There’s something about Barack Obama that makes people feel the need to protect him. “President Obama, I’ve got your back,” declared the most popular T-shirt being hawked outside the Democratic convention. Michelle Obama has played the role of defender in some settings, Bill Clinton in others. Deval Patrick’s biggest applause line while campaigning for Obama is, “I will not see him bullied out of office.”
Usually, these expressions of bodyguard-like support do not make Obama seem weak, but rather special — “the one,” in the words of another eager blocker, Oprah Winfrey. It’s as if all these people recognized something finer-grained in Obama’s sensibility, and vowed to keep him from being broken. But lately it’s become obvious that there’s another reason all these people come to his defense: Obama isn’t comfortable defending himself. If others don’t rise to the occasion, like the super-caffeinated Joe Biden last week, then the administration is vulnerable.
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America is waiting for Barack Obama to take responsibility for the Libyan embassy debacle. he continually BRAGGED about getting bin Laden. he BRAGGED about initiating the "Arab Spring". .......These events are not turning out to be as good as the Administration planned..4 Americans murdered at the Libyan consolate. Hillary Clinton, now announced that "The Buck stops with me". Sorry, it doesn't. The buck stops with the president.
Interesting about the bragging thing: enlighten me.
The Globe Cheerleaders have actually written an editorial declaring that Obama must defend his record. Surprised? Me neither. The Globe is not a serious news source any more, but serves as an extension of the Democratic campaigns of the day. "America" is not waiting, as the Globe suggested, only the left wing fringe is really concerned.
Those of us who love America and despise what our country has become under Obama understand that there is no record to run on. Ended a war? He followed the Bush status of forces timeline, and then failed in reaching an agreement beyond that date. Provided Insurance to 30 Million? He defied the will of the people, and it is not yet implemented. If that is the record Obama is going to defend, the debate tonight will be another Romney win.
The presidency has actually been squandered by a man elected because of his "coolness", and his rock star popularity. It is time to elect a serious leader, who uderstands the role of a president, and loves his country enough to do what is sometimes diffcult. Let's hope this debate seals the deal for Mr. Romney.
What Record? This should be interesting.
It comes as no surprise to read the comments of seditious right-wing defeatists claiming that the President has no record to run on. Those of us who despise what the GOP represents and the possibility that the disastrous Bush policies would likely be repeated in a Romney administration know better. The GOP and its lackeys have squandered their moral and political legitimacy since the Reagan years, and to allow them back into a leadership role would put the nation's future at great risk. President Obama is not perfect, but he has a fine record to run on, and he deserves four more years in office.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/10/who-caused-the-economic-crisis/
See also, "The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond" at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html
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For people with brains, there is nothing that Romney can say to dispel the fact that he favors the rich. No amount of shaking the etch-a-scetch will work. If Romney wins, Congress is planning on pushing through their plans using reconciliation. Romney will immediately implement the Ryan budget, he will then repeal Obamacare (pulling health insurance from around 11 million people), then he will actually cut tax rates for the rich, turn medicare into a private insurance plan for anyone under 55, increase military spending (probably start a war) and last but not least, he will cut funding for food stamps. Food stamps. That silver-spooned-you-know-what plans to cut food stamps. Romney is the exact and perfect opposite of what this country needs right now.
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at least it will be a proper use of reconciliation.
What is Obama's plan to advance the economy?
"Obama isn’t comfortable defending himself"
Too funny. This man's ego is historic. "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."
As George Will said: “If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent"
The problem is he believes his own press clippings. Can't wait to to see him "defend" his record. I predict attacks, not solutions, as is the Chicago way and the only thing he has in his bucket.
I have a challenge for lefties her: Please provide examples of how Obama has succeded and tell us how is plans for 1 more term will make it better.
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See "The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh": "Biden did absolutely roll his eyes, snort, laugh derisively and throw his hands up in the air whenever Ryan trotted out his little beady-eyed BS-isms. But he should have! He was absolutely right to be doing it. We all should be doing it. That includes all of us in the media, and not just paid obnoxious-opinion-merchants like me, but so-called "objective" news reporters as well. We should all be rolling our eyes, and scoffing and saying, "Come back when you're serious." The load of balls that both Romney and Ryan have been pushing out there for this whole election season is simply not intellectually serious. Most of their platform isn't even a real platform, it's a fourth-rate parlor trick designed to paper over the real agenda – cutting taxes even more for super-rich ********s like Mitt Romney, and getting everyone else to pay the bill." Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-vice-presidential-debate-joe-biden-was-right-to-laugh-20121012
Obama "prevented" a depression? The economy was IMPROVING when he took office. His unprecedented, $800 billion "stimulus", has resulted in the weakest recovery in history. That's an "accomplishment"? And Obama ended a war? If you define taking troops out LONG after hostilities have ended, sure, Obama "ended" the war in Iraq and, by that standard, we are still at "war" in Korea and Germany as we retain troops there. And if you want to call jamming a socialist "plan" to nationalize healthcare down the people's throats, one so enormous and bloated with regulations that Pelosi said "you have to pass it to find out what's IN IT", well, yes that's quite an "accomplishment". Obama has nothing to run on. That's why EVEN HE'S not talking about what he's done but blathering on about the threat to "Big Bird" as if a subsidy to rich muppets is at all in the public interest. Other's "need to protect him" because he's WEAK and "others" know he isn't even up to PREPARING to debate anything much less his record.
Too little, too late for Obama. All of America saw Romney as an acceptable replacement in the first debate, and they are likely to make the change. Nothing Obama says and no amount of energy can change the fact that America saw and heard Romney with their own eyes and ears.
Why no mention in the moderator article today of Candy Crowley's previous venomous anti-Romney and anti-Ryan comments? How can you have an article on debate moderators and not even mention this key FACT??!?!??
ECK! What record does Obama have that is worth defending?
Note - Obama & Biden have failed to tell us their plans if reelected: They keep telling us they need MORE time. More time for more of the same? NO, Absolutely Not- we can't afford them.
Obama & Biden - twists, complain, distort, and manipulate everything the Romney-Ryan team talk about - BUT - this year Obama is not saying, "HOPE & CHANGE," just-"give us 4 more years!"
where are all the Obama apologists today like ESF, pvalen, mhc90, etc. Getting ahrder and harder to dfend it I guess.
"begolfing" I'll pick it up although not my favorite thing to do. I will vote for the man though. Simply put my portfolio made money under Obama, lost money under Bush. Romney is Bush two but worse. He's an equity guy, equity guys don't care about the market. Now you can vote your zealotry, your emotions. Me I'll vote my wallet. How's that work for you. You see I don't care about politics. I'm a conservative. I care about practicality.
By the way now all you zealots, don't tell me the market isn't better. Find something else.
yes, the market is up but it is a different beast now with HFT. Volume down, equity outflows up, . Not all that it seems, but it is nice to see my portfolio up as well
So to whom do we give the credit? Do we slip slide and away and give it to Bernanke or do we man up and give it to Obama. To me this is where we seperate the zealot from what I consider a real conservative. I blame Bush for the collapse. I give Obama the credit for the recovery. I also blame Obama for the slowness of the recovery. However, I don't want to go back to Bush and that is Romney.
By the way I don't note a reduction in volume. There has been a slow down in ETF volume but not overall. I don't see HFT altering market volume although I do have some concern regarding an unequal impact upon varying stocks.