Candidates in the presidential election are making last-minute stops to Cleveland this week.
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is visiting Wednesday, while President Barack Obama is slated to make an appearance on Thursday.
Tickets are still available for both events.
Paul Ryan is making an appearance in the Waetjen Auditorium at Cleveland State University at noon Wednesday.
The event is free and open to the public.
Tickets are available online.
All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible, according to a news release. No bags, sharp objects, umbrellas, liquids, or signs will be allowed in the venue.
However, cameras are permitted.
President Barack Obama is also making another stop in Northeast Ohio.
As part of his “America Forward” tour, the President will make a pit stop on the tarmac at the Burke Lakefront Airport at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
The event is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required.
Tickets are available online.
An online RSVP is required. One ticket per person will be passed out on a first-come, first-served basis.
Those interested in attending can also pick-up tickets, starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the following Obama For America campaign offices.
- Downtown Cleveland: 3740 Euclid Ave., suite 100, Cleveland, OH, 44115
- Lakewood Office: 11822 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, OH, 44107
- Shaker Square: 13100 Shaker Square, suite 5, Cleveland, OH, 44120
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/263753-polls-obama-up-three-in-ohio-seven-in-virginia Is that better ;-)
Time Magazine Poll: Obama, 49 percent; Romney, 44 Percent Among Ohioans Who Voted Already, Obama 60 Percent, Romney 30 Percent Ohio has voted for the winning President since 1960. http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/24/time-poll-obama-leads-by-5-in-ohio/ Go Vote Early!
276 democrats 206 republicans which is about 30% more democrats polled with that large oversampling should not obama be up by more than 5
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006 (it was so nice of him to give us this great quote for posterity!)
Senators & House of Reps? That's another matter.
Nice guy, but made mistakes: (1) focused on health insurance reform BEFORE spiraling costs - just today news reported costs going up; (2) focusing on Obamacare before jobs & housing; (3) regulation (check out story yesterday of Chair of CBOT admitting confused by Dodd Frank), (4) NO long term fiscal plan for tax reform & spending reforms. There is simply too much uncertainty in our economy. We needed leadership. Obama had a huge mandate when first elected and didn't owe any group after winning, but mis-managed things. Very disappointing. Also, why would anyone compare today's economy with Clinton's 90s? They argue "we raised taxes then so...". I agree we need to raise revenues, but it's extraordinary disturbing these people don't understand the difference between now and then. Shocking.
"return to old regulations" - Err, Glass-Steagal was repealed under Clinton and Gore's big thing before Global Warming was "cutting red tape". There's a great Planet Money podcast about the regulator who surprisingly admitted it was his agencies fault (shocking the house committee). Their head would show up for tape cutting ceremonies with a chainsaw. We all made mistakes in the credit bubble. Lots of blame. We do need regulations, but it needs to be efficient and effective. Dodd Frank has some good, but way too complicated, confusing and currently IMPOSSIBLE to comply with as a business. We need more business common sense in washington. In my view, the entitlement programs are critically important safety nets. They need to be gradually reformed over time. The fact Biden refusal to answer "Why not raise the age over time?" during last debate was a punch in the stomach. And he then asserted "The solvency of Medicare will be extended to 2024 with our savings from Obamacare", I fell off my chair. Not 2124. He said 2024. And that's with "savings" from medicare. Rather then reforming healthcare, they want to suck savings from doctors, hospitals, drug companies, etc. We need improvements, but why not malpractice reform, ban cost shifting, etc.?
I've heard from many (including our President during the last debate) that Romney "would have liquidated the auto industry". Let's start with the allegedly Romney NY Times Op Ed entitled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". HE DIDN'T WRITE THAT. His title was something like "The Way Forward for the Auto Industry". The horribly pathetically biased NY Times wrote that title. This is the first time I've heard this. Amazing. Romney merely proposed an orderly bankruptcy. Guess what, that's what ended up happening after taxpayor funding. A bankruptcy. I was floored by want I learned tonight: Here's the CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/10/26/exp-erin-romney-2008-detroit-bankruptcy-oped-john-podest-andy-card.cnn?iref=videosearch Vote this video before wasting your vote. Ohio is critical: "If President Barack Obama does win Ohio, and the election, he may owe it to a move he made at the very beginning of his presidency - the auto bailout." Romney would have save the industry as well. Here's some more from Erin: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/10/24/erin-burnett-takes-obama/
1. Is the economy better off now than it was four years ago? Based on the evidence, I'd have to say no. Wages are down, the the prices of everything we buy is up. The price of gas has doubled. Good jobs are scarce. 2. Are the slight "up tics" in the economy a solid trend in the right direction? I don't think so. First, the gains are very slight. Second, I believe they are the result in the temporary stimulus by the Federal Reserve, in which they printed a lot of new money. It provides a slight bump now, but the cost will come later - after the election. Ben Bernanke is trying to save Obama's job, along with his own. 3. The continual misrepresentation of Romney on the auto bailout by the Obama administration. Obama appears to be taking complete credit for the bailout, while simultaneously saying that Romney was for liquidation of the auto industry. This is an absolute falsehood. It was Bush who initiated the bailout and TARP. Obama continued it and then expanded it, to his credit. However, Romney was one of the first to say that the industry needed to go through bankruptcy reorganization, and eventually they did exactly that. He also said that any needed loans should come from the private sector. He never said that the industry should be liquidated, or that he would deny federal funds if he were president, and private sector funds were not available. Obama lies! 4. The Benghazi coverup and lies.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Obama will say anything to get elected. Just look at 2008 when called Bush a sitting president unpatriotic and irresponsible. No respect and all lies since he has made it all much worse. Candidate Obama: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic." (July 3, 2008) Ok OBAMA the debt IS bad...... FORWARD to 2012 "The problem is, is that the way OBAMA has done it over the last 4 years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $9 trillion for the first 43 presidents – #44 added $7 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $16 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $50,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic." Obama on himself – day in day out 2012 Opps, I lied - Obama http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/24/flashback_obama_
o $644 billion – Social Security o $360 billion – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending o $408 billion – Medicare o $224 billion – Medicaid o $260 billion – Interest on National Debt • 2010 Mandatory spending: $2.173 trillion (+14.9%) o $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security o $571 billion (+58.6%) – Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending o $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare o $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid o $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt Obama’s and his Democrat Senator pals 2010 budget spent $283 Billion more in just 1 year. That’s a 15% increase……in 1 year!! Look at the increased spending in WELFARE……$211 BILLION!!!! 1 year!!! Did our Senator VOTE YES to do this knowing there was NO MONEY to pay for it and ADDING more burden to our poor children and grandchildren. OBAMA WHY ARE YOU BORROWING MONEY FROM CHINA ??? IT'S UNPATRIOTIC AND IRRESPONSIBLE!!!!
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/01/benghazi-obamas-core-deceit/ These are pretty good as well: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50657 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/25/CBS-Busts-Obama--and-Itself-Hidden-60-Minutes-Clip-Proves-White-House-Lied-About-Benghazi Romney/Ryan 2012
http://www.policymic.com/articles/14285/obama-lies-obama-auto-bailout-did-not-rescue-detroit http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/ http://twitchy.com/2012/10/23/obama-lies-about-romneys-position-on-auto-bailouts-conservatives-hit-back/ http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/10/26/letterman-slams-obama-auto-bailout-lie-followed-maddow-parroting-same- Romney/Ryan 2012