With Florida a battleground state – and Tampa Bay considered key to the presidential election – campaigning has been nonstop in 2012.
The showdowns started with the Florida Primary in January, when Republican presidential hopefuls started descending on Tampa Bay.
They intensified when the Republican National Convention came to town last month, with GOP nominee Gov. Mitt Romney and his crew bringing major buzz and more than a little disruption to downtown Tampa.
Things heated up again recently, as President Barack Obama stopped in Seminole, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"obama-met-by-11-000-supporters"} -->, and Paul Ryan, Romney's VP pick,
The questions you must answer are 1) who is ruled?; 2)who rules?; and who is the beneficiary of the rule? The more correct term for those who rule in the United States is plutocrat which derives from plutocracy (rule by the wealthy). The system we have in this country is a plutocracy with a democratic veneer or, to paraphrase Lincoln: government of the people, by the politicians, for the wealthy.
Our government requires the participation of each and every person in order for our government to continue to be successful. Should we systemically exclude certain classes of individuals from freely participation, our experiment in self government will fail. Ben Franklin, on leaving the Constitutional Convention, was asked - what kind of government had been delegated created. He answered: A Republic, IF you can keep it. That question haunts us to this day. Our form of self government is unique, are we smart enough to keep it?
You use the word "corruption," implying that the system as it is in reality is an aberration from the system described in your mythology. Unfortunately, you are wrong. The word "corruption" is meaningless in discussing the reality of our system and therefore like the word "oligarch(y)" is not useful.
Washington Post: Romney Wrong on His "47 Percent" Comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/mitt-romney-caught-on-video-tape/2012/09/17/38578a5e-012f-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_blog.html?hpid=z2
I understand he was aiming for his personal-best number? :-)
How are we voting to keep God and Christianity. And changing to Islam and Socialism. The very crux of that agrument makes no sense. There are many Socialist who are Christians. Also our society and government are not set up to make the change to socialism and no President with only an 8 eight term could make such a drastic change. Our government is based due to our Founding Fathers on the seperation of Church and State. So how are we going to be forced to be either Christian or Islamic. Currently 76% of the American population is Christian, on January 20, 2013 that is magically going to change if Obama is elected. That is labels and propaganda speaking. It's just as bad as the statements that Romney will remove the Middle class if he is president. Or the 1% will take power (they already have). It is just propaganda build to divide our nation from seeing that the government stopped working for the people years ago.
What was the question again?
A bunny!!!!!
O-Ba-Ma OH CRAZY DOG!!!
They're up to his necks in The Lying Game. What they say is all part of the larger GOP strategy. Believe me, Ryan "takes direction" in order to "stay on" the Republican message. He must "sing the GOP song" to be a GOP candidate. All across the nation, millionaires are backing these liars. They want full control in order to create the final divide between rich and poor. "Us and them". Their misjudgment? A lot of that 47% they despise is part of working America; students working their way through college, single moms restarting their lives with their first job since high school and truly poor mothers, working while the kids are at school, just to buy fuel oil for this winter and food for the day. These are proud Americans. Romney has just stolen their pride, their will power and more...their dignity. Men like Romney, Ryan and Republican candidates for Congress have no place in the seats of government (at any level) making decisions for "all Americans". They only have experience with the "jet set" and their "country club" members. That's okay, if you're running for Prom Queen, but the responsibilities here are far reaching and their vision does not include all Americans, as we've just found out.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/usa-billionaires-forbes-idINL1E8KJ8PC20120919 The net worth of the richest people in American grew by 1.7 Trillion Dollars, or grew 13% from last year.. The Net Worth of the top 400 earners is $13.56 Trillion dollars, also meaning $4.2 Billion growth on average. The lowest net worth was $1.1 out of the group, compared to $1.05. So I guess our weathly must be hurting? People who know how to use the system, are making money. I guess we are in trouble if the Standard & Poor 500 index rose almost 20% over the past year (as stated in the article). I guess the Rich are getting Richer... but that can't be happening with a "Socialist" President, right? America will always be a Capitalistic society regardless of the labels and propaganda that is out there.
only time when I worked at HCC and I could walk over to hear Obama speak . No wait no hassle. I met Rosalyn Carter on a WHite House tour once. Those days are gone.