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Obama comes out swinging – in swing states
Yitzhak Benhorin, Reuters
Published: 18.10.12, 00:44
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1. From where you get your figures? Look at todays Gallup Poll
Ari ,   Jerusalem   (10.18.12)
51 Romney and 46 Obama. This is national Poll. BEN HORIN CHECK YPUR FACTS BETTER USING REUTERS AS ONLY SOURCE IS A MISTAKE Obama made some points in the debate. BUT NOT IN SUBSTANCE. He lied many times. This will catch him sooner or later. His record on goverment performance in las 4 years undefendable The growth of the economy is worst today than last yera and worst than the year before. In energy if it was not for the private sector all indexes went down on drilling . Gasline prices are today in the pump $4 dollars average, When Obama came in to Power it was $1.81 Unenployed at 8.6% Obama promised by final of term 5.4% The difference represents 9.000.000 american unenployed, that should have been employed according to his promises. Obama promised to bring down the defecit to Half today it has tripled. Swinging States ? Florida already swung to Romney and the rest are tecnically even Those are facts that Obama cannot defeat no matter what.
2. Obama is losing big time.
Chaim ,   Israel   (10.18.12)
3. So histerically funny: USA's dumb population shall decide
tom ,   tel aviv   (10.18.12)
World's future& fate! (Burka Time, everybody!) We bloody don't deserve it!!!
4. If Obama can only draw 2,000 at a college campus ...
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (10.18.12)
... he's going down to defeat. You know, Obama's supporters must be getting desperate if they have to manufacture an issue over "binders". Everyone understands he was talking of binders of women candidates or applicants. What matters are the results - and he did in fact assemble a team of qualified men and women (roughly 50/50). Funny how some people forget about Obama's "57 states" reference, or his assumption that people in Austria speak "Austrian". Or that Biden - that foreign policy "expert" - thinks Syria is three times Libya's size. (Actually, Libya is 9.5 times Syria's size.) Meanwhile, female staffers make less than male staffers in the Obama White House, and many of the women he's chosen are unqualified (Jarrett) or mediocre (Napolitano, Rice) or riven by ideology (Solis, Browner, Jackson and many others). As to the alleged "bungle" on the Libya question, Crowley got it wrong, as even she had to admit.
5. My advice to mr Romney
Istvan ,   BUDAPEST HUNGARY   (10.18.12)
Look for a good cosmetician paint his face cappucino style and he will win the election with huge margins.
6. @Yitzhak Benhorin, obama has lost and you know it .
trump   (10.18.12)
7. #5 it might work
(10.18.12)
Obama is not an "American of African origin": his mother was lily white and his father was a descendant of slave merchants. He is uberprivileged, using his fortunate pigmentation to win sympathy, scholarships, affirmative action and hot women. Still 98% of "Americans of African origin" think he is one of them.
8. Minor correction
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (10.18.12)
Romney did not bungle or mischaracterize Obama's remarks at the Rose Garden. Read the transcripts: Obama did not call Ambassador Steven's rape and murder a terrorist act. When challenged by Romney, Obama was thinking how to respond without lying. He should have said "I was waiting to get results of a full investigation". Before Obama responded, moderator Crowley intervened and incorrectly said Obama did call it an act of terror. Romney was so shocked by this bald-faced lie, that he lost his momentum and Obama was saved. Later that evening, Crowley admitted that she lied to save Obama.
9. The author/reporter/patient(?)...
Gideon Reader   (10.18.12)
...is clearly residing in an alternate universe where he is endangered by stampedes of Slittle pooping Unicorns. Please. I imploe you. For your Ima's sake. Go back on your meds.
10. The Debates are irrelevant,obama
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.18.12)
is going to win in a landslide,because obama is right,Romney is for the rich,and obama is for the poor,Romney wants all Americans to be rich, and obama wants all Americans to be poor because the poor are obama's base, and the more the of poor,the more obama will be secure on his throne, there are more poor than rich in the USA today,thanks to the previous socialist administrations,democrats and republicans alike,so mr obama has a good chance to be reelected,with some encouragement from the government the poor tend to multiply and multiply,and if there is a need for more poor,obama can always import the poor from Mexico,who will be more than happy to be poor in america and vote for mr obama.
11. A brief lapse into consciousness
Devorah   (10.18.12)
is called "comes out swinging?" All ZerO did was swat the air, aided by the portly Libtard, Ms. Crowley.
12. Obama
Boaz ,   Big Lake, MN.   (10.18.12)
The left is desperate... they will try anything to try to hold unto power... look at the world, everywhere they have had control, i.e. Europe, the cost of "liberal rule" has bankrupted the countries where they have power... Israelis must also be aware about the "left wing" agenda on the "economy", and "peace process", neither of which would ever work, the "Arab Spring" is also looking like it is going to turn out bad for Israel... The 2-state solution is only a recipe for disaster...
13. #8 you are right
Madeleine ,   Israel   (10.18.12)
I heard on Fox news that crowley interrupted Romney 28 (or something in the upper twenties) times and Obama only 8 times. I also saw about 40 minutes of the debate, and if she wasn't biased then I don't know what constitutes bias. The truth is, obama's campaign has consisted of insulting and tearing down Romney, without ever saying what he (Obama) is going to do. He certainly can't point to anything he's done. He ran his 2008 campaign on "yes we can"; his slogan should now be "no I couldn't".
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