10.04.2012
10-04-12 "10-4.....Over and Out the Gate, the Debates Have Begun".
No foot fungus or shoe polish for Romney, rather a well rehearsed delivery. Short on important specifics of several issues, such as tax's, deficit reduction and job creation. Jobs without initial government funded infrastructure projects, would be useless if there wasn't earned spendable income and long needed upgrading, which would then start private sector jobs to complement and sustain. He cleverly and vaguely criticized while embrasing popular aspects of the health plan he intends to repeal..........Obama troubled and preoccupied with daily Presidential responsibilities, the escalating world tensions and domestic-international economics.
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Donna Cherwinski He acted like a bully. The President didn't use any of the ammunition he had against him, and unfortunately acted too much the gentleman. I don't think Mitt won at all. He made absolutely no sense about his health care ideas. He just wants it in his name.
ReplyDeleteAnthony Parchini Civility lacking, interrupting the mediator and several other insults against citizens will not be forgotten.
Mary Lou Quinn You got it, Tony. The president looked tired. Yesterday there were new development with Turkey and Syria. Anyone who recalls the healthcare reform debate knows the republicans were obstructionists when Obama looked for cooperation. Romney spun that.........
Bobby Hepburn Not expressing any Political prefrences here but.... It was CLEAR that Romney won this debate BIG TIME. The thoughts afterwards from all the Political observers that this was a BIG step forward for the Republicans.
Not once did our President say what he's going to do to fix the problems. Seems to me and MANY other observers, all he did was dance around the issues. Sorry night for the Democrats........
Anthony Parchini In every contest, a winner, a loser and the thankful. Good judgement calls for preparation for the unexpected. All then should unite and achieve a successful balanced equable society. Discard disruptive and uncooperative behavior for the sake of us all. AND ON AND ON AND
Mary Lou Quinn Definitely an off night for Obama. He really did seem like he didn't want to be there. I don't think we learned much more from either candidate, and fact checkers are working hard today.
Remember 2004 though ~ Kerry won the first debate. So who knows what will happen.
Anthony Parchini Larry Weiss
I hate staged, televised political debates and last night's was no exception. In my opinion, sadly, nobody won last night's debate ... including the voters.
Romney was polished, rehearsed, snappy, energetic and definitely dominated the conversation. But nothing he said clicked with anything he's said in the past, and, beyond his style and his "promises", he said nothing of substance. I found him contradicting himself and heard nothing explaining his figures that otherwise simply don't add up ... adding to his growing reputation as a liar and panderer. Worse - when he let slip from behind his mask some of the programs he would cut which are important to me and which make for a civil society - I became frightened. And when he claimed health care was best left to the profit based private sector I became terrified (this from me, a profit based small business owner who's read Atlas Shrugged four times).
As is his style, Obama hesitates and gi
ves thought to what he is going to say before speaking. This is a great style for a chief executive and a diplomat but a poor style for a televised political debate - thus making him come off as muted. Moreover, Obama missed most opportunities to fire off extremely important points that he should have made, and I was disappointed.
Both deviated little from their talking points (Please - they both touted their remarkably similar "5-step" plans for the economy. 5 Steps? Come on - that's basic speechwriting 101).
At least with Obama we got to see the real person there - flaws and all - and I liked that. With Romney I felt like all I got was a facade - a flashy commercial promising nothing - and I found that a little scary.
In the end I felt I was left with having to choose between the frightening and the disappointing - neither acceptable options.
Donna Cherwinski
MY FRIEND Johnny Jackson, from Alabama, where my husband comes from, summed it up best. Thanks Johnny.........
Anthony Parchini See what you want, hear what you want, you get the representation you deserve. Pleased Romney doesn't mimic the use of foul tongue heard and seen here on FB as you are surely aware.
Donna Cherwinski
ReplyDeleteMY FRIEND Johnny Jackson, from Alabama, where my husband comes from, summed it up best. Thanks Johnny......
Johnny Jackson
All my pasty white boy friends can give the debate to Romney all you want to. I watched the re-play on CNN early this morning. It had +and - real time graph. All but the white male lines never got out of the - field for Romney. As another Repug said"There are not enough angry
white men to elect Romney." Latino's 85% in favor of Obama, Black Americans 100% for Obama, all women 65% Obama and single white women 85% Obama. Obama will win this election with 49% popular vote and 70% of Electoral Votes. You live in one of the RED states,go ahead and vote for Romney. Go ahead and vote 100% for Romney,it don't matter,all you can do is elect another obstructionist congress. The congress wont have the power this term because Obama will use the Executive Order more freely for the next 4 years.
Ed Bodnar I am glad I wasn't watching the same debate as you did. Because the debate I watched last night emphasized a persident so out of touch and so out of his league that he could not even mount a reply. Romeny wiped the tax-payer-funded floor with schmobama's socialism last night. Deny yourself that to your own detriment. the reason schmo looked so bad is bcuz he has nothing to fight back with, everything about his presidency has been HISTORICALLY terrible for our country. And we haven't even received his biggest gift to us yet! Iam not a Romney fan at all, but after last night he even won me over. I am a huge Paul Ryan fan, and after hearing Romney and seeing how successful he has been in business, and Ryan being known by both sides as being a policy wonk on debt, deficits, and economics, I am so freaking encouraged today I CAN BARELY STAND MYSELF!
Ed Bodnar Foul tongued? What does that even mean? Not hearing or reading what you want? Having somebody fervently spit facts and ideas and options at you that you do not agree with or see as false? Here is some foul tongued comments for you. I HATE dickbama! He is the WORST thing that has ever happened to our country, and I am not even talking about him personally or politcially, but what and who he represents. Everything he represents is in complete opposition to everything I love, know, feel, and believe of this country's greatness. If we don't turn it around now we are done. Schmobama is a small figurehead symptom of what ails our country, but ridding ourselves of it will start us on a path of better health. If watching schmobama last night really made you like him, all I can say about that is . . . . .WOW!
Anthony Parchini Good points about subjects touched upon, Romney and Obama both rehashed that which had been said before. As far as clarity, depth and truth, that remains to be evaluated, then lived by us all after the election.
Anthony Parchini One debate does not define. Quick and superficial analogies are self serving and only fail the test of time.
Anthony Parchini http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/4/expanding_the_debate_exclusive_third_party_
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