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US Federal Elections 2012

Obama takes the blame when gas goes up, but those doing the blaming will now blame the lower demand due to Obama. Well at least the blamers will be partially right, but there is still too much gaming the system in the futures markets.
 
Obama needs to emphasis continuity in foreign policy, i.e. the desire to have democratic, stable allies in a oil rich area of the world. Once Bush "broke it" by invading Iraq, Obama is just gluing things back together, US is out of Iraq, bin-Laden is dead, etc.

Obama-Romney Debate: Why The Timing Favors Romney

"It was President George W. Bush, not Obama, who launched the fateful project of toppling Sunni strong men in the Middle East in the name of spreading freedom and democracy. That grand strategy, and the regional leaders' inability to adapt to it, has helped turn the Middle East into a more uncontrollable, dangerous, unpredictable place; fear and chaos in countries such as Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are winning out over hope. And although the man who helped to set that process in motion was Bush, Republicans will try tonight to pin the blame on Obama."
 
Obama made the decision to carry on the same foreign policy as all his predecessors. I think it's fair enough to blame him for the flaws in that policy.
 
Which, in four years, Obama didn't. Either that or he identified the flaws and decided not to change them. Or he had no idea how to change them.

It is a nice strategy though and one tried by every candidate I've ever seen. Any failures you blame on the previous administration. Any successes and you take credit for them. Sometimes the voters buy it and sometimes they don't.
 
Well bin Laden is dead and no successful terrorist attacks within the United States, feats not accomplished by the previous republican administration.

At least Obama is not promising a trade war with China if elected. Romney not only insults with complete blathering lies, he's now proved to be a bone head.
 
So Romney suddenly agrees with 95% of the Obama foreign policy.(:rolleyes:) Obama absolutely dominated Romney in this debate. (IMO)
 
Maybe the enemy is us.:eek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/s...truth-about-america.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Both parties would rather avert their eyes from such difficult challenges - because we, the people, would rather avert our eyes. Talk to any political pro about this phenomenon and one name inevitably comes up: Jimmy Carter, who has become a sort of memento mori for American politicians, like the skulls in Renaissance paintings that reminded viewers of their mortality.

Mr. Carter, they will say, disastrously spoke of a national "crisis of confidence" and failed to project the optimism that Americans demand of their presidents. He lost his re-election bid to sunny Ronald Reagan, who promised "morning in America" and left an indelible lesson for candidates of both parties: that voters can be vindictive toward anyone who dares criticize the country and, implicitly, the people.

This is a peculiarly American brand of nationalism. "European politicians exercise much greater freedom to address bluntly the uglier social problems," says Deborah Lea Madsen, professor of American studies at the University of Geneva. An American politician who speaks too candidly about the country's faults, she went on to say, risks being labeled with that most devastating of epithets: un-American.
 
Yes, it has to be all sunshine and rainbows. See: we can cut taxes on everybody by 20%, raise military pending spending by $5 trillion, and balance the budget at the same time. Not to mention creating 12 million jobs in four years and becoming 100% energy independent in eight years. And, yay, nobody has to pay for it!
 
Talk radio is flogging the Libya attack. They're getting desperate which I take as a sign that Obama will win. Four Americans died but they're not talking about how many survived in the CIA annex.
 
We're screwed either way. Neither of these jokers is going to give us the fiscal responsibility and less government intervention that we really need.
 
bberryhill0 said:
Talk radio is flogging the Libya attack. They're getting desperate which I take as a sign that Obama will win. Four Americans died but they're not talking about how many survived in the CIA annex.
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hmmm not having seen a lot of your posts lately........ I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume youre being facetious........ not really any other common sense way to perceive it...... unless brain dead is the latest prognosis
 
Seeing reports already from early voting in Ohio. The claim is that machines are over riding people's votes for Romney and turning them into votes for Obama.
 
A.Nonymous said:
Seeing reports already from early voting in Ohio. The claim is that machines are over riding people's votes for Romney and turning them into votes for Obama.
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Venezuala has the right idea, you vote electronically and get a print out too. They add both up, and if there is a discrepancy they check it out.
 
The voting machines are built by a heavily pro republican company, we have a republican governor and secretary of state, and republicans control both the state senate and house by wide margins. If any shady business was going on it definitely wouldn't be to help Obama. Sounds like they don't like the results they are getting and are making excuses already. The paperless electronic machines are the most asinine idea for counting votes regardless.
 
Where are these reports coming from? Can't be anywhere legitimate. I live in Ohio and its not being reported here.
 
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