The Republican National Convention Thread

[kingofnyc]

lol my point exactly

compared to this
[ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9v0Yf9wHlQ]YouTube - US election 2012: Mitt Romney sings 'America the Beautiful' at Florida primary campaign rally[/ame]

cac alert

 

[filial_piety]

Yes, it's true that potential speculation is endless, but I do think we have ample biographical info on both men's college years now to at least support my point that Romney's degree was almost certainly pure business. All the info we have stresses his completely depoliticized education and educational choices. In short, before he was governor, and maybe even then, he did not have an education in politics, broadly speaking.

I've read both of Obama's books, and I don't know much about Mitt's personal upbringing. From what I can recall, he landmarked himself a voter registration drive of some sort. As for his having a "pure" business academic background, I don't see it. As a JD candidate there are core courses that all student have to take if we want to count that as being academically political.

Yes, we don't know the answer to this, but I'm willing to lean towards arguing that Romney would not have been able to do the HLR- Obama was a con. law specialist, while Romney only did business law.

We'll agree to disagree.

Maybe. Obama wasn't a civil rights attorney for very long, I'll give you that. He did accomplish a considerable amount in that period,

Really? And this is not to diminish what he's done, but I hadn't really read anything substantive about his career as an attorney.

though. I also honestly believe that community organizing shouldn't be dismissed in this discussion, much as some Republicans scoffed at it as a non-job.

Agreed, it's a notable job that provided him with some necessary skills related to the Presidency.

In many ways it's more substantive than the managerial many MBAs .

Disagree, and I'm not exaclty sure about what he did, but it really depends on how you fold it. In regards to the current state of the economy I think Romney's business acumen and relatable knowledge and skills set developed from high level managerial/consulting brings more to the table.

It also teaches you a lot about the connection between federal, state, and city politics,

Depends on what his role was. But you could argue the same about high-level consulting and management. One has to have the acumen and skillset to navigate through federal, state, and city politics in addition to tax guidelines, financial forecasting, mergers & acquisitions (job creators) etc etc. Overall as being President, it just looks more valuable.

and between all of those and nonprofit work, community-building, the lives of average Americans, and the ways the problems that affect them intersect.

LOL, I have to be honest, but this sounds like a pitch. It's valuable experience (although I'm not exactly how much of an impact he would have had given that his work history if a bit slim). Even if we were to call it even, Romney would have considerable more amount of years experience simply due to age.

Romney has also received accolades from Bill Clinton himself about his experience at Bain, referring to it as "sterling", while he said something to the effect of Obama being an "amateur" who "would have gotten us coffee."

Until Romney was a governor, he would have had no experience with any of that.

His experience as a Governor is valuable though for reasons that I explained a few posts back. Speaking of Clinton, he was also a Governor for Arkansas prior to becoming President when GHWB ran. According to some GHWB's 4 years previous experience made him more "qualified" than Clinton who had none at the time. However I don't think too many would argue that Clinton was the better President.

To be honest, I don't remember McCain's background now. I've completely forgotten it.

I'll get back to you on that...but on paper, it looks more impressive.

 

[Darts]

thereheis and the GOP are arguing all this 'experience' shyt like its 2008 all over again.


We in 2012...ketchup nikkas.

 

[Broke Wave]

This dude thereheis also insinuated that GHWB was a better president than Clinton

Romney would make a TERRIBLE president. This experience meme is so played out for real. Obama's policies are better than Mitt Romney's PERIOD, regardless of what you think about a fukking JD/MBA vs A regular JD or whatever

He's literally comparing qualification between Mitt Romney and the man who has been president since 2008 MOVE ON

 

[the next guy]

Ya'll nikkas need to chill. Mostly nothing will change either way.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Chris got me dying

"ok so where's Sarah Palin"

 

[The War Report]

Ann Romney Woos Hispanic Voters, Urging They Get Past 'Their Biases' - Yahoo! News

 

[thernbroom]

An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.

The CNN official declined to confirm specific details of the incident to TPM but generally confirmed an account posted on Twitter by former MSNBC and Current anchor David Shuster: “GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying ‘This is how we feed animals.’”

It is not clear whether the alleged culprit was a delegate or attending the convention in some other capacity.

In a written statement, CNN addressed the matter but divulged few details: “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.”

TPM’s calls to RNC and convention officials were not immediately returned.

 

[StatUS]

MSNBC RNC coverage

FOX NEWS upcoming DNC coverage

Loving the fukkery of election season.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

I dont know why aome of you hate Rev Al. Dude is comedy.


Edit: thurs is gonna be a c@c-out. They sayin Clint Eastwood is the mystery speaker

 

[thernbroom]

MSNBC RNC coverage

FOX NEWS upcoming DNC coverage

Loving the fukkery of election season.

TYT on Current TV >>>>>>>>>>>

 

[StatUS]

TYT on Current TV >>>>>>>>>>>

Neutral informative coverage...nah I'm good

 

[GoPro]

McCain is an unabashed warmonger. How many years this dude been singing the same tune?

 

[Tony D'Amato]

This dude McCain still want to bomb everybody

Even some of them in the audience is like- Syria?

 

[dtownreppin214]

goddamn wtf is up with rethugs and war?