Comments on: The Massachusetts Miracle?

By: jonah

jonah — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:42:42 +0000

Clearly a better theatrical performance by Romney. Some of the points that I think Obama should have done a better job addressing

1) The economy is suffering from a lack of demand due to deleveraging by the middle/lower class consumer http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576452181063763332.html

2) Reducing taxes for the ultra rich is not guaranteed going help with the us economy. The so called job creators could very well invest money overseas and not create a significant amount of jobs here in the us.

3) According to this article fossil fuels get a lot more than 3 billion in subsidies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-775-billion-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-hardto-scrap/2012/06/18/gJQABaQUlV_blog.html

Obama also never attacked romneys job creating record when governor, 47th out of 50 states.

By: ebdoug

ebdoug — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:49:27 +0000

An e-mail from very red Kansas. Four people working at the John Brown commented after the Debate “I could not trust Romney.” And after reading Rise and Fall to see how the Republicans are doing things, it is lie, lie, lie and promise, promise promise. Hitler broke every promise he ever made except not to be captured.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:41:12 +0000

Oh, poor Big Bird. But such is life. I’m just so relieved that Romney has his priorities straight. If we want to eliminate that trillion dollar deficit, going after the CPB’s $445 million grant (spread over 2 years) is clearly the place to start.

By: chinagreenelvis

chinagreenelvis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:43:17 +0000

This about sums up the entire debate for me:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/603313_4443595844979_792787951_n.jpg

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:09:40 +0000

There is literally ZERO substance to back up any of Romney’s claims.

Taxes? No detail showing how his mathematically impossible plan would work.
Corporate tax rate and Loopholes? He won’t name a single loophole he will close.
Austerity? He’ll look at everything when he gets in office, but he can’t name anything now. Maybe cutting PBS funding will balance the budget. Military cuts are off the table though.
Health Care? He’ll repeal and replace, but no detail at all as to what “replace” involves, nor why he thinks that it will be so easy to pass a new law on such a heated issue, especially after pissing off all the Dems by repealing Obamacare.

By: BigDaddyCool

BigDaddyCool — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:05:55 +0000

Here’s what I saw last night – in the span of an hour-and-a-half, Mitt Romney contradicted everything he has said in the last 18 months.

All of a sudden after running away from Romneycare (which is the basis for Obamacare) he’s now going to embrace it?!?!? Michael Murphy has already said that “conservatives “have tasted losing for the last couple of weeks.” They’re not going to complain now after a night that “tastes like winning.”

Really? Has anybody asked the Tea Party about that? Because the Tea Party absolutely hates Obamacare and think that it is born of the devil. How do you think they are going to react now that Romney is proud of a program that looks and sounds like Obamacare in every sense of the word?

Romney has been saying that his tax cuts will total $5 trillion, and now he’s saying that it’s not the case? Now he’s saying that they will be revenue neutral and be across the board. Riiiiiiight. Everyone who believes that – stand on your head.

Now he’s also softening his tone on regulations? The problem with Dodd-Frank isn’t that they were regulations but that the regulations are unclear?

Is it me or did Mitt Romney do an imitation of a fish out of water as he flip-flopped his way through the evening?

Bottom line is that after the afterglow has worn off for the GOP they are going to step out of the shower and realize that their guy was not acting like a Republican last night – he was talking about compromise at one point and that is a definite no-no among Conservatives.

The entire evening was full of 527 ads for the Democrats. All they have to do insert some of what Romney was saying last night, pause on his face in black-and-white and the tag line will be “oh really? That’s not what you said before Governor” and then play back what he said before, and then the tag line is going to be “so will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?” Mitt Romney did a lot of work for Democratic 527′s last night, so let’s see if they take advantage in the way that they should.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:37:44 +0000

Romney is magic. He’s going to review every program and cut anything that doesn’t pass the magic test of being worth borrowing money from China to pay for. But at the same time he’s going to keep everything he’s asked about. Who gives a crap what they looked like, one of them is talking realistically and one of them is making up fairy tales that sound nice but could never possibly come true. I would argue that Obama looked great for someone who had to stand up there and debate with someone who lives in a fantasy world.

By: TENTHIRTYTWO

TENTHIRTYTWO — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:33:24 +0000

I’ve read a lot of comments about how Romney looked and how Obama looked. That Romney looked Obama in the eye but Obama couldn’t look at him back. That Romney looked excited and Obama looked bored.

Clearly these people have a strong grasp of the purpose of debates. Almost all of the comments I’ve read and heard on it so far sound like people were watching an audition for the role of President in some movie, rather than a debate for the election of the actual POTUS.

Maybe the next debate can have some explosions and a guest appearance by Snooki.