Let's just accept the fact that Mitt is a very rich and successful businessman. He isn't running for saint, he's running for president. Rich businessmen do things with private companies that politicians wouldn't ever consider doing, well that is unless they thought that they could get away with it.
This whole campaign, on both sides, has deteriorated into a big contest to see who is the biggest victim. "Barack said this or that and he won't apologize." "Mitt is mischaracterizing me in this ad and calls me a poo poo head." Just stop already.
We have two candidates who are decent people who have basically led good lives. Neither of them has any monopoly on virtue. I learned a long time ago to watch out for a guy who tells you how honest he is. Talk is cheap, you sort of figure it out on your own by hanging around a person.
Isn't it time to stop talking about character and personalities and start to discuss issues? Afghanistan, the economy, reproductive rights, civil liberties, those are the things I want to hear about. And we have been remarkably short on policy and position in this national pre election dialogue.
Mitt doesn't seem to have many details mapped out on any subject and Obama is a brilliant stump speaker with a recurring case of amnesia. Take your pick.
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Our political system is toxic. With the country split nearly 50/50 it is not getting better and probably won't. Not a lot of hope right now.
We could have a debate over the competing economic philisophies, Small govt and a dynamic private sector vs. Govt. as an active facilitator of the economy. That would be worthwhile, but worthwhile isn't effective as a vote getter apparently. So both sides try to activate the unconscious fears of their potential constituents by tossing silly negative trivia around. Stay tuned for some super PAC or another claiming that the opposition candidate caused the Colorado shootings.
It has already happened, Jon. Blame the librals who took god out of the schools.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Friday that the shootings that took place in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater hours earlier were a result of "ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs" and questioned why nobody else in the theater had a gun to take down the shooter.
During a radio interview on The Heritage Foundation's "Istook Live!" show, Gohmert was asked why he believes such senseless acts of violence take place. Gohmert responded by talking about the weakening of Christian values in the country.
"You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place," Gohmert said.
"Some of us happen to believe that when our founders talked about guarding our virtue and freedom, that that was important," he said. "Whether it's John Adams saying our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people ... Ben Franklin, only a virtuous people are capable of freedom, as nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters ... We have been at war with the very pillars, the very foundation of this country."
Ernest Istook, the host of the show and a former Oklahoma congressman, jumped in to clarify that nobody knows the motivation of the alleged Aurora gunman. Gohmert said that may be true, but suggested the shootings were still "a terrorist act" that could have been avoided if the country placed a higher value on God.
"People say ... where was God in all of this?" Gohmert said. "We've threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God's name, they're going to be jailed ... I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present."
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