The Last Debate and The Only 3 Things That Matter
Which is why I think debates two and three have made and will make very little difference to the ultimate outcome of this race. Here are the three things I think matter – the three things I think will determine the outcome – as we head into the final days:
1) Obama has done a bad job of being president. He inherited a reeling economy and had exactly the wrong ideas about how to fix it. He inherited a dangerous world and had exactly the wrong ideas about how to make it safe. Plus, for whatever reason, he was incapable of learning from his mistakes. This country is worse off than it was four years ago and everyone knows it. Even die-hard Dems who wouldn’t vote GOP for the world can only make lame excuses for their guy this time. He’s failed.
2) The first debate (which, if Romney wins, will have been historic in its effect) torched the demonic straw man the Obama campaign and its compliant media had created to represent their opponent. The more I’ve thought about this, the more it seems to me that it wasn’t Obama’s failure that made the debate what it was, it was the fact that Romney was able to present himself as exactly what he is: a reasonable and successful businessman and former governor with sound ideas about how to fix economic problems. All the talk about Obama looking down, Obama not showing up, blah, blah, blah. Romney is what he appeared to be that night and a lot of people said, “Oh. I get it. I was lied to. This guy could do the job.” The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.
3) People can be bought. It’s part of the premise of free market capitalism that money motivates people. They’ll work for it, build for it, risk for it — they want it. As David Mamet once wonderfully wrote, “That’s why they call it money.” The Obama White House has been run like Tammany Hall: buying votes with Christmas turkeys. Except, so to speak, they’re bigger turkeys! “Free” health care, “free” birth control, “free” citizenship, “free” welfare without work requirements… on and on. Conservatives argue these freebies come at the expense of true freedom, real prosperity, individual self-realization and property rights — to which the left replies, “Watch out! The evil conservatives are trying to steal your free stuff!” Mitt Romney’s 47% remarks were untoward — but not untrue, not in general intent at least. That’s why Obama only mentioned them in the debates once, in final remarks when Romney couldn’t respond. Obama’s been buying votes, and it works and it wouldn’t do for him to talk about it.
So on one side, there’s Obama’s failed presidency and the fact that Romney could be just the right man for the moment. On the other, there’s “free” stuff! Which will win the day? Well, here’s a sentence I found buried in the last graf of Michael Barone’s column today, “The polling data suggests that Romney is now ahead and is likely to be elected.” Hey, if Barone says it, it’s true.
But don’t get cocky! The future is not yet, and even the things that matter, won’t matter at all, if you don’t get out there and vote!
"The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze."
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2) The first debate (which, if Romney wins, will have been historic in its effect) torched the demonic straw man the Obama campaign and its compliant media had created to represent their opponent.
It didn’t torch one straw man, it torched two. Up until that debate, the MSM had spent the past six years making Obama out to be the living embodiment of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, and Lincoln, mainly because of his ability to read a teleprompter. After that debate, the idea of “Obama as philosopher-king” became a joke not just to those of us who read blogs, but to the general public as well.
Just so, it was a double hit.
The Obama campaign set itself up for the Romney sensation, though, by so ridiculously trying to demonize him in the Spring and early Summer when Romney lack primary money left to respond. Killed the guy’s wife? Seriously?
It was bound to blow up in their faces, and they have no Plan B.
The second debate tore away the illusion of Obama being cool.
The third debate showed Obama was snarky and petty. His death stare was creepy.
Al Gore’s sigh, Biden’s maniacal grin, and Obama’s death stare will stay laughing stalks for a very long time.
elk: “His death stare was creepy.”
I surmise Obama took lessons in Glaring from Mike Tyson. I was afraid Obama was going to bite off a piece of Romney’s ear.
I do not trust the opinion polls. Back when the polls showed BHO ahead there was a lot of talk about the percentage of Democrat respondants being higher than they should be. Now that MR is ahead I have not heard this analysis. So I do not know how the interpret the numbers.
I also do not trust the justice department. When Eric holder holds closed meetings with DOJ atourneys this close to the election, it makes me wonder to what lengths the Chicago machine will go in order to keep their man in power. I am afraid that vote buying is only part of the Obmama plan.
Afaik, nothing has changed: the samples are still heavily oversampling Democrats. The thing who has changed is that despite this Romney is lading in polls.
Yeah, I’m going to agree with John Bono, about the torching of two straw men. Lo’ these 4 years have we heard about what a great orator, thinker, blah blah blah Obama was…even though most of us knew he was a better reader than speaker…and when the teleprompter is put away, *silence* from the great one.
My family has been at odds about Obama, from the beginning…I was for Hillary, they were for Obama, and during that contentious lead up to his coronation, I mean nomination for the Democrat’s choice for president in 2008, my uncle while being triumphant about having possibly the first black man as president….asked me how I felt about it. I responded, “If he’s elected, which is a good possibility, he’ll be a one-termer.” At which point my uncle told me that we would no longer discuss politics in the house if I was going to bash Obama. And for four years, we have steered clear (for the most part) anything political…which is quite a feat as we had many things to discuss during the Bush years.
But my uncle knew his limitations…he couldn’t stand hearing anything bad about, “The One”, my mother hasn’t learned this lesson, as I recently angered her, talking about what a sham Obama is as a president.
My contention is in 2008, McCain wasn’t so much running against Obama, as he was running against, both Obama’s Historic Moment and Bush’s failed policy. He stood no chance and it was more about the disillusionment with Bush than it was for the historic part.
But I also knew, from reading up on Obama from 2007-2008 when he was foisted about us liberals as a brave new hope…that there wasn’t anything substantive there. I’m a person that deals in logic. I’m not saying that I’m Spock…but when someone is a “community organizer” and their only real achievement is working to get themselves elected…I knew he had no business being leader of something as complex as the US government. Moreover…I knew this whole thing was just a vanity play to his ego…and that at the core…he’s not a serious man. He’s not and never has been serious enough to lead this country.
This is why we are here today in the messes that we’re in. And while Romney will be the next president. Because, Obama doesn’t have history to run on again (been there done that), and he doesn’t have Bush to run against (Romney ain’t Bush). And while he was successful at painting McCain/Palin as Bush the sequel (which is laughable as I consider Obama the sequel to Bush) he can’t use those same broad strokes on Romney (Romney’s intelligent/well spoken and so is his running mate).
For me it was never a choice of voting for Obama. Romney for me was running against Gary Johnson and my hatred of the Democrats and Republicans. Romney has shown me that though I still loathe the two party system with all my heart…I loathe Obama more and will vote for Romney to get that narcissist out of of office.
I have never voted for (and depending on Romney’s performance in office may never again)a Republican. But this election…I’m voting for the Republican.
Well, congratulations on showing signs of rationality and self-interest.
In trying to comprehend why America would entertain for a second a green black man of not only no accomplishment but no verifiable background, one has to look at – McCain. As you say, America wanted the catharsis of voting against Bush and the wars, whether or not they were necessary. And McCain just seemed so old and confused, and after choosing Palin who seemed young and confused, America took whatever was in the black box that was, at least, clean and articulate. About Hillary – the less I say the better.
I doubt if a President McCain would have done a whole lot differently than Obama over the last four years. And I doubt if a President Romney will do a lot differently over the next four years. The problems are the problems, and they are MUCH harder than are typically acknowledged in the campaigns. But everything to the good is worth a try, and the problem with Obama is he always hovers on the edge of really disasterous decisions, and sometimes goes over, from his apology tour to Solyndra to abandoning the status of forces degree to getting the Libyan ambassador killed, etc. And then he’s in 1000% denial. McCain would not have done all of Obamacare but he might have done 30% of it, and that would be a much better answer. McCain would never do Solyndra. McCain would have tried MUCH harder on the status of forces. McCain would either have not lost the ambassador, or he would have cleaned house at State after such a fiasco. And for the most part, ditto Romney, I hope.
A thoughtful comment, although I would defend the two-party system along the lines of Winston Churchill’s defense of democracy: It’s the worst possible system, except for all the others. The key to keeping a democracy working (according to conservatives) is to keep the state small and the citizen large. That’s probably the main difference between conservatives (Tea Party) and the political establishment (Democratic or Republican).
I just noticed a nice example of the “keep the state small and the citizen large” contrast. The Tea Partiers always clean up after their rallies (so who needs the state to clean it up?). The Obama rallies always leave a mess (let the state clean it up). And the same principle applies to virtually everything. It doesn’t matter what form of voting is used, “let the state do it” is an attitude that drives the whole show off a cliff.
HAHAHAHA! I was just looking at a report on Fox news – the background was the site of a “Forward” rally (event over). The FIRST thing I noticed was the MESS left behind, and I immediately wondered if Romney event sites looked similar, or if people policed themselves as they did following the Glenn Beck rally.
Any PJM pundits willing to tackle this with a pictorial?!?
Motivated by hatred. How sad. How typically………. Liberal. Get some help.
“when the teleprompter is put away, *gaffes* from the great one”
Well my guess is you have never lived in Europe. Multiple parties making alliances behind the backs of citizens, absence of leachniams for stteuing party line (it is vote here, serf) and electoral systems who allow small sh.ty parties getting 1% votes or more exactly the half a dozen unelected people who lead those small sh..ty parties play king maker and have the real power would make you just looove the two party system.
“…absence of leachniams for stteuing party line….”
I have absolutely NO idea what you are trying to say in that phrase. None. Zero.
I can’t think of any alternate spellings of “leachniams” or “stteuing” that make any sense at all.
Congratulations … that’s the most intelligent summary of the situation that I have read during the whole political cycle – hope you will find reasons to give Romney a second term !!!
Uninstalling Obama……… ███████████████▒ 95% complete.
Superb.
What do you recommend for the odor?
Tomato juice.
I enjoy reading articles pointing out that Romney seems to be the winner, but I think we should be ever mindful of those 53% who put that chameleon in office who are still out there looking for their entitled free stuff, and assuming that all they have to do is mark the correct box.
And, be sure that there are tutors available to spell it out for those who need a bit of coaching.
It’s disgusting.
Delete President here:
http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu202/Windflier/VRWC/DeleteObama.jpg
Yes, we are almost there but not yet.
Don’t celebrate… reload!
“He inherited a weak economy?” Excuse me? Inherited it from whom, exactly?
Wasn’t Obama a member of the majority party in the Senate when this happened? Hasn’t Joe Biden been a member of that same ruling party in that same governing body since, well, at least since I was in college, which, ahem, was quite a while ago?
So from whom did they inherit this weak economy? Weren’t they in the government that was doing all the mischief that led to this weak economy? And wouldn’t that perfectly explain why the economy is still a weak one, because the same people who created the weak economy we presently enjoy are still monkeying with it?
Stop treating Obama and Biden like innocent bystanders who just started working for the government in 2009. It’s a bogus excuse, and frankly it grates on my nerves. Nobody can blame an entire economy’s failure, particularly one that pretends to be based on a free market and is subject to congressional regulation, on one person, which is what Obama is saying when he claims to have “inherited” the mess we have. Unless he’s claiming that he and Joe Biden spent all their time in the Senate napping and playing golf instead of doing their jobs, they didn’t inherit anything. To paraphrase something one of them once said, they DID build that.
No more free rides. And vote Romney in two weeks!
Hear, hear!
If Obama gets re-elected, he’ll still blame someone else for the mess we’re in. That’s who he is.
He will have no choice but to blame Thomas Jefferson. Or maybe William Jefferson Clinton. He’s pretty much used up poor George W.
The fact of the matter, if you re-examine the historical GDP (and other) numbers, George W. Bush maintained a remarkably strong U.S. economy, despite the trillion-dollar cost of the 9/11 attacks, followed by the military actions that necessarily ensued.
It was not until Bush’s final term that the wheels came off: the Fannie/Freddie implosion, followed by the global financial meltdown, followed by the BAILOUT that the entire Democrat caucus, along with Obama, could not cram through fast enough. (Please do recall, on that score, that the ONLY elected representatives who opposed the Bailout were Republicans — albeit most of them were outside of the party leadership).
But, hey, that was George W. Bush’s fault (along with the dumbass McCain who suspended his otherwise healthy campaign to rush home to Washington, D.C. to rubber-stamp Bush’s lousy decision). Obama wisely stood in the wings waiting for the idiot McCain to commit to the glaringly wrong position; after which he was free to endorse the bailout, and all that followed, scot free.
I think The Media probably reported extensively on all of this. But I may be wrong about that.
This is why long-suffering conservative Republicans call their own party: The Stupid Party — although I prefer: The Candy-ass Party. And it will remain that way until we finally root out the big-government statists in our ranks who lie to our faces while they cut deals with their “friends” across the aisle.
“This is why long-suffering conservative Republicans call their own party: The Stupid Party — although I prefer: The Candy-ass Party. And it will remain that way until we finally root out the big-government statists in our ranks who lie to our faces while they cut deals with their “friends” across the aisle.”
And we won’t be able to do that until the Leftist, lying media is exposed for what they are and root them out. They’re the reason Obama got elected.
Not to mention that Reagan inherited a _much_ weaker economy and four years later the economy was in better shape than it is now.
” … journalists who are essentially in show business …”
“… journalists report on appearances. People vote on the closest thing to the truth they can find …”
Brilliant!
I just hope that whoever is commissioned to paint Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th president, for the White House gallery of executive heroes and mistakes, does not forget to pose him with his favorite gutta-percha cane. The one he favored for four long years in thrashing the many straw men who (just barely) got him through his one and only term as the worst American president since James Buchanan (our 15th president).
Here are some words that Muslims love to use especially when talking to Kaffirs and Jews and alongside them I have put the Arabic words that Muslims use to describe the SAME events to each other.
Dialogue Muslims always want a Dialogue but what they tell their Arab compatriots is that they are talking TAQIYYA . Which is Islamically sanctioned LYING to promote or protect Islam.
Peace Treaty also means a completely different thing to a Muslim than it does to a Judeo/Christian. Muslims don’t have Peace Treaties they have HUDABIAYAA which are term defined TRUCES which Muslims enter in to when they are weak and which their CULT gives them permission to break UNILATERALLY when they become stronger.
The world for Muslims is divided in to two states Dar Al Harb and Dar Al Islam, the “World of WAR’ and the “World of Islam’. Remember in Islam there can only be ‘Peace’ when Islam RULES ALL and the whole world is either Muslim or tribute paying second class citizen Dhimmis. Muslims also like to say they never attack ‘innocents’ but remember that in Islam ONLY Muslims can be considered innocent considered all others are GUILTY of not following allah.
Remember this and when you hear Muslims calling for DIALOGUE and for TRUCES and PEACE know they are not talking about what YOU are talking about.
Remember also that the USURPER was schooled and raised in Indonesia as a DEVOUT Mosque going MUSLIM and that he wears a gold ring on his wedding finger inscribed with the Muslim Shahadda and that the so called ‘Christian’ Church he attended for 20 years is in reality a Black Racist, Anti American, anti semitic, anti capitalistic CULT with far more in common to ISLAM than to Christianity.
There is deeper current that runs through this. The Truth About Islam
The history of Islam’s practitioners speaks for itself. Islam, by the very nature of its own doctrine, history and by the actions of its followers has shown itself to be the existential enemy of Western civilization. Dr. Andrew Bostom’s The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
provides insight into Islamic history and the Islamic mindset and what its ascendancy might mean for the rest of us:
Lee Harris’ outstanding work, The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West explains why and how the West’s days may be numbered. We are our own worst enemy unless we face up to the hard choices necessary to remain a free and prosperous people.
If anyone is still having trouble wrapping their minds around the fact that Western civilization does in fact have mortal and existential enemies, take a quick turn through Lee Harris’ Civilization and Its Enemies
Let us also dispense with the idea that Islam is a religion. Islam is not so much a religion as it is a supremacist, totalitarian political ideology, a destructive and murderous meme impervious to moderation or change, and with a narrowly circumscribed set of rituals that define every aspect of its followers’ lives. As for ‘tolerance’, here’s a quote from the Muslim Brotherhood and their mission in the U.S, calling for…
Speaking to the “Islam is a religion of peace,” assertion that we hear from Muslims and ignorant (yes, ignorant) Westerners, when Muslims assert that Islam is a “religion of peace” they are not engaging in al taqqiya, they are actually making an assertion in good faith.
The problem lies in the fact that Islam has, from the Western point of view, a defective concept of peace. In semitic languages like Arabic, the consonants are the “root” of the word: islam = submission, and salam = peace have the same root, slm.
The only concept of peace in Islamic jurisprudence is the peace between the conqueror and the conquered, between master and slave. There is no concept of a negotiated peace between nations in Islamic law (note that law is the defining property of Islam—their clerics are jurists, schools of Qu’ranic interpretation are called fiqh, a legalistic term)—Muslims may negotiate a “hudna” or armistice of limited duration with non-Muslim, but not a definitive enduring peace.
In that regard, Islam was, is and will continue to be a serial murderer of entire cultures and peoples. This is precisely what Islam has done throughout its entire 1400 year history. This is what it has done whenever it has finally gotten the upper hand in whatever culture it has infiltrated. This is what has been inextricably interwoven into the DNA of its operating system. Those whom Islam does not destroy, it enslaves, diminishes and impoverishes. Islam strives for the conversion, enslavement or death of all who do not conform to its cruel and sadistic vision of Mankind.
Advocates of Islamic ‘reform’ are sadly mistaken and deluded. Islam cannot be ‘reformed’ in the light of our Western values of humanity and freedom. Were that so, it would no longer be Islam. For its psychopathic and brutal misogyny alone, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction. The best and most concise description of the Arabic/Islamic mindset was laid out almost as an aside by noted historian and philosopher, Carroll Quigley in his landmark Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Here, he describes what he characterized as The Pakistani-Peruvian axis. An excerpt from that work is shown below:
Quigley believed that Islam possessed an “ethical” aspect; in that respect, it is entirely self-consistent within its own cultural sphere. However that may be, it is overshadowed and essentially silenced by the actions of its adherents. It is anathema to the Western sphere. As I have previously stated, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction.
It’s nice to have free stuffs, but most people need to work to feel useful, to feel alive, to support their families. It’s pride and self esteem. The chronically unemployed chronically feel like losers. What are you going to tell your kids: study hard in school so you’ll grow up like me lounging around waiting for govt checks?
Andrew, this starts out like a nasty comment, but give it a chance. I’ve had a bad day. Here goes.
You and B. Hussein create a question in my mind. I can’t figure out who (or is it whom?) is the more clueless: you or the anointed one.
(I’m now going over (more vs most) positive, comparative, superlative to try to keep my old Latin teacher happy who’s now looking down from above, and laughing at one of his sassiest students. (lass of 1964) {no I didn’t forget the “c”.}
You quantify the three things that matter most. Which, in my oftentimes skewed view, is so naive. So pat. So shallow.
Many many things matter, some more so than others, but, with two weeks to go to the election, you’ve got it down to three. Brings out my skepticism like worry brings out cankers.
Like Obama’s lie that he wanted no troops left in Iraq just in case, your list of three things is hard for me to swallow.
Look, if you had written this, say 40 months out, I’d be lots less hard on you, Andrew. Today, though, you’re virtually operating with 20/20 hindsight.
At the same time, that’s just my opinion, and most of the glad-handers here agree with you. And in the thousands of missives I’ve written, I’ve had more than my share of clueless responses to stuff I worked hard on, and really meant. (As in, “Cindy, you’re clueless”)
So I apologize for calling a really fine writer like yourself “clueless”, which I’d probably have never done if Romney showed some real balls in the final debate. You see, I’m probably guilty of blame transference. I’m mad at Romney so I blame you. Very bad form, Cindy. But understandable.
Really,I was seething all day; going over in my mind how I would have nailed Obama to the lying wall if I was Romney. Eviscerated him with regard to his BenghaziLies.
No, O, a video didn’t murder four Americans.
Andrew, pray tell, I apologize for the clueless statement. I know the world doesn’t run on my schedule. But instead of deleting this, I’m going to let you read it because it reflects how angry I think a lot of Romney supporters are who had all the enthusiasm-air let out of our “Romney for President” balloons.
Mitt McCain had a golden opportunity to take Obama to the cleaners and let Obama off the hook with little more than a kind nun’s one handed slap on the wrist with a plastic ruler that represents little more than a soft Chrissy Everett forehand. Knowing Mitt could have done a masterful job, I so wanted him to clean Obama’s clock.
Hands down, if you listened to Bill and Hannity tonight, you heard them dancing around my very sincere belief that, to use a football metaphor, Romney hadn’t built up the kind of lead you sit on. Too many days till the election.
How many points does Romney lose when Gloria (the shadows of knight, 1967) tries to pin a diaper on Mitt that Ann doesn’t know about. (The Democrats are still mad that Johnny got caught by the National Enquirer having unprotected whatchamacallit with cute and cuddly Rielle Hunter although he got off scot free. Which, really, bothers me not at all.
Anyway, getting back to whatever I was talking about, I think it was premature for Mr.Romney to think a few good quotes (such as “this nation doesn’t dictate/ it liberates”, or “an attack on me isn’t an agenda”) thrown out were enough to justify sitting on a five or six point Gallup/Rasmussen lead. Especially with Ohio a dead heat, tied tighter than Willie Nelson’s headband.
I see the Obama Team as the equivalent of the Dec. 28, 1958 Baltimore Colts (cream of the NFL crop) and the Romney boys I liken to the ’58 New York Giants (no pass rush).
While it was before all of your times, clued in and clueless football fans alike called it the greatest game ever played.
The Giants thought they could sit on a lead and in the second half Unitas cut them to pieces.
Now, with Romney playing the stately statesman, and two weeks left, the Democrats have a closet full of pricks up their sleeves. If you’re like me, you’ll be sweating the next 13 days out like a pig in a bacon factory.
Guys, the Giants had two minutes left on Yankee Stadium’s big clock, the ball on their own 40 yard line and it was 4th and 2 inches.
And Allie had them they punt. Bad move. It made me nuts. Now you know why my post traumatic stress disorder was born. The poor Wal-Mart checker getting a face full today.
So, the Colts had the greatest splint end in the history of football (Ray Berry) and the greatest quarterback since good old Mr. Levine of Levine’s Confectionery of Sea Cliff, NY, gave me two dimes and a nickle by mistake, Johnny Unitas.
When Alan bowled over the left side of the Giants line to win the first sudden death game in the history of the NFL, I was heartbroken.
If Mitt Romney snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, it’ll be straight jacket time for Cindy because it’ll just be a matter of time before this great nation is just a memory.
Now you know why I cried today apparently for no reason in Wal-Mart at the frozen food aisle. Stopped. And began again during checkout when she was ringing up the frozen peas.
Cindy;
May I suggest a shot, a beer, and a good cigar to brighten your day. If Obama gets re-elected, you’re gonna need some hair on your chest.
I don’t know about anyone else but this presidential race is getting very old. Anyone ever challenged why it takes 4 years of campaigning and $2 billion to elect a president? Countless news analysis, talking heads shouting over each other, endless polls, sniping, carping, whining? Enough. Almost everyone in america knew Obama was a bad president and killing our economy. Somehow we elected this bum and look at the destruction. We better learn something from this debacle to never trust another ahole liberal again.
“I don’t know about anyone else but this presidential race is getting very old. Anyone ever challenged why it takes 4 years of campaigning and $2 billion to elect a president?”
I’m Canadian and I’ve wondered the same thing for years. Our parliamentary system is quite different from your republican system. Here, an election typically takes 4 weeks. In other words, from the moment the election is called until the voting takes place is normally 4 weeks. (It used to be 6 weeks when I was a kid but there was a sense that it was just dragging on for too long and they reduced the time by a couple of weeks.)
Of course our federal government doesn’t yet have scheduled elections like yours, although there is some talk of doing so. Some of our provinces have scheduled elections now. We had a scheduled election here in Ontario last fall and the next one is scheduled for October 2015. (Earlier elections are possible if the government is defeated before then.) But even with scheduled elections, campaigning didn’t start in earnest until just a few weeks before the voting here. Of course, we don’t have primaries either. In this country, the parties each have their own conventions that start with however many party members contest the nomination, then they drop one candidate in each round of voting until there is only one left; that person becomes the leader of the party. But that convention lasts three days and there aren’t months of primaries before that.
Is ours a better system? That’s very hard to say. Our election cycles are much shorter, which is mostly a plus in my book. On the other hand, we have no term limits either so we can find ourselves dealing with a Pierre Elliott Trudeau for 16 years (or a Mackenzie King for close to 25 years!) while, you no longer have to look at any president for more than 8 years. There are of course many other factors in making a comparison. Two democracies – two very different ways of doing things!
Romney had Obama’s number before the debates started and strategically imploded the myth by exposing him.
The first debate was a polite but relentless undressing of the Emperor. Mitt systematically dissembled Obama and his lies. The second and third debate was simply sitting back and watching Barry implode.
Instead of countering all his lies and doing battle on individual issues, Mitt simply kept presenting the “big picture” agenda for himself while pointing to total failures by Obama.
Obama could not handle it and he showed at least 70M votes the real Obama. He is a petulant, arrogant and condescending jerk. And Mitt made him show his hand.
“We better learn something from this debacle to never trust another ahole liberal again.”
Truer words were never spoken and thus deserve repeating.
“We BETTER learn something from this DEBACLE to NEVER trust another ahole liberal again.”
We must soon put and end to Liberalism of the left and of the right. Why? Because we are heading for extinction if we don’t put the horse in front of the cart soon enough. Many if not all of the problems created by Liberals are the result of one mistake: “politics inform ethics.” Think about it. Thanks to Liberals more and more CRIMES are becoming VIRTUES and many VIRTUES are labeled as CRIMES. The cart was placed in front of the horse a long time ago but now the horse is on top of the cart and they want us to push. Liberalism and civilization cannot coincide for long. I quote C.S. Lewis here:
“Perhaps I am asking impossibilities. Perhaps, in the nature of things, analytical understanding must always be a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing. But if the scientists themselves cannot arrest this process before it reaches the common Reason and kills that too, then someone else must arrest it.” The Abolition of Man
How many hours has Barracky Boy spent over the last 4 years as PRESIDENT & COMMANDER IN CHIEF, campaigning for HIMSELF rather than addressing the URGENT issues facing We The People? How many “press conferences”?
And Why didn’t Romney ask Barracky Boy what he meant by “having more flexibility after re-election”? He has already twisted himself in knots and laid down American lives to appease our enemies. What more can he do besides outright surrender?
Paul Begala: Obama Is Giving Up On North Carolina
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/22/paul_begala_obama_is_giving_up_on_north_carolina.html
7 of 10 Asian Countries abandon U.S. dollar for Chinese Yuan now!
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-10/24/content_15840495.htm
I’ve read all the commentary about the election and debates and Klavan’s column is the best I’ve read so far. He is dead spot on. Outstanding.
The most snide remark by Obama was his ‘explaining’ to Romney that airplanes take off from aircraft carriers! Obama’s archness while making that comment was beneath the level of a President.
Well stated, and as of yesterday, we absolutely are now sure that the Obama whole staff knew that it was a ‘terrorist’ attack and they did NOTHING they left Stevens and his aide to die, the two BRAVE patriots, former seals, left their relatively safe location and tried to protect Stevens and the other man; they kept fighting even when they were wounded and kept it up until they died! These two should get the Medal of Honor! Obama is, as he kept telling us at the debate, the Commander in Chief. He is guilty of Dereliction of Duty. But there is enough blame to go around. SOS Clinton, Ms.Rice and his Press Secretary are also culpable. But never letting truth get in the way of campaigning, and don’t let the murder of faithful patriots get in the way either, don’t miss your campaign stop in Las Vegas.
To: Janet aka Sprgrl – you are a SuperGirl!
Well said! I agree! Romney/Ryan 2012!