeded to tell all the students how biased FOX was. Sadly the students just sat there like robots agreeing with everything she said. I dropped the class the next day.

    • So right. And any president that wants us to give him a blank check to spend as he pleases is not trustworthy. That is unheard of and odd to say the least.

  10. Well America you got what you wanted and now we all will pay the price. Funny but no taxes on the meddle class well has everyone looked at their pay check>

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