Seems they will have company from the DOJ. I wonder how that will work for them?Think it might ruin their day?

all i see is a angry president who has nothing to run on!!! cant get along with anybody, failed monetary/fiscal policies, failed immigration policy, failed security policies.. Romney for next president!!!!!!

Obama has nothing to run on???

Explain yourself if you just aren't "parroting"!

What failed monetary/fiscal policies:

What failed immigragion policy?

What failed security policies?

As for your last comment: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

So sorry for you!!

A site which came up a few years ago might tell you what Obama has done. Go to http://whatthe@!$%#hasobamadonesofar.com, and see for yourself.

Well, the site monitor won't allow a certain four letter word in the title of the web site to print, so just substitute an impossible act of carnal depravity for the four letters in the address, starting with "f" and ending with "k".

It is always so easy for people who are in a position to do NOTHING to criticize those who are doing something. It is also all noise. This is particularly true with Romney as we have no idea of his true position, plans or feelings (except regarding 47% of Americans).

It bothers me a bit that after 4 years of Republican obstruction (on the budget, financial policy, immigration policy, national security, job creation and this bizzare social agenda they have seeking to roll back the clock 70-100 years for women) they can now get away with pretending that Obama "failed". And this after the Republican Party openly declared that their primary job was making sure Obama wasn't re-elected...immediately following his election in '08.

If lies were votes Romney would already have it sewed up.

rwsgate - cute avatar! and I love that web site, too.

BTW, the "site monitor" does allow that four letter word (and others) to "print". However, in order for you to be able to see it, you have to go to your own Vine page (click on your user name, that will take you right there) and click on the "account" link in the black bar near the top of the page. Once you land on your account information page, below where you can add/change your avatar, you'll see a line saying "Profanity Filter" with radio buttons for "on" and "off". Select "off" and save the account info, and once you've reloaded this page you'll see the four-letter words in all their profane glory. :D

Get Enraged and Engaged:
Mooch the Vote 2012!

;-)

Here is what he is running on, just some folks have been lied to and whatever else it is that makes them hate the President that accomplished all this with an arm tied behind his back.

Something to run on. Here ya go:

http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/what-obamas-accomplished?utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_content=View+the+list+here&utm_campaign=em12_20121031_ft_act&source=em12_20121031_ft_act

The equivalent to the "wtf" site is a less censor-worthy version:

http://whattheheckhasobamadonesofar.com/

(Same site just a little less censorable URL.)

"If Obama was white..."

I'm sure his mother might have something to say about that.

Obama is black. And Obama's mother prepared him for that.

Obama self identifies as black, because America has treated him not as a bi racial person, but a black person.

My husband is white. Our children are black. Because that is the reality of race and racism in America.

Welcome to the real world of race and the role it plays in America, FP.

FuturePrez2016 I accept that there are intractable issues . From Paul Garrity's simplistic destruction mandating forced bussing in Boston , to those for whom harboring an apparent revulsion of a black man in the White House is a spoken , or unspoken , verity . There is little I can do about either aside from being conscientious , fair and decent in my own existence . Never the less I chuckled pretty much at the idea of the latter group wrestling with your point .

ok in fairness how do you treat someone as a "bi racial person"? I would think you would just treat them as "A Person". Human dignity and respect is not something that comes in flavors or degrees.

I think the problem we tend to let get lost in this country when we talk about things like this is that what is really at issue are class and economic opportunity issues. It gets framed as a race issue a lot of times because minorities are disproportionately affected by those issues.

The political right have a need and desire to frame this election in terms of race for their base. It has been used as a political bogeyman throughout American history to frighten people, uasualy rural whites, and get them to the polls to vote against their own self-interests on issues regarding poverty, class representation and economic opportunity.

Obama is a living breathing testament to the fact that race is not a barrier to the ability to achieve and that scares the hell out of them so they try link him to words like "Revenge" and "Redistribution" hoping that it will make just enough of a difference to let them win.

The thing that Democrats and Progressives have to remember is to not get caught up in the rights narrative of what this campaign is about or to let them define us.

This post is made with all due respect, Dragon. It really is.

ok in fairness how do you treat someone as a "bi racial person"?

Ask my 16 yr. old son that question, and he would answer you: they treat you as "A BLACK PERSON."

And you just can't say "what is really at issue are class and economic issues... gets framed as race issues alot of the times because minorities are disproportionately affected by those issues."

If that statement were true, then Obama would not be treated the way that he has during his Presidency and the upcoming election. Obama is a rich, successful black person and the right has called him everything except n*gger(and have really come close to it, using that term as well).

If it is just a "class or economic" issue, the right would not be playing the race card so heavily and holding Obama to double standards the way that they have. The point being: race still matters in America.

Obama is a living breathing testament to the advances of civil rights and access to a quality education, of succeeding against all odds.

Yes, race and rights matter. And those on the right know that. That is why they are working so hard to turn back those gains that were made so that folks like Obama can never become President again, and diminish the social, political, and economic progress of women.

We are defined by race. There is no getting around it. I wish that it didn't for the lives of my children and myself and my husband. But it does. And Progressives and Democrats need to be reminded of that because those on the right certainly know that. And they are trying everything that they can to reverse the progress of people of color and women.

Well put Donna , I would take this occasion to also acknowledged many dems sincerely and actively try to view people in a NON RACIAL frame , and I am very sensitive when I see people not standing up and doing the same

Unfortunately , with the advent of obama , I have even seen my fellow dems racist attitudes flare , group think takes over , the rights constant barrage of what Donna explains so well has had an effect on people , the unfair label of " BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALL ON WELFARE / AND THAT IS WHAT OBAMA REPRESENTS " , has been full steam ahead in america for the last 4 years

Just like everything else , the right has politicized yet another issue , RACISM!! , but they politicize EVERYTHING!!!!! AND NO , BOTH SIDES DO NOT DO THAT EITHER!!! :)

Good points, Pantango.

The definition of politicize is:to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.

and: to engage in or discuss politics.

Both sides do indeed politicize racism but for different reasons:

The right does it as a means to diminish the gains for women and minorities that the civil rights movement achieved.

The left does it to bring attention to what the right is trying to do and to promote justice and equality for all(at least I sure hope that they do).

The concept of racism being politicized need not be a bad thing: without that process, the civil rights movement would have been all for nothing; there were laws passed and enacted because race and the movement being politicized.

I am encouraged by folks like you, but I have found many of my progressive friends have a blind spot when it comes to issues of race and often can become quite defensive when shown that they have that blind spot.

It is my hope that Dems and Progressives continue to increase their knowledge about race and the role it plays in America, so that the gains that were made will not be eroded or ended all together.

I am learning more all the time. I would like white people (I am one) to read Tim Wise or listen to him. We think we are so well informed on this. I am a baby boomer, so I have lived through segregation and civil rights era. Having the caucasian experience not the black experience, I did not know much at all.

We caucasians have to admit our privilege. We have to admit racism includes having a pass that black people, or anyone that is not caucasian looking or sounding doesn't carry. We carry all the past years of our privilege with us as well.

I was married to a black man with 4 children living with us. Only when I was physically with them was I treated anything other than having a pass. Our separation and divorce had absolutely nothing to do with race, it was much more complicated, I will spare the reader the details.

Tim Wise has a sometimes brash way of telling it like it is, but it needs to be told that way and folks need to listen, not say Oh, those times hare passed. They are not past, and I for one enjoy the variations and am drawn to the variations.

http://www.timwise.org

Sorry to barge in, but I just felt compelled to speak.

Wow, Sandy!

Thanks for sharing! My husband and I had really interesting debates, heated, discussions, and sometimes, big fights about race.

But all of that ended when our son was born. He saw first hand, that racism has not ended. And he told me as much. And I did not feel vindicated. I felt sad. Sad that my husband's rosy outlook was incorrect. Sad for my son who will have to navigate his way thru this system and come out, not in pieces, not dead, but somehow, whole.

But I do not give up hope. But I do get pretty @!$%#in pissed(and my husband is there to help me chill out about it).

Don't give up, keep the faith, and know that I have met more people like you and Pantango as time has gone by(we have been married 23 years now).

We must not say that racism is a non issue. It still is here and we must continue on this path until every race, every woman are treated as equals!

And I am glad that good folks like you are willing to keep walking down that path of equality for all!

:)

I am very hopeful for the future and I think every year that passes does improve the prospects. The younger folks are not being raised separately as much as before, so they know people of many races, religions, and orientations, sexual, gender, all of the above. It's for the good. Fears of "other" is less harmful when we know someone who is "other".

cry baby..

And here come the trolls!

I wonder how many of these idiots will be here Nov 7th?

oncearepublican, the thing I'm looking forward to the most ... after breathing a sigh of relief along with the rest of the world that the US reelected a sane, diplomatic thinker who won't throw the rest of us into war and chaos ... is coming here to find the trolls hiding under their bridges and leaving us in peace.

Imagine, actual discourse? Disagreements about policy matters without name-calling, hideous grammar and worse spelling? *sigh* 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished ...

Oh, yea!! I want this blog to back to the way it was before all the trolling!!!! I miss the long, intellectual discourses!

After the election the paid trolls will lose their jobs and the wingnuts will go back to their uni-bomber cabins and bunkers in Montana...

And in about a month some idiot will start in on how the left is waging a war on Christmas and it will start all over again

Hell Sorry H-E-double hockey sticks. On November 7th there will be caterwauling how Romney wasn't conservative enough followed by the pundit class on November 8th speculating on 2016 , followed on the 9th by the first anti-democratic superpac ad of the 2016 election decrying Obama and his lack of progress in his second term .

Why on Day One Mitt would have.........

I suspect that November 7 will be devoted to lots of right wing lunacy, concocting explanations about how Obama really lost the election and that he is not the legitimate President of the U. S.

Dudes, you're totally harshing my mellow over here ...

The trolls are going away, never to return. It shall be so! I foresayeth! ... please??

I feel that 80's , my brain goes into retirement mode after such elections , enough is enough , just ignoring all those things is SOP , the trolls do not even matter any more , time to move on , bigger better

You must !

i agree he only said voting is the best revenge,, he did not order peoples to vote democrats,,mr obama, mrs obama, they always said we need to vote,,,nothing was offensive in the way he said it,,it was not violent,,the voters have to listen to the whole speach,,, with all the fraud and manipulations to stop peoples from voting,,in florida, they are really bad,,and voting is revenge against the vote suppression,,i am with you mr obama,,,i am white but i vote for intelligent peoples,,black,white,,for me it does not count,,i am color blind if the person does a good job..all americans should be color blind,,,mr obama did a great job for 4 years ,,,i voted already,,nothing would stop me even in florida

The first thing that came to mind when I read about the "revenge" comment and all the right-wingers flipping out over it, was the quote, "The best revenge is massive success." I believe it has been attributed to Frank Sinatra. I just assumed the President was alluding to that quote in his own way.

BTW, Eileen, thanks for including the attribution in your comments. So few do that anymore!

The president has been compared to Marcus Aurelius by some and "Meditations' is one of Bill Clinton's favorite books, by the way, so the degrees of separation are not much.

The GOP doesn't want the grand majority of people voting; that's why they've struggled and pushed and lied to make it harder. They know that, in a fair contest, they lose.

You are as ignorant as you are illiterate.

Yet again, metoo and his lies!! Abraham Lincoln did NOT say this!!!

Romney believes people should vote out of "love of country,"

I can get behind Mitt for at least this one statement, but he'd be unhappy as to why.

It totally explains why I shouldn't, couldn't, wouldn't and, in the end, didn't vote for Mitt Romney.

Lying and fearing this much is a sure sign of an agenda that has no appeal on its own.

And I vote for love of country, too. Never voted Repub. Ever.

It seemed clear to me authority and control were not freedom. I have since seen the Democrats balance budgets better than Repubs. Also, the Republicans don't seem to grasp that going against voters doesn't win more voters.

That's what I thought also Paul , obama was even encouraging them not to boo the gop , yet another gop pronouncement that makes no sense , as steve points out so well