Obama Campaign Begging for Cash – Romney FEC Reports Individual’s Onboard Romney Bus – Romney Double Harvard Degree – the Smartest Guy for the Job

Romney and Obama - comparison -Image USA Today

One can find myriad articles regarding Mitt Romney and Money – most of which is aimed at creating what is known as “class warfare” – with the Obama Administration and MSNBC harping about Romney having monies in Overseas Funds – just like millions of American workers, including union members who have pension funds and 401K investments, and more probably have similar investments than not. So, what’s the big deal?-

Panic has set in as the June Fundraising Filings through the FEC have been released. The Politico Headline “Obama to donors: Help!” says it all. Politico is not known to “lean right” in its ideological reporting of news, not as glaringly apparent as say, MSNBC, where the so-called analyst pull numbers out of a hat and scream hysterically at one another, while editing video’s, so poorly, in attempts to make Mitt Romney look – well stupid.

In June, Romney’s Campaign took in over half of the monies raised by President Obama’s Campaign according to the New York Times. The rest of the more left of center new outlets and the Obama Campaign, are crying foul – Romney’s raising money from “rich” friends! Not so if one cares to take a look at the FEC filing for June – what occurs is one finds that by zip code and individual contributions, Romney is out raising Obama in smaller amounts, only there are a good deal more of them.

Compare: The list by zip codes for the Romney Campaign filed for June here with the list by zip codes for the Obama Campaign filed for the same period here suggests that individual donors are giving more to the Romney Campaign than to the Obama Campaign. It’s that simple.

Both Candidates, to be fair, are raising money in millions of dollars from “rich” donors, but it is the type of “rich donor” that makes the difference. Romney receives campaign contributions from business, while Obama receives those contributions from Hollywood – perhaps rather simplified, but they do run in different circles both ideologically and socially – one being the President and the other being the candidate for the Presidency.

However, when it comes to having an academic pedigree, that’s where one is touted as “brilliant” (Obama) and the other, with a little editing help from MSNBC, as rather – out of it, not quite bright – the problem with that, is Romney of course, hiding his light under a bushel as usual – between his charitable giving, his personal heroics, and his educational achievements – few to none of the media outlets are delving into Romney’s background that reveals an above average, philanthropic, man who would rescue complete strangers from a sinking boat, taking care to get the family dog to safety. Now the New York Times adds one more facet to Romney’s personality that has, as far as anyone is aware, gone fairly non-reported – his double major at Harvard, and apparently, not just any double major. The New York Times article Romney, at Harvard, merged two worlds is worth the read.

Apparently, Romney is one of a select few who have completed both a business and law degree in an intensive course taking 5 years, there are normally twelve who attempt to achieve this feat – Romney being one of the first. Since 1969 when the program began, there have been 500 graduates. Some went onto law, others into business, and alumni contain some commonly known names in industry and finance – some of whom are supporting the Romney campaign. The article also notes that President’s Obama and Bush both attended Harvard, Obama receiving a Law Degree and Bush an MBA (he previously received his Law Degree from Yale -as did both Hillary and President Bill Clinton). Therefore, Romney, by virtue of his double degree on a fast track program, shows a competitive and intelligent man who took his education and ran with it – all the way to the bank, to the Olympics, to the Governor’s Office in Massachusetts and in what can only be deemed probable, to the White House in 2013.

To recap: Romney has monies in offshore accounts, as do many of the 401K’s and pension accounts of millions of Americans, Romney is receiving more individual donations that Obama by zip code and by state (The FEC really boils it down), and the Romney is Smart – Really Smart. He knows how to run a business and he has the legal background to boot.

To get a feel for Romney’s record in MA compared to the Obama Campaign Version - read: “Obama ad has Romney’s record in Mass. Wrong”, and op-ed in the Boston Globe. The real numbers and circumstances referred to in this particular op-ed regarding Governor Romney’s time in MA is corroborated by statistics previously published on this blog.

Bloggers note: at first look, Mitt Romney was the least desirable of candidates for the GOP, however, once one does a bit of digging, one finds that Romney is possibly the best candidate for the times, as well as the best candidate that has come forth from the GOP since Ronald Reagan – that is not to compare Romney to Reagan, it is speaking to ability to lead, and to manage a nation of this size and scope, while empowering it’s people to do more, to do better, and to achieve the American Dream. It took quite some time before the transition from holding one’s nose to vote for Romney (as he possibly might do better than the President economically) to defending Romney when something was not quite right in the press. This was done reservedly and morphed into actually liking the candidate and understanding that now, in this period in our nation’s economic history. Today America needs a strong, smart, and savvy leader, who has a philanthropic side (compassion) and a touch of hero. Mitt Romney maybe overly squeaky clean for some but perhaps it’s time to have a leader one can look up to as a role model that has little to no criminal activity it his/her past (speaking to drug use by Presidents and candidates - other than a run in at a boat ramp in a public park). Romney is the type of neighbor one would want to move in across the street – whether he’s rich, or smart, matters (who doesn’t want that type of neighbor), but more importantly - he’d be the first one in on a rescue in the neighborhood.