The right person
There is something about a man, Mitt Romney, who will give $4 million of his $13 million earned last year that assures me I'm voting for the right person to lead this country out of the stagnant quagmire we are experiencing now.
Our present vice president, Joe Biden, managed to give 1.5 percent out of his $360,000. Maybe he knows his job is about over.
REGGIE ELLER
Ferguson
Telling a story
This is in response to the Oct. 10 letter “Four years later.”
The writer has conveniently left out the fact that before hiring this spunky, full-of-great-ideas CEO (President Obama) to run his company, the prior CEO (President Bush) ran the company into the ground. He also neglected to say that all of the board members (Republican congressmen and senators) were determined to obstruct anything and everything that this new talented CEO set out to accomplish. The new CEO did have some victories despite these rogue board members.
Four years later, a new CEO candidate steps in (Mitt Romney) filled with old ideas — the same ideas that the first CEO (Bush) had that ran the company into the ground in the first place.
My friend, if you’re going to tell a story, tell the whole story.
TONY McQUEEN
Kernersville
About the 47 percent
Regarding the 47 percent issue, the statements Mitt Romney made during a political campaign strategy meeting were addressing how to best use limited resources. Mitt Romney does not intend to reduce Social Security or Medicare benefits.
We must reform both programs so they can continue. Congress has raided the Social Security fund numerous times over several decades. The program will fail in a few years as beneficiaries increase. Introducing vouchers for Medicare benefits is a way to limit the system's liabilities. If we do not set limits, this program also will be bankrupt in a few years.
Mitt Romney's dad was a successful businessman who became president of an automobile manufacturer. He also served as governor of Michigan, and ran a strong race for the Republican nomination for president.
Mitt Romney has made a lot of money. He has created many jobs by strengthening companies in which he invests. He was a successful governor of Massachusetts. He pays lots of taxes. The recent revelation of his 2011 tax return showed he paid nearly $2 million. He did not take deductions that would have lowered this amount. He is a true American patriot and worthy of serious consideration.
WAYNE EDWARDS
Winston-Salem
Printing money
In regard to the Oct. 2 letter “Regaining wealth,” the writer correctly states that values of the stock market (on paper) have nearly returned to 2007 values (after almost five years) and likewise home values have also returned (the latter is questionable) to 2007 values. What he failed to mention is the tremendous amount of printing of more dollars that the Federal Reserve is doing to cover our debt. This insidious form of taxation dilutes the value of earnings and equity (home, stocks, cars, etc.) of every American.
So in reality, estimates are that even with dollar values of stocks reaching pre-recession values, real purchasing power of savings has been reduced by 25-33 percent. This is huge and should concern every American, especially seniors. Clearly we need better leadership.
JIM CRAWFORD
Rural Hall
Finish the Thought
Saturday, we asked readers to complete the sentence: “The winner of the vice presidential debate Thursday night was …”
“… the vice president, Joe Biden. This is inferring from the volume of complaints and criticism of the behavior of the vice president during the debate. He was criticized for laughing and smiling too much and making frequent interruptions of his opponent by the conservative pundits, TV commentators and radio talk-show hosts. One even lashed out that ‘Martha Raddatz is the worst moderator.’ Ironically, we did not hear any refutation of what the vice president said.”
BOON T. LEE
“… Paul Ryan. Vice President Biden seemed to be at a comic club instead of having a serious debate about saving this country. I would have thought a vice president would have more manners and respect than to interrupt another person 82 times. Not to mention his lying.
“President Obama said he did good, so I guess he approves of this behavior.”
LEE JOHNSON
“… Paul Ryan. Had Vice President Biden not been so rude, disrespectful and manic, the debate may have been a tie. To think Biden is one heartbeat away from being president is frightening!”
JAN WADDELL
“… those of us who didn't watch it.”
MONA POTTS
“… the American voter. Biden’s rude, disruptive and condescending performance showed all Americans his true self and demonstrated that he is not mature enough to be second in command of our country.”
REBECCA M. SHEPHERD
“… Joe Biden and ... Martha Raddatz.”
KAM BENFIELD
“… Paul Ryan, hands down. He was better prepared and informative.”
WILLIAM SAMS
“… 'Fargo' was a pretty good film. William Macy played a crooked car salesman who smiled obsessively and laughed inappropriately as he lied and blustered his way through illegal sales and other corruptions. That's the character who came to mind as I watched Biden's debate performance. Maybe Joe should just make movies.”
RICHARD MERLO
“… Paul Ryan, if for no other reason than the idiotic, disrespectful antics of the “Clown Prince of the White House,” Joe Biden.”
TED BOWEN
“ … the American people. Both sides felt their candidate triumphed and this kept the focus on the crisis we are in as a country.
“Biden was told to be belligerent to make up for Obama's lackluster performance, Ryan tried to be more rational when passion was called for. Biden goofed on Libya and that will continue to haunt the Democrats. The Republicans won't be more specific on planned taxes and spending because if they do, the Democrats will have something to criticize and use to deflect attention from their failures. This is simple debate and negotiations 101.
“Imagine if all four of these men sat down together in front of the TV cameras and told us, ‘Hey, we are in a mess, neither party has all the answers and we will ignore the nut fringe on both sides and do what is best for the country, regardless of the election. Here is the plan and whoever is president will follow it on pain of impeachment.’ I guess I am delusional.”
KEN HOGLUND
Happy Birthday, Dotnet.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phargo!
DeleteLTE #1... The Right Person.
ReplyDeleteThere is also something about a man who gives 4million to charity but only claims 2.5 million in order to keep his effective tax rate above 14% to keep it in line with an earlier proclamation ( something that can be changed with an amended tax form within the next 3 years). Also something about a man who would say paying a penny more than was legally required, which he did, would disqualify him from becoming president....
OBAMA: The day after last month's attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime."
ReplyDeleteROMNEY: "I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror."
OBAMA: "Get the transcript."
THE FACTS: Obama is correct in saying that he referred to Benghazi as an act of terrorism on Sept. 12, the day after the attack. From the Rose Garden, he said: "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. ... We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act."
You are entitled to your own men's 'Speedo' photos, but not your own set of facts Bob. The way the sentence was said by the President was generic in form. It was NOT a specific reference to Benghazi. A 6th grader would know that.
DeleteFurthermore, the President spent days and days saying it was a spontaneous act of violence through his surrogate, UN Ambassador Susan Rice. Even SS Hillary Clinton has said she didn't give Ambassador Rice her talking points. They, obviously, came straight from the president.
Romney's political momentum is coming, and it's coming on strong. Can Obama run out the clock? That's the question of the day, and weeks ahead.
Bucky, the sentence is in English which happens to be my native tongue. I understand it well. The entire Rose Garden comments were in reference to the attacks in Benghazi. Now take your football and go home.
DeleteJust because the President didn't say terror in the way you wanted him to does not make it any less true.
Delete"No acts of terror"
DeleteIf he was saying the Benghazi Attack was an act of 'terrorism', why didn't he just say that?
Because he wanted to hide the fact that Al Qaeda is alive and well, and that he didn't kill the terror group off as he had suggested many times during his political campaign.
Now open up your binders full of mens 'Speedo' photos, and have some fun.
That's a lie. He has never said or suggested that Al Qaeda has been "killed off." But we have killed Osama Bin Laden and a lot of Al Qaeda's top operatives. I don't know of any terror experts who haven't said that Al Qaeda has been diminished in no uncertain terms. Hey, I can find a picture of Mark Spitz in his speedos with 7 gold medals hanging around his neck if you like.
DeleteBucky, I hate to inform you, but people don't say things to impress you or to your minimal English standards.
DeleteI hate to tell you Bob, but most people recognize the fact that the president was not clear on his statement on Benghazi. He was attempting to be cute with his word usage in the debate.
DeleteBy the way Bob, I read and understand English quite well thank you. I'm able to get you rolling over in liberal knots quite easily with my verbage.
you get me rolling alright: ROFLMAO
DeleteMe too.
Deleteverbage /ver'b*j/
A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage". Compare content-free. More pejorative than "verbiage".
As always when Parrot tries to use big boy's words, he gets into trouble. At least this time he produced a perfect description of his own "verbiage".
I'm typing on the fly because you spew so much liberal garbage in here Rush. I have to keep moving. I don't type in Word or WordPerfect and then cut and past it over into the forum like you do. So I don't do spell check and grammar check.
DeleteThis is not a spelling bee in here Rush. However, you're too stupid to realize that though.
I know how to spell 'Speedo'. Does that count?
DeleteLTE #3... About the 47 Percent
ReplyDeleteYou can have your own opinions, just not your own set of facts. Fact, Mitt made those remarks at a $50,000/plate campaign fund raiser. Strategy or not, Mitt insulted most in "The Greatest Generation" who now live in households that owe NO federal income tax, and many other hard working Americans who owe no federal income tax, including soldiers receiving Combat pay. Even Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, among many others, said that Romney’s comments were “stupid and arrogant.” No one knows what Romney intends to do. He will not tell us.
George Romney epitomized the thinking of moderate Republicans, above all in his forceful support for civil-rights laws. Finding the Republican label even more unpopular than civil rights in Michigan, Romney ultimately distanced himself from the entire party in 1964, including his own moderate Republican allies. Political observers struggled to make sense of Romney’s inconsistency. As Theodore White wrote in The Making of the President 1964, “Romney perplexes his less-principled observers, for no one is ever exactly sure what his principles will tell him to do.” biographer T. George Harris wrote, Romney ended the 1964 campaign with a giant stack of polling data in neat black folders, the information “too precise to let him ever hope, as many Republicans did, for anything but disaster with Goldwater at the top of the ticket.” So Romney did what he had to and returned to his winning formula from ’62: complete avoidance of the Republican Party. And who can forget when George Romney met Saul Alinsky: “I think you ought to listen to Alinsky,” George Romney, a member of the GOP’s liberal wing and an unsuccessful presidential candidate, told his political allies in the wake of 1967’s devastating race riots in Detroit.
"He did not take deductions that would lower this amount." Mitt Romney: "I don’t pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president. I’d think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires." So by his own standards, he is disqualified himself to be president. But we all know about Mitt's multiple choice standards. As Groucho Marx said: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well I have others."
Obama is running on the premise that Romney's economic plan won't work. We already know that Obama's plan won't work, based on four years of experience. By Obama's own standards and suggestion, we shouldn't be voting for him.
DeleteWhat Romney Economic Plan?
DeleteAsk Obama, he seems to know all about it.
DeleteI'm thinking about opening up a 'Speedo' Shop. That should get the economy moving.
Deletelol, sure got you movin'
Deleteyou can't get your mind off those speedos, bet you dream about them now.
DeleteBob, I'm heterosexual. I don't dream about men in 'Speedos'.
DeleteIt's pretty obvious that you do.
No, not obvious at all. I dream about naked men and women too actually.
DeleteGuy talk alert: I'll be dreaming about the hostess at the restaurant I went to at lunch being naked tonight. Man oh man did she wear that pair of tight jeans 8-D
DeleteGallup likely voter poll: 51% Romney to 45% Obama. We'll have to see if it holds after the most recent debate.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, women are flooding to Romney. They like to have money too.
Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey supports the term 'binder's' full of women, because she prepared them.
DeleteYou know, you're just about the dumbest fuck on this planet.
DeleteI'm glad you've got such an expansive vocabulary Rush, there's no telling what four letter words you'd use, if you didn't.
DeleteWhen liberals start losing, they get nasty, and desperate, just like Obama was during the last debate.
Deleteyour nasty and desperate all the time, win or lose.
DeleteBucky, I'm not really sure you can make anything out of current polling.
DeleteJust released Zogby/Newsmax poll shows Obama regaining lead in Florida (if I recall correctly Zogby leans left and Newsmax leans right) and a PPP poll (left leaning) shows Obama regaining lead in Virginia.
Some politicos have said that Obama was currently trying to hold on to the rust belt states and concentrating his resources there and forgoing the south as a lost cause.
I am skeptical that Obama can win Florida or Virginia let alone NC.
Obama's done in a lot of states. Obama better 'hope' he can hold on until the end. It's not looking too good.
DeleteNC will go Romney BIG. McCrory is going to see to that.
Weekly jobless claims are going up. So much for those 'rubber' unemployment numbers put out recently by the Labor Department.
ReplyDeleteJobless claims jump by 46,000.
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DeleteJobless claims jump? It must be Republicans jimmying the numbers. It's the only explanation.
DeleteThey're not in charge of the numbers. Democrats are. They must not have gotten the word from Obama to 'fudge' 'em.
DeleteTalk to da chair old man.
DeleteThe empty chair Obama is sitting in? You must not have understood Clint's speech.
DeleteIf the chair is empty, then no one is sitting in it. You ARE old.
DeleteTotal federal and state "welfare" spending topped $1 trillion last year, marking a nearly 30 percent increase since the start of the Obama administration -- according to a new congressional report which documented spending across more than 80 benefit programs for low-income families.
DeleteThat Obama really has 'changed' America, and not for the better, either.
DeleteCollege educated voters in Colorado are starting to swing toward Romney.
ReplyDeleteWooooowheeeee! At least a few people are starting to wake up, and just in time too. Those young adults better get their minds focused on reality, or their economic futures are not going to be very bright.
Correction: Young college educated voters
DeleteThis must be the most polled campaign ever. It looks as if the outcome is in the hands of a rather small, still volatile, few percent. Perhaps things will gel in the last week, one way or the other.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: Using that criteria, Bill Gates would have us all living in mansions and driving Ferraris. Btw...while Romney is running for POTUS, Biden is not. A more accurate comparison would be against Obama's charitable giving. Of course, it's a lot easier to give away a large share of your income when you make $13MM in a year.
LTE 2: It should also be mentioned that being POTUS does not in any way, shape or form correlate to being CEO of a company.
LTE 3: Is Mr. Edwards on Romney's campaign staff? Kinda curious how Mr. Edwards would be so aware of Romney's thought processes. "...a true American patriot..." - like "liberal" and "conservative", quickly becoming a meaningless, hackneyed phrase.
LTE 4: What the Fed Reserve is actually doing is purchasing US debt by buying up govt bonds. The Fed Reserve, not China, is the largest holder of US debt. I'm not sure where Mr. Crawford is getting "real purchasing power of savings has been reduced by 25-33 percent" from or if he correctly understood what was actually being said. Core inflation has been flat due to the housing bust. Oil prices have risen due to increased global consumption and ME tensions (although they are off their highs at ~$90 pb) and food prices are up due to the drought that has covered much of the nation.
Finish the thought: those like me who watched the baseball playoffs instead. As mentioned before, didn't watch it...have no plans to watch any of them.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court in New York on Thursday ruled that a U.S. law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples.
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is now the second federal appeals court to reject part of the Defense of Marriage Act. It upheld a lower court ruling that had found a central part of the law unconstitutional.
Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs gave the opinion. He was appointed by George Bush.
DeleteI still think certain parts of one's anatomy should be used for what they were intended.
DeleteGood for you, Bucky, good for you.
DeleteNow go take your afternoon nap.
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DeleteCourts based in California and New York...big deal. I'll bet it wouldn't have been overturned in 'real' America.
DeleteHappy Birthday, dotnet!
ReplyDeleteDid you go to Hooters?
Thanks Stab! I went to the Northside Grill. I had planned to go to Applebee's, but I noticed that traffic going that way was being held up by some utility work going on, so I decided to go the opposite direction.
DeleteWe went to that Applebee's a few weeks ago when we on that side of town. It was OK, but no return trip. I guess I'll skip NS Grill in order to preserve domestic tranquility ;)
ReplyDeleteWomen's Issues:
ReplyDeleteObama supporters want equal pay for women. In order to have equal pay, you have to have a job. Duh! And Obama ain't exactly setting the world on fire in that department.
Somehow deleted my posts from today except for one above
ReplyDeleteI managed to confuse the two threads. Found my posts except for the one with gobbledygook which I deleted.
DeleteRomney pulling key staff out of NC and transferring them to OH
ReplyDeleteYour link works perfectly Wordly.
DeleteBelieves he has state won and he is moving resources to OH.
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