Thursday, October 4, 2012

Romney won the debate.

Will be the next President
Romney showed himself to be full of substance while Obama showed himself to be full of hot air. Consider what the Chicago Tribune says:


The Chicago Tribune is clearly disappointed with the Barack Obama they endorsed in 2008 post the Obama-Romney first presidential debate:
The bottom line on engagement with an American public not five weeks from Election Day: Romney was alert, energized and confident. Obama slumped his shoulders, smiled mostly to himself, and for some reason kept staring down. He was that guy at the meeting who's surreptitiously checking his email.
The exciting 2008 candidate of hope and change? Gone. Even the larger-than-life American eagle hanging behind the two candidates seemed perplexed.

24 comments:

  1. Anonymous10/04/2012

    BBC news is reporting;


    US Republican candidate Mitt Romney won the first of three televised debates with President Barack Obama, polls and analysts say.

    After the 90-minute duel centring on taxes, the deficit and healthcare, polls gave Mr Romney a 46-67% margin with Mr Obama trailing with 22-25%.

    Commentators said Mr Romney appeared in command while Mr Obama was hesitant.

    Mr Obama has led national polls and surveys in the swing states that will decide the 6 November election.

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  2. Anonymous10/04/2012

    Momentum is going to shift and will be obvious almost immediately.

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  3. Anonymous10/04/2012

    What you saw last night was the difference between a titan of the business world who has been and always will be a leader, in command of the facts and in command of the room - versus a community organizer. Even Chris Matthews admitted Obama got clobbered. Paraphrasing Matthews : "What was with him looking down all the time?...taking notes...taking notes for what - the next debate ?

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    1. Mitt Romney a titan? Of what? His father was a titan -- he was actually responsible for manufacturing something. Mitt takes other people's money and leverages it. He makes nothing. I'm sure that he knows a lot about finance and commercial and international law, but he knows nothing about providing manufacturing jobs -- good jobs -- in the US. I'm sure the people in a small Illinois town who are currently being put out of a job -- and told to actually train the Chinese that will take their jobs overseas -- think the world of Mitt.

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    2. Anonymous10/04/2012

      Obama does not know the first thing about our free enterprise system. Romney is a NET CREATOR of thousands of jobs and all the lefty business hating nasty lies about this guy do not stand up to the facts. Don't waste your time telling us about some guy somewhere who was hurt by Romney, cuz all you have to do is ring your next door neighbor or the 10 others on every block who are union guys and tell them how great things are under Obummer. Then when you are in the ER room you can tell everyone there how great Obamacare is ! Obama was exposed for what he is - an empty suit !

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    3. Anonymous10/04/2012

      Down goes Obama ! Down goes Obama ! It may have been the first time, but it won't be the last. But OBumstead did pull one miraculous thing off - he made Jimmy Carter look good ! What a whoopin he took! It was hysterical to watch ! Can't wait for the next one when Barack tries to be aggressive....down poodle.

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    4. Anonymous 1, you should really at least TRY to back up claims of Homer being a NET CREATOR. Where? China, India? Every other house has an unemployed member? That would bring the unemployment stats to 50% no? Please -- vote the tall, nice-looking Mormon, WHITE guy, whose sole accomplishment as Governor was the VERY SAME HEALTHCARE PLAN THAT IS NOW IN PLACE AS OBAMACARE. Oh, yeah, this is a LEFTY perspective. You're a perfect example of why we're in trouble -- you probably voted for Bush, the man the right must hide. Vote third party.

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    5. Anonymous10/05/2012

      Romney a net creator of jobs? Do you know what a vulture (not venture) capitalist is?

      A. He creates an offshore hedge fund (these are ordinarily organized as LLCs or partnerships);
      B. He sees underperforming (losing money) companies with "assets" (pension funds).
      C. He buys the underperforming company for 100; he leverages (borrows against) the assets for 200;
      D. He is able to do this with connections in finance and banking to borrow 200 at 0% to negative rates;
      E. He then lays off workers (cuts the underperformance);
      F. He then sells (harvests) the company, thereby paying himself off and huge bonuses after taking over executive positions;
      G. The company is left in more debt, less jobs, and is totally broken.

      He is a "net creator" of jobs? What jobs? His professional career is tax evasion/avoidance, offshoring, and buying companies cheap to leverage their assets and leaving the companies broke and the workers without pensions.


      VICE PRESIDENT
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      Romney selection of Ryan as VP is no coincidence.
      A. Ryan wants to "reform" social security;
      B. He wants zero taxes on capital gains dividends;
      C. To pay for A and B, he will
      1) Dismantle social security (regular people get reduced benefits but pay the same; and
      2) Reduce or eliminate middle-class tax deductions.


      I said it before, and I will say it again, it astounds me that they are national candidates on these policies. Murph may censor this comment, and I am seriously considering creating a 19th ward blog free of censorship (left, right, center, or otherwise).

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    6. Anonymous10/05/2012

      Good go ahead...Like we need even more liberal drivel. It astounds me how hateful and anti capitalistic you can be. Romney has an amazing career in business and has succeeded at virtually everything he has ever attempted. Mr. Bain must hug himself every time he thinks about the best decision he ever made - hiring Mitt Romney. Mitt made Bain and then Bain Capital (2 Separate businesses by the way.) The above LIES are unconscionable and despicable. You are totally misconstruing Romney's amazing business acumen and wild success. He was a business DOCTOR. Bain (the 1st company) were ONLY business CONSULTANTS ! Read the FACTS. Businesses came to him when the were "sick or dying" ...ie FAILING. (Genius - they were failing BEFORE Romney ever met them.) His job (and he succeeded at MOST of the time) was to help figure out what was going wrong....and FIX the Company. Your silly leftist posts show an astonishing lack of any business knowledge whatsoever...kinda like Obummer. I would put Romney at ANY job before ODumbo. Take a look at that guy's resume...."Community Organizer"....nice word for bomb throwing radical. Oh wait that was not him,,,just his good buddy Bill "hey let's bomb a police station" Ayers.

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  4. Anonymous10/04/2012

    Mitt: honey badger Obama: snake

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  5. Anonymous10/04/2012

    Mitt: fat girl Obama: ice cream

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    1. Mitt: good ideas.
      Obama: bad ideas and a record of dismal failure.

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  6. Anonymous10/04/2012

    Obama looked pretty stupid last night especially when the statistical number weren't there on his teleprompter.

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  7. Anonymous10/04/2012

    Just another lawyer who has never been in a courtroom.

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  8. Anonymous10/04/2012

    This is what I, as a Mt. Greenwood resident, took from the debate:

    A. Romney was very prepared; and
    B. Obama was very unprepared.

    If people vote, or change their votes, based on a 90-minute "debate," then that indicates the flaw in our experiment in Const. Democracy. People should vote on policies, not debate styles/preparation.

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  9. As most people forget,the government doesn't make jobs. they create the environment for the private sector to make jobs. he laid out a good plan for using the energy we have here in the U S to create an environment for job creation. let's not split hairs over anything other than to trough Obama and him bunch out of office. we can then work on throwing the establishment out of the 19 th ward. we can do this ........vote

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    1. Waterbill -- who is the establishment in the 19th? I'm serious.

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    2. Anonymous10/05/2012

      Go to a bar on Western and start bad mouthing the 19th Ward Democrats...you will find out quickly. Maybe you will get a ticket on your windshield...or a ticket for creating a "rat harborage" like a relative of mine did. Or maybe suddenly a relative who works in government gets a demotion or some such thing. If you look to the right side of the blog you will see a list of names..those are some of them. I dont think the combined list ever worked a week in the private sector. They control government and the jobs that go with them. Read Clout by Royko. Good book and informative.

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  10. Anonymous10/05/2012

    As a former doorknocker...It's 1980 all over..

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  11. Unions directly cause outsourcing and offshoring by:

    1) preventing companies from paying a fair wage in keeping with economic realities
    2) by having completely unqualified people meddle in fundamental managment decisions
    3) by preventing companies from firing bad employees, a policy which ensures bad service and shoddy products.

    Obama stands with the 9% or so of Americans who say "union yes" and seek to drive American jobs out of the country.

    Romney sides with the rest... which happens to be 91% of workers, and opposes forced unionization and other policies which force companies to shed American workers.
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    ANON: Yes. Obama was unprepared. In the debate, as in his presidency.

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  12. Anonymous10/05/2012

    Obama did something I thought noone could do...make Jimmy Carter look good! He is a totally protected Democrat. EVERY election it is the same thing - a Democrat candidate and the Media versus the Republican. When you remove the media from the control they normally exercise ie in a debate - Romney cleaned his clock. I honestly felt like Obama was intimidated by Romney (deep down he KNOWS he does not belong in the job).

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  13. Anonymous10/05/2012

    Obama is the boy in the plastic bubble...in his case the media is the bubble and once the little boy has his bubble removed he is exposed.....probably the most one sided debate I have ever watched. If anyone was truly undecided or if they were not really enthused for OBumstead - I believe this debate may have been the one factor that will change minds. It was obvious to anyone who is not a complete "dyed in the wool Democrat" or liberal - that Romney was Obama's better.

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  14. Anonymous10/06/2012

    Don't start celebrating just yet. I want to see B. Hussein gone sooner than later just as much as the next sane American. Unfortunately, many of our friends and neighbors are blind fools. Still blaming Bush and hoping for a miracle.
    The politicians of this ward, city, county, state and country have stolen our children's future and led us down the path as debt slaves.
    The Federal Reserve has bailed out the banks and left homeowners upside down and unable to refinance, while allowing JPMorgan to borrow money for nothing and charge 20% to credit card holders trying to feed their families.
    Romney may be a Keynesian, but he's also a realist who will stop throwing money at unsustainable losing propositions like solar and windmills. Do the math, they don't work. When so many are out of work, well, you dance with the one that brung ya. Oil, coal, gas, and nuclear energy will put people back to work and begin to drive manufacturing simply through the support industries. Texas produced more oil last year than any time since the 60's, all without the help of the Obummer administration, who continues to put up barriers and restrict drilling and exploration on public lands. Natural gas oil rigs have dropped by 2/3rds this year alone.
    Romney surprised a lot of people during last weeks debate, and with a similar performance in the next , he may just persuade enough of the undecided votes to get himself elected. But it isn't over yet, and there are too many damn fools that still believe Bill Clintons legacy can save them. Well, Barry aint no Bubba, and after four years, their aint no change.

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