What Does the POTUS Put First?

We all go to the polls and vote on election day and hope we are voting in the best candidate to do the job, one whose values will line up with ours and one that will listen to what the people of their district is saying to them on what we would like to see accomplished while they are in office.

We all know we are not seeing out of the POTUS what we want, what we feel will better the country and what our founding fathers had as a vision for the future of America.

His recent trip overseas spending $200 million + is a prime example of the things we have not seen other Presidents do when over sears trips.  How many times have previous Presidents rented whole hotels, taken battleships, 6,000 people with them on a trip?  There has already been an announcement that he is working on an agreement to increase possibly 50,000 jobs in the future for overseas trade.

No matter the announcement, it is one of those things I will believe when I see it.  Some where in the middle of this trip, I am sure we will see it is a vacation for him and the Mrs. and all of their family and friends.

After finishing the book "Spoken from the Heart" by First Lady Laura Bush, I am more proud of the Bush family than most people would have ever said while either President Bush was in office.  The following is an excerpt from pages 420 and 421:

"There is also a larger picture to consider.  No one, not even a president, is going to make the right decision every time.  Presidents may have more information on which to base their decisions, but they do not have the benefit of hindsight.  They mus be prepared to take risks for what they believe is right.  And they must try to anticipate the future, not just two years or four years out but what consequences will be decades ahead.

George believes, and I believe as well, that the presidency is larger than the men who are in it.  The Founding Fathers, who in the spring of 1787 wrestled with this issue, designed it that way.  Each president's responsibility is to the office, the sole national institution that speaks for all Americans, regardless of their party or class or home or age.  George always believed that it was his responsibility to treat the office with great care.

Presidents are not always right, but history tells us that our core values are right and that our country is good.  Those are the values that guided George, the touchstone by which is measured what he did.  George knew that in the heat of the moment, presidents tend to get much of the blame and little of the credit.  Not all of his presidents to make decisions solely on the basis of their personal popularity, or poll numbers, or daily headlines.  The challenges we face are too great for that.

I am proud that, as president, George acted on principle, that he put our country first and himself last."

Is this the same values we see from our current president?  No I do not believe it is!  He is putting himself and his agenda first, not that of the American people.

The Hurt Campaign Calls On Congressman Perriello To Come Clean Once And For All About Sending Anonymous Mail Pieces Promoting The Third Party Candidate

It is now becoming increasingly clear that in the most cynical attempt to win an election, Congressman Perriello is willing to deceive voters by promoting the third party candidate through anonymous mail pieces.  

This is a pitiful attempt by an increasingly desperate candidate who knows he can’t win on his own failed record to trick the people of the 5^th District by using the third party candidate as his pawn. Central and Southside Virginians deserve better than a Congressman who will say or do anything just to get elected and who proactively initiates, partakes in, and approves of this kind of dishonest, classless, and devious style of campaigning.

The Hurt campaign is calling on Congressman Perriello to immediately admit to and come clean about his role in sending these anonymous mail pieces. These kinds of political mail pieces without a disclaimer are in direct violation of FEC law.

The Facts:

·         Congressman Perriello uses a union shop to print his franked mail. Note the union bug in the corner of page two on the attached piece. It is identified as shop No. 14. The websites attached demonstrate that Union Shop No. 14 is MV Print: 3229 Hubbard Road Landover, Maryland 20785.
·         A number of anonymous mailers have been showing up in the 5th District. While they bear no disclaimer, they do show bulk permit number 2856 from the Merrifield, VA Post Office. It has been confirmed that MV Print is bulk permit number 2856.
·         Why is a mail shop that does Congressman Perriello's official mail pieces for his Congressional office, paid for at taxpayer expense, doing anonymous mail that would benefit Congressman Perriello in the General Election? It seems to be a rather strong coincidence.

Flashback:

The Hill: Perriello Sets New Standard For Cynicism

Who is Jeff Clark in Bed With?

It is times like these we hear old expressions like "it is going to get worse before it gets better" or "it is always darkest before the dawn."  Well it is proving true the "politics makes strange bed fellows" in Virginia's 5th district.  It has become evident Mr. Clark is in bed with the democrats and Tom Perriello.

The 5th district of Virginia had been a conservative area for many years, but in 2008, big money was brought in an Tom Perriello was able to unseat Virgil Goode. Completely blinded by this change of events that conservative base has been working double time the last two years to right out tilting ship from the left back to the right again.

Politics can be a dirty place to play and at times it will keep Christians from being involved.  At times this mentality will keep them from being informed.  They will turn a blind eye.  We are now hearing on the radio ads from a women in Campbell County that she is a christian and voting for her "wonderful" christian candidate Tom Perriello for Congress.  The very guy that voted for the healthcare bill which includes federal funding for abortions. Well I wonder does she realize who he and his democrat friends are funding.  (Of course I could expand on this subject immensely but will refrain!)

If you live in the 5th district you may have received some mailers from Jeff Clark in recent weeks.  If yours didn't end up immediately in the trash can, please take a moment to review each mailer.  Mr. Clark talks about wanting things like the Fair-Tax and to cut spending.  But then you glance to the bottom corner of the page and you will see his flyers are being sent out by the National Democratic Committee.

Does this mean he would be caucusing with the Dems.?

Oh I am sure it does?  You don't see them sending out literature with Robert Hurt's name on it for support.  When will we wake up and realize the dirty underhanded things the democrats are doing in the 5th and other parts of Virginia.  Come on people the time to decide is now.  We are only 3 days away from one of the most important elections we have faced in our history.

Please vote on Tuesday, November 2nd and cast your vote in the 5th district for Robert Hurt!

Obama to Stump for His "Independent" Little Mini-Me

OK after I finally stopped giggling, I decided that I had to share this. The word has been released that Obama is going to head to Charlottesville to stump for his little compatriot. Now, I wonder what little Tommy will have to say about all of his campaign ads that portray him as his own man. Right...

Tom Perriello, who can't seem to tell a straight truth out of any side of his mouth... or his backside... is now going to be hosting the great Obama. This smacks of even more desperation, not just for Perriello, but for the DNC as well. News has revealed that the DNC has pulled money and efforts out of various, Democratic campaigns around the country in the past week; but in it's last moments, after casting little Tommy to the side, the big kids on the block want to come down and play in Tommy's sandbox. How nice.

After releasing his most recent commercial over the weekend, Perriello is pulling out all of the stops in his desperation. Using the words of fellow Republicans from during their own campaigns against Robert Hurt is really stooping to a new, ever more ridiculous low.

And, what's with all of the ads saying "we've had enough Hurt." Tommy's even trying to confuse voters with who's actually the incumbent here. He knows that there's such a backlash against incumbents, especially the Democratic incumbents, that he's even trying to confuse the fact that Robert Hurt has not been the one serving at the federal level. This was Tommy at the federal level, voting for Cap & Trade, voting for the stimulus, voting for Obamacare. This is a matter of the fact that Tommy's running scared and trying to throw all of his garbage out of his bags as he runs.

Seriously, "Mr." Perriello, is this again how little you think of your own constituents? It hasn't been enough to portray them as hicks. It hasn't been enough to distort every truth surrounding your votes and your motives for casting them (remember the handshake and the pat on the back right before you sold out your own stance on abortion?). Now, you want to attempt to confuse your voting constituents with whether or not you're even the incumbent?

Well in advance, I just want to say thank you for bringing the Big O to the 5th district and giving your constituents the real truth about where you really do stand in the shadow of the big boys. Those are going to be fantastic photo ops!

Congrats to Tom Perriello - Sort of!

Congratulations to Tom Perriello on becoming the newest graduate of the Creigh Deeds School of Driving!

Remember during the gubernatorial campaigns last year, that commercial of Creigh Deeds driving down the interstate - while filming a campaign commercial? Talk about your distracted drivers!

Well, it so happens that, if Creigh had hit someone or something while driving, it certainly wouldn't have been his first time. In fact, Creigh had had three incidents in the months leading up to that commecial - and his subsequent loss on Election Day. In Creigh's brilliant year, he managed to (1.) rear-end a car in Orange County, in the middle of nowhere on a straight stretch in front of a WalMart [nice], (2.) get a speeding ticket after leaving a campaign event in Charlottesville [classic], and [my favorite of all faves] (3.) he managed to hit a bear. That's right! A bear! Talents abound!

So now, Creigh has company on the list of campaign, driving success. Tommy Boy managed to make an illegal, lane change in Nottoway County on Friday night that resulted in running another vehicle off of the road, injuring one person in that vehicle. I guess that Tommy found out that Nottaway County is not a way {wink*} for him to go.

Congratulations goes to Tom Perriello, for becoming the newest graduate of the Creigh Deeds School of Driving! May he have as much success on campaign day!!

Are 5th District Voters Really Just a Bunch of Hicks?

That's the question that I'm left with after listening to Perriello's most recent, radio ads. The voices in those commercials sound like someone just jumped out of an old episode of "Hee Haw." Is that really what Tommy Boy thinks of his constituents?

As to those ads, I have to add my rebuttal, because I was even asked by a fellow, Republican woman yesterday evening as to what's really true. Well as to some of those truths vs. mistruths, I've worked hard to tell people that they aren't actually lies - that I can't call Perriello a straight-out liar, but they ARE complete mistruths. He can point voters to look up Robert Hurt's voting record to see what he actually did vote, just as in the case of the commercial about who voted which way on the extension of unemployment benefits. But, what he doesn't give you is the real story behind each of those votes. In reality, these are two, completely different cases of votes.

Tommy's vote was at the federal level, and we all know how they love to vote to spend money! They can continually vote to add more "benefits" for the American people, but they never plan for how we're supposed to pay for them.

But, Robert's vote in the state of Virginia was a somber, but necessary vote to keep the interests of Virginians going. Unlike the national budget, the State of Virginia requires a balanced budget each year; and if Virginia had accepted the portion of the stimulus funds that would have extended unemployment benefits in Virginia, it would have been the people of Virginia who would have ended up bearing that burden. It wouldn't have been the federal budget that would have been impacted (as they'd already blown that away in the first place with the stimulus bill), but it would have ended up coming down to Virginians having to deal with the hit to our own, state budget once those stimulus funds ran out. Robert, along with his Republican colleagues in the Virginia legislature, had to make the tough, but prudent decision to vote against receiving those funds from the federal government. We can't keep paying for the federal government's tabs. We have to look out for our own state first, and I thank the Virginia legislators, including Robert Hurt, for opting not to take Obama's bribe money.

So when Tommy keeps telling all of the hicks, as he seems to think we are in the 5th district, that he's been looking out for us, ask him how he'd planned on paying for that looking out for us. What Tommy, Nancy, Harry, and Barry have all tried to do for us is give us that nice, shiny, new car, only to tell us afterward that we had to pay for it ourselves and at insurmountable interest rates for the rest of our lives, along with all of our generations to come.

So yea, Tommy and crew, thanks for those grand votes that you keep wanting to make for us; but please, I'd rather be able to buy groceries tomorrow, rather than pay for the salaries of union bosses and Wall Street moguls. And, I'd appreciate it if you'd stop trying to dumb us down. Take that back to New York and see how that goes over there.

Thanks, Robert, Morgan, and all of our other Virginia legislators who were prudent enough to know when to say No!