Romney outlines “tough” foreign policy approach
To date, Mitt Romney’s critique of the Obama foreign policy has been a case study of bluster over content, without specifics, although the presence of men such as John Bolton, the shoot-first former U.N. ambassador, as influential members of his foreign policy team ought to give Americans serious pause.
In fact, if we are to judge him from the tone of his rhetoric and by those whose counsel he seeks — and that’s about all he has given us to go on — Romney proposes to pick up where Dick Cheney left off in 2004, when a chastened President Bush belatedly took back control of foreign policy from his over-adventurous vice president.
I note that in his speech today at the Virginia Military Institute (text available here), Romney blamed the Obama administration for differences of opinion that have erupted between the United States and Israel.
“The world must never see any daylight between our two nations,” Romney said.
However, I do not believe it is our responsibility alone to ensure that such daylight never occurs. Israeli leaders bear at least equal responsibility for keeping that important relationship on an even keel. We are certainly under no obligation to outsource our foreign policy in that region to Benjamin Netanyahu, as Romney seems to advocate.
(In fact, if forced to synthesize the Romney Doctrine to one sentence, I might offer this: The rest of the world will be required to abide by our wishes; we will be required to abide by Israel’s).
Romney also spoke, as he has in the past, of a foreign policy based on confidence, clarity and resolve. These are good and necessary things. Unfortunately, the man’s credibility in preaching these virtues is more than a little suspect. You may recall that earlier this year, as an uprising in Libya gained strength, Romney first supported U.S. intervention and then opposed intervention and then embraced it again once it had succeeded. At one point, he even fled reporters in Las Vegas rather than be forced to take a position on the crisis.
Likewise, he harshly criticized the goal of removing Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddhafi from power, then turned around celebrated once that goal was achieved.
That is not a policy based on resolve. Likewise, Romney’s outrageous claim that President Obama sympathized with those who attacked and killed our ambassador to Libya and three others — a statement issued on the very night of their deaths — communicated not mature confidence but hasty, amateurish desperation and an eagerness to inject partisan politics in foreign-policy decisions.
I am most curious about his policy toward Afghanistan. Here’s what Romney had to say:
“… in Afghanistan, I will pursue a real and successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. President Obama would have you believe that anyone who disagrees with his decisions in Afghanistan is arguing for endless war. But the route to more war — and to potential attacks here at home — is a politically timed retreat that abandons the Afghan people to the same extremists who ravaged their country and used it to launch the attacks of 9/11. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.”
Now, I would suggest that those are odd words from a man who just preached the necessity of clarity in foreign policy. Take a look again — do those words tell us anything about Romney’s approach to Afghanistan, or how it might differ in concrete terms from that undertaken by Obama?
Finally, Romney not only suggested that he would oppose any cuts in defense spending, he advocated what would appear to be a new military buildup. That is consistent with his pledge to commit a minimum of 4 percent of GDP to defense spending. By 2014, that would mean a $200-billion-a-year increase in spending over currently projected levels.
Given our financial situation, a 33 percent increase in projected defense spending at a time when we already spend more than the next 10 biggest military powers combined would not seem to be a wise investment. And again — although Romney continues to be painfully averse to specifics — in general the GOP candidate would seem pretty eager to put that larger military to regular use overseas.
– Jay Bookman
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RF
October 8th, 2012
8:49 pm
“The point was, until we can agree on what constitutes basic HUMAN rights in this country, we will never agree on what constitutes civil rights”
High five the woman!! She’s a smart one. Since we’ll never agree on the human rights, and the pointer is moving away from civil rights, I’d say we’re in for a LONG time waiting for any agreement.
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades
October 8th, 2012
8:49 pm
Why does Mr. Obama refuse to unseal his college transcripts?
This is not a “birther” thing.
If I apply for a job they want to see my transcripts. Duh…
What is Mr. Obama hiding?
This is a simple thing and certainly the voters ought to know how good a student he was in college.
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
8:50 pm
@Camel Spiders
How about I provide you the DIRECT LINK to the Fact Check article that addresses Obama’s “sealed” college records. Let us all know what you learned from it. By the way, it will debunk all the other BUNK conspiracy theories you knotheads like to throw around:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
Why in the hell does it matter how many times he attended class or whatever? We know he earned his degrees, just like many of these other losers who somehow seem to be able to pull it off, at lesser institutions I might add. Give it a rest! But we know what it’s all about – delegitimization. Heaven forbid the history stands that he was EVER POTUS.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
8:52 pm
“This is not a “birther” thing”
Yeah, it is.
“If I apply for a job they want to see my transcripts. Duh”
And did you ask for Obama’s when he was running 4 years ago?
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
8:52 pm
getalife,
Filky is Andy?!
Well damn.
Just damn.
That explains the stuck on pinko stupid!
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
8:53 pm
“High five the woman!! ”
Um, I had something better in mind. But I will pass along your accolade.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
8:54 pm
A labrador retriever would have a more sentient foreign policy…
Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama…
But you didn’t nominate either a Labrador retriever nor Elmer Fudd.
Too funny!
Mr Right
October 8th, 2012
8:54 pm
Paul Krugman says Romney lied! That’s downright funny coming from him!
USMale
October 8th, 2012
8:54 pm
We’re nuts in this country and a lot of us are bigots, but, for the most part, we’ve behaved a lot better than the people in Ireland (Catholic/Protestant), former Yugoslavia (Christian/Muslim), Spain (Basque/Spanish), Turkey (Armenians/Turks) or any of the dozens of Middle Eastern countries that may be killing their own citizens at the moment. We insult each other on blogs. Very civilized.
josef
October 8th, 2012
8:55 pm
JM
Bingo, and move to the head of the class…you should add prosecution for sexual assault of Indian women by those from off the rez and the failure to prosecute…
KRYSTAL
“First off, they are NATIVE AMERICANS!! “Indians” are from INDIA!”
The correct term is Indigenous American or First Nations. Secondly, 2/3 of those surveyed have no objection to the term Indian and over half actually prefer it.
“Secondly, casinos, reservations, “pow wows”, nor peacepipes”
There is no need to put quotes around pow wow. That is what these gatherings are called.
“that the whole Christopher-Columbus-”discovered”-America is a flat out LIEeeeeeeee.”
This is not an issue of much note. Neither are Elizabeth Warren’s cheekbones and the tomahawk chop.
” What.. are they supposed to be thankful they have casinos ”
Remember, your third person plural is another’s first person plural…and, yes, the buffalo’s back and there is good reason to be thankful for that…
“after their entire country was taken from them at the barrel of a gun and disease propagation?”
And what are the details of how that taking was and still is effected? And disease propagation? Well, the epidemics of VD that swept (and still sweep) through Africa, Europe and White America was the Noble Savage’s gift that keeps on giving!
“Gimme a break!”
I did. You took your stroll down the Trail of Crocodile Tears and I’m sure you feel much better.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
8:55 pm
This is not a “birther” thing.
Yeah, it is.
USMale
October 8th, 2012
8:55 pm
Camel spiders in my brain.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
8:56 pm
If I apply for a job they want to see my transcripts. Duh
Not sure which McDs you are applying at, but in my experience, NO potential employer has ever asked me for transcripts. They did ask my gpa or class rank in the first few years. After that, my experience matters. But then since you posted the “sealed” lie, we know that in birther world honesty never matters.
td
October 8th, 2012
8:56 pm
Pinko?
Fits perfectly the attitude and the demeanor. I like it.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
8:57 pm
I think electing the gop again to widen the wealth and income gap is heading in the wrong direction.
I think deregulating the banks again is begging for another collapse and heading in the wrong direction.
I think letting the neocons loose on foreign policy is heading in the wrong direction.
I think the cons don’t care about heading in the wrong direction as long as they get President Obama.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
8:57 pm
” but in my experience, NO potential employer has ever asked me for transcripts”
I’ve never been asked either.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
8:58 pm
Would a retriever have to ride on the roof of AF1?
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
8:58 pm
@josef
Your 8:55p shows you to be one IGNORANT m-f. Nothing else here to see,. Move on.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
8:59 pm
“Would a retriever have to ride on the roof of AF1?”
Nah, AF1 is deluxe. He’d ride in the cargo hold.
F. Sinkwich
October 8th, 2012
9:00 pm
“President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence “manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,” but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced.”
As the Mittster said, O’bozo sure can pick the losers!
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
9:00 pm
“Your 8:55p shows you to be one IGNORANT m-f. Nothing else here to see,. Move on”
Inelegantly put
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:01 pm
getalife, so who is td?
Man, this getting good!
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
9:02 pm
“Heaven forbid the history stands that he was EVER POTUS.”
I am sure there are some who would like to see his presidency wiped off the books.
I can totally dig that. I feel the same way about the shrub.
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:03 pm
Andy Reporter/Whiner Sinkwich.
The UGA puppy dog.
The pinko king.
I guess Jay felt sorry and let him back in.
TOO FUNNY!!
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:06 pm
USMale
Michael Donald – 1981
Matthew Shepard – 1998
James Byrd Jr – 1998
James Anderson – 2011
I think the jury’s still out as to our behavior vs the rest of the world. We won’t even get into the yearly death’s by gun violence and such.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:06 pm
Taxpayer:
Are you still jealous of that pension I “earned” at the risk of my life for 36 years?
By the way, I paid $16,565.00 in federal taxes for 2011. How about you ???
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:06 pm
My former employer asked for the degrees and corresponding schools and gpa’s–not transcripts.
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:07 pm
TAXI
According to one of the Cherokee stories of origin, “once we lived in a faraway land. It became overcroweded and brother began to fight brother over food. We left. We walked over ice and snow into a cold land where many of us perished from the cold and starvation. For many generations we wandered about as strangers among other peoples. The Cr-ator told us to continue to the south and when the great buzzard came and touched the earth with his wings, there would be our promised land. He did and gave us our beloved mountains as our home.”
Pretty much ties in with the modern story, eh?
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
9:07 pm
@Doggone
I gotta give you THAT one. That was pretty funny!
F. Sinkwich
October 8th, 2012
9:08 pm
Pinko? See Jammie, posts on Jay’s blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinko
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:08 pm
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades:
1) The libs. don’t want to know the truth (they’re afraid of it).
2) The mainstream media wouldn’t print it anyway (it’s known as political incest).
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades
October 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
Claims #1, 2 and 4, college records. Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.
OK — Where’s the “leak” on Obama’s grades?
Claim #3, thesis paper. Obama did write a paper on nuclear disarmament for an honors course in American foreign policy during his senior year, but it wasn’t the sort of “thesis” that some colleges require for graduation and keep on file in their libraries, like those that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama released. During the 2008 campaign, reporters were told that Columbia had not retained a copy of Obama’s 1983 paper, and that Obama didn’t have a copy, either. NBC News contacted his former professor, Michael Baron, who said he looked for his copy but couldn’t find it, and thought he probably tossed it out eight years earlier in a move.
NBC quoted Baron as saying the paper likely would have disappointed Obama’s critics. “The course was not a polemical course, it was a course in decision making and how decisions got made,” Baron told NBC. “None of the papers in the class were controversial.”
Claim #5, Selective Service registration. Obama’s Selective Service registration is public. A copy has been posted publicly, and the Selective Service confirmed that Obama registered for the draft on Sept. 4, 1980, and was given registration number 61-1125539-1.
Worth noting is that nobody in the U.S. has been drafted for military service since 1972, the year Obama turned 11. Obama, like other young men turning age 18 since then, was required to register on a standby basis, in case Congress ever resumes an active military draft. Failure to register is technically a crime, and disqualifies a man for federal student aid or from holding certain federal jobs.
OK — Do you really expect that he didn’t keep a copy of his thesis he would have worked on for countless hours of blood, sweat and his heart and soul? It’s amazing how all those folks just lost or discarded that document…. If it was Mitt”s you could find it on 5,000,000 google pages
He was president of The Harvard Law Review. Nobody can find one shred of his writings about anything….
Gee whiz…. Nuthin’ but nuthin for Dogg & Balls
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
KRYSTAL
@
How so?
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
in my experience, NO potential employer has ever asked me for transcripts.
My current employer asked for my transcripts. Then again, I applied for my specific position based upon my college education.
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
To my knowledge, the only person who ever looked at my college transcripts was my very first C.O. in the Air Force
He then slammed the folder closed and leaned across the desk and said, “OK son, let’s see if you can fly.”
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:10 pm
Scout,
I merely correct you whenever you make a silly claim about others being kept by better men when it is you whom is and has always been kept by the better men, the taxpayers. Without the taxpayers you would be nothing. As for me, I have more than I need. Whatever pittance you have is of no concern to me. Perhaps Mitt and Co. would be interested in whatever you may have of value though.
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:11 pm
BROSEPHUS
My current employer asked for mine, too.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:11 pm
My past employer asked for my transcripts (and everything else about me) !!!
WHY?
Because I needed a Top Secret Clearance.
……………. and the president has access to the highest levels of security information.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:13 pm
TaxPayers:
And the “taxpayers” are kept by people like us ………. thus the pension ………. a fair exchange.
And I ask again ……… how much did you pay last year ???
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:14 pm
Andy Sinkwich, you bad, bad little boy!
Sneaking around Jay’s pretending to be someone other than Reporter/Whiner!
I’m rather embarrassed that I didn’t pick yup on your unique brand of endless insanity and psychobabble.
But it sure makes perfect sense now!
getalife, I owe you several drinks…
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:15 pm
BROSEPHUS
The Olmecs? Sssshhh…that’s not Sharia acceptable by MAJOR historians!
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:16 pm
Trump-led birther idiots obsessing about college transcripts now?
I swear that these rubes walk around with a big KICK ME sign taped to their asses!
Ahem
October 8th, 2012
9:16 pm
Pretty bad lately for the incumbent POTUS. You know it; I know it; America knows it.
Moochelle (aka Chewbaca) knows it, too. Look for some knots on Oblunda’s head soon.
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:18 pm
ZamVet
Getalife owes you drinks? He knows a great little place up around Charenton!
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:19 pm
td is tulsa doom.
doomy, if you will.
Jm
October 8th, 2012
9:19 pm
Josef you annoyed a lot of libs with that statement
Thanks for the compliment
hiram
October 8th, 2012
9:20 pm
jamvet,
Who’s Andy? Is he a journalist? As for td, a 5 min. visit to the KJC library would yield his identity, but it’s not worth the effort to me.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:21 pm
josef,
That place is expensive
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:22 pm
The Olmecs? Sssshhh…that’s not Sharia acceptable by MAJOR historians!
I couldn’t help it. I wanted to see if he’d google them and read up on them. They were not European nor Asian. They were also in the America’s long before the Europeans “thought” that America existed.
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:23 pm
And I ask again ……… how much did you pay last year ???
Like Mitt, I too paid everything I was legally obligated to pay.
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
9:23 pm
Wow… I have given up much information, but have NEVER been asked for MY transcripts…and I held TS/BI for many years. Guess it depends on who you are.
Does beg the question though…is Obama the FIRST U.S. President that has ever required access to the “highest levels of security information”?? Not Bush Jr., Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon,….?? (I think you get the idea. Of course I got it a long time ago).
Guess you expect people on the blog will suffer from the Obama deer in the headlights on a first debate syndrome, don’t you? No dice!
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:24 pm
jonix, I owe him drinks for noting that Filky is none other than the beeotch-slapped from hell, Andy of Olde.
hiram, he guy got nuked, BIG time nuked for many months, by the host at the old unmoderated Luckovich forum and @squared, Dusty, Buy Danish and RW went friggin’ berserk. For years.
You should have seen him back then. Wow! He was the Charles Manson of AJC bloggers!
Good times…
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:25 pm
td
Which statement was that? As for the compliment, really none intended. You actually knew. Actually, Unmentionable said to tell YOU thank you…
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:26 pm
And the “taxpayers” are kept by people like us ………. thus the pension ………. a fair exchange.
Taxpayers have historically only kept Hessians on the payroll for as long as needed to wipe out an enemy. Afterward they too are dismissed.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
9:28 pm
And the “taxpayers” are kept by people like us ……….
What human trafficking is Senior Digits up to tonight?
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:28 pm
getalife
Yeah, but just think how good you can feel about being white!
ZamVet
I miss Andy…I don’t know if you remember when I first tuned in here, but I was still naive and took him seriously!
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades
October 8th, 2012
9:28 pm
Mychewbaccaapple bum —-
At least he wears $700 Louis Vuitton sneakers to a feed the hungry at a homeless shelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQIwEZlOzp4
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
I think four years as President trumps college records so they can give that a rest with his birth certificate.
Their credibility is buried deep in negative territory and doubt they will try to win back any.
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
jonix, yeah “Andy” and I came to have a rather uncomfortable truce. But he has his good points.
His evil cousin, Filky? I’m not so sure!
LOL!
OK, off for a late night of work.
Gonna stop at McWorm and get a large coffee for a dollar. Woo Hoo!
I’m loving this Obama Recovery from the Bush Depression!
Later, kids!
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
Where are y’all getting the scoop on bloggers from! td is TD? Sinkwich is Andy? Really.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:31 pm
TaxPayer:
“Taxpayers have historically only kept Hessians on the payroll for as long as needed to wipe out an enemy. Afterward they too are dismissed.”
And you thus show yourself for the person you are ………. letting others fight your battles.
Cowardly, unpatriotic and and typical of your kind.
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
9:32 pm
@Camel I normally don’t do this but….it’s necessary for this particular point.
“OK — Do you really expect that he didn’t keep a copy of his thesis he would have worked on for countless hours of blood, sweat and his heart and soul? It’s amazing how all those folks just lost or discarded that document…. If it was Mitt”s you could find it on 5,000,000 google pages”
You know.. I decided to call you on your byllshpit and see if I really COULD get Mitt Romney’s thesis to pop up in 5 MILLION google pages. Hell, I wanted to see if it would show up in 5 million POSTINGS! I lowered the bar even further and hoped to get it to show up in even the first PAGE of a google search! I am having a bit of trouble. Can you assist? I’ll be waiting.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:33 pm
Keep.
I saw scout over at the Huffington Post and told him he was on the wrong blog.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:33 pm
Excuse me:
“Cowardly, unpatriotic and typical of your kind.”
Ahem
October 8th, 2012
9:36 pm
Looking forward to the Biden/Ryan debate; it could work to Ryan’s advantage to skip the debate personally, and instead substitute an “Eastwood” ladder back. Biden still loses and Ryan doesn’t waste his time.
Seriously though, I predict Biden will overcompensate for Obama’s failed debate performance and then come on too strong and look like an old guy trying to bully and outsmart the “young whippersnapper”. Biden loses. Saturday Night Live writers must be salivating at the prospect of Biden offering up some great material, though.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
9:36 pm
And you thus show yourself for the person you are ………. letting others fight your battles.
Cowardly, unpatriotic and and typical of your kind.
Someone is drinking the internet testosterone by the gallon tonight. Must have missed the warning about “overindulgence can cause extreme blog stupidity.”
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:37 pm
And you thus show yourself for the person you are ………. letting others fight your battles.
Cowardly, unpatriotic and and typical of your kind.
I was just emulating your typical Republican that you suck up to, scout. You know the types–Dick Cheney and Tricky Dick, for example. Enjoy your trickle down. Coward.
I see I brought out the best in you quite easily. 
josef
October 8th, 2012
9:37 pm
ZamVet
Of a Friday night Andy did post me some good songs…
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:38 pm
Tax,
He slipped up and used his favorite word “pinko”.
td admitted starting a rush limblob fan club at Kennesaw college but just guessing by his initials.
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:39 pm
And you thus show yourself for the person you are ………. letting others fight your battles.
And as I have reminded you on numerous occassions, scout, you have never, ever fought a battle for me.
td
October 8th, 2012
9:40 pm
Obama is now loosing and the libs are getting nasty. Predictable and it is going to get worse. Jay may have to shut his blog down if Obama gets smashed again by Romney in another debate.
Wilbur
October 8th, 2012
9:41 pm
When the history is written Iraq will be an ill advised war that the US won while the Afghan War will be the war that Obama lost.
This will become more important in the next ten years or so when the Taliban are back in power and hosting more terrorists again because Obama is a rookie.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:41 pm
scout,
What are you doing at the HP?
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
9:41 pm
@getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:19 pm
td is tulsa doom.
doomy, if you will.
————————————————————————————————————————————
If that’s the case, then the irony of td assuming the alter ego of a character played by James Earl Jones is rich indeed.
I don’t agree with most of what Thulsa Doom says, but his arguments are generally well reasoned beyond that which I typically see in td’s comments.
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades
October 8th, 2012
9:42 pm
— FORWARD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M3DLGP4UKQ&list=FL01Q_BKgIhwBmUNEZOgj2AQ&index=6&feature=plpp_video
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:45 pm
td,
Nah, he will leave it open unlike Kyle’s blog.
Ahem
October 8th, 2012
9:46 pm
PEW POLL: Mitt Romney Storms Into The Lead Over Obama
In a shocking one-month swing, Mitt Romney stormed into the lead over President Barack Obama in a new Pew Research poll conducted after Romney’s consensus victory in the first presidential debate.
The poll finds a 11-point swing among likely voters. In Pew’s last poll, conducted in the middle of September, Obama led Romney 51-43 among likely voters. Now, Romney leads 49-46.
…Romney also saw significant gains among women. Last month, women preferred Obama by an astounding 18 points. Now, they are equally split between both candidates at 47 percent apiece.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
9:46 pm
Obama is now loosing and the libs are getting nasty. Predictable and it is going to get worse. Jay may have to shut his blog down if Obama gets smashed again by Romney in another debate.
whatever your fantasy, we know reality and facts are not your thing…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
9:48 pm
I saw scout over at the Huffington Post and told him he was on the wrong blog
You must have left a breadcrumb trail, he found his way back none the wiser.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
9:48 pm
Kyle can’t trust his regulars not to crap all over the place and it’s why he has to shut it down at night.
Kyle’s is the children’s table.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:51 pm
Look,
doomy gets long winded so you are probably right. I stopped reading his comments after the first week because I have read the gop talking points thousands of time.
Ahem
October 8th, 2012
9:52 pm
Battleground Poll: Romney Up 16 with Independents, Up 13 In Enthusiasm
Though the media hasn’t yet decided it’s time for a Romney Comeback Narrative, and probably never will, even if he wins — there’s no question Romney is rebounding in every national and swing state poll.
Nationally, Gallup has it all tied up among registered voters — with the president dangerously below 50 at 47%. Rasmussen uses the more reliable likely voter screen and has Romney up 49-47%.
In the Real Clear Politics poll of polls, nationally Romney is only down .09%. A week ago he was down over 4 points.
In Ohio, according to RCP’s poll of polls, Obama’s Ohio lead has shrunk to three — Virginia has Obama only up by 0.3. Florida and Colorado are tied.
The good news for Romney is that we are now seeing polls from each of these states with the GOP nominee in the lead. The bad news for Obama is that in most of these swing state polls, he is not hitting 50.
Well, actually the worst news for Obama is 85% of the calls made for this new Battleground Poll were made prior to Obama humiliating himself in last week’s debate.</b<
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
9:52 pm
Camel Spiders Found In Florida Everglades
October 8th, 2012
8:49 pm
Why does Mr. Obama refuse to unseal his college transcripts?
This is not a “birther” thing.
If I apply for a job they want to see my transcripts. Duh…
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Liar. No one EVER wants to see your transcripts. They may want to see your DEGREE but your official transcripts? If you aren’t lying tell me how much it cost you the last time to have the college send your official transcript to your perspective employer and how long it took the University to do so.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:52 pm
Last week, the polls were biased. Now that Romney’s showing a lead or tied, they are the gospel truth.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
9:53 pm
Keep,
He used his digits in his name so I knew it was him.
I guess he is not talking to me again.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
9:53 pm
Birthers, and jobbers and skewers — oh my!
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
9:55 pm
Paul is the only one capable of shutting down Jay’s blog.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:55 pm
Fred
If spiderman is applying for a federal job that requires a degree, then he probably has to produce his transcripts. At least that was my case. Out of the numerous companies I worked for in the private sector, not a single one asked for transcripts.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:56 pm
Paul is the only one capable of shutting down Jay’s blog.
Yep!!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
9:57 pm
British rugby league player Paul Wood has lost a testicle after a collision during the English sport’s showpiece final at Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
9:57 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 8th, 2012
9:11 pm
My past employer asked for my transcripts (and everything else about me) !!!
WHY?
Because I needed a Top Secret Clearance.
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And there is another lie. If they want to grant you a top secret clearance, they get your social security number and some other info and then the FBI digs into your past. They don’t ask you for squat.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
9:58 pm
Paul is the only one capable of shutting down Jay’s blog.
Someone shut down the blog during Jay’s fishing trip this year and I don’t believe Paul had anything to do with it.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
9:58 pm
Brocephus: You had to pay to get YOUR college to send a sealed transcript to the Border Patrol, (or whjatever branch you work for?) Wow things have changed………….
TaxPayer
October 8th, 2012
10:03 pm
Someone shut down the blog during Jay’s fishing trip this year and I don’t believe Paul had anything to do with it.
Uh Oh. Someone dared to challenge Paul. This calls for a showdown. A blog cage match.
td
October 8th, 2012
10:06 pm
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
9:52 pm
Last week, the polls were biased. Now that Romney’s showing a lead or tied, they are the gospel truth.
They are still biased and over sample Dems and use 2008 turnout numbers so this makes this news even more WOW.
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
10:08 pm
@Fred
As one who has more than one federal government contract, none of the bidding processes required me to submit transcripts. I did complete a Gideon Bible’s worth of paperwork and I know the FBI and more than one other agency thoroughly checked everything out. This was for both SCI and SAP clearances.
josef
October 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
KRYSTAL
A message to you from Unmentionable…
A-s-de-la a-ya!
THE REST OF Y’ALL
A good night…tomorrow promises to be a, well, MOST interesting day…
Jm
October 8th, 2012
10:11 pm
I think Romney s making a mistake haggling with Obama over foreign policy
98% of America could care less
Domestic policy rules
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
10:12 pm
@td
“They are still biased and over sample Dems and use 2008 turnout numbers…”
Citation please?
Krystal'sBalls
October 8th, 2012
10:17 pm
@CAMEL… CAMel,..CAmel…Camell. camellll….
It’s like I’m in a cave or something! LMAO!