To overcome Obama’s lead, Mitt must go large
WASHINGTON — In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country’s condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.)
Four years later, mid-September 2012, the U.S. mission in Benghazi went up in flames, as did Obama’s entire Middle East policy of apology and accommodation. Obama once again played it cool, effectively ignoring the attack and the region-wide American humiliation.
“Bumps in the road,” he said. Nodding tamely were the mainstream media, who would have rained a week of vitriol on Mitt Romney had he so casually dismissed the murder of a U.S. ambassador, the raising of the black Salafist flag over four U.S. embassies and the epidemic of virulent anti-American demonstrations from Tunisia to Sri Lanka (!) to Indonesia.
Obama seems not even to understand what happened. He responded with a groveling address to the U.N. General Assembly that contained no less than six denunciations of a crackpot video, while offering cringe-worthy platitudes about the need for governments to live up to the ideals of the U.N.
The U.N. being an institution of surpassing cynicism and mendacity, the speech was so naive it would have made a fine middle-school commencement address. Instead, it was a plaintive plea by the world’s alleged superpower to be treated nicely by a roomful of the most corrupt, repressive, tin-pot regimes on Earth.
Yet Romney totally fumbled away the opportunity. Here was a chance to make the straightforward case about where Obama’s feckless approach to the region’s tyrants has brought us, connecting the dots of the disparate attacks as a natural response of the more virulent Islamist elements to a once-hegemonic power in retreat. Instead, Romney did two things:
He issued a two-sentence critique of the initial statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on the day the mob attacked. The critique was not only correct but vindicated when the State Department disavowed the embassy statement. However, because the critique was not framed within a larger argument about the misdirection of U.S. Middle East policy, it could be—and was—characterized as a partisan attack on the nation’s leader at a moment of national crisis.
Two weeks later at the Clinton Global Initiative, Romney did make a foreign-policy address. Here was his opportunity. What did he highlight? Reforming foreign aid.
Yes, reforming foreign aid! A worthy topic for a chin-pulling joint luncheon of the League of Women Voters and the Council on Foreign Relations. But as the core of a challenger’s major foreign-policy address amid a Lehman-like collapse of the Obama Doctrine?
It makes you think how far ahead Romney would be if he were actually running a campaign. His unwillingness to go big, to go for the larger argument, is simply astonishing.
For six months, he’s been matching Obama small ball for small ball. A hit-and-run critique here, a slogan-of-the-week there. His only momentum came when he chose Paul Ryan and seemed ready to engage on the big stuff: Medicare, entitlements, tax reform, national solvency, a restructured welfare state. Yet he has since retreated to the small and safe.
When you’re behind, however, safe is fatal. Even his counterpunching has gone miniature. Obama has successfully painted Romney as an out-of-touch, unfeeling plutocrat whose only interest is to cut taxes for the rich. Romney has complained in interviews that it’s not true. He has proposed cutting tax rates, while pledging that the share of the tax burden paid by the rich remains unchanged (by “broadening the base” as in the wildly successful, revenue-neutral Reagan-O’Neill tax reform of 1986).
But how many people know this? Where is the speech that hammers home precisely that point, advocates a reformed tax code that accelerates growth without letting the rich off the hook and gives lie to the Obama demagoguery about dismantling the social safety net in order to enrich the rich?
Romney has accumulated tons of cash for 30-second ads. But unless they’re placed on the scaffolding of serious speeches making the larger argument, they will be treated as nothing more than tit for tat.
Make the case. Go large. About a foreign policy in ruins. About an archaic, 20th-century welfare state model that guarantees 21st-century insolvency. And about an alternate vision of an unapologetically assertive America abroad unafraid of fundamental structural change at home.
It might just work. And it’s not too late.
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for the Washington Post. His email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
Oct 3, 2012 at 12:51 p.m.
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Kleej, you're partly right about Obama, you left out the part about him being a disgrace to his country!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012...
Oct 3, 2012 at 10:26 a.m.
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whz_bng, The president of the U.S. is a fraud. Plain and simple.
Oct 3, 2012 at 8:17 a.m.
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1997 Bain makes Sealy borrows $651M
2004 Bain cashes in $741M
Today Sealy's debt $750M
Bain take's control of a business, runs up it's credit to the max, pockets the money, then jumps ship to the next business. What a helpful thing for Romney to believe in.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/how_mitt...
Is that the kind of "go big" Krauthammer want's Mitten to do?
Oct 2, 2012 at 8:40 p.m.
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Here is a speach by Obama race baiting and class warfare. The real Obama? http://dailycaller.com/2012/...Obama-spe...
Hear how he panders to a black crowd when he wants to. What has he done for them since he bacame president?
Oct 2, 2012 at 7:22 a.m.
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The White House told defense contractors not to send out lay off notices to the 100,000+ defense workers who will be losing their jobs until after election and using tax dollars to corrupt the process.
Oct 2, 2012 at 7:17 a.m.
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Obama massive cover-up and electronic shredding going on in White House over Libya while he jets off to Nevada.
Univision bomb shell on Fast and Furious as more information comes out of his involvement.
It's a very good thing for Obama he has the media on his side to protect his sorry behind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWnwDtc_g...
Oct 2, 2012 at 7:12 a.m.
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yada - what you didn't know from your left wing basement buddies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Economy
1. As head of the investment company Bain Capital, Mitt Romney SAVED thousands of workers jobs.
.2. Mitt Romney's advice on the foreclosure crisis: "Don't use taxpayers money in foreclosure process."
.3. The former Obama mentor said of Barak Obama's tenure: "We had a scheme where the rich got poorer."
.4. Barak Obama set up organizers in the Chicago area to hussle and muscle banks into failed lending practices that caused housing crisis.
.5. Mitt Romney calls Obama's payroll tax increase on the middle class/lower income families through Obamacare a national disgrace.
AND THAT'S JUST THE FIRST FIVE POINTS
Oct 2, 2012 at 7:04 a.m.
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Can't have voter ID to disenfranchise the cheaters but don't send out military absentee ballots to the 85% that vote Republican!!!!
Oct 2, 2012 at 5:49 a.m.
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http://www.truthinaction.org/index.php/2...
http://thinkprogress.org/romney-facts/
Oct 2, 2012 at 4:51 a.m.
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Oneday, the truth can be potent, eh?
Oct 2, 2012 at 12:49 a.m.
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"The United States is "drowning in unemployment," its economy is running at stall speed and inflation is "not a problem," but easier monetary policy is not the answer, one of the Federal Reserve's most hawkish policymakers said on Friday"
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RAF: The 12 FOMC members are just like UN members. They will write good speeches, and what not, but in reality they have ZERO power. All the power lies with the KING (ole helicopter Ben Bernancki). Sure you will get a few hawkish dissenters who obviously know the current fed policy is a complete receipt for disaster, but that changes NOTHING. What the king wants is what the fed policy will be. So on with QE4. What should the over/under date be for that? hmmmmm.
Oct 2, 2012 at 12:42 a.m.
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mooshop:
That really should be the Rommney doctrine. Because he has no vision to fix the economy as he constantly spews (nor does Obama). The only real 'fix' would be to wage a gigantic war with some propped up evil empire. No better way to employ people at home then by employing them to churn out planes, missels, bombs, ext..So lets prop up that next evil empire that we must crush! That if we don't, somehow our county will be taken over by an invasion force from Iran. We'll have Iranian camel jockeys rolling down our streets enforcing marshal law on us if we don't act NOW!
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:01 p.m.
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The last post by Keej has put this thread so far below childish it's to the point of being imbecilic. If such posts are considered wisdom, this country is in more trouble than I’ve ever imagined, even at the lowest points of despondency from reading comments on this site, that comment was an all time low. At least when poobah post, the comments are backed up with data from legitimate sources and statistical data form gov't agencies. There is one poster on here that has such posters aptly described "fearand rhetoricfordummies".
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:55 p.m.
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Obama was born international, he should have a huge edge on that one.....
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:14 p.m.
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Perhaps Mitt could ask Osama about international experiences.
Oct 1, 2012 at 7:33 p.m.
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Perhaps Jack & Jill would be more suitable. Sorry for the deep lyrics. I'll try harder. Now go grab your blankey and go nite nite poobear.
Oct 1, 2012 at 6:29 p.m.
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LibertyIsSacred said, "POOBEAR, I haven't seen Kleeej or anyone defending any past president or even the republican candidate in this election."
Try to stay focused on the point of my comment. I offered the history of military actions of past presidents (and of Obama) as a comparison to Kleej's sarcastic statement about Ahmadinejad being a peaceful man. If you, Kleej and matthew516 took off the blinders and did a comparison of military actions led by Ahmadinejad with the military actions lead by the past presidents of the USA (and of Obama) the only possible conclusion would not fit with the hawkish rhetoric being tossed around by the military industrial elitists in America, and their dutiful followers, who stand to make huge profits from perpetuating the American war machine.
Oct 1, 2012 at 6:20 p.m.
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matthew516 said, "Chavez has rolled out the welcome mat for various anti-American terrorists around the world."
America rolled out the welcome mat for Saddam Hussein and the Mujahadeen and Taliban in Afghanistan. The USA provided both Iraq and Afghanistan with tons of military equipment and cash. Here's a nice photo of Donald Rumsfeld smiling and shaking Saddam's hand just after he handed over more aid to Saddam. [ http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2003/03/1... ]
matthew516 said, "Chavez has been heavily involved in working with various military and security relatiions with IRAN."
And what about America propping up the Shah of Iran for decades and working with the Pakistani military (which does have nuclear weapons). Last count, America had 8,000 nuclear warheads, Russia had 10,000, Iran had ... 0.
matthew516 said, "Shall I continue??? Don't even get me started on Ahmadinejad."
Yes, please do. I welcome the opportunity to respond.
Oct 1, 2012 at 6:13 p.m.
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matt & liberty, I appreciate the support. It's okay. When wisdom is ignored, ignorance is born. We have a huge cross section of America like that. As for you POOBAH, here's something more to your thinking level. Feel free to shoot holes in it as I know that's what you live for. You win. So I'll leave you with this; (read slowly so you understand)------------
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All through the town.
(Roll hands over each other)
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish"
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish"
All through the town.
(Put arms together in front of you and'swish' like windshield wipers)
The door on the bus goes open and shut
Open and shut, open and shut
The door on the bus goes open and shut
All through the town.
(Cover eyes with hands on 'shut' anduncover them on 'open')
The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep"
The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep"
All through the town.
(Pretend to honk horn)
The gas on the bus goes "Glug, glug, glug
Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug"
The gas on the bus goes "Glug, glug, glug"
All through the town.
(Pretend to fill tank using pointer finger as gas nozzle)
The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink"
The money on the bus goes "Clink, clink, clink"
All through the town.
(Pretend to put money in cash box on bus)
The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!"
The baby on the bus says, "Wah, wah, wah!"
All through the town.
(Fisted hands in front of eyesand rub them like baby crying)
The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh,
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh"
The people on the bus say, "Shh, shh, shh"
All through the town.
(Put pointer finger to mouth to 'shhh')
The mommy on the bus says, "I love you,
I love you, I love you"
The daddy on the bus says, "I love you, too"
All through the town.
Oct 1, 2012 at 5:56 p.m.
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POOBEAR, I haven't seen Kleeej or anyone defending any past president or even the republican candidate in this election. The posts regarding Obama's ineptness are spot on. This is the worst president in the history of this country to date. We don't need your wiki links or your gathered data from the internet to see that. Look around you. Keep sticking your head in the sand and live in denial at what's going on. Guess what, you'll still get your rear end blown off.
Oct 1, 2012 at 5:32 p.m.
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@Poobah, I think Kleej is correct. You are living in a fantasy world. Chavez has rolled out the welcome mat for various anti-American terrorists around the world. Chavez has been heavily involved in working with various military and security relatiions with IRAN. He's worked hand in hand with Castro to assure the communist regime in Cuba is alive and thriving which is keeping the citizens of Cuba repressed. He supports and aids Iran's nuclear weapon's efforts. A real peace loving guy isn't he??!!! But hey, he's never invaded other countries, so let's give him a free pass. He doesn't need to invade other countries, he just works with them so they can bomb them! The man is CORRUPT! Shall I continue??? Don't even get me started on Ahmadinejad. Drop your pride for a day poobah. As Kleej said, the glaze over the eyes of the American people is evident. Yours are sealed shut.
Oct 1, 2012 at 3:52 p.m.
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Kleej said, "I bet Chavez and Ahmadinejad are peaceful men..."
Name the invasions of foreign countries that Chavez and Ahmadinejad have led their nations. Then name the invasions of foreign countries that Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama have led the USA. If you need a little help, here's a list of USA military actions since 1960. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of... ]
Oct 1, 2012 at 3:44 p.m.
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Yeah, and the arms dealers are for Romney because they know there is a good chance he will put us in a war or two. Unfunded of course.
Oct 1, 2012 at 3:15 p.m.
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At least Obama has Hugo Chavez supporting him now. Along with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Iran. Why wouldn't these people want to partner with the "leader" of the U.S. who believes the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper? These guys are smart enough to know that any president who is willing to compromise his own country by ignoring it's founding principles layed out in the Constitution, which is the one thing put in place to protect it's own people from it's government. Of course these guys want Obama in office, because Obama is delusional. If we followed Obama's logic, by ignoring the Constitution and it's intent, that would mean that the first 200+ years this country has been free was all an illusion. The glazed eyes of the American people who are captivated by the man who is trying to destroy their country! Wait, I bet Chavez and Ahmadinejad are peaceful men and just want to be buddy's, right?! God help us.
Oct 1, 2012 at 11:27 a.m.
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October 1 and the Patriots are already pulling out all the stops with the hysterics and conspiracies.
What's next- golden plates found?
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:54 a.m.
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RAF -- bet you the same $10 mentioned below this doesnt come out in the Lame STream media nor as a debate question -- but it should. Meaning the fast and furious murders.
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:50 a.m.
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Rmoney says teens that have sex are prone to suicide. Is this the Mormon church coming out of mitt? Mitt has already said he will stop porn. Will he stop teens from dating?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6DbcNxc...
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:21 a.m.
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Does Obama have any poor friends?
Obama OWNS his Chicago home, he got it with the help of shady Rezko.
"Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife, Michelle Obama, live in this home in the Kenwood community area of Chicago. It is located in the 5000 block of South Greenwood. They paid $1.65 million for the Georgian-style home shortly after he became a senator in 2005."
http://chicago.about.com/od/neighborhood...
Oct 1, 2012 at 9:11 a.m.
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Obama rents. Romney owns http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2...
and car elevators. Your point?
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:50 a.m.
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This Is The Vegas Resort Where Obama Will Spend The Next 3 Days Preparing For the Debate
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-deb... via @bi_politics
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:14 a.m.
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Obama to Mitt, at the debate:
"you're a likeable enough person"
"bet you $10 you don't win"
The zingers might make this amusing :)
Oct 1, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.
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"The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.
“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website."
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/univis...
Oct 1, 2012 at 7:20 a.m.
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"The Obama administration issued new guidance intended for defense contractors Friday afternoon, reiterating the administration’s position that the companies should not be issuing layoff notices over sequestration.
The Labor Department issued guidance in July saying it would be “inappropriate” for contractors to issue notices of potential layoffs tied to sequestration cuts. But a few contractors, most notably Lockheed Martin, said they still were considering whether to issue the notices — which would be sent out just days before the November election."
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/ind...
Oct 1, 2012 at 3:47 a.m.
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"The United States is "drowning in unemployment," its economy is running at stall speed and inflation is "not a problem," but easier monetary policy is not the answer, one of the Federal Reserve's most hawkish policymakers said on Friday"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/2...
Oct 1, 2012 at 12:37 a.m.
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"When 49% of society represent the takers we are close to being doomed."
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Many in the Rommney camp STILL don't seem to see the HUGE error Rommney made in that statement. A statement that pretty much just ended his campaign in an instant. Of that 47% how many are retired baby boomers, or even retired WWII generation folks? Long retired, and on a fixed income now? So because they worked all their life, paid into the system all their life, did their part in society, now they are grouped as being takers, because they now don't pay income tax (obviously they still pay sales tax, and TONS of other taxes that now infest our society)??
Considering the senior vote is CRUCIAL in any election, and you have a key battle ground state like FL, with a very high senior population. Well, that statement was so insulting to a key group, that it literally sunk ANY shot he had. Not that he really had any shot to begin with.
Oct 1, 2012 at 12:28 a.m.
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"Neither Romney or Obama have a cogent or meaningful way of reducing the Federal budget deficit."
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Precisely!
BOTH will continue the same course of funding all government programs-budgets via borrowing, and the rely on the boys at the fed to buy the debt from $$$ they create from thin air. This is the REALITY of the situation. We are so far in the red now, that there is no way to balance the budget barring HUGE cuts. As it sits now, we need to borrow about 40 cents on every dollar just to fund government. If a politician promotes cutting just 2-3% you will have mass protest. More then 2-3%, you'd have riots in the street. People want there free government stuff, make no doubt about it. There is no plan to balance the budget, both are so full of hot air that it is BEYOND ridiculous, and down right hilarious. The course has LONG been set on this. We borrow without end to fund the revenue gap. Then proceed to pay it all off via monetary creation at the fed. This should not be a very hard concept to grasp, if anyone takes off their partisan glasses.
Sep 30, 2012 at 11:16 p.m.
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I concur on the takers part there. Romney is a taker - hasn't worked in two years. The uber-wealthy don't have to work, they and all their heirs can just live off their minimally taxed investments.
Over 1/4 of Mitten's 2011 income was foreign by the way...(3.5 million) If he's a job creator, it's in foreign nations. In the US he's just a mooch.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:53 p.m.
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This election is about the takers vs the taxpayers. Obama has made it very clear he plans to take from the productive members of society and redistribute to the takers. When 49% of society represent the takers we are close to being doomed.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:03 p.m.
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Whenver there is Munsters remake- Mittens and Ryan are poifect as Herman and Eddie Munster.
http://mariopiperni.com/wp-content/uploa...
Sep 30, 2012 at 8:07 p.m.
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westorbust, your last two comments, as usual, are spot on.
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:48 p.m.
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Btw, one of the reasons I would consider not voting for Obama is the NDAA/Indefinite detention law. Of course, I fully believe McCain, Bush or Romney would have signed the same law.
As far as the economy goes, really it's a bit absurd. The trillions of dollars that flow globally are still there, the stock market is doing well, the richest people in the world 5 years ago are richer today, etc... You want to argue that somehow some tax changes are going to somehow give "job creators" reasons to start hiring and investing in America, and that Romney/Ryan are the hope and the glory for this to happen? Fine, go ahead. What's scary is that people believe this.
Does that mean that 4 more years of Obama are going to be roses and candies? Nope. In fact, I predict that in their rage at losing, the far right fringe will attempt nearly everything to destroy those things about America that they hate, so we'll get another half a decade of malaise and fighting.
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:31 p.m.
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Neither Romney or Obama have a cogent or meaningful way of reducing the Federal budget deficit. Ryan can put up all the charts and powerpoints until the cows come home. It doesn't change the fact that the differences between a Romney presidency and another Obama one are fairly small.
The big changes would come when, after declaring that JOBS are #! Priority!, the Repubs would quickly jam through abortion, obscenity, gay marriage, and every other socially conservative pet project they pay lip service to. Yeah, that's the kind of hope and change we need.
'Murica!
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:26 p.m.
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Sorry about your folks and you're still self-deceived. So nitety nite.
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:01 p.m.
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Kleej said, "Acai has it right, tell mom n dad to take your toy away!"
It's too bad you can't let go of the bitterness you have toward me as a result of the exchanges we've had in the past where I've pointed out numerous fallacies in your arguments. Your snide comment here, unfortunately, fails to rise above that. My mother and father passed away several years ago.
Sep 30, 2012 at 6:01 p.m.
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Poobah calls out Liberty for spewing rhetoric? Obama has said multiple times that his plan is to fundamentally transform America! We don't need a transfomation, we need a restoration. The program works. Less government, more freedom, Acai has it right, tell mom n dad to take your toy away!
Sep 30, 2012 at 5:52 p.m.
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Every week the romney campaign says how they need to reintroduce Mitt and restart the campaign. If he can't run his own campaign, how can he run a country? Also, with unlimited funds, his campaign is in debt, what does that say?
Sep 30, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.
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POOBAH-- Time to turn off your electronic toy. It's curfew.
Sep 30, 2012 at 4:47 p.m.
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"Paul Ryan responded to criticism that the math in Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't ad up by telling "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace it would take too long to explain.
“You haven’t given me the math,” Wallace said during an interview that aired Sunday.
"It would take me too long to go through all of the math,” Ryan said." [ http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/en... ]
How long do you need, Paul? What happened to the promise to simplify the tax code and reduce its burden?
Sep 30, 2012 at 4:31 p.m.
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LibertyIsSacred said. "Obama wants to be the king and change all the founding principles that protected the people from it's own GOVERNMENT! Study your history people!!! Obama doesn't have the authority to fundamentally change OUR country!"
You just invalidated your own reason for not voting for Obama with your correct observation that Obama doesn't have the authority to establish a monarchy. So, I wonder, did you have any other reasons for not supporting Obama besides your rhetoric that you discredited for us?
Sep 30, 2012 at 4:19 p.m.
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Romney's supposed fall from public favor is a testament to the cultural mentality that is killing this country. Nobody but the courageous, who want to save this country are into dealing with truth. The weak would rather protect their ego even if it means losing our country. Obama wants to be the king and change all the founding principles that protected the people from it's own GOVERNMENT! Study your history people!!! Obama doesn't have the authority to fundamentally change OUR country! And we have no business empowering him to do so! Wake up America, we don't get a second chance....
Sep 30, 2012 at 3:41 p.m.
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Welcome back CHILL!!! Way to nutshell it! It's the ill-educated, prideful one's who are in love with King Barack. I'm not okay either with allowing this regime or any other to pee all over the graves of the brave men & women who left this country to us as an inheritance. It's our duty to not be ignorant and hand it to the next generations!
Sep 30, 2012 at 12:29 p.m.
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http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/opin...
A different opinion.
Sep 30, 2012 at 12:23 p.m.
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poobah, I believe you would think Obama has made progress when you don't believe in liberty. More taxes and more government - watch what you wish for.
Sep 30, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.
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Pharm I see you are very interested in what Lou Dobbs says, here is another nugget you might like as well;
"A new study shows that President's massive government spending has done little to bolster the economy, with median household incomes falling more than 8% since he entered the White House.
The study by Sentier Research found that since the economic recovery technically began in June 2009, median household income has dropped 5.7 percent to $50,678.
The data is worse if you track back to January 2009 when President Obama took office, with incomes falling 8.2% from $55,198.
"Even though we are technically in an economic recovery, real median annual household income is having a difficult time maintaining its present level, much less 'recovering'," Sentier said in its report.
The figures continue to paint a discouraging picture of the economic recovery that is all but non-existent in the minds of middle class Americans. A fact that Republican candidate Mitt Romney is using to highlight the economic failure of the Obama administration.
At a rally in Westerville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Mitt Romney challenged protesters at the site, asking them if they really wanted "four more years" of trillion-dollar deficits and declining take-home pay"
Sep 30, 2012 at 11:05 a.m.
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Bowlgal said, "Again, I apologize to my fellow Americans and will be correcting that in 2012."
I accept your apology, Bowlgal, but still hold you responsible for all of the progress that has been made during Obama's presidency.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:52 a.m.
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See if the left claims Dobbs. You will believe what you want to believe no matter what you are shown. So be it.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:41 a.m.
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Pres Obama is a weak man and therefore a weak President. Again, I apologize to my fellow Americans and will be correcting that in 2012.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:38 a.m.
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pharm, The Obama administration with the help of left wing media has been in a lie for 2 weeks and who said Lou Dobbs was conservative??
Why hasn't Obama stabilized the economy? Why has his policies made everything from gas to jobs to the middle east so very much worse?
If the economy was bad in 2008, I would think the very least Pres. Obama could have done was stabilize it. He couldn't even do that.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:33 a.m.
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"This morning, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pushed the myth that "Obama's entire Middle East policy" consists of "apology and accommodation." This claim, however, has been repeatedly debunked by Washington Post own fact-checker, Glenn Kessler.
Kessler has noted that the speeches conservatives cite to push the myth that Obama regularly apologizes for the United States do not contain apologies and have often been "selectively trimmed for political purposes":
The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.
Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.
In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state.
In his column, Krauthammer went on to say that Obama has ignored the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and referred to the attack as mere "bumps in the road." In fact, Obama has repeatedly condemned the Benghazi attack, and when Obama said "bumps in the road," he was referring to his support for Arab countries' transition from autocracy to democracy during the Arab Spring, even though he knew the transition would not be perfect.
This is the second time in a week that a conservative Washington Post columnist has push a falsehood debunked by Kessler. Post columnist Marc Thiessen claimed that President Obama had often skipped his intelligence briefings and Kessler responded with a thorough debunking. Thiessen then criticized Kessler's debunking, and Kessler updated his original post, stating that Thiessen's answer was an "interesting if not very factual argument."
Kraut still having trouble with the truth.
Sep 30, 2012 at 10:10 a.m.
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"Even hard rightwinger, Lou Dobbs, has realized that Candidate Mitt Romney is COLOSSALLY FAILING in his bid for the Presidency.
So much so that he recently remarked "Romney Shouldn't Ask 'Are You Better Off' Because "Any Damn Fool Knows In 2008 This Country Was In Crisis"
Sep 30, 2012 at 9:45 a.m.
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mooshoo, look up the definition of "ignorant". I simply am saying, you're mis-informed. The truth will set you free.
Sep 30, 2012 at 9:21 a.m.
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The President is not running on his record. Governor Romney just needs to keep pointing it out. No matter who wins, that man will be inheriting a worse economy then the 2008 elected official. Who will Obama blame the last four years on if he wins?? Ironic, isn't it?
Sep 30, 2012 at 8:55 a.m.
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Obama never defeated a single opponent in his short non-note-worthy career. His Chicago politics attacked character and family and lied through all in some cases to the opponent dropping out.
Good for us, America as a nation are not the Illinois liberals who aren't swallowing the backwash they are serving.
Oh you have many still not paying attention but that will come.
Sep 30, 2012 at 8:54 a.m.
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Wasn't it mooshoo who predicted Walker recalled too? Did he learn to be a good backwasher from MSNBC and their white house propaganda campaign of lies?
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:42 a.m.
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And yet another low life scheme by the Republicans-news today that in Colorado and Wyoming the voter cards being filled out by the Democrats were being thrown in the garbage by the particular company that was hired to do this. Another FLorida in 2004?Have to cheat to try and win!!!!!
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:35 a.m.
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Shhhh http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News...
Sep 30, 2012 at 7:22 a.m.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2T81nsq...
Sep 29, 2012 at 8:51 p.m.
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Mathew 516 cannot argue, because he has no evidence except that Obama supporters speak based on facts not opinions. Show me the numbers!
Sep 29, 2012 at 1:10 p.m.
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matthew~ don't bother with mooshoo, you can't argue with the ignorant.
Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 p.m.
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This is how stupid the Romney people are. They write out a memo about torture policy thinking they will hide the intent. These guys ain't too bright.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bxKwy-c...
Sep 29, 2012 at 11:16 a.m.
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MooShoo-If I was you I wouldn't make predictions - I believe you said Walker would be under indictment by Aug. 1st and Barrett would be Governor.
Sep 29, 2012 at 9:28 a.m.
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He has to go large because he's fighting the propaganda war. It's tough to compete with the lies and deception that Obama's managed to "charm" into a country.
Sep 29, 2012 at 8:33 a.m.
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Read "The Shock Doctrine" by Nomi Prins and you will never vote Republican again.
Sep 29, 2012 at 5:22 a.m.
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Funny watching the fringe defend msnbc
Sep 28, 2012 at 3:09 p.m.
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http://www.caintv.com/MSNBCbusteddoctori...
MSNBC busted again for doctoring. It must be severly bad in the Obama camp for the liberal media to go so far as to doctor polls and doctor videos. Well done backwashers.
Sep 28, 2012 at 2:58 p.m.
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To Answer The esteemed GARYPRIMER -"What is Mitt's foreigh policy..."
To keep much of his money in his offshore accounts so he does not have to__________(fill in blank)
Paul Ryan once said on offshore accounts...He called the Cayman Islands - "The place to hide your money."
http://www.examiner.com/article/paul-rya...
Sep 28, 2012 at 1:13 p.m.
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Here's what Krauthammer and all the other crazed righties haven't pondered when they're pulling their hair out about Romney's numerous missteps and missed opportunities: Perhaps he doesn't want to try anymore. He's looked like he's just going through the motions for some time. He looks like a guy that doesn't want the office he's running for. I think he wanted it at first, but campaign process has just beaten him down. He's an immensely flawed candidate and these recent videos have really put a huge damper on his chances. I think he's just tired and the idea of dealing with unending scrutiny as president doesn't appeal to him in the slightest anymore.
Sep 28, 2012 at 12:04 p.m.
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I wonder if this is what Krauthammer meant by Mitt going large?
As if the video of Romney writing off 47% as victims who feel entitled to government assistance wasn't trouble enough, Mother Jones has another video of Romney talking about Bain Capital "harvesting" companies at significant profit. You can read the transcript and watch the video at: [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012... ]
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:11 a.m.
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garyp, Obama's foreign policy is not working very well either and he is the man in charge now.
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:02 a.m.
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Careful Chuckie Kraut, you'll get a heart attack.
Sep 28, 2012 at 10:50 a.m.
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What is Mitt's foreign policy
other than a bunch of worn out platitudes?
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