Randy Rhodes reminds us that the first sight many Americans witnessed the most important night of the Republican convention was the Clint Eastwood exhibition. In that speech he alludes to Obama breaking a promise from not closing Guantanamo Bay Prison, even though it was congress that prevented him from doing it. The crowd cheered when Eastwood suggested we get out of Afghanistan tomorrow and cheered more when he said "Obviously Obama doesn't know what happened with the Russians". The Republicans got zero bounce out of that convention polls now reveal. One poll has them tied dead even and another had Obama out by a point. Mitt Romney should know the income tax issue is not going away. People, the independant voter, will only assume the worst. Romney is still known as the guy who insulted someone's home made cookies saying they cane from the local 7 - 11 and talked about how "all the trees in Michigan are just the right height". Paul Ryan actually mentioned it as an American virtue that our country cares for the disadvantaged and down and out. A remark that got zero applause from this audience. If you've heard Obama out on the campaign stump this weekend you know that the President is constantly praising American achievement and hard work. Joe Byden reminds us that the Presidential Debt comission - - if it had had Paul Ryan's support and vote, would have indeed been implemented. Because of Paul Ryan's direct action it was not. Paul Ryan voted for all the usual President Bush debt increase items including the massive TARP pail out, both off budget wars, and various Bush stimuli to the economy, in which in his own words he said the very things supporters of the President are saying now. All you need is a VCR player to play all of this stuff back and campaign ads, Nobody was inspired by this convention. The President had adopted the theme that you might as well have watched this convention on an old black and white TV- with rabbit ears, because it is a rerun. You have seen this program before- - and it failed. Bush wants to put all of the same Bush corporate cronies back into power who drove the economy into the ditch to begin with. Women hate to feel they are being patronized or "buttered up" just to get something- - in this case their votes. People aren't as dumb as Mitt Romney believes they are. He thinks just because he's shallow and self centered than everyone is that way. There are bigger issues in any Presidential Campaign than the glorification of Self. The plain fact is that a whole lot of people are BETTER off now than they were four years ago. Their Individual Retirement Accounts are worth a hell of a lot more. I'll tell you that. In general people are sustaining far less personal debt than they were four years ago. Most polls say that people by nearly two to one think President Obama will win. I told you Las Vegas betting offs are a dollar eighty on the President winning to every dollar bet on Romney. It may seem like a trivial fact but there is an old economic saying "money knows". Certainly a man who's supposedly spent as much time around economic markets knows that. And yet apparently the desire to keep that Honeywell plant in Illinois rather than in China is referred to as "communist", but shipping those jobs off to China is good old American capitalism. They say they like free markets- - except in the case of having open competition for buying prescription drugs. They believe in competetion but say that Public health care would drive Private health care companies out of business. How? Private colleges haven't driven public colleges out of business. Why don't these Republicans do what they claim to want and trust the markets? They obviously don't trust democracy. We know that because of the Paul Warwick remark about how "Frankly our voting leverage goes up as the voting population goes down". Time and again it's been shown that the more ads people actually see - - of both Candidates, that the President's poling margins increase. Well, you've heard all this before. I'm just reminding you again.
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