Tag: Pres. Obama

Why CEOs Are Not Presidential Material

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After living through two years of bumbling attempts by a former CEO to run state government like a business, I had a flash of recognition when I heard Mitt Romney’s take on the Israeli/Palestinian problem.

Tea Party Republican and former HCA Columbia Chair Rick Scott, who spent $75 million of his own money on his campaign, took over the Florida governorship confident he would use his business skills to root out waste, slash the state payroll, get rid of regulations that hold back business, and create jobs. One of his first moves was to turn down millions in federal assistance to build a high-speed rail line that would have employed Floridians, taken cars off the eight-lane parking lots that serve as commuter roads, and made the state a leader in the transportation technology of the future.

When Romney says there is no hope for peace in the Middle East, he’s really telling us he doesn’t have what it takes to be president

From there, he rolled out a series of privatization proposals, such as turning over prisons to corporate managers and allowing developers to build golf courses in state parks. Within weeks of taking office, Scott’s approval ratings hit record lows, along with Florida’s employment numbers, which under Scott’s leadership have remained worse than the nation as a whole.

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Romney Says Obama is Wrong To Try To Put People Back to Work

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His whole campaign is based on getting people jobs again, putting people back to work.

— Mitt Romney, criticizing Pres. Obama for his efforts to increase employment. In contrast, Romney said it’s the personal responsibility of the unemployed to change their job status: “My campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again, particularly those who don’t have work.”

Who Said What When Regarding Libyan Attacks

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Obama on Wednesday, Sept. 12: 'Make no mistake. Justice will be done.'

Here is the the series of events concerning the attacks on Americans in the Middle East, in chronological order.

For the tea partiers out there, “chronological” is a big word that means in the order in which things happened, starting with the first thing and moving through time to the most recent thing.

For Republicans, it means that your version is a lie.

  • Moronic publicity whore Pastor Terry Jones, not content to have caused the death of 12 people by threatening to hold a public Koran burning, promotes a new YouTube video further baiting Muslims. The film, made by Sam Bacile, a 52-year-old Israeli-American real-estate developer who lives in California, depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile and womanizer, and shows him having sex. It was posted online in July but was dubbed in Arabic on Sept. 4. Since then, a trailer for the film was heavily reported in Egypt.

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Religious Right Voters in N.C. and Virginia Are Uneasy about Romney’s Money and the Mormon Church

Jon Ponder

North Carolina and Virginia are both large swing states — the tenth and twelfth most populous states, respectively — where the political polarity between left and right could not be more extreme. Both states are home to millions of multiethnic white-collar liberals and moderates, most of whom live in the urban enclaves, as well as roughly the same numbers of rural, white evangelical voters who hold extreme, often fantastical right-wing views.

Thirty-five percent of voters overall, and the same proportion of lower- and middle-income white Bible Belt voters, say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is Mormon.

Pres. Obama won both states in 2008, but in the current campaign, it has become conventional wisdom that he will likely lose North Carolina and win Virginia — although these predictions are not supported in the most recent polls. A PPP survey released on Monday found the president up by 1 point — 49 percent to 48 percent — in North Carolina, while a local poll in Virgina found that Romney was up by 4 points there, 49 percent to 45 percent.

In most states where polling is close, the race will be decided by moderate swing voters, and while that is true for the most part in North Carolina and Virginia, the Romney campaign has an additional worry: an evangelical base with a generations-deep suspicion of outsiders, especially those of different faiths, including Jews and Muslims, of course, but also Catholics and Mormons.

Reuters has been in the field in Virginia talking with white Bible Belt voters and found that many of the say they are concerned about Mitt Romney’s wealth and his religion:

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North Carolina Republicans Delusional Over Osama Bin Laden

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15%

North Carolina Republicans that answered the question, “Who do you think deserves more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?” with Mitt Romney. Another 56% of Republicans told Public Policy Polling (PPP) they weren’t sure, while only 29% could bring themselves to admit that Pres. Obama should get more credit. While the president is enjoying a post convention bounce nationwide, he moved up only one point in the battleground state, from 48-48 the week before the event to 49-48 immediately after.

Obama Passes Romney in August Fund Raising

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$114 million

Amount raised by the Obama campaign during August, outstripping the Romney campaign (by $3 million) for the first time since April. Adding Rep. Paul Ryan to the ticket and holding the Republican convention during August didn’t push Romney’s donations for the month past Obama’s, which came from 1.1 million people giving an average of $52 each. Romney’s money came from 820,000 donors giving about $250 each. The Republicans, of course, are still blocking out the sun with super PAC donations.

Poll: Solid Majority Say Election Is a Choice, Not a Referendum on President

Jon Ponder

The internals in the poll cited here showed some weakness for Pres. Obama, but as long as this this top line remains so decidedly true, and Romney continues to be viewed unfavorably and as unlikable by a majority of voters, the president’s chances of winning in November remain strong:

A clear majority — 61 percent — of likely voters consider the presidential election to be more of a choice between President Obama and Mitt Romney than a referendum on the president’s first term in office, according to a new poll for The Hill.

Just over one-third — 34 percent — of voters said they considered the election to be a judgment on Obama’s job performance in the White House.

The results offer a measure of good news for Democrats, who have sought to frame the Nov. 6 election primarily as a choice between two candidates with different visions for the country.