An unprepared, unfocused Obama pays the price
Remember the classic nightmare in which you show up unprepared for a test in a class that you completely forgot you had?
That’s what Barack Obama looked like last night. From the opening question, he came off as unprepared, unsteady and almost uninterested in the task at hand. He found himself on defense throughout the debate, and when opportunities arose, he failed to recognize them.
As I noted last night during the live blog, Obama seemed overconfident coming in, as if he had underestimated both his opponent and the occasion. By the end of the evening, overconfidence should no longer have been a problem. As CNN noted, 67 percent of those polled who had watched the debate declared Mitt Romney the victor.
“No presidential candidate has topped 60 percent in that question since it was first asked in 1984,” CNN polling director Keating Holland pointed out.
And a good part of that was caused by Mitt Romney. He came in hungry, needing a win, and it showed in his focus and preparation. He got the better of almost every exchange, in part because at some point in his debate prep he decided to finally make the transition from “severely conservative” GOP primary candidate to general-election candidate.
The new Romney endorsed regulation of business. He dismissed tax cuts as an economic policy. He embraced his own Massachusetts health-care plan. He talked of compromise and working together. A surprised Obama wasn’t ready to handle this latest Romney incarnation and repeatedly failed to tie the moderate, genial GOP candidate on that stage in Denver to the GOP candidate on the campaign trail.
Will the outcome of this debate, the first of three between Obama and Romney, create a ripple in the polls? It almost certainly will. I doubt it will cost Obama his lead, but it should shrink it and introduce doubt in many minds that had not previously doubted. Romney had the night that he needed to keep his funders happy and his base engaged.
The next debate, covering foreign and domestic policy in a townhall forum, will be Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in New York. I suspect that they’ll be scrambling at the White House this morning to clear more time from the president’s calendar for prep work between now and then. He can’t afford a repeat of what happened last night in Denver.
– Jay Bookman
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independent thinker
October 4th, 2012
3:09 pm
So Romney never heard of any tax benefits for American Companies that ship jobs overseas. Pure BS!
Obama detailed in his state of the union address that he wants to lower US corporate tax rates from 35% by taxing the overseas operations of US companies that are not currently taxed. One study found this loophole creates an effective corporate tax rate of 2.5%. Mitt should know- why does he and Bain have companies in the Cayman Island??????????
Orin Hatch and the Republicans have used the same BS argument as Romneys’ to block any change to the tax code that eliminates loopholes for outsourcinjg:.
“”"”"”"”"”"”"Speaking on the House floor, Hatch said it was “misleading” for Democrats to say there is a tax break for outsourcing. Holding up a large book, Hatch said the Democrats were trying to invent controversy.
Congressional analysts at the Joint Committee on Taxation say $14 million could be raised next year from removing outsourcing credits, compared to a cost of $21 million for bringing those jobs back. Hatch points out the relatively low sum has already been passed in Obama campaign ads on the issue.”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"
See Huffington Post
The sheep will believe anything Mitt says.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:09 pm
Doing weed can make you unfocused and unprepared too……..
Jm
October 4th, 2012
3:09 pm
Getalife
Which Obama will the new Romney be debating?
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:10 pm
To much Nanny Pelosi and Hairy Weed can make you unfocused and unprepared too …….
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:10 pm
A Tat,
Kam likes everybody including you.
I like you A Tat
td
October 4th, 2012
3:10 pm
Even MSNBC is now making fun of Al Gores reason why Obama did not do well.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:11 pm
The thesauras didn’t survive long enough to see the Cretaceous Period. It went extinct in the Jurrasic Period
After humans started riding them to work! I learned that a bible camp in KY.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:12 pm
jm,
There is only one consistent President Obama.
He will not change positions in a debate like the new romney.
Sagegirl
October 4th, 2012
3:12 pm
I found this in my email today. A telling tale.
Mr. Romney:
I have watched as you campaigned around the country saying that you understand the pain that its citizens are in today. I believe that’s a lie because you’ll never understand. It’s not in your DNA.
My mother retired after working for 25 years making auto tires. She received her small retirement of $285 per month for her hard work and dedication; an amount so small you wouldn’t scoff at it, but it was hers, (she would not have received that if not for belonging to a union). Too young for social security, she went to work as a Walmart greeter, for minimum wage of course, the only thing she could find at her age. When her knees finally gave out she applied for SSI at the age of 62. With combined incomes she received just under $1200 a month. Over the years, due to the increasing cost of medical coverage her retirement has been reduced. She now receives $125 in retirement, thus her total income is just below $1100 a month. Out of that, she pays auto, home, and life insurance, electric, phone, and cable bills, property and car taxes, mail-order prescriptions, buys gas for her car, and hopes nothing breaks because she can’t afford to call a repairman. Groceries are frugal so she applied for EBT assistance. She was told that she makes too much money, but she did qualify for $16 a month due to being over 65. That $16 will buy a gallon of milk and a cheap loaf of bread for the month or put a little meat in her freezer. She gets to choose.
My uncle was in the Korean War. He was the only survivor when his company was attacked. He was somehow overlooked and he watched as all the other men were shot, stabbed, choked, had their throats slit or were bludgeoned to death. He was eventually honorably discharged, but the army never acknowledged his PTSD. He had nightmares for years, breaking out in cold sweats, never forgetting what his friends, the look in their eyes or what they went through as they breathed their last breath. He spent his life suffering with the memory of that day and went to the VA for medical services, as he could not hold down a job. Years later they did acknowledge the PTSD and he received $1700 a month for his service and he found a facility that would take care of him, but that was short lived as was his medical care and he went into a nursing home, all due to his mental illness. At that point, the VA would no longer pay for his care and Medicaid stepped in, but only after he gave any money he had accumulated away. He lived out the remainder of his life in a low grade nursing facility with minimal staff and care, where he died a slow, agonizing death, because no one cared enough to find out what happened to the man back in Korea.
Would you chose to send your sons into a conflict? We know the answer to that.
My sister and her husband are both self-employed. He recently had a heart attack and now has a pre-existing condition. The cost of their insurance premium per month rose from $600 to $1900. They are torn. They don’t know what they can afford… their house note or insurance. Again, someone has to choose.
My neighbor worked for 20 years as a sales rep. He was diagnosed with colon cancer 2 years ago. His insurance through his job paid him a disability of 60% of his pay. Out of that he must pay his insurance premiums. He has gone through his savings, his 401k, and now his employer has the right to let him go since he has been gone for 24 months on medical leave. He can get Cobra, but only if he can afford it. That’s estimated to cost $600 a month. He doesn’t qualify for Medicaid since he has a home and his wife works or Medicare since he is too young. She makes a paltry $30 thousand a year, not enough to cover the Cobra. They can barely pay the bills and are beginning to think that he was worth more dead than alive. If they let the house go, can they make it? He stills has much more to go through as the cancer has spread again. Too many questions, and not any answers.
Listening to my friends and relatives, watching the suffering that they are going through, I’ve come to the conclusion that all this came from the top down. There are too many corporations lining their pockets off the sweat and fear and tears of the everyday person; people who are struggling, literally, to survive. I have zero confidence in you to do anything but continue to take part in your own shenanigans. Even as you wander across the country spreading your lies, you are still a corporate raider. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. Corporations are raiding the American people and laughing at us at the same time and you all think no one notices. You are wrong. Wrong to think that we are stupid or naïve. We see you. And you, Mitt, do not belong anywhere near Pennsylvania Ave.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:12 pm
Unfocused and unprepared: criteria for being Obama’s V.P. evidently.
Jm
October 4th, 2012
3:13 pm
“Knocked it out of the park.”
The new coke charged, TelePrompTer assisted, democrat candidate reappears. I wonder what he will be like tomorrow.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:14 pm
History has been made today in the boxing world, as featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz has come out as a “proud gay man.”
Well that certainly should stop some of the stereotyping slurs used in this blog, right?
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:14 pm
S. girl – now just who has time to read all that tripe?
southpaw
October 4th, 2012
3:15 pm
“I’m not the one making the judgement call, but apparently you are with your reference to “talk trash.”” Are you kidding? I didn’t even see that post way back when. No way I’m going to make a judgment call on it.
“Where did I ever claim I was forced?” Nowhere at all. Why bother with the unpleasantries then?
Jm
October 4th, 2012
3:15 pm
“Kam likes everybody including you.”
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 4th, 2012
3:15 pm
southpaw — “The thesauras didn’t survive long enough to see the Cretaceous Period. It went extinct in the Jurrasic Period.”
Lulz
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:15 pm
jm,
Just telling the truth and sticking with his positions is the one and only President Obama.
Lord Help Us
October 4th, 2012
3:16 pm
By the time the foreign policy debate rolls around, Romney will claim that he was the SEAL that bagged OBL…
By the time the domestic issues debate rolls around, Romney will offer to personally drive illegal immigrants to America and help them apply for entitlements…Perhaps he will also endorse Planned Parenthood…
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:18 pm
GETALIFE
Who is listening to what obama says today after the asswhippin he took last evening? He could probably take GATECH coaches speech after allowing MTSU to score 49 points..
He’s great at knocking it out of the park when he has prepared speech or teleprompter…he better improve extemporaneously quickly…
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:18 pm
No one cares about a featherweight boxer’s sexual preference……. Jay’s topic is About Obama being unfocused and unprepared for his debate. Oh I don’t know if I agree with that at all. That’s Obama being Obama.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
Sagegirl,
Thank you.
I agree.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN
-rearrange letters-
MY ULTIMATE AYN RAND PORN
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
27 myths in 38 minutes according to the Center for American Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/
I think a closer look is indicated.
In the Left corner - President Obama
October 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
Not since Jimmy Carter faced Ronald Reagan has the U.S. presidency been so embarrassingly represented in public. Actually, that’s an insult to Jimmy Carter.
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
SAGEGIRL,
Suggest you try to keep message to a fraction of what you posted…my experience suggests others have the attention span of a fly…myself included.
AUfan
October 4th, 2012
3:21 pm
It was the Gish Gallop……………..look it up
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 4th, 2012
3:21 pm
Are you kidding? I didn’t even see that post way back when.
Not talking about “way back when” I’m talking about today.
southpaw
October 4th, 2012
2:50 pm
[...] Kamchak’s reply to A TAT suggests he’d rather talk trash.
Apparently you saw fit to label it “trash” today, sport.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:21 pm
stevie ray,
I listen to him and the new romney.
Looking forward to the newer more liberal romney.
I think the newer romney positions will be to the left of our President’s positions.
It is funny watching “true cons” cheering him on.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:23 pm
Lord Help Us, will Romney become pregnant and have an abortion. No wait he doesn’t support abortion so he has to have the baby but he will do it with a wand up his…. wait, I’m confused, what is today’s position on abortion?
Lord Help Us
October 4th, 2012
3:24 pm
‘myself included.’
Sorry SR, I glazed over your wordy post…can you please abbreviate?
Sagegirl
October 4th, 2012
3:24 pm
stevie ray…clowns and jokers
Yes, I know. And I usually do, but there was no way to link it and this seemed rather important.
Humor me this once.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:25 pm
Morality: No one cares about ….
And who said you speak for all? Was there an election at clown college?
td
October 4th, 2012
3:25 pm
“More than 58 million people watched the first Presidential debate last night between President Obama and Mitt Romney, up substantially from the first debate in the 2008 election cycle, which had 52.4 million viewers.
Fox News was the most-watched cable news network during the debate, and will likely be the most-watched network on TV, though final broadcast numbers will not be released until after 4 PM.
Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, Fox and CBS are all up from the same debate in 2008, while CNN and ABC are down. In the adults 25-54 demo, FNC and MSNBC are up compared to 2008, while CNN is down.
The 58 million figure (and the 52.4 million figure) does not include coverage on PBS, Univision, C-SPAN, the cable business networks or online.
The numbers:
From 9-10:30 PM
Cable:
FNC: 10,421,380 total viewers, 2,932,907 adults 25-54
CNN: 6,045,109 total viewers, 2,368,589 adults 25-54
MSNBC: 4,710,511 total viewers, 1,852,629 adults 25-54
Broadcast (based on Nielsen Fast Nationals, which could change in finals):
CBS 10,176,000 total viewers
ABC 10,117,000 total viewers
NBC 9,914,000 total viewers
FOX 6,977,000 total viewers
From 8-11 PM, which includes pre- and post-debate analysis:
FNC: 8,181,448 total viewers, 2,159,809 adults 25-54
CNN: 4,763,003 total viewers, 1,851,207 adults 25-54
MSNBC: 3,913,759 total viewers, 1,481,901 adults 25-54″
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/debate-ratings-fox-news-tops-cable-news-for-first-debate-as-more-people-tune-in-than-2008_b148739
Most of the MSNBC viewers in the post debate were conservatives watching to see whose head exploded first.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:25 pm
I know the core of the newer romney’s campaign is still a lie.
He can’t get the gop to vote to help the middle class. He can’t change the gop.
They will vote to lower taxes for the wealthy and no regulations for the banks to give us another collapse.
How does that help the middle class?
That will end them.
stands for decibels
October 4th, 2012
3:27 pm
If Obama’s Gallup rolling-average number had dropped by 4 points, I suspect we might’ve heard about it here.
However, for what it’s worth, ahem…
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx
Not that I put too much stock in this, but if this holds up to be a weekly average, he’ll be bumping up against the Gipper’s numbers at this point in his first term.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:27 pm
Lord Help Us – Driving illegals to America and putting them on entitlements and endorsing Planned Parenthood…… I am going to try to help you here.with your confusion…. because this is part of Obama’s platform and not Romney’s. Does that clear things up for you? Claiming he is a Navy Seal … no – that would be Al Gore, the inventor of the internet and the genius that figured out that the altitude caused Obama’s poor performance in the debate. Do we have enough evidence yet to get Al committed?
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:27 pm
Granny, I read that earlier. Great article and the follow up
And now, the Romney campaign itself is walking back the GOP presidential candidate’s claim
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:28 pm
td,
How many changed the channel after five minutes?
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2012
3:28 pm
“that would be Al Gore, the inventor of the internet ”
Never let a good lie die
Lord Help Us
October 4th, 2012
3:29 pm
‘… I am going to try to help you here.with your confusion…. because this is part of Obama’s platform and not Romney’s’
Apparently, the lobotomy removed someone’s sense of humor…
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:29 pm
GRANNY,
I don’t think anyone can dispute FACT CHECK on the blizzard of statments last evening.
It just doesn’t matter much as the vast majority of voters don’t waste as much time as we do drilling into this stuff…Lies, like many told in 2008 by BO, sell the masses..
southpaw
October 4th, 2012
3:29 pm
Kamchak –
This may be hard to believe, but I did see my post at 2:50. The one I didn’t see was the one from A TAT’s previous moniker addressed to you. In other words, the one you had in mind at 2:27.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:30 pm
You mean the new romney is going back to the old romney.
To quote Jim Wooten, “My head spins”.
Geez.
Rightwing Troll
October 4th, 2012
3:30 pm
“that would be Al Gore, the inventor of the internet ”
Well… George W Bush certainly had nothing to do with the invention of the “internets”…
They BOTH suck
October 4th, 2012
3:31 pm
td
Unless you have stock in the company that own Foz, all that means what?
Fox has been the number # 1 in cable ratings for numerous years, but it doesn’t translate into Republicans winning every election.
You think you won something by posting that information.
Ivan
October 4th, 2012
3:31 pm
“High-School Teacher Threatens To Assault Student For Wearing Romney T-Shirt, Likens It To KKK Sheet.”
Democrats are real tough when it comes to threatening children.
Regnad Kcin
October 4th, 2012
3:32 pm
On InTrade, since the debate, Mitt’s spiked to $3.16 (to win $10.00). For people who put their money where their mouth is, it looks like Obama’s still better than a 2-1 shot…
They BOTH suck
October 4th, 2012
3:32 pm
Fox, not Foz
Excuse me
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
“Democrats are real tough when it comes to threatening children”
You are WAY, WAY late with that one. You really should make more of an effort to keep up.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
Clown College is in D.C. and the Dorm is located in the White House……. Obama and Biden were Honor Graduates.
josef
October 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
Folks always be carping about how Big Daddy don’t never say nothin bad about Obama…well, he left this one up all day. Lazy b*stid got other folks doin his dirty work for him…
The “debate?” I didn’t bother. 1200 posts on it? I didn’t bother.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
Lies, like many told in 2008 by BO, sell the masses..
False equivalencies aside…… what is horrifying is the number of posters here who cannot admit the truth and blogivate the lies as fact.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:33 pm
Sagegirl,
You are free to post as much as you want on this blog.
In the Left corner - President Obama
October 4th, 2012
3:34 pm
Crazy Uncle Joe had better bring a serious lunchbox and Dan Quayle with him.
At least the MSM can show Quacky Bird Dude instead of the Train Wreck who’s currently one heartbeat away from the Presidency….
Paul Ryan is gonna make Joe Biden cry onstage and hand over his cookies.
WE NOW RETURN TO THE REGULAR BLOGGERS —- Thank you for the interruption.
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:34 pm
LORD HELP US
The invention of the lobotomy is a very interesting topic in fact…the pre-frontal lobe which controls prospective thinking (developed after cro-magna period…remember the flat foreheads?) This type of thinking, prospective, is what differentiates us from all other animal species..and is what makes people nuts…the guy who won the Nobel prize in the 20’s for inventing this procedure, realized if you cut out this part of brain…life would procede in an in-your-shoes fashion…just saying:-)
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2012
3:34 pm
“The “debate?” I didn’t bother”
I tuned in 3 times during commercials on another station. Got Obama each time. Took less than 30 seconds (90 seconds total) to realize he blew it.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:35 pm
josef,
It was very interesting. I think it was the first time a candidate changed his positions in a debate.
Ivan
October 4th, 2012
3:36 pm
“You are WAY, WAY late with that one. You really should make more of an effort to keep up.”
Don’t be jealous that I have much more going on during the day than to sit on a blog constantly hitting the refresh button…. =)
lynne
October 4th, 2012
3:36 pm
Maybe President Obama realizes how much money and fame he will have as an ex-pres. Maybe he and Mrs. O are looking forward to a great life as world leaders. With his girls ages perhaps we saw a man who just doesn’t want it anymore. He is on to the next chapter of a great life.
josef
October 4th, 2012
3:36 pm
SAGE GIRL
Funny thing…yours was the only post I read…interesting, it was…
JKL2
October 4th, 2012
3:36 pm
Soldier Mom- Now undecided’s pretty much know what Obama has said because he hasn’t changed his stance in the four years he has been our President
Actually he has changed. He was starting to slice so he moved his left foot forward a little bit. The extra time he’s been spending on the driving range is really paying off.
If you were talking about politics, your right. He still has no plan and is just as clueless today as when he took office four years ago.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:36 pm
BTW josef,
I saw Lewis in the Lincoln movie trailer and it looked great.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:37 pm
My condolences on your botched surgery. Maybe you can get a brain transplant on Obama Care.
Paul
October 4th, 2012
3:37 pm
independent thinker 3:09
“So Romney never heard of any tax benefits for American Companies that ship jobs overseas. Pure BS!”
Except that’s not what the topic was in the debate.
What Pres Obama said in the debate was “And part of the way to do it is to not give tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas.
Right now, you can actually take a deduction for moving a plant overseas. I think most Americans would say that doesn’t make sense. And all that raises revenue. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/2012-presidential-debate-president-obama-and-mitt-romneys-remarks-in-denver-on-oct-3-running-transcript/2012/10/03/24d6eb6e-0d91-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story_4.html
A deduction is a benefit but not all benefits are deductions.
Which Romney addressed in his rebuttal when he stated “The second topic, which is you said you get a deduction for taking a plant overseas. ”
The President should have said “receive a tax benefit” if he wanted to pin Romney down. He didn’t, so Romney addressed precisely what Obama alleged.
Rightwing Troll
October 4th, 2012
3:38 pm
“My sister and her husband are both self-employed. He recently had a heart attack and now has a pre-existing condition. The cost of their insurance premium per month rose from $600 to $1900. They are torn. They don’t know what they can afford… their house note or insurance. Again, someone has to choose.”
That’s an easy choice there, they need to choose the house note because the healthcare is free via the ER. And Mittens and his ilks wish to keep that way.
Mick
October 4th, 2012
3:38 pm
stevie
Overstate much? That was no azz whuppin by any measure, just a hyped up challenger saying anything and everything but his well oiled words will be his eventual undoing…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 4th, 2012
3:39 pm
stevie ray…clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:29 pm
GRANNY,
I don’t think anyone can dispute FACT CHECK on the blizzard of statments last evening.
It just doesn’t matter much as the vast majority of voters don’t waste as much time as we do drilling into this stuff…Lies, like many told in 2008 by BO, sell the masses..
.
.
.
.
I think more highly of the masses than you.
We shall see.
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:39 pm
INTHELEFT,
While the debate awaits, I couldn’t agree more that the odds of Biden getting flustered immediately initiating endless stammering (aka Obama last evening)and making idiotic statments are significant…Who knows, perhaps Biden has been sandbagging all this time and will baffle with brilliance..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 4th, 2012
3:40 pm
Kamchak –
This may be hard to believe, but I did see my post at 2:50. The one I didn’t see was the one from A TAT’s previous moniker addressed to you. In other words, the one you had in mind at 2:27.
This may be hard to believe, but I knew all of that when you decided to butt in to a situation that has been going on longer than you’ve been here.
In other words, by labeling my post (a repetition of one that was directed at me) “trash”, you also labeled the original one “trash.”
Joe Hussein Mama
October 4th, 2012
3:40 pm
getalife — “To quote Jim Wooten, “My head spins”.
I always wanted to see that.
gm
October 4th, 2012
3:41 pm
Of course all of us under 65 want two rich guys to change medicare and give us vouchers thats worth $1900 when our bill could be 20,000 and tell us to fight the insurance companies.
Whats sad is you have poor, middle class whites who dont have money now and think Ryan and Mitt and the state will come up with the money for them, this group of right voters have to be the worst and dumbest of any of their generation.
alittlecommonsense
October 4th, 2012
3:41 pm
independent thinker – Here’s the real scoop on the tax break Obama is talking about. No partisan spin either way.
http://www.ntu.org/governmentbytes/obamas-outsourcing-tax.html
There is no tax break for moving jobs overseas like Obama said. Yes, you can deduct any costs involved – just like you can deduct ANY business expense. Largely this is just playing on the confusion of most people who don’t understand how business deductions are different than personal deductions.
With Personal deductions, there are some very specific things that the government wants to incentivize that they will make deductable. With business deductions, pretty much whatever the business writes a check for is deductable as long as it is an expense in the normal course of doing business.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
“High-School Teacher Threatens To Assault Student For Wearing Romney T-Shirt, Likens It To KKK Sheet.”
At least the fifth time for that bit of drudgey spam.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
Ivan — “Don’t be jealous”
Don’t be presumptuous.
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
MICK,
Your own liberal pundits disagree with you..
GRANNY,
I’m not dissing those particular folks…they simply have no interest in politics and will believe whatever they hear and remember who had the upper hand…I think one of BO’s biggest blunders was getting defensive immediately and challenging the other guy with numbers and the like many can’t keep up with and don’t care to…
JKL2
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
getalife- I remember when blatantly lying was losing. I guess that changed.
Don’t blame me. You’re the one that elected obama.
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
Lets compare the old romney positions to the new romney positions and I think you will see he moved left. But now he is walking back the new romney to the old romney so I guess he never moved left and is still a con. My head spins. It is new and interesting that he “won” this debate,
Rightwing Troll
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
“Paul Ryan is gonna make Joe Biden cry onstage and hand over his cookies.”
No, that’s not gonna happen… I’m no JB fan, but I don’t think he’ll be on his heels like Obama was last night, and I actually like Ryan (not all of his ideas, but I admire the man…) but JB has a little more time in the arena than he has. Ryan isn’t going to be able to lean on his plans and all he’s championed for the last 2 years because his prospective boss put the kibosh on most of it last night, so he’s down to insults about hair plugs as ammo for the upcoming debate…
Obama is over
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
What we saw last night was Obama being confronted by the truth. He lost his grip because he was being challenged by direct questions and was not surrounded by his posse of sychophantic fools. Obama seemed shocked to even have his policies questioned. When not protected by the Alexrod teleprompter filter, Obama comes off as not having an informed opinion. Because he couldn’t blame Bush, make personal attacks, or play the race card, he was forced to defend his record. He was also given the opportunity to describe what a second Obama term would look like and failed. Bernake starting unlimited quantitative easing (and the danger of corresponding inflation) because of concerns over “labor market stagnation” is all you need to know about Obama’s domestic economic policy success. Obama offered no solutions on how he was going to address the problems facing the country. All we got were tired campaign slogans. Romney, on the other hand, was armed with specific data and systematically destroyed Obama’s current programs. The bottom line is that U6 for the 18 to 24 age group in the U.S. is 22%. Over 50% of the 4mm jobs Obama brags about creating have been minimum wage. In 2030, the employee to beneficiary ratio for Social Security will be 2 to 1. GDP growth at less than 2% will not create enough high paying jobs to support the current entitlement system. Obama’s singular success in office has been to create yet another entitlement. Only in Obamaland would insurance eligibility be celebrated as a victory because poverty rates are rising and more people are eligible for government subsidies. Government trickle down economics at its best.
Regnad Kcin
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
“Who knows, perhaps Biden has been sandbagging all this time and will baffle with brilliance..”
Biden is actually quite the engaging speaker, and has been doing this for a long time. If you ask the audiences who were present when he made his “gaffes”, I suspect they will tell you they had a positive reaction to him.
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 4th, 2012
3:43 pm
Kam, on top of it, the teacher indicated it was a “joke”…. we KNOW from this blog that makes it ok.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 4th, 2012
3:44 pm
“Morality” — “Maybe you can get a brain transplant on Obama Care.”
If not, there’s always one’a them thar fitty-dolla’ Romneycare abortions.
Tundra Dude
October 4th, 2012
3:44 pm
The next debate, covering foreign and domestic policy in a townhall forum, will be Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in New York.
Oh, good…on a Tuesday.
Couldn’t watch last nite, was busy at the casino (losing mine arse).
Whose bright idea was this…..town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization. ??
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:44 pm
Aint’ no man or woman alive that can alertly sit through a Joe Biden debate without some help. Try 40 bottles of 5 Hour Energy and a case of No Doz……. but not guaranteeing.
Rightwing Troll
October 4th, 2012
3:45 pm
Plus, if Obama loses, he’s off to a healthy retirement in Hawaii (on your dime), and a cushy life on the lecture circuit… JB’s just unemployed, with a decent pension… he’s gonna bring a gun to the gunfight.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 4th, 2012
3:45 pm
Keep
Did the teacher say:
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and declare victory while backing out the door?
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
Sagegirl-
It took until now for Axelrod to send that email out?
josef
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
getalife
It’s one of those that I’ve got to be in the right frame of mind for, but I am looking forward to it…the rest aside, Lewis is one of those I’d watch in a dog food commercial…
Simple Truths
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
I’m waiting for fresh sheets. Did Jay’s computer lock up after this last blog post?
andygrdzki
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
Why Obama should be President…..
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 367,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week’s figure was revised up to show 4,000 more applications than previously reported.
Now that is a record to run on……
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
GETALIFE,
All of your posts say the same thing generally…denial isn’t just a river in EGYPT..you should go with the jive on AMERICA LEFT today that suggests Obama intentionally performed poorly so to have ammo to obliterate Romney next time..you know like Muhammed Ali’s rope a dope?
In the Left corner - President Obama
October 4th, 2012
3:46 pm
ABC News – Kristina Wong
Feb 25, 2010 8:23pm
At the very end of the 7-hour bipartisan summit on health care reform today, President Obama made it very clear where this is headed.
“We cannot have another year-long debate about this,” he said, rejecting Republican calls to scrap the Democrats’ legislation. “So the question that I’m going to ask myself and I ask of all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month’s time or a few weeks’ time or six weeks’ time we could actually resolve something?”
“And if we can’t, then I think we’ve got to go ahead and make some decisions,” the president said, “and then that’s what elections are for.”
Concluded the president: “We have honest disagreements about — about the vision for the country and we’ll go ahead and test those out over the next several months till November. All right?”
On his walk back to the White House from the Blair House after the summit, the president was asked if the summit was a success.
“I thought it was a terrific discussion and we’ll see whether it made any difference in terms of people’s attitudes,” he said.
YUP !!!
Some Americans actually remember who said what and when.
A TAT
October 4th, 2012
3:47 pm
Mitt Romney looked a little uneasy firing Big Bird during Wednesday night’s presidential debate, said body language expert Chris Kowal.
“When he talked about Big Bird he looked down at his right and I suspect he was actually uncomfortable making that point,” Kowal said. “If you’re uncomfortable with something you don’t give great eye contact. You might look away.”
Kowal spent the night after the debate using a computer program to analyze the facial expressions of Romney and President Obama for clues about what they were really thinking during the one-on-one showdown.–ABCNews
For REAL?
Luv’d the last comment:
“If you’re uncomfortable with something you don’t give great eye contact. You might look away.”—-Is that why Obama kept looking down or did he have a hidden teleprompter there?–jonnie36
So what was with Obama’s hands? It’s as if he was trying to squash something.
First thing I saw on the AJC’s site this morning? “Justin Beiber throws up on stage”
I’m fairly certain…NO, make that ABSOLUTELY certain I DON’T CARE.
Rightwing Troll
October 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
“Who knows, perhaps Biden has been sandbagging all this time and will baffle with brilliance..
It worked for Mittens last night…
getalife
October 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
Joe,
Jim’s “my head spins” quote came after he read Mike Luckovich’s blog .
It cracked me up.
JKL2
October 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
joe mama- If you don’t understand me, then you should ask for clarification instead of presuming or instead of being a Richard about it. That would be the polite and adult thing to do
simplified translation: I got nothin’.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
stevie ray…clowns and jokers
October 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
MICK,
Your own liberal pundits disagree with you..
GRANNY,
I’m not dissing those particular folks…they simply have no interest in politics and will believe whatever they hear and remember who had the upper hand…I think one of BO’s biggest blunders was getting defensive immediately and challenging the other guy with numbers and the like many can’t keep up with and don’t care to…
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Again, I have greater faith in the masses than you.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 4th, 2012
3:49 pm
I’m waiting for fresh sheets.
Then:
1. Go outside.
2. Scream SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! 3 times
3. Turn around 3 times.
4. Then spit.
Morality?
October 4th, 2012
3:49 pm
Aborting a brain – guess it goes with the rest of the baby anyway – go ahead.. it’s legal under Obama Care.
Thulsa Doom
October 4th, 2012
3:49 pm
they both suck,
The irony of writing novels to joe mama? I’ll play along with him for a little while until I feel he’s been schooled a good bit. But when his essays get longer and longer it gets old pretty quick. Something I think is mentally wrong with this guy cause all he wants to do is argue with everybody. Its like he lives to blog battle every day. I just warn him a few times to make it shorter and keep it brief and like a petulant child he just keeps writing essays. Eventually I just tell him to get his last word in so that we can move along. Its like arguing with a child and in joe’s case you just eventually let him have his last word so that he will like he won something.