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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMitt Romney Gives Obama All The Lies He Needs to Hang Him With
Mitt Romney Gives Obama All The Lies He Needs to Hang Him With
Mitt Romneys lie based strategy couldnt measure up to Obama, and gave the president all the rope he needs to hang the Republican nominee.
The first question was about jobs, and Obama framed the question as about the future direction of the country. Romney starts off with an immediate lie that he is not going to cut taxes on the rich, and launched into his stump speech five point plan that provides no details. Eight minutes into the debate, Romneys main pitch was trust me on the economy. (Romney looks nervous and like he might throw up.) Romney then broke off a lie and said that he doesnt have a $5 trillion tax cut. Romney then tried to paint himself as the candidate of the middle class, with the claim that middle income families are being crushed under Obama. Romney promises to drill on government land for oil and natural gas, and touts drill, baby drill. Romney sprinkled a little fairy dust and claimed that he isnt raising taxes on the middle class. Obama hits Romney by telling the truth that Romney has been pushing a $5 trillion tax cut. Obama blasts Romney for not delivering specifics on what deductions and loopholes he would close.
It took less than 16 minutes for Romney lose his cool and interrupt the moderator. Romney followed up by contradicting his own running mates claim that Romney is going to cut taxes 20% across the board for all income earners. Obama brought Romney back to reality by telling him that his tax plan doesnt add up. Obama touted cutting taxes 18 times, and cutting taxes for the 98%.
Obama hit Romney for defining millionaires and billionaires is small business. Mitt Romney delivered some highly deceiving statistics about small businesses. According to Washington Monthly the Romney/Republican definition includes, Many of those 750,000 small businesses arent small at all. Some, like Bechtel Corporation, are positively enormous. The Democratic and Republican figures come from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation. But numerous think tanks and government organizations have examined the data and come to similar conclusions: First, that letting the Bush tax cuts on the top two brackets of small-business income would impact a tiny percentage of those businesses; and second, that many of the small businesses that would be impacted are actually giant companies which explains why such a tiny fraction of them can account for half of small business income.
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Mitt Romney Gives Obama All The Lies He Needs to Hang Him With (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2012
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Msnbc and the rest had better get on to the business of examing Rmoney's lies
flamingdem
Oct 2012
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flamingdem
(39,316 posts)1. Msnbc and the rest had better get on to the business of examing Rmoney's lies
I don't care about their egos about who "won", it's unimportant.
brightertomorrow
(122 posts)2. I totally agree
don't know what MSNBC was thinking with all of them saying Romney won. If winning means standing up there and spouting one lie after another and not explaining anything at all about any of his policies and bullying the moderator then what have we become as a country?? I sat here and wondered if they all had seen a different debate than I had?? To me once again Obama looked not only Presidential but like the only adult in the room.
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)3. Couldn't agree more
Someone last night started a thread about the Pres. smiling at R's lies. This is exactly why.