TUESDAY was a very good day for U.S. President Barak Obama.
First, the U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin for Ohio Republicans’ efforts to suppress the vote of likely Obama supporters by ruling that early voting had to be reinstated for the last three days before the election for everyone in the state, not just the military. This is especially important for Obama because poorer working people (who tend to support the Democrats) usually have less flexible working hours and find it harder to get to the polls on Tuesdays, and black churches have a tradition of taking their congregations to vote in church buses after services the Sunday before Election Day.
Then came the debate.
Following his astonishingly lackluster performance in the first one against an energized Mitt Romney, the pressure was clearly on Obama. In the weeks since the first debate, his seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls had all but vanished, and all the momentum had shifted to the Romney camp. Even some of Obama’s staunchest supporters were starting to wonder aloud if he really had the stomach for a fight.
Five minutes into the debate, that question had already been answered.
An energized President Obama had Romney on the defensive throughout the debate as he vigorously defended his policies and – unlike the first round – quickly took Romney to task for his numerous distortions.
Romney was no pushover, however – he fought back hard, and took every opportunity to challenge the president.
But from the standpoint of style and presence, Obama clearly had the upper hand this time. Acting guru James Lipton, the longtime host of “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” who has become the go-to guy for several television networks in analyzing the performance aspect of the presidential race, noted that while Obama seemed both presidential and sincere, Romney came across as “the boss who tells lame jokes and waits for everybody to laugh – or else.”
While this bullying CEO style seemed to serve Romney well in the first debate, in which he seemed to dominate both Obama and the elderly moderator, Jim Lehrer, this time it didn’t work at all. Obama was having none of it, and put him in his place any number of times ... as did moderator Candy Crowley.
By far the biggest flub of the night came when Romney tried to aggressively challenge the president’s statement that he had referred to the attack on the consulate in Benghazi as an act of terrorism the day after it had occurred in a speech in the Rose Garden. Trouble is, Obama was right and he was wrong ... and Crowley knew it ... and proceeded to point it out to the 65 million people who were watching. Oops!
Romney also left himself wide open by claiming in his final remarks that he cares deeply about “100 percent” of the American people.
Obama, who spoke last, pounced on this with a devastating critique of the “47 percent” remarks Romney made earlier in the year to a group of millionaire supporters.
"But I also believe that when he said behind closed doors that 47 percent of the country considered themselves victims, who refuse personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about," the president said.
"Folks on Social Security who have worked all their lives. Veterans who have sacrificed for this country. Students who are out there trying to hopefully advance their own dreams, but also this country's dreams. Soldiers who are overseas fighting for us right now. People who are working hard every day, paying payroll tax, gas tax, but don't make enough income," he added. "And I want to fight for them and that's what I've been doing for the last four years. Because if they succeed, I believe the country succeeds.”
Ouch!
The big question is, however, was all this enough? If the first debate had gone like this one, it is hard to see how Romney could have recovered.
But the first debate didn’t go like this. Obama let Romney back in the game, and he isn’t likely to give up now.
I can’t wait for round three.
Round 2 to Obama ... but was it enough?
- Friday, 19 Oct 2012 03:00am
- BY DAVID JAY MORRIS | VARIETY NEWS STAFF
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Several days after the terrorist attack on our embassey in Bengazhi, Obama and Clinton were at Andrews AFB when the flag draped coffins were returned to the United States, Clinton made a small speech where she referred to the murder of 4 Americans as a demonstration over a video.
She and Obama stood together to view the return of the coffins . If some 4-5-6 days after the attach why is Clinton, Rice, Carney, Valerie Jarrett and others still referring to this as a demonstration gone wrong if Obama said on 9-12 that it was a terrorist attack ?
Answer == he never ever referred to the 9-11 attack and murder of 4 Americans as a terrorist attack, he continued to blame it on a demonstration that went wrong and escalulated. In addition the top CIA folks in Libya sent word to the WH / State dept within 24 hrs that NO demonstration ever took place.
Obama never referred to the attack in Benghazi as a terrorist attack for some 2 weeks. If he did refer to it as terrorist attack, why did Ambassador Rice, Carney and Clinton still continue to refer to the attact for the following week or more, as the result of a demonstration over some video that most of the world has never seen.
Rice was on 5 major talk shows over the following 5-7 days ater the attack referring to it as a spontanous demonstration that went violent. But the top CIA guy for Libya had reported to the White House within 24 hrs that there was NO demonstration.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, U.S. officials have told The Associated Press.
The Obama administration maintained publicly for a week that the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was a result of the mobs that staged less-deadly protests across the Muslim world around the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
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Obama: “The choice in this election is going to be whose promises are going to be more likely to help you in your life…[such as] making sure that Medicare and Social Security will be there for you.”
False. President Obama failed to put forth a sustainable plan that would avert Medicare’s and Social Security’s impending bankruptcies. Social Security is running permanent and growing deficits, and a 25 percent benefit cut is set to hit in 21 years. Medicare has made $37 trillion worth of benefit promises over the long-term that aren’t funded.
During the first presidential debate, President Obama failed to even acknowledge Social Security’s dire straits, proclaiming that, aside from a few tweaks, “Social Security is structurally sound.” Unsurprisingly, the President has done nothing over the last four years to stem the program’s red ink
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More people are on food stamps today than when President Obama took office.
Romney: “There are more people in poverty, one out of six people in poverty. How about food stamps? When he took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. Today, 47 million people are on food stamps.”
True. Spending on food stamps doubled (in inflation-adjusted terms) from $42 billion in 2008 to $85 billion in 2012. Food stamp participation also doubled among able-bodied adults after the Obama Administration suspended the program’s work requirements. In total, 47 million Americans are on food stamps today.
Despite pouring ever-increasing taxpayer dollars into food stamps, as well as more than 80 other welfare programs, the welfare system has failed to do justice to the poor. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans who are poor remains at a near-record 15 percent; in other words, one out of six people live in poverty. Welfare must be reformed to promote self-reliance rather than government dependence
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obama said he supports drilling and making America energy independent ?
Obama: “I’m all for pipelines. I’m all for oil production.”
False. President Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline for no apparent good reason.
The Keystone XL pipeline would deliver oil from Canada, relieve some of the pain of high prices at the gas pump, and create jobs in America. A State Department environmental review concluded that the project poses no significant environmental risk.
Nevertheless, the President chose to reject TransCanada’s permit application to build the pipeline at a time of high unemployment and high gas prices.
Energy production on federal lands also declined. According the Energy Information Administration, energy production decreased 13 percent on federal lands in fiscal year (FY) 2011 compared to FY 2010
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How come obama never mentions his new reguations that have strangled our private sector ?
Romney: “The rate of regulations quadrupled under this President.”
True. The number of major rules—those that will cost the private sector $100 million or more each year—skyrockete d under President Obama. During the Administration’ s term, 106 such major new regulations have been adopted, compared to 28 under Bush—a ratio of 3.8 to 1.
The President’s cost of regulation record is even worse. Rules imposed under the Obama Administration added $46 billion to the already high annual cost burden from regulation, compared to $8.1 billion in new costs during the first three Bush years, a whopping 5.6 to 1 ratio
sure looks like obama is winning all right
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GM is alive ?
1. General Motors and Chrysler did go bankrupt.
Governor Mitt Romney: “And one thing that the President said, which I want to make sure that we understand, he said that I said we should take Detroit bankrupt.… Well, the President took Detroit bankrupt. You took General Motors bankrupt. You took Chrysler bankrupt.”
True. GM and Chrysler did go bankrupt, and the Obama Administration nationalized the firms. The federal government continues to own a quarter of the shares of GM, and taxpayers are some $25 billion in the hole
Big win for obama...hahaha
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B Hussein may be better off if he cancels the 3rd debate. Latest from Gallup as of 10-16
Romney 50%, B Hussein 46%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158048/romney-obama-among-likely-voters.aspx
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If y'all loved the last 4 years, ya gonna do cartwheels over the next 4 if B. Hussein gets re-elected...
Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years, fattened by President Obama’s stimulus spending and swelled by a growing number of Americans whose recession-depleted incomes now qualify them for public assistance, according to numbers released Thursday.
Federal spending on more than 80 low-income assistance programs reached $746 billion in 2011, and state spending on those programs brought the total to $1.03 trillion, according to figures from the Congressional Research Service and the Senate Budget Committee.
That makes welfare the single biggest chunk of federal spending — topping Social Security and basic defense spending
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Specifically, those folks who are now suddenly enthused about the Romney candidacy must be, pretty much, the same folks who were enthused about the Bush candidacy in 2000. Do folks recall what exactly the then Gov, of Texas said/ He said that the Bush-Cheney administration "will bring honor to the White House." No talk about the 5% national unemployment rate, or the budget surpluses. So, the point is the GOP will always bring something up, and MAKE it relevant because they have their own media that does their bidding, or propaganda. It is not just News Corp., but also other outlets that pose as mainstream media outlets. Once you have your own media, religiously-inspired, you can pretty much have your own country, just like some Third World nations. (Even they have difficulty brainwashing their electorate because of the rise of the alternate media; hence the revolutions.)
On Guam, PDN does the bidding of Gannett. The local GOP does the bidding of the national GOP. The local Dems do the bidding of a few overlords.
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