US Presidential Election Debate #1

[JimR-OCDS]

Reagon inherited a recession from Carter. He turned the economy around to become prosperous in 2 years

What Reagan inherited wasn’t near what Obama inherited,

Also, the USA still had manufacturing which would come back to life.

Not so today as most of the manufacturing and even engineering jobs are now in China and India.

Jim

 

[stevegravy]

Obama is no idiot, and use of uncharitable names is against the rules of this forum, even when it’s about a politician.

Just thought you might like to know.

Jim

You do realize it is an American politician being referred to here. Therefore I ask for proof of your allegation he is no idiot. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just saying…

 

[LisaA]

I wonder too. I wonder if so much is going on in terms of domestic and international matters, enough to distract him, why he was spending so much time on the View or with Beyonce or whoever it was.

Dont forget The Pimp with a Limp and the Pirate interiew…ARGGGGGHHHHH!

Lisa

 

[JimR-OCDS]

2nd debate is town hall which is very different than the 1st, and 3rd is foreign policy which the polls show is prioritised lower than the economy. Early voting is going on now in more in half than states. You need to make an impact in the 1st debate. Economy is at the top of most peoples list not foreign policy

Independent voters will have the final debate in their conscience as they head into the voting booth and barely remember last night’s debate, if they watched it at all.

Jim

 

[stevegravy]

What Reagan inherited wasn’t near what Obama inherited,

Also, the USA still had manufacturing which would come back to life.

Not so today as most of the manufacturing and even engineering jobs are now in China and India.

Jim

And why is that?

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

Are you saying that is why Romney was smiling?

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Romney said that healthcare shoud be handled by the states and not the federal government, and he would not have the (death) board who decides who doesn’t qualify for medicine - who is worthy to live. He mentioned several other differences also. One was about how both parties should agree on something so important instead of passing something without one vote from the other side. (Too bad he didn’t mention that it passed before it was written.)

There is no death board in Obama Care, factcheck reports show this to be false.

In fact, they’re the same type panels Romney Care has.

Jim

 

[pepipop]

Also, would you be saying that voting against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act 4 times as shown and allowing babies who survive abortion to be allowed to be left to die a sign of good judgment??

I genuinely don’t know what you mean.

 

[pepipop]

You admitted having only seen a few clips. You have no idea who Romney is or how he presents himself. Please give it up. You are speaking from a basis of speculation only based on bumper sticker slogans and Democrat talking points.

Lisa

That’s why I put the word '‘perceived’ in inverted commas.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

You do realize it is an American politician being referred to here. Therefore I ask for proof of your allegation he is no idiot. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just saying…

Idiots don’t graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and make it all the way to becoming president of the United States.

Just because you don’t like the man, it’s still against the rules to call him derogatory names.

It’s also un-Christian.

Jim

 

[stevegravy]

There is no death board in Obama Care, factcheck reports show this to be false.

In fact, they’re the same type panels Romney Care has.

Jim

Better check your fact checker. What do you think the independent compensation advisory board or some such bureaucrat titled nonsense is going to be. And if Mass. has the board already too bad for them.

 

[Dawnia]

Independent voters will have the final debate in their conscience as they head into the voting booth and barely remember last night’s debate, if they watched it at all.

Jim

That’s assuming they will wait until after the last debate to vote. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

And why is that?

Because for the past 20 years, US Corporations moved their factories to China, and got a tax credit for doing so.

For the past 10 plus years, the US Corporations have also been moving engineering jobs over to China and India, and getting a tax credit for doing so.

That’s why we’ve had a jobless recovery and well never see the economy and jobs we saw in the 90’s.

Jim

 

[He_Man]

The Founders were skeptical of and disliked both the media and the dumb masses.

LOL dumb masses.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Better check your fact checker. What do you think the independent compensation advisory board or some such bureaucrat titled nonsense is going to be. And if Mass. has the board already too bad for them.

The board is to regulate the insurance and medical corporations to be sure they’re not gouging the people on premiums and costs.

They don’t decide who gets care and what type of care. That’s still in the hands of the doctors.

I live in Massachusetts on Romney Care, BTW.

It’s been great.

Jim

 

[BroomWagon]

Idiots don’t graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and make it all the way to becoming president of the United States.

Just because you don’t like the man, it’s still against the rules to call him derogatory names.

It’s also un-Christian.

Jim

Okay, show the proof of Obama graduating Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, they say so but no proof of it has been shown.

Also, very un-Christian is someone who has voted 4 times against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act”, that has been called voting for Infanticide, no matter what You say about Paul Ryan and the Tea Party, nothing could be worse than this. You are getting on people for name-calling yet, you may well have been trying to use fear as well which is not founded in truth.

 

[stevegravy]

Idiots don’t graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and make it all the way to becoming president of the United States.

Just because you don’t like the man, it’s still against the rules to call him derogatory names.

It’s also un-Christian.

Jim

You don’t know he graduated from anywhere his records are sealed ……unless you’ve seen them. And he is still may be an idiot, I mean they let all types mentally challenged people into university these days And one last thing it is not derogatory he is a politician. It is synonymous.
Besides didn’t Bush have better grades then BO? Just saying

 

[JimR-OCDS]

That’s assuming they will wait until after the last debate to vote. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that.

The majority will.

Only those voting with absentee ballots, will vote early, but they don’t make the majority who will vote and ultimately decide the election.

As it is, for some reason, Military personnel are not requesting absentee ballots and they predict a low vote from the military.

Jim

 

[pepipop]

Are you aware that Romney is a devout Mormon? This religion prohibits even use of caffeine as in coffee, smoking, alcohol or other legal but mind bending, unhealthy drugs.

Romney is the LAST person you’d imagine using any kind of substance, legal or illegal. In fact once asked where he gets all his energy and he referred to Ann Romney’s homemade granola. He is a health nut.

Obama on the other hand was a self described dope smoking slacker, talked about weed and blow and hangin’ with the Choom gang.

Tell me you would think it likely that Romney used any kind of drugs…PUH LEASE

Lisa

Utah has the highest use of antidepressant medications in the USA, at a rate nearly twice the national average. Mormon’s are allowed to use prescription drugs.

articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/20/news/mn-28924

 

[stevegravy]

Because for the past 20 years, US Corporations moved their factories to China, and got a tax credit for doing so.

For the past 10 plus years, the US Corporations have also been moving engineering jobs over to China and India, and getting a tax credit for doing so.

That’s why we’ve had a jobless recovery and well never see the economy and jobs we saw in the 90’s.

Jim

There might have been a tax credit but that ain’t the whole story. The long and the short of it is regulation mostly from the EPA ( Employment Prevention Agency.) Title 5 killed off a lot of business. Now the engineering jobs follow manufacturing, guess what follows engineering……research. Yup, idiots regulating the country to death bureaucratic mandarins preserving their fiefdoms at the expense of everyone else.
Oh, remember that intellectual midget Reich talking about the bottom dweller factories moving to Mexico during the NAFTA debates. We would be left with the high tech, high paying jobs. Well guess what……high tech follows manufacturing.