"…Obama's failed Middle East policy." seems to suggest that he and his operatives were somehow in the drivers' seat, as it were, as the "Arab Spring" bloomed into a bloody, protracted summer of struggle, subterfuge, and sedition throughout the Middle East. From Damascus to Doha, Tripoli to Tahrir Square, events have overtaken the politics and political leaders that hoped to contain them or, at very least, quash their effects upon their respective bodies politic. The only argument that I have with this article is that its headline seems to suggest that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood somehow began this "descent into tyranny," to which the world bears witness. In country after country across the Mideast the "descent into tyranny" began decades ago, many times from regimes friendly to the United States' self-interest. Curiously, very little lamentation has been heard by the American public until recently…

As for Obama personally, or his Regime - err - Administration generally, I believe he/they are weighing in on the vote of "present," like so many other squandered foreign policy opportunities… Meanwhile, the descent into tyranny continues with America, as the historic "policeman of the world community" standing silently by…

Pray for the people of Syria. Romney-Ryan 2012: "We can turn this thing around…"

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" -Plato

This is a very good summary of the challenges and opportunity that now present themselves to the Romney-Ryan ticket. Those of us who are already actively engaged recognize and understand how difficult this coming crucible by fire will be for the R&R ticket. We've already seen the ubiquitous kitchen sink being pried off the wall a week or so back with the now-infamous Sopik "Romney Laid Me Off and Gave My Wife Terminal Cancer while he made millions" ad. WIth Paul Ryan part of the mix, I suppose it's not too long before the Obama thugs and their minions in the media start throwing THAT up against the wall as well. The key for the Democrats at this juncture, is seizing the moment to once again lay down the narrative and reiterate it over and over and over, until they've pummeled the Romney-Ryan ticket into oblivion. The key for us is to remain on point, kindly and gently reminding our coworkers, friends, associates, and loved ones, that the economic conditions we see around us MUST be addressed in substantive ways NOW. The longer we wait, as Rep. Ryan has clearly stated, the more difficult it will be to tackle the devastating consequences of the current fiscal, monetary, political, and foreign policies being followed by the Obama Administration. Call it Tough Love for Tough Times. Call it whatever the Democrats wish to. Still, it must be done. The time for kicking the can down the road is over. The dance is near done. The piper is calling for his dues. We're running out of money...

Obama-Biden 2012: Blame and Shame
Romney-Ryan 2012: We Can Turn This Thing Around.

Please register to vote this year - and get a friend or two to do the same! Then educate yourselves and get out and vote!!

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" -Plato

I'm getting a similar sense of cognitive dissonance… I'm 51 years old, having bought into the system for the majority of my life, and I'm seeing people who I went to college with ca 1978-1982 throwing in the towel and joining the Marxist crowd… I don't get it either. I ceased e-mail correspondence w my college roommate several years ago because I couldn't deal with him making a good chunk o' change on Wall Street constantly sending me e-mails bashing the very people and institutions that gave him succor. I just couldn't deal with the hypocrisy. At one point, I sent him a question via e-mail asking him if he still believed in capitalism - and that was sometime around 2005! This crowd of useful idiots is crass, craven, and totally vulnerable to being tools of the agents of "hope and change" who really brought us yet more of the same old, same old…

Plus, part of those six years were spent in changing genders as well as majors. It got pretty confusing trying to keep up with it, what with all those forms to be filled out demanding free medical coverage for "the crossover." They just forget to mail the check in on time because they were busy trying to pay for their iPhone, their Flat Screen HDTV, and all those horrible utilities… LOL!!

This trial balloon was shot down pretty quickly, so now they're ratcheting up the ante by getting the shock troops on the ground via the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd. Once we get violence in the streets, they'll try to find ways to reinflate that balloon again to see how it flies. If the Dem poll numbers keep plummetting, count on increased agitation by the Union Thugs, "Community Activists," disenchanted students, hippy wannabes, and professional agitators to keep the momentum going against law and order.

Apparently, Jug Ears has determined that Bank of America has "made enough" to satisfy all of their needs, and those of their shareholders. I suppose that next, he'll make a proclamation that all of that "excessive profit" be given out to support the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. What a tool! But the good news is that as of today, 10/10/2011, there are only 468 days until the end of our long national nightmare…

Apparently, since the 1960s, the majority of educational institutions from K-12 and on through college stopped teaching civics, social studies, history, or governmental studies. This individual sounds so pathetically uneducated, uniformed, enthusiastic and clueless that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

As a child growing up in the Chicago area in the 1960s, I remember watching the anti-war and Students for Democracy movements devolve in front of my eyes into the anarchy of the Chicago Democrat Convention. There were riots in the streets and I wondered where it would all end. Soon, the hippy, drug, free-for-all debauch of the Woodstock era morphed into a cold, calculated, sullen and violent movement led by people like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, and the Weather Underground. Bombings across the country began to appear in Armed Forces recruiting centers, in Congressional Buildings, and even, tragically, one of the Brownstone Houses where one of the would-be bombers got blown up as they were building their "message to the capitalist pig."

Now here we are, some 40± years later, witnessing the same spectacle of alienated youth, clueless political wannabes, hardened professional protesters, the fringes of political activism, and generally marginalized elements of society all coming together as one, rising up to challenge "the system" as it currently exists, to make their "demands" known in order to achieve their objectives, which very few, if any of them, understand. And this individual, however honest his intention, in his naivete, doesn't understand that the way his group is going about it is utterly useless, other than to act as useful idiots for the powers that are manipulating them. At least the TEA Party understands implicitly that the only way to effective make the changes that you seek to happen is to become PART OF the system that you ostensibly abhor. This spokesperson seems to think it necessary to reinvent the rule of governance from the ground up. That's why I think he's been short-changed by the educational system. Perhaps he wasn't taught civics. Perhaps he didn't grasp it if it were presented to him. Perhaps he's repudiated working from within the system. In any event, the 1960s radicals grew up, many of them entered the system, like Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn (married to each other, by the way), and yes, indeed, Barak Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Lewis, and a host of other "leaders" in our government. Yet we see what appears at first glance to be a populist groundswell of public frustration akin to the 1960s movement, protesting pretty much the same things as they protested back then by the same classes of society. We've come full circle, it seems. I hope we can skip past the part where the burning, looting, and bombing commences…

I certainly hope that these projects can go forward and become part of the solution to this country's energy needs. However, given the political atmosphere toward private venture capital, I suspect that one or more of some environmental fringe movement will find it within him/herself to stand up in defense of some obscure subspecies and try to block the final construction of a working plant. I really don't want to sound like "Debbie Downer" on this particular topic, but it seems like everyone wants to talk the talk, but when it comes down to actually building a power plant, in whatever form, in THEIR back yard, they all seem to suddenly convert to some sort of environmental radical with a new-found friendship with the local species of newt… therefore, the proposal just can't be allowed to continue. Ask the Kennedy family, whose compound on Martha's Vineyard would have been impacted by a proposed wind farm off the cape, how they felt about it. It's a classic study in liberal double-standard…

Obama has too much in the mix now to simply throw his hands up in the air and walk away from it all. There's always that "bird in the hand" being worth more than "the bird in the bush," and given the nature of the Narcissist-in-Chief, I can't see him even implicitly give way to the opposition against him, hoping or scheming that he can stage a comeback at some point in the vague and distant future.

While I appreciate your well-thought-out bullet points, I don't agree with the premise of many of them. For example, a critical linchpin in your thinking involves Hillary Clinton running and, presumably, winning the Presidency in 2012. Many of the other bullet points rely on the assumption that a Hillary Clinton Presidency actually occurs. But think about it: Her running for the Presidency is logistically an extreme uphill battle. She'd be running against Obama (again) and his Chicago Thug Political Machine. She's spent the last several years in a "political box," as Secretary of State. That has kept her busy, and unable to disassociate her from Obama and his policies. Within the next several months, deadlines for filing will come and go. She has neither the time, the energy, nor the capacity to get a groundswell campaign going. Obama has sucked all the oxygen out of the air when it comes to fundraisers. She's been tied to Obama's foreign policies as Secretary of State - and they are nothing to be bragging about at home as far as most Americans are concerned. So, even if she did run, the probability of her winning the Presidency is heavily weighted against her.

You also have obviously ignored or, at least not factored in a very critical component of the election: The TEA Party phenomena. It is our intent to wrest control of the Senate away from the Democrats, as well as increase our majority in the House of Representatives. Even if Obama OR Hillary Clinton were to prevail in their quest for the Presidency, they would face daunting challenges to any leftist legislative agenda by what may very well be an energized and motivated Conservative base in Congress. You also have failed to factor in a possible invalidation of ObamaCare by the Supreme Court. Even if they don't hear any of the cases before November, 2012, it's only a matter of a few short months to a year (at best), before they ejudicate the constitutionality of the travesty of a law. Many people - myself included - strongly believe that ObamaCare will be overturned by the Supreme Court. If that happens, many of your talking points above become moot points, and no longer factor into your argument.

Perhaps most telling as far as I'm concerned, is the continuing pressure being brought to bear against Obama and his Administration's policies. The devolving of the Solyndra scandal, the Fast and Furious investigations, the effort to defang the NLRB in the South Carolina/Boeing affair, etc. will slowly but surely eat away at the Presidency and Obama's efforts to usurp the Constitutional powers relegated to Congress. His "amnesty by fiat" is a perfect example of how, if he's not careful, he could find himself in the middle of an impeachment. If convicted and removed from office before 2012 (not likely, unfortunately), he won't be eligible to run again, if I'm not mistaken. Even if he were eligible, would he really think he could minimize the dirty laundry of his past?

And perhaps most importantly, you've not factored in the relationship that until now has been cozy between Obama and the Government Sponsored Media. They really let him slide in the 2008 campaign season. Now that he actually has a record (and a dismal one at that), and continues to tick off one sector of the country after another, the media won't simply sit on the sidelines or cover for him. We're already seeing the media peeling away, revealing some very unflattering aspects of the Obama Administration.

While I appreciate your line of reasoning, I believe you need to return to the table and rethink some of your premises, which I believe are flawed.

I believe that Obama believes that this is his one-and-only chance - a crapshoot if you will - to be the "Hope and Change" for America that he sees - a legend in his own mind…

My biggest concern is how his personal, political meltdown occurs. Will it happen before the campaign season gets fully underway, or will it occur when he senses or acknowledges that he's been rejected by the American public. My fear is that he will "throw it all in the mix," meaning he'll call out his Union Thug operatives and FlashMob followers to "get in the face" of the opposition, or to cause massive civil unrest during the campaign, which he may use to try to avoid elections all together…

Maxine Waters? Is that you? Come on upstairs hon, and take your meds… LOL!!

Just another Obamabot practicing a little slogan he picked up at the Food Stamp Line. It's catchy, isn't it? WIth verbal skills like that, he ought to be in the music business, "spittin' out" toonz, dontcha' think? /sarc