Political discussion thread

Finnforest wrote: I actually think Romney has run fairly clean campaign (excluding superPAC ads of course), while the prez/Biden have been far more likely to be personally insulting or just talking about complete nonsense.  I guess we see what we want, but even a few on the liberal side have commented on Team O's mud with a bit of surprise.

It's possible that you are right, however it does not make up for 4 years of "ERMAGERD, HE'S A KERNYERN MERSLERM TERRST!! WHER'S HIS BERTH CERTERFERCERT!"

Finnforest wrote: To be fair, those kinds of comments are not from the R campaign.......but yeah, there is always the silly season fringers on both sides

The R campaign hasn't been much better - for four years they've touted Obama as the weakest President ever, as far as foreign policy goes - Romney himself did this, and then all of a sudden in the 3rd debate he agrees with Obama on everything...and touts himself as a great leader. Yeah...you're a great leader..."follow me! I'll be right behind the President!"

Now, RRomney/yan are going around making their closing arguments, saying that Obama has been making bad investments with the government's money, and that half of what he's invested in has gone bankrupt. But actually, if you do the math, it's 8%. Look at the investments made while Romney was at Bain - 22% went bankrupt. Everything that man says is a misdirection or a lie. Every...single...thing.

For four years the Republicans in office have purposely sabotaged the country in order to make Obama look bad so that they can turn around and say "look what he did to our country!" Look at their voting records - especially Ryan's. During the Bush administration, he voted for bailouts, raising debt ceiling, protecting veteran's rights, etc. Obama becomes president, and all of a sudden his positions completely reverse. For the last four years, the #1 priority in the R camp has been to make Obama look bad - not fight terrorism, not protect the helpless and poor, not protect American's rights.

quite probably.

Finnforest wrote: And the Dems were just pixies and lollipops to Pres. Bush.

That's not even an argument.

Look, I have not yet met a Republican who actually likes Romney, so the way I see it:
You vote for Obama, half the people in America will be upset for the next four years. You vote for Romney and 100% of the people in America will be upset for the next four years.

smartpatrol wrote: Vote for Gary Johnson, okay? I'll give you a present if you do

I will do the same even without a present ... in the same breath, what was the present?

Argonaught wrote: smartpatrol wrote: Vote for Gary Johnson, okay? I'll give you a present if you do I will do the same even without a present ... in the same breath, what was the present?

The satisfaction of voting for Gary Johnson and a free download of my album

"Romney is a bullsh*tter". Obama.

Yes that shows a classy campaign.

4 years ago Obama was the one running a decent campaing and McCain a sad, offensive one. Things have changed.

And yes, saying that your performance in your work has been terrible is not offensive, even if it is not necessarily true.

^I assume you will vote for Obama?

Former kind-of-socialist/social-libertarian here.

The T wrote: ^I assume you will vote for Obama?

Heck yes - I actually like the guy, as opposed to the "lesser of two evils" argument I keep hearing from my Republican friends (I live in TN, so...my wife and I are the only people I know of who are voting this way). When even a Republican is willing to admit their choice is evil, that's telling, because the only reason they believe the Democrat is evil is because the evil Republicans told them he is!