So does Mitt Romney have the Republican nomination sealed up, or is it still a race?

[A Black Falcon]

See:

-DOJ defending Don't Ask Don't Tell
-expanding and extending parts of the Patriot Act
-signing of NDAA and Obama's insistence on the power to detain American citizens
-assassinations of American citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his son Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki
-resuming of raids on medical marijuana dispensaries for no reason
-stacking the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with people eager to tear into social security and medicare
-backroom deals with insurance executives to craft the health care legislation (so much for transparency)
-cracking down on whistleblowers more than any other president in history

Apart from the marijuana one (as you would expect, I'm in favor of current policy), I agree with this list, for the most part.

Here are some more:

-Not closing Guantanamo (I know, the Congress made it really hard. Still, he promised, and absolutely should have found a way.
-Taking so long to end the Iraq War, and then having the place collapse immediately afterwards anyway (does this mean we should have left earlier, or should still be there? I think we probably should have left sooner, though of course I was strongly opposed to the war at the beginning. We did need to try to fix the country after breaking it, but, yeah, Obama probably could have ended it sooner.)
-Not saying anything at all so far about SOPA/PIPA (and I doubt he'll veto, really... the effort to destroy the internet continues inching forwards.)
-Starting the health care reform effort with such a moderate bill that by the time he compromised far less was left to actually than would have if he'd started with a better bill, like, say, Hillary would have done. Some of the basics of Obama's health care reform come from '90s Republican ideas... yeah. What an amazing reform, huh?
-On that note, starting from the middle over and over and over again, assuming for some insane reason that the Republicans would compromise if you start with a reasonable position. Shouldn't it have been obvious that they would under no circumstances do that and instead they'd just push right from that? And he did this over and over again...
-Not getting environmental/global warming legislation passed when he had a chance (early in the first term, say). This is a REALLY important failure; I know, he decided to focus on health care first, but it became "health care only". Not good. (I mean, the health care reform probably was better than nothing, but still, seriously, we NEEDED climate change legislation!)
Etc, etc.

Oh, as for Anwar Al-Awlaki... I can see why they did it, but it's surely illegal, yeah.


Returning to the Republican primary, it's pretty insane that the first major attack on Romney's Bain Capital record -- that is, of Romney the heartless capitalist destroying companies and getting rich off of the profits -- isn't from liberal or progressive group, but instead... from Newt Gingrich supporters. It's just crazy, I'd never have guessed that Newt and Rick Perry would attack Romney for being a capitalist, in the Republican party...

I don't expect it to work -- too much of the Republican base voting here is surely in favor of things like what Romney did -- but still, it's great to see, really. Some want to credit the Occupy movement for getting the national mood to the point where attacks like that are made. I don't know if that's true or not, but, maybe?

Anyway, here's the film's trailer. Not much here to hint that it wasn't made by a liberal group.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_evS-T-c35M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Site / Full (half hour I think) film: http://www.kingofbain.com/


... Just watching Mitt Romney speeches makes me annoyed at him, he's so fake on the one hand, but he's also going so far overboard with his anti-Obama attacks that it makes me really dislike him...