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Subscribe to RSSAhead of an evening at the Republican National Convention expected to take aim at President Barack Obama's foreign policy and Mitt Romney doing the same today before the Foreign Legion, the president himself questioned Wednesday whether his GOP opponent Mitt Romney would be able to back up his "tough talk."
Speaking at a rally with college students in Charlottesville, Va., the president took aim at his Republican opponent on issues of energy and foreign policy.
Obama accused Romney, for instance, of lacking detail in his plans to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
"He doesn't have a plan to bring home the 33,000 troops who will be coming home from Afghanistan next month," the president said in a mid-afternoon rally. "He likes to talk tough but he doesn't have a lot of details when it comes to -- to these critical issues."
And, as Republicans rally in Tampa, Obama made light of the Romney campaign's reaction to new fuel efficiency standards as "extreme."
"Just yesterday my opponent called my position on fuel efficiency standards extreme," Obama said. "It doesn’t seem extreme to me, more fuel-efficient cars. Maybe the steam engine is more his speed."
The president's trip today to Virginia -- and yesterday, to Colorado and Iowa -- amounted to a somewhat concerted effort to offer counterprogramming to the Republican National Convention.
Obama hadn't watched any of this week's festivities, according to his spokesman, though that didn't stop him from taking direct aim at the Tampa gathering in his speech.
"This week in Tampa, my opponents will offer you their agenda. It should be a pretty entertaining show," he said. It will be. And I’m sure they’ll have some wonderful things to say about me," Obama said Tuesday to about 6,000 students at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa Tuesday.
“But what you won’t hear from them is a path forward that meets the challenges of our time. Instead, it will be an economic plan that says if you just give folks making $3 million or more a year another $250,000 tax cut, then jobs and prosperity will magically rain down on everybody else.”
That criticism both downplays the importance of the event, at which Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will introduce himself to a national audience, and builds it back up as an event representative of what Obama says is the GOP platform: all rhetoric with no policies.
on Wednesday, here at the nTelos Pavilion, he actually encouraged the crowd of 7,500 to “pay a little attention” to the convention but suggested they wouldn’t be satisfied by it.
“You can listen very carefully, very hard, and you wont’ hear them offer a clear, serious path forward,” he said.
Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the president was campaigning during the convention in order to draw a contrast between Republicans’ message, which she suggested was short on details, and his own.
“Conventions are opportunities for both parties to present who they're fighting for and what they stand for and while we didn't hear a lot of answers from the Republicans speaking at the conventions, the president feels it's necessary to keep laying out the choice in this election.”
RNC spokesman Tim Miller argued the opposite point about Obama’s convention-time counterprogramming: “Greek Columns Obama is an expert on showmanship with no follow-through, while our convention is offering a plan for helping the middle class and turning this sputtering economy around.”
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Ha!
President Obama isn't playing fair.
No one should attack a defenseless person (Romney) or a group (GOP) *snark off*
When the president begins attacking Romney and the GNOP about their foreign policy and energy, Robney and the GOP look like the amateurs they are.
Robney/GOP foreign policy= WAR
Robney/GOP on energy= fossil fuels with as few regulations on gas companies as possible. Let the next generations figure out a way to solve the problems.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama's foreign policy:
Please, please, please like me Mr. Chavez...
Romney's foreign policy.
Another war anyone?
Maybe his five sons can lead the charge.
Obama's foreign policy page 2:
I will have more latitude after the election Mr. Putin.
Obama's foreign policy page 3:
Honorable Saudi Prince.... your ring is so pretty! Let me bow at the waist as I kiss it!
brianb come on, are you really not satisfied with what Obama has done in his 3 and a half years in office in regards to foreign policy? What else would you have liked him to do? Your remarks are childish, put something on paper that sticks man.
Ahhh rotthemechanics, you must not pay attention around here very much... How come you attack me because I am only repeating what Obama has said... or done... but the liberals get a free pass over the snarky remarks they make about Romney without a shred of truth in any of them.
I am NOT satisfied with Obama or his foreign policy. I have zero respect for the president of the United States going from country to country apologizing for America's past. The same America that sticks up for the weak, the suffering, the damaged... and Obama has the audacity to apologize for us? I consider that compete and utter bullsh!t!
Romney's foreign policy.
Should I take money out of my Cayman Islands accounts and put into my Swiss accounts
or vice -versa?
Brian's posts bring to mind the tranquil picture of Bush Jr. holding hands with the Saudi prince on his Texas ranch as they walked casually along into the sunset.
That being said, if you liked Bush Jr's. foreign policy, then you're probably quite happy with Obama's since they are essentially the same.
tonybeeerm--You're right and Romney includes in his foreign policy experience all the time he spends in the vaults of UBS counting his money. Oh and by the way, he says that the Soviet Union is our greatest threat.
All the Heads of State around the world, that this President has met with in the last 3.6 years.
All the remarks made, press conferences, and interviews around the world -
All the meetings, the conferences, the conference calls, the G20s, the G8s, etc -
As part of his job, President Obama has been working hard, restoring our international reputation abroad.
Meanwhile, GOP/Koch was openly figuring out ways to block and filibuster our economy, and lay as many people off while recovering from the worst recession in 60 years. With the hope of blaming the fallout on the President.
What gives you the idea that I was satisfied with Bush's foreign policy chucky stuart? Your attempt to throw Bush into the mix is an epic fail. You still haven't defended your president.
Wouldn't that be a more convincing maneuver? To throw Bush up, backfired on your argument Chucky. Defend Obama... or can't you?
I can't. But then, I'm not a big fan.
Stein/Honkala 2012
Backhouse said: President Obama has been working hard, restoring our international reputation abroad.
What is that he receives every month? Is it a paycheck? Isn't he supposed to represent our country? WTF gives you the idea he's achieving anything more than any other president that has been elected before him? I believe he's doing us great harm by his anti-American stance.
Obama is an apologist. He does not believe in the greatness of this country. All Obama is interested in is achieving his greatness... he does not give a wit about this country... his words precede him every time.
Brianb-999431
Bb, you belittle yourself with posts like that.
as to a sundry post of yours, have you never apologised Brianb. Did It not leave you in good stead?
Chucky Stuart said:
I can't. But then, I'm not a big fan.
Stein/Honkala 2012
Chucky, you are partially redeemed. (smile)
BCWC if only you knew irony
bcwc said: Bb, you belittle yourself with posts like that.
But it is fully acceptable for Obama to suck up to a communist leader to gain his admiration. Yeah right... now I know where your priorities lie.
Why doesn't Obama simply sign an executive order mandating that automobiles run on water? After all, he's the president, so, what's to stop him.
Anybody see a line connecting the demise of the American car industry and all these idiotic mandates? See, with gas-again-approaching $4 a gallon, consumer demand will cause carmakers to make more fuel efficient cars.
If GM doesn't do it, the Japanese and the Germans certainly will.
Mitt Romney's foreign policy experience: Go to England and tell the British they are not prepared to run the Olympics; go to Israel and explain away the 60+ years of conflict as a "cultural thing." If he had gone into Poland and insulted Lech Walensa and Pope John Paul II he would have had a hat trick.
As it is, you have to wonder if his press secretary will open each daily briefing with an invitation for the press to "kiss my A##" and to "Shove it."
Er, em, I think we experienced the Romney plan, dubbed RomneyShambles, while he skipped through Great Britain. But Obama is right, that stint wasn't clear or serious. I suspect it was really a shopping trip to find more companies to 'vulturize'.
I remember every time there has been talk about increasing fuel efficiency some say it is the end of the auto industry, they whine and complain and threaten like little tykes on the playground. After the auto industry (often in Japan instead of US) achieves the goal the bar is raised and those same complainers live with it. Eventually either we make cars with maximum efficiency or change to other fuels. Fossil fuel is running out. We can convert to natural gas, or hydrogen. Since people won't do it without prodding the President has to prod them. We don't want to be paying $10 a gallon because of supply and demand and including refinery capacity etc. We don't want to continue breathing dirty air from fossil fuels. We don't want to have a car that can't go far on a single electric charge so the answer is hydrogen. The problem is that we aren't spending enough on R & D on how to extract hydrogen from minerals or carbon elements nor water.
When people try to cheat, aren't responsible citizens or misbehave in some way or another they must me controlled by the government through regulation. They do it to themselves.
RedDev, the skip through Great Britain and his lovely stopover in Israel . . . that one had some implications.
Romney's foreign visits added up to a total mess. He insulted the British on their handling of a very successful Olympics, he riled up the Palestinians with thoughtless remarks, and one of his lackies screamed vulgar insults at reporters at the site of the tomb of Poland's Unknown Soldier. Is that what the right wing lunatic fringe considers to be a successful foreign relations trip?
Romney Foreign Policy:
Grear Britain, you have no idea how to run an Olympics
Israel: Don't you know where your capital city is?
Arab States: We don't care about you...we encourage Israel to attack you. We need to kill of more of our Armed Forces, or at least maim them
Soviet Union: You are our #1 enemy
Obama's foreign policy to England... Here Queenie... an Ipod with all my speeches on it... it's a gift to you so you can listen to me anytime you like.
You mean wanting to bomb Iran isn't enough of a foreign policy? And I thought his recent trip to bolster his foreign policy credentials went so well! (cough, cough)
That's funny because I haven't heard anybody say anything that they specifically would do. I guess you have to learn the secret handshake to get that info.
Meanwhile, we are still waiting for how Pussy Riot Willard will lead America forward in a dangerous world. If Willard can't stand up to the baggers of his party, he isn't up to the task of dealing with Putin.
The republican agenda has been made perfectly clear:
-lower taxes and close loopholes ( read: reduce taxes on the rich, and eliminate tax credits for the rest)
-personhood amendment and abolishing abortion
-self-deportation immigration strategy (how the hell this would work no one knows)/build a fence (basically turn our backs on what this country was founded on: immigrants making a better life in the new world)
-deregulate everything
-enhance stand your ground laws to assist in legalizing murder (as long as they've already been born murder is fine...)
All of this leads to returning the US to the exact standing we had back in 1919. wild west, laissez fair capitalism (which is what created socialism for those of you who recall history... Marx's entire manifesto was a counter argument to the state of factory workers in the US after all), and with lower taxes and cuts to social programs the conservatives can finally achieve their goal of killing the New Deal social safety net and financial regulations that have prevented a repeat of the Great Depression.
Their platform is perfectly clear if you want to see it...
Tzalaran: actually, President George W. Bush began to implement the real strategy behind "self deportation." Make the US economy so bad that illegal immigrants will "self deport." The plan continues under Mitt Romney, only his plan will make the US so bad that US citizens will be illegally entering Mexico.
Gov. Romney has stated that he will not release details of his policies because (sic) "He doesn't want them attacked." Fascinating how a person wants to lead the USA but is afraid to say how he will do it.
Wow, that's the same reason why he won't release his tax returns!
Mr. Romney has stated that he will sign conservative platform into law when elected. see post 3.2 for what that entails because i don't feel like typing it again.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he doesn't have a clue What's his "go to" line when someone nails him with something he can't answer? "We'll get to that later." Yes, that's the guy you want taking that phone call at 3 am.
No aspirant to the Presidency has a clue. Only the C in C shoulders that burden and the new king is generally locked by his predecessor's policy.
What details did Obama release while he was running? As I recall, he professed himself to be a "blank screen" on which people could project their own hopes and dreams.
Well, it worked to get him elected. The fact that he is doing it again seems to have slipped the notice of his acolytes- but, first, typically, an incumbent president does lay out his agenda for a second term; and, second, his record precludes him from running as a "blank slate". As an aside- David Plouffe really does think we're stupid- he's the architect of that strategy. Worked well for Labour when he tried it across the Pond.
One area where Romney has been very specific is the energy sector. He plans to build that Keystone pipeline- and will not shut down the natural gas industry. Obama, by the way, has firm plans to do just that- the day after the election.
Romney does NOT plan to put taxpayer borrowed dollars in the pockets of his big dollar donors for businesses that then go belly up- leaving the taxpayers on the hook, but his donors whole.
Romney is going to win this thing- bank on it. This is1980 all over again- with the exception being that Carter was, actually, a nice man but a wretched president- and Obama is a wretched president, but not a very nice man.
njnb - Keystone Pipeline being an economic and job boom for the US has been proven to be patently false. And since the oil wold go to the world market, it would have no huge increase on energy security for the US. Further, it would increase gas prices in the mid-west, negatively impacting economic recovery and development there (to include farmers). Claiming that President Obama plans on shutting down the natural gas industry (or coal or oil) is also false.
You also seem to have forgotten that it was at the request of Republican Governors (over who's states the pipeline was planned to cross over) that requested the White House stop the pipeline until appropriate environmental work was done. This was requested to protect freshwater aquifers.
Gov. Romney continues to back subsidies and tax credits for big oil (among his largest donors) while advocating the cancellation of tax credits and subsidies for green energy (not among his largest donors).
no Joe: as opposed to Mitt Romney, who is a wretched man, but thankfully, will never be president.
Uh, Matt? What the heck difference does it make where the oil is sold? Increased supply brings down price globally- and the jobs building the pipeline, refining the oil, and loading the ships that carry it? ALL in this country.
Of course, we could let Obma keep borrowing money WE have to repay to line the pockets of his big dollar donors for snake oil plants that go belly up- but a lot of voters don't really see that as a viable plan.
As to his shutting down the natural gas industry- I have already posted the link to the EPA plan. It's on hold until November 7, 2012.
Get the significance of that date?
If his policy is so wonderful no one would attack it. The fact is he doesn't have a plan.
Tell us your plan, Willard so we might begin now and not have to wait until your regime starts and all of it get completed on day one as you have said.
njnb - Canadian oil on the market does not automatically lower prices. They are not the only oil producer. OPEC will simply reduce their output to jack the price back up, same as they have done in the past.
Keystone (lack of) jobs - "But subsequent analysis suggests that Keystone's job-creating potential is more modest. The U.S. State Department calculated last year that the underground pipeline would add 5,000 to 6,000 U.S. jobs. One independent review of Keystone puts that number even lower, with the Cornell University Global Labor Institute finding that the pipeline would add only 500 to 1,400 temporary construction jobs. The authors of the September report also said that much of the new employment stemming from Keystone would be outside the U.S.
Transcanada itself cast doubt on its employment forecast when a vice president for the company told
CNN last fall that the 20,000 jobs Keystone would create were temporary and that the project would likely yield only "hundreds" of permanent positions."
(source: http ://www .cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57361212/keystone-pipeline-how-many-jobs-really-at-stake/ )
EPA regulations - so you think that Clean Air and Clean Water regulations are not needed, don't need to be enforced, and that they don't need to be amended or changed as technology changes? And the claim that he is trying to shut down an industry is false. (source: http ://www .cnn.com/2012/08/27/politics/fact-check-energy/index.html ) You believe that all natural gas producers have no obligation to actually track greenhouse gases emitted by their activites that harm the ozone and hurt people? (http ://www .epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ghgrulemaking.html )
Sure, I can believe that new regulations taking effect after an election is a political move. It's been done by every President. But of course you know that the most recent rule in question was struck down in the US Appeals Court, right? (source: http ://www .reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-usa-epa-ruling-idUSBRE87K0NQ20120821 ) My point in this paragraph is that every rule made can be challenged if required.
I'm sure you also know that the solar panel companies went belly up due to the Chinese government backed and subsidzed solar panels that flooded the market? The Chinese did that (at a loss to their companies made up by the Chinese government) to corner the market. In marketing terms, it's called a "loss leader" technique.
Note that Gov. Romney's economic/energy plan on his campaign website uses highly inflated and incorrect Keystone Pipeline job numbers.
no jo --- Do you really think the Mid-East is going to let the price of oil fall below what they want ? All they have to do is slow their production , which they have done in the past.
Foreign policy?
Three words: Osama bin Laden.
President Obama actually got it done. And the Republicans just can't stand it.
I just don't get that.
Why? Just because it didn't happen under President Bush's watch?
How silly- and counterintuitive- is that?
Let me see if I understand you.
You think the killing of one terrorist (btw, people who were actually onsight say his "official version" was a lie, par for the course) proves his foreign policy is great? LOL
BTW, like it or not, Bush set the wheels in motion that led to the killing of bin Laden. Obama had to be convinced (according to staffers) to give the go.
@Cons,
If memory serves me right, the hunt for bin Laden was begun while Clinton was in office...
The unit dedicated to the hunt for bin Laden was told to stand down while Bush was in office...
...and was told to "Git 'er Done!" by the Obama Administration.
WTH are you talking about. Is this what limpbaug tells you and you take it at factual?
How about this:
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html
Most people already know this. Clearly you don't. (note the date of this article )
"Bush In 2002: "I Truly Am Not Concerned About" Bin Laden"
LOL indeed at your ignorance.
Clinton had two opportunities to capture/kill bin laden but chose not too. Apparently, he feared the blowback for doing so in the circumstance he found himself in. Bush never stopped looking for bin Laden but didn't believe he should be the whole focus on the war against terror.
Hey, I'll give Obama credit for this. It's not enough to get him re-elected. The rest of his term has been a complete disaster.
I always get a kick out of people who cite liberal rags as their source and take it as gospel. F**k the NY Times, they're propaganda for the brain dead.
@Cons,
I offer common ground:
Killing of bin Laden not enough to get Obama re-elected- but give him some credit for it, right?
you havent read many of the lefty posters on here, in fact he can do even less and still 'deserve' another 4. in fact he has done less. 8.3% unemployment and it's still bush and the repubs. what a weak leader
There's not enough of them to get him re-elected.
Bali, didn't I?
I know conservative. just the point that they live in a delusional world.
And the Pakistani doctor who collected DNA evidence that gave us the clear, convincing evidence that bin Ladin was in that house- what happened to him? We get him out?
Nope. Let him get captured and sentenced to thirty years in a Pakistani prison as a traitor.
So, inform me, oh wise, superior Obama acolytes- how successful do you think this country will be gaining the cooperation of others?
If that's not enough, Obama's White House just HAD to spill the beans that we had infiltrated an Al Queda cell that was working on a new, improved underwear bomb- which meant that the Brits had to scurry to get the mole planted there out before he was killed.
How much intelligence we getting there?
Obama sends drones- he gets to give the "kill order" because he is a manly man- to wipe out those he deems enemies. If they happen to be with their wives or children, well, too bad, so sad.
This is the same man who thought dunking suspected terrorists was dreadful. So, tell me, oh highly intelligent, superiorly informed Obama worshippers- how much intelligence do we get from people he just obliterates?
Do any of you ever even think beyond "Obama great, everyone else not"?
It's all smoke & mirrors from the Romney campaign.
Romney has the exact amount of foreign experience Obama had when he took office. He, too, has travelled to foreign countries.
The real tragedy is Obama has only weakened America's position in the eyes of the world and made us a joke. His state dept is as incompetent as it gets.
Obama's still lying. It would be funny but it's just too sad. China must be afraid Romney might actually have a backbone, they're complaining about him and he hasn't been sworn in yet.
Are you for real? Being that I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, I can honestly say if I had to choose between these two gentleman running for this years office, it would be no question. Mitt is laughable when it comes to foreign policy. Do you really think he has what it takes? At least Obama has pursued national security policies that keep the American people safe, all the while turning the page of 10 years of foreign war. Republicans wont do that, Romney wont do that. Obama has been a bummer, but Romney would be a bust. I'll vote for 4 more years to try and rebuild, not 4 more years and 2 steps back.
Obama is a complete disaster on foreign policy. The world laughs at him. Russia and China has told him to go to hell concerning Syria. Our oldest and best allies no longer trust us because they don't trust him.
You must be living on a different planet. This president is respected around the globe. Many times more than the cowboy that proceeded him.
it's called earth. You think if you bow low enough you are respected? I would say Obama is considered weak by most countries hence his likability
So Teddy Roosevelt was wrong when he said walk sofly but carry a big stick? You guys want to just charge in with the big stick. Bush did that and look at the mess we got.
Conservative....
I do not seem to recall Obama being called a Twit by our #1 ally....do you?
I do not seem to recall Obama telling Israel they do not know where their capital city is.
I do not seem to recall Obama telling us "The Sovier Union is our #1 enemy"
Need more???
Weathervane Willard have a backbone? I think you might have a future in stand up comedy.
Hey now, Willard will get along just fine with China. He'll sell them our jobs and technology and make tidy profits for his corporate contributors. For him, it's win-win.
I really hope Romney doesn't win. I don't really want to have to learn Mandarin.
Of course Governor Romney doesn't have a plan to bring home the troops who will be coming home next month. They're coming home next month.
Has the President gotten much sleep lately? Maybe he needs to rest up a bit.
Ms. Candice - Logistical coordination and planning has to be in place well before the troops depart. It has to be there for everything from coordinating when they will leave, how they will leave, where they will go, how they will get there, and what will be done with them once they arrive, as well as what will be done with the resources left behind.
Transportation, billeting, food, dedicated resources, health/medical care, family reunions, accountability, etc.
Hi, Matthew. All true. It appears that those plans have been made and we expect 33,000 troops home next month. Thank the Lord they will come home soon and safe. And since those plans have already been made, Mr. Romney need not come up with a plan to bring them home.
The President's comment was silly. That's okay. He's been saying a few silly things lately but no one ever calls him on it.
While we have 33k coming home soon, we still have troops there and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I know someone who is scheduled to be deployed in the next few months. We have many interests in that region and cannot pull all our troops out at one time. Those who castigate the President for choices he has made are not privy to all the reasons why we will still have resources there. One only has to look at a map to understand we simply cannot pack up everything and leave. It is just not that simple and it doesn't matter whose the President, our country's vital interests come way before any partisan bloviating.
Both parties have been holding election year conventions for ages. It's part of our being a people-focused Republic. Yes, the conventions can get silly but it's part of what we do within the political process.
That the President belittles the event is disturbing. It's disrespectful. It's disrespectful of the event, of the people and disrespectful of an American custom.
The way the Republican Party has been this year, it does not deserve respect.
While I mourn for the brain dead, I do not want them electing the leader of the free world.
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Is it just me or does it seem odd our Great President is more worried about campaigning than he is worried about Hurricane Issac. He is out at Collage campuses talking to kids rather than being in Washington and taking control of a National Emergency!!!!
I am sorry Mr President you are the most arrogant and selfish President this Country has ever seen. Not only that you are the worst Leader as well.
You should get your ass back to Washington and help these people and do your Job!!!!!
He already has put the full support of Homeland Security at their disponsal...Would you like him to fly into the storm and stop the hurricane?
By the way, if you did not notice, the Republican snore-fest is going about business as usual.....they could care less....the storm missed them
Wrong Jindal and other Repub Govenors are at home taking care of business. They decided to stay at home and have a hands on approach to the emergency. That is what good LEADERS do.
So all you have to do as the Commander and Chief is just put Homeland Security on Notice during a National Emergency???? In your mind that is ok?
Hopefully you were joking...right?
The great GOP leaders screwed up during Katrina so of course they are going to try and do a better job this time around. And, if they are such good leaders, why would they want Obama there to steal their limelight? The GOP still doesn't know how to spell FEMA!
mike-pa ---- Pres. Oboma had FEMA ready to go before the storm got close , It was all over the news . Short memary?
Guys if that is all what a President has to do .... You can havehim .. Limelight....That is what he is all about. He is a disgrace! Awful Leader.
6 years Dems have had the majority! Look where we are today! To sit there and keep blaming the minority does not make sense.
Also ask yourself the question ...why is everybody on here so angry...... Because this President does not unite ...he divides. You people dont get it ... I like Democratic Philosiphies... I just do not like this man as President.....He cant do it ...He has proven he can not do it.
Mike...
"6 years Dems have had the majority! Look where we are today! To sit there and keep blaming the minority does not make sense."
Majority of what???? The Repubs have filibustered 176 times in the Senate....majority of what?
Say what here we go a little lesson for you
1. President
2. Senate
3.House
The above makes majority or Minority
The last two years of the bush Presidency the House and Senate was owned by the Democrats .. Presidency owned by the Republicans. Yes that makes the Dems the majority.
2 years into Obama Presidency...the Dems owned a Super Majority. They owned House ..Senate and Presidency.... This means the Prsident can pretty much do what he wants as long as it isnt to outrageous....but just about every policy he put s up ..will get through....
The last two years .. The Dems owned the Presidency and Senate ... Repubs owned House.
Again all 6 years ...the Majority was the Dems. ,...
But you are saying in order for this President to get anything done, he needs a Super Majority...Say What?
No really if thats the case ...they call that a Dictatorship and we would have to change the Constitution for the LIAR AND CHIEF.....ANY QUESTIONS?
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Stick to your agenda Mr. President and don't stoup to the GOP's level. Show the country what you have done so far and show the country what you will continue to do as President. Let the GOP shoot themselves in the foot sometime between now and November.
I guess they want Obama to fly into the storm, turn off the rain, stop the winds, and soak up all the flood waters. Meanwhile, Romney and his crowd are playing with the Dancing Horsie.
Seems to me, when Colorado had the fires, just before the Olympics, Obama flew in and supported the people there. Romney? He could not because his schedule was prepared 7 months before....but, he did manage to fly to Costa Mesa, California the next day for a fund-raiser...I thought that when you fly from Michigan to California, somehow you got close to Colorado .... himm, maybe Colorado was closed?
Maybe show some Leadership.. show some compassion as a leader. Show that you are more interested in the National Emergency than you are about talking to kids. Just the little things a President does....LEADERSHIP!
Mikey,
Obviously you missed my post directly above yours...tell us exactly what Obama should be doing while Isaac is raking Missiissippi, Louisiana,etc.
Remember the GOP is still playing and having fun with the Prancing Pony
By the way, Mike...
Where was George W during the 9-11 attacks? Talking to kids????