Romney to Obama, "...puny god"

There was a clear winner in the presidential debate last night --Mitt Romney.

Obama is now being skewered by his own people. Obama said nothing last night that could have energized his base. This is dangerous for Obama because his base seems to idolize him. As soon as they see that he is weak, or no longer holding with his "god" status, Obama's base might just turn on him.

"Tonight wasn't an MSNBC debate tonight, was it?" Chris Matthews said after the first Obama-Romney presidential debate concluded on Wednesday night.

"I don't know what he was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other hand, came in with a campaign. He had a plan, he was going to dominate the time, he was going to be aggressive, he was going to push the moderator around, which he did effectively, he was going to relish the evening, enjoying it," Matthews said.

"Here's my question for Obama: I know he likes saying he doesn't watch cable television but maybe he should start. Maybe he should start. I don't know how he let Romney get away with the crap he throughout tonight about Social Security," Matthews complained.

Yes I know "throughout" is not correct, but it's what the site has and I'm quoting it.

If Matthews' methodology were implemented it would be no different than Romney going on stage and saying that Obama is a socialist. Obama didn't come out and say that Romney is some rich guy that doesn't care about poor people and there is a reason for that. Personal attacks in debates don't work well. People are looking for substance not goofy attacks. Remember how well Newt Gingrich did when the moderator asked him about his ex-wife?

When Gingrich was asked in the January 19 debate, shortly before he won the South Carolina primary, about his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich's claims, he unloaded on moderator John King of CNN. The former House speaker decried "the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media" and saying the question was "as close to despicable as anything I can imagine."

Gingrich's attack on King was met with a standing ovation from the audience, and exit polls out of South Carolina suggested his debate performance was a significant driver of his double-digit victory there.

It seems that Obama has nothing left but personal attacks. The vast majority of Obama campaign ads are personal attacks on Romney. When Obama tries to attack Romney on substance he does so by purposely misquoting Romney. Misquoting didn't work in the debate because Romney shut it down. Romney is not McCain.

All Romney has to do to wrap up this election is to bring to each debate what he brought last night.

-- Next Thursday, October 11, 2012 is the debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. --

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There was a link to this on Fox News. I've never seen or heard of anything like this before. Amazing!

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Romney said the following at a fund raiser in May of this year.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said in the secretly recorded remarks. "There are 47 percent who are with [President Barack Obama], who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

"My job is not to worry about those people," he continued. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Romney was speaking in the context of votes. Romney is not worried about trying to win the votes of people who will vote for Obama because of their dependency.

In a Fox News interview Romney stood by his 47% comment; further explaining what was already obvious considering the context in which it was stated.

The problem, Romney argued, is that people are so poor nowadays that they’re not paying taxes.

“I want to get people back to work,” he said. “I’d like to see everybody who’s not retired, not in the military, having the privilege of having a good job and a good income – enough that they qualify to pay taxes.”

But even while he tried to make a broader policy argument, Romney in the next breath said that his comments at the fundraiser were not about policies – they were a measure of his political chances of winning the White House.

“I was talking about the fact that I don’t expect to get 60 or 70 percent of the vote,” Romney said. “I understand that some portion will be the president’s, some portion will be mine. I’ve got to get as many as I can from every single cohort in this country.”

Romney several times referenced a 1998 clip that surfaced just before his interview, which shows Obama, then a state senator, advocating for helping the poor through “redistribution.”

I think it's pretty clear what he was getting at. Now let's shift gears for a minute to what Obama has said. Of course everyone remembers Joe The Plumber right.

OBAMA: ... in order to give -- in order to give additional tax cuts to Joe the plumber before he was at the point where he could make $250,000.

Then Exxon Mobil, which made $12 billion, record profits, over the last several quarters, they can afford to pay a little more so that ordinary families who are hurting out there -- they're trying to figure out how they're going to afford food, how they're going to save for their kids' college education, they need a break.

So, look, nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself. But ultimately, we've got to pay for the core investments that make this economy strong and somebody's got to do it.

The 47% comment by Romney is correct. There is a large percentage of the population that stands to benefit from handouts. If that were not the case why then vote for Obama? What has Obama done to limit government dependency?

This Obama comment from 2008 gets to the core of the debate. Obama actually believes that "investment" in government is going to make the economy strong. Romney was pointing out that he wants the economy to do better by having less government involvement. The government will have increased tax revenue when more people pay into it, not taking more from the few that pay in now.

The economy is the private sector. Taking money from the private sector and putting in government is never going to result in a stronger economy. It simply makes no sense.

Obama has been an advocate for higher taxes and more government economic intervention from the very beginning, even before the 2008 election. People just didn't catch on. I only hope this time that people pay more attention to what Obama says and include his past actions when formulating their opinion of him.

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The Middle East is once again becoming unavoidable for Obama. Obama has praised the "Arab Spring" from the beginning without actually knowing what was really going on there.

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya. March 28, 2011.

I believe that this movement of change cannot be turned back, and that we must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms: our opposition to violence directed at one’s own people; our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people.

At the time Obama made these remarks; there was still debate over whether or not to arm the Libyan "rebels" because we didn't really know who they were. But somehow Obama knows that they share our core beliefs?

A U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans died in Libya on September 11, 2012 as the result of an attack on the consulate.

TRIPOLI, Libya — US officials are increasingly suspicious that the murder Tuesday of the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American officials was not the result of a protest against an anti-Islam film, but instead was a coordinated terror strike timed for the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as a crowd of hundreds attacked the consulate Tuesday evening, many of them firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

By the end of the assault, much of the building was burned out and trashed. Stevens was the first US ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.

Hillary Clinton doesn't seem to grasp what's going on either.

Until now, Libya’s struggles had largely faded from the national headlines. Americans were shocked by Wednesday’s news that heavily armed Libyans assaulted the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, setting fire to the buildings and killing four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Even Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?

Even more attacks have broken out.

Since Tuesday's deadly assault in Libya -- and a protest the same day at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo -- demonstrations, both small and large, have been reported in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran and among Muslims in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir. Security has been heightened at U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide.

While some protesters say they have not seen any of the online film, they were incensed by reports of its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.

These things alone make a few things apparent. For starters; Obama's foreign policy skills are severely lacking/non-existent. The Obama administration's policy of "peace through weakness" has caused the world to become much more unstable. And somehow Hillary Clinton is amazed that fundamentalist Muslims aren't beholden to Infidels (the U.S. in this case) for helping to oust Qaddafi.

It gets even worse; Obama was praising the Arab Spring uprising and Libya on the same day that the U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed.

Obama won't meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he has a meeting planned next week with Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi.

Want more? Just keep watching this administration.

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The owner of Chick-fil-A says that he supports marriage between two people of the opposite sex.

...Dan Cathy, president of the popular fast food chain Chick-fil-A, has done just that, saying on a radio show that “we’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. And I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude that thinks we have the audacity to redefine what marriage is all about.”

Following backlash after those remarks, Cathy then told the Baptist Press in an article posted July 16 that he is “guilty as charged” and is very “supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit.”

What is the response of the gay community? Boycott Chick-fil-A. Boycotts are only effective if there is a large enough number of individuals who take part. Statistically gays represent a very small minority of the population. Forget the numbers you've heard on the news. Forget the number of people who show up for gay rallies and marches. Look at the map.

Whenever gay marriage is put up to a vote; it fails the vast majority of the time. Most people are solemn in their beliefs and don't broadcast them. But when it comes time to vote, they vote their beliefs.

What was the reaction to the boycott threat? Huge numbers of people went to Chick-fil-A yesterday to show support for traditional marriage and Mr. Cathy.

At Chick-fil-A locations across the country, people voted with their wallets today, coming out to express support for the fast-food chain after CEO Dan Cathy said in an interview that he is a firm backer of traditional marriage.

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day – as it is being called was the idea of former Arkansas governor and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee. But as protests against Chick-fil-A swelled across the country, dozens of groups and prominent individuals joined in support of the company.

Among the groups is Project 21, a black conservative activist organization. One of its members, Demetrios Minor, said critics of Dan Cathy have taken his statements completely out of context. “I think liberals are missing a vital point in their blind hatred of Chick-fil-A,” Minor said in a statement sent to Fox News. “Being against gay marriage is not being anti-gay.”

What is the latest response from the gay community? Stage a kiss-in at Chick-fil-A restaurants.

On Friday, supporters of same-sex marriage will have their say. They plan a “kiss-in” at Chick-fil-A restaurants across the country – encouraging gays and lesbians to share a public display of affection at the home of the chicken sandwich.

The "kiss-in" is proof that a boycott by such a small minority is ineffective. This was on display yesterday when Chick-fil-A, while bombarded with supporters, had a record sales day.

People can do what they want, but I think this is going to hurt the gay community more than help it. The gay movement has been one of force since the beginning. I liken it to a wild-eyed stalker. Obsessing until eventually they try to force their will on someone else with utter disregard for that person's wishes. They do these things from a removed, self-absorbed viewpoint; you have to like it because I do!

The gay movement is trying to force people to except their views by showing disrespect and being intolerant of others' opinions. Somehow I don't think this will go over well. This might even prompt people who would have otherwise stayed out of the debate altogether to enter it on the side of Chick-fil-A.

Why not just leave the word marriage alone?

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