WELCOME TO OPINIONS BASED ON FACTS (OBOF)
| Name | Published |
| OVERVIEW | Dec. 28, 2010 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 1 | Dec. 30, 2010 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 2 | Jan. 10, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 3 | Jan. 17, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 4 | Jan. 24, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 5 | Jan. 31, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 6 | Feb. 07, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 7 | Feb. 14, 2011 |
| SPECIAL ISSUE | Feb. 18, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 8 | Feb. 21, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 9 | Mar. 01, 2011 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY PART 10 | Mar. 07, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 1 | Mar. 14, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 1A | Mar. 21, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 2 | Mar. 25, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 3 | Mar. 29, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 4 | Apr. 04, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 5 | Apr. 11, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 6 | Apr. 18, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 7 | Apr. 25, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 7A | Apr. 29, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 8 | May 02, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 9 | May 09, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 10 | May 16, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 11 | May 24, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 12 | Jun. 06, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 13 | Jun. 20, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 14 | July 05, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 14A | July 18, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 15 | July 19, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 16 | Aug. 03, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 17 | Aug. 15, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 18 | Aug. 29, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 19 | Sept. 12, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 20 | Sept. 26, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 21 | Oct. 10, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 22 | Oct. 24, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 22 EXTRA | Nov. 04, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 23 | Nov. 07, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 24 | Nov. 21, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 25 | Dec. 05, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 26 | Dec. 19, 2011 |
| SS & MORE PART 27 | JAN. 03, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 27A | JAN. 05, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 28 | JAN. 17, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 29 | JAN. 31, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 30 | Feb. 14, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL1 | Feb. 21, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 30 EXTRA | Feb. 23, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 31 | Feb. 28, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL2 - 59 | Mar. 06, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 31 EXTRA | Mar. 07, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 32 | Mar. 13, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL3 - 1 | Mar. 20, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 32 EXTRA | Mar. 24, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 33 | Apr. 10, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL 4 - 2 | Apr. 17, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 34 | Apr. 24, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL5 - 49 | May 01, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 35 | May 09, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART CL6 - 19 | May 15, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 35 EXTRA | May 18, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 36 | May 22, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 36 EXTRA | May 25, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 36 | |
| EXTRA II | June 01, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 37 | June 05. 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 37 EXTRA | June 07, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 38 | June 12, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 39 | June 19, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 40 | June 26, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 41 | July 03, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 42 | July 10, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 43 | July 17, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 44 | July 24,2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 45 | July 31, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 46 | Aug. 07, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 46 EXTRA | Aug. 09, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 47 | Aug. 14, 2012 |
| SS & MORE PART 48 | Aug. 21, 2012 |
IN THIS ISSUE
1. Conventions.
2. What a way to get free air time.
3. Special OP Group using Swift Boat Tatics.
4. 25 days to define Paul Ryan.
5. What Obama has done and what he believes.
6. Parting thought.
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"VOTE, AN EDUCATED VOTE"
What is an educated vote? It is one that has been made with as much knowledge, based on facts, not misinformation, that an individual can obtain.
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REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
MONDAY
8 - 27 - 12
REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
The Republican Convention is first and will be held on August 27-30, 2012 at the Times Forum in Tampa , Florida
The only other information that I have about this convention is that the former President, George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Chaney will not attend the convention.
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The Democrat Convention will be held on September 3, 4, 5, and 6 at the Warner Cable Arena on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
President Obama's acceptance speech will be on the 6th, at the Bank of America
Other program notes:
Elizabeth Warren will speak at the convention on September 5th and President Clinton will make the nominating speech on that evening.
Vice President Biden will speak on the 6th and President Obama will give his acceptance speech on the evening of the 6th.
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WHAT AWAY TO GET
FREE
CAMPAIGN AIR TIME
I'm, quite, sure you have already heard enough about Todd Akin by now and his statements about rape not causing pregnancies in some cases. However, just in case you haven't I will briefly set it up. Todd Akin, a Republican House member and candidate for Senate, claimed this weekend that victims of "legitimate rape" don’t get pregnant, because, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
I'm sure you agree with me, that that is the most ridiculous statement I think I have ever heard from a politician.
Floyd
HE FACES A DEADLINE.
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, at 7:53 AM ET
The Todd Akin Watch continues Tuesday, as the Missouri Senate candidate has until 5 p.m. local time to bow to mounting GOP establishment pressure to end his campaign, or risk creating a set of bureaucratic hurdles for his party should he later call it quits.
The Show-Me State has what the Washington Post calls "one of the clearest, strictest laws in the nation regarding replacing candidates." In short, Akin has until the end of the workday to decide to step aside and let Republican leaders name his replacement. If he misses the deadline, he would still have until Sept. 25 to petition the court to be removed from the ballot, but doing so could be challenged by the Missouri
I'm betting he withdraws by 5:00 pm tonight, August 21, 2012.
Floyd
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SPECIAL OP GROUP USING
"SWIFT BOAT TATICS"
REGARD KILLING OSAMA BIN LADEN
by ABBY OHLHEISER
The New York Times
published August 16, 2012
The group, Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, was established as a social welfare 501(c)(4) group, rather than as a political group, which means that it doesn't have to disclose donations to the public. The social welfare classification, as Reuters explains, means that "its primary purpose is to further the common good and its political activities should be secondary." The group's president is former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor, who failed to win the Republican nomination for a Virginia
The centerpiece of the attack campaign is a 22-minute documentary to be released Wednesday. Reuters got a sneak peek at the film, which features Ben Smith, described in the film as a former Navy SEAL. He says: "Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden , America
The film echoes many Republicans in accusing the White House of high-level leaks that they say were designed to make the president look good as the November elections approach. Smith says, "As a citizen, it is my civic duty to tell the president to stop leaking information to the enemy," adding, "It will get Americans killed."
The group plans on airing TV ads in a handful of battleground states, including Virginia, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Nevada.
Comments by Floyd Bowman
Publisher -- "OPINIONS BASED ON FACTS."
There is more in this article and I have read a great deal more, that accuses the President of claiming he killed Osama Bin Laden. They all refer to leaks, made deliberately, to make the President look good during this election cycle.
I have reviewed many of the President's press conferences and read a number of press releases. Not one place, can I find, where the President has said he killed Osama Bin Laden. In fact, it seems to me that he has bent over backward to pay credit where it was due. Over and over he mentions of the heroic actions of the Navy Seals. He has pointed out the names of the people that conducted this operation will never be known. He has pointed out, at least once that I know of, that those who carried out this heroic assignment must never be known, so as to provide complete safety for them and their families. He said "I don't know who they are and will not know."
Once again, I want to state that I have never heard him say that he killed Osama Gin Laden. The only thing he has ever said, relating to his part in the process, after lengthy discussion with many of the appropriate people, was that "I then directed the Operation to proceed." This is certainly his appropriate action just as it was Geo. W. Bush's action when he started the Iraq
They are finding fault with the President when he made a decision that was successful. Think what they would be saying if the operation had failed. They would be saying things like, "See, he just isn't qualified to be Commander in Chief."
As far as the leaks, that a number of people seem to be talking about, I can't address them at all. I have never heard of any leaks and those that refer to them do not spell out what they are referring to, other than just leaks. More generic statements without any facts to back them up.
I can't say that there isn't more to it than what I know now, but I think this group, and others, are just making statements without any back-up facts.
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The 25-day fight to define Paul Ryan
The Washington
Morning Fix.
published August 13, 2012.
In 25 days, we’ll likely know whether Mitt Romney picking Paul Ryan was a savvy strategy to make the November election about big ideas or a fizzled failure that collapsed under the weight of the controversial budget proposals put forward by the Wisconsin Republican.
That’s the amount of time between today and Sept. 7, the day after the Democratic National Convention concludes in Charlotte, N.C. Between now and then Ryan will have barnstormed the country — he is in Iowa today — and both parties will have had a chance to make their (heavily orchestrated) cases to the American public at their respective conventions.
At the center of the fight to define Ryan — and the Republican ticket and party more broadly — is the portion of his budget blueprint that would fundamentally alter Medicare, long a political don’t-touch-under-any-circumstances issue for both parties.
In an interview with CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Sunday, both Romney and Ryan were careful to emphasize that Ryan’s proposal would allow older people — one of the most critical voting blocs in the coming election — to keep their current Medicare but would give younger people more choices.
Ryan even sought to personalize the Medicare issue during the Schieffer sitdown, noting that “my mom is a Medicare senior in Florida
They’ll need it, as there is mounds of polling data that suggest any talk of changes to Medicare — even if they won’t impact those currently covered by the program — is politically perilous.
Nearly eight in 10 people opposed reducing Medicare benefits as a way to reduce the deficit — including 73 percent of political independents — in a recent Washington Post- Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
Almost six in 10 said they would prefer Medicare to remain exactly as it is, while just 36 percent said they would rather it “be changed to a system in which the government guarantees each senior a fixed amount of money to help them purchase coverage either from traditional Medicare or from a list of private health plans.”
In addition to those poll numbers, the Obama campaign is in the midst of an all-out assault to define Ryan — and by extension Romney — as someone who wants to get rid of Medicare entirely.
A web video released by the Obama campaign this morning features Florida seniors decrying the Ryan proposal on Medicare; “If we cut it now, what’s going to happen to our middle class?” asks one woman.
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that Ryan’s proposed overhaul of Medicare would put the program in a “death spiral”.
At the heart of the battle to define Ryan, his budget and what it would do to Medicare is whether he/it is viewed symbolically as a sort of “serious times require serious people and hard decisions” sentiment or whether he/it is viewed literally as an uncaring ideologue pushing his conservative agenda no matter the human cost.
That’s the fight of the next 25 days. It’s hard to overestimate how critical the outcome is to who wins this fall.
Romney and Ryan defend Medicare provisions: Here’s a taste of how Romney and Ryan talked about Medicare in their sitdown with “60 Minutes” on Sunday:
“There’s only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call Obamacare,” Romney said.
Ryan added: “My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida
This is a preview of the GOP’s pushback messaging: noting Obama’s own cuts to Medicare, GOP efforts to save it, and the fact that the proposal doesn’t affect current beneficiaries.
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WHAT OBAMA HAS DONE
&
WHAT HE BELIEVES.
This, from a loving wife.
"You remind folks that Barack kept his promise to bring our troops home from Iraq
"You can also remind people about how all those folks in Washington
"You can tell people that Barack knows what it's like to start your professional life with a student loan debt higher that our mortgage. That's why Barack doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping 3.7 million more students afford the education they need for the jobs of the future."
"You can tell people how Barack fought to make it easier for women to get equal pay for equal work. The first bill he signed was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. And he did it because when so many women are now breadwinners for our families, he knows that women's success in the economy is the key to families' success in the economy."
"Please tell people about the historic health care reform this President passed. Because of this reform, insurance companies will no longer be able to drop your coverage when you get too sick or deny you coverage just because you have a pre-existing condition. Millions of senior citizens have saved hundreds of dollar on their prescription drugs and young people can now stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26years old."
"I want you to remind people that Barack fought for tax cuts for working families and small businesses (18 cuts for small businesses) because he understands that an economy built to last starts with the middle class and with folds who are creating jobs and putting people back to work."
"When it comes to the Supreme Court, don't forget to tell people about those two brilliant justices Barack appointed and how, for the first time in our history, our daughters and sons watched three women take their seat on our nation's highest court."
Bringing our troops home... getting Americans back to work... giving people more control over their health care... helping our young people start their careers without crushing student debt... supporting equal pay for equal work... increasing diversity on the Supreme Court.
These are the American values that we are fighting for. Please join me in supporting the President's re-election campaign today.
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Parting Thought
Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If, the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you again on Tuesday August 28th, 2012, if not before.
"God Bless you all
&
God Bless The United States Of America
Floyd
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