Thursday, October 04, 2012
Maybe he had a fight with his wife
Cramps? or maybe Obama's strategy last night at the First Debate in Colorado was to keep his head down to make Romney look like he's picking on the black guy. By universal acclamation Romney won the debate and even Chris Matthews said he was excellent. Jeff Greenfield said Obama seemed clueless about the most basic political points and many feel Obama should have went after Romney on his 47% comments and Bain Capital. Oh I know what it was he was depressed about that Samuel Jackson video. The economy, taxes, job creation and education and Jim Lehrer as moderator, get the nachos out. I don't get why Savage keeps calling Lehrer a baggy-eyed Bolshevik and other conservatives like Michelle Malkin hate the guy but at any rate Rom was up-tempo, controlled the direction of the debate and was aggressive this according to the Today Show which I popped on this morning because truth be told I deliberately surfed right past the debate on most channels but even here some new Chinese digital station was covering it from Beijing so I got some snippets in English. OK so Romney didn't exactly speak as an arch-conservative and won't exactly win the hearts of the Ron Paulians, not even sure who they're voting for. He denied Obama's $5 trillion in tax cuts assertion and said there's a place for government in health care, that's not exactly hardcore libertarianism. Axelrod said Romney's was a strong performance but still a performance so that's one of them half-compliments. Look Obama has very strong base support whereas Rom is going for the 7% swing, he's a swinger and Obama's a baseman. O's weak performance won't affect his base of course, it was more embarrassment than abandonment. Clearly though when Chris Matthews no longer gets The Tingle in his left nut something's wrong:)
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Flat out... he was terrible...
ReplyDeleteTwo men debating themselves and the same statist policies. Egad....I have better things to do.
ReplyDeleteI hear it was an economic debate sans monetary policy. Epic fail.
ReplyDeleteRomney won hands down. Me and most pundits agree on that. Why?
ReplyDeleteI've heard that the thin air in Colorado was to blame. Romney has been there a week and was acclimated to it and NOMObama wasn't. More likely because NOMObama sucked! Mitt brought his best game with him, BHO did not!
I'm thinking that NOMObama has figured out what most of us knew already. Yes, he did "inherit" a bit of a mess, but just look at what either he or Mitt will "inherit" come January! That might be REALLY scaring him into losing on purpose!
Of course, I AM KIDDING, but wouldn't that show his real colors, a lazy, smooth talking, POS with no morality or scruples at all.
Poor Chris Matthews, no more tingle. HA HA HA HA!
Both of their policy positions are virtually indistinguishable. Thus, if Obama is immoral (he is) then so too is Romney.
ReplyDelete"Maybe he had a fight with his wife"?
ReplyDeleteIf he didn't, he surely had one after they got home. I could hear the Lamps being thrown from my window here in Alaska.
And don't forget to hug the Garbage man, or he'll get pissed off at you.
It would be a big mistake to say Romney has it in the bag after the debate. There are two more and I'm sure Obama's advisors are working overtime and you're gonna see a change in style in the next two. Does a whole election hinge on one debate? not in my book but the way the conservative pundits are gloating...I'd keep an even keel but with practically every liberal lambasting his performance I really have to check out Shaw's blog.
ReplyDeleteJack Welch, the former CEO of GE, stood by his tweet calling Friday's unemployment rate of 7.8 percent "unbelievable."
ReplyDelete"I have no idea where this number came from," he told Fox News. "I don't know what the right number is, but I'll tell you these numbers dont smell right when you think about where the economy is right now."
Following Friday's report that the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent, Welch wrote in a tweet: "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers."
Welch wasn't the only one offering conspiracy theories though; Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) wrote on his Facebook page that the unemployment rate fell below 8 percent through "manipulation of data" and CNBC personality Rick Santelli said "I told you they'd get it under 8 percent -- they did! You can let America decide how they got there!"
Here today gone tomorrow. Crafty editing Z. Now feign ignorance.
ReplyDeleteWell if you prefer to be called an asswipe and think it adds to the discussion...
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit it was a bit on the elitist side.
ReplyDeleteI have to commend the man, soap's strong free speech commitment would have me keep the remark. I like to think about it as wiping the crap off the rim of the bowl before the guests arrive but whatever.
ReplyDeleteSamuel Jackson is just like the rest of that long line of Liberal Hollywood a-holes who are total BS. artists and strictly Obama Kool-aid drinkers ..
ReplyDeleteBut nevertheless the progressive crowd dingbats eat it up.
Lets face it he's just like that bunch on “The View” .. full of lies, and who worship Obama and Moochie and who just eats up that luxurious life of being the First Lady of the World, living in the White House and Vacationing the globe on our dime. In fact it looked like the First Wookie was fighting to keep her job more than she wants her hubby to be re-elected. .
The team of liars Bill and Hill have nothing on the team Barrack and Moochie believe me.
But when you take away all the glitz and glamor of Moochie in her atrocious Party Dress, we find just another fraud posing as the nations Food Commissioner
Why is it that conservative commenters on this blog find it impossible to address the President and Mrs. Obama by their names?
ReplyDeleteDo they realize how much of a juvenile tone it gives to their remarks and how much it takes away from their general respectability when they can't offer respect themselves?
What have you got against calling her what she is.... the Moocher!
ReplyDelete"Michelle Obama is by far the most academically accomplished first lady in the U.S. She skipped second grade, graduated salutatorian at her magnet high school for gifted students, went to Princeton (graduating cum laude) and then Harvard Law School."
ReplyDeleteI just want you to realize how juvenile and disrespectful you sound when you do things like that, and how it completely destroys your credibility, because instead of people taking you seriously and listening to what you say, they dismiss you, because you sound like a whiny six year old.
ReplyDeleteThat's all.
If you have a point you'd like taken seriously by those who disagree with you, the best way to do that is to present it intelligently, maturely, and without things like name calling.
Of course, if you don't actually care about things like points, then I guess it's all moot.
BB-Idaho said...
ReplyDelete"Michelle Obama is by far the most academically accomplished first lady in the U.S. She skipped second grade, graduated salutatorian at her magnet high school for gifted students, went to Princeton (graduating cum laude) and then Harvard Law School."
That may all be very true and I never heard anyone in my party argue that at all.
The problem is that she is NOT the Queen of this Country, and she was not elected to any post in this Country, so she should stop acting as is she were.
Everyone enjoys to go on expensive vacations as well as trips all over the world, and stay in the finest Hotels., But Air Force One is not her private taxi .The rest of the country is suffering through the longest recession we have ever seen and we don’t appreciate seeing her spending our money as if it were hers.
Have you done any comparisons between Michelle Obama and previous First Ladies?
ReplyDeleteI haven't, but I do know that Laura Bush went to Africa no less than 8 times (on the taxpayers' dime) and brought her daughters with her.
I think that if you do some research you'll find that there's no difference between Michelle Obama and any other First Lady.
I'm sorry if that upsets you.
I know all that I need to know about Michelle Obama and comparing Laura Bush to Michelle Obama is like comparing Gold to Garbage
ReplyDeleteAfraid to do the research?
ReplyDeleteI know. It's so much easier to just believe whatever you want to. It's SUCH a downer when facts conflict with beliefs.. it's better to ignore the facts altogether.
Being a president's wife is hard...
ReplyDelete"Responding to stories about her clothes and high style that depicted her as "Queen Nancy" during the recession, Nancy Reagan and her aides worked to repair her image." ..sound familiar?
Oh so now it's blame Nancy time, you people are a riot .
ReplyDeleteSaty: "If you have a point you'd like taken seriously by those who disagree with you the best way to do that is to present it intelligently, maturely and without things like name calling."
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't work either. Having said that you should still be civil, it's a virtue but as to your point I intelligently and maturely disagree.
It‘s worth mentioning that as of this very moment, Big Bird is still alive and Ambassador Stevens and his 3 staffers are Still Dead......
ReplyDeleteTo kind of illustrate my point Saty do you honestly think if I'm the height of civility and maturity and intelligence that I can make you of the pro-life set and conversely if you do the same I can be made into a socialist? Civility and the things you like don't have this power. Civility usually doesn't influence and it's vastly overrated in this regard. It's simply a virtue like making sure you leave the restroom in good shape for the next person, that is all.
ReplyDeleteYeah Redneck everyone feels they're entitled to public funds these days from Planned Parenthood to Big Bird. This really needs to be examined.
ReplyDeleteIt may not change my mind but at least I won't completely ignore it and I'll accept that you're very serious about your point.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, though, you will never change my mind about abortion. Abortion needs to be legal.
RE: 'everyone feels they're entitled to public funds these days from Planned Parenthood to Big Bird. This really needs to be examined.' Oh, we're taking action, all right....
ReplyDelete"The Tea Party Congress, having, with Paul Ryan’s leadership, deeply cut funds for embassy security, held a hearing on Wednesday on the circumstances of the attack on Sept. 11, 2012, on the US consulate in Benghazi, in which it tried to point fingers at the State Department and the Obama administration.
That’s right, the Republicans cut funds for embassy security, and now are blaming the State Department for laxity."
-Juan Cole, Professor, U of Mich
[critical thinking cap on-it really isn't the money about Planned Parenthood and PBS, is it?
..the USAF F-35 fighter program
has spent enough to fund those two
things for dozens of centuries...
and haven't got a plane off the ground...hmm, must something other than money....]
I've heard it said BB that the main purpose of government, perhaps the only purpose is to keep us safe hence a strong military. Really no inconsistency.
ReplyDeleteA strong military.
ReplyDeleteIf that was the idea, don't you think getting at least one of those planes built and off the ground would be a good idea?
Well with Obama gutting the military probably not anytime soon. Pacifists...saw a bumper sticker a month ago which read "It'll be a great day when schools don't need money but when the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a new fighter jet." That's a nice sentiment but simplistic.
ReplyDeleteStrong military: did the Wehrmacht
ReplyDeletekeep the krauts safe?
(my point was the clearly nefarious
Ryan thing: cut embassy security
funding...then blame the administration. Talk about gutter politics: like beating your wife and blaming her).
Speaking of Kafka, did the world's largest military prevent 911? Security..does frisking your dying
grannie keep you safer at the airport? ...Kafka...
What's with all these alternate
realities, anyhoo?
Are you against a strong military then? We're forgetting there's a Peter Principle at stake in any institution but speaking purely on theory now you're not against a strong military are you?
ReplyDeleteThe clearly nefarious Obama thing initially blaming a well-orchestrated professional al-Qaeda hit on our embassy on the anniversary of 9/11 on some damn internet trailer of a by all accounts very bad movie. Had intel perhaps two weeks before that something might happen and then UN Ambassador Susan Rice goes on all the Sunday morning talk shows sayin' they were all jazzed up over there about some movie nobody ever heard of. Even with security cuts you should be able to connect the dots.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking there is less rigorous security at consulates than embassies, the latter typically having some Marines, the former, private security. In some parts of the world both are dangerous places. Any idea how
ReplyDeletemany troops it would take to make
every one secure? International
diplomats supposedly have immunity, but embassy and consulate
attacks are not that uncommon . Making a big political issue out of them is.
You got to go with what you have, BB. They got nothin, so they have no choice with this.
ReplyDeleteApparently you didn't read much of the Internet in the wake of those attacks. Oh yeah I forgot if it's on Drudge it's no good.
ReplyDeleteTimes change; after 911, the entire country rallied behind the administration. With the exception
ReplyDeleteof Senator Feingold and me, they
even supported attacking the wrong
country for the wrong reason. Now,
with fifteen hundred less KIA, folks make a huge political deal
out of it. Call me touchy, but that is blatant reaching politics.
(at best)
Look we can argue about security cuts if you like, that's perfectly valid but I want a president who isn't afraid to call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack.
ReplyDeleteI want a president who isn't a loose cannon. Call me old school,
ReplyDeletebut having troops everywhere in the world pissing off the locals,
while our highways deteriorate and the country rots from the inside out..just ain't gonna cut it.
Diplomatically speaking, we have
embassies and consulates up the gazoo..and Benghazi isn't even
listed Security there consisted of some Libyan nationals hired by
a Welsh security corporation..the
dumb GOP idea of 'privatizing'.
Call me hardnosed pragmatist, but
there is a marked difference between ElQuaida ruffians outside
a consulate and ElQuaida ruffians
flying into NY skyscrapers.
As I said I want a president who isn't afraid to call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack:)
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