Romney did just fine, but a game-changer? No
Meh.
Mitt Romney did a competent job of presenting himself as a competent candidate Thursday night. He humanized himself, presenting a side of himself that most Americans had not seen, and he competently delivered the standard conservative critique of the perceived shortcomings of Barack Obama in largely positive, unthreatening tones.
He also didn’t keep the fact-checkers busy deep into the night, as his running mate Paul Ryan had the evening before, largely because his speech lacked details or specifics. That’s fine; he and his speechwriters had clearly decided to hit on big themes and to stress the candidate’s softer, more humane side, and again, they succeeded in doing so. But I’m doubtful that the American people came away wowed by the performance or by Romney himself.
The talk of the night, instead, focused on Clint Eastwood and his empty chair. They were clearly the weirdest tandem of the evening, which is saying something when Newt and Callista are also on the bill.
– Jay Bookman
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Jm
August 31st, 2012
8:15 am
Romney is awesome
America’s best hope for a real recovery
GT
August 31st, 2012
8:15 am
woops…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
8:17 am
Clint’s empty chair presentation was certainly strange. As someone noted: “The perfect representation: an old white man arguing with an imaginary image of a President about fake issues.”
bookman parrot
August 31st, 2012
8:17 am
I’m with you Jay. I want to mindlessly follow Barack to the land of third-world country and cradle to grave government. Where government intervenes in every aspect of life. So I have no responsibility for anything.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
8:17 am
When someone does a bad job, you just got to let ‘em go
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
8:18 am
If you ____________ more often you wouldn’t be so tense.
But would he be any less full of it, Granny.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
8:19 am
Again, all you ragin’ Cons– for a guy who wants the Commander-in-chief job, how many times did Mitt express his concern for our fighting soldiers in Afghanistan and our need to bring them home from that cesspool as soon as possible? And how much concern did Mitt show for our fellow Americans suffering along the Gulf coast this week? These are real concerns that Americans have, and we need to know what Mitt is ready to do help us all… thanks for the update!
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
8:19 am
“The perfect representation: an old white man arguing with an imaginary image of a President about fake issues.”
I think it was the perfect parody of the lily white GOP and what they have done since Obama took office.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:19 am
“When someone does a bad job, you just got to let ‘em go”
Sorry, you all are stuck with Romney, it’s too late to throw him out.
Buyer beware.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:20 am
Granny, I may______________more, but my wife reminds me of you, just say’n
Chris Sanchez
August 31st, 2012
8:20 am
The RNC put on a good convention, most speakers did a good job in their roles, and all of the typical pomp and circumstance was on display. We will see a different version of the same when the DNC convenes their convention. The tone of the RNC’s convention was one of a promise of a better future than we have seen in the last four years put on with all of the gloss that millions of dollars can buy.
What will the tone of the DNC convention be? They certainly cannot point to the prosperity under the current administration. They cannot point to the realized dream of greater unity in our country. They cannot point to much of anything in the way of accomplishments except the most unpopular law being shoved down the throats of Americans that I can recall in my lifetime. What they will do is try to scare the dickens out of seniors by saying the GOP will take away their entitlements. They will try to convince young people that the GOP doesn’t care about them. They will try to convince minorities that the GOP is for old white men only. Basically, the DNC will showcase division and fear with all of the gloss that millions of dollars can buy.
In other words, politics as usual. Here’s the catch: no matter how much spin the DNC and RNC try to put on things the simple truth is that most Americans are not better off than they were four years ago. In fact, most of us are in worse shape. People will remember this when they step into the voting booth in November. The American people are tired of excuses.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
8:20 am
jm
Still no specific plan from romney? Really? Just trust us and we’ll tell you after we are elected? By all accounts didn’t paul ryan make three big lies with no shame? Trust republicans? No friggin way!!!!
skydog
August 31st, 2012
8:21 am
The White House sent out a picture of O in his leather Oval Office chair and said, “This chair is taken”.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:22 am
Mick………………………..We’ve got to pass it to see what’s in it………………Those kind of specifics.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
8:22 am
Obama
Yesterday’s news
barking frog
August 31st, 2012
8:22 am
Granny Godzilla ____________.
Leaping Lizards.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
Mick
Still no specific plan from Obama?
After four years…..
Maybe you have read romney’s plan
Not my fault
It’s on his website
SBinf
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
“I thought Romney and Rubio did fine and the appeals to minorities were great to see also.”
Oh yeah, great appeals. The GOP will lose 80% of the minority vote because of GOP policies and beliefs. No amount of begging and pandering will change that.
Now, let’s cue the talk about how minorities are brainwashed to vote for the GOP, in three….two…one…go!
GT
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
Obama may not be Clinton but Clinton is working with Obama, where is Bush in all this. People know what Romney is doing is toxic. If he wins he will be a disaster, the world will be going to hell in a bucket and he is a horrible communicator, worse politician, and really is lead by the nose of God know who pulling his stiff strings.
Cons are being conned. By themselves
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
I was surprised to learn that Robme is at the top of the ticket. Cons and the lamestream media have been talkin bout nothing but Wonder Boy Ryan. Guess I was fooled.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
Same as us watching libs turning on Arthur Davis, Black Congressman from Alabama who has left the Democratic party because as he say’s ” He just can’t stomach it any more”.
Obviously, you don’t are clueless as well. I’m from Alabama, and I’d say he got pissed off after he didn’t get what he wanted in that run for governor. If Artur (check the spelling of his name) Davis was a true conservative, he would have stayed in Alabama instead of running to Virginia. The truth is, however, he saw what happened to his fellow Rep. Parker Griffith. Alabama conservatives don’t deal with fake conservatives who try to use the party to further their political careers. If you’re true, you’ll get the support. If not, you won’t get elected dogcatcher.
As to the Gay marriage thing, I am Black 24/7, so I’d gather that I live it just a wee bit more than you realize. Many Blacks have gay family members, and if you think they’re going to openly discriminate against their own family, then I have some beachfront property in Omaha next to Warren Buffet that I’ll sell you for the cheap.
You can ply that crap with somebody who don’t know better, but I am far more informed to fall for that BS.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:25 am
Romney is awesome.
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Awesomely cowardly and an unprincipled flip flopping, tax didgin, job outsourcing, corporate stooge of a socialize medicine liar, yes.
You were only in diapers at the time, but you would have been one of those rubes who believed Nixon when he talked about “peace with honor”.
I swear that you Republibots will believe ANYTHING…
zeke
August 31st, 2012
8:25 am
though mitt did a good job on the speech, if he had much to do with scripting the convention especially the last hour…..i think he dropped the ball big time. clint was pathetic and the speakers i saw did not unreservedly endorse mitt, but talked about themselves. no doubt he loves his family for sure and he is respected in his church and business, but not sure he really connects with middle america. just remember all his campaign tour gaffes. call be wonky but i would like to see more meat to his economic plans. repubs think this major recession was just a minor recession and could be turned around quickly. pretty myopic thinking.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:26 am
Mick, I’ll help you. The plan is simple. Get the frigging government out of the frigging way and let the 13 trillion dollars sitting off shore come back here and get the highest frigging corporate tax rate in the world lowered and get the place cranked back up. Next question
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 31st, 2012
8:26 am
Clint was really talking about the empty suit Flip Robme… A-CLOWNS…..
Mick
August 31st, 2012
8:26 am
ghost
Notice how the repub convention keep sloganeering about the great america of the past, one that they sucked the blood out of and nearly killed by sept 08! We will not forget! Now, obama has been obstructed from day one and they demand that he “fix it” poste haste because of their intinsigence he gets tagged as the failure. Got news for you all, if romney does get elected, who do you think they will be blaming for the next four years when their recycled ideas bring us full circle to 08???
Thomas
August 31st, 2012
8:26 am
You were only in diapers at the time
As you are now?
I guess this what you attract when you write a blog over your first cup of coffee. Very in depth analysis.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:27 am
Jack – “President Romney will give us good leadership.”
And it only took him running for 6 years for you to come to this conclusion?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:27 am
Reagans Ghost
How fortunate you are! Congrats!
barking frog
yep, ___________________
No leaping involved at my age.
bob
August 31st, 2012
8:27 am
Can Obama bring out so many people from his past that he helped on his own time and dime ? Romney can show us examples of real people he has helped, Obama hides his past relationships with the likes of Wright and Ayers.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
8:28 am
ghost
Yes, that really worked out so well with the previous president, right? As if it’s just that simple, oy vey!!!
SBinf
August 31st, 2012
8:28 am
“where is Bush in all this.”
Down at the ranch, clearing brush…
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 31st, 2012
8:29 am
Newt , Sanitarium, Clint, is that really the best the GOP can do?
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:30 am
BRo.s. That’s great. Get out of ATL every now and then and engage some not so Urban ilk.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 31st, 2012
8:30 am
Rob-Me speech was as motivational as geritol.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:32 am
Granny, maybe you and this frog fellow ought to hook up. You seem lonely without dragging “it” along on every post.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:32 am
Republican Convention 2012…
We are drunk off our asses and want the keys to the car back. We’re ok to drive. We almost totaled the car last time but didn’t, give us the keys back. We’ve only had one beer.
Aquagirl
August 31st, 2012
8:33 am
BRo.s. That’s great. Get out of ATL every now and then and engage some not so Urban ilk.
Once again the Goopers lecture the little folks on what they REALLY think. Real productive approach.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
8:33 am
Get out of ATL every now and then and engage some not so Urban ilk.
The closest I get to getting INTO the ATL is Hartsfield Intl. I reside and function comfortably outside of Atlanta. So, don’t be offended when I suggest you can take that sanctimonious bullsh*t and shove it far enough that it tickles your esophagus.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:34 am
The plan is a simpleton one from a simpleton for simpletons.
Talk in fifth grade generalities.
Problem fixed. (Ask Thomas!)
And as you cons hate and want to destroy the greatest government of we the people ever devised , I suggest that you plunk down the $75, buy a passport, (presuming your criminal pasts allow you to!) and head to a land much more to liking. A land of conservative utopia.
Air Iran is ready when you are.
larry
August 31st, 2012
8:34 am
Well, i didnt watch it , i had better things to watch, like watching football.
What is this about Clint Eastwood talking to a chair ? Has it gotten this low? To bring an actor out to talk to a chair ? Geeesh, talk about weird.
I guess it was an indication of what a Romney presidency will look like. A bunch of former Bush advisors talking to a chair.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:34 am
Mick, What about his first two years with the wind at his back and both houses? Bush holding him back from getting us out of debt and heading us for prosperity?
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
8:34 am
Also Cons — please explain how Mitt’s plan for America is different from W’s plan which brought such disaster upon all our heads for 8 years… thanks again for your input!
barking frog
August 31st, 2012
8:35 am
Reagan’s Ghost
a wisp of envy ?
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:36 am
yes frog. But I love granny. We just disagree about much
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:37 am
Again, if you thought Romney was so awesome, why did you allow him to twist in the wind for 6 years?
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
8:37 am
I agree with Jon Stewart this week who named his show “RNC… The Road to Jeb Bush 2016″!
Bwaaaaa!
jcinnga
August 31st, 2012
8:37 am
@ Chris Sanchez, August 31st, 2012, 8:20 am, Perfectly stated! As I keep hearing “Let’s see what the Democrats have to say at the DNC”, I remind myself that they have had the podium for the last four years. Actions (or lack there of) speak louder than words.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:37 am
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:32 am
Granny, maybe you and this frog fellow ought to hook up. You seem lonely without dragging “it” along on every post.
.
.
.
Can you get us Casper’s autograph?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:38 am
another shooting…..NJ
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
8:39 am
Jay says “Romney did a competent job”. I agree. That is more than I can say about Obama. Time to get the artificial president out of office and get a “competent” president in….. vote Romney.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:39 am
Has anyone else noticed that Obama took the Presiddency in his first run, and Romney has been trying for 6 years? I guess maybe the third time is the charm.
zeke
August 31st, 2012
8:39 am
reagans ghost, highest corporate nominal rate might be right, effective corporate tax not….go back to school
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
8:41 am
We Believe In America …….. vote Romney. As opposed to “We Believe in Europe”…… vote Obama.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:41 am
Morality – “Time to get the artificial president out of office and get a “competent” president in….. vote Romney.”
Where were you in 2007/2008? I’m sure Mitt could have used your help before McCain beat him and then lost to Obama.
larry
August 31st, 2012
8:42 am
From what i have read, the President was mentioned more than Romney was.
GT
August 31st, 2012
8:42 am
It is the movies that have the cons heads up their .. They relate everything to fiction. I am listening to Bob rant and rave about Wright and Ayers, a plot, an evil non USA born, angel of the devil, movie plot. Nuts live off this stuff. They go into movie theaters with red hair, or dress in military uniforms on Saturday errand day, buy guns and sit in front of their door all night waiting for Jack Nicholson to break through it with a pick ax. They even believe Clint Eastwood is real not a movie character. This is America a reality show what a bar we have set, and we wonder why we are in this mess. It is not the government it is us, look at your obese, uneducated, star wars self watching life go by looking for a life on a movie scene and relating everything to some fantasy. It is the drug of the 21 century for the dead enders and the Republican Party is feeding it to you as fast as you will eat it which is pretty fast.
jcinnga
August 31st, 2012
8:42 am
@ DannyX, August 31st, 2012. 8:32 am, the Kennedys won’t like that you speak about the late beloved Teddy in that manner.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:42 am
Goldie. Where do you think the money comes from that Obama mails out every month. Please don’t say we just print it. Tell me, who’s paying the bills? Do you think in you little liberal world it comes from a money tree? Really, do you understand ANYTHING about funding the government. Do you understand we BORROW 40 cents of every dollar Obama spends everyday. And please don’t talk about the wars. What was Bush suppose to do after 9/11. Shake his finger and say don’t do that again? Somebody had to pay….and we all did with dollars and emotion. If 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch, just tell me what HE would of done different. Do nothing?
Paul
August 31st, 2012
8:43 am
” But I’m doubtful that the American people came away wowed by the performance or by Romney himself. ”
I’m not sure they needed to be wowed. Republican faithful will vote for him, Democratic faithful won’t. What did independents want to see? If they could trust him to give his best regarding the economy. Was he a guy they felt they could live with. Is he a cold, stiff robot as Democrats have portrayed, or, in spite of his money, does he relate to his wife and kids and others as most people do?
I think a lot of peoples’ reactions are going to be ‘he’s not scary, he’s not a manipulator, he’s a bit formal, but heck, it looks like he could get the job done because the current guy’s still having a hard time.”
And that just may be all that was needed.
Kramer
August 31st, 2012
8:43 am
Romney did change the game Bookman. This election is all about Obama and his record which drives you liberals totally nuts. There is not a damn thing you can do to change his record, doctor his record, or improve his record. Using Obama’s own words, you are trying to put lipstick on a pig. Your base is secure. Problem is it is not excited and there will be less of you voting this time around. We elected our country’s first African-American President. Problem is he was not qualified and is in no way a leader. As Eastwood said, it is time for him to go now. Can’t wait for the debates.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:44 am
So let me see if I follow the logic of the Romney supporter. If a barrel of apples is empty, except for one apple, that is the best apple in the barrel, regardless of whether it’s rotten or not. Gotcha.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:44 am
Funny to read all of the rabid right wingers here who desperately wanted Ricky S, Ricky P, Michelle, Herman, Newt (All real conservatives. LOL) or ANYBODY but the effete socialist RINO from Taxachusetts! Now the equally spineless ODS gang act as if Mitt is and always was their severely conservative guy.
They should all open a weather vane store called, “Which Way is the Fraud Blowing?”
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:46 am
Reagens ghost – “If 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch, just tell me what HE would of done different”
Off hand, I’d say not attacking a sovereign nation that had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
8:46 am
Obama wants to expand the government and the role of the government’s involvement in our lives. Romney wants to expand jobs in the private sector and restore the economy. If you want more gub’ment vote Obama. If you want jobs and recovery of the economy in the private sector (America) vote Romney.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:46 am
“Tell me, who’s paying the bills?”
Why don’t you tell us Ghost? Who is paying for the 2 wars? Medicare Part D? The Bush tax cuts?
All things YES man Ryan voted for.
Go ahead, make my day, answer the question.
SwamiDave
August 31st, 2012
8:48 am
If liberals are talking about Clint Eastwood, Mitt’s speech worked.
-SD
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:48 am
Republicans keep asking what has Obama accomplished the past 3 and a half years.
What exactly have Republicans accomplished the past 10 years????
Besides wrecking the economy?
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:48 am
Reagans ghost – ““Tell me, who’s paying the bills?”
Why don’t you ask Paul Ryan, he’s the one who voted for most of the spending.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:48 am
I forgot….Sanctions. Working with Iran as they get closer everyday. Sanctions work when their people are suffering……And Iranian people have been suffering a long time…..and the Moo lah’s could care less about their people. They just want to destroy Jews….and don’t hide the fact.
EJ Moosa
August 31st, 2012
8:50 am
The game changer has already occurred. It’s the economic performance of the US over these last four years, and especially the last two, where we have had the Obama recovery.
People are asking what do the they get for four more years. More of this?
There’s nothing on the horizon to change things over the next 6 months, let alone four years.
What was Obama’s comment last evening? “No big ideas”.
I think he’s projecting.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:51 am
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-30-2012/rnc-2012—the-road-to-jeb-bush-2016—mitt-romney–a-human-who-built-that
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:52 am
Reagand ghost – “And Iranian people have been suffering a long time…..”
How is that possible after all the support we gave them during Iran-Contra?
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:52 am
“If liberals are talking about Clint Eastwood, Mitt’s speech worked.”
Ask people a week from now what Romney said in his acceptance speech and most people will draw a blank. “Er, ahh, well gosh, he said ‘America’ a lot!”
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
8:52 am
What was Bush suppose to do after 9/11. Shake his finger and say don’t do that again? Somebody had to pay….and we all did with dollars and emotion.
What is it with the outright lies being told. Is it because of the full moon? We didn’t pay with dollars and emotion. We borrowed money from China to wage wars without even putting the costs into the yearly budget plan. We didn’t use emotion very long either. Many people grew ambivalent towards Iraq and Afghanistan after a while. Even the previous administration focused more on Iraq than Afghanistan, even with the knowledge that the terrorists that actually attacked us trained in Afghanistan.
The bigger question should be why did we go after Iraq and Afghanistan in regards to 9/11 while not even questioning Saudi Arabia as to why most of the hijackers were traveling on Saudi Passports? Seems that a country would have an inkling of who is using their documents to travel. Seems that the US is pretty decent when it comes to tracking it’s own citizens who travel to countries of interest.
If 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch, just tell me what HE would of done different. Do nothing?
You don’t know, and all you can do is speculate. Obama has been more brawn than Bush when it comes to waging war. I don’t think Bush targeted or killed any Americans. I don’t think Bush authorized any raids into sovereign territories to capture and/or kill high level targets. Both presidents took the same oath to defend the Constitution, and I believe they have both done and authorized what they thought was necessary to fulfill that duty. Unlike your living persona, neither Bush nor Obama pulled personnel out of Iraq or Afghanistan after they were attacked. They’ve both left our military there to take names and kick ass, and they’re doing a damned good job at both.
kawasaki kid
August 31st, 2012
8:52 am
Mary Elizabeth, you would get MY vote if you were on any ballot I was marking!
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
8:53 am
Obama is our 1st “reality Show” President. Time to get rid of this artificial president and hire someone competent that has actually been successful in the private sector and understands that the gub’ment does not create jobs in the private sector but can create an atmosphere that can stand in the way of job creation. Jay said it “Obama is divisive and has divided this nation”. Obama is “The Great Divider”.. Time for America to elect a “Uniter”. United we stand divided we fall. Vote Romney.
Kramer
August 31st, 2012
8:53 am
Butch, get as cute as you want with your posts. Obama’s record trumps anything and everything you post. Lipstick on a pig, lipstick on a pig.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
8:54 am
If liberals are talking about Clint Eastwood, Mitt’s speech worked.
-SD
If Mitt gave a speech and people are talking about Eastwood, did Mitt really make a sound?
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
8:54 am
Spending. plenty of it. No leadership. No budget. No Jobs, $4 gas, no plan but to blame Bush. That dog won’t hunt anymore. 60-70% of Americans vote on the economy. It sucks. He’s toast.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:56 am
Americans have a choice
4 more years of a slow but steady recovery or
a return to the policies that caused the problem in the first place.
Remember, Romney campaign has said his would be
“Bush’s policies…on steroids”
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:56 am
Obama wants to expand the government and the role of the government’s involvement in our lives.
Like Ronald Reagan? You betcha!
We Believe In America …….. vote Romney.
Gotta love the endless fifth grade generalities and claptrap for simpletons…
b-troll
August 31st, 2012
8:57 am
the last 48 hours worth of vitriol from liberals may be indicative of something
at least: desperation to try and smother the reality that Romney is an incredibly good person, incredibly competent, and well prepared to be an excellent president that helps America become competitive again and grow jobs for the 24 million unemployed that Obama hasn’t helped
and possibly: a sense of despair at the quality of Romney, but I would count this blog as being indicative of anything larger than the backwater cesspool that it has become
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
8:57 am
Mary Elizabeth
August 31st, 2012
3:08 am
Did the DNC help you with your responses to the convention? Was this a cut and paste job?
But like Mitt said, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Also, Mitt said the best feelings you have about Obama was the day he was elected. Now if you are a liberal then you are not going to change but you could refrain from making a silk purse out of a pigs ear.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
“What was Bush suppose to do after 9/11.”
Better question.
What was Bush supposed to do BEFORE 9/11?
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
“Gotta love the endless fifth grade generalities and claptrap for simpletons…”
I loved this one by Morality?
“United we stand divided we fall. Vote Romney.”
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
It sucks.
Of course it does!!!
You and your Wall Street “pals” (LOL, like they would even spit on you!) crushed it.
This sucker could go down. ~George “He, Whose name Shall Never be Mentioned” Bush
Kramer
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
Brosephus, if people did not hear Romney they surely see Obama’s economy. Trust me, they heard Romney and they see Obama’s record. Enjoy the next 64 days. It is his last as President. Don’t worry though, he can still do a lot of liberal social damage in his time left before and after the election. Can’t wait to see who he pardons.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
Kramer – “Butch, get as cute as you want with your posts. Obama’s record trumps anything and everything you post. Lipstick on a pig, lipstick on a pig.”
True, but I have no dog in this fight. I don’t support Obama, and if you want to support a third string 6 year benchwarmer, have at it. As to the Obama plan vs. the Romney plan, I don’t really care. I’m retired, 90% of my investments are tied up in tax free shelters, and I’m not really interested in whether or not you get the money back on tour house or find a better job. So please, throw all the Obama and lioberal jabs you want at me. When the dust settles, I’ll be where I’ve always been. Just fine.
Skip
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
And baby Bush actually said of his big brother, “kept us safe”. So 911 never happened ?
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
8:58 am
“Which Way is the Fraud Blowing?”
LOL — JamVet you’re killing me again!
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 31st, 2012
8:59 am
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=160357612
for those who’d rather just read the thing.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
8:59 am
Reagans ghost – “Spending. plenty of it. ”
I had no idea that you were so angry at the Republican led Congress. My apologies.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:01 am
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY YES.
The entire republic is. You “forgot” (LOL!!!) that it was on the verge of a complete collapse!
The Bush Depression is at least somewhat under control now.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
9:01 am
Obama’s Afghanistan current policy: Hey guys, we’re leaving in 12 months. We’re done. Shoot us while you can. We’re sitting and not attacking and trying to win. Yes, we are in a combat zone, but we are just waiting. ” Mission accomplished”…… Get the F___ out of there TODAY if we aren’t spending every waking frigging minute with every bullet we have trying to kill bad guys.
Michael
August 31st, 2012
9:01 am
Remember how the Right Wingers threw Clint under the bus when he did the Super Bowl commercial, calling him a liberal. Now they have taken him back with open arms.
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August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
“Obama for President” campaign thread #214
b-troll
August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
Mary Elizabeth 3:08 – that was the worst, completely empty rebuttal I have ever read.
That said, it is better than what the liberals here usually conjure up.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
“You don’t know, and all you can do is speculate”
That is exactly what you have been doing all along. Just saying it at college level writing does not make it any less speculative. You and JamVet must live within yourselves.
Hmmmmmmm
August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
@ Jay
We all better PRAY that he is a game changer…. This country can’t handle much more ….