Mitt Romney spent part of last week in Wisconsin where he picked up the endorsement of Representative Paul D. Ryan. During one campaign stop, Mr. Romney is quoted as saying “This President…was not elected on the strength of his compelling record of accomplishment but by a compelling personality and story”.
what eye thynk: Let’s see, Romney’s accomplishments include one term as the governor of Massachusetts where he passed the Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, a law with the same personal mandate requirement that the Republicans believe is unconstitutional when applied to the ACA. Guess we can remove that law from Romney‘s accomplishment column since if the Affordable Care Act goes down, his law can’t be far behind. For now, both laws stand, so we’ll call this one a draw. Accomplishment Score: Romney 1 - Obama 1
Just an aside--Mr. Romney has been saying that he re-entered the private sector after leaving the Massachusetts governorship. Factually, his assertion skims the outside edge of truth. His term ended on January 4, 2007, but he filed papers to establish an exploratory presidential committee the day before leaving office. He announced his candidacy for President on February 13, 2007. So, yes, he was technically a private citizen, but his premature filing and his official political re-entry five short weeks later makes his private citizen assertion a little “iffy”.
Romney likes to remind us of his business credentials. He started Bain Capital, a company whose focus is on buying companies, laying off employees, and then selling the gutted company to another investor. By the millions he has made from Bain, I suppose we have to call that an accomplishment, at least for him…for the thousands of people he put out of work, not so much. I’m not sure I would call this a good business model for improving our jobless rate, but, hey, he seems proud of it. In the meantime, President Obama has overseen a slow but steady decline in the unemployment rate to a level that is the lowest we have seen in three years. Accomplishment Score: Romney 0 - Obama 1
How about foreign policy? A few days ago Romney called Russia “our number one geopolitical foe” going on to state that he was appalled that President Obama wanted to further reduce our nuclear weaponry. Russia? Apparently he has been too busy lately to read anything about Iran or North Korea and he thinks nuclear bombs are cool. As for President Obama, he has brought an end to the war in Iraq, formed an international coalition to deal with the Middle East, convinced other nations to co-operate in the attempt to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and eliminated Osama Bin Laden. Accomplishment Score: Romney 0 - Obama 4
Total Accomplishment Score: Romney 1 - Obama 6
I’d do a side by side comparison of their “compelling” personalities, but that just seems cruel.
President Obama can win IF he can get by the hatred spurting up here and there in the Republican Party. Seems some folks just can't get passed the color of his skin.
ReplyDeleteWhen President Obama initiated his first campaign I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. But as time went on, and I heard the truths and the hopes coming from this man. I felt as tho I was listening to Jack Kennedy again.
As far as intellect goes, President Obama seems to fall in line with the two Demorcratic Presidents that preceded him. Both Carter & Clinton are well educated and incredibly intelligent men. So is President Obama.
Dubbya was..... Well, let's say he was not an intellect by any stretch of the imagination. Dubbya's Dad graduated from Yale in 1948. President Reagan was an actor. Mitt Romeny graduated from Harvard, but is unable to utter a truth.
So, if you compare President Obama to any recent Republican President you will find a man with strong beliefs in the American people. Rosie Whatshername from Alaska laughed at him for his background in community development.
Well, we ARE a community and he is doing a damn fine job of trying to develope it. Not with a republican grid locked Congress, but in spite of them.
I have said before that the republicans have no reasonable counter to Obama's time in office. I haven't seen such hatred since the last election. Even then, it wasn't this bad. so far, all the Republicans can do is tear down anything that Obama has done. they have not come up with anything to counter his proposals. I received an email the other day saying that Obama is the first president in history to: (insert list) the list was too fraudulent and too long to mention. I hate repeating myself but Obama did not start the economic downturn in this country. I lost my job while Bush was still in office. Obama did not start the war in Iraq which had nothing to do with 911. However, he did end it and is now formulating plans on a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Of all the bills that the republicans have introduced, not one has been a jobs bill. The economic bailout was a good idea. Automakers have already paid back every cent they received and their businesses are becoming profitable again. It would seem that a bailout that saved literally thousands of jobs would be better when compared to a corporation like Ford, GM or Chrysler shutting down. But, thats just my opinion.
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