Obama and Romney hit the final stretch

[EmperorNapoleon]

They are more receptive because they know they can roll him

They’re more receptive because they know he isn’t a war monger and understands how diplomacy works.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

They’re more receptive because they know he isn’t a war monger and understands how diplomacy works.

Libya? Iran? Never having stepped foot in Israel?

 

[Jeanne_S]

They’re more receptive because they know he isn’t a war monger and understands how diplomacy works.

You are correct if diplomacy means bowing,apologizing,going around the globe denigrating our Country

 

[markomalley]

From the Washington Examiner:
Facing a Mitt Romney surge in North Carolina polls, Team Obama is poised to pull back forces in the state that hosted the Democratic National Convention and Democratic advisors suggest that Virginia may be next to fall.

While Obama aides on the ground in both states reject suggestions the campaign has given up to devote more resources to Iowa, Ohio and Florida, those close to the Obama campaign say it’s getting to be time to cut bait.

Democratic strategist Paul Begala, asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer if the Obama campaign has given up on North Carolina, said “Yes. I’m not supposed to say that Wolf. I work for the pro-Obama super PAC, so I’m being paid to help reelect the president, but if you look at where he’s going and where he’s spending money, yes, it looks like Governor Romney is likely to carry North Carolina.”
Not a good thing when a top lieutenant publicly admits defeat.

 

[EmperorNapoleon]

Libya?

What about it? Could you be referring to the NATO operation approved by all European powers?

Iran?

Absolutely! The thing that many Republicans don’t seem to understand is that sanctions don’t work unless everyone plays along; especially Russia and China.

Never having stepped foot in Israel?

Only four Presidents in the last 67 years have visited Israel during their presidency; two of them Democrats. The two Republicans didn’t go until the final year of their Presidency. I don’t see why this should be made into an issue when it comes to Obama.

 

[markomalley]

From the AP:
There are 300 more suspected noncitizens on Colorado’s voter rolls, Secretary of State Gessler said Tuesday in the latest chapter in a contentious national debate over what Republicans say is vulnerability in the voting system.

The latest figures are from the 3,903 people who received letters from Gessler’s office questioning their citizenship in August. During a first round of checks, Gessler said 141 others were found to be possible noncitizens based on a federal immigration database.

Critics of Gessler, who is a Republican, have questioned his political motives and argue the checks have the potential to disenfranchise eligible voters. Some of the people who have received letters questioning their citizenship have turned out to be U.S. citizens, and a few of the original 141 have maintained they are citizens.

The majority of the people who are suspected to be noncitizens and on the rolls are unaffiliated voters and Democrats, according to data provided by Gessler’s office.
Yup. Voter ID is purely racist. There is NO such thing as voter fraud (except if Republicans do it). I hope the court restores these poor victims’ ability to exercise their constitutional right to vote, citizen or not.

 

[Cider]

They are more receptive because they know they can roll him

Exactly. Of course they love him, he works for their interests not America’s.

 

[Cider]

Show me the study establishing the causation. Not the correlation, but the causation.

Of course the left plays the race card. It couldn’t possibly be because parents don’t want their kids spending 2 hours a day on a bus when they have a school right by their house.

 

[SuperLuigi]

Only four Presidents in the last 67 years have visited Israel during their presidency; two of them Democrats. The two Republicans didn’t go until the final year of their Presidency. I don’t see why this should be made into an issue when it comes to Obama.

Because none of them have told Israel to go back to it’s pre-war borders, leaving itself vulnerable.

 

[SuperLuigi]

Wow! Croat Catholic and Bosnian Moslem marriages. And, they get along well? God bless them!

Call me a skeptic. I’ve put on my dating coach hat and helped a lot of women who married foreign Muslim men and a lot of times it wasn’t a good experience.

Caution is advised, and Cardinal Stephen of Japan and Cardinal Policarpo of Poland have commented on this.

 

[Schmoo]

Its ok when dems start wars blah.

Libya? Iran? Never having stepped foot in Israel?

 

[SuperLuigi]

Of course the left plays the race card. It couldn’t possibly be because parents don’t want their kids spending 2 hours a day on a bus when they have a school right by their house.

Just another example of the greatness of government!

Sad thing is you can’t blame that on DC! It’s the urban liberals and that is why education must be more localized.

 

[SwissGuard25]

They’re both terrible. C’mon guys don’t deny it, they’re both in it for themselves and power and etc, etc. And I personally hate that Catholics align themselves with Republicans, I get pro-choice and traditional marriage. Let just agree with them there.

Theres only one way to go:
http://dribbble.s3.amazonaws.com/users/46123/screenshots/326690/vote_jesus_2012.png

 

[He_Man]

They’re both terrible. C’mon guys don’t deny it, they’re both in it for themselves and power and etc, etc. And I personally hate that Catholics align themselves with Republicans, I get pro-choice and traditional marriage. Let just agree with them there.

Theres only one way to go:
http://dribbble.s3.amazonaws.com/users/46123/screenshots/326690/vote_jesus_2012.png

Who disagrees with that? Doesn’t tell me who to vote for, but of course we love Jesus.

P.S. - Catholics supported democrats in 2008, and often do. They are hardly in league with republicans, even simply statistically. They’d get a lot more support on here if they dropped the pro-death platform.

P.P.S. - you argued for love of Jesus, but then presumed to judge why either candidate is running, both of course for selfish reasons. Come on…

 

[Cider]

State Department emails from day of Libya attack show Al Qaeda-tied group on radar

A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows some some of the initial assessments of last month’s deadly consulate attack in Libya, including one email within hours of the attack that noted that the group Ansar al Sharia had claimed responsibility.
Ansar al Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be a an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. A member of the group suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi has been arrested and is being held in Tunisia.
The emails obtained by Fox News **were sent by the State Department to a variety of national security platforms, whose addresses have been redacted, including the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.

Fox News was told that an estimated 300 to 400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. People who received these emails work directly under the nation’s top national security, military and diplomatic officials, Fox News was told.

The third email came at 6:07 p.m. ET and was sent to a different email list but still includes the White House Situation Room address and a subject line of “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack

**

Good luck trying to explain this Obama

 

[ishii]

There are so few of us, and we, more than try to extol Obama, try to make Romney and especially Ryan less objects of near worship.

Count our posts and those of the rightwingers if you need convincing about the imbalance.

As always - in my opinion.

Oh, please. Who here “worships” Romney? My experience posting on these forums is that many people came around to Romney somewhat reluctantly and only in the past few months have come to support him enthusiastically. The whole " you guys worship Romney" shtick is a stupid straw-man. Instead of “worshiping” Romney, I have come to admire his performance in the debates, his experience in business, his authoritative manner in speaking on matters of the economy - which derive from his experience in the private sector (something that Obama manifestly lacks). In this last debate Romney successfully showed himself to have a command of the foreign policy issues. I think anyone who was unsure if they could support him based on matters of war and peace would likely come away from the debate thinking that they could trust him to be calm and cool headed and rational when it comes to foreign policy.

Apparently some here on these forums feel the need to act “above the fray” and in so doing, portray themselves as above the partisanship.

Ishii

 

[ishii]

I get a laugh from the rightwingers who are, surprise! surprise!, saying that Romney was the clear winner twice and was even-steven on the middle debate. What else to expect? That anyone would give the President any credit? Romney would have been considered the winner even if he babbled like a baby through the three debates.

Though I’m not voting for either, I’m not going to be sorry at all if Obama wins and puts paid to Romney. The depth of one-sided partisanship on the Forum deserves no less.

Not to say that those posters weren’t sincere, just partisan beyond ordinary and expected partisanship. And, of course, in my opinion.

Romney’s momentum continued to increase after the 2nd debate From that perspective, it could be said that he won the debate. Also, in polls after the debate, focus groups chose Romney as the one who could best handle our economic issues. As for the 3rd debate, I think you might be confusing things, Rich. Obama might well have “won” in terms of back and forth “points” and I stated that in an earlier post. However, I think that Obama’s style might have set back the office of the presidency. He was argumentative and at times petty - interupting Romney and acting condescending and superior (a common trait among liberals). From that perspective - from the standpoint of likeability and actually appealing to the groups that Obama needs to win over - Obama failed, and therefore lost the debate. Here is something that I do know: I am partisan. You know what else? So are you.

Ishii

 

[meltzerboy]

No. I’ve never so thought.

I know I’ve a strange sense of humor.

It’s a New York sense of humor, not strange to New Yorkers but only to the rest of the world.

 

[Caldera]

From Times 24X7
Bayonet firms rip commander in chief’s 'ignorance’
TMZ spoke with multiple people in the bayonet industry who tell us they were shocked and even offended when Obama brought up the weapon during last night’s debate.

According to the official U.S. Marine Corps website, every Marine is STILL required to complete a bayonet training program … because “the weapon becomes just as effective [as a rifle] in close combat situations.”

But… that was Obama’s big stick it to Romney moment of the night! (pun intended)

 

[EmperorNapoleon]

Because none of them have told Israel to go back to it’s pre-war borders, leaving itself vulnerable.

No administration has recognized Israel’s claims beyond the 1949 armistice lines; not even over Jerusalem. Even the previous administration publicly stated that any such change must be mutually agreed upon by both Israel and Palestine.