Foreign policy fireworks: Obama, Romney face-off before election

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• loose stool posted at 4:45 am on Tue, Oct 23, 2012.

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  Obama came across as rude and arrogant again. not very presidential. I quess when your behind in the polls and have no record to run on you have to be that way.

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• Dale Whiting posted at 6:41 am on Tue, Oct 23, 2012.

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  Rude? Arrogant? Not really. Romney made unintelligent statements. Rather than just say they were unintelligent, misinformed or down right wrong, the President explained how they were wrong, And where far too many Americans are misinformed, he had to state things simply so that we would understand. That is not rude or arrogant. Loose stool, maybe you need to give us some examples.

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• Accuracy posted at 8:16 am on Tue, Oct 23, 2012.

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  “Foreign policy fireworks”?? For their third and final debate, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tried to focuse on foreign policy . . . but often drifted off topic to the economy.

  As a gentleman, Mitt Romney seemed very passive and agreed with the president; on Israel, on Afghanistan, and was opposed sending U.S. troops into Syria. But, President Barack Obama did get defensive and sarcastic throughout the debate.

  President Obama said Gov. Romney is "all over the map" and inexperienced. Romney took a less aggressive tone in this debate, but painted a negative picture of the president, even saying to him downright, "you've been wrong."

  President Obama came out on the attack, accusing Romney of having an old school foreign policy, saying, "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back."
  

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• Cas Lee posted at 7:34 pm on Sun, Oct 28, 2012.

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  Hello, my fellow American voters!

  I watched the Oct. 3rd, 11th, 16th, and 22nd debates.
  1st Romney-Obama debate covered 7 topics: jobs; budget deficit/debt; social security/entitlements; federal gov’t economic regulation and role; healthcare; partisan gridlock.
  2nd Romney-Obama debate covered 11 topics: college graduate jobs; gas prices; taxes; equal pay; Bush policies; Obama’s record; illegal immigrants; Libya; assault weapons; jobs; candidate misperceptions.
  3rd Romney-Obama debate covered 10 topics: Libya; Syria; Egypt; U.S. world role; military spending; Israel; Iran; Afghanistan; China; U.S. national security threats.
  Ryan-Biden debate covered 10 topics: Libya; Iran; economy; medicare/social security/entitlements; tax reform/spending/budget cuts; military policy; Afghanistan; Syria; abortion; negative campaign tactics.

  Romney and Ryan won all 4 debates, although Obama improved some in the 2nd debate and Romney slightly took the win both in the 2nd and 3rd debates.
  In the 3rd debate (unlike in prior debates), Obama reflected his weakness and disrespect by interrupting Romney a lot and using too many “one-line quips” to try to denigrate Romney.

  Ryan won despite Biden’s consistently rude behavior during the debate (often interrupted Ryan, laughed when Ryan talked, pointed his finger). Biden’s tactics to evade issues/truth disrespected Americans interested in facts, figures, forecasts, and solutions for real people with real problems.

  Romney and Ryan won with substance, directness, integrity, respect, clarity, facts, commitment, inspiration, credibility, and leadership.

  As an INDEPENDENT female feminist (egalitarian) voter, I support the Romney/Ryan ticket.
  Romney and Ryan, with their no-nonsense and methodic approach to solving America’s problems, are the best persons in terms of qualifications and character to lead our country and make life better for all Americans.

  I am inspired by Romney/Ryan, and I hope that you are too!

  Best regards,

  Cas Lee
  

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• REG in AZ posted at 9:43 am on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.

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  Why would a Republican vote for Obama and the Democrats? Because they realize the current Republican Party really only represents the very few. Because they want the Grande Ole Party, with a sincere interest in the people, back and see the only way to get that is to firmly and totally reject what they have become. Because they recognize the truth, that America isn’t actually close to being a “socialistic” society but is really becoming a “two class” society with the very few (1%) competing in having it all, while the majority (99%) is left struggling (as proven by the constantly growing gap between the very wealthy and everyone else). Because they recognize and understand that our severe problems weren’t caused by taxes on the wealthy or by government spending or even by the deficit but rather are the direct result of aggressive exploitation by the few, costing the majority greatly, with the permissive “puppet” politicians actually being co-responsible. ...

  ... Because they realize the $17T debt isn’t just Obama’s doing but that it’s dynamic growth started under Bush-Cheney, after they blew through the surplus given them by Clinton, and that Bush-Cheney actually took this country to several crisis points, which they simply passed on to Obama, who then fought to address them over the Republican’s irresponsible faulting and stubborn blocking, without the Republicans ever having any conscience or concern for the people. Because they see “the money” is aggressively and arrogantly working against the population, obnoxiously and insultingly taking the people for granted, to achieve “the money’s” goal of always “more” for them. Because the Republican Party’s actions clearly show that their rhetoric is always just subterfuge to put over their self-serving pursuit of their political ambitions, at any cost to the people. Because they don’t want to return to “more of the same”, Bush-Cheney style, that can only result in “more of the same” and again just cost the majority greatly. And maybe just because they are part of the 99% and not the 1%, ... and then very possibly just because they want to vote their conscience!

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