Romney the weathervane was prochoice again last week and prolife again this week

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is obnoxious. While you fret over Romney's every word trying to fish for something to complain about, most logical people concern themselves with:

- almost 50 million Americans are on food stamps.
- unemployment is over 8%
- the deficit is $16 trillion. Obama added more to it than any other US president.
- 1/3 of our annual budget is borrowed (adding to the deficit).
- 1/4 of Americans live in poverty.

Does any of this concern you?

All thanks to the crappy economy that Obama inherited. I'm grateful he's turning things around.

Romney likes to turn things around too - like his positions. Over and over again.

Obama turned things around? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! You are such a fool! He spent what, 2 years on his Obamacare, and another 2 years blaming Bush for the economy. He's done NOTHING. NADA. ZERO. Well, except a teeny weeny payroll tax cut, like $50 every 2 weeks, in exchange for him handing like $100K per taypayer on his "stimulus" to his campaign supporters and [__________] (you fill in the blank, because who knows!). I want my $100K back. The mainstream media has you hooked OMG.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this really that devastating, considering Obama changed his position on gay marriage just a few months ago?

A one-time shift can be explained as evolution if it is limited to a few issues.

Romney, on the other hand, was once more pro-choice than Ted Kennedy, became pro-life when he realized he had zero chance in the GOP on a national stage, and is now trying to say he won't make abortion a priority? (I remember Bob McDonnell saying that in 2009...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is obnoxious. While you fret over Romney's every word trying to fish for something to complain about, most logical people concern themselves with:

- almost 50 million Americans are on food stamps.
- unemployment is over 8%
- the deficit is $16 trillion. Obama added more to it than any other US president.
- 1/3 of our annual budget is borrowed (adding to the deficit).
- 1/4 of Americans live in poverty.

Does any of this concern you?

All thanks to the crappy economy that Obama inherited. I'm grateful he's turning things around.

Romney likes to turn things around too - like his positions. Over and over again.

Obama turned things around? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! You are such a fool! He spent what, 2 years on his Obamacare, and another 2 years blaming Bush for the economy. He's done NOTHING. NADA. ZERO. Well, except a teeny weeny payroll tax cut, like $50 every 2 weeks, in exchange for him handing like $100K per taypayer on his "stimulus" to his campaign supporters and [__________] (you fill in the blank, because who knows!). I want my $100K back. The mainstream media has you hooked OMG.

I think it is commendable that someone this stupid is able to type.

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If by mainstream media, you mean numbers, yes. I'll keep it simple for you:

When Obama took office the economy was shedding jobs at 800,000/month. Now its adding jobs at 100,000+/month. I call that a turnaround.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming Obama is reelected (and that is a big assumption), are you still going to be blaming Bush for Obama's failed economic policies 4 years from now?

The point is moot. The economy is already moving in the right direction.

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Ha!!!!!! Keep right on telling yourselves that bull. The economy is in the tank and no measurable end is in sight. Obama blew it. He came to office with no intention of working across the aisle believing he could push all of his policies through with no real dialog or any compromise. He had a great opportunity to provide unity in this country on many fronts. His arrogance has taken us to new lows both socially and economically. Three and one half years of finger pointing, whining, and divisiveness is more than enough.

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I'm a liberal, but I do feel guilty about continuing to blame Bush for stuff after almost four years of Obama's presidency. I think it's time we admit that Obama is now responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown...

as well as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is obnoxious. While you fret over Romney's every word trying to fish for something to complain about, most logical people concern themselves with:

- almost 50 million Americans are on food stamps.
- unemployment is over 8%
- the deficit is $16 trillion. Obama added more to it than any other US president.
- 1/3 of our annual budget is borrowed (adding to the deficit).
- 1/4 of Americans live in poverty.

Does any of this concern you?

Corrections:

-- It's 46 million people, not "almost 50 million." More importantly, the increase is due to aggressive efforts by the Obama administration to get people who needed it to participate. Please explain how that's a bad thing -- would you rather have these people go hungry? More importantly, they're only on them an average of 9 months and, that money circulates back into the economy. I realize nuance messes with your talking points, but try to apply a little critical thinking.

-- Unemployment is now below 8%. That is not disputed. More importantly, as a pp has pointed out, we have job growth where when Obama took office, we had job cuts.

-- The deficit is not $16 trillion. If you don't know how to use these terms correctly, don't participate in these conversations. The national debt is $16 trillion. Obama's policies have added about $1 trillion to it -- the other $4 trillion can be attributed to the policies of his predecessor (TARP, the wars). All of this assumes that the deficit or debt are even a problem -- they're not. Explain to me why governments have to have balanced budgets? They're not households or businesses.

-- The proportion of Americans living in poverty is not 25%. It's actually about 15%. More to the point, who do you think will do a better job eradicating poverty? Not Mitt Romney, who views these people as unworthy leeches.

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Obama hasn't created anything besides dissention. It is time for a businessman to occupy the oval office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obama hasn't created anything besides dissention. It is time for a businessman to occupy the oval office.

What does a businessman know about running government?

Besides, the last time we had an MBA president, things didn't work out so well.

[Anonymous]

The community organizer sure didn't know anything about working to bring people together, much less economic policy and foreign affairs. I'll take a proven track record vs. none, any day. Obama's chance to prove himself has come and gone.

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Anonymous wrote:Obama hasn't created anything besides dissention. It is time for a businessman to occupy the oval office.

He got us out of a war. He killed Osama Bin Laden. He ensured that we can't be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. He eliminated co-pays for preventive care. Private payrolls are nearly 1 million higher than when he took office, and government payrolls are nearly 750,000 lower, and in total about 4 million jobs have been created since the bottom of the recession in 2010.

Most importantly he signed a budget deal that forced two warring sides to either work together or accept shared pain. Brilliant. Now ask yourself, which side is screaming most about impending cuts? Those are the people you should not trust when they talk about balancing a budget.

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I think Andrew Sullivan put it best today:

"Obama's record is immensely impressive as I argued at some length here. He inherited an economy in free-fall; he put a bottom on it and over 4 million private sector jobs have been created since and the unemployment rate is actually lower than when he took office. It would be much lower if Republican governors had not been slashing government payrolls. He ended the war in Iraq; he has brought the Iranian economy to its knees; he decimated al Qaeda and found and killed Osama bin Laden; he enacted universal healthcare - an historic change that eluded even that political master, Bill Clinton.

What he didn't imagine and what I didn't imagine (and that Peter doesn't mention) is that the party that drove this country into the biggest fiscal, moral, diplomatic and military ditch since the 1970s would immediately turn around and, instead of constructively attempting to help in the worst recession since the 1930s, opted for total obstructionism and party before country. I think the GOP recognized the profound threat Obama represented, the magnitude of their failure, and have done all they could to stop him getting the second term he always needed to fulfill his promise and check them for a generation. They have failed, by and large."

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And if you are not completely satisfied with Andrew Sullivan, then check this out:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/10/you_should_watch_this_video.php?ref=fpblg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is obnoxious. While you fret over Romney's every word trying to fish for something to complain about, most logical people concern themselves with:

- almost 50 million Americans are on food stamps.
- unemployment is over 8%
- the deficit is $16 trillion. Obama added more to it than any other US president.
- 1/3 of our annual budget is borrowed (adding to the deficit).
- 1/4 of Americans live in poverty.

Does any of this concern you?

Not the OP. All of that does concern me, but I don't see President Obama as being the cause of these things, nor do I think Romney is going to change them.

Agree. Think about the problems Obama inherited. 4 years isn't a lot of time to fix a machine as big as America and you can blame some of his inefficiency on the house, not him personally in his role as president.