{"id":9180,"date":"2012-10-17T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2012-10-17T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:57:46","slug":"welcome-back-barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/welcome-back-barack\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Barack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"17debate\" border=\"0\" alt=\"17debate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/17debate.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Two weeks ago a stranger showed up to debate Willard Romney, and I have to say that I was worried that the stranger might return.&#160; My concern was in vain.&#160; Barack is back!&#160; After last night, I may have to change my nickname for Romney, Lord Willard, to Lord Lunch.&#160; After providing you with the complete video of the debate, in case you missed it or wish to review it, I shall share some of my own observations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">First, here is the complete video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEpCrcMF5Ps?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you prefer text, here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/10\/16\/full-transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">transcript<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney arrived with an Etch-a-Sketch in each hand, and trotted out a cavalcade of lies, very similar to the list he inflicted on America during the first debate.&#160; This time, Obama came loaded for skunk, and he bagged one.&#160; Instead of letting Romney get away with his lies, Obama called him on them.&#160; Here are just a few of the lies.&#160; Romney said that fewer people are working today than there were before Obama took office, when there are more now.&#160; The difference would be much larger but for the huge losses that occurred during the first six months, before any of Obama\u2019s policies had gone into effect.&#160; Romney said he appreciates wind energy jobs, when he had recently called them phantom jobs.&#160; Romney said energy production on public land has decreased.&#160; It has increased.&#160; Romney said all women should have access to contraceptive care.&#160; He has been campaigning on the exact opposite.&#160; Romney said Obama doubled the deficit.&#160; He has not.&#160; Romney said automatic weapons are illegal.&#160; They used to be, but Bush refused to renew the ban.&#160; Romney actually said that self-deportation is just allowing people to make their own choices.&#160; Ha!&#160; Romney said he would crack down on China.&#160; Not only did he object, when Obama did so, but also, cracking down on China would cost Willard a small fortune.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney even lied about asking for binders full of women.&#160; He did not.&#160; The binders full of women were prepared by MassGAP, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thephoenix.com\/BLOGS\/talkingpolitics\/archive\/2012\/10\/16\/mind-the-binder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a bipartisan group of women who wanted to address the lack of women in cabinet positions<\/a>.&#160; They did this and provided information to both parties before the election.&#160; Then they presented the binders to Romney, upon his election.&#160; The hype that Romney recognized the inequity and ordered the hunt to find qualified women is pure garbage!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney\u2019s only strong point was that he succeeded of making himself appear competent on the economy by failing to answer any specifics about what he will cut.&#160; It seems that some people are willing to assume being in business gives him the know-how, and to take it on faith<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney was so must more aggressive than before, that Obama appeared to be defending himself from a bully, as indeed he was.&#160; Romney also tried to bowl over Candy Crowley and looked very foolish when she put him in his place.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There were two high points.&#160; When Romney said Obama had not called the Benghazi attack an act of terror and confronted Obama, Obama said \u201cPlease proceed\u201d.&#160; I knew that Romney was toast.&#160; Romney was caught with his fingers on the Etch-a-Sketch.&#160; Obama finished by pinning Romney\u2019s avowed disrespect for 47% of Americans on him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m not the only one calling this an Obama victory.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/170622\/all-post-debate-polls-give-obama-clear-win#\" target=\"_blank\">All the polls said Obama won<\/a>, except Fox.&#160; When the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, calls it a \u2018split decision\u2019, you know it was a disaster for Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Welcome back, Barack!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago a stranger showed up to debate Willard Romney, and I have to say that I was worried that the stranger might return.&#160; My concern was in vain.&#160; Barack is back!&#160; After last night, I may have to change my nickname for Romney, Lord Willard, to Lord Lunch.&#160; After providing you with the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/welcome-back-barack\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}