Is Romney just thick?

[_palerobber]

If Obama gets another term, the United States will likely become a National Socialistic State.

getting ready to move to Canada then?

by the way, i hear if Obama gets reelected he's going to take away all our guns... again.

lol, what a sad sack you are.

[_Drifting]

I wonder whe bcspace will be along to tell us exactly what Romney will be doing...

[_krose]

I don't like Romney and won't be voting for him, but these kinds of criticisms are lame. These presidential candidates give hours and hours of speeches day after day and it is all recorded. Everyone makes these kinds of slip-ups. That's all it is. Like when Obama said "57 states" instead of 50 states. The wingnuts continue to excoriate the President for that verbal miscue, wrongly accusing him of not knowing how many states there are, or worse, asserting that he was cryptically referring to 57 Islamic states. I think we should cut Romney some slack on this one.

It would be nice if we could all ignore dumb verbal gaffes, but I know they are just too irresistible to not have a laugh at and comment on. If that's all that happens, no real harm done. However, the problem comes when a candidate takes an awkward phrase and bases an entire serious campaign around it, which is what is happening with the "didn't build that" nonsense.

The Romney camp focusing speeches and millions of ad dollars on that incomplete sentence is equivalent to the Obama people doing a campaign centered around the Romney statement that he wasn't worried about the poor or he enjoys firing people. It's underhanded and dishonest.

[_krose]

Something that has become very apparent in political conversations is that people seem to think that a president is actually a monarch, with extremely broad power to do almost anything.

We see this illustrated well here, both in Nipper's claims of all the terrible things Obama has done, and also in what he claims Romney will be able to do.

The truth is that there is very little a president can accomplish without cooperation from Congress, and even then, world market forces work mostly outside both of them. It was pathetic watching the FNC idiots and Newt blaming Obama for high gas prices, then clamming up when prices came down. I was in Japan when prices were near their peak this year, and I was amused watching their news shows discuss the same high prices there, and wondering why they didn't realize how it was Obama's fault.