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Deficits and numbers for both candidates (Ben Swann talking) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0EMau8GZY lots of attention brought Romney's comment about Big Bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtDrO5
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analysis after the first debate
posted at October 5, 2012 8:40 PM EDT
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Deficits and numbers for both candidates (Ben Swann talking) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0EMau8GZY lots of attention brought Romney's comment about Big Bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtDrO5IlFo |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 5, 2012 10:19 PM EDT
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If you talk to any of the news people, Romney won the debate. By talking long and fast. But if you listened good you can bet Medicare is doomed. Social Security is in jeopardy. Military spending will be up which he said we don't spend enough on. Cuts will be hurting on the poor and middle class. The rich will not pay taxes. If that is what they call a winner well I just miss to whole point. Once embolden by a win, the Republicans will systematically start their cuts and those cuts will be at the bottom not the top, when they start feeling a little pressure they will cut Medicare and Social Security faster than they said they would. Romney will have no problem starting another war since he thinks building the military up will win wars. |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 6, 2012 4:53 PM EDT
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i saw only 10 minutes of it and the hypocrisy was too sickening to watch longer.Obama was a bit tired, I guess, and Romney's attorneys told him to smile all the time so he had this fake smile glued to his face. (maybe that's why he was declared a winner--although i don't think so, but i think it is PROPAGANDA IN ACTION - Romney';'s asupporters in mainstream tv want Americans to peerceive him a winner) They also must have told him to show some concern for the poor - and he was almost crying with compasion over poor Americans. So fake. of course he doesn't care about anyone but himsel. |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 6, 2012 7:22 PM EDT
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comedians made their analysis too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVr5Rb9CV0 |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 6, 2012 7:55 PM EDT
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Romney wiped up the floor with obama. Obama clearly didn't know how to respond. Romney answered all the lies that obama's chicago team had been trying to get us believe. I thought watching obama's facial expressions was very telling. He never looked at Romney. He looked down towards the floor, very much like a schoolboy caught in a lie. Response to Re: analysis after the first debate: If you talk to any of the news people, Romney won the debate. By talking long and fast. But if you listened good you can bet Medicare is doomed. Social Security is in jeopardy. Military spending will be up which he said we don't spend enough on. Cuts will be hurting on the poor and middle class. The rich will not pay taxes. If that is what they call a winner well I just miss to whole point. Once embolden by a win, the Republicans will systematically start their cuts and those cuts will be at the bottom not the top, when they start feeling a little pressure they will cut Medicare and Social Security faster than they said they would. Romney will have no problem starting another war since he thinks building the military up will win wars. Posted by creppelrm |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 7, 2012 9:30 AM EDT
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The debate cancelled the notion that Romney was some sort of blood sucking vampire that did not care about anyone but the 1%. Basically it placed a light on the democrat strategy of using the "Goebels big lie" as a means of accomplishing their goals. When you have no record to run on and promise more of the same, the only way to gain traction is to paint your opponent as a: childhood bully, dog abuser and killer of steel worker wives. |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 7, 2012 2:21 PM EDT
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Labrat64: do you really believe that Romney cares about poor Americans? He doesn't care about Israel as well (l know it is important to you)-- he only cares about himself and now that rich boy wants to be a president and his well-paid lawyers tell him what he should do or say (unfortunately he often says more and it is horrible). When you look down when someone is speaking it is NOT always because you feel bad but also because you want to focus on words rather and avoid visual distractions. Although Obama did that more often BOTH of them did it. I'm not saying that Obama is better. I support neither one. Whoever of these two is elected Americans will lose and be very disappointed. |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 7, 2012 7:04 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: analysis after the first debate: If you talk to any of the news people, Romney won the debate. By talking long and fast. But if you listened good you can bet Medicare is doomed. Social Security is in jeopardy. Military spending will be up which he said we don't spend enough on. Cuts will be hurting on the poor and middle class. The rich will not pay taxes. If that is what they call a winner well I just miss to whole point. Once embolden by a win, the Republicans will systematically start their cuts and those cuts will be at the bottom not the top, when they start feeling a little pressure they will cut Medicare and Social Security faster than they said they would. Romney will have no problem starting another war since he thinks building the military up will win wars. Posted by creppelrm I read on Factchecker.org that if Romney and Ryan are elected that Medicare will be broke by the end of their first turn. |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 7, 2012 7:07 PM EDT
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I read on Factchecker.org that if Romney and Ryan are elected, Medicare will be broke by the end of their first term. In Response to Re: analysis after the first debate: If you talk to any of the news people, Romney won the debate. By talking long and fast. But if you listened good you can bet Medicare is doomed. Social Security is in jeopardy. Military spending will be up which he said we don't spend enough on. Cuts will be hurting on the poor and middle class. The rich will not pay taxes. If that is what they call a winner well I just miss to whole point. Once embolden by a win, the Republicans will systematically start their cuts and those cuts will be at the bottom not the top, when they start feeling a little pressure they will cut Medicare and Social Security faster than they said they would. Romney will have no problem starting another war since he thinks building the military up will win wars. Posted by creppelrm |
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Re: analysis after the first debate
posted at October 10, 2012 2:35 PM EDT
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Yes I do! His actions prove it. I certainly don't want to give a socialist a second term so that he can place what's left of private industry under government control and take away what's left of our freedom in the name of government nanyism,. I don't want this country to face the challenges that Greece and Spain face. Our dollar is a fiat currency. It has no backing. We are running up debt at an enormous rate. We cannot afford to stay the course, which is what obama wants to do. I happen to like Paul Ryan. I think he's a decent man, who wants to stab lize our debt. Response to Re: analysis after the first debate: Labrat64: do you really believe that Romney cares about poor Americans? He doesn't care about Israel as well (l know it is important to you)-- he only cares about himself and now that rich boy wants to be a president and his well-paid lawyers tell him what he should do or say (unfortunately he often says more and it is horrible). When you look down when someone is speaking it is NOT always because you feel bad but also because you want to focus on words rather and avoid visual distractions. Although Obama did that more often BOTH of them did it. I'm not saying that Obama is better. I support neither one. Whoever of these two is elected Americans will lose and be very disappointed. Posted by Astra2012 |
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