Toure' Calls John McCain Out On The Cycle For His Treatment of Ambassador Rice

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"The Smear Against Dr. Susan Rice By the Right"

I started writing his blog entry nine days ago, but realized that I was so angry, I needed to let my anger go before I could post it.

First let me just say that John McCain is a bitter LITTLE, and I do mean LITTLE,in all senses of the word, MAN...a leftover loser from the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections.  And Lindsay Graham...well he's not even worth talking about.  Anyone who thinks McCain is not still holding a grudge against the president is fooling themselves. His bashing of Susan Rice is a travesty.  She is an honest, highly-qualified woman who, upon receiving information from the intelligence community communicated that information to the American people and is now being excoriated by Republicans desperately looking to create any type of scandal they can involving President Obama because they are ticked that their party lost the election...AGAIN.

It is disingenuous that John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a problem with Susan Rice's handling of Benghazi, in which four people were killed, however neitherone of them had a problem with Condoleeza Rice when she came out and touted George Bush's "Weapons of Mass Destruction" mantra to the world.  McCain says they are two totally different situations.  NOT!!!!  The double standard of the

Republican Party is so offensive.  In looking at the loss of human lives...in Susan Rice's case, four people died...in the case of Condoleeza Rice, more than 4,500 U.S. troops are dead because of her espousing the "Weapons of Mass

Destruction" scam concocted by her less than competent boss, George W. Bush.

McCain spouting off about President Obama's possible selection of Susan Rice and saying she is not qualified is laughable.  Were you not the idiot who chose rocket scientist Sarah Palin as a running mate?  It is time for McCain and his ilk to retire.  It is him, and those like him...Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner who are the epitome of what is seriously wrong with today's Republican Party.  Until the party is rid of them, Democrats will be in the White House.  HILLARY 2016!!!

"My Thoughts on the 2012 Election"

So I needed to take several days off after the election to recuperate (election withdrawal).   I have been on overdrive for the last eight months, but I'm back!

So, the president handily won the election on Tuesday evening. This wasn't a surprise to me.  I knew that when the rubber met the road, the American people would look at what the two candidates stood for, and make the right decision.  Good always wins out.  President Obama ran a clean campaign.  On the other hand, Mitt Romney lied, cheated, and he and his party tried to steal the election in more ways than one.   It is my belief that in the end, what sunk Mitt Romney was that he was not interested in the welfare of the American people, but more interested in his desire to be president, perhaps a desire to "settle" his father's loss in his bid for president in the 1968 election.

Barack Obama had a top-notch team that had an awesome ground game, stayed on message and stuck to their strategy, as they did in 2008.  The Romney campaign was made up of a mishmash of characters, mostly personal friends of the candidate, who had no idea how to run a campaign, and who, in the end, were totally devastated by the results because of their belief that people would not come out and again, vote for a black president.  The fact that the Romney campaign had no clue that they were losing a week before the campaign is telling...  Shall we call it "white privilege"?

Not only was Election Day a good day for the president, it was a good day for Democrats and liberals in general.  We now have 20 women in the senate, we picked up House seats, four states passed same-sex marriage, and two states passed recreational marijuana laws.

My take on the election is that Republicans thought that people were just going to come out and vote for their presidential candidate "just because".  What the election proved was that the first election of Barack Obama was not a fluke...that people see him as someone who has this country's best interests at heart, and that he is moving the country forward, and in the right direction.  More important, it was a rejection of Mitt Romney, his dishonesty, and the antiquated views of his party.

While Congress is a little more Democratic after this election, the dynamic of the last four years remains the same, and the president will still face an uphill battle in his efforts to work with both bodies.  The American people will not put up with another four years of Republicans and their obstructionism.  The election in 2014 is only 24 months away, and Republicans who continue to wreak havoc in Congress (oust Mitch McConnell) risk losing their Congressional seats.  The bottom line is that the American people placed their faith in Barack Obama, and he is STILL the Commander-in-Chief.

The biggest lesson in this election was that when there is a concerted effort to suppress the vote of a certain group of people, they will rise up!  African-Americans in Ohio did just that and won this election for Barack Obama. America...the people have spoken!  GOP...wake up...the world is a changin'.

“Why I am voting for Barack Obama Today”

I dedicate this blog entry to my “Nana”, Louise Helen Smith Mason known as “Ma Mason”, my mother’s mother who, after being “GIVEN” voting rights in 1965, when I was nine years old, took me to the old Emerson School  Auditorium (EVERY year until she died), one block from my house on Hillcrest Avenue in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she went to vote.  The excitement I felt when she let me close the curtain to the voting booth, and let me pull the levers for the people she wanted in office was something I felt was important, even as a kid.  When she told me to pull the lever to open the curtain, I KNEW I had done something important.

In 2008, when I went into the voting booth, I had pictures of my Nana, my mother and my father with me, and as I voted for the first African-American president of the United States, I had to take a minute because the tears were just too much.

I cannot talk about Mitt Romney today, because today, my blog is about the right of my people to vote.  Everyone knows what he’s about.

I will vote for Barack Obama today, not because he is African-American, nor because I am African-American, but because he is a man of integrity, because I believe he cares about EVERY person in this country, because of what he has accomplished in the last four years, and because he is a good, decent and honest human being.

"Another Reason Not to Vote For Mitt Romney"

On Friday, I read an article by James Warren about the presidential campaign ad wards.  This is just another blaring example of the ineptness of the Romney campaign when compared with President Obama’s.  The Obama campaign hired Greer Margolis Mitchell Burns, a political advertising firm who handled the president’s ads in 2008, to handle their ad campaign in 2012.  Mitt Romney used a small group of people inside his campaign, who had no foresight.  The Obama campaign bought ads early on, and as a result, was able to get them cheaper.  An example…Obama’s people bought an ad months ago and paid $1,200, the Romney team bought the same ad later on in the same market and paid $3,600.  Are you ready for the kicker?

President Obama’s team had a strategic plan and purchased ads in key swing states for the last week of the campaign months before Mitt Romney was even the Republican nominee.  Because Romney’s team never had a solid plan, they paid way more for ads than they had to, but more important, failed to recognize that ad space might not be available in the swing states towards the end of the race, and failed to purchase it when they should have.  So in the last week of this campaign, there was no airtime left for the Romney team to buy in Ohio and Virginia, two states which he desperately needs, and both of which the president is ahead in the polls.  They have been reduced to handing out fliers in those states, which will probably prove ineffective, because hey, they also have an inferior ground game.  Well at least at least he won’t be able to spread his lies to massive amounts of people.

 

Romney has made poor decisions since his campaign commenced, and could have fixed a lot of the things that went wrong within.  It now looks like he may now pay the ultimate price for his stubborn loyalty to his incompetent friends.  Another thing to think about is that he will probably put those same inexperienced cronies of his into key positions in his administration.

So that said, we all know that campaigns have campaign managers, however, a poorly-run, disorganized campaign ultimately reflects on the man at the top.  Being a former CEO, Mitt Romney should have known that.  I will just ask if you can really trust a man whose campaign has been at times, a big mass of chaos, much of it due to him, to make decisions for almost 315,000,000 people?

"An Unlikely Union"

Chris Christie, New Jersey's Republican governor has lambasted and blamed the president for just about everything that has gone wrong in this country.  Gee, did I mention that much of it was created by, and inherited from his predecessor George W. Bush.  One thing I'll say about Christie is that, as my husband says about me, he's raw, and says exactly what he means.  Now, in the aftermath of Sandy, the bombastic Christie is showing President Obama much love, not only verbally on national TV, but he's tweeting the praises of the president.  Why you ask?  Well, there are several schools of thought....I'll discuss two.

One is that Christie genuinely cares about the state where he was born in, and is in a job he has aspired to probably since he was a teenager.  There is no doubt that he will go to the mat for New Jersey residents to get them through this crisis.  He also knows that in order to do that, he must work with the president to obtain federal disaster relief funds for said residents.  Chris Christie is many things, but he's no fool.  Another school of thought is that he's positioning himself for a presidential run in 2016, and wants to display his bipartisan skills as a leader in times of trouble.  Let's be clear...Chris Christie is ALL ABOUT Chris Christie, as evidenced when he promoted himself and his own accomplishments as the keynote speaker at the Republican convention.  Christie's praise of the president over the last couple of days is well-deserved.  The president has handled this disaster as a true commander-in-chief, coming to the aid of Sandy victims in a way that only a great leader could.  Five days before the election, Christie is on a mission to accomplish his own agenda, whatever that is, and doesn't seem to give one iota about how it impacts Mitt Romney's campaign to be president. 

The wonderful thing about this newfound love of Christie for the president is that it shows that the president is willing to work with those across the aisle to get things done, something that Romney has repeatedly accused him of not being able to do, even while legislators in Massachusetts accuse him of being distant and unapproachable during HIS tenure as governor.  I have long said that being a CEO is totally not the same thing as being president.  Being a CEO, Mitt Romney was about giving orders, being a president is about building relationships.  So let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, and accept, this HUGE and unanticipated blessing for President Obama.  I'm not mad atcha Chris, no matter what your motives!