Republican nominations
- 5 October 2012 09:49194344Maybe we (and I include myself) have underestimated Romney. Most people (not me) have certainly over-estimated Obama.
I remain uninspired by Romney though. Obama should be a dead duck ready for plucking by a good Republican candidate and I am still not sure Romney is that. - 5 October 2012 18:12194447Obama was certainly caught on the hop, maybe he got just a tad complacent, after all so far Romney, with all the gaffs, was not looking too clever at all but hey I was not expecting that!! Watch this space, it's going to be quite a race for the top
- 7 October 2012 18:47194693the republican party seems to have more than its fair share of oddballs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/06/republican-congressman-paul-broun-evolution-video - 7 October 2012 19:19194702Do you live on BS mountain?...and have an hour and a half to spare...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/07/jon-stewart-bill-oreilly-debate
This IS the video for you.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 7 October 2012 20:49194717Well, I went back and watched the whole thing, and what a breath of fresh air it was to.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 17 October 2012 15:30196387Not in favour of our leaders fighting elections on TV but that`s the way of the world.
Last night`s Obama and Romney contest can be summed up by looking at Romney`s wife`s body language at the end.........
.........technical knockout to Obama..... - Brian Dixon
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17 October 2012 15:31196388more of a technical bore,no punches where thrown. - 17 October 2012 15:38196391the report i read that they were roughly equal with the presidency still up for grabs.
- 17 October 2012 15:41196392You,both, must have been watching the Audrey Harrison fight.............
- 18 October 2012 07:25196486Cool dude Barack did not do well in the first debate. His easy and comfortable PR demeanour had slipped away from him, his halo of cool went awol and out to lunch for the big occasion and he looked tired, flagged, and fagged out.When that big moment for debate arrived he looked nervous..but it's hard to fathom, do these guys ever get nervous? what with them being so used to the daily media frenzy. But perhaps they do. There is a lot at stake of course and Barack Obama had it all to lose. And he did lose. He lost his lead in the polls.
Now re-energised, perhaps on new found diet of power drinks, Barack has fought back in debate 2. The coverage tells us he turned the tables on Mitt Romney this time and is now back in super cruise mode and some say heading for term 2 in the White House. But Romney is not far away and not far behind either, and is all the while snapping viguorously at the heels of the Democrats. Although pundits say Obama won the debate this time around, Romney has been a bit of a revelation in these debates, and has emerged with something of the Rottweiler about him. He growls, he grunts, he prowls menacingly across the stage, he grabs the political shoe and wont let it go. This took Barack by surprise the first time around, but as we have seen the president was ready for it this time..or more ready than before. But Rottweiler Romney is a fighter.
Romney continues to have an uneasy relationship with the media at the same time. Now he has hit further goof mode over a remark he made about having a binder full of women. In his own inimitable way he was trying to appeal to women promising them there will be more jobs and no glass ceiling...but of course he stuck his foot in it again. Perhaps though the latest goof wasnt so bad..it is now just possible that people ( the rival camp!?) are looking out for them now and go Twittering as sooon as they spot potential.
But speaking of women..back to the evening of the debate. Now, one isnt much of a fashionista oneself, but as is traditional on these American debates the wives take to the stage when the politics are over..and lo and behold up pop the two wives in the same shade, yes the very same shade, of lurid shocking pink. My Gawd were they bright...but secretly they must have been spitting feathers. The shade of pink on show must have been hard to find.. so unusual was it...but these two managed to find the exact same colour and near as dammit the exact same outfit...oh spit!
..ah...was trying to get the pictures side by side.....Chris...??
email: dover7@msn.com - 18 October 2012 17:36196583Well one more debate to go, my money is still on Obama altough by the skin of his teeth lets hope he came keep his cool, he was thrown in the first one but he's hopefully regained his cool composure.
As for the wives well as said pink in all its shocking glory eye catching to say the least
can you imagine the conversation afterwards. - 18 October 2012 20:56196627Chuck `Farmer` Monroe Pumpkin salesman lives in Stark County,Ohio where no republican has ever won the White House
without taking Ohio.
The Polls have Stark County evens so Obama and Romney may need to buy Pumpkins for votes ....now there`s an idea...... - 19 October 2012 12:33196725Watched the latest Obama/Romney debate on the edge of my seat, terrific viewing, I kept imagining a Huge red flag between them.......... Romney being the fighting bull and Obama of course being the bull fighter
Lo and behold, the bull fighter came out on top. I'm rooting for Obama
I guess the wives had no option but to agree they both had very good taste
But how amazing was that, surely there must be some sort of communication system behind the scenes with their fashionistas. The top designers have lost no time in getting shocking pink to the fore as today's most wanted colour. I heard on the radio this morning that they are about to saturate the market, so girls watch out for the rails of pink
Personally, I think Michelle always looks good and can wear just about anything - 19 October 2012 15:16196745Following on from her time as an MP; when, whilst sitting on the Parliamentary Committee investigating phone-hacking announced, "I found Mr. Murdoch's evidence convincing and I speak as I find"
The delightful Louise Mensch is now the Sun's weekly columnist on the US election. A 'must read' for those wishing to keep abreast of developments?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 24 October 2012 08:18197404Well the presidential debates are over...but who won overall?? The answer is Romney no question. Although the second two debates were seen as roughly even between the two contenders, both teams were convinced their man had won which was fair enough, but Obama's poor performance in the opening debate where he looked ditheringly tired and exhausted had left him forever trying to catch up on a newly vibrant Romney.
The reason I say Romney won is that here we have a candidate who was dead in the water..the newspapers and media generally were writing him off, his staff were booking the plane tickets home, but once the debates started....POW! .. it all changed. The gaff prone goofball had gone and we at last saw a real contender with statesmanlike appeal. Obama was no longer cruising to victory but was reeling on the back foot.
Now today the polls are even steven where before Romney was bringing up a decided rear, he was eating the Obama dust. So the guy who gained most from the debates was Rottweiler Romney..his aggressive style shocked Obama and woke up the American voter, he woke them up enough to bring himself level in the polls.
The third debate where they were both seated was a calmer affair with Romney pushing his cool statesman image for all it was worth and Obama highlighting his successes in foreign policy...but now with the polls neck and neck.. one is reminded what that evergreen detective would say.."the games afoot Watson"
ps: For the fashionistas..the wives managed NOT to wear the same outfits this time. That lurid pink moment is now dead and buried.email: dover7@msn.com - 24 October 2012 08:54197408Romney was dead in the water based on a lengthy period of observation of his performance and policies...judgement
by TV is superficial .......dangerously american....... - 24 October 2012 12:20197441Without the drama of these televised debates Romney in my opinion would have no chance. These American debates no matter how superficial, are where the deciding factor lies and that's the way it is, like it or not.
The third debate certainly made it an 'even stevens' result so the heat is on and at boiling point.
Looks like the lurid pink rails of clothing will be heavily discounted this side of Christmas - 24 October 2012 13:09197454Agreed but if you cast your mind back to UK 2010 pre-election TV interviews....Cleggy came out on top...the star and enjoyed
a week before his policies sunk in and he was brought back down to earth with a crash heading for ultimate political oblivion.
The problem is if the american people vote Romney in and then find out they have a `Cleggy`....... - Brian Dixon
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24 October 2012 15:35197468if either get into office,then its time to leave the plant.
mmmmm i wonder how much a one way ticket to the moon is,a grandstand view of earth in melt down would be quite a spectical from there. - 24 October 2012 16:40197479i didn't watch any of them, just read reports that seemed to indicate that it is all up for grabs.
