President Obama was about 16 minutes late starting his speech in Ohio today. Mitt Romney moved his speech up by 10 minutes. The operative word is “decisive.”
Update: The president’s operative word seems to be “fundamentally,” as in “fundamentally different views” on how to fix the economy. He’s right about that, but his vision is not a majority vision.
Update: The president went, again, into detailing his version of the past (omitting his own role in the subprime mess entirely) and offered nothing new. So Fox cut away from him. That speech won’t reboot anything.
Update: Obama: “We’re producing more oil than we have in a decade!” Democrat audience reaction: Silence.
Update: So much for cutting spending on anything. The president just said he would take “half the money we’re spending on war” and use it to build roads and bridges. Why didn’t he use the 2009 stimulus to do that?
Update: President who ships jobs overseas complains about businesses shipping jobs overseas. And then he called for a tax hike on the “rich.”
This is all the Obama Boilerplate Special.
Update: The president closed with a call for everyone to “pitch in.” Frankly, coming from him, such a call is offensive. We do pitch in, every day, in our jobs if we have them, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our churches. Our military volunteers pitch in to defend us. While we’re all pitching in and getting less and less for our efforts, this pencil necked president is telling our churches what they can and cannot do and violating their beliefs. This president who never held a real job is calling for small businesses to shoulder higher taxes and terrifying liabilities if they hire anyone. This president is threatening to cut our defenses so he can dole out yet more money to his union pals. This president, whose chief job before politics was as a community shakedown artist, is in no position to tell anyone anywhere to pitch in. He has never pitched in a day in his life.
He is an actor and a fraud. Today’s reboot was a flop.
Fox cut away, because, in Romney’s own words Fox News is the home of his “true believers.” Then Daily Caller (another recurring mouth piece for Romney on Fox News) had to do mop up work for Romney in an online piece that attempted to explain what Romney reallllly meant.
Romney said this during the time that he said that there was a “vast left-wing conspiracy” against him back a few months ago. The media had a field day with that one…
Calm down. FOX suddenly cut away from Romney’s speech, too. For a commercial.
It was during Megyn Kelly’s show.
I need to calm down?
Please.
Look at what was typed up above that I responded to:
Obama supposedly offered nothing new so Fox cut away from him. That speech won’t reboot anything.
Given what was posted above, I’m not the one that you need to be talking to. I responded to what was typedand explained that if Fox is going to cut Obama off for him supposedly offering nothing new, then we need to know about a potential reason that may explain why other than what was posted at the top.
Nice try, though…
Please, deal with the message and not try to divert the discussion to the messenger (me).
Fox did cut away because he wasn’t saying anything new. And his speech today won’t reboot anything. See my closing thoughts in the last update for a very clear reaction, if you’d like.
All about being fair and balanced, are we?
How do you feel about MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Reuters, AP, et. al.’s coverage fairness? Hmm? Shall we use the WI recall elections as an example?
Orion
Romney can give speech after speech, but his talk is cheap.
Romney is either going to embrace the failed policies of the past or he isn’t, and Obama isn’t whining for calling Romney out on this.
If Romney is going to continue his embrace of the failed policies of the past (among them deregulatory policies) then he needs to explain to voters how those policies weren’t a failure and how they will be beneficial to America and the economy. No other way for Romney.
Please explain how the regulatory policies of the past have done anything useful? Remember, the guys running the financial institutions are not dumb. Make a regulation, and they will figure out a work-around. I would suggest that in place of regulation, we go back to unlimited liability for financial corporations. That would really concentrate the minds of those owning financial institutions.
Romney Funnies graciously gives us a textbook example of why liberals should not vote or breed. They tend be not be very bright.
“Romney can give speech after speech, but his talk is cheap.”
And Obama’s oratory is something special? No. As has already been pointed out, the man has nothing original to say.
“Romney is either going to embrace the failed policies of the past or he isn’t, and Obama isn’t whining for calling Romney out on this.”
A wonderful example of liberal multiple-failure logic! Romney can do either one thing or another? Sounds like typical liberal “either-or” thinking. No shades of grey, no other options. And, as a bonus, the assertion is that the path Romney is constrained to follow consists of “failed” policies of the past. Failed in comparison to what – Obama’s brilliant moves, based on 100 year old demonstrably-failed ideas? Note that Socialist Europe is at least as bad off as we are, without the “tax cuts and 2 wars” that the libs trot out every one breath. Pardon me while I wipe the coffee off my keyboard.
“If Romney is going to continue his embrace of the failed policies of the past (among them deregulatory policies) then he needs to explain to voters how those policies weren’t a failure and how they will be beneficial to America and the economy. No other way for Romney.”
More assertions that Romney must follow a certain path, and that deregulation always fails, implying that regulation always succeeds. Prove it.
how do we lose to geniuses like this?
– in first-time jobless claims this morning was, yet again, “unexpected”.
Obama keeps polishing the same turd.
Hopefully he’s dumb enough to keep it up until November.
Although in other words, my thoughts exactly. Obama rambled, stoked the divisiveness, kept going back to his teleprompter, and would have lulled any perceptive audience to sleep. His audience looked shipped in from Detroit. In contrast, Romney spoke without a teleprompter in rapid fire, reeling off intelligent stuff and got good, enthusiastic applause for his shorter, pointed speech. The differences made Obama look desperate, Romney confident.
I have already pitched in. I am so close to broke it ain’t funny. I am waiting for a real change to believe in…even my teenager is tired of hearing Obama’s voice on tv.
“He is an actor and a fraud. Today’s reboot was a flop.”
Don’t be shy, Bryan. How do you really feel?
The free market experiences cycles of expansion and contraction as it continually adjusts to external reality. Feedback loops are alive and well. Call this phenomenon “South Korea”. The command economy does not incorporate these feedback loops. There are minimal adjustments to external reality. Call this phenomenon “North Korea”. Abandon those “failed policies of the past” because you can’t handle he creative destruction of the free market and you jump from frying pan into the fire.
p.s. I try to avoid Marxist terminology, especially the one which is obsessed with the word “Capital”.