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Once again President Obama kicked Mitt the Shit's ass

@glennbeck: I am glad to know that mitt agrees with Obama so much. No, really. Why vote?

Yikes, even more proof – Coulter is pissed at Romney (she’s talking about Obama):

@AnnCoulter: I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

Ari Fleischer said, after the debate, that the debate won’t matter – that means he thinks Romney lost.

RT @GregMitch: Fox admits it dial turners reached highest joy point at “horses and bayonets.”

Chris Matthews to Obama campaign deputy, Cutter: “I think you guys won tonight.”

@keithboykin: CBS poll: 53% say Obama won debate. Only 23% say Romney.

RT @ppppolls We have a post-debate poll running in the swing states & Obama was the clear winner

Chuck Todd says Romney acted “a little meek.”

The Washington Post ‏@washingtonpost Our lead story: “Obama keeps Romney on his heels” http://wapo.st/RYMf1C #debates
.@PoliticalWire: “The third & final presidential debate was @BarackObama’s best moment in the campaign so far.”
Jonathan Alter ‏@jonathanalter Romney was betting that he could change his positions and no one would catch up to it. But everyone’s watched now and he got busted.
Brian Fung @b_fung Obama did what he came to do tonight: defend his record and reveal Romney’s shiftiness. Romney came… and that was about it.
Jonathan Alter ‏@jonathanalter Romney essentially conceded that Obama doing decently on foreign policy, which with strong Obama performancd means Obama won debates 2-1.
Zach Green ‏@140elect 3.6 times more tweets after the debate say “Obama won” than say “Romney won”

Jim Heath ‏@JimHeath10TV Over 1,000 votes cast in our @10TV instant Debate Poll: Obama 58%, Romney 42%.

“@keithboykin: CNN says more Republicans watched the debate than Democrats, and yet Obama still won.”

Seven out of eight members of CNN’s focus group say Obama won the debate, the eight thinks it was a tie. No one thinks Romney won.

“@CNBC: http://t.co/lvqE1Bhg Survey Results: Who do you think won the debate? Obama: 67%, Romney: 30%, Neither: 3% (Track: http://t.co/n4qbWASF)”

“@ppppolls: We went into the field in NV as soon as the debate ended for a poll that will be released Wednesday and voters there say Obama won big too”

RT @ReutersPolitics Obama made the stronger arguments during the debate: 63% Obama, 33% Romney

@BuzzFeedAndrew: CNN post-debate poll says Obama won the debate 48%-40%.

@GregMitch: CNN poll: Obama won debate 48%-40%–& again they admit the sample skewed GOP. Was 8% skewed in previous polls.

RT @ppppolls: Swing state voters say Obama won the debate 53-42, and are planning to vote for him 51-45

Cillizza from the Washington Post calls it for Obama:

WINNERS

* President Obama: Obama controlled the third presidential debate in a way not all that dissimilar from the way Romney controlled the first one. Obama clearly came loaded for bear, attacking Romney from the jump for a lack of clarity when it came to his vision (or lack thereof) on foreign policy. If you are looking for moments — and remember that the media coverage over the next few days will focus on just that — Obama had two with his line about “the 1980s calling” in regards to Romney’s foreign policy and his reference to “horses and bayonets” to call into question his rival’s understanding of the modern military. It’s possible that Obama came off too hot/not presidential in some of his attacks but Democrats will take a little too much heat following Obama’s cold-as-ice performance in the first debate. Obama came across as the more confident and commanding presence — by a lot.

LOSERS
* Mitt Romney: Romney clearly decided to play it safe in this debate — whether because he thought he was ahead and will win if he doesn’t screw up or because he knows that foreign policy isn’t his strong suit. But, as NFL teams (re)learn every year, playing the prevent defense almost never works. Romney was constantly trying to parry Obama attacks; he knocked some down but plenty go through too. Romney also struggled to differentiate how his foreign policy would offer a break with what Obama has pursued over the past four years. And, he seemed uninterested in attacking Obama on Libya, a baffling strategic decision. Romney was, not surprisingly, at his best when talking about how the economic uncertainty in this country led to uncertainty for the country more broadly but he just didn’t do enough of it to win.

And here’s your LOL:

RT @chrisgeidner: “I think it’s unequivocal, Romney won.” – Charles Krauthammer

Fact Checking last nights Vice Presidential Debate-Update

From Salon

10:20 — When are we getting out of Afghanistan? Biden emphatically states that the U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2014. “We are leaving. We are leaving in 2014. Period.” Well, sort of. While the vast majority of the troops will be gone, the U.S., NATO, and Afghanistan agreed to leave and “enduring presence” of perhaps 10,000 troops to help train Afghans past 2014. The troops will not play combat roles and the Afghan government will assume full security of the country, but Biden exaggerated a bit.

10:15 — Taxpayer funding for abortion: Ryan says Democrats support taxpayer funding for abortion, pointing to Obamacare. That’s completely false. The bill never contained taxpayer funding for abortion, but it was nonetheless held up for months to appease pro-life Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak and the bloc that he lead.

10:10 — Troops in Libya: Ryan said “nobody is considering sending troops to Syria.” In August, Gov. Romney told CBS News that he would send U.S. troops to Syria if necessary to prevent the spread of chemical weapons. In his interview with CBS, Romney said, “I think we have to also be ready to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that we do not have any kind of weapon of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists and whether that requires troops, or whether that requires other actions by our friends and allies.”

10:05 — Biden forgets he voted for Iraq war: Biden hits Ryan on spending by saying the congressman voted ”to put two wars on a credit card.” But Biden also vote to authorize the war in Iraq, and voted to give Bush “all necessary and appropriate force” to respond to the terror attacks, which led to war in Afghanistan.

10:00 — Small Navy? Paul Ryan says Obama would reduce the Navy to its smallest size since World War I. Politifact gave that claim a Pants on Fire and called it ridiculous.

9:55 — Sequester two-step: Ryan attacks Biden for automatic defense cuts that will go through if Congress does not act. Those cuts come from the “sequester,” the automatic trigger mechanism created by the congressional deal to raise the debt ceiling. You know who voted for that plan? Paul Ryan.

9:50 — Tax plan adds up? Asked by the moderator if he can “guarantee” that Mitt Romney’s tax plan adds up, Ryan says, “Six studies have verified this plan adds up.” Among the “studies” included in that figure are two Op-Eds and white papers written by the campaign or economists connected to the campaign. The most comprehensive and well-respected study done so far from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center finds that the numbers do not add up. Not by a long shot.

9:45 — Social Security and Medicare are not going broke: “Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt. These are indisputable facts,” Ryan says. Actually both are disputable and neither are facts. People have been saying Social Security is going to go bankrupt for decades, it hasn’t yet, and it’s not going to. It’s currently projected to be fine for at least 40 years. Medicare is in more peril, but it is still nowhere close to anywhere near going bankrupt anytime soon. And Obamacare actually extended the life of the Medicare trust fund.

9:40 — Ryan’s healthcare plan is bipartisan? Ryan claimed that his Medicare proposal was co-sponsored by a Democrat. He was referring to Sen. Rod Wyden of Oregon, who did create a plan to change Medicare, but once Republicans adapted it, he distanced himself from the bill this summer. In response to Romney’s continued claims on the campaign trail that the bill was bipartisan, Wyden told the Oregonian in August, “Bipartisanship requires that you not make up the facts. I did not ‘co-lead a piece of legislation.’”

9:35 — What about in your own district? Ryan attacked Biden because the unemployment rate has gone up in his hometown of Scranton, Pa., under Obama and Biden. But the unemployment rate has gone up in Paul Ryan’s home district as well during his tenure in Congress. It was 3.8 percent when Ryan first took office in 1999 and was at 9.2 percent this August.

9: 30 — Paul Ryan requested stimulus money: Joe Biden calls out Ryan for sending two letters requesting stimulus funds for his district, despite attacking the program. “We do that. We advocate for constituents’ interests,” Ryan said in response. That’s a new answer for Ryan, who previously blamed his staff. It’s actually his third answer. First, he said, “I never asked for stimulus.” Then, after being caught, he blamed his staff for allegedly mishandling the economy. “After having these letters called to my attention I checked into them, and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled. This is why I didn’t recall the letters earlier. But they should have been handled differently,” he said in a statement. So his defending of the requests tonight is a bit of a departure. It’s also worth noting that Ryan supported the 2002 stimulus package proposed by George W. Bush.

9:25 — Cars: “Mitt Romney is a car guy,” Ryan says earnestly. Mitt Romney also wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times titled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”

9:20 — How long has Biden known Bibi? Biden claimed he’s known Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “39 years.” But as the Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart notes, that’s almost certainly impossible, as Netanyahu was an undergrad at MIT at the time. More likely, they met about 20 years ago.

9:15 — Biden flubs on Libya: “We weren’t told they wanted more security… We did not know they wanted more security there,” Biden said when Ryan challenged him on the attack. As the Washington Post pointed out that, that claim is ”contradicted by State Department officials just the day before, in testimony before a congressional panel and in unclassified cables released by a congressional committee.”

9:10 — Marines: Paul Ryan, noting that there’s a Marine detachment at the U.S. Embassy in Paris asks, “Shouldn’t we have a Marine detachment?” in Libya. The infatuation with the Marines belies a deep misunderstanding of the role the service members play in foreign embassies. The Corps actually protects information, not personnel. And with only a little over 1,000 Marines serving as guards around the world, there are very few in any diplomatic post.

9:05 — Diplomatic security: The debate opened up with a discussion of the attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Libya, with Paul Ryan attacking Biden for the Obama administration supposedly not doing enough to protect diplomats. But Ryan’s budget plan would cut diplomatic security and House Republicans have already tried to do so. “For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration,” the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank reported. In 2009, Ryan was one of 156 Republicans members to voted for an amendment to “reduce funding for Diplomatic and Consular Programs by $1.2 billion,” as the official record states. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who has been leading the charge on Libya in Congress, admitted on CNN this week that he “absolutely” voted to cut the diplomatic security budget.

I apologize for not getting this up until now. I planned to edit last night but I was too tired when I got home from work last night.

VP Biden may have been born in Scranton, but he has lived in Delaware since he was ten.

It's Joe vs Lyin Ryan tonight

Tonight is the Vice-Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. Joe kicked Sarah's ass four years ago and should do well tonight against Pinocchio. But since Pinocchio didn't ask Sarah Palin for any advice he has half a chance.

From USA Today (Oct 2, 2012)

Paul Ryan says he hasn't asked Sarah Palin for advice on his upcoming debate against Vice President Biden.
On the eve of the first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, the GOP vice presidential nominee told Bloomberg TV that he hasn't thought much about what he would do differently from Palin.

"What I plan on doing is offering our alternatives, showing what we believe, how we're going to do things differently so the country has a very clear choice to make," Ryan said in the interview.

The running mates will face off on Oct. 11 at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Tomorrow, Obama and Romney will meet at the University of Denver, in the first of their three debates.

Palin's debate performance four years ago was well-received and helped boost her image at a time when many voters across the country still did not know much about the Alaska governor. In a recent statement to The Weekly Standard, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee urged Romney and Ryan to "go rogue" and "break through the filter of the liberal media to communicate their message of reform."

Pinocchio has already distanced himself from her, which proves she is an embarrassment

Is anyone surprised Mitt Romney cheated during the debate?

Check out this picture, no it is not photoshopped

He has crib notes there. He is allowed to take notes but there is a lot of writing on that sheet.

Check out this video

And this one:

Fact Checking the debate last night

FactCheck.org

ThinkProgress

Romney may have "won" the debate but he was exposed as a liar.

I don't know if it was President Obama's strategy but he should have called Mitt the Shit out on all those lies.
27 lies in 38 minutes.

Report: Mitt Romney threatened to boycott the Presidential debates

From the Examiner

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has gone through its fair share of ups and downs, but now the former CEO of Bain Capital has thrown an alleged hissy fit over the 2012 presidential debates.

After last week's announcement revealed the moderators for the upcoming presidential debates, criticism and praise was expected. The biggest news coming out of the debate selections was that a woman would be moderating the historic event for the first time. CNN's Candy Crowley was given the nod to make history and the reaction was mixed. Many liberals were upset that Crowley often leans the right, but the louder attacks came from conservatives who believe Crowley is too liberal. African-American and minority groups also showed that they were upset by voicing their displeasure at the lack of ethnic diversity in the selections made.

While liberal and conservative groups aren't exactly happy over the moderators selected, the biggest outrage came from the soon to be Republican nominee himself, Mitt Romney. According to the New York Times, the Romney campaign threatened to boycott the presidential debates if any host from MSNBC was chosen. After the conservative news channel, Fox News, was told that they wouldn't be selected to host any of the debates, the backlash from the Romney campaign came fast and furious.

MSNBC is often criticized by Republicans and conservatives for being a Democratic leaning network, but there are differences between them and Fox News. MSNBC promotes itself with the slogan "lean forward" and advertise a more progressive line of thinking. Though the prime time hosts on MSNBC are "left leaning," they don't hide it and openly admit it. Not all the hosts at MSNBC lean to the political left as former Republican Representative, Joe Scarborough, hosts a three-hour show every morning and far right conservative, S.E Cupp co-hosts "The Cycle" each weekday at 3pm.

As MSNBC admits to their progressive stance, Fox News continues to promote themselves with the catch slogan, "Fair and Balanced." Despite a few centrists being promoted as "liberals," Fox News continues to showcase radical conservatives ideology through the likes Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly.

Even though he is out-raising the president through conservative super PACs and announced the young Paul Ryan as his Vice Presidential running mate, Mitt Romney is still trailing President Obama in the most recent polls. With the hope now gone that the conservative network would give him a national platform to shine, Mitt Romney and his campaign have no choice but to go back to the drawing board.

What a fucking crybaby!

Mitt the shit sounds like the kid who threatens to take his ball and go home if he can't win. He really is spoiled isn't he?

Tonights Republican debate

I didn't watch it and I didn't TIVO it, so I posted here for everyone. One good thing about this debate is you don't have to listen to Screechy. So sit back with your popcorn and laugh your ass off!

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Reason #66 not to vote for Sarah Palin for anything

She refuses to debate other candidates.

From The State Column

Sarah Palin, a former Alaska Gov. and reality TV star, turned down an invitation today to the New Hampshire primary debate on June 13. In her place, seven declared or soon-to-be declared candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will take to the stage for a debate hosted by CNN’s John King. The debate will feature Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Although Santorum and Bachmann have not yet declared their candidacy, they are expected to do so soon.

What a yellow bellied, spineless, gutless, limp, impotent, pussy! OK limp and impotent pertain to men but in her case I will make an exception. If she cannot handle a simple debate how is she going to handle major decision making in the White House like starting a war? Oh thats right God will tell her what to do.

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