I’m sorry that I don’t have time to write much today, Thursdays are my busy day molding young minds into good liberals. (Joking, I don’t talk politics with students!)
In lieu of writing something new, I decided to post highlights from my Twitter rants since the debate ended last night.
I will never accept that someone who told blatant lies, turned his back on his own policies and was overly aggressive and rude, won an American presidential debate.
Is the new standard for debates who can tell the most brazen lies with passion & conviction? Or who tells the truth in a calm, reasoned way?
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Romney was "twitchy" all night, his body language was impatient & the look on his face varied from "I gotta pee" to "unt uh!". #news #ablc
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Romney being aggressive & disrespectful doesn't erase the fact that he dismissed 47% of the Amer people as victims, freeloaders. #tfydebate
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Obama was a little flat tonight, but calm, cool, nailed many great points & didn't play tit for tat w/a wild eyed twitchy spaz! #tfydebate
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
I'm sorry, but @edshow is nuts, apparently didn't hear any of the big words, just watched Romney look aggressive & got a thrill. #tfydebate
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Romney did what everyone has been waiting for him to do, he shook that motherfucking Etch-A-Sketch! #tfydebate #news #p2 #ablc
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
The people screaming the most for POTUS to be everything at all times are the same ones who haven't had his back for 4 years -> @edshow #tfy
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
No amount of smug, well rehearsed "zingers" will erase the fact that #Romney wants to gut education, cut Pell grants, screw seniors...
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
What we learned: Romney won't raise s single penny of revenues, where do you suppose the $5 TRILLION tax cut is gonna come from. #news #p2
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
What was clear tonight: Romney wants to double down on the same tired policies that brought us to a near Great Depression. #news #p2 #OFA
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Romney was a DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS on wht he would do with the 50 MILLION ppl who wld lose health care under his plan. #news #p2 #obama2012
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
People just need to turn @edshow & @hardball_chris off for a few days. Both have emotional meltdowns periodically & waste time being stupid
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
In non-verbals, I think President Obama won hands down. Mitt was impatient, childlike, looked like he had to pee... #news #p2 tfydebate
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
I'm sorry people, you can't fucking win a debate when you tell lies, abandon your previous positions & act impatient & twitchy. #tfy #news
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Repeat lies 4 months, rehearse lies & zingers, media tires of lies, performs lies flawlessly, media ignores lies & prays 4 horse race!.#news
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
My favorite part of President Obama's performance - he was polite, honest, measured & exactly what we need as a role model today! #news #p2
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
.@chucktodd So you really aren't concerned about Romney shaking his Etch-A-Sketch in front of your face and blatantly lying?
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Sorry @chucktodd you can't white wash all the old & new lies that Romney spewed with his"stylish" delivery. Truth matters to the rest of us
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Only @chucktodd would think that the number of words uttered matters more than what was actually said. But that's par for the course.
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
So Romney dominates Lehrer, a senior who is way too nice, & @chucktodd thinks that is a positive thing. He bullied the moderator.
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Sorry @chucktodd but America isn't going to let you & other DC insiders change the standards for debates to allow brazen lies to win the day
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
I base my "win/lose" judgement on facts, policies, honesty & sincerity, NOT how good one can lie & say what the media wants to hear #p2 #tfy
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
Are you pissed about all the lies Romney told with media cover, get busy, volunteer, donate to the President...work your ass off for America
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
The line "if loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right" comes to mind.If lying wins a debate, I don't want to win. #news #tfy #p2 #msnbc
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ExtremeLiberal (Jim) (@ExtremeLiberal) October 04, 2012
I didn’t switch over to Fox News as surely they weren’t any more caustic that the talking heads at MSNBC. For most of today more REICH-wingers have been “guests” on MSNBC getting out their coveted “talking points” and GLOATING. The absolute worst was nasty John Sununu on Andrea Mitchell. Don’t know why he is such a cherished “guest” as he is always rude, talks over the host, tries to take over. Today TWICE he called the President “LAZY”. In the past Sununu has said that Obama needs to learn to be an American. Today’s “lazy” stereotype was most OVERT. So the “Obama..the other” “food stamp president” dog whistles keep getting heard as much on MSNBC and CNN as they do on Fox.
Sadly, too many unthinking Americans anymore don’t know the difference between substance and style. In a world of Kardashians, I fear “style” wins. Male voters probably liked the pugilistic Romney more so than women. The latter might be upset the Romney wants to kill Big Bird, their children’s shows. Supposedly Ron Portman was Romney’s “debate coach” these past several months but it was almost like it was Linda McMahon who had been training a World Wrestling Entertainment grappler.
Now I fear, besides racist voter suppression, there may be diminishing “voter enthusiasm” aided by cablenews talking heads. Rachel has talked down Obama in the past when he didn’t jump through her GLBT hoops, Ed Schultz was very down during the Affordable Healthcare debate because Ed was for “single payer”. MSNBC, and David Gregory like controversy as ratings trump all else. What LIBERAL media???
You should show your most excellent screen grab of Romney pulling out his crib sheet. He couldn’t keep his positions straight so he had to sneak in a cheat sheet. What a cheating lying ass he is!
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Scarborough joins the Faux News crowd and Nut Jobs like Rep. Alan West, all screaming “conspiracy”… saying the September Jobs Numbers were cooked. First of all the agency, that compiles the numbers each month is a NON-partisan civil service agency, the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is staffed with professionals…trained economists, They don’t change jobs with administrations with many current staffers having worked there during the Bush administration. If they “cooked the books” then why did they wait for so many months in order to “help” Obama? Did they “cook the books” when Ronald Reagan took office? He took over a 7.4% rate from President Jimmy Carter. A month later under Reagan, unemployment began to spike topping at 10.8% in November 1982 before it began to come down again settling at 7.5% just before his 2004 re-election (even though Faux News has falsely reported that Reagan had a “FIVE PERCENT” number then). This graph shows Bush’s last year, the “gift” he gave to President Obama:
Americans “doing better” is not what Republicans want under Obama….they have been cheering for misery for lower/middle class Americans for four years now (most politicians are millionaires and doing quite well in Wall Street investments recovering under Obama so could care less when misery doesn’t impact their lives).
The jobs numbers have moved constantly in a slow but POSITIVE direction for nearly 3 years (see graph in right column). Remember who won the race between the Tortoise and the Hare? Unemployment is still a problem and the Republicans haven’t done ONE thing to create jobs. They refuse to pass the President’s Jobs Acts that would have put millions back to work building/repairing infrastructure. The REICH wants high unemployment to blame on Obama. Currently China is spending FOUR TIMES more per capita on infrastructure than the USA, including building utilities, roads, mass transit/bullet train routes, and giant hydro-electric dams.
Rachel Maddow showed the alleged “cheat sheet” video PLUS showed the C-Span snippet of Mitt Romney wiping his mouth with the hanky on his desk. As one person commented to me, Romney makes so much stuff up he doesn’t need to write it down.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4006220 [15 seconds in]
The “conspiracy has also been debunked by many now…. Huffington, U.S. News and & World Report and the liberal Slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/05/romney_s_debate_cheat_sheet_liberal_bloggers_cry_foul_over_republican_s_handkerchief_.html
Who knows who put up the 20 second clip of Mitt taking out his handkerchief? Maybe it was to make fun of the left if we screamed “conspiracy” to downplay so many on the right screaming “conspiracy” over today’s “Jobs Number”.
Nixon could have used a hanky in 1960 when he broke out into a sweat under the lights and his face began to glisten making him look nervous.