Why would anyone vote for Obama part 2

As a conservative, I, like many people, have reservations about Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate. For independent voters it must be difficult to assemble a list of reasons to vote for Romney, we do not know much about him and the relentless personal attack ads have hurt Romney’s ability to define his views.

But maybe a better question would be why would anyone vote for Obama? Under his watch we have:

·         40 straight months of unemployment at over 8%. Two full years after the recession ended.

·         Home ownership is now at a 16 year low.

·         Still experiencing record amounts of home foreclosures.

·         Six trillion dollars of more federal debt than when Obama came in to office.

·         Record number of people are collecting food stamps.

·         Three straight years with no federal budget.

·         A justice department out of control and thousands of weapons shipped to Mexican drug gangs by the United States federal government, some that were used to murder a US Border Patrol officer.

·         Gas prices are up 67%

·         Middle East is in flames and American interest attacked worldwide, including the murder of a US Ambassador.  Last time that happened was 1978.

·         American troops dying at a rate of one a day in an Afghan war that appears leaderless.

·         Iran closer than ever to an Atomic weapon.

·         Poverty rates at over 15% with 46 million people now living in poverty. The highest rate in 20 years.

·         500 million taxpayer dollars wasted on solar panel company Solyndra. Even after it was clear Solyndra’s business plan had no chance to ever turn a profit, the President continued to dump tax money into a this “green technology hole”.

·         Obama appoints Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, to head his Jobs Council at the same time GE was shipping thousands of jobs out of this country. Suppose it did not really matter because Obama promptly ignored his job council.

·         Obamacare was the answer to all our health care worries.  But for some reason, the Obama administration saw fit to grant over 2000 wavers from the requirements of that bill.  Many going to large unions and corporations

·         Obama told us if we liked our health insurance we could keep it. We know now that was a lie.

·         In 2008 Obama said he would post all bills for five days for public comment before signing them. Of course that never happened.  Some people will say anything to get elected.

·         In 2008 Obama said he would cut the deficit in half in four years, in fact he said that he did not deserve to be reelected if he did not. Nice to see we have found something to agree about.

·          Appointed former lobbyist Islam Siddiqui as America’s Chief Agriculture Negotiator ,

·         Appointed telecom lobbyist Eric Holder to Attorney General (Holder was also a top fundraiser),

·         Appointed education lobbyist Tom Vilsack to secretary of agriculture,

·         Appointed defense lobbyist William Lynn to deputy defense secretary,

·          Appointed anti-tobacco lobbyist William Corr to deputy health and human services secretary,

·         Appointed energy lobbyist David Hayes to deputy interior secretary,  

·         Appointed Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson as chief of staff to treasury secretary Geithner,

·         Appointed variety lobbyist Ron Klain as chief of staff to Joe Biden,

·         Appointed lobbyist Mona Sutphen to deputy White House chief of staff ,

·         Appointed civil rights lobbyist Melody Barnes to domestic policy council director,  

·         Appointed Hispanic lobbyist Cecilia Munoz to director of intergovernmental affairs,

·         Appointed union lobbyist Patrick Gaspard to political affairs director,  

·         Appointed lobbyist Michael Strautmanis to chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations ,

·         Appointed lobbyist Erik Hirschhorn to the Commerce department,

·         Appointed lobbyist Michael Punke to represent the US before the WTO ,

·         Appointed lobbyist Jacqueline Barrien to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,

·         Appointed lobbyist Emmitt Beliveau to Deputy Assistant for Advance at the White House,

·         Appointed lobbyist Cassandra Butts to Deputy Counsel at the White House, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Martha Coven as Special Assistant at the White House, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Phillip J. Crowley as assistant secretary for public affairs at the State Department, 

·         Appointed Fannie Mae lobbyist Thomas Donilon as Deputy National Security Adviser at the NSA,

·         Appointed lobbyist Derek Douglas as Special Assistant for Urban Affairs at the White House,

·         Appointed lobbyist Jocelyn Frye as Director of Policy and Projects at the Office of the First Lady,

·         Appointed education lobbyist Gabriella Gomez to assistant secretary at the Department of Education,

·         Appointed lobbyist Krysta Harden to assistant secretary at the Department of Agriculture,

·         Appointed lobbyist Alan Hoffmann to Deputy Chief of Staff to the vice president, 

·         Appointed AT&T lobbyist Sean Kennedy as special assistant at the White House, 

·         Appointed MPAA lobbyist Jon Liebowitz as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission,

·         Appointed lobbyist Robert Litt to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,

·         Appointed lobbyist Demetrios J. Marantis as deputy U.S. trade representative ,

·         Appointed lobbyist Dennis McDonough as deputy assistant to the president, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Leon Panetta as director of the CIA,

·         Appointed Audubon Society lobbyist Robert Perciasepe to deputy commissioner of the EPA,

·         Appointed lobbyist Daniel Poneman to deputy secretary at the Department of Energy,

·         Appointed lobbyist Peter Rundlet to deputy assistant at the White House,

·         Appointed lawyer lobbyist Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services,

·         Appointed lobbyist Susan Sher to chief of staff at the Office of the First Lady,

·         Appointed lobbyist Dana Singiser to Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs,

·         Appointed lobbyist Nancy Stoner to Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water at the EPA,

·         Appointed lobbyist Thomas Strickland to assistant secretary at the Department of the Interior, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Karl R. Thompson as a lawyer at the Department of Justice, 

·         Appointed lobbyist John Trasvina to assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Dan Turton to Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs at the White House,

·         Appointed lobbyist Christine Varney to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the Justice Department, 

·         Appointed lobbyist Richard Verma to assistant secretary at the State Department, 

·         Appointed lobbyist William J. Wilkins to Chief Counsel at the IRS (thanks to Post Libertarian blog for that list)

·         For the first time in History the US has lost its AAA credit rating; even Jimmy Carter could not mess things up that bad.

·         Absolute no ability to lead, Reagan, Clinton and both Bush’s found ways to work with the other party, this President’s inability to work with Congress has brought the government to a new level of low.

·         Today’s headlines in our local paper reads “city poverty rate up 24%”.

·         Arthur Davis, an early supporter of Obama and co-chair of the committee to elect Obama in 2008, switched sides and spoke at the Republican convention might have put it best when he said   "America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it."

Mitt Romney might be an unknown quantity BUT  the President is definitely not.

 Do we really want; can we really stand four more years of what we have seen in the last 40 months?