Good line as he stumps post-debate, at the end here: “I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney,” Obama said. “It couldn’t have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year, promising $5 trillion in tax
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LeDaro: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Presidential Debate
There seems a near consensus, Romney won the debate. Obama looked nervous, uncomfortable; Romney calm, on message. Romney may have been overtly flip-flopping on issues like Obamacare and tax cuts – sounding very different than he did in the Republican primary – but somehow Obama wasn’t quite able to get
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney Vs. Big Bird
Mitt Romney said during last night’s debate ( October 3, 2012): “I love Big Bird. I actually like you too,” he said to PBS moderator Jim Lehrer, “but I’m going to stop borrowing money from China to pay for things we don’t need.” Big Bird Tweeted:“Look what Mitt Romney has
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Presidential Debate: Reptilian Romney bests Cerebral Obama
In last night’s presidential debate, one man looked presidential; was incisive and decisive; marshaled facts and figures; confronted his opponent; was strongly assertive; beat back every challenge from the other man; and simply dominated the debate. That man was Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger for the presidency. The other man
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney First Debate
Obama’s performance was lack luster. Here are some of the headlines: Romney comes to play, out-duels Obama in debate, NBC RESET? Romney Wins The Night –The Huffington Post, U.S. ROMNEY WINS THE NIGHT – The Huffington Post, Canada Romney goes on the offensive in debate against Obama –CBC I will
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On image reinforcement
I won’t disagree with those who have criticized Barack Obama’s debate performance last night as listless. But did nobody else notice that the candidate who’s rightly been criticized for his glee in firing workers and shipping jobs overseas had this to say as one of his supposed “zingers”? The second
Continue readingImpolitical: The Obama-Romney debate
That video doesn’t make it seem so bad for Obama after all, does it? I had two experiences watching that debate last night. The first, with the sound on, left me thoroughly depressed and thinking that Obama had blown it. My tweets reflected that reaction. The second, later on, with
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Did Obama Lose the Election Last Night?
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Obama and Mitt Romney had a debate but only Romney showed up. Mitt Romney pressed the reset button last night on his campaign. He presented himself as a compassionate centrist, deeply concerned about the fate of the unemployed and low-income households struggling to
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s Garbage Man Trashes Mitt
The fallout from Romney’s remarks about ‘47%’ continues. Romney’s Garbage Man gives it to him. “My name is Richard Hayes, and I pick up Mitt Romney’s trash. We’re kind of like the invisible people. He doesn’t realize that the service we provide — if it wasn’t for us, it would
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Romney: Are the polls skewed in Obama’s favour?
You’d think the results of so many polls would result in a fairly settled expectation of how many voters will vote for one of the two presidential candidates, but not so. The Republicans believe the polls are skewed and do not reflect the reality on the ground. Therefore, the race
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Was Mitch Romney Another Rightwing Chickenhawk?
Dave Letterman refers to him as “Mitch” Romney. I like it. Think it should stick. Jim Webb, a highly-decorated Vietnam Marine combat officer, has raised the notion that Mitch must have glommed on to a few deferments in his day to avoid getting called to Vietnam. The former Marine and
Continue readingImpolitical: Snapshot of the U.S. campaign
Checking in on the U.S. campaign. Here is how it’s going, in a nutshell. A new Obama ad: A new Romney ad: Which one do you find more compelling? Krugman yesterday: The conventional wisdom — which I too bought into — was that Democrats were going to support Obama, but
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Mitt Romney’s attacks on 47% of American voters is an all-too-natural consequence of rhetoric about taking citizens “off the tax rolls”. For further reading…– Chuck Marr and Chye-Ching Huang discuss the real tax rate faced by people who bring in less than the income-tax threshold here.– For
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s New Ad
Sorry! The audio is not that good. 🙂
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Romney threat to Obama: The Middle Class vote
This poll shows that despite recent Romney ‘gaffes’(as defined by anti-Romney media and some Republicans), Romney is holding a lead over Obama when it comes to the middle class, who constitute 54% of Americans: Overall, Obama leads Romney by just 3 points on the ballot (50 percent to 47 percent)
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Linda McQuaig on Neo-Conservative Contempt
There are some columnists whose work I am loathe to miss. For example, over at the Globe, unlike some people I could name, Lawrence Martin writes with precision and integrity, never failing to take to task the endless abuses heaped upon the electorate by the Harper regime. At the Star,
Continue readingPop The Stack: Yes David, the Conservative movement has two sides, but it also has two parties.
True words written by David Brooks. But the next step is for him to realize that the Democrats are not actually socialists at all but are the Traditional Conservatives he is talking about and pining for. In Canada we used to call them Progressive Conservatives and they’re all but dead
Continue readingPop The Stack: Yes David, the Conservative movement has two sides, but it also has two parties.
True words written by David Brooks. But the next step is for him to realize that the Democrats are not actually socialists at all but are the Traditional Conservatives he is talking about and pining for. In Canada we used to call them Progressive Conservatives and they’re all but dead
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Chris Hayes notes that Mitt Romney’s $50,000-a-plate dinner caught on video represents a rare glimpse inside the U.S.’ plutocracy – as well as a strong argument as to why we shouldn’t allow that group to decide policy affecting the public at large:
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