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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Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
Reagans ghost – “We’re sitting and not attacking and trying to win.”
After 11 years, please define “winning”.
b-troll
August 31st, 2012
9:02 am
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY YES.”
-Jamvet is on food stamps now. Yes, he’s better off.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:03 am
OK, let’s all admit that the Cons really had no choice but to try and hoist the least-crazy candidate of the primaries onto the American voters for November… very sad situation for the dingbat-crazy Repub Party!
“RNC — The Road to Jeb Bush 2016″! ~ Jon Stewart
Doggone/GA
August 31st, 2012
9:03 am
“Hey guys, we’re leaving in 12 months”
Just following the pull-out date that was negotiated by the Bush admin. I guess you didn’t know that.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:04 am
This is the meat of the matter:
Rubio: “Obama Trying Ideas People Came To America To Get Away From”
And I would add millions and millions of us in America want to stay away from.
Jeff
August 31st, 2012
9:04 am
This nation may be too far gone to fix, No longer are there just a spirited debate on differences, Now there is pure hatred between the two sides. If conservatives and Liberals looked different there would be shooting gone on all over I think. Our great nation is imploding from within.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
9:05 am
Goldie – “OK, let’s all admit that the Cons really had no choice but to try and hoist the least-crazy candidate of the primaries onto the American voters for November…”
I somewhat disagree. Jon Huntsman would have been hands down the better candidate, but apparently the GOP felt that since Mitt has been trying for so long, they should at least give him a shot at the brass ring.
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:05 am
Brain dead zombies for Obama can’t think for themselves so the need the gub’ment to think for them. That is what Obama believes. Two view points – Obama loves big gub’ment and Romney loves the U.S.A. The gub’ment is not America we citizens are America. There is a time when you hire someone to do a job and they fail due to incompetence that we have to let them go – time to fire Obama.
b-troll
August 31st, 2012
9:06 am
Jeff 9:04 – exploding debt does that.
Hmmmmmmm
August 31st, 2012
9:06 am
@b-troll
I must admit, very funny, but sad… Jamvet like many other bloggers here, have NO clue…
Taylor Wooten
August 31st, 2012
9:06 am
Let me guess. The Writer voted for Obama last time and is voting for him again.
Got to love these slanted Writers. Cant help themselves and obvious bias.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
9:06 am
JamVet
Something I thought about when Ryan was announced as Romney’s running mate was what their campaign swag would look like. If I were the one that was designing things, there was one design I would have stayed away from for obvious reasons. I don’t think Romney’s campaign people are quite as observant as me.
Check these two logos and notice the similarities….
http://telepics.net/uploads/pictures/big_images/Rolls-royce_Logo.jpg
and
http://www.partycrashertshirts.com/image/cache/data/shirts/219/0219-mitt-romney-paul-ryan-2012-t-shirt-logo-366×366.jpg
Taylor Wooten
August 31st, 2012
9:07 am
Insider sources tell me Obama will be kneeling in prayer towards Mecca…just before taking the stage in Charlotte.
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
9:07 am
The Daily Show was in prime form with that Mitt Romney, He built that piece. That was great.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Clint was correct when he declared that it’s “half-time in America”… Oh so true!
Obama/Biden 2012!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Jeff:
I hear you.
Unfortunately, our form of government is set up to allow the very freedoms we cherish to act as a catalyst for its own destruction.
Abandoning our core values only hastens the decline.
I personally hope and pray we can turn this around.
Taylor Wooten
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Poor Bookman…he’s a Penn State Graduate.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
“Jamvet like many other bloggers here, have NO clue…”
I for one would like you to fill us in!
How is Romney going to create 12 million jobs?
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Taylor Wooten – “Insider sources tell me Obama will be kneeling in prayer towards Mecca…just before taking the stage in Charlotte.”
Insider sources tell me that Romney is picking out the furniture for the new planet he will rule in the afterlife as lord and god.
Jilli
August 31st, 2012
9:08 am
Nelson wrote: “Clearly a man with business experience like Mitt is needed. ”
Need I remind you….GW Bush was also a businessman…we’re still paying for that mistake. Do you also think Herbert Hoover was a stellar president? There’s no historical correlation between business experience and a successful presidency. BTW, mr romney running mate has zero business experience – in fact, he’s spent his entire adult life working for the government. The US is not a corporation, and cannot be run like one.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
9:09 am
Taylor Wooten
August 31st, 2012
9:07 am
Insider sources tell me Obama will be kneeling in prayer towards Mecca…just before taking the stage in Charlotte.
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Otherism.
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:10 am
Granny – I take it you’ve never been a fan of Clint Eastwood? Yes he’s 82, give him a break. When you’re that age, you’ll probably babble on at times also. Oh, come to think of it, Jamvet and you have started babbling early in life. Have a nice day,mam!
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:10 am
JM, you would have to be one Grade A, Industrial strength dumb little twerp to tell this forum that you were better off four years ago under the Bush Collapse.
But knowing you…
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
9:10 am
And I would add millions and millions of us in America want to stay away from more of the same Bush/Republican failures as offered by Romney
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:11 am
JV – Let’s not get to personal here. You are losing it buddy. This election is about the failure of Obama with regards to the economy. It’s about promises Obama made but did not keep. It’s about priorities that Obama has already set for the future. None of his priorities he listed will turn around this economy. We don’t need 4 more years of going in the wrong direction. Our economy can’t survive 4 more years of Obama.
Doggone/GA
August 31st, 2012
9:11 am
“This nation may be too far gone to fix, No longer are there just a spirited debate on differences, Now there is pure hatred between the two sides”
You need to do some study on past elections, especially around the turn of the last century. Just because it’s worse than you can remember doesn’t mean it hasn’t been worse ever. There have been some really UGLY elections in our past.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:11 am
Butch Cassidy @ 9:05 — I do agree with you about Jon Huntsman, but the Cons game is to make their candidates fail one or more times during their primaries before they select The One For November.
And like Ann Romney has stated “It’s our turn now!”
Bwaaa — too hilarious!
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
9:12 am
Butch. I’m not in the military, but i know you can’t sit in a battle or war zone with an announced date of withdrawal with orders to protect yourself but not engage the enemy against a group of sand nats with guns who have nothing but time and who’s life’s goal is to kill the infidels ( Jews and Americans) and thank Allah everyday that they are sitting in our mist waiting to be killed.
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:12 am
Bro, the Comeback Team???????????????
Because they sure a shell ain’t the Dream Team!
Jeez, the losers are just throwing it in the face of George and Dick now!
TaxPayer
August 31st, 2012
9:13 am
How is Romney going to create 12 million jobs?
The same way he saved Detroit. By taking credit for Obama’s work.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:13 am
Rubio, was in over his head. Talking about gov’t, tell me one group of immigrants that got more asistance than cubans? They still get it to this day! Biggest group of hyprocites, largest medicare fraud in the US and they overwhelmingly vote republican. Rubio is a one termer…
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
… I’m not in the military…
Had priorities other than military service, did we Dick?
You armchair Webelos do crack me up, though.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
I hear Bain has relocated Romneys magic underwear plant to China.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
“There have been some really UGLY elections in our past.”
Between candidates yes, but I doubt this country as a whole as been this divided (including the Vietnam era) since the War Between the States.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
Interesting side note on how the RNC handles voting battles regarding rules– it predetermines them as evidence by the teleprompter. http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/gop-uses-teleprompter-to-count-votes.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
Kramer: Brosephus, if people did not hear Romney they surely see Obama’s economy.
Yep. The little bit of attempted bailing out that Obama tried was blocked at every opportunity by the Republicans who have decided it was more beneficial for party power to block things instead of thinking of the country and trying to be productive. Yep, people who aren’t easily swayed by bullsh*t will see right through it.
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Williebkind: That is exactly what you have been doing all along.
Show me where I speculated on what I posted. Has those things not happened? You don’t speculate actual facts. Then again, I know you’re allergic to fact so you probably wouldn’t recognize them if they ran you over a dozen times.
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
9:16 am
Am I better off than I was four years ago……..Well, I’ll have to admit I’m a little better off. Most of my worthless kin is now on welfare and food stamps and have quit asking me for money so much. So, A little better I’d say.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:16 am
“How is Romney going to create 12 million jobs?”
Remember, the Cons only “jobs plan” is war-mongering and nation-building… we have no evidence of anything else they have to offer America in the way of “jobs.”
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
9:17 am
I love when liberals squirm… You fruits are going absolutely banana’s over the fact of how competent Romney/Ryan seems. The thought of the debate not only infuriates you dimwits it’s driving ya’ll mad… The best thing for ya’ll to do is just stop thinking about it. Obama could have sex with a goat on national tv and you loons would still vote for him. So the left is certainly not a target of the GOP. It’s the Independents that are coming over in droves just as they did in 2010….
Hmmmmmmm
August 31st, 2012
9:17 am
@DannyX
Smaller Government, lower taxes creates opportunity… Fiscal responsibility will also help… Hey, for all the talk about the truth meter on Paul Ryan….. Well good grief… Put the truth meter on this President…. If Romney wins, at least we have a President who has Honor and Integrity. You may not agree with his politics or his business acumen, but apply the truth meter to Romney and Obama and make your choice… I don’t think it’s close.. IMHO, yours will probably be different.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:18 am
“Had priorities other than military service, did we Dick?”
As most Americans do now. Sad sign of the times.
“In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four (4) years. During the Vietnam era, 4.3% served in twelve (12) years. Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror. These are unbelievable statistics. Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse.” General David Petraeus
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:19 am
“Am I better off than I was four years ago…”
Bro — correct. My 401K has recovered all those $$ lost at the end of W’s regime and the stock market collapse. Thanks for reminding me how much better off I am today!
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
9:19 am
Wonder how the ex GM Bond holders feel about GM’s success? We know how the Unions feel. Hell, who wouldn’t want to be handed all that ” stolen” stock?
kimmer
August 31st, 2012
9:19 am
It is laughable for Jay Bookman to write a column that he seems to want to pass off as an impartial assessment of Mitt Romney’s speech when virtually everything he has written in the last year has been so ultra pro-obama/anti-republican that he can’t even stand up without lurching to the left. There was literally nothing Romney could have said or done that Jay would not have panned. By the same token I am going to predict now that Jay’s assessment of obama’s speech next week will be quite glowing.
To Mary Elizabeth about your comment regarding government jobs, Gov Romney did not say that they were not important but one thing is certain and that is there can be no government jobs without private sector jobs to pay for them!
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:19 am
Obama’s negative attack ads paid for by George Soros and endorsed by Obama portraying Romney as an evil man are a lie. Romney is a good man that has given millions to charity and helped previously failing businesses in the private sector survive. 80% of the failing companies he tried to turn around are still here in business today and hire thousands of workers. No one can be successful 100% of the time in turning around companies in or near bankruptcy. Romney is qualified to lead the turn around of the U.S. economy. Obama is not.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:21 am
I’m sure all you Cons who keep blabbering about “entitlements” are just furious with Your Party and its insistence that we continue to give away BILLION$ in entitlements to Big Oil Companies!
Hmmmmmmm
August 31st, 2012
9:23 am
@kimmer
Mary Elizabeth is lost in her elite liberal education… Something we commoners have little(education) of… We should just sit back and warm in the glow of her intelligence….
Reagans ghost
August 31st, 2012
9:23 am
Bookman’s Blog. It’s really fun. Dark and seedy, but fun.
Bill Orvis White
August 31st, 2012
9:23 am
The fact here is that the Romney-Ryan ticket scares liberals. With $5trillion in new ObamaDebt that accrued in less than three years, a multi-trillion dollar bogus health care plan that raided billions from the already-bogus Mediscare “program,” the honorable Gov. Romney and the honorable Rep. Ryan wish to do something about this mess. Their common sense plan will put this once-free nation on the path to sustainability. But, no, the liberals are coming out with their lies and socialistic agenda which are destroying us from within. It’s time to change management and have real business folks run government. Business folks know how to get rid of the elitists and replace them with experienced leaders WHO WILL cut gov’t spending and waste. I’m jazzed about the RNC and now it’s onward to victory. I’m praying King Hussein Obama is packing “his” bags right now with a forwarding address to Liberal Chicago. Over there, “he” can teach Marxism to “his” students at one of the elitist colleges up there and then, leave us the living heck alone.
Amen,
Bill
Jm
August 31st, 2012
9:23 am
Scout 9:18
I agree with the sentiment
But population growth has something to do with the shrinking number as well
I don’t think the military has had difficulty with recruitment, but please correct me if I’m wrong
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
9:24 am
Goldie, those aren’t entitlements…. they are just giving back money that the corporations have paid.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:24 am
Romney/ryan – talk is cheap, tell us again how you are going to create all those jobs? I mean really, the real estate collapse still has a ways to go before it corrects – no matter who is president…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
9:24 am
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:10 am
Granny – I take it you’ve never been a fan of Clint Eastwood? Yes he’s 82, give him a break. When you’re that age, you’ll probably babble on at times also. Oh, come to think of it, Jamvet and you have started babbling early in life. Have a nice day,mam!
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I have enjoyed some of his film work, that I won’t deny.
However, his age,unless he is ill, is no excuse for his creepiness.
Are you suggesting he is ill?
Are you suggesting the GOP knowingly but an ill man in that position on purpose?
Donovan
August 31st, 2012
9:26 am
JamVet @ 8:10…that grenade that went off near your head really did more damage than I thought I’d love to hear your interpretation of the movie, Bambi or Mary Poppins..
I must admit that Mr. Bookman found reason to give credit where credit was due. Mitt did a fine job. As a matter of fact, he hit a grand slam last night. Isn’t time we have a businessman for president?
Anyone who found fault with Mitt’s upbringing, business success, family values, and presidential look needs serious help or institutionalization.
Look out boys and girls. Look out Obama. When someone doesn’t do the job it’s time to let him go.
Mary Elizabeth
August 31st, 2012
9:27 am
I want to express my “thank you” to all those who have appreciated my analysis of Romney’s speech (and thinking) around 3:00 am. Romney seems like a good family man to me who has loved his wife, children, and mother and father. However, as I have mentioned before on this blog, I do not think that he has Obama’s vision of the type of leadership that Obama wants America to foster in this world.
(For those who may want to read further on this – I think Obama’s leadership style is more in keeping with the values that George Washington, the father of our nation, tried to emulate for leaders of our nation to assume into posterity. I hope that some readers will explore these thoughts, which I developed in my own blog, “Mary Elizabeth Sings,” December 26, 2010. See below for an excerpt from and link to that entry on my blog:
“Are we wise enough to know that America’s first president, George Washington, by his example of deliberately relinquishing power, was modeling for posterity the role he desired for America’s leaders to emulate in the future? Will America acknowledge that all in the world are inherently equal? Will America and Americans lead others in seizing this budding egalitarian world consciousness through the choices we make? If America can lead others into the coming new age, in this new direction, then she, like her first president, will become a great leader through her grace of spirit and wisdom, rather than simply through her power.”
http://maryelizabethsings.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/a-new-year-a-budding-world-consciousness/
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Carpet and air duct cleaners just called me, to say that they are on their way to my home. I must go. I hope all will have a good day, ahead.
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:27 am
“I hear Bain has relocated Romneys magic underwear plant to China.”
DannyX — you’re a hoot!
GT
August 31st, 2012
9:28 am
If Obama is not reelected it will be like Americans leaving Viet Nam. Helicopters lifting off with people hanging on till they tire and drop into the obese. People crawling like ants up security walls to not be left behind. Bush disappeared the last few months of his administration checking out the air in his mountain bike tires, modeling his tight riding uniform even wearing a cowboy outfit occasionally, while America burned. But this guy Romney is different? The whole party is run by a non elected mafia that runs anything moving in the Republican Party with money they have made off the party plowed back in to protect their investment. I keep thinking one good dose of these Chanys and Trumps would be enough but hell no, thank you sir and I will have another.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:28 am
Jm:
There is truth in what you say but the bottom line is that even most of our leaders now (both sides) are dearth of military experience.
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
9:28 am
I can’t wait to read Bookman’s tripe next week when he talks about how wonderful the dem convention is and how Obama is bringing us all together… I got a feeling they will trot out woman after woman demanding that the gubmint give them free birth control… Probably a few homosexuals to promote so called “marriage equality” to boot…. 100% different from what we heard form the GOP… It’s not what you can do to help yourself. It’s what the gubmint can do to keep you down….
Goldie
August 31st, 2012
9:29 am
Don’t we all hate the entitlements that the Cons Party gives away year after year???
Obama/Biden 2012!
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:29 am
Obama’s plan to create 12,000,000 new jobs? He considers the tripling of people on gub’ment disability to be jobs his gub’ment created. That’s his disconnected sense of logic. Obama has done so much to “create” jobs that we need him back in the private sector as soon as possible – like 4 years ago. Time for tough love – fire Obama.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 31st, 2012
9:29 am
Kimmer @ 9:19
Don’t forget, the is an “Obama for President” campaign website.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:30 am
**When someone doesn’t do the job it’s time to let him go.**
Before you hire someone new it’s always a good idea to check some references; like tax returns, bain capital years and what is the true story about their takeovers…yes, give me some truth, just like the truth is we are definitely way better off now than at the end of the previous guy’s term, whose name must not be mentioned at all costs…
Skip
August 31st, 2012
9:30 am
Bush was losing 850.000 jobs a month, Obama gaining 150.000 a month. Yup, better off now.
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
9:31 am
“Wonder how the ex GM Bond holders feel about GM’s success?”
Those with unsecured debt sold out long ago for pennies on the dollar, they were offered a much better deal but they bailed. Those with secured debt are doing fine.
Unsecured debt is a risk.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
9:31 am
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
9:15 am
Repeating the same old lines over and over does not make it a fact. It is closer to insanity.
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 31st, 2012
9:31 am
And this is why I left the party in 2005, and removed myself from the voting process completely….
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent on Thursday interviewed a Ryan-supporting Wisconsin businessman, who argued that the plant may have been unsalvageable, even with significant government support.
“This morning, I spoke to a leading business official in Janesville, Wisconsin, who was at the center of efforts to save the GM plant — one who supports Paul Ryan — and he offered a nuanced version of the history that strains simplistic interpretations,” Sargent reported. “The official, John Beckord, who heads the pro-business group Forward Janesville, makes two key points. First, that the market for the GM product in question collapsed much faster than anyone expected it would at the time of Obama’s speech. Second, that there is no telling whether the plant would have reopened, even if the economy had recovered faster.”
Joseph
August 31st, 2012
9:33 am
Morality?:
You are absolutely right. I know two people right now on disability because of stress. These people are some of the one’s no longer counted in unemployment stats… If the media would do its job and report accurately there would be no way Oblama could win..
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
9:33 am
so apparently the GOP was really going have a hologram of Reagan last night but thought it would take away from Mr. Romney’s speech.
so they got Clint instead?
wow, can that group run a campaign.
Blue in Red
August 31st, 2012
9:34 am
The Republican Party is as dead as their false idol Ronald Reagan. Good riddance.
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:35 am
Folks,(as Bill would say -you know the Fair and Balanced guy) Romney is going to create 12 million jobs by repairing roads, bridges, shovel-ready projects. HaHa!! Take that libbys! Seriously, that would be 250,000 per month for next 4 yrs, not an impossible task if the private section gets behind you!!
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:35 am
Samuel L. Jackson in Ebony Magazine….. “I didn’t vote for Obama ’cause of his G.D. plan. He ain’t got no GD plan to save America. I voted for Obama ’cause he’s black.” Samuel’s honesty warms my heart. Even he knows Obama ain’t got no G D plan to save America. Time to hire someone competent that can create the environment to turn this economy around. Time to hire the man with the resume for the job at hand. Time to hire Mitt Romney.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:36 am
Let’s not forget the republican house – where are the jobs mr. boehner? Thank you president obama for keeping us safe the past four years, no major attacke on US soil and for ordering the hit on bin laden – thank you very much!!!
DannyX
August 31st, 2012
9:36 am
“that would be 250,000 per month for next 4 yrs, not an impossible task if the private section gets behind you!!”
Another words that Romney promise is just another lie.
Romney/Lyin’ 2012
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 31st, 2012
9:37 am
Granny, the GOP is very remorseful that they did not have Regan stuffed and mounted on wheels for them to roll out. But Disney is very worried, if Mitt would win, they have to figure out how to make his robot in the Hall of Presidents look lifelike. Right now the robot would be too animated.
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:38 am
Remember all you fine Southern gentlemen, be as gracious and kind to Michelle Obama at the DNC as you have been to Ann Romney this week!
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:41 am
DannyX – How many lies(or to put it nicely misspokens) has Obama said? “You didn’t build that” will forever go down in history! Small businesses depise him and I hope that is the game changer! We will see.
independent thinker
August 31st, 2012
9:42 am
Topics taboo at the GOP convention:
1. Romneys’ offshor accounts and possible tax evasion;
2. Romney care
3.Unfunded Medicare Part D passed by the GOP and costing possibly over a trillion dollars in ten years
4. Medicare Advantage giving huge Medicare dollars to private insurers and free gym memberships passed by the GOP under Bush cut back by Obama;
5.Bain Capitala shipping jobs overseas right now as we speak in Freeport Illinois where they just closed a plant
6. Tax credits for companies that relocate overseas;
7.GOP fillibustering two bills to eleiminate that relocation tax credit;
8. the 38 anti-abortion bills passed by Aiken and Ryan;
9. Rubio and Ryan swearing allegiance to Grover Norquist
10. That 716 billion dollars Obama allegedly stole from Medicare being cost savings agreed by providers which the Affordable Care Act funnels pack into new Medicare benefits and covering unfunded Medicare part D
11. The ongoing mess Bush got us into in Afghanistan
12. Condi and Bush forcing Israel to turn over Gaza to Hamas and kick Israelis out of their homes
13. Obama going to Sderot and putting himself in harm’s way of Hamas missles in 2008 while Romeny only went to raise cash at a fundraiser in Jerusalem and some photo ops;
14. Our banking industry and Auto industry being rescued by Obama;
15. Worst terrorist attack on civilians ever under Bush and none under Obama and
16. socialist medical care in hospitals passed by Reagan being funded by individual mandates under Obama.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
9:43 am
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:36 am
You are right no attacks on Obama’s watch because Bush took care of that. Let’s have three cheers for Bush.
Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
9:44 am
independent thinker
August 31st, 2012
9:42 am
Wow, do you keep that list in your pocket?
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:47 am
Obama’s strangely distorted “logic”. One more person moved from the unemployment rolls to disability is one more gub’ment created job. Do you really believe the unemployment rate is “just” 9 %? The reality is that every person moved from unemployment to disability, etc. is one more name taken off the unemployment stats. Disability rolls have TRIPLED since Obama got in office. That’s Obama’s idea of gub’ment created “jobs”. Some need to be on disability but the regulations to get on disability under Obama have been so relaxed that all you need to do is hire a lawyer and get a crooked doctor to sign a paper and you will be accepted. Disability has become a scam for lawyers and doctors to get rich. Obama loves it.
A Wagging Tongue Bites Itself Dirty Harry
August 31st, 2012
9:47 am
@Williebkind
August 31st, 2012
9:44 am
independent thinker
August 31st, 2012
9:42 am
Wow, do you keep that list in your pocket?
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Thank you Independent Thinker.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
9:48 am
Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:38 am
Remember all you fine Southern gentlemen, be as gracious and kind to Michelle Obama at the DNC as you have been to Ann Romney this week!
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Oh my!
Did somebody call her fat? Or ugly? or un-American?
Jhunt163
August 31st, 2012
9:50 am
Eastwooding.
“Angry old white guy berating an invisible black boogey man.
Actually amazingly appropriate.
But creepy.”
Yeah because it is all about content of one’s character, some people see race in everything.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
9:52 am
Williebkind: Repeating the same old lines over and over does not make it a fact. It is closer to insanity.
And, if you actually had any proof, you would prove my insanity. However, as typical for you, you can’t even provide proof that water is wet. Here’s a chance for you WillieB, I’ll give you just a few things that I said. Either prove them wrong and prove my insanity, or fail to prove anything and prove your ignorance. You game for that?
#1 I don’t think Bush targeted or killed any Americans.
(remember Anwar Al-Alwaki?)
#2 I don’t think Bush authorized any raids into sovereign territories to capture and/or kill high level targets.
(remember Abbottabad, Pakistan?)
#3 Unlike your living persona (in reference to Reagan), 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.
(remember Beruit, Lebanon?)
Those three statements were pulled verbatim from my post at 8:52, and I challenge you to prove they are repeated lies and not fact. So, will we prove insanity or ignorance? The ball is in your court, Williebkind. What will you do?
A Wagging Tongue Bites Itself Dirty Harry
August 31st, 2012
9:53 am
@Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)
August 31st, 2012
9:38 am
Remember all you fine Southern gentlemen, be as gracious and kind to Michelle Obama at the DNC as you have been to Ann Romney this week!
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Fine Southern gentlemen?
RNC Rocks Strip Club Business in Tampa.
With the Republican National Convention in full swing, one business in particular seems to be booming, a certain gentleman’s club.
After sending his most attractive women to the RNC with the intention of getting word out about the strip club, the manager (whose identity has been kept private) said the club has been packed with SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN.
Cons are hypocrites.
Mick
August 31st, 2012
9:53 am
willie
Then by your logic, bush is responsible for this mess of an economy, let’s have some boo’s and hisses for that…of course you are ridiculous and it is more than probable that if al gore was president, 911 would not have happened…
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:53 am
Obama is the 1st ” Reality Show President”. Move him back to the private sector where he will fit in on “House Wives of D.C.” or he can be on that show where obese women try on wedding dresses. How about the one where little girls are abused by their mommies in beauty pageants. That’s the realm Obama Obama belongs in. We need a real president – not an artificial President- not a “Reality
Show President”. Not Obama.
Brosephus™
August 31st, 2012
9:54 am
Remember all you fine Southern gentlemen, be as gracious and kind to Michelle Obama at the DNC as you have been to Ann Romney this week!
The only attacks I’ve seen on Mrs. Obama has come from the Right. So, I think you need to ensure you broadcast that message to your fellow conservative posters….
Welcome to the Occupation
August 31st, 2012
9:55 am
Morning folks!
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
9:56 am
Anyone that truly desires to find a job in the private, especially new college graduates and those just out of high school should vote for someone that will create the atmosphere for the recovery of this economy…….. that would be R O M N E Y.
A Wagging Tongue Bites Itself Dirty Harry
August 31st, 2012
9:56 am
@Granny Godzilla – Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
9:48 am
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Remember all you fine Southern gentlemen, be as gracious?
How can they. They are hypocrites.
RNC Rocks Strip Club Business in Tampa.
With the Republican National Convention in full swing, one business in particular seems to be booming, a certain gentleman’s club.
After sending his most attractive women to the RNC with the intention of getting word out about the strip club, the manager (whose identity has been kept private) said the club has been packed with SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN.
Jm
August 31st, 2012
9:58 am
Jamvet I really could care less about responding to you and your ilk
That said: an honest personal appraisal of my personal situation would be: about the same
Not better
If I take on my fair share of the national debt into account I am worse off
Those are just the facts
Jm
August 31st, 2012
10:01 am
“politicians are employees of ours”
Amen, yep. Time to fire our current manager. Romney will do a better job.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
10:02 am
Jhunt163
August 31st, 2012
9:50 am
Eastwooding.
“Angry old white guy berating an invisible black boogey man.
Actually amazingly appropriate.
But creepy.”
Yeah because it is all about content of one’s character, some people see race in everything.
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They certainly do.
And that IS an issue of character.
Got Some?
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
10:03 am
Trying to explain how the economy works to a brain dead zombies for Obama is like trying to reason with the insane. Impossible. The Obama voters don’t consider being nearly $16,000,000,000,000 (trillion) in debt to be a problem. Why? Because they have no idea what a trillion is and don’t care as long as the gub’ment sends their check in the mail.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 31st, 2012
10:05 am
Going to the Friday fish boil at the Ilk Lodge?
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
10:06 am
Let me be the 1st to tell you that in the not to distant future, if you vote Obama, that check will still come in the mail but the bank won’t accept it due to insufficient funds. The Feds credit card is about to max out. Which means that you will have to go to work and the jobs that Obama created – good luck with that!
JamVet
August 31st, 2012
10:07 am
As a matter of fact, he hit a grand slam last night.
I can imagine. Too bad it was at that ballpark in Williamsport where the Little Leaguers play, huh? veteran hater.
Go serve the nation (in uniform, Cheneybot) or head off to Iran.
Either way, you might just grow up a tad…
Morality?
August 31st, 2012
10:08 am
Got no check from the Obama gub’ment and don’t need one….. see ‘ya.