Posted on 10/07/2012 10:35:57 PM PDT by neverdem
In the debate Mitt Romney suddenly assumed the stature of a president while American hasn't found its way under Obama's failing leadership
When you accumulate some of the adjectives from the pundits, the media, and other appraisals that were not from the right but from baffled sympathizers and centrists, there is no doubt that President Barack Obama clearly lost the debate this week, as a matter of both substance and tone. Take your pick from the river of insults: listless, meandering, lazy, dull-brained, long-winded, languid, and flaccid were just some of the epithets from the pundits. Even the New York Times opined that "He lost his competitive edge." The worst that Mitt Romney's relatively few critics could come up with was that his tax cut was unaffordable.
All Obama could do was repeat the charge, and Romney was able to make the pledge that he would not reduce revenues through his tax cut because they would be offset by the elimination of special write-offs and loopholes. What was remarkable was that Romney, who has been in everyone's dog house for months with an erratic campaign, has suddenly assumed the stature of a president. He was warm, articulate, logical, informed, forceful, and most important, presidential. He was more engaged, more detailed, more decisive, more animated, more aggressive in attack, and more robust in defense than the president, who was lackadaisical and without mastery of the facts or the ability to respond to what was put forth by his challenger.
But what is at issue isn't debating style, questions of posture and demeanor, "gotcha moments," or "You're no Jack Kennedy" zingers. The fundamental issue for America is that we seem to have lost our way and we haven't found it after four years of the Obama administration, thanks to a leadership...
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Mort is a liberal. Liberals never ever accept responsibility for their own actions. I do not believe that Mort now sees the light. He knew everything he wrote in this piece back in 2008, and he is hunting for some way to make himself appear respectable.
I agree.
Why don’t people figure it out - the rats want the poor to fail - otherwise they’d lose their constituency and their power. Take from the doers and give to the those who don’t mind being moochers. (Of course that doesn’t include those who are genuinely in need of help from others.)
They’re really out of control now with seizing our health care - taxes are one thing but the power of life and death in their hands is cause for all out war.
And then there is the EPA, the NEA, the NLRB, etc. They’ve gone too far.
Things are a bit different since Facebook faced the taxman...
That is the problem of liberals they ignore the unintended consequences of their actions. They can go to Venezuela and cry me a river.
Mort wasn’t fooled
he just hates what he views as Christian Conservative values more than socialism
till it got into his pocketbook and Israel too deep
it ain’t complicated
Such a memorable zinger. How many are old enough to remember the launcher of the zinger . . . wait, it's coming back to me. Lloyd Benson? An old fool with a canned zinger, like the grandfather who tells you the same joke every time you visit him. At some point in the debate, Benson blurts out a mention of Jack Kennedy, unconnected to anything else, as in:
"You know, I've heard people say you're a kind of like the young Jack Kennedy . . . " etc., etc. Curiously, the Lamestreamers at the time quoted it immediately as a piece of devastating repartee. With my eyes opened by the Journo-List revelations and related conspiracies to bore us, I'd say it's almost as if the state-run media had been leaked the quote in advance and were waiting to use it in their sneering stories of the debate—which Quayle clearly won. And Dukakis-Benson took, as I recall, 5 states out of 50.
Mort is Jewish and 80% vote for Democrats, which I;ll NEVER understand!!! A BIG Government almost wiped them out and yet they vote for BIG GOVERNMENT! Go figure.....dumb.
BINGO!!!!
They’ve gone too far.
“They” should not exist in the first place.
It is just more evidence of the “Congress”
shirking their job, by giving power to bureaucratic
agencies without our permission or the Constitution.
Indeed, he did. But it took Mort about one year to realize the mistake he'd made.
By early 2010, he was making the case against Obama.
Mort is an honest liberal...and a businessman...no lib dummy.
I think you might have to go back to Harry Truman -- who had his problems, but did an admirable job on balance (dropping the bomb, ending the war, post-war recovery, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, etc.)
I've contended that the last Democrat nominee for the Presidency who might qualify as both honest and capable is probably Hubert Humphrey (1968).
I think you might have to go back to Harry Truman -- who had his problems, but did an admirable job on balance (dropping the bomb, ending the war, post-war recovery, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, etc.)
I've contended that the last Democrat nominee for the Presidency who might qualify as both honest and capable is probably Hubert Humphrey (1968).
This, of course, is where Zuckerman tips his hand that he is a big government liberal who believes that government must "pay for" tax cuts because, of course, all money (and presumably property) belongs to government in the first place. Normal humans, on the other hand, view tax cuts simply as less confiscation of their money by government.
This notion that government must "pay for" confiscating less money from citizens is... bizarre. But then, liberal thought processes are bizarre.
Therefore it makes sense to them. I guess.
Yes, he inherited a financial crisis that he had no part in causing....Ummmm, Mort. Wake up. He was a SENATOR. He caused or helped cause it as much as any freaking politician.
Many here (including myself) have posted as to the hows and whys of that from a historical perspective. IMHO however I think their is something bigger going on. Mort as a Jew and an intellectual successful businessman probably has the ear of many in the Jewish community. In a sense I think if they agree with him it gives them some solice or cover to potentially pull the lever for Mitt. Just my 2 cents...
Glad we got through our McCain / Palin phase.
Business geniuses are good at business or technology or something
The same thing with actors -- they may be great actors but they're not political commentators
O had a lot of people fooled with his empty substance, but remember that he was portrayed as black (whereas he is half-white, half Luo Moslem)
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