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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney last mentioned Libya in a campaign speech on Oct. 12, according to an NBC News review of his speeches.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tells a crowd in Worthington, Ohio, that the country can't afford another Obama presidency, or another stimulus plan.
Outside of his two debate appearances -- on Oct. 16 and Oct. 22 -- the GOP candidate has eschewed attacking President Barack Obama's handling of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya at any of his public events.
Romney's last Libya-specific attack on the administration during a campaign event was related to Vice President Joe Biden's explanation of the administration's reaction and changing explanations for the attack, which left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
"We need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just having people brush this aside," he said. "When the vice president of the United States directly contradicts the testimony, sworn testimony -- of State Department officials -- American citizens have a right to know just what’s going on. And we’re going to find out and this is a time to make sure we do find out."
Romney himself has only referenced Libya since then in his two final debates versus Obama. At the second debate, in New York, Romney slammed the administration's response, saying it "calls into question the president’s whole policy in the Middle East."
But Romney also struggled to respond to moderator Candy Crowley's insistence that Romney had erred on an issue of semantics -- whether Obama had specifically failed to label the attack an "act of terror" in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
In the third debate, this past Monday, Romney barely dwelled on the issue and declined to make an issue of Libya, an issue on which the Republican nominee had campaigned heavily for the better part of a month, until Oct. 12.
Romney adviser Kevin Madden, during a gaggle with reporters on Wednesday traveling with Romney, addressed why the GOP nominee hadn't spoken about Libya.
"Libya is still an issue with many voters, particularly given the conflicting statements from the president and his administration about the nature of the attack. The American people still have unanswered questions," he said.
The issue of the Benghazi attacks haven't died down over the last two weeks; indeed, many conservatives complained Wednesday about insufficient media attention paid to newly-revealed emails showing the State Department had identified messages on social media by extremist groups claiming responsibility for the Benghazi attacks.
Libya hasn't disappeared entirely from the Romney campaign's whole repertoire, either. Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed it on Monday at a rally in Colorado, Romney surrogates have discussed the issue to varying outlets this month, too.
NBC’s Jordan Frasier, Jay Rankin and Matt Loffman contributed reporting
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Hey, Mitt, you rooting against America by using the Libya attack doesn't work..will never work.
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The President is a strong foreign policy president, regardless of Mitt's dumb attempt.
4 more years.
Libya is not the only thing that has disappeared - what is missing is any kind of truth from their side of the 'political' conversation. If Romney "won" the first debate, it was on a parade of LIES, that weren't called out by the media.
In the 3rd debate, Romney did a complete about-face on his foreign policies, so he could align himself with the President's successes.
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that Romney's embrace of Ryan's budget, will ELIMINATE at least 1.3 million jobs.
You can't trust RomneyRyanAynRand as far as you could throw them.
Anyone know where are those tax returns? He's hoping that topic flies under the radar.
GBM,
Mitt Romney: The wealthiest candidate record, and the most secretive on record.
And now that the 47% videotape IS on record: Why give Romney the **** time of day?
Too bad the the media does not seem to be dropping this, eh?
And again, here in SD we get a steady dose - cause of the Seal perspective.
I heard yesterday that more seals have died under O than ever before.
GM - the tax returns are at the IRS.
But I'm sure they would be meaningful to you.
I wonder though - why do you suppose we all have such a huge right to confidentiality in our returns, and why isn't it a requirement that Pres. candidates turn them over?
Interesting, no?
But it's all good, keep running up that hill. It really seems to be working in the old polls.
Spanky -
What 'secret' polls are you seeing that show any potential electoral path to a Romney victory? He has lost ground in almost every major poll since the first debate, and has never led in ANY poll in Ohio or Wisconsin.
Any 'momentum' he enjoyed after the first debate has dissipated, and he is only surging in his own mind.
Yes, I believe that they are safe with Obama's college documents so.............. I don't think we have much chance of seeing them.
I saw something interesting over at the Obama Diary. Something very interesting.
Evidently today Romney said this election wasn't about him.
Can you believe it? President Obama has been saying that for 6 years.
Interesting that since Romney ended up looking the fool about Libya he's backed off on it! And Talk - totally different things and you know it. All Presidential Candidates have released at least 5 years of tax returns - except Romney. NONE have EVER released college documents. Now grow up!
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Yeah - you are prolly right TNSEVOL.
Obama and Mitt have been neck and neck from day one.
The polls in Ohio, FLA and elsewhere have always been as they are now.
O was never winning, and never had a lead.
It's not like Tuesday that it was O with a 1.8% lead in Ohio, whereas today it's dead even.
It's not like Mitt is up in the RCP average.
Yep, just my secret polls and all.
But you at least gotta let me have that. :)
Oh and won't it be fun next week? I'm sure it'll be exactly the same, right?
Since NBC can't take their Obama cheerleader skirts off long enough to report the lies, cover-up, and negligence surrounding the Libya debacle, maybe NBC could report if the folks at the White House had plain or buttered popcorn as they watched real time Americans under attack and being murdered.
Hey MYTH what are you afraid of? Horses and bayonets, Syria, Mali Drones; binders of women coward?
http://i.imgur.com/4LdYE.jpg
Or a black President and Planet?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95SP7lLxCfA/T9JtsyNHl9I/AAAAAAAAK2A/XyWCOHirM7w/s320/tea-party-racist-signs-07-white-slavery.jpg
We know you were afraid of the Vietnam War
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
SS I was just making a point we have about as much chance of seeing either one of them. Romney did what he had to and I don't care what others did or didn't do. As long as you meet the minimum requirements for disclosure all is good. Obama doesn't want or need to show the college docs, Romney needs not show anymore tax documents. Simple as that.
We do not have the right to see either of these people's stuff any further than we have.
Just 4 MYTH Romney
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcco9tgP7V1rjb2ufo1_500.jpg
I'm glad we have a president who lives in the present and prepares for the future; unlike the backwards a** MYTH
4 more 4 44
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TTTH but that doesnt sit well with the uber left narrative to try to paint Romney as an evil rich man. neither are required to hold the office of presidency. You dont need a degree to be president nor show tax records. what's it going to tell everyone anyways? he's rich?
and why is Mitt Romney not giving any more interviews before the election? I'll tell you why. The RNC is afraid he's going to say something embarrassing. So......when has that ever stopped him before? It's funny watching these clowns try and manipulate the election. Like there's a chance in hell they're gonna win.
Is Obama giving anymore interviews or just going to be happy running the talk show circuit and the "relaxed" conversation?
Methinks they are both tired of spins, deflections, out of context sound bites and the like. They are happy firing up their respective crowds at rallies and speeches. They control what is said at those. Enough can come out of them without being blindsided by some "journalist's" line of surprise questioning.
GermanGem- NO ONE WATCHED the attack in real time. That is the lie you and your ignorant ilk love reporting. You're continued posting of lies about the attack show what utter gutter trash you are!
Talk - so you're willing to let Mitt slide from the standard every other candidate has met? How grand of you. Of course, had President Obama not met the standard, you'd be screaming at the top of your lungs. HYPOCRITE!!!
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Mitt does not need to talk about Libya any more, now that the Main Lame media has. Yes even NBC is now reporting on it. This story will keep Haunting Obama and his administration only because it smells of cover up. Remember perception becomes truth.
Au contraire SS. They watched, and they did NOTHING. They refused security requests- for politcal reasons, and then they lied repeatedly about it- for political reasons.
GermanGem -you lie and we all know it. They DID NOT WATCH. Isn't it sad you have to base everything on lies? But, that's all you've got - all you've ever had. You're a feeble minded, gutter trash liar!
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Well isnt this story the pot calling the kettle black. Nice to see the Lybia story is back on NBC in any way shape or form. Wouldnt want them responsibly reporting on a tragic international event handled more than poorly by their choice administration this close to the election now would they?
I remember when they used to report UPDATED gas and oil prices on the front page daily too. Not since 2008 though.
PS: 2 soldiers killed in Afghanistan yesterday (or today - didnt make the papers so im assuming today). Where is that story buried?
Of course it dispersed off the list. Why would Mittens want to look like more of a fool? Next week he'll say he agreed with the President all along. That's his track record.
I'm waiting for Trump to make him a deal. :D
There are three things that EVERY single poll show are the top three concerns of the electorate:
Jobs
The economy
The debt.
Doesn't matter whether they're skewed for democrats, republicans, or Martians. Those three top every single poll.
That's what Romney is talking about.
Obama? Big Bird, Binders, and cutesy-poo schoolyard name calling.
Romney doesn't need to talk about Libya- he's not the one who LIED about it. Funny thing- the media keeps talking about it. Seems like a whole lot of them are affronted about being lied to- late in the game, but at a really bad time for Obama.
As for NBC- well, what can I say? Uh, guys? Your team is losing.
Big time.
SS- you're 2nd grader 'liar liar pants on fire' rant is getting old
Romney's disgusting attempt to exploit the deaths of American diplomats blew up in his face during the second debate. That's why he's not talking about it much. It only reminds people of what a fool he made of himself.
Hey Peroxide Peggy!
Since when is the WH in charge of security requests?
Have you ever heard of the State Dept?
Go take a shower honey, I can smell the stench of desperation dripping off of you!
GermanGem - when you lie, I'll call you out. And, EVERYTHING about you - including the stock photo - is OLD!
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For my pal TSEVOL - a little somethin' somethin' from my 'secret' polls?
New WaPo/ABC Daily Tracker Has Romney Up 50% to 47%;
Leads With Independents By 19 -- NINETEEN -- Points
BAM.
It's Thursday afternoon, so I'm off to Happy Hour.
GermanGen ....
Your snarky smug made-up posts are what's getting old and stale . . . much like your party. But then again, you have no party affiliation. Your entire point of posting is to discredit the President in any way, shape or form.
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@Gov. Romney,
Got Colin Powell?
Obama/Biden 2012
For once Snooki, I agree with you. You are right that you're team is losing. And losing ground every day. Sorry when Nov 6 rolls around and reality slaps you on the @ss.
Out of respect for the families of the deceased, Romney politely refrains from bringing it up. That is what respect is, for those who don't know.
On another note, I wish Obama showed some respect for Hillary and not let her take the blame, but he is so arrogant he probably is the one who told her to say that it was her fault.
It was then that I lost all respect for Obama...
Well, then there was the childish cursing he described Romney with in Rolling Stone magazine...
Ambassador Rice reporting the tentative conclusion of the CIA when she said the Benghazi attack was APPARENTLY the action of a mob angered over the anti-Islam video. If she wanted to give her account a pro-Obama political spin, she would have said it was a terrorist attack. An angry mob of citizens attacking a US mission would be a real sign that Obama's Mideast policy is "unraveling". An attack by a small group of extremists is not.
Only hard core Republicans and media hacks out for ratings are flogging the idiotic conspiracy theory about some sort of cover up.
SS what the hell is the standard? What everyone else did? There is no written law that says either of them has to do more. Is that the way you grew up? You did what all the people around you did? If there was a standard of showing college transcripts and Obama refused, would you be as quick to call him out on it? I guess that explains your stance politically. Sheep. Of course you will come back with the "no one else has done it" talking point but its your guy. I expect you to. Frankly I don't care if either of them show anything and no I wouldn't be screaming and whining like libs do on the tax thing. As long as he did what was legally required I don't give a tinker's damn.
Gingerbread Mamma
and we know that the publicity whore Trump will never offer Romney 5 mil for charity to show them either
So let me get this straight.
So, out of respect Mittens won't bring up Libya. Was this respect something that just happened because for a month now the dumbf*** wouldn't shut up about Libya. Screw the respect...
Where do you freaks come from? An alternate universe where everything is in reverse? Wow, what a liar you are.
The Obama Administration and the State Dept. failed the Ambassador and 3 other Americans, and then lied about it. But if it makes you libs feel better, go ahead and rant and rave all you want.
When he was asked by the family to quit bringing it up, he did Jeff.
freaks huh? classy!!
I can explain respect to you, but I can NOT understand it for you Jeff...
sirie - if you watched the debate you know he DID NOT let Hillary take the blame. Why do you keep posting something we all know is not true? The only arrogance is you for posting this blatant lie not just once but several times.
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You're a pathetic fool IF you believe that load of crap. You decide.
sirie
You've got to be kidding. Romney has never said one good word about Ambassador Stevens, whose work in Libya was obviously not in vain, given the massive pro-American demonstrations in Benghazi following his death. Mitt would like people to not think about that since it undermines the basis for his attack on Obama's Middle East policy.
Mitt did talk about one of the security guards who was also kiiled, and the man's mother told him to stop exploiting her son's death for political purposes. Maybe that's why he shut up about it. Not because of any sense of human decency, but it does look bad when the mothers of victims who died defending America are dragged through the political mud by cheap politicians like Romney.
sirie
Romney was ASKED by the mother of the Navy SEAL to stop.
Romney also got spanked during the 2nd debate which made him look incomptent
that's why Romney stopped
Where did Obama take the blame? He said that it was HIS fault??
Didn't think so, he is too arrogant to admit any wrongdoing...
@sirie,
Out of respect for the families of the deceased, Romney politely refrains from bringing it up.
Sure. Like he didn't at the last debate.
Or like how he tried to politicize the death of a member of Seal Team Six...
...btw in both cases the families of the deceased have told him to STFU.
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proof Bali Bob?
Ultimately, isn't it Barry's responsibility....let's see, he's not responsible for an economy that's in the trash (that's John Boehner's fault)...gas prices...the middle east crisis...Libya...security for our diplomats....unemployment, on and on. So, tell me, what is it EXACTLY is that Barry does? I guess I didn't realize when he was elected his primary job would be being "eye candy" sitting on the sofa with the GIRLZ from the VIEW.....cut and paste that moron!!
ss -- so hillary "accepted" the blame on the 16th. was O too busy with something else for 6 days to say no, it is really his blame to accept?
hanging hill out to dry is not a very smart thing to do with ole' slick as unpredictable as he is
i believe a true leader would have stepped up immediately as the owner of "the buck stops here" title on day 1. why do you suppose he waited for hill to say something first? could they have possibly imagined that there would be no accountability required??
sirie - President Obama was asked - during the 2nd debate about the deaths and he said the buck stops with him that he is responsible - no one esle. How did you miss that????
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About Pres. Obama's foreign policy:
From the World Socialist Web Site (definitely not Fox):
Well, at least now we know who is in possession of the Bush/Cheney Playbook on the War on Terror.
Stein/Honkala 2012
Wow, some of you guys are as arrogant as Obama...
I posted that he was asked by the families to stop speaking of it, and he did.
And doing something after your Sec of State takes the blame was VERY lame, and he is not a real man for NOT taking responsibility in the first place, instead he LIED about it.
Talk about lack of respect... what a classy act that schmoe is!
By chance, do you OWN a mirror?
If so, look in it, with any luck you'll see your own reflection!
Not only does the emperor have clothes, but he's also much better dressed and the only one in the room qualified to speak (or not) on the issue and it's ongoing investigation... Well, ok, Hillary can talk too if she chooses to (or not). All the rest are rubes and wannabees.
That soulless wad Mitt Romney didn't shut up until the family pried him off the corpse he didn't remember introducing himself to FOUR times as "Mitt Romney", political figure" after accidentally crashing a Christmas party he wasn't even invited to but could see from his porch...
A vote for Twitt Romney is like going to a horse race and putting your money on a jockey to win on foot.
@sirie,
Ok, let's give the Governor his due.
Out of respect for the families of the deceased in the Libya incident as well as the Navy Seal, Mitt has dropped these issues.
Why do folks like yourself continue to bring them up?
Have you no respect for the families of the deceased?
sirie - Romney kept talking about the attack until he had his clock cleaned by Obama. Only then did he shut up. Romney is one who proves daily that all the money in the world can't buy class. He's just like Donald Trump in that regard.
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Okay, so he hasn't brought up Libya in a couple of weeks. Probably because no matter how many LIES Obama tells, the main stream media NEVER calls him out on it.
Just like no matter how much information there was/is about Obama's relationships with his scumbag friends from Chicago, the press never puts it out there for people to see.
So, four (4) US diplomats died, and maybe they didn't have to die if their request for additional security was granted.
So what, right?
It's no big deal, right?
It's Obama, and no matter what wrong he does, he's NEVER going to be held responsible for it.
So, Mitt figures, "why bother?" .
We can only hope that America wakes up from this four year nightmare we call the Obama administration, and elects someone who actually knows what they're doing, and will get America back on its feet once again.
DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!!
I realize Snookie-Joe enjoys pretending she know what she is talking about when it comes to the numbers.
However, I'm positive she won't mind if we take a professional pollster like Nate Silver's 538.com over Snooki-Joe's.666.bull@!$%#!
He's entertaining I'll grant you that but arguing with sirie pretty much defines the term, "waste of time" to a tee.
Just looked at the Obama Diary - great photos of the Richmond rally. Plus a really cute shot of President Obama with a fireman who offered a game of basketball to the President! Great Photos!!!
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You guys really need to watch the Colbert Report segment on Fox News overreporting the Libyan incident. The Republican cheerleaders have nothing else so they have only this - and its very feeble.
This one is hysterically funny to me. All the noise, all the pressure this was going to put on Obama - POOF. Mitt didn't like it that every time he brought up Libya - part of the story was always his hasty (WRONG) press release and his egregious misuse on campaign of having 'met' Glen Doherty (until his family and friends complained). Maybe the Republicans were afraid Obama would get Libyan cooperation and drone the attackers before election day? Poor Mitt. Now there's an oxymoron!!
Well its agood thing he is letting the Bhengazi thing go now he has this to worry about .lol
Check it.Maybe some of you have seen it, but news to me.
WOW! Hopefully this will give pause to those that believe Romney can deliver all he says, and change their minds to move FORWARD at the booths . This a nonbiased report, just facts a figures.
Liberals are just so darn funny. Living in the land of denial about their loser of a president. Not one single liberal even understands Romney and how he's running his campaign. They never have. The attacks the libs make on Romney are nothing but their complete misunderstanding and fear. It is very evident in just the posts above.
Hey libs... since the state department has said they were watching the events in Benghazi live and that same feed was broadcast to the White House... how could Obama have missed it? The bigger question is how was that broadcast transmitted and where did it come from? It came from a drone... The drone arrived on site about the time the attack started... I wonder how that drone knew to arrive on queue... I know... Romney ordered it... Dumb liberals will never understand how much of a cover-up this is and exactly how treasonous the president is. Actually the liberals will do everything to make excuses for Obama... and will deny, on purpose any of his wrongdoings....
Spanky,
I heard yesterday that you were in the running with The Donald to hold Colbert's balls in your mouth...
typical Republican throwing any trash out they hop might stick. The only place your comments stick is the @!$%# house wall.
You are right. It isn't a requirement. But it is a tradition. Who started that tradition? Why, no less than Mitt Romney's father, George Romney!
T. George Harris, George Romney's official biographer, recalled what led up to this historic disclosure:
"He balked when I badgered him for a copy of his latest Form 1040, the Federal Individual Income Tax Return," Harris wrote. "Release of the document, while it might serve a political purpose, would not prove very much, he argued. One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show, and what mattered in personal finance was how a man conducted himself over the long haul."
"Stumped by this argument, I was not prepared for the move that it eventually led him to make: He ordered up all the Form 1040's that he and Mrs. Romney had filed over the past twelve years —
An honest man! I would vote for George Romney. I will NOT vote for Mitt Romney!
@brian;
My post are facts sir, with very little opinion,why dont you check out the rest of the article I posted above you.Get some truth in numbers sir,and not just our posts.
You said it brother!lol
Well at least he has one friend.lol I have told you before that Obama has respect from the world. Romney is already spoiling it.
Liberals are so used to the Obama negative campaign, they believe that Romney should be negative campaign too... This goes to show you that liberals are all about negatives... Liberals are hateful, angry, nasty people. Anyone that comes along that decides not to attack, blows their minds... It doesn't compute... They have zero understanding of why Romney isn't going to bring up Libya... Romney doesn't need to... Libya is going to bite Obama right in the ass... and he will lose his job over it... less than 2 weeks to go and Obama will be a lame duck.
The proof is coming out... Congress is going to launch investigations... and Obama will go down in flames... who ordered the drone and why?
Also about Obama's foreign policy...
Romney advocates spending more money to keep our military strong. We already have the strongest military in the world. What we need are smarter leaders for it.
Let's just look at the last two large engagements for our military: Iraq and Afghanistan. C'mon, 10 years to subdue two countries smaller than some US states? WWI lasted 4 years and WWII lasted 6 years. These were wars fought on a global scale.
The idiots in charge, good Republican businessmen, lost sight of the goal. More worried about Halliburton's profits than US security, they dithered until the clock ran out and then retired to live in luxury with "thank you's" from Halliburton.
President Obama is waging war the smart way. Al Quaeda is the enemy. Al Quaeda doesn't have a country. Al Quaeda is spread among many countries with a distributed network of operatives. How do you fight a ground war against this? You can't!
What you can do is make it very, very dangerous to be an Al Quaeda leader. Obama has done that.
June 2012 - Yahya al Libi killed (senior al Qaeda leader in Pakistan)
September 2011 – Younis al Mauritani captured (senior al Qaeda leader in Pakistan)
September 2011 – Abu Hafs al-Shahri killed (al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations)
August 2011 – Atiyah Abd al-Rahman killed (Al Qaeda No. 2 in Pakistan)
May 2011 – Osama bin Laden killed (Number 1 Al Qaeda, and worlds most wanted)
June 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed killed (top al-Qaeda operative in Somalia)
June 2011 – Ilyas Kashmiri killed (top al- Qaeda commander in Pakistan)
June 2010 – Hawza al Jawfi killed along with 6 other terrorist (leader in Pakistan)
May 2010 – Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid killed [aliases Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid] (al Qaeda’s No. 3)
April 2010 – Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Umar al-Baghdadi (Top two Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq)
March 2010 – Qari Mohammad Zafar killed (terrorist leader in Pakistan)
February 2010 – Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar captured (The Taliban’s top military commander)
February 2010 – Sirajuddin Haqqani killed (militant commander in Pakistan)
January 2010 – Qassem al-Rimi, Ayed al-Shabwani, Ammar al-Waili, Saleh al-Tais, Ibrahim and Mohammed Saleh al-Banna killed (Al-Qaeda military boss and senior Al-Qaeda figures in the Arabian Peninsula)
December 2009 – Saleh Al-Somali killed (senior al Qaeda operative in Pakistan)
September 2009 – Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan killed (ringleader of an al Qaeda cell in Kenya)
Now, I ask you, who is more concerned with American security? George W. Bush - who led this country into 2 fruitless, useless, expensive ground wars? Or Romney - who wants to start two more ground wars as soon as he is president? Or Obama - who has made it very, very dangerous to be an Al Quaeda leader?
Coral Taxi said:
@brian;
My post are facts sir, with very little opinion,why dont you check out the rest of the article I posted above you.Get some truth in numbers sir,and not just our posts.
I don't care if you think everything you say is a fact. This is an opinion board. Maybe you don't understand that concept. You think what you say are facts... well there's a funny thing about facts... most of the liberal facts can be disproven... I've seen it time and time again on this board. What's really important, is truth. Liberals have a hard time grasping that concept.
EEngineer said: What you can do is make it very, very dangerous to be an Al Quaeda leader. Obama has done that.
Just because you list out one hit per month... doesn't mean a single thing. It doesn't stop Al Qaida's resolve to go after us. Obama hasn't done a single thing to stop their resolve. Why did Obama let the attack go on in Benghazi? Did he go to bed that night knowing full well that our embassy was under attack, or was he watching the drone feed that was pumped into the situation room? Bet you will deny it... while the state department has released e-mails concerning that night... Who called in the drone on queue?
Even Condoleeza Rice has come out telling all you crazys to put a sock in it and Libya!
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/25/1089691/condi-rice-pours-cold-water-libya/
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Isn't this special?
Poor impotent BB has been reduced to arguing with himself!
Please don't feed the dead-beat daddy! Another 30 minutes and he will be passed out COLD! lol
Heaven forbid he spend some quality time with his kids!
.
Because Brianb, he knows that tomorrow, a Hellfire will take the @!$%# who ordered it out! Rather than, like George W. Bush or Romney, killing another few thousand innocent civilians in a useless ground war!
Spanky-
I had no idea you were privy to the casualty rate among Navy SEALs past and present. Have you considered that the casualty rate and the op tempo are probably tied together? Perhaps there are more SEAL casualties (if there are more) because they have increased the number of missions they are running against Terrorist Operations; at least that's what Joint Special Operations Command has been saying (do you believe what they tell you?). If that is the case then it reflects two relatively new realities:
1. Our intelligence has improved significantly in the last few years.
2. The mission to get Terrorist cells and leadership has a higher priority in the last few years.
Now you can attribute that to anything you want...will of God...flying spaghetti monster...Mitt Romney, what ever your little imagination can conjure. But that dictates two other realities.
1. Higher op tempo always increases casualty rates (sad but true).
2. More bad guys getting killed is a good thing.
"Have a nice Army day!"
Fisty says:
Bet you beat him to that passed out cold thing. God knows you start the "popcorn" at about 10:00 AM. You can tell. As the day goes on your comments get nastier and nastier. I figure about 15 minutes from now the "Fisty dyed head" will disappear into libby land with her sweet dreams of spending the night with the Obama girls.
How do you manage to take one breath after another? I suppose the reptilian part of your brain still functions...more or less.
How many times does the man have to repeat "the buck stops here" before trolls like yourself acknowledge it?
You keep on the Benghazi thing because dead Americans is even better for the Republican Party than a failed US Economy. I have never in my 61 years seen such a group of vultures...yes, vultures is a good description of the New and not so improved RepublTeaNeoCon party. If you vultures could regain power you'd watch God only knows how many Americans die right in front of you. I spent over 20 years in uniform defending this Nation and for the first time in my life...a group of people are making me ask if it was worth defending.
May the American Taliban burn in their own hell.
@brian;
When it comes to who will lead the country I would rather go more on facts than opinion. I do not think everything I say is fact, For the most part though, I back up most I say, mixed with a little opinion, and a quip or two . Usually the vines are entertainment for me , but when it comes to politics and who will lead our country I get much more serious.
Well if it is a fact it will be hard to disprove sir.lol
Your post are only critiscisms and insults of liberals. You have said so much yet nothing at all. Do you at least have something positive to say about your candidate? This seems to be catching in your party, to talk much and say nothing.
No one has to try to paint him as one. He does that all by himself. He has to be the most out of touch with the daily struggles of the average American that I have ever seen in a Presidential candidate.
Whether it's boasting about his wife's two cars, his elbow rubbing with Nascar owners, his 10K bet to Rick Perry on live TV during the biggest recession we have seen, or his 200 million net worth, Mitt Romney has demonstrated time and again, he has never and will never face the hardships millions of Americans face every day.
If you think I am satisfied with Obama, dream on. However, given the options, I will cast my vote for the lesser of the two evils. Hell, Mitt can't even say the same thing twice without forgetting where he stands on something. I wish I was joking, but sadly, it's the truth.
Just the way he said "corporations are people too, my friend" when answering question, smacked of him gloating about the SCOTUS decision to allow corporations to dump hundreds of millions into campaign coffers without ever revealing themselves. Take another look at the clip of him saying that and deny his smug face wasn't all giddy about it.
That's not the point. Everyone knows that he is rolling in hundreds of millions of dollars. What it may show though, is that he pays such a small percentage due to having most of his wealth ties up into capitol gains to avoid taxes. The very tax he seeks to reduce.
Since he is reluctant to release them, he gives the impression, even if it's not true, that he avoiding paying the taxes due to the government. If I may steal a line from another poster. Perception becomes truth.
He pays what he pays and obviously it was legal. Otherwise he would have been chased from the race a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNG time ago.
Thanks for playing. Consolation prize is another 11 days of delusion.
Why continue on this path when the majority of the people know that the president has failed our Nation. There's really no reason to continue reminding them.
He must move on to more important issues which are plaguing our nation from the failed policies of this presidency.
This article is an attempt by the liberal media to minimize the results and neglect of a failed administration.
Romney using the blood from the Libya attack is a "Dishonour"
Romney's interference with the Libya investigation was disgraceful and he should have been reprimanded by the CIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brianb1956
ATTENTION EVERYONE! Brianb does not care about FACTS as much as he cares about OPINIONS.
holy crap brianb, this is the most ignorant statement anyone has made - except when Romney's camp stateted that they would not let factcheckers get in their way.
What's there for Romney to say? He obviously agrees with everything the Obama White House is doing with regards to foreign policy except he fantasizes doing it better, or at least with better hair.
Romney obviously has no clue about foreign policy or world politics and is avoiding that topic like the plague. Since he has the Bush Neo-Cons ready to step in as his advisers if he wins, he must figure he can just outsource that and get down to the real stuff presidents do, or at least what he fantasizes presidents do.
Isn't it funny that liberals hated the Vietnam war, supported te draft dodgers and called troops baby killers...And yet when they find a Republican that didn't serve in Vietnam for ANY reason they are called names and criticized...
And you people don't see the hypocrisy in your own words...
And Mike-464493...Did Obama have any experience or clue when he was elected?? Once again your hypocrisy smacks you in the face and you just wipe it off like a load of spooge....
Maybe Romney and the Republicons have discovered that what they had been saying since 09/11/2001 kind of stuck in the memory of most Americans. When America is attacked, you are either with the President or you are against him. If you are against him, you are not a real American.
Ain't Karma tough, huh ?
Rob68,
Obama didn't have foreign policy experience when he first ran, but his grasp and knowledge of foreign policy and world politics even back then makes Romney and Ryan combined look like they only started brushing up on this stuff a couple weeks before the debates and beyond their often repeated and memorized lines, they really don't seem to have much of an idea what they are even talking about.
That's not just my opinion. That's why Obama clearly won the third debate on foreign policy by a two to one margin by most polls and pundits other than Fox news where Romney was declared the unanimous winner early that morning before the debate even started.
I have no problem with Romney being rich. I have a problem with him being a scum-bag and definitely evil, which I'd have just as many issues with even if he wasn't rich.
Being rich (or in his case super-rich), however, enables him to use his worst traits to his best advantage against good people, and yes, that's just wrong.
ANYBODY that was exposed as totally unprepared and amateurish like Romney would lay low on that issue.
Wrongme is not ready to lead this country on the world stage. London, Israel and Libya showed this guy as a wannabe. Siddown, Mitt the Twitt, and watch a REAL leader the next four years.
You can go back to your regular job - running for office.
You can't keep making a mountain out of mole hill when the facts even today keep changing as to what actually happened in Libya. Republicans will have to find another dead horse to beat! Disgusting republicans!
I have been looking at other countries views of what they think of us...
I will admit there are some that admire Obam, but they are from people like Chaves and such.
From other Countries:
I have seen a cartoon dracula Obama eating our Statue of Liberty.
I have seen a cartoon of a t.v. with a hand sticking out of it shaving its sheep, relaying to "ABC's, NBC's, CBS's, CNN's" and the sheep being the people who only believe what comes from the media.
Since this election has been going on they can see how divided we have become. Not just between democrats, republicans, but of race, gender and class. Some mock us, but the thing I see most that is the scariest is the people who hate us. We in their eyes are all the same no matter the color of our skin, the class we are in!
Don't you people see how divided we have become and DON'T you realize how WEAK we look in our enemies eyes and they can see it by what OUR MEDIA puts out about us! Never before has nation looked the weakest that it does now.
By the dishonesty of our President and his administration about Benghazi... The World has seen it through OUR MEDIA .... and the sad thing is they all knew the truth before we did!!!!!
Mike he had no more understanding of Foreign policy than you or I....He was a small time Senator from Ill....That's what you keep telling yourself so you can continue to support your Messiah....
When Obama loses on Nov. 6th, historians will look at debate #1 and the Libya debacle as the 2 things that ultimately led to it. Short of the the handful of Obama Zombies that soil these boards, 99% of America should be totally hacked-off at Obama for:
1. Flat out lying, time and again, (till the facts made it imposable to continue) to the American people about what happened, this was done purely to protect his political a$$.
2. Needlessly sacrificing these four people, they KNEW what was happening and when, but for some reason known only to Obama, Hillary, and GOD, they chose to let these people die.
Prior to the Libyan debacle. I disliked Obama, not because of the color of his skin, or who he was but for the policies he championed, now I despise this turd, I cannot even bring myself to look at him.
NBC This is the article on Libya that you actually run!!! hah this is the most bullsh!t biased 'news' station. Why did you bury the Benghazi emails story. Obama and his Cabinet said, "We have no information to suggest it was a pre-planned attack." These emails prove otherwise - They keep stripping the URL to their own article - take out the spaces --> nbcnews.com /id /49528091
NBC you're a disgrace to real reporting. If this had been a republican president you'd be hammering this down our throats. Come on show some gumption.
You're so willing to jump on a any indication of Romney 'lying', but when the President and his cabinet do it. You BURY it. Seriously Shameful.
Wheres the article talking about how they had LIVE FEED of the attack while it was happening? Where's the article about the CIA requesting to help 3 times and being told to stand down? They watched our citizens being murdered and didn't lift a finger. This should be front page news!! Seriously Shameful. Boo NBC!
Paul Ryan summed up Obama best: The CBO can't score speeches...
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
blue your mantra has been regurgitated over and over and thrown out with the rest of the trash....Try again asshat....
Willard might of gone radio silent on it, shame his cult members can't follow his lead!
NewsforDumbFux has dedicated 24/7 coverage to feed the sheeple!
well MSNBC has decided its ALL RAPE ALL THE TIME. i think there going to have a woman raped on air and discuss why this woman needs to vote for Obama .. once its over..
romney ryan 12
joshua
You are a very disgusting and demented individual. You must be a complete embarrassment to your mother.
RevengeofPodus ...
Fixed it for you.
Obama/Biden 2012
Revenge- you are total filth. Go away!
Revenge of Podus - nice of you to come front and center showing off the GOP/TP's finest. I know you work real hard at it. Keep up the good work.
Hey Feisty, you sure don't seem bummed out to me... i wonder where Professor Moriarty gets his ideas. Now I remember, they were written for him!
Revengeofpodunk is a bit more transparent in his thought processes though... On my boat we'd toss him overboard... On a rope just in case the first time felt unsatisfactory.
I was thinking the other day... Since Fock Snooze can actually make a person less informed than one that walks around with no intent to absorb anything, wouldn't they be the anti-media? Just a thought.
Revenge there is something very wrong with and sad, were you always like this or did you grow into the nasty mutt of today. Go home, you make my hair hurt.
Obama 2012
That is so damn funny Feisty, Mitt says "Full Speed Ahead" - and promptly disappears from media view (he rows away in a seven foot dink claiming victory after his Battleship was blown out from under his ass)!
But isn't it the center of our entire foreign policy and the single most important issue in the election?
Go Figure!
No it is not! It has, is and always will be about a comedian's ability to buy a square meal. Pardon Lenny Bruce .... whoops, that happened?
It's like we're in our own little world here...
I know you posted the Princeton, this is another daily tracking poll, to be taken with the same measure of salt...
https://mmicdata.rand.org/alp/index.php?page=election#election-forecast
I am sure that in some circles there is a Orwellian temptation to see Libya disappear from the news, or maybe even the map, while others would like to inflate it beyond Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloon dimensions, so that it obscures all other objects...
What's wrong with Princeton? The 2 guys running are from Harvard! Ergo my nerds should be fair and balanced.
Speaking of Lenny ... Ergo un@!$%# yourself.
Poison Ivy (League) can give one a rash, depiction of the race that is...
I believe that the more polls and analyses that you have, to the point of confusion and statistical blindness is the only way to accurately divine the true nature of the race. Only then can you say, "It's too close to call and everything depends on OHIO" with the proper authoritative tone.
(actually, it's just another poll)
I'm a sucker for stuff like this ... so pretty and it comes in blue.
((1 – P1) + P1 * x^EV1) * ((1 – P2) + P2 * x^EV2) * … * ((1 – P51) + P51 * x^EV51)
Why does that look familiar? Is that the formula for RUNS CREATED? lol
You are the mathmagician here, so I just hope the answer is...
Ice Cream for everybody!
(Figures don't lie but liars sure know how to figure...)
There is only one magic number ... the possibility of a ballgame never ending. That would be my flavour.
Ahhh...Paradise found...
(Lenny Bruce would have enjoyed that new film "ARGO...%$#^yourself, don't you think?)
Hoping to take it in this weekend or tomorrow afternoon ... have heard many good things.
Ben Affleck, auteur! who would have predicted that!?!
dangerfield - Ben Affleck is a really good director and actor. He's getting better with age!
Obama/Biden 2012
Figures, Willard who so quickly wanted to politicize it quit talking about it after Obama nailed him with it on the second debate, then agreed with Obama's position on Libya, Egypt, Syria and Iran in the third debate. I guess I can't accuse Willard of leading from behind because he flops so much that he fails to lead, period!
I guess the good folks over at Team Willard are still trying to figure out the meaning of the phrase "act of terror."
Michael O'brien, what a joke of an article. "But Romney also struggled to respond to moderator Candy Crowley's insistence that Romney had erred on an issue of semantics -- whether Obama had specifically failed to label the attack an "act of terror" in the immediate aftermath of the attack."
The entire country was shocked that she 1.) Interjected and 2.) Lied. Heck she later walked back her statement. Read the transcript, he never specifically said the attack in Benghazi was a Terrorist attack.
Shameful!
Keep on dragging that bone in your mouth little doggie maybe someone will stupidly pick up the other end and play with you.
I read the transcript and President Obama clearly mentioned the Benghazi attack, the death of the American ambassador, then stated:
Pres. Obama CLEARLY stating that Benghazi was an act of terror. How did Candy Crowley lie?
Semantics, You libs love 'em. Act of terror.......terror attack.......You say potato and I say.........
Talk - he said it was an act of terror if you don't understand get someone to explain it to you!
Obama/Biden 2012
Anymore SS a riot is an act of terror and pretty soon bullying will be on that list along with other "hate crimes". And this is but the Fort Hood "massacre" was workplace violence? Okay, guess it depends on who is involved and who is responsible and where it takes place.
I'll agree to disagree. But please, no put downs and name calling. Just let's leave it at that. Thanks.
I'm beginning to think these teabaggers don't understand English.
tonybeeerm - they don't understand much of anything. Pathetic isn't it?
Obama/Biden 2012
what a bunch of pompous windbags. yep only coffee house libs with their 'educations' know everything. of course neither one of you two clowns could actually support your argument so you deflect juvenile name calling. Weak little wimps you are. Tony and Seeking are further proof that America continues to be dumbed down.
TNSEVOL, you must have failed English class. The paragraphs preceding the 'acts of terror' one are about the 2001 attacks and our soldiers fighting terrorism. The 'acts of terror' statement was directed to Libya.
Sleazer Almostis just accused someone of being a pompous wind-bag... I can only hope that he's reciting his daily affirmation in the mirror and just accidentally typing.
Btw Sleazer... Since you don't like being made sport of because you pretend idiotic things in public over and over, perhaps you'd like to take a moment and explain to us all the difference between "act of terror" and "terrorist act"... Talk to the hairy hand, you can jump in on the assignment if you like since scemantics are an interest of yours... No pushing and shoving now kids, there's plenty of stilted silence to go around!
This should be riveting!
mhrjhn
MHRJHN you oviously are a liar or an idiot (or both). Makes you a RWNJ..lol
Go ahead..read the transcript
10:43 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.
Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.
The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.
Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.
Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens's body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.
It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.
Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.
Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.
As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.
But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.
We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.
Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America.
sure, point to me where i am pompous. how many times do i call people stupid and allude to me being smarter? perhaps you can look up pompous and let me know mmmkay...
cool chick binder, im sure it will be riveting. Lets see well lets start with Aurora Co. Would you say that is an act of terror? I would but would i call it a terrorist act? NOPE. terrorism is a bit different then that. Hell Friday the 13th movies should be called an act of terror, they can strike terror into a person watching.
And this from the man with a moniker of "Caesar Augustus"...
Can you spell I-R-O-N-Y???
Hahahahaha!
locations and movies? mmmmkay? Oh well, you took a shot.
Aurora CO... Did he do it to make people afraid of going to the movies? Was he a terrorist or a nut-job? Was his plan to destabilize and overthrow something or dress funny, shoot people, and hide by his car in the parking lot?
Aurora was neither an act of terror nor a terrorist act.
Your lame-o recycled movie reference doesn't even warrant virtual ink.
Libya disappears from Romney's stump speeches but not from the minds of many Americans that are still wondering why Hussein and his administration LIED about the attacks for weeks.
Keep on dragging that bone in your mouth little doggie maybe someone will stupidly pick up the other end and play with you.
Dan, you're starting to repeat yourself. ;-)
And, I'm not playing - people died and Hussein lied.
Really ...am I the one repeating myself? (:^D
DanAustin: people will keep "dragging that bone" for as long as you continue to blame everybody but this president for the current state of the nation. Mr. Obama owns this now and has for some time, to include the unbelievable amount of debt that makes Bush's borrowing look like a drop in the bucket.
Remember that the next time you say look what Bush did.
"Remember that the next time you say look what Bush did."
You Republicans have a very short memory. From 1976 to 1992 you whined and cried, moan and groaned and complained and complained more and bitched, carried on and on and blamed President Carter of everything wrong in the entire universe. Then from 1992 to 2008 you whined and cried, moan and groaned and complained and complained more and bitched, carried on and on and blamed President Clinton for everything that was wrong in the entire universe. So – using the standard you set – the left has another 29 years to blame Bush for everything just to pull even with you.
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
Whatever the Romney campaign strategy is, it is working.
Obama's campaign of SmallBall is stumbling and fumbling to the finish line, the Big Bird strategy is in shambles, and the President is using foul language
Oh whoopsy ... the Princeton Meta-Analysis has just revised the EC numbers to
Obama 297
Romney 241
... a gain of +2 for Obama from noon.
....and "FOWL" language, too! "LOL"
Bob - Oh my, imagine that: the President curses. It's despicable!!! Horrifying!!! Beneath the Office of the President!!!! I can't believe that a U.S. President would use the word bullsh*t!!!! What is this country coming to??????
And the Dems are playing small ball???
Wow, this is a "really big phucking deal!" Out of the mouth of the great Joe Biden! The Republicans are grasping at straws, AGAIN! I think they are collectively losing what mental stability they have. I think they call that collective panic disorder? Something like that.
Grasping at straws ? Is some liberal running their mouth about "binder" or "binders" ??
Is Obama talking about "Big Bird" or "Elmo" again" ???
My, my, my .... what important stuff is coming from liberal circles these days !
That's what I said. Hey, your candidate is the one who bunches women up in binders. Can't help it if your candidate is so out of touch with modern society. In today's age, we call it a resume. Also can't help it that your candidate lied about running around to women's groups looking for the binders. A collection of resumes from qualified women were waiting for the gov when he sat down at his desk.
MOcern society argument is priceless. I dont care if the president knows what instagram is. I expect him to know how to do his job right, not know what the latest in social technology is. I dont expect him to care about replacement refs, steroids in baseball and hocky strikes. I dont care about NCAA brackets.
News Flash: people will enough money to run for president WILL NEVER understand us in the middle class because they have never (or in some cases for time) been there.
All of this bickering back and forth is rediculous. It is close enough to the election now that most of us have already decided who we want to vote for. So arguing about one side or the other is pointless.
AlaskaGirl-759554
AlaskaGirl - I know that you can probably see Obama wining the election "from your Window". However here in civilization where I'm and in the Company that I work for we call it a Binder with Women Resumes or a Binder with men Resumes, or binder with Minority Resumes.
We would like to call it a Binder of just Resumes, but because of the Government law on Affirmative, we have to make sure that we filled the quotas.
Whatever the Romney campaign strategy is, it is working.
Where?? It's NOT working in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Nevada. President Obama is leading in every one of those states and that's the election even if Romney carries Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.
Well there Concerned Citizen... take it from an expert on women in binders (see name). Where I come from when your talking in front of the public you actually WANT them to remember what you say. And if you talked to them about the same stuff tomorrow it's not supposed to look like a surprise visit from yer friggin' doppelganger. Where I come from we have a name for people that change their stories continually, manipulate through omission, and just generally treat everyone as if they were stupid.
That's right... Romney. Use it in a sentence... My friend won $1,000 in the lottery, and I said to him NO! your totaly Romneying! Really? Or, Timmy! You're 4 years old now, it's about time you learned that trying to Romney your way out of trouble is a bad thing!... When you remember the lies you told as a child your "Rominiscing"... When you're planning to lie but haven't yet, you're "Romenating"... If you tell the truth all the time you're "Romnologically challenged".
Can't blame him... Romney causes me to use foul language too.
EEngineer - That is one of the things I loved about GWB. When in a press conference he always had that look in his eyes like "Are you f'ing kidding me? You really expect an answer to that POS question" and at times he had the "FU" look. You could see it. At least he didn't say it but his facial expressions and body language told the story. You libs on the other hand are the ones saying that common language in the US when asked a dumb a$$ question is to be politically correct and respectful no matter what you really think. Then, when behind closed doors (I'll have more flexibility after the election) you say what you really mean. PC and not saying what is really on your mind for the sake of a facade and not hurting any ones feelings is what is killing this country.
So that's what Bush was thinking in your world?
Love or hate the man, you have to admit that speaking was most likely the thing he sucked at the most. He fed comedy shows endlessly for nearly a decade.
Does the word strategery ring a bell? When dumbfounded for an answer, you could always count on the story of him choking on a pretzel. The man was a mental midget. Cheney was clearly running things.
There are countless clips of him stumbling over his words, making words up, or quite simply stating he was clueless.
Wait until your chosen one is gone (maximum of 4 years if the American people continue to be blind) his BS will be comedy for years to come. Not only with comedy shows but with historians as well.
The GOP/RNC "Speculator and Chief" has nothing on economic policy, nothing on tax policy, nothing on trade policy, and especially nothing on jobs. The GOP/RNC "Intervert and Chief" likes to disappear into his many quiet rooms, or in one of his many quiet elevators. America should ask the GOP/RNC "Godfather Of Outsourcing" about what his Bain Capital is now doing in Freeport Illinois? Ask him about his long economic history of 'outsourcing' America? Polls do not vote! People do. That is fact!
Romney doesn't need to keep talking about Libya, all Americans now know that 4 died and Obama lied. But you can bet that Romney's followers will keep Libya in the news until Obama comes clean and addresses the American people. We now know that Obama knew it was an Islamic Terrorist Attack within 4 hours of real time and what did Obama do, sent out his flunkies to lie about it. BTW, I will bet that it will pop up again before Nov 6th.
sfcret - you dont know sh*t: All you know is what Fox and Rush tell you, you blind-a$$ lemming...
Chris - oooooh, I believe you've said things perfectly!
Obama/Biden 2012
Imagine that, one trash-talking libbie supporting the trash talk of another libbie !
"Well isn't that sppeeecccciiiiiaaaaaalllllll ! " Neither one will admit when Obama has trapped himself in a lie !
The libs have short memories. Remember odumbo was not going to let any "bump in the road" ruin a chance for him to shave a stroke from his golf game scheduled in Las Vegas. 4 good men died due to this arrogant SOB. No @!$%#ing more for this idiot 44.
Make it a Party you freakin Wing Nut! Romney used the event as a tool for leverage and he was wrong. Now he's back peddling and flopping.
Obama Biden 2012
Wait: so now it's Obama's FAULT that the 4 people died? I would love to hear in your twisted world how that is the case. Especially when it was John "Orange" Boehner cutting security budgets for our diplomatic posts...you're a lemming just like the rest of these RWNJ's. Get your head out of your behind...
Thomas - "now he's bak peddling and flopping" yet again!!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
Dumb and dumber, the vote count to cut security funding, which had no effect on security and was testified to under oath, is as follows:
Dems= 149
Reps= 147
Since you are not intelligent to understand what this means I'll explain it to you. It means that more democrats voted in favor to cut the funding than Republicans. That would put the blame squarely on the democrats.
Now go be stupid somewhere else.
Chris - You are full of crap. The left wing talk about congress cutting security budgets has been debunked. Get your head out of your a$$. Read the damn emails, but then I suppose you think those are fake. Even if Obama would do the right thing and admit he lied and his people lied the left wing nut jobs wouldn't believe him.
Sure! Because they have nothing else to go on! Romney still hasn't released any details about how he will offset his 20% tax cut across the board. Still no details about how he will create 12 million jobs in his first term, just pointers to worthless papers that all assume time-scales much longer than 4 years.
No other presidential candidate in history has said so much "trust me!" and given the American public so little reason to!
EEngineer - Your last paragraph sounds just like Obama, and he is still saying the same thing today. I remember Obama saying that "If I can't turn this country around, I don't deserve to be reelected", or words to that effect. Well he hasn't turned anything around and he doesn't deserve to be reelected. 23 million people still unemployed, underemployed or have just stopped looking.
Oh, BTW, I see Obama has gone back to the war on women bull s**t, looking to shore up his base because the independent women have jumped ship.
...the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
April 2012 marks the 26th straight month of gains in private-sector employment, for a total of 4.2 million private-sector jobs.
DJIA Dec 26, 2008 8515
DJIA Oct 26, 2012 13111
Dec 29, 2008 (Bloomberg) U.S. corporate earnings fell for a sixth-straight quarter, the longest streak in at least 20 years, as consumer spending on automobiles, homes and retailers collapsed.
May 11, 2012 Fortune magazine released its ranking of the 500 biggest US corporations Monday, which showed that they received a record-breaking $824 billion in combined profits in 2011, up 16 percent from 2010.
Libya disappears from Romney's stump speeches
Now if Mitt Witt just disappear we will be ok.
Capt Smash - Oh yes!!!!!! And take Ryan with him!
Obama/Biden 2012
Now if Mitt Witt just disappear we will be ok.
That is going to happen in a little less than 2 weeks.
Charlie - I just want him gone - Caymans wherever - and he can take the Donald with him! Two of a kind - lots of money - not an ounce of class!
Obama/Biden 2012
Romney adviser Kevin Madden, during a gaggle with reporters on Wednesday traveling with Romney, addressed why the GOP nominee hadn't spoken about Libya.
"Libya is still an issue with many voters, particularly given the conflicting statements from the president and his administration about the nature of the attack. The American people still have unanswered questions," he said.
That did not answer the question. Talk about sidestepping a question with what amounts to a non-answer.
Romney doesn't want to talk about Libya because he doesn't know what he is talking about. He knows that he will look like an idiot if he opens his mouth again on anything relating to foreign policy.
When Romney makes a reference "given the conflicting statements" he IS, indeed, answering the question .... but he is doing it in a way you flaming liberals are not able to understand. He is calling Obama a "liar" in a very nice, Presidential way. You may not be not smart enough to recognize the subtlety of his reply.
One day you libs say "quit politicizing it" the next day it's "wonder why he clammed up?" Back to the locker room (Dew Drop Inn) and get your poutrage straight. You're sending mixed signals to the other team.
And you are correct jim-numbers. Liberals don't know how to be subtle. In their world they don't have to be because they are always right. Comes with the mindset.
Wow, Romney and conflicting statements in the same sentence... and it isn't about him?!?! I thought governer Romney had cornered the market on conflicting statements. I would really love to hear his actual platform, instead of the one tailor made for his audience. I might even consider voting for him if I knew where he stood, but I don't think anyone really knows.
Talk - with all the nonsense you've posted today you are in no postiion to talk about subtly or always wanting to "be right" even when you're so thoroughly wrong and it's proved!
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Spin, spin, spin it anyway you want to, nutjobs. He did not answer the questions as to WHY Romney has stopped talking about Libya. We know that answer: He does not know foreign policy, which he showed very clearly, just scant hours after the attack, and showed in complete jaw dropping fashion in Monday night's debate. You can spin that anyway you want to as well, but it all boils down to, your candidate doesn't know dick about foreign policy........And his math SUCKS! Now, go away, I am done sparring with you jokers.
Got proof I have been wrong on this thread or any other? Didn't think so. Just bugs the sh!t out of you libs when someone makes sense and takes the high road and remains calm and is right but doesn't fit your rage. After that you just disappear into the next thread or next major post to comment on. Sorry SS but your opinion of me or anything else means nothing in most cases. I must admit I do like it when you don't get nasty and actually have a discussion but that is so rare in your defensive makeup that it does nothing but saddens.
From the files of "D'oh!": Condi Rice came out last night (on Fox no less) and said that everyone must wait until all of the intelligence has come in before they can make any kind of certain call on exactly what happened there. She said that it really shouldnt be politicized and agreed with Hillary Clinton (and everyone else with a brain) that Facebook and Twitter aren't really reliable intelligence sources...
Move along Republicans, there's nothing to see here...
If there is nothing to see, then why is Obama hiding the truth ? He blamed it on the "anti-Mohammed video". Are you saying Obama lied about that ????????
Nobody's hiding ANYTHING, dummy! That's the whole point: there aren't enough FACTS yet to say definitively what happened. You are truly dense...
Ok so heres the problem: if everybody is saying wait for the intelligence, thats a totally rational point. BUt why would the Administration be ADOMANT about this being linked to a Youtube video.
Their actions clearly didnt show that they were waiting for anything. They made a determination and were wrong. And now they are walking it back like it never happened that way.
They were never adamant (that's the correct spelling: try to avoid using ALL CAPS if you're going to spell incorrectly) about it being anything: they always maintained that intelligence was - and is - still coming in, and that they were giving their assessment based on the available intelligence at that time...
We don't need to believe FB or Twitter, there are e-mails, video, and a paper trail of the incompetence.
mhrjhn - wow it's amazing they've released those to you! You must have really high level security clearance!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
In 1980, President Carter launched Operation Eagle Claw in an attempt to reqcue the hostages in Iran. In the failed attempt, 8 servicemen were killed and 4 were wounded.
Anyone care to take a guess how many times President Reagan used that failed operation as a political tool against President Carter?
The answer is ZERO.
It appears, however, that Mr. Romney had no such reservations. 4 dead in Libya? Let's use them to score points...but I guess this is part of the Etch 'a' Sketch campaign. Now he won't talk about them any more.
The difference is that this was not a failed mission. Many like to fault Bush over 9/11 saying he could have stoppped it. UNderstandably, the loss of life there was immense and extremely tragic.
Now, it is settling out that the Ambassador knew for months he was being targeted and attempted to make anyone in Washington believe him. They did not. So, the question is, how is this okay in comparison?
Anyone else notice the major bags under Romney's eyes?
Actually working is taking it's toll on Romney.
Romney tries to have everyone else give speeches for him and avoid the media, but even that seems to be too much for him and his mind. During the debate, he tried so hard to remember the Americans he met and their stories, but they were long gone from Mitt's memory.
Debbie - remember, Ann said she was worried about Mitt's mental health. And we're all beginning to see why!
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I have noticed that Romney is sweating profusely more than ever these days. Especially during the last debate. The President, on the other hand, looks cool as a cucumber. Maybe Mitt's not getting enough fiber in his diet.
I think Mr. Romney is following the adage that 'if you give them enough rope, they will hang themselves.' Obama's chickens are coming home to roost on this one. The press and the American public will demand the truth without Mitt Romney cheering them on. Mitt knows its time to move on to bigger things, like becoming the President of the United States.
Yes, it is so tedious and boring to find out what happened in Libya. You say that "Mitt knows it's time to move on to bigger things like becoming POTUS". He loses interest quite quickly, doesn't he? Gets bored easily about world affairs? Yes, let's elect this man to be president, so our country can slide into a big vat of @!$%#. But, hey, Romney will be okay. Been there done that presidency thingy. On to bigger things!
Big Changes!!
Obama Biden 2012
Obama Biden 2012 is no change at all dummy. If you really want Big Changes!!, then vote Romney/Ryan!
.... truthseeker ... we all know Mitt the flip flopper changes every day .... flips flips flops .... he can stand on one issue for more than 4 hours .... why is that ???????????????????????
OBAMA 2012
The politicians may be forgetting about the 2nd 9/11 terrorist attack but the American won't forget.
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
I suppose this is pointless of me, but I'll ask again...
What difference does it make whether we call it "Act Of Terror" or not?
Do you think that matters to the families of those who died?
DaNoid, you now the only reason it matters is because FAUX news keeps telling it's sheep that it matters. It's all they've got and they could care less about the family members involved. It's sick really and all of those posting about "Benghazigate" and "Impeachment" are the sheep that FAUX feeds and loves.
Obama/Biden 2012
They did this same thing when the border agent was killed. They yelled to the rafters! Called for the President and AG to be arrested for treason and whatever else they could come up with. Darryl Issa(that man is a complete mafia pig) led the brigade. Now, they are at it again. They don't give a flying phuck about the border agent or the 4 that died in Libya. They only care about what they can hang President Obama with.
Romney used the whole unfortunate event to capitalize on it.
Shameful Worm
Obama Biden 2012
Romney is silent (according to the story) on the subject. They only ones I see bringing it up are the people on this thread and the MSM. Both sides in some cases but now that Romney has shut up, why do you libs have to keep defending it. STHU. This too will go away if it is indeed BS. If not, how do you like your crow? Grilled, fried, or baked?
Oh, and I forgot to say: "read it and weep libtards!" Decision Day is coming, only l2 days away, and we will be through with your nasty garbage posts! And America will be back on track, no thanks to you.
I fear when Romney wins, we will not see a stop to it. There will be crooked voting machines, withheld votes not counted, voter intimidation at the polls, and vote tampering for at least 9 or 10 months.
That may be true, but all that really matters is that Obama will be gone and Romney will be President!
truthseeker20 - it's actually refreshing to hear a Republican ADMIT they have no problem selling the country out. At least you're somewhat honest.
Obama/Biden 2012
It's great that only one side whines complains and makes excuses...you know "their" side...
Whomever is elected will still have the same divided house, 60 vote senate and polarized press to contend with.
If Governor Romney is elected he can expect the same congenial treatment from the loyal opposition as his predecessors and a healthy honeymoon period of about 60-90 days.
If the President is reelected, same as the above sans the honeymoon...
NOBODY-
Makes his own decisions, and polling be damned!
NOBODY 2012
If Romney wins I can guarantee you there will be no honeymoon period. We will be on him like flies on @!$%# every single day, especially day one, when he will supposedly take on that long laundry list he has going on of all the things he will do on "day one" if elected.
@truthseeker: Does that mean that you and your nut jobs will promise to go back under the rock y'all have been sharing? Wow, that would almost, I say almost, be worth it. But, then again, it really is fun pissing you people off, getting you all riled up, imagining your eyes bulging, the veins in your neck protruding, some of you spitting at the screen in anger, one or two of you curled up in the fetal position, another slashing up an Obama poster in pure unadulterated hate and anger. Yeah, warms the cockles of my soul to have those visions of the nut jobs on here! You know, Obamacare covers anger management issues. LOL
ok Dangerfield Nobody wins, especially the citizens of the USA. Now I guess there needs to be a solution. would shedding the tree of liberty with blood of patriots and tyrants be a good start? where do we go if status quo is well status quo. Two parties both alike in dignity in Fair USA where we lay our scene. Where ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Either someone is going to have to be the bigger and work with the opposite (compromise, funny our foundnig fathers did) or i can see the scenario i just laid out happening. its hard in a day and age where everything has been polarized.
I really appreciate your Shakespearean riff, but this isn't the first, or even the worst that our legislative branch has seen, and it is we, the electorate who are to blame, not our "stars".
As Speaker Boehner would attest, compromise is a dirty word for a quarter of the Republican congress, and a pledge to a powerful non elected entity essentially ties the hands of the remaining 75%, so where is this hoped for "bigness" and ability to compromise going to come from on that side? It is structurally impossible for the body as it is constituted.
There are obviously different though just as sclerotic maladies that afflict the democrats but as they proved when they held the majority the Republicans now hold, when they jury-rigged committees and pushed through legislation with little input sought or in some cases even allowed, you can ignore the opposition party if you have a strong enough majority.
You need to reassure the business community at large, and the fledgling and small business owner in particular, and you can't do that without a solid, long-term economic plan that includes ALL components as were detailed in the Simpson - Boles Commission.
Will we do anything like that no matter which of these two is elected? I'd like to think that it's possible, but there is no rational reason to believe so.
When the Iraqis held their first Parliament , it was reported that some Iraq experts had doubts that they would be successful because they did not have a cultural tradition of compromise, the concept was alien to them. We are losing our tradition of compromise, but at least no one has hit anyone over the head with anything yet...
Romney and Ryan are going forward telling people how they will get them jobs and out of poverty. Obama and Biden are going forward talking about Romnesia, Big Bird, women in binders, bayonettes and the like. They have nothing to offer us. What do you libtards expect from Obama? 4 more years of what? Why would things be any different than the last 4 years? Put down your dunce hats and help get America moving again. Swallow your pride and vote Romney/Ryan. It is the only true 'forward' choice.
truthseeker - so please tell us how they're going to do it because they can't articulate a plan. It's amazing you can when they don't even seem to know it!
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Causation please! If Romney is proposing to do X to create jobs, then you have to establish that the counter or opposite of X is now causing a stagnation in job creation. It can't be low taxes - we've had those since 2001 - result? If it's regulations - which ones exactly? Which ones are even directly attributable to Obama? You can't just do away with regulation A (safe food), if it has nothing to do with hiring. Can't be the deficit - it existed long before Obama and Romney's plan likely makes it worse at least in the short and medium term. Romney keeps talking about free trade - is there a problem now? Are we making things we can't sell? Have other countries set unreasonable tariffs on our goods? Point of fact - the businesses clamoring for change are clamoring really for increased profits and lower taxes on them. They can't point to even one worker they would hire in exchange. What these "owners" are banking on is shifting the cost of paying down the deficit and increased health care coverage to someone other than themselves. They aren't even attempting to argue that the cost of doing business is too high. They simply want it to be lower and the savings to go into their pockets.
OMG! Truthseeker, I will give you credit for your "gung ho" attitude, but, I gotta say, your post gave me the biggest laugh out loud experience of the day!
TAX RETURNS! TAX RETURNS! TAX RETURNS! WHATCHA HIDING IN THERE ROMNEY?!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
From one of the fathers.
Romney doesn't have to use Benghazi...
The truth will come out. I have done research and know that even the Libyan's are asking the same questions.
People in other countries wonder why we American's believe everything the media tells us! Do your own research people!
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
Why don't you two get a room? Your closer to each other than Romney was to Obama the other night!
Are you getting excited??
Obama Biden 2012
New Romney slogan: Change, but without the Hope.
Hope is for people who have no plan, and therefore no control over a result; I hope the economy gets better, I hope terrorists play nice, I hope no one notices that I am incompetent, I hope I don't have to leave this nice house, I hope talk shows still want to book me after I lose the election...
Hey Obama! I know you're upset about losing the election but hey,look at it this way.You will be receiving government checks for a long time.Your pension will also be a large one.So I guess in the end you got what you wanted.Meanwhile the rest of us will have a new President creating jobs so we can have an attempt to live the American Dream.
I don't even want him to get any of OUR money! I hope justice will be done!!! The "Fast and the Furious" and "Benghazi killings" .... are blood on his hands!!!!
If the Obozo crew including Sec Defense Pinata and Hillary (I take full responsibility) would not have had their head up it they would have known the situation. If one of them had a relative or Axlehead or Cutter in the embassy they would have moved heaven and hell to get in there and stop the attack! The military understands they go into harms way all the time and that is their job. They do their job, how about Obozo, Leon, and Hillary doing theirs!! Are you tired of all of their BS, then vote these losers out in Nov!
One lie that I cannot discount is the truth that Obama gave the order to kill Osama Bin Laden the first chance that he had. He did not take him hostage nor did he allow Bin Laden to run amok killing for eight years just to have a political base to politick from.
You scorn Obama for Libya. But what about Beruit 1983 when 241 US Marines were killed while they slept.
The GOP back then did nothing to hunt those responsible down but merely fired off a few artillery shells.
Because they didn't hunt the attackers down back then, the GOP's lack of having nuts allowed the terrorists to gain confidence in launching further attacks with the eventual attack coming on 9.11.01.
SO before you scorn Obama...check your history of who was in office and who did nothing and who did something.
Obama and Hillary Clinton are guilty of genocide for not helping the Syrian people who are being slaughtered, and they are guilty of murder for killing our American Ambassador and 3 Navy Seals in Libya by refusing them any help when they cried and begged for help. Both these traitors should both be indicted and arrested for treason and put on trial BEFORE the Election if there is to be any justice in America.