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2012 Presidential Election: Romney vs. Obama

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rimrocker, Apr 11, 2012.

  1. bobmarley

    bobmarley Member

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    What exactly do you disagree with. I know there are Repugs who are lunatics as well. I wasn't speaking about them at this time but I was talking about Demos.

    The reality is both sides think their poo doesn't stink. But each wing the right and the left are both part of the same dirty bird.

    My dilemma is if I want to decide on who will run the country for the next 4 years I have two men to chose from. So I do my best to make a choice then stick by it and not be ashamed that hey maybe I made a mistake instead of burring my head in the sand and toting a party line.
     
  2. rimrocker

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    Interesting look at the schedules today, with only about 100 hours left:

    Romney, Mrs. Romney, and Ryan are doing a total of 4 events. 2 in Ohio, 1 in CO, and 1 in Iowa. Mitt is going to a factory in OH for his first event and will appear with Mrs. Romney at the second.

    On the Dem side, we have Obama doing 3 events in Ohio (fairgrounds and high schools), Biden for 2 events in WI, Mrs. Obama is doing 2 events at universities in VA, and Mrs. Biden is visiting 3 Obama Field Offices in NC and PA. Oh, and there's also Bill Clinton who is doing 5 events in Florida, of which he will be late to at least 4, but he's the Big Dog so who cares?

    In sum:

    Repubs: 4 events in 3 states.
    Dems: 7 events in 3 states not counting Mrs. Biden and Bill. With those two, you have 15 events in 6 states.
     
  3. bobmarley

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    This doesn't include the surrogates. Each party has plenty of these to go around.
     
  4. mc mark

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    wouldn't have you thought that the state dept would have said something if he wasn't?
     
  6. rimrocker

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    Surrogates talk on TV and write stuff. They can't draw large crowds or excite voters. The only one on either side that can do that is Bill.
     
  7. bobmarley

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    I didn't even know what a birther was. Get a grip dude.
     
  8. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    I find that very hard to believe. How could anyone who has even just a passing interest in politics not know what a birther is?
     
  9. Steve_Francis_rules

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    Ten years, that's great. Now the Dem running in 2016 has a built in excuse for why his/her party still has absolutely nothing to do with the crappy economy! Are we going to get two years of President Hillary Clinton constantly reminding us that she "inherited" this mess?
     
  10. Rocketman95

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    Absolutely nothing? :rolleyes:
     
  11. Steve_Francis_rules

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    I suppose it wasn't directly framed as a "promise," but he did tell us that the deficits Bush was running up were unpatriotic. Given that he has presided over higher deficits in every year he's been President than what we had under Bush (before FY 2009), he's either unpatriotic or incompetent by his own standard.
     
  12. bobmarley

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    "The truth is, the next election has already been decided. Obama is going to win. It's nearly impossible to beat an incumbent president," advertiser Porter Stansberry wrote in the email to Gingrich supporters.

    Bygone candidates, such as Gingrich and Herman Cain, regularly rent out their email address lists to advertisers.

    And according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, Stansberry & Associates should have been on the blacklist.
     
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  14. bobmarley

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    At the time I didn't have a passing interest.
     
  15. rimrocker

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    Yep. Bush is your Carter in the sense that Democrats will run against him every chance they get for the foreseeable future. It's politics. Get over it.
     
  16. vlaurelio

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    then answer my question
     
  17. Major

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    You don't have to like it or think it's acceptable or think it makes a candidate deserving of a second term. It's just factual history based on systemic crises over the past century. They aren't run of the mill recessions and their solutions aren't run of the mill solutions. This is from some of the GOP's favorite economists:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-15/sorry-u-s-recoveries-really-aren-t-different.html

    Or maybe huge deficits in strong economies are different than huge deficits in financial crises and economic collapses? I think virtually every economist in the world would agree that deficits during bad times are more acceptable than otherwise.
     
  18. HR Dept

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    I just called the Dr. office to make an appointment and heard a nurse (i guess) in the background saying: "Obama has made things worse, four more years of this and we will have... We'll have nothing."

    NOTHING!
     
  19. mc mark

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    I'd find another doctor.
     
  20. bobmarley

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    you have search abilites, use them.
     

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