Obama and Romney hit the final stretch

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Well, I do. I personally have NO USE for either Romney or Obama, but will have to live with whomever wins. Am I to vote any way?
Obama is using the HHS mandate to attack the Catholic Church. Romney wants to repeal Obamacare. Yet you, a Catholic, say, “I have no use for either.”

Mark Twain: “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

Ishii
 
I find it highly funny that the President was criticizing Romney about his knowledge of the military all while showing his own lack of knowledge about the military. 😃
Funny,yet not surprising,this guy is an empty suit in an empty chair:eek:
 
Obama is using the HHS mandate to attack the Catholic Church. Romney wants to repeal Obamacare. Yet you, a Catholic, say, “I have no use for either.”
Correct. BTW, my non-vote won’t mean much, as Arkansas will undoubtedly go for Romney. So there’s no good reason for me to vote for either major candidate. 🤷
 
Nope. Both the righties and the lefties have a candidate who has never served in uniform - not for a day. Explanations from both sides, please.
One difference is that one candidate has served as Commander in Chief of our Nation’s Armed Forces for 4 years and is clueless.

The other candidate has been Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts Army and Air National Guard and knows more about the Federal service Navy.

BTW, the Republicans didn’t display huge pictures of Russian Naval Warships at their national convention… the Democrats did.
 
Nope. Both the righties and the lefties have a candidate who has never served in uniform - not for a day. Explanations from both sides, please.
The fact that Romney didn’t where the uniform does not bother me in the least. What I am concerned more about is what the candidates stand for and plan to do in office. For example, Obama attacks the Catholic church with his policies. Romney would repeal those policies.

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Correct. BTW, my non-vote won’t mean much, as Arkansas will undoubtedly go for Romney. So there’s no good reason for me to vote for either major candidate. 🤷
What if you were living in a swing state? Would you consider voting then? Did you like my Mark Twain quote?

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The other candidate has been Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts Army and Air National Guard and knows more about the Federal service Navy.
Got to hand it to Romney. Thanks to his leadership, Massachusetts was well prepared to repulse attacks from Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and especially New York. Job well done, General!
 
Which man are you speaking of? It seems to me that both candidates fit that description. 🤷
Au contrare’.C’mon,you know the experience between the two is glaring. Romney has a resume of successes,Obama,other than getting Osama ,which was really a no brainier and successful do to the efforts of our NavevSeals,what else has he accomplished?:confused:
 
Got to hand it to Romney. Thanks to his leadership, Massachusetts was well prepared to repulse attacks from Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and especially New York. Job well done, General!
I think the point being made was that Romney knows more about the Navy (even though he was only governor of Mass.) than Obama who has been president 4 years apparently knows.

Ishii
 
Au contrare’.C’mon,you know the experience between the two is glaring. Romney has a resume of successes,Obama,other than getting Osama ,which was really a no brainier and successful do to the efforts of our NavevSeals,what else has he accomplished?:confused:
Aww, Jeanne. C’mon, now. Whom do you think had to authorize the strike against Bin Laden? The CinC, of course.

And, look at it another way - suppose Bin Laden killed half those SEALs and the others barely got away with their lives. Whom do YOU think the Republicans would blame for the debacle?

As for the rest of your post - spoken like a loyal Republican! 👍
 
Define “informed”.
I worked in a big city newspaper for eight years, I know how news is packaged and sent out. “News” is chained to the editorial decisions of editors and programing directors. They decide what stories are important.
The co-opting of news has been going on since the invention of the printing press. However, media disinformation came to fruition under newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who believed the truth was “subjective” and open to his personal interpretation.
They do one of two things: they ignore a story or they engage in “over-reporting” on a subject that has nothing to do with the more important issues at hand. Thus many Americans think the one story that is ignored or given little attention must not be that important. While the story media won’t shut-up about it, it must be important!
In the case of the False News Channel, they engage in silly stories that have nothing to do with anything, but is “fun” news.
But that’s no surprise, modern cable “news” is really infotainment, not news.
Being “informed” really isn’t as complicated as people think. You can rely on the same wire services our media relies on, but become your own editor.
When you do that, you become very much aware of the dog and pony show in Washington and in our media.
Don’t assume everyone who is not voting is “uninformed” or “apathetic”.
They just refuse to play the game.
I made no such assumption. Apparently, you failed at an attempt to be your own editor…
 
I live in a state where my vote won’t matter either, because the people of Massachusetts who have actually experienced Romney as governor utterly reject the idea of him being president. Don’t you think that’s a bit comical?
“My vote won’t matter” is the same claim that the apathetic and uninformed make, when they choose not to vote.
 
No more comical that by using your yardstick, Al Gore was less fit, and George W. Bush more fit to be president because they didn’t or did carry their home state.

But hey, Mondale won Minnesota by 3,761 votes in 1984!
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“My vote won’t matter” is the same claim that the apathetic and uninformed make, when they choose not to vote.
The same claim, too, made by the alert and those aware of the issues when they choose to not vote. Either vote or don’t vote, but have a reason to do so or not to do so.

We each have our reasons for our actions in the voting booth, if we choose to use it. 🙂
 
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