WHAT'S BEEF?: OBAMA VS ROMNEY (Debate Thread)

[Megatron Island]

 

[The ADD]

It's funny how the Liberal Media had a meltdown last night but now they are coming to their senses and breaking down everything Romney said. People can spin it and say Romney won cause of how poised he was but the fact is I listen to substance and what's coming out of a person's mouth. The man flip flopped on tons of things he said during the run up to this election to try and seem more moderate and away from the far right. It was pathetic how he threw the tea party under the bus and didn't even realize it.

You have to separate people like us who follow this as opposed to those that don't. The latter isn't going to see the breakdowns of the various policies he trampled over last night. I know it was bullshyt and you know. My boss with two kids and a nagging azz wife doesn't.

 

[Rapmastermind]

LMAO, Mitt Romney now admits he was wrong on the 47%:

Sean Hannity: "So If he asked you about the 47% what would you have said?"
Romney: "Well I would say that is totally wrong and that I'm for the 100% and that I shouldn't of said that"




OMG, AMERICA WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MAN DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

LMAO, Mitt Romney now admits he was wrong on the 47%:

Sean Hannity: "So If he asked you about the 47% what would you have said?"
Romney: "Well I would say that is totally wrong and that I'm for the 100% and that I shouldn't of said that"




OMG, AMERICA WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MAN DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS.

at its finest

 

[Rapmastermind]

at its finest

Like I said. Mitt is nothing more than a used car salesman. He keeps dropping the price to make a sale. The man has no principles. He's basically now throwing the tea party and the far right that he catered to get the nomination under the bus to go to the middle. It's sad, 4 weeks away and now he wants to be a moderate, LOL. I mean why did it take you 3 weeks to admit what was clearly wrong, Wrong in the 47% video? Let me guess those poll numbers dropping? Obama's ads killing him in swing states? THANK GOD Obama didn't fall for the trap last night. He wanted Obama to bring up the 47% so then he could look in the camera and make his little fake apology for the video. I'm tellin folks, Obama saw threw his a$$ and didn't give him the bait. Now he's running on fox still trying to clean it up. If the 47% video wasn't working he wouldn't be finally apologizing now. Obama just needs to cut up more flip/flop ads.

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

The manifestations of last night’s presidential debate have finally set in and we can’t help but imagine how dull and annoying the celebration inside the inner sanctum of Romney’s camp must be. We can only hope that the lowly staffers and interns swarming around their Republican chieftains were sneaking off with their miniature bottles of booze to indulge in safe quarters away from the Mormon leader. We say this with experience as one of us knows first hand just how mundane a LDS soiree can be, having flirted with their offspring long ago.

Lunesta would have likely been more stimulating than Obama and Romney exchanging handshakes on issues ranging from Medicare to taxes. It was clear Obama, ill-prepared and perhaps on a sedative himself, was not expecting much in the way of competition. Typically reserved and aloof in front of the bright lights and big cameras, Obama was cool to the point of frigidity. Lost without his teleprompter, Obama stumbled over his talking points on numerous occasions. Romney on the other hand, with no stately matters on his desk as he awakens except to worry about the fluctuations of his blind trust, had been prepping for Obama for the past month. But even that doesn’t explain his hyper-aggressiveness. Perhaps someone slipped him his first cup of coffee in the Green Room.

As per usual, the Republican primary debates were far more entertaining, especially the early set, with Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul on stage – expanding the discourse and humor far beyond the yawning Lehrer affair.

Which brings us to the moderator Mr. Jim Lehrer. If Obama looked sedate, moderator Jim Lehrer seemed pre-embalmed. This other Big Bird of PBS was forced to smirk as Romney assured him he’d pull the public funds from his salary. Less of a moderator and more like a grandfather that has too much arthritis to wrestle with the youngsters, Lehrer put forth one of the worst performances in presidential debate history. An inept and deferential interviewer, Lehrer failed to prod the two out of their comfort zones. Several times Lehrer assured the audience that, yes, indeed these two in fact differ (Even when, bizarrely, Obama admitted that he and Romney shared the same position on gutting Social Security–true no doubt, but you’d think that Obama would at least try to pretend their was space between their entrenched neoliberal positions.). A lot. How? Just take their word for it. Next question.

Real issues? Hardly. The topic of the night was allegedly domestic policy. You know, all those things that impact our daily lives. Romney loves coal. Obama supports it too, just a little less so. The deficit? Bad stuff. Taxes, that’s a necessary evil folks, so suck it up millionaires and let us spend. Is the economy on the rebound? We sure do love Wall Street, anyhoo. Obama couldn’t pounce, or worse, wouldn’t. Romney was in the driver’s seat for the whole 90-minute ride, with Lehrer and Obama in the backseat passing each other the bong. Pull the plug on PBS? No problem, just give me another pull on that thing, man.

Having more time to respond to the ‘questions’ proved to mean very little. Obama had a whole four extra minutes to attack Romney. But why didn’t he, you ask? Because Obama isn’t even quite sure how to attack or on what grounds he should proceed. He’s a passive-aggressive personality, with the emphasis on passive. (The aggression Obama reserves for the left-wing of his party, particularly black left wingers.) Typically Obama’s popularity and arrogance matter far more than any sort of tangible substance. Last night Mitt was the new jock in town – more arrogant and jacked up to drive his way to the hoop.

It’s certainly difficult to imagine that we are going to be forced to suffer through two more of these filthy galas – not counting the Biden/Ryan match coming up next week. Vice presidential spars are always far more contentious and palpable. With only one outing they will have more to prove and a better arena to do it in. Issues of course are of little matter, it’s pure fun and games.

Outside the debate last night in Colorado, two well-meaning progressive presidential candidates spoke with Amy Goodman in a mock debate format. Their points were made clearly and articulately. Jill Stein of the Green Party, as well as Mr. Independent Rocky Anderson, the former Mayor of Salt Lake City, were full of concerns (dismantle the big banks and end the wars, for starters) that need to be heard but never will as long as Jim Lehrer and the Commission on Presidential Debates conspire to exclude reasonable dissent. LINK

No, the first of the three presidential debates was not a debate at all – it was a sign of just how tepid and boring presidential politics in our country have become. In a sense we all should be with those young Republicans enjoying libations. We just ought to be sipping ours for quite different reasons.

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[ltheghost]

I have the dirty of all Dirt on Romney

 

[ltheghost]

I gotta get my post count up...but I got video of ole boy cheating at the debates

 

[Hussein Fonzarelli]

Romney treated that puppet "I'll vote for him uhm-hummmm dats rite get me Obama money get me some phones yall" president like a Whitey did since America begun.

Pure dominance.

Obama even said numerous times "I agree with Romney" or "we agree with reps"


LMFAO



Romney brought the rice out you fukks.


Whitey can not and will not ever be denied, even after you blacks got your 2 minutes of fame with this current puppet elected.

 

[CapitalOne]

114,000 jobs added
7.8% unemployment rate

 

[Hussein Fonzarelli]

114,000 jobs added
7.8% unemployment rate

did you snap your neck while typin that?

 

[DrunkenNovice]

LMAO, Mitt Romney now admits he was wrong on the 47%:

Sean Hannity: "So If he asked you about the 47% what would you have said?"
Romney: "Well I would say that is totally wrong and that I'm for the 100% and that I shouldn't of said that"




OMG, AMERICA WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MAN DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS.

Now everybody else who supported him on the statement has to back peddle with him. People can't be that stupid.

 

[CapitalOne]

did you snap your neck while typin that?

 

[theworldismine13]

Did Romney Cheat at the Debate?

 

[Trip]

Did Romney Cheat at the Debate?