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44760. concerned - 10/24/2012 12:06:34 AM

He really took a beating from Obama.

Romney was noticeably less feisty at times than during the first two debates. Whether one likes his foreign policies or not, 0bama does have an debate advantage there. I noticed a couple of whoppers grew some - now his '$5 trillion' tax plan characterization grew to '$7 trillion' when you threw in military spending. And 0bama trying to make political hay out of the difference between government guaranteed private loans vs straight government loans to help the auto industry in 2009 seems to be splitting hairs too finely to influence voters in the way he wants.

44761. PsychProf - 10/24/2012 12:34:24 AM

Winston...loved seeing your name pop up. Old, good, memories for me.

44762. winstonsmith - 10/24/2012 4:18:07 AM

Thanks PP!

44763. concerned - 10/24/2012 5:57:00 PM

Why Romney won the foreign policy debate on substance

44764. judithathome - 10/24/2012 6:59:38 PM

Romney said Syria was Iran's path to the sea....a third grade teacher would have given him an F right there.

44765. Wombat - 10/24/2012 7:39:09 PM

Since Romney appeared to agreeing on everything Obama was doing, perhaps he should be tarred with the same brush. The Sowell piece was particularly idiotic, even for him.

Consider the alternative: continue supporting Mubarak and Qaddafi no matter what they did, which would guarantee that whoever overthrew them would be hostile to the United States and its interests.

The Yamamoto/Bin Laden comparison is, if anything, even more idiotic. A better comparison in terms of risks and consequences would be the attempted hostage rescue in Iran that Carter authorized. Its failure was a major contributor to Carter's defeat. A bungled attempt on Bin Laden would have been used by today's Republicans as campaign fodder, at least as much as its success is being used by the Democrats.

44766. concerned - 10/24/2012 7:42:35 PM

Syria still has great influence in Lebanon, even though they technically withdrew their occupation troops in 2005.

This is kinda like the fact that Iran has enough influence in Iraq nowadays to implement a ready conduit for embargoed goods to such an extent it pretty much take any sting out of the Iranian economic sanctions that 0bama loves to posture about.

44767. concerned - 10/24/2012 7:46:36 PM

Wombat - if you believe Mubarak and Qaddafi were anywhwere close to being as detrimental to regional stability over the long term as the fundamentalist Islamist regimes that have supplanted them, you had better have an EKG performed to see if any mammalian portions of what I laughingly refer to as your brain are still functioning.

44768. arkymalarky - 10/24/2012 8:07:29 PM

That would be an EEG

44769. judithathome - 10/24/2012 8:20:50 PM

Breaking news: arrests being made in Beghazi bombing.

Of course, this will be viewed as a cheap ploy for votes....

44770. concerned - 10/24/2012 8:27:35 PM

So, if Wombat prefers Morsi over Mubarak, he would have preferred a certain 'charismatic' Austrian (who spoke German) over a Republican government in Germany, during the 1930's, also.

After all, Hitler was not on record as calling Jews "Pigs and Apes", nor did he participate in prayer meetings asking Allah for Israel's destruction, nor did he immediately militarize portions of his country in preparation for war with Israel, nor did he immediately start persecuting Egypt's Christian minority adn limiting womens' rights.

I have to admit, you're a hell of a thinker, Wombat. 0bama waves his hand and your reaction is positively Pavlovian.

44771. concerned - 10/24/2012 8:30:17 PM

Re. 44769 -

I didn't know Libya had an election coming so soon after they finished raping and killing Quaddafi (not necessarily in that order).

44772. concerned - 10/24/2012 8:46:53 PM

This 'Arab Spring' has positively eerie parallels to the song: 'Springtime for Hitler'.

But 0bama is about the farthest thing from Mel Brooks in many ways that one could imagine.

44773. concerned - 10/24/2012 8:54:10 PM

0bamnesia:

2004: "My religious faith dictates marriage is between a man and a woman; gay marriage is not a civil right."

2004: Said he does not oppose cracking down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants

2007: The Bush Administration "hides behind executive privilege." 0bama now hiding behind it on Fast and Furious.

2008: 0bama on record as opposing individual mandate.

flip flop flip flop flip flop....


44774. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:03:29 PM


But, as someone once said, you don't need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten.


Not the case with Lefties and their politics. After they've sucked down a few cartons of bad eggs and they're on life support in the ER, well, maybe, but not until then.

44775. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:10:50 PM

Ya gotta agree with Sowell on this one no matter how far you're gone down the Leftist road - FDR in a wheelchair was more of a man than 0bama is on a basketball court - he was a terrible president but at least didn't try to cover himself in glory over a Federal hit job.

44776. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:15:41 PM

Of course that isn't saying much. President 'Eye Candy' needs lead weights in his loafers.

44777. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:33:15 PM



Future Lefty fashion as modeled by Naglaa Ali Mahmud, Mohamed Morsi's wife. At least she's the only one, as far as we know.

44778. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:35:04 PM

How do those women survive wearing all that in that desert heat? Oh, yeah - they stay indoors all the time.

44779. concerned - 10/24/2012 9:39:27 PM

At least 3/4 of her face is uncovered. I guess that's 'striking a blow for womens' freedom' in that part of the world, thanks to 0bama's 'Arab Spring'.

Let's have some cheering now, Lefties.

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