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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Clinton's perfect response to Romney's debate bullshit:
Live from the campaign trail:
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)calimary
(81,346 posts)The bad guys don't have anybody like him on theirs.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
treestar
(82,383 posts)Exactly what the Mittwit did!
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Our Bill is a great politician and entertaining to boot. Even if you hate him you have to love him, and that's the recipe for success in these times. If you can't do well in political theater, you won't do well in politics.
Romney performs in political theater well too, which is why he's still viable in this race. It's a lesson that Obama re-learned last Wednesday. We're going to be okay.
juajen
(8,515 posts)that he could be re-elected with a huge majority. I have republican relatives and friends that used to berate him constantly. They now can't get enough of his wit, brilliance and charm. It is really comical.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)is compensating. He is awesome.
andym
(5,444 posts)Romney's ego couldn't take that level of disrespect. President Obama is too respectful a person to use this blunt of an approach, but I'd still like some gentler humorous response to Romney at the next debate.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Willard would be curled up in the fetal position crying for his mommy to make the Bad Big Dawg go away. It would be a thing of beauty to watch Bill take Mittens apart like a cheap suit while smiling all the while. The crowd would be pelting Romney with rocks and garbage.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)I was waiting to see which Governor Romney showed up.
Last time we met you had a whole new plan.
It's kind of difficult to debate when you revise all of your positions during the debate.
Or something along those lines.
crazylikafox
(2,760 posts)How true
Whovian
(2,866 posts)I miss him in the political process. Glad he's on our side.
Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)He's awesome!
quinnox
(20,600 posts)piece by piece.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)of smoking shoes, like that scene in Repo Man.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)bluesbassman
(19,376 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)it's good to see that everyone agrees that Romney's performance was bullshit.
You have no idea how the media would have reacted.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Bill Clinton has always been a master of the media, and I'm surprised you think Romney would have a chance against him in a debate.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Bill Clinton has always been a master of the media, and I'm surprised you think Romney would have a chance against him in a debate."
Want to talk about 2008?
quinnox
(20,600 posts)So what makes you think Romney could stand against Clinton in a debate?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"So what makes you think Romney could stand against Clinton in a debate?"
Romney wasn't debating, he was spewing a series of lies and interupting the moderator.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Romney is a LOUSY debater. So I don't see any other result but Clinton cleaning his clock. Not sure why you seem to think otherwise or have a problem with that, but you are entitled to your opinion I guess...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and made him look like the lying sack of monkeyshit that he is. And he would have done it with a smile on his face. Clinton is the Zen master of that kind of takedown.
Uncle Joe
(58,372 posts)Thanks for the thread, JaneyVee.
Democratopia
(552 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,461 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)not an iSheeple
(12 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)for clearing up the fog. I love his explanations!!
OSPREYXIV
(74 posts)Denying all fact makes angercontrol impossible.
It's also exhausting. (As I recall, the Big Dog knows all about this move.) Ridicule is a very good start. IMHO, beating the RPC by flipping him. Forment his rage. Psychic aikido turns his lies into truth.
Or...quote the Georgian classics.
"War is Peace. Love is Hate. Lies are truth"
George Orwell, 1984
"A lie is not a lie...if you believe it."
George Costa
If elections are episodes of National Soap Opera, who's the sponsor. If those corporate sponsors are people, do we now have a government that is of, by and for the owners who control those corporations? Let's remember that most of the stock market consists of pension funds, etc. The corporate pirates who take over corporations and pay themselves outrageous salaries are working the same long con. (The people aren't sovereign,
we "own" the country and it's resources. The people don't own the shares, they have no say in
what goes, we're in control. Follow the money.
Michael Hudson explains best how a debt-based financial system erased all of FDR's New Deal.
Elect Democratic members of Congress who will make bank fraud illegal (again). Prosecute those
would-be royals and put them away.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Were it not for the 22nd Amendment, that man would still be president. Long Life and much health to you Big Dog!
Wolf
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)he's better than Angry Obama!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)One of Mitt's biggest weaknesses is that he lies and inevitably gets called on it.
How many times has he had to "re-explain" or correct something. I wonder if letting him lie again and again might not have been strategy.
I hate to say it, but calling out Kerrys' "flip flops" was effective.
Outright lies are even better ammunition.
JackN415
(924 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Bubba, on the other hand, brilliant at it.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)SIDURI
(67 posts)Nobody does it better.
Nobody!
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)I didn't always see eye-to-eye with him and yadda yadda but the hell with that. He is ice cream on an August afternoon. Perfect.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)There is forum for Video and Multimedia
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Might as well have this video there.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)You mean the response shouldn't have been: Romney won! Romney won!
So glad Clinton is here to set the record straight, and I agree with him.
Cha
(297,357 posts)to help his Party and the Country in this case.
He doesn't come out and rage on PBO..he brings up Mitt Romney's LIES.
mnhtnbb
(31,395 posts)Petrushka
(3,709 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)or double Romney's
Ohio Joe
(21,760 posts)I really appreciate all President Clinton has done this election season... And how he has done it
defacto7
(13,485 posts)and Thanks Bill!