Obama vs Romney, who are you voting for and why?

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Rich_Olszewski said:
And the follow-up? How many boots on the ground?

If he did so, what’s wrong with that? Isn’t Libya the one country whose people demonstrated in sympathy with the U.S. because of our ambassador’s death?
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Rich, I just can’t give you a cigar for this. Sorry.

An act of war is an act of war, no matter whether there are regular soldiers assigned to walk on the enemy’s soil. There were “boots on the ground”, though; military and intelligence people who provided “spotting” for bombing and aided the insurgents with tactical advice.

And so, some unknown number of Libyans demonstrated sympathy because some other unknown number of Libyans murdered our ambassador, and that retroactively justifies the War on Libya? There were plenty of Iraqis who welcomed Gulf War Phase 2 and the American presence (some still want us there), but you wouldn’t say that about Iraq.

And, of course, the War on Libya preceded the murder of the ambassador. One might argue that his death was due to removing a nasty but non-threatening government in favor of people we did not know but had strong reason to believe included elements of Al Quaeda. If so, the responsibility for his death stops where Truman said the buck stops.
 
qui_est_ce said:
Prepare yourself for the onslaught of “Catholic” trolls here in the coming weeks before the elections.
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Oh, they’ll be here in droves, just like in 2008. When the election’s over, they disappear like mushrooms in full sunlight.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Oh, they’ll be here in droves, just like in 2008. When the election’s over, they disappear like mushrooms in full sunlight.
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Nah, they get banned for making scurrilous and uncharitable posting. They don’t bother reading the rules.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Again, how many regiments went in to wage war in support of the rebels?
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Again how many bombs did US military drop to commit homicide on how many Libyans. What is your definition of war and why with today’s technology does it have to involve ground forces. One nuke can do it all.
 
Ridgerunner said:
And, of course, the War on Libya preceded the murder of the ambassador. One might argue that his death was due to removing a nasty but non-threatening government in favor of people we did not know but had strong reason to believe included elements of Al Quaeda. If so, the responsibility for his death stops where Truman said the buck stops.
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As I understood it, the attack in Bengazi was not due to a mob attack where the ambassador was unlucky enough to have been caught in, but a focused terrorist attack which we had no prior warning of.
 
CMatt25 said:
You’re going to get a lot more Romney supporters because the vast majority on this forum are political conservatives.
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Actually there are a lot of Romney supporters because the vast majority of people on this forum are Christian-Catholic and put Christ first 👍
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Again, how many regiments went in to wage war in support of the rebels?
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Some wars don’t need anything more than bombing everything in sight and invading with nothing more than military and intelligence people in limited numbers to coordinate the attack. But it’s still an act of war.
 
SaintPatrick333 said:
Actually there are a lot of Romney supporters because the vast majority of people on this forum are Christian-Catholic and put Christ first 👍
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I would hope that people don’t vote so simplistically. Just because a candidate is a Christian-Catholic (are there other kinds of Catholic?) putting Christ first doesn’t mean that the candidate would be any good in Congress. I know a good number of devout priests who fit the description you gave, but who’d be lousy legislators. 🤷
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
As I understood it, the attack in Bengazi was not due to a mob attack where the ambassador was unlucky enough to have been caught in, but a focused terrorist attack which we had no prior warning of.
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Close. We did have prior warning, or at least the ambassador himself did. Only the Obama people know whether he communicated it to anyone else. But it would have been his duty to tell them.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Of course I don’t believe you. For one, what countries is Obama preparing to invade?

Is that so? What decisions has the Supreme Court - with those two new Justices on board - addressed that deal with gun laws? Actually, they’ve been quite pro-gun, approving concealed cary in D.C. for one.

BTW I put no more stock in any NRA magazine than I do in the Mother Jones magazine.
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The very idea of comparing Obama to Hitler, I find outrageous and, hopefully, not typical of the conservative mindset, although I’m not sure about this. (GWB was also compared to Hitler by some crazy leftists.)

Some liberals have complained that Obama is too lax on gun regulations. Even though it is in opposition to my religious beliefs, I have nothing against hunting for sport and apparently neither does Obama.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
I would hope that people don’t vote so simplistically. Just because a candidate is a Christian-Catholic (are there other kinds of Catholic?) putting Christ first doesn’t mean that the candidate would be any good in Congress. I know a good number of devout priests who fit the description you gave, but who’d be lousy legislators. 🤷
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You misstated this post. poster said,Christian Catholics vote their faith,regardless of the candidates’ religious affiliation,as long as said candidate shares Christian views regarding their political platform.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Some wars don’t need anything more than bombing everything in sight and invading with nothing more than military and intelligence people in limited numbers to coordinate the attack. But it’s still an act of war.
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I’ll buy this much - we have no business committing an act of war by providing any assistance to any faction contemplating or already engaged in war in the Middle East, be it Moslem, Jewish or secular.
 
meltzerboy said:
The very idea of comparing Obama to Hitler, I find outrageous and, hopefully, not typical of the conservative mindset, although I’m not sure about this.

Some liberals have complained that Obama is too lax on gun regulations. Even though it is in opposition to my religious beliefs, I have nothing against hunting for sport and apparently neither does Obama.
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Obama isn’t anything like Hitler. He’s more like Carter. While I despise Hitler, he was much more successful and capable than Obama. Obama couldn’t lead a group of schoolchildren.
 
Jeanne_S said:
You misstated this post. poster said,Christian Catholics vote their faith,regardless of the candidates’ religious affiliation,as long as said candidate shares Christian views regarding their political platform.
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I re-read the post and that’s NOT what it said. It said, "Actually there are a lot of Romney supporters because the vast majority of people on this forum are Christian-Catholic and put Christ first. " I read nothing into the statement beyond what it said. You are the poster who is reading more into it than that.
 
meltzerboy said:
The very idea of comparing Obama to Hitler, I find outrageous and, hopefully, not typical of the conservative mindset, although I’m not sure about this. (GWB was also compared to Hitler by some crazy leftists.)

Some liberals have complained that Obama is too lax on gun regulations. Even though it is in opposition to my religious beliefs, I have nothing against hunting for sport and apparently neither does Obama.
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Nor opposes arming Mexican drug lords. His DOJ is very pro-gun.
 
I am just wondering if Romney’s plan of cutting taxes for the rich goes along with Mark 10:17-25.

The Rich and the Kingdom of God

17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’[a]”

20 “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”

21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

22 At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.

23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is** to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”**
 
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