A Gun With No Name And A Kid With A Bullet Wound!

The controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida isn't forgotten by me and LaReyna. This ongoing issue with the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by "volunteer neighborhood watcher" George Zimmerman has been the major story of the 2012 news session.

George Zimmerman is currently in hiding awaiting his second degree murder trial. After pressure to Governor Rick Scott (R-Florida), the case was reopened after Sanford Police took the side of the shooter.

A special prosecutor for the case has found evidence that debunks the claim that Trayvon Martin reached for George Zimmerman's gun under his coat.

The situation which began in February 2012, was a young teenager spending time with his father and girlfriend went to the local 7-Eleven store to pick up an Arizona Ice Tea and pack of Skittles for his younger brother. It was a rainy night and Martin decided to wear his dark hoodie. As he left the convenience store he goes through the Twin Lakes Residential Gated Community. As he was approaching his home, he was followed by a young man who was a volunteer neighborhood watcher for the gated community.

Apparently, George Zimmerman complained to law enforcement about suspicious activity previously. This night was one of them where he felt that the young teenager was acting in way that appeared to pose as a threat. As Martin was on his phone talking to his girlfriend, he informed her that he was being followed by someone. Zimmerman was on the phone with a 9-1-1 operator saying that he's following this individual.

As Martin tried to duck through homes, Zimmerman told the operator that he was closing in on him. The operator told him not to follow in words "We don't need you to do that!"

Somehow they confronted each other. Zimmerman claimed that Martin came up on him as he was going back to his vehicle. When words gotten heated, Zimmerman claimed that Martin sucker punched him and tried to choke him. As they scuffle, according to Zimmerman, the teenager saw his gun, and tried to reach for it. So in an attempt to reach for the gun, the young man shoots the teenager in the chest. The injuries killed him.

The Sanford Police take Zimmerman in and wanted to know what his side of the story was. Zimmerman told the police that he was doing his job as a neighborhood watcher. He said the teenager was posing a danger to his safety, so he shot him. The police lets him go and hence the beginning of a massive boycott of the city of Sanford, Florida.

Trayvon Martin spent most of his life on the go!

The Republican led legislature were trying to ease up the concerns of the National Rifle Association and Gun Owner's Association. They passed a controversial "Stand Your Ground" law in which a person can use deadly force if an individual poses a threat to the person carrying a firearm.

The boycott has gotten the attention of the national media. The mainstream media came down to Florida.

Liberals and conservatives equally took sides. Each of them had a reason of concern. Liberals thought that Martin's race was a factor to this shooting. Conservatives thought that Zimmerman's reaction to a threat was justified.

The 2012 Republican Candidates had an opinion of it. President Barack Obama had an opinion of it. And yes, what the president said matters. It matters so much, it pissed off the conservatives. They believe that anytime the president takes a side in a controversial issue, it's political expediency.

President Barack Obama asked the U.S. Justice Department to look into the matter. Attorney General Eric Holder and the FBI are probing the handling of this case.

Conservatives and White Supremacists were angry. Conservatives were already blaming the president for playing the race card and call to question incidents that involved Blacks or Hispanics attacking White people.

The white supremacists were hacking into the email account of the family of Trayvon Martin. They took his pictures and sent them to conservative news agitators like Michelle Malkin, Matt Drudge and Sean Hannity.

They wanted to discredit the victim. They looking into the teenager's troubled background. They criticized the parents as being greedy money honey "NIGGERS!"

They called Trayvon Martin, "Traycoon", "wannabe gangsta", "one dead Nigger" and the like.

George Zimmerman on the other hand was getting death threats from individuals who feel that he got off with murder. The New Black Panthers, a radical Black separatist group posted flyers for the apprehension  of Zimmerman. The Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson traveled to Florida to give solidarity to Martin's family. The media has unearthed George Zimmerman's history. Some of his friends claim that he had issues with Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. His father came to his son's defense by going on friendlier news outlets like Fox News. Sean Hannity has offered Zimmerman legal advice and it was reported that he was interested in helping Zimmerman beat his court case. Sean Hannity managed to snag the first interview with Zimmerman.

When the prosecutors had the evidence to charge Zimmerman with second degree murder, he was arrest and booked into jail. The judge preceding over the case was relieved of his duties after two epic failures.

The judge ordered a low bond for Zimmerman in his first hearing. After he posted bail, he went to launch his official website asking for donations to help his legal case. The website pulled in over $250,000 in aid. This information made it to the prosecutors. The prosecutors went to the judge and asked to have his bond revoked.

When he was arrested he was in the Seminole County Jail talking to his wife, Shelley. He ended up incriminated himself once again!

He tried to maneuver funds to his secondary account. He asked his wife to lie while under oath.

They used coded language to seal up his secondary passport, extra accounts and owed debts. If he was to beat the case, he was going to walk out of jail wearing a hoodie as the audiotapes were rolling.

He didn't know he was recorded while in jail. So as he was talking to his wife, Seminole County Sheriff's were listening.

After finding out about this latest development, the judge revoked his bond and ordered him back to jail.

George Zimmerman and his wife Shelley were charged with perjury.

Now in June, Zimmerman managed to post a full $1 million dollar bond. And he's now out on electronic monitoring and ordered not to leave the state.

Information came out that the story Zimmerman told to the police a story that's not credible.

Prosecutors at the State Attorney’s office released findings of forensic results that could throw the defense of George Zimmerman out the window. The forensic results found no evidence that Trayvon had any interaction with the gun of George Zimmerman, charged with the killing of Trayvon.

The Orlando Sentinel reports, Florida state scientists checked several parts of the 9 mm handgun: its grip, trigger, slide and holster. They found Zimmerman's DNA and that belonging to other unidentifiable people but none that matched Trayvon, records show.

The gun evidence is important because Zimmerman told Sanford police he opened fire only after the 17-year-old pinned him to the ground and reached for the gun he wore holstered on his waist.

Shelley Zimmerman arrested for perjury.

In a re-enactment for Sanford police the next day, Zimmerman did not say or show that the two had struggled over the gun, only that Trayvon had extended his hand toward it.

The 28-year-old Zimmerman killed Trayvon, a Miami Gardens high school junior, Feb. 26 in Sanford.

Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense. Prosecutors say Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer, spotted the black teenager, profiled him, assumed he was about to commit a crime, began following him then murdered him.

Prosecutors today released to the public several hundred pages of evidence. It included no bombshells.

The DNA evidence was among the most compelling because it confirmed that Zimmerman and Trayvon had been in extremely close contact.

Several neighbors reported seeing one on top of the other in a fight that left one of them screaming, Zimmerman with a broken nose and small gashes to his head and Trayvon dead from a gunshot wound to the heart.

Special Prosecutor Angela Corey released some DNA evidence May 17 but more details today. Records from the FDLE's Orlando lab show scientists there found a Trayvon-Zimmerman DNA mixture in a blood stain on Zimmerman's red-orange jacket.

Zimmerman's DNA was found in a stain on Trayvon's shirt. Scientists found on that same piece of clothing a Zimmerman-Trayvon mix of DNA, they reported.

The new evidence also reveals that the local president of the NAACP sent Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee an email three days after the shooting, asking to meet and discuss Trayvon's shooting.

It's unclear when or whether that meeting with Turner Clayton Jr. happened.

Lee and his agency's investigation into the shooting were harshly criticized by local and national civil rights leaders and Trayvon's family. Lee was fired a few months later.

On March 8, the day Trayvon's father held an Orlando press conference, calling for his son's killer to be arrested, the case began drawing national media attention. Lee began receiving thousands of angry emails from across the country.

Many were abusive, accusing Lee of racism, incompetence or both. Numerous emailers in March and April asked Lee how he could sleep at night.

"Is george Zimmerman a personal friend?" asked one non-grammatical emailer. "I cant imagine why he hasn't been charged with 1st degree murder otherwise."

Another emailer, who identified himself as a Chicago resident, called the lack of an arrest "sickening beyond words."

Beginning on March 13, Lee received hundreds of copies of a Change.org petition asking him to "Prosecute the killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin." That night, he received an email from Orlando Police Department Chief Paul Rooney, who wrote, "if you need anything don't hesitate to call… take care my friend."

The emails show Rooney was just the first of several police chiefs to voice support. Lee also recieved positive messages from the heads of police departments in Lake Mary, Parker, Ponce Inlet and at the University of Central Florida.

The new evidence also includes diagrams drawn by some eye-witnesses.

The arrest of George Zimmerman.

Zimmerman was wearing a red jacket that night and told police that Trayvon, who was wearing a dark gray sweatshirt, pinned him to the ground and was hammering his head into the sidewalk.

One witness diagram shows two stick figures and the words "black shirt top" and "red shirt bottom," an apparent reference to Trayvon being on top and Zimmerman on the bottom.

The new evidence also includes a recorded statement by the 7-Eleven clerk who waited on Trayvon about an hour before Zimmerman fatally shot the teenager.

On March 29, a month later, FDLE agents showed the employee the store's security video of that night and asked him if he recognized Trayvon.

"Did you have any idea you were the 7-Eleven clerk that sold him the famous Skittles?" the agent asked.

"Nah," said the clerk, whose name was erased from the recording.

A written summary of that finding was released by prosecutors earlier.

The new records include more than 200 photos, but they revealed little new evidence. Most are of the Sanford townhouse community where the shooting took place but long after it had been cleared of evidence.

Eight photos were taken by a private investigator hired by Trayvon's family. They, also, show the scene of the shooting, well after the evidence had been cleared away but appear to be taken from the spots where individual witnesses say they were standing when they saw or heard the fight between Zimmerman and Trayvon.

Also released today are records that show that on March 6, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office was poised to release 911 calls made the night of the shooting to CBS news. They are dramatic. In one, Zimmerman describes Trayvon to a dispatcher as a suspicious black man whom he does not recognize and who is loitering in a neighborhood that's had a great many break-ins.

In another, a voice can be heard screaming for help then a gunshot.

The Sheriff's Office was on the verge of releasing that information but Sanford police on March 6 told the agency not to, saying they were still part of an active criminal investigation. Trayvon's family then sued the city of Sanford, demanding their release, and the city acquiesced, releasing them March 16.

Prosecutors today released time-stamped dispatch records, showing to the second when Zimmerman called police and when that gunshot was heard in the background of a 911 call by a neighbor.

They differ slightly from a timeline prepared by Sanford police and released several months ago. For example, the county dispatch records show that Zimmerman reported that Trayvon was running at 19:11:59, a minute 20 seconds before Sanford police indicated he reported that.

Skittles and Arizona Ice Tea were items Trayvon Martin carried.

But the two sources differ by only 13 seconds on when the gunshot can be heard: Sanford police say it was at 19:17:20 vs. 19:17:07 for the county.

All of today's records were released last month to defense attorneys.

Prosecutors gave Zimmerman's defense 217 photos from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, eight photos taken by a private investigator, Zimmerman's school records from Manassas, Va., eight dispatch reports from the radio dispatch center at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, which handles calls for the city of Sanford; several crime scene drawings made by witnesses and the cell phone records of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who Zimmerman shot Feb. 26.

Some of those pieces of evidence were not released, including the cell phone records and Zimmerman's school records.

rstutzman@tribune.com or 407-650-6394 and jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-650-6394.

Grasping For Straws!

Oh, really?

We go to the Loyola University video in which Barack Obama says words like "redistribute"!

I'm not really going to go any further than to say, this why the Republicans are destined for political failure.

After Mitt Romney opened his big mouth about 47% of the American voting electorate being dependent on government, the campaign is scrambling. They're realizing that it's likely they've sealed their fate this coming election. A potential devastating blow to the once careful Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign.

How could Romney go so far to make such a claim! Mitt Romney makes a bogus claim about people not paying taxes. Hence the irony of the presidential nominee not showing his previous tax returns! Yet, he's saying that people aren't paying taxes! Right?

Romney is a sliver spoon bent in the wrong direction.

For one thing, it's not easy to disqualify a well liked Black man who happens to be the President of The United States.

Two, if you could have done this in 2008 during the peak of the presidential election, maybe it could have done some impact to Barack Obama. But now you've waited four years, one public video masquerading as a hidden tape of then Illinois state senator Barack Obama talking about issues in his district.

Three, when you hear this type of stuff coming out of the mouths of White people (especially conservative minded individuals), I keep thinking they're saying "NIGGER" or "BOY" when they're describing President Barack Obama.

When they're saying "Socialist", "Communist", "Marxist" or "monster". Think NIGGER!

Here's the video that has conservatives ranting and raving!



I thought you guys believe the president never had a real job other than being a "community organizer".

Who could imagine that Barack Obama spent a decade in Illinois Senate working to help his constituents?

Who would of thought that the president would be invested in working to make lives a little better for those who never would of voted for him! I mean look how many of these exist.

The moment where Romney realized he's.... Well you know!

Stuck in the bubble of watching Fox News religiously. Calling up talk radio to rant and rave about the scourge of Barack Obama and his merry band of race-hustling, Communists, hell bent on ruining this once thriving country.

Now really, I've heard from co-workers, people on the street, and even in the media!

It's delusional.

It's reactionary!

It's probably one of the reasons why Barack Obama struggles to win White votes.

Conservative White voters pride themselves as "patriots".

More like "patriots in reverse!'

Why does the Republican Party want to be associated with a bunch of bigots?

I mean how could they actually influence low information voters with crap like this?

I guess Barack Obama was right about one thing....

This is the face you want to see the day after the election!

[So], it depends on where you are, but I think it’s fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people feel most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre…I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today – kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.

Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you’ll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you’re doing what you’re doing.

You're so right, Mr. Obama!

But they're never going to understand!

Is That You, Mitt? You're Sweating Desperation!

Deer in the headlights moment.

Look at this guy!

He's got the deer in the headlights moment. The Mother Jones YouTube clip in which he spoke negatively about American voters failing to pay their taxes are willing supporting President Barack Obama not only proven to be a misstatement, but an anchor tied around his condescending neck.

You can't tell me that this jerk, Mitt Romney cares about the middle class. You can't tell me that Mitt Romney is actually serious about fixing the economy.

You already got less talk about him and more talk about the issue with this anti-Islamic movie that sparked global unrest and violence in the Middle East.

The president has launched an aggressive campaign to paint this clown as aloof on foreign policy and willing to help the upper class with tax cuts that could impact our economy.

Romney tried to say "Obama Isn't Working!" That's not working!

Romney picked Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) to be his running mate to assure that he's "severely" conservative. There's less talk about him, and he's grumbling! He feels that the campaign isn't giving him enough exposure and he's starting to be discouraged. The Republicans and their conservative allies are starting to see the impact of a tepid Mitt Romney. The usually careful Romney Campaign started its course downward last year.

First you got a bunch of even more extreme candidates trying their best to beat him. Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain were trying to paint themselves as the anti-Romney candidate.

The Republican candidates were taken out quickly by their own faults. Mitt Romney was a moderate candidate at the time, but he knew how to maneuver through the angry rhetoric to beat them out!

But under pressure, Mitt Romney fired his foreign policy adviser for being gay. He allowed his chief communication adviser tell a liberal comedian that he'll "Etch-A-Sketch" to a position to win independent voters. He allows his adviser tell a friendly media outlet that his "infamous" healthcare reform is the greatest, pissing off conservatives. He is boxed into a corner about releasing more than a year's worth a taxes. His own father released over 10 years of taxes. He is vague on his policies to fix the economy. Even his own running mate can't say what Romney's plans are!

We're not there yet, but these debates are the last thing before we cast our votes.

Instead of waiting to vote on November 6, 2012, I'm gonna do early voting. Early voting is the safest and yes easiest way to get things done. I am guessing it's going to be chaotic in the coming weeks.

Mother Jones has promised more videos are on the way.

You can smell the desperation in the campaign.

Conservative talk radio isn't talking about Romney much in their three hour word salad. They're focus on Obama only. That assures they're writing Mitt Romney off.

Known rifts in the campaign started with direct criticism from the likes Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt (former McCain Campaign Chief Adviser), Herman Cain, Bill O'Reilly, Erick Erickson, Michelle Malkin, S.E. Cupp, Neal Boortz and even Sarah Palin. They've  knocked the Romney Campaign for being weak.

It's out in the open.

Sean Hannity seems like the only person who is willing to see the positive of a disastrous campaign.

Instead of apologizing for the comments, he double downs. Romney spoke to reporters Monday evening in a hastily called news conference after the emergence of a video in which the GOP presidential nominee told donors that almost half of American voters "believe that they are victims."

The Republican nominee did not disavow the comments but said they were made during a question-and-answer session. He said it was indicative of his campaign's effort to "focus on the people in the middle."

You got to admit that I'm not surprised that Mitt Romney isn't going to apologize. It would defeat his argument that "Obama apologizes for the America's woes". And I guess he's stuck in his ways with this type of rhetoric.

Is That You, Mitt?

Shake the Etch-A-Sketch!

Wow, what a day!

Mother Jones really got the October Surprise out early. This is a shocking development to the country's most inept politically awkward perennial candidate who happens to be Republican nominee for president.

YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. The most powerful things in American media. You're never far from the prying eyes of the amateur filmmaker. It takes one person and a camera to expose this fool for what he is!

This could shake things up in favor of President Barack Obama.

Now while I'm kind of giddy about the latest developments to how a serious candidate for president managed to not only bring forth the argument of him being "out of touch", but the fact he took an overly inflated and grossly misinformed statement and ran with it!

According to sources, Romney stated that the overwhelming majority of voters who back President Barack Obama do so because they are "dependent on government" and "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing!"

Mitt Romney told a closed-door gathering of about 30 major donors earlier this year, about his disdain for those in the middle class, according to video of the event that has surfaced on the Internet.

Romney is a privileged person. He's the son of an automotive executive turned governor. He's never served in the Vietnam War. He supported the war and dodged it to serve as a goodwill ambassador in France.

He doesn't know much about being a middle class voter! He thinks that 47% of supporters of Obama are lazy, "gubmint" dependent losers!

The Politico, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Addicting Info all contribute to this bombshell. It's Monday and this is going to be weeks of progressives shaking their fist in anger and demanding that the president hit this sucker where it hurts.

The person who uploaded a series of potentially inflammatory videos from the fundraiser has claimed authorship of them in an email exchange with The Huffington Post. The source said he or she wishes to remain anonymous for professional reasons and to avoid a lawsuit. The videos, which have created a buzz on the Internet, were blurred and at times blacked out to obscure the location of the filming, the source said.

"I have obviously degraded the quality to attempt to camo the location," said the clandestine filmmaker. The original, which has not been posted in full, is very high quality, the source said.

The source has given the full video to Mother Jones' David Corn, the source said.

The videos capture Romney speaking loosely about Obama supporters, immigrants, privilege and a host of other controversial issues. The candidate seems unguarded and displays the sense of humor that is often mentioned by those close to him, but is so rarely on public display.

It's Romney's remark about the president's backers that might have the most potential to undermine his candidacy, however, as Romney seeks to persuade people who voted for Obama in 2008 to switch this time.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney says in one clip. "All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

Romney's comments on the video go a step beyond his August claim, made in public, that the Obama administration's state-by-state welfare waivers were an effort to "shore up his base." In the behind-closed-doors speech to donors, Romney seems to be suggesting that nearly half of Americans expect to have all their needs supplied by the government.

"[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney also said in the video, according to Mother Jones.

As for the other 53 percent? Romney may have been referencing a meme started by conservative blogger Erick Erickson, who has noted that only 53 percent of Americans pay federal income taxes. Erickson argued that the rest of the country, and in particular the Occupy Wall Street movement, should "suck it up you whiners."

Mitt Romney claims that President Barack Obama supporters fail at paying taxes. He's gotten caught up in the moment of letting one slip. 

The notion that Democrats hope to ride dependency to political power is one that has no shortage of adherents among conservatives. “We are reaching the tipping point where the majority of Americans are recipients of government programs,” columnist George Will said recently on Laura Ingraham's radio show. "Heavens, one in seven of Americans is on food stamps today. The gamble -- it's really not a gamble, the tactic -- of the Democratic Party is to run up the dependency ratio in this country until you get 50-60 percent of Americans dependent on the government in at least one or often in multiple ways, at which point they figure the party of government will always win."

But there are a few problems with the idea of the overburdened "53 percent." Many Americans don't pay federal income taxes, in part, because of deductions like the child tax credit that have been championed by conservatives and progressives alike. Almost all of the "47 percent" do pay other federal taxes in the form of Social Security and Medicare payroll deductions and gas levies, as well as a variety of state and local sales and property taxes that aren't dependent on income.

"Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy. As the governor has made clear all year, he is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government, including the record number of people who are on food stamps, nearly one in six Americans in poverty, and the 23 million Americans who are struggling to find work," Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a statement responding to the video's release. "Mitt Romney's plan creates 12 million new jobs in four years, grows the economy and moves Americans off of government dependency and into jobs."

A separate video clip that featured Romney addressing deplorable conditions at a Chinese factory began making the rounds on the Internet last month. In that video, he contrasted the conditions he witnessed on a business trip to China with conditions in the United States, where he said, "Ninety-five percent of life is set up for you if you were born in this country."

Commentators have seized on the assertion that people are mostly set if they're born in the U.S. In fact, tens of millions of Americans are jobless or living in poverty. The notion also cuts against one of Romney's campaign themes, which is that those who are successful have gotten to where they are on their own.

In addition, the video is notable for Romney's recounting of conditions he saw at the factory. By his own telling, he seemed satisfied when the factory owner told him the barbed wire was to keep job-seekers out, not to keep workers in. Romney may have been referring to conditions at Global Tech Appliances Inc., a Chinese manufacturer, in which Bain Capital invested, that was fined $2.65 million for ripping off a deep-fat fryer design, according to Boston Globe reporter Matt Viser.

There are at least 10 of these videos, each allegedly clipped from the same fundraiser. A YouTube link to the Chinese factory clip, it turns out, was initially posted in May in the comments section of The Huffington Post under the handle romneyexposed.

The commenter posted a link to a YouTube account by the same name, which includes a version of the factory video and three others. Six more videos exist under another account.

It's almost over!

In one of the other videos, Romney lamented, in a joking way, that he would have a better chance of being elected if his father had been ethnically Mexican, rather than born to white parents living in Mexico.

"My dad, as you probably, know was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico ... and, uh, had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this," Romney said. "But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. ... I mean I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."

In a separate video, Romney talks about his success. "Both my dad and [wife] Ann's dad did quite well in their lives. But when they came to the end of their lives and passed along the inheritance to Ann and me, we both decided to give it all away. So I have inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have, we earned the old-fashioned way."

Romney's parents did pay for his boarding school, his college, his graduate school and his first home.

He got closer to the truth in another clip. "There's a perception that all of you were born with a silver spoon. You know, you never had to earn anything and so forth," Romney said to the donors. "Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you can have -- which is to get born in America."

Brad Shannon contributed reporting

This story was updated to add context from a fuller version of the video posted by Mother Jones, and to add a response from the Romney campaign.

Mitt Romney, get this through your thick noggin! We are all Americans. We love this country just as much as you and your supporters. The Democratic Party nor the Republican Party owns "freedom" or "liberty". We're not tax dodging losers like you claim! We're not dependent on the government as you claim! The American people who support President Barack Obama do pay their taxes! I don't know where the heck you got your information, but based on this comment and many others, I can say this with no remorse: You're done! You're a total asshole and you'll never be President Of The United States!

Part 1: Romney On Obama Voters



Part 2: Romney On Obama's Charisma



Part 3:  Romney On American Voters



Part 4: Romney's Plan To Win



Part 5: Romney's Economic Plan

The Rodeo Of Shame: Announcer Attacks Michelle Obama!

These people have no respect for the office of The President Of The United States. These people are still obsessed with the battles of yesteryear!

Not only this person said an offensive joke that is consider racist, but rather another sexist joke at the expense of First Lady Michelle Obama and Ann Romney.

It was rodeo clown Mike Hayhurst of Barstow, not announcer Ed Kutz of Arroyo Grande, who made a racist joke about Michelle Obama over the public address system of the Creston Classic Rodeo on Saturday, a rodeo board member confirmed.

Spectators initially believed that Kutz made the comment because both he and Hayhurst were on microphones at the same time.

Hayhurst has performed at the event for several years, but is an independent contractor and not officially affiliated with the rodeo, said Creston Classic Rodeo board member Mike Barrett.

Speaking on behalf of the rodeo’s nine-member board, Barrett said that the board is not responsible for the joke and will ask Hayhurst for a letter addressing the issue and a public apology. The board will discuss at its next meeting if it will fire Hayhurst, and will review scripts for future performances by any clown.


“We probably won’t be using his services in the future,” Barrett said of the clown.

Hayhurst was not performing at the rodeo on Sunday and was unavailable for comment because he is in the hospital, Barrett said. Hayhurst was taken to a local hospital on Saturday evening for head injuries. Barrett did not know if the injuries were related to an accident at the rodeo Saturday, in which a bull tossed Hayhurst into the air.

Kutz, who was erroneously identified at the one who made the comment in initial reports, declined to speak to The Tribune Sunday.

ORIGINAL: An announcer at the Creston Classic Rodeo offended some in the audience Saturday when he made a racist joke about first lady Michelle Obama over the PA system. Now, at least one rodeo board member is demanding an apology.

“I was really appalled and the people around me were really appalled,” said spectator Dona Wilson of Santa Margarita. “He was acting like we were buying into his bigotry and we weren’t.”

Wilson said she heard a lady beside her say: “ ‘Whoa! Racist or what?’ ”

According to Wilson, the joke as told by the announcer, went something like this: Playboy is offering Ann Romney $250,000 to pose in the magazine and the White House is upset about it because National Geographic only offered Michelle Obama $50 to pose for them. “I can’t speak for the board, but I myself think that this is unacceptable behavior or conduct by the announcer,” said Mike Barrett, Creston Classic Rodeo board member. “I find it offensive, and I think that it’s conduct unbecoming the rodeo announcer.”

Wilson did not know the name of the announcer, but three board members told The Tribune the announcer was Ed Kutz of Arroyo Grande. It could not be confirmed that he was the one who made the remarks.

Barrett said he called Kutz and asked for him to apologize, but could only reach his answering machine.

Barrett, who did not hear the remarks firsthand, learned of them when his sister-in-law, Wilson, told his wife.

Rodeo clowns. A California rodeo announcer said an offensive joke about First Lady Michelle Obama.

“There was no way I was going to let that go unmentioned,” Wilson said. “I think there should be an apology made over the loudspeaker.”

Aside from Barrett, only two of the rodeo’s nine-member board could be reached by The Tribune: Tom Hansen and Rick Heim both said they could not comment because they had not heard the joke.

None of the board’s other members returned calls from The Tribune.

Kutz could not be reached for comment.

Racist jokes about Obama appearing in National Geographic magazine have been circulating for several years.


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One Obama Hug Sparks Boycott Of Pizza Shop!

A Huge Hug Pisses Off Conservatives.

You realize that this is going to be likely victory for Barack Obama. This type of nonsense is allowed when an all out hatred of a person they'll never meet in their sad pathetic lives. When a person supports President Barack Obama, expect them to get shuffled around by these conservative agitators. Death threats by the disturbed and boycott of businesses.

This is coming from Gawker and Complex Magazine online.

Scott Van Duzer became a pop culture phenomenon when he gave President Obama the ultimate bear-hug last week at his Florida pizza shop, and now he's facing absurd backlash from local Republicans who are threatening to boycott the place, all because he showed the President some love. The most absurd part of this whole mess is that Van Duzer is a Republican himself. Apparently, he's a traitor and poor businessman now.

Obama paid Van Duzer a visit because he was impressed with the man's charity work. Van Duzer was aware of the President's arrival, but lost his composure as soon as he saw him. See, even proud Republicans get starstruck at the sight of the POTUS. Bitter Republicans retreated to Yelp to criticize the hug, saying it would hurt his business, but most of those comments have been replaced by overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Come one folks, your pizza isn't tainted because the shop owner hugged the President.

Rush Limbaugh: al-Qaeda Threw Osama bin Laden Under The Bus To Make Obama Win!

I've listened to the Friday episodes of Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Their radio programs are the stable of my entertainment when I'm bored with the hip-hop stations. When the opportunity is right, I sometimes cleanse my head of the negativity with progressive radio hosts Stephanie Miller and Alan Colmes.

Each of them have nothing but Obama on their tongues. This is a sign that they're giving up on Mitt Romney as the viable candidate to take on President Barack Obama. These characters (known as conservative agitators) name drop the president more than anything else this week! They know the gig is up for Romney.

Of course, Sean Hannity is madly obsessed with the Egyptian conservative Muslim Brotherhood, a political group that swooped into power under the country's first democratically held elections this year.

The crisis in the Middle East has the United States doing damage control. The United States is denouncing the violence that led to the death of diplomat Christopher Stevens.

Tyrone Woods, former U.S. Navy Seal died in attack.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appear at Fort Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. They awaited the arrivals of the coffins of the men who lost their lives in this senseless violence over an American bigot's decision to rile up tension in the Middle East. The president and Secretary Clinton spoke favorably of the late Stevens and three

This bigot created a movie depicting the Prophet Mohammad in a negative light. The person who filmed this movie is fearing for his life. With good reason! His decision to use his freedom of speech to promote religious intolerance has probably undone the progress of the United States relations in the Middle East.

Afghanistan is the longest war in the history of the United States. President Barack Obama outline withdrawal in the Summer of 2014. The Republicans crow about the president not saying "War on Terrorism" or "declaring victory" in their statements. They're so invested in symbolic themes to paint themselves as the "Savior of the world" and the like!

Rush Limbaugh is no stranger to controversy. This year alone, the Big Voice on The Right has taken drastic steps to prevent another potential boycott of his show. He lost a number of national endorsements and is trying to regain some footing since the Sandra Fluke controversy.

Sean Smith and Glen Doherty died in U.S. Embassy Attack.

Limbaugh, 62 has been a huge thorn to the president.

Limbaugh mocks the president by mocking his middle name in a humming sound. He had the nerve to call the president, reality star Kim Kardashian in response to his fundraisers with major celebrities in Hollywood. He knocked First Lady Michelle Obama for being "not like the women that baseball star Alex Rodriguez dates". In other words he called the first lady, fat.

Yet, no one has taken to the streets demanding him being pulled from the radio over comments like this. But it took a private citizen to make it possible. Rush Limbaugh made Sandra Fluke the voice and face of the women's right movement.

This week, the conservative agitator makes his opinion known that he long wished Osama bin Laden was still alive invoking fear upon the United States.

Rush Limbaugh on Friday went into this tirade over media knocking the foreign policy gaffe Mitt Romney made on Wednesday. He claims that President Barack Obama doesn't care about the victims lost in the Libyan embassy attack. He also attacked the president for going to a fundraiser being sponsored by media mogul Jay-Z and his wife pop singer Beyonce.

Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador who died in embassy attacks.

The conservative agitator goes forth with a ridiculous notion that the terrorist group al-Qaeda gotten tired of being pushed around by Osama bin Laden, so they've decided to hand him over to the United States to make the president look good.

“What if Ayman al-Zawahiri and other Al Qaeda leaders gave up Osama bin Laden for the express purpose of making Obama look good?”

 “Giving Obama stature, political capital?”

The Politico reports, Limbaugh, admitting he had a “wild theory” and was “just thinking off the top of my head,” said bin Laden — the founder of Al Qaeda, its leader for more than two decades and a major funder of its operations until he was killed by Navy SEALs in 2011 — was “expendable.”

“al-Qaeda was not depending on Osama bin Laden for operational leadership,” Limbaugh said. “His day had come and gone.”

Limbaugh said the terrorist group would rather have Obama in power to help them get “what they want more than anything in the world” — the destruction of Israel.

“Let me put it to you this way,” he said. “Do you think that militant Islamists will be as hopeful of getting rid of Israel with a Republican president or with a Democrat president?”

President Barack Obama embraces Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Andrews Air Force Base.

al-Qaeda isn’t the only group working to help Obama’s reelection, according to Limbaugh. In recent months, the host has suggested the Chicago Teachers’ Union strike was a Democratic ploy to help the president, implied the National Hurricane Center falsified early forecasts for Hurricane Isaac to force the GOP to cancel the first day of its convention, and briefly claimed Hollywood had Batman fight Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises” to remind voters of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s business career. He quickly backed off the latter accusation.

Racist Bar Claims The White House Smells Like Chicken?

Georgia bar owner who famously held up t-shirts depicting Barack Obama as a monkey is once again throwing up another racist attack on the president.

Once again, Mike Norman's controversial restaurant is under fire for bring forth another eye popping attack on the president.

The asshole died in 2011.

So now under the ownership of his daughters, Brandi and Kelly, these assholes continue to make their father proud.

They went forth to put a sign on the Mulligan's Food & Spirits to depict President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as "chicken eating, watermelon slurping, Kool-Aid drinking, collard green chomping, Colt 45 guzzling niggers" according to the sign!

Now technically, they're not throwing up the offensive slur. But the way they're depicting the "Blacks and the bucket of chicken" stereotype makes it more likely they meant to go further then what the sign said!

Redding News Review and the South Cobb Patch writer Kiri Walton brought it to my attention.

Mulligan's former owner Mike Norman was no stranger to posting controversial signs and even sold T-shirts depicting President Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, as the monkey, Curious George.

Gerald Rose, founder of the New Order National Human Rights Organization, and other members of the group plan to meet at the restaurant at 11 a.m. to speak with the bar's owner and hold a press conference.

Rose wrote this in an email to Patch and other news outlets:

"As African Americans we UNDERSTAND the meaning of FREEDOM of SPEECH, and we can also SEE when people ABUSE that RIGHT just to show their IGNORANCE! The Mulligan's Restaurant is NOT a STRANGER in DISPLAYING their HATE toward ANYONE that's ou...tside of their own race. So, being the case Gerald E. Rose and New Order will be holding a PRESS CONFERENCE on THIS TUESDAY at 11:00am at the Mulligan's Food & Spirits. As a race we have come TOO FAR to GO BACKWARDS, and instead of REMAINING SILENT our VOICES will be HEARD!"

Racist asshole Mike Norman in 2008 with anti-Obama shirt.

This isn't the first time the bar has posted signs deemed racist by community members. In April 2011, the bar posted a sign that read "W------s R criminals! Hire one and U R too! House Bill 87" referring to controversial House Bill 87, an anti-illegal immigration bill which Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law. Various individuals and members of human rights groups said the law encouraged racial profiling.


Norman, who owned the bar before he died in October 2011, told CBS Atlanta in 2011 that he did not think his sign was racist.

"I am just telling it like it is," Norman said.

However, Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the sign was racist and "the hateful rhetoric" is inappropriate for Georgia.

"It’s racist. It’s pejorative. It’s demeaning. It’s dehumanizing,” said Gonzalez.

Curious George is a famous series of books that tells the adventures of a little monkey and his owner The Man In A Big Yellow Hat. Curious George is also a television series on PBS.

No More Mr. Nice Guy!

The most pathetic candidate running for president still could win this election.

Fuel prices are above $4.00 a gallon once again. Inflation and a bad drought has food prices soaring. The unemployment rate is still over 8%. The conflict in Afghanistan, Israel and the remaining Middle East appears to be on the verge of a diplomatic collapse. A dragging on European financial crisis could impact banks and loans at home. Partisanship has Congress in gridlock, delaying important votes.

Yet, former governor Mitt Romney the perennial candidate for president isn't ahead in the polls. He is struggling. Desperation is in the air and yes, it's there!

Three crucial states, Virginia, Ohio and Florida. These are the states that are swinging back into Barack Obama's corner. The president is enjoying a huge single digit lead in these states. I mean what happen to the Republican nominee?

First things first. Mitt Romney didn't make himself look good on Wednesday when he blasted the president for the U.S. Embassy attacks in Egypt and Libya. Romney got ahead of himself in a crucial test of leadership.

His diplomatic flub adds to the disaster in the United Kingdom in which he criticized the country's handling of the Olympics. The conservative leader of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron was kind of weary of his comments.

Romney's Republican National Convention acceptance speech is long forgotten. He failed to mention Afghanistan in his speech and pretty much let another victory slip from his grasp.

His acceptance speech was overshadowed by actor Clint Eastwood and potential 2016 presidential candidate New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Christie admits that it's likely Romney may lose because of his failure to disclose Afghanistan and of course his proposals to fix the economy.

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick mocked Romney at the Democratic National Convention in which he claimed that Romney only wanted to win so he could taste the position being a president (and of course not do the job that's assigned to him)!

As the commander-and-chief, the president has to not assume anything until the facts are presented and the causes are known.

The Romney Campaign is trying to do damage control after this. While still sticking to his guns on the issue of the economy, Romney is even losing the message on how to fix the economy. President Barack Obama has put forth the message of Mitt Romney being aloof and not concerned about the backbone of the economy, the middle class.

The refusal to release his plans to fix the economy, his tax returns, the talk of his car elevator, the two Cadillacs, the $10,000 bet, and numerous missteps has finally made the message clear. Mitt Romney isn't fit to be the President of the United States.

Now I know a lot of Americans are not satisfied with the economy. The president and U.S. Congress are polling badly when it comes to economy. The public knows that its was George W. Bush's fault for the economic turmoils. They should know that the Republicans are the reason why we're in this mess.

We're in a basic crisis with the Romney Campaign. His supporters and running mate are screwing up as well.

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) the vice presidential nominee couldn't defend his own voting record when it came to budget cuts that include defense. The defense cuts are something that Mitt Romney opposes as a candidate for president. Ryan distance himself from most of his controversial voting records and his own austerity budget which could undo the safety nets to the economy.

The Drudge Report is trying to find more racially based stories to paint the president bad. They're not working.

Conservatives are upset over Romney's media press pool asking him tough questions about his decision to attack the president. That backfired too! The media press pool is getting tired of Romney ducking and dodging questions that matter to the general public.

Fox News and conservative talk radio is getting fed up with Mitt Romney not taking on the president harder.

Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol, and Joe Scarborough have went hard on Mitt Romney. They've all but let him know that he's going to hurt the Republican Party's chances at the presidency and their recapture of the U.S. Senate.

Don't let Romney's slip ups become a distraction. He has a slight advantage in this election. This election isn't over. President Barack Obama is still embattled and he can lose this election.

While Romney's mistakes are taken seriously by those who follow politics to the fullest, the average voter isn't concerned about this. These are ones who don't watch cable news and more likely to worry more about kitchen table issues (i.e. independents) are likely to dismiss this.

Romney leads in the independents.

The president got his groove back, but will this groove get his dispirited supporters back to the polls?

Diplomacy Wasn't Romney's Best Subject!

An American bigot's movie causes a deadly outbreak of violence in the Middle East. Many Muslims feel that the United States has strong intolerance towards Islam. The Libyan government condemns those who killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other members.

This pathetic candidate for president manages to bring forth another poor attempt to look presidential.

The Republican nominee criticized the president for the U.S. Embassy in Egypt trying to smooth over the outrage over an anti-Islamic American movie. The nominee has went out of his way to politicize an event that  was caused by an American bigot and his cheaply done movie trailer. That American bigot sparked outrage in the Middle East by portraying the Prophet Mohammad in a negative light.

Let me repeat this for any online bigot who thinks without knowing! Criticizing Mohammad is blasphemous!

These people are proud of their religion and heritage!

We Americans should respect that! We believe in religious tolerance. Unfortunately, we also believe in religious intolerance as well!

Mitt Romney's attempt to upstage President Barack Obama backfires. Now conservatives are really panicking over this epic flub. Some conservative foreign policy experts think that Romney really screw up this time!

I understand that these bigots are entitled to make horrible statements condemning Islam, but it's just a shame! These people over here in the United States never visited these countries but yet these people have the audacity to criticize those who believe in their religion as a part of their daily lives! I understand the freedom of speech comes with a price. Like shouting fire in the a crowd room, there's consequences to these type of actions.

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign claims President Barack Obama apologized to those who stormed the U.S. Embassy. Romney claims that the president is more interested in making nice with those who killed the four Americans in Libya.

The video.



Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was ordered to immediately come back to the United States to have a briefing with the president and members of the United States military on how to resolve this problem. The FBI is also investigating if this was the work of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Reports of an intended plot are emerging. This tragedy falls on the day of the deadly attacks that happened on September 11, 2001.

Christopher Stevens lost his life in a senseless event. These cowards should be brought to swift justice.

Hey I understand that these idiots here in the United States pissed off the Middle East. I can say this with no remorse, that it's typical of the White angry male! They have no respect towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings.

If this man was so proud of his movie, why don't he actually reveal his name, and movie production company?

Why not let all the performers go out into the Middle East and say these comments directly to those conservative Islamic followers?

I can tell you this! These cowards would never do it!

It's easier to say something offensive if its behind a camera, computer, a comment section online or in the comfort of the religious institution that promotes this type of divisiveness.

Think of the hundreds of anti-Black websites alone. These arm chair warriors would rather waste their time criticizing us but never themselves or people who associate with them.

For them it's always they're the victim! It's because they've said something offensive and they're taking the fall! While they're taking the fall, they claim that many others would say stuff like this but never have the guts to do it!

Really funny that Mitt Romney rushed to the cameras to condemn the violent act as well as the president. It shows the signs of desperation. Many of his own supporters felt that he may have stepped over his line as a candidate. Lacking foreign policy skills hurts the United States in trade, assistance at times of war, or even in times of borrowing.

Romney criticizes China for taking advantage of the economic food chain. Say that to the face of the president of the Democratic Republic of China, Hu Jintao!

Romney thinks Russia should stay out of the way when the United States plans on building a weapons shield in Poland. That gives it clear distance to the city center of Moscow. You want to say that to President Vladimir Putin!

Romney claims that England wasn't prepared to handle a possible terrorist attack at the Summer Olympics. I guess he learned that the United Kingdom takes all threats seriously and they've maintained assurance that anyone attending London will be safe. The country has taken steps to prevent any massive attack post July 7, 2007.

The United States Embassy released a statement to tone down the uprising:

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims -- as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

Romney was criticized by the president as a person who "shoots first and then aim later!" He roundly dismissed the Romney campaign's attempts at politicizing this tragedy for gamesmanship.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama express anger over this. President Barack Obama ordered all U.S. embassies to take extreme caution. The order was given after he called back Clinton for a briefing. The president will order the FBI and U.S. military to investigate this as a potential terrorist plot masquerading as a riot!

His Republican Party members with exception of Reince Priebus and Sarah Palin managed to stay clear of this controversy. They express sadness for those lost and anger at those who committed this act.

Peggy Noonan, a longtime conservative writer was concerned that Romney may have damaged his skills as a diplomatic leader. She thinks that his rush to judgment has doomed his chances come this election.

Bill Kristol, a fierce warmongering conservative publicist made the case to defend Romney for at least showing that he's concerned but also acknowledge that his timing was off.

Many others in the conservative media weren't so nice to Mitt Romney.

Peggy Noonan slams Romney for being aloof on foreign policy.

The Associated Press and Huffington Post report that Romney's rash condemnation of the president, released after it was known that there had been U.S. fatalities, calls to mind Sen. John McCain's snap decision in 2008 to suspend his presidential campaign to deal with the financial crisis. The move was judged deeply unpresidential and contributed to his defeat.

After the Cairo embassy's initial statement, as a mob protest outside the embassy heated up, even entering the compound, and commentators in the U.S. suggested the embassy condemn the protesters, the embassy responded through its Twitter feed: "Of course we condemn breaches of our compound, we’re the ones actually living through this."

The embassy added: "Sorry, but neither breaches of our compound or angry messages will dissuade us from defending freedom of speech AND criticizing bigotry."

The diplomats in Cairo survived the assault on their embassy. When the protests spread to Libya, diplomats there weren't so lucky: Four U.S. State Department officials, including Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, were killed in an hourslong assault. Romney responded by attacking the diplomats in Cairo.

"The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached, protesters were inside the grounds," said Romney at his press conference. "They reiterated that statement after the breach. I think it's a -- a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values."

Did Romney expect the Cairo diplomats to retract their defense of religious tolerance in the face of the attack? Or did Romney expect the Obama administration to denounce the diplomats who were under siege?

"It's their administration," said Romney, referring to the embassy in Cairo. "Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth but also from the words of his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world. The statement that came from the administration -- and the embassy is the administration -- the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology. And I think was a severe miscalculation."

Reporters in Washington have been as quick to condemn Romney as he was to condemn Obama and the embassy officials. "Unless Mitt has gamed crisis out in some manner completely invisible to Gang of 500, doubling down=most craven+ill-advised move of '12," Time's Mark Halperin tweeted, referring to the Beltway establishment.

The United States condemns the actions of those who killed four Americans. The outbreak of violence started by word of mouth. An American movie depicts Islam in a bad light.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, meanwhile, struck a somber and emotional tone, offering remembrances for the American diplomats who lost their lives in the violence.

In an appearance in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, flanked by Clinton, the president spoke about the events the night before, pledging that the incidents would "not break the bonds between the United States and Libya."

"We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," Obama said, referencing the anti-Islamic video, "but there is no justification for this kind of violence. None."

Libyan security workers had helped bring other American diplomats to safety during the crisis, Obama noted, and had transported the ambassador to the hospital.

"It is especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it's a city he helped to save at the height of the Libyan revolution," Obama said.

Libyans try to remove the body of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador killed by protesters after an American bigot produced a film depicting the Prophet Mohammad in an offensive nature.

Earlier in the morning at the State Department, a shaken Clinton talked about Stevens and the other diplomats who had been killed and strongly denounced the attacks at the outpost in Libya.

"This is an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the world," she said. "We condemn in the strongest terms this senseless act of violence."

With her eyes occasionally watering, Clinton spoke at length about Ambassador Stevens, whom she knew well and whom she had personally dispatched to Libya at the beginning to the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, to be the American attache to the rebel leadership.

"He arrived on a cargo ship in the port of Benghazi and began building our relationship with the Libyan revolutionaries," she said. "He risked his life to stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to help build a better Libya. The world needs more Chris Stevenses."

Clinton too pledged to maintain America's relationship with Libya, although she conceded that events like those on Tuesday challenged even her certainty.

"Today many Americans are asking -- indeed, I ask myself -- how could this happen," Clinton said. "How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction. This question reflects just how complicated, and at times how confounding, the world can be. But we must be clear-eyed even in our grief: This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or the government of Libya."


President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Rose Garden.

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Middle East Protesters Kill American Ambassador!

The Middle East is upset over a movie produced by a bigot depicting the Prophet Mohammad in a negative light. The people who were responsible created a diplomatic mess. An American ambassador loses his life over this.

The growing tension over an portion of an American bigot's movie has a bunch of bigots in the Middle East riled up. It's blasphemous that anyone mocks the prophet Mohammad. The American bigotry towards the Islamic faith is unprecedented.

White supremacists crimes against those who are Muslim or Sikh are growing. There's reports of the rise of  hate crimes towards those who are Muslim or Sikh. From vandalism, burning of the qur'an and total destruction of a mosque, some individuals are taking their hate of one religion to the extreme. Wade Michael Page, fueled on ignorance thought he killed Muslims. Unfortunately, he killed Sikh. They're not Muslims, but since the men are wearing turbans, I guess it's Muslim to a White supremacist.

Congressman Peter King (R-New York) caused a major firestorm last year when he demanded that law enforcement look into the rise of radicalism in American Mosques. King didn't focus on extremism in general.

The rise of right wing extremism was off the table.

Christian fundamentalism was off the table. King wanted to be focused on Shir'ia law and the Cordoba House (Ground Zero Mosque).

Terry Jones (right) is a controversial pastor in Florida. He burned Qur'an in attempt to draw attention about "radical" Islam. What he's done was setback progress between the United States, Israel and the Middle East. All for the freedom of speech and religious intolerance.

State legislators wasted time passing laws trying to make it crime to practice Shir'ia law. Wasting time on the culture war instead of working on helping people find jobs.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) made a personal attack on former Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife because of her disdain for the Muslim Brotherhood, a politically conservative religious sect that elected its first Egyptian leader since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Bachmann also criticized her fellow legislator Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) for alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Her words caused Anthony Weiner to hire more security. Ellison shot back at the Republicans for being divisive towards Islam and not focusing on matters that help Americans find work.

Conservative agitator Michael Savage, Pam Geller, Frank Gaffney, and Brigitte Gabriel are known Islamophobics. They devoted their time to bashing Muslims.

Republican nominee, Mitt Romney insults the Middle East on his first tour as a presidential nominee. The nominee (who is a known perennial candidate) is a foreign policy novice. He doesn't have the skill in diplomatic affairs. Jerusalem is a holy religious area and those involved in this matter are part of the highly conservative Sunni Islam religion and those of highly conservative Masorti Judaism religion. They're conflicting over the natural rights of the city. Romney clearly took a side in this conflict by stating that Jerusalem was the national capital of Israel. That had Palestine leaders upset. The United Nation doesn't recognized Jerusalem as the national capital and many feel this is a touchy issue in the time where those in the West Bank and Gaza Strip want to declare sovereignty.

Many in the Republican Party were railing against the Democratic Party for not invoking god as a platform at their national convention. President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa demanded their delegates recognize god and Jerusalem as the national capital of Israel. That led to members booing. Some of the members of the Democratic delegation were probably Islamic, Sikh, agnostic, and non-religious protesting the move being a political expediency.

The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama aren't on the best of terms.

The conservative leader has criticized President Obama over his handling over Iran's nuclear program. The president and his administration are seriously focus on preventing the nation from creating a nuclear weapon.

Christopher Stevens dies because of protest in Libya.

Iran denies these claims and stating continuously that it's nuclear program is for proper energy usage.

Republican nominee Mitt Romney condemns the Obama administration for not talking to Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has been a problem for President Barack Obama. They've often clashed over Iran and the sanctions of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

President Barack Obama is strong on foreign policy. But this recent controversy overseas has giving Romney an opportunity to catch up on his leadership skills. The president is pretty much upset over the incident that lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

Terry Jones, the controversial pastor of a Florida church and an Israeli-American real estate developer created a freaking backlash overseas. The foolish pastor burn the Qur'an at his Dove's World Outreach International Church which sparked deadly protest in Afghanistan, Iraq and areas where the United States has its interest and abroad.

The independent film, Innocence of Muslims was produced and directed by Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American real estate developer. According to Bacile, he produced the film to call attention to what he perceived were the "hypocrisies" of Islam.

According to Ynet, Bacile said he raised $5 million from about 100 Jewish donors, whom he declined to identify. Working with about 60 actors and 45 crew members, he said he made the two-hour movie in three months last year in California. The film has been promoted by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose burning of qur'ans previously sparked deadly riots around the world, who said Tuesday that he planned to show a 13-minute trailer that night at his church in Gainesville, Florida. "It is an American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam," he said in a statement. "The movie further reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad."

In July 2012, a 14-minute excerpt from the English-language film was posted on YouTube. By September the movie had been dubbed into Arabic, by which time it had attracted the attention of Muslim leaders who criticized the film's depiction of Muhammad.The Daily Telegraph reported that it portrayed Muhammad as an advocate of pedophilia and a homosexual, showing him having sex.

Bacile is now fearing for his life.

Some are calling for the United States to remove themselves from the Middle East.

The Israelis are threatening to use military force against Iran. That move may spark another World War and the United States and United Nations are warning of dire consequences if Israel strikes.

Mitt Romney is a foolish politician. Just when you though he was toast, here comes a break. This may give him a chance to brush up on international affairs. This is one of those moments where the 3am phone call is needed.

Terry Jones, Sam Becile and those Libya and Eygpt are reckless. Plain and simple.

Terry Jones knew what he was doing! He knew that this will draw international attention to his pathetic church and put the path to peace in jeopardy. What he's done was made it more likely for people of Afghanistan to drop their support of the United States. The president is trying to end the war in Afghanistan by 2014, and the mass killings over there is on the rise. The religiously conservative Taliban is trying to regain an advantage. The Taliban plots terrorist attacks on American troops and the people of Pakistan.

We here at Journal de la Reyna express our condolences to those Americans lost in this tragic incident. We also condemn those who use religion as an excuse to cause injury and death of the innocence. 

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