Between Barack and a Hard Place: Ultimate US Elections 2012 Thread

[Royal]

Because he's a black communist and the right believe as long as he beats that black commie , they will look over all that.

You forgot Muslim atheist.

[worstblogever]

Here's the full list of Romney in Britain gaffes from the past 48 hours:

Word was he wasn't good outside of his comfort zone, but this is something else.

[Iangould]

Snide remarks aside, here's what I think along those lines.

Bush got us into a war that destroyed our economy. Stocks take a hit which cause retirement investments to take a hit. Property values drop like a stone in the middle class. But the ramifications of the effects on a huge economy take time to filter through. By the time Joe Average saw his hamburger go to $3 a pound, and his home worth less than the remaining principle of his unpaid mortgage, and the realization that Joe was going to have to work another 5 years from when he'd *planned* to retire just to get back to where he was, Obama was in office.

Bitch and moan all you want that NONE of that is his fault, and in fact he may be turning things around, all Joe Average sees is that his life went into the shitter sometime *after* 2009. Don't bother pointing out that it's a Republican Congress, either. The face at the top of the heap is Barack's.

Not fair, I know. But I think that's why Obama isn't flat dominating the polls.

That's pretty much it.

No President since FDR has been re-elected with an economy this bad.

That Obama is leading even narrowly is a tribute to his ability and his opponent's inability.

I'll also point out that the economy was looking quite promising in the first quarter of this year and it was events completely beyond Obama's control - primarily the result of the first Greek general election - that screwed it.

If the unemployment rate had continued to trend down and now had a 7 in front of it, he'd probably be leading by 5% or more.

[Slam_Bradley]

Snide remarks aside, here's what I think along those lines.

Bush got us into a war that destroyed our economy. Stocks take a hit which cause retirement investments to take a hit. Property values drop like a stone in the middle class. But the ramifications of the effects on a huge economy take time to filter through. By the time Joe Average saw his hamburger go to $3 a pound, and his home worth less than the remaining principle of his unpaid mortgage, and the realization that Joe was going to have to work another 5 years from when he'd *planned* to retire just to get back to where he was, Obama was in office.

Bitch and moan all you want that NONE of that is his fault, and in fact he may be turning things around, all Joe Average sees is that his life went into the shitter sometime *after* 2009. Don't bother pointing out that it's a Republican Congress, either. The face at the top of the heap is Barack's.

Not fair, I know. But I think that's why Obama isn't flat dominating the polls.

The only thing I'd add would be that you also have the American fixation with "running government like a business." We see it all the time and it's even worse when the economy is bad. Whether he was a good businessman or not is immaterial. Romney is going to get a measure of support on that fact alone.

[Royal]

Even though, factually and statistically, businessmen have made bad presidents.

[Vibranium]

You forgot Muslim atheist.

so black commie, Muslim atheist, or no account darkie?

I have to say I have heard the most creative racial epithets during this presidency, even heard a new one I didn't understand

[Vibranium]

so Romney and his mouth are the lead story on NBC Nightly News

[worstblogever]

so Romney and his mouth are the lead story on NBC Nightly News

It's gone viral. All afternoon on Twitter and Facebook, I keep finding people laughing at him. He made such an impression on many Brits that they're really looking at him for the first time and going, "America? REALLY?"

I saw one Tweet, "I bet he wishes he could cancel his trip to Britain, retroactively."

[Slam_Bradley]

Even though, factually and statistically, businessmen have made bad presidents.

In my experience they've made really bad county commissioners and legislators as well.

But people still make with the "run government like a business" bullshit.

[Vibranium]

In my experience they've made really bad county commissioners and legislators as well.

But people still make with the "run government like a business" bullshit.

there has to be a happy medium, you have to run it efficiently IMO but make sure it has the resources its supposed to have

[JeffreyWKramer]

In my experience they've made really bad county commissioners and legislators as well.

But people still make with the "run government like a business" bullshit.

It's also uniformly disastrous whenever people come into a nonprofit with the idea of running it like a for-profit business. And the push for that to happen usually comes from the same mentally challenged folk that think government should be run like a business.

[7thangel]

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Heavily Edited Romney Video Targets Black Voters, Shows NAACP Audience Applauding

Mitt Romney’s speech at the NAACP was defined in the media by the resounding chorus of boos he elicited from the crowd. Campaign staffers had a different interpretation, insisting that he received “thunderous applause over and over again.”

Reflecting this idea, the campaign’s new video targeting African American voters, “We Need Mitt Romney,” rewrites history by splicing together Romney’s speech with shots of a couple audience members nodding as if in agreement. While Romney received a polite standing ovation when he was done speaking, the video has been edited to make it seem like the audience rose to their feet to applaud him mid-speech.

In reality, Romney was booed multiple times, especially when he promised to repeal Obamacare. 95 percent of black voters went to President Obama in 2008 and it is highly unlikely Romney will be able to capture the historically progressive demographic. In fact, an NAACP official told MSNBC that the Romney campaign brought their own African American supporters to fill in the July 11 event. Romney himself admitted that he expected to be booed.

The campaign video also features four African Americans speaking to the camera. One woman declares: “We need in our next president someone who will be honest, open and transparent.”

Watch it:

[Vibranium]

I bet he was really nervous when being that close to actual black people and not the plants in his own campaign

probably afraid they would steal his wallet or something

[Spike-X]

final cut pro working overtime

Pathetic.

Did they get their good friends at Fox News to put the video together? That kind of thing is their specialty, after all.

[7thangel]

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