There is something seriously wrong with Mitt Romney: He's a pathological liar

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12. I go back to the Kennedy years

and I live in Canada so I've watched two countries politics pretty closely over that time.

JFK woke the concept of ideals in me when I was very young. At 8 years old, I asked my family what I could do for my country (""Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"&quot and they laughed. It was a real knee slapper for them. I was a joke. I was 9 when JFK was assassinated and I asked again. They laughed. So I was going home from school and saw a campaign office looking for volunteers and they offered to allow me to distribute 20 brochures door to door. I did and went back the next day and got 20 more as they too wouldn't take me seriously. They sent me to a street that had already had brochures delivered. So the third day I put a wooden box on my bike and showed up. This time I didn't ask. I just took 3000 brochures and handed them a map of the streets I would be delivering them too. The old ladies cackled like hens upset with me but they knew they couldn't stop me.

After that election, I realized I'd only helped one party so I helped the other party in the next Federal election - to help the whole country (both major parties)- if you will. And so my political involvement began as a way to help my country - inspired by the Kennedys and MLK.

I campaigned for Bobby Kennedy. I mourned Bobby & MLK. I protested the Vietnam war. I streaked against Nixon's "I've got nothing to hide. I am not a crook". In the early 70s, I was part of an activist group for gay rights in college (one of just a few who were straight but I think we were a little ahead of our time). Etc., Etc. Somewhere along the way, the family stopped laughing.

In all that time, I've never seen a significant candidate for any party who was more dishonest and more bankrupt of conviction than Mitt Romney in either country in my lifetime. And in all that time, I've never experienced a better leader than Barack Obama. It strikes me as surreal that the polls are even close.

There was a time, when people in the media like Walter Cronkite, wouldn't tolerate it and a candidate like Romney would be toast by now. Unfortunately, the media doesn't appear to be up to the task (yet?), apparently forsaking their principles in journalism as an arbiter for truth in order to reap higher corporate profits.

America deserves better than Mitt Romney. In my opinion, America has one of the best ever now. I'm positive history will look kindly on Obama. My kids deserve Barack Obama. I hope you guys fight your butts off to get Barack re-elected. Like I've done for the last 50 years, I promise to do whatever I can.