Obama just spanked Mitt! You mad? LOL

I vote we archive all the election 2012 threads and go back to being Hayabusa brothers and sisters! :thumbsup:
 
I always read on this forum about taking personal responsibility for your own life... Pulling yourself up by your boot straps and all that other good stuff. Well Obama cant change a thing without the republicans help. All they do is block progress and try to ram this economy in the ground. Its up to the House and Senate to work together. I dont agree with everything Obama does but you know he's better that ole mittens. You couldnt even name one this Romney was going to do to make this economy better or how he was going to do it. As far as me complaining about this nation because of a service man dying for it... I didn't know that I was complaining. Have YOU every been deployed once or twice, 18 month at a time away from you family? I am a vet! I fought and still fight for this great nation and your freedom to get on you little computer and cry about our president. I bet you got a huge picture of Regan in your living room wearing a cowboy hat looking up in the great blue yonder.:rofl: God bless you and my 101st Airborne Div. :beerchug:

I was not referencing you specifically in my complaining statement, it was generalized stating that the forces that defend this country also defend your right to complain.

Have I been deployed away from my family in a combat zone? I don't think it makes any difference but yes I have. I was at Khobar Towers in 1996 when it was bombed and helped carry wounded/dead to the CCP. I was in Saudi Arabi again shortly after that preparing for the war. I was in Pakistan in 2002 supporting comms for the PJ's that were helping our soldiers return home. I was in Iraq in 2004 during the fighting and was fired up more times that I would like to remember. I was in Afghanistan in 2007 while hunting for Osama. Not to mention all of the other places I have been in support of the war effort. Most of my career has been in tactical communications providing reach back capability so that your 101st Airborne can talk to their family, get to their duty location safely and provide air support when needed. I have been away from my family for just over 6 years out of my nearly 17.5 year career on just deployments. This does not even touch the time spent in training or on standard temporary duties which I am confident would be another 2+ years.

So, why don't you take "your little computer" and respect my opinions as I respect yours. I simply stated that I feel we are headed in the wrong direction and made it clear that I hope we are not.

The mans name was Reagan, and we was a great president. He was before my time though and I only know of him what I have read and seen on my little computer. I do however have 3 American Flags hanging up in/around my home and am proud to display them everyday.
 
I was not referencing you specifically in my complaining statement, it was generalized stating that the forces that defend this country also defend your right to complain.

Have I been deployed away from my family in a combat zone? I don't think it makes any difference but yes I have. I was at Khobar Towers in 1996 when it was bombed and helped carry wounded/dead to the CCP. I was in Saudi Arabi again shortly after that preparing for the war. I was in Pakistan in 2002 supporting comms for the PJ's that were helping our soldiers return home. I was in Iraq in 2004 during the fighting and was fired up more times that I would like to remember. I was in Afghanistan in 2007 while hunting for Osama. Not to mention all of the other places I have been in support of the war effort. Most of my career has been in tactical communications providing reach back capability so that your 101st Airborne can talk to their family, get to their duty location safely and provide air support when needed. I have been away from my family for just over 6 years out of my nearly 17.5 year career on just deployments. This does not even touch the time spent in training or on standard temporary duties which I am confident would be another 2+ years.

So, why don't you take "your little computer" and respect my opinions as I respect yours. I simply stated that I feel we are headed in the wrong direction and made it clear that I hope we are not.

The mans name was Reagan, and we was a great president. He was before my time though and I only know of him what I have read and seen on my little computer. I do however have 3 American Flags hanging up in/around my home and am proud to display them everyday.

:bowdown: Thanks for supporting us GROUND POUNDING GRUNTS! I'D LIKE TO SHAKE YOUR HAND! :beerchug:

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Slate puts out a good review:

Slate analysis: Barack Obama won re-election by becoming a street fighter. And he had a better team that ran a first-rate campaign.

In the end, it wasn't close. Barack Obama won re-election handily over Mitt Romney with 303 electoral votes (so far), well more than the 270 electoral votes needed. Of the nine battleground states that were up for grabs, Obama won seven of them, losing only North Carolina (Florida remains to be called). But while Obama won those states, he didn't crush it; he won instead, a string of precise narrow victories. He didn’t win because his leadership during Hurricane Sandy blew all those swing votes his way (though it may have helped). The president won because he ran a permanent campaign, keeping his offices open in the battleground states from his 2008 campaign, tending his coalition assiduously, and because he relentlessly defined his opponent. His was the better campaign. The Democratic candidate of “hope and change†beat the big business Republican in the trenches, in one state after another.
President Obama’s tactical victory is clear when you look at the election returns. He has no grand mandate that comes out of Tuesday’s numbers. He has been re-elected, but his policies did not win the day. Voters didn't turn their faces up to the vision he painted the way they did in 2008. When voters were asked which candidate had a vision for the future, Romney won that question in exit polls, 55 percent to 43 percent. Asked about Obama's signature achievement, health care, voters did not approve. Forty-nine percent said they wanted it repealed in part or whole. Voters also said the federal government was too large.
Voters are deeply divided by race and age. The president can credit strong support from women. He led by 11 percentage points among women, while Romney led by 7 points among men. There was also an Obama advantage among younger voters. He grabbed a majority of those under 45. Older voters broke for Romney. Obama lost the white vote by a larger margin than in 2008 when he got 43 percent of the vote. On Tuesday, he got just 40 percent of the white vote. They represented virtually the same share of the electorate as before. But Obama made up for that deficit by winning handily with minorities, which represented an ever-so-slightly larger share of the vote.
The best news the president can find in the exit polls was that he fought the economic question to a tie. Voters who cared about the economy picked Romney by only one point over Obama, 49 percent to 48 percent. Still, Obama simply neutralized his opponent; there's nothing in that number that suggests a mandate. Sixty percent of voters backed Obama's call for tax increases for those with incomes over $250,000. But that’s a proposal that will have no life beyond the campaign trail. Polls show that voters have long supported this idea. It doesn’t happen because the proposal will never shake loose enough of the partisan opposition to make it real.
Now the candidate of “hope and change†must bind up his wounds and prepare himself for another round. Half of the country is going to be upset by this outcome, and the president, who once knew how to make the music of reconciliation, will have to whip up some kind of stirring message in the months to come.
The White House knew what tone to strike when it released its first post-election photograph, which was a vision not of jubilation but of almost relief. In his remarks, Obama immediately moved to start the reconciliation. "We rise or fall together as one nation," he said. He then praised Romney and his family: "From George to Lenore to their son Mitt, they give back through public service and that is a legacy that we honor and applaud tonight." He promised to sit down with Romney in the coming weeks to "talk about moving this country forward." He said the vote was a vote for action to focus on jobs and that in the weeks and months ahead he would work with the other party. "Whether I earned your vote or not ... you have made me a better president. I return to the White House more determined than ever."
What was ratified on election night was the benefit of a permanent campaign and the talent of the Obama team. The much vaunted Obama ground game appears to have been a real thing. (David Axelrod's candidate won by more than a whisker, and Axelrod got to keep his; he'd pledged to shave off his mustache if Obama lost Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Minnesota.) His campaign team was so formidable that it made up for all the inadequacies, vulnerabilities, and missteps (remember that first debate?) of a weak incumbent president in a sputtering economy. He pulled out every stop possible: Bill Clinton, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Katy Perry in a dress that was as tight as Obama’s margin in Florida.
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A few theories of political science were upheld. Debates didn't change the outcome, and late-deciding voters don't break for the challenger. Nine percent of voters said they made up their mind with three days to go, and they broke for the president, 51 percent to Romney’s 44 percent.
In the end, Romney was right. It was all about the economy. But Americans seemed to want more than someone who cares about fixing the problem; they want someone they think cares about them. It was the empathy, stupid. When voters were asked which candidate cared more about then, Obama won more than 80 percent of those voters.
The president won among African-Americans, who were 13 percent of the electorate, by 93 percent to 6 percent. He won among Hispanics, 70 percent to 30 percent. Romney's poor performance with Hispanics, in particular, is likely to start a wave of soul-searching in the party about how to reach out to the country’s fastest-growing minority group.
That's not the only conversation that's going to take place in the Republican Party. With Romney's loss, Republicans will start positioning for the future by winning the argument about the last campaign. There are three possible reasons for Romney's defeat that will be floated. First, he was a bad candidate. Second, the party is out of step with the demographic changes in the country. Third, the hurricane stopped Romney's momentum. The truth is likely to be some combination of all three. Romney was a flawed candidate, out of step with his party and sometimes himself. His shift in the final weeks to a more moderate tone seemed to be a late-in-the-game reversion to a truer self.
Did the storm matter? It’s hard to imagine that it did, but 64 percent said the president's response to the hurricane was a factor in their decision. Forty-two percent said it was important to their vote for president. Political scientists will help us determine whether those responses have anything to do with the 9 percent who say they decided in the last three days to vote for Obama.
The president’s team always said he had multiple paths to the presidency. That’s because he started with 237 electoral votes from safely Democratic states that are a part of what seems like a permanent Democratic wall. This campaign affirmed that New Mexico is a Democratic presidential stronghold and probably did the same for Nevada and Wisconsin. Obama won with a combination of those paths his aides had outlined. He won Nevada and Virginia and Colorado with a mix of minorities and white working-class voters, as well as upscale white suburban voters. In Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa, Obama won in states that didn't have big minority populations but he got enough of the white vote to survive. The Obama campaign’s Midwest firewall held, though the exit polls were a little hard to read. In Iowa, Obama won among white women, with 58 percent of the vote, but in Ohio he lost among white women, 52 percent to 47 percent. In some states, the president fared even worse. In Virginia, Obama lost white women 58 percent to 41 percent. (This is what was so amazing about the strength of his "new coalition" in states like Virginia, where he could make up for that deficit with other kinds of voters.)
It will take some time to pull through the exit polls, but in Ohio, the state that was the focus of so much attention and that put Obama over the top, he prevailed for two reasons. First, he was able to run on the auto bailout, a tangible economic result voters could feel. (More than half of Ohio voters approved of the bailout.) Second, Obama also won in Ohio because he turned Romney into a symbol of the economy that had put them in an economic fix. In Ohio, on the question of "who cares about you," Obama won the support of 84 percent of the state's voters.
What did voters ultimately decide about Mitt Romney? They didn't think that he was enough of an economic fix-it man, and his favorable rating was just 47 percent. Fifty percent viewed him unfavorably.
The verdict on the Paul Ryan pick seems to be that he neither helped nor hurt. Obama won Ryan's congressional district in Wisconsin (based on a preliminary count of the votes, which could change), so his place on the Republican ticket not only didn't help Romney carry the state, it didn't seem to have helped him carry the portion he represents. Then again, Paul Ryan's Medicare plan was supposed to cost Romney the state of Florida. Those fears were wildly misplaced. Romney-Ryan actually clobbered the president with Florida’s seniors. On the specific question of which candidate would better handle the issue of Medicare, Obama lost by a lot. Fifty-four percent of the state’s seniors said they trusted Romney on Medicare over Obama, who only earned 40 percent of the vote.
Regardless of what happens in the second term, the president won an enormous victory by protecting his first term’s achievements, particularly the Affordable Care Act, which Romney had promised to repeal. Although he won by slimmer margins, he held on to all but two states he won in 2008. That’s an incredible accomplishment when you consider the economy he has governed over for the past four years. (And the two states he gave back—North Carolina and Indiana—were always expected to fall back into the GOP column.) Politically, there is no reason to believe his second term will be easier than his first. Republicans will call it a tactical victory and look at the close national vote tally to convince themselves that there’s nothing in this election that should cause them to concede ground during the coming budget fight.
Barack Obama won in 2008 as a man who floated above the vast great nation. In 2012, he remade himself into a determined, street-level fighter for the middle-class. During his first campaign, Obama quoted Martin Luther King Jr., who said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." He was the first African-American president in the nation’s history. Now he is the first African-American president to be re-elected. Now that he is freed of the constraints that come from having to get re-elected, the president who put his grand visions on hold to survive, can get back to working on that bend.
 
I heard the best saying today: You can't beat Santa Clause. If you don't get it, well let me explain it. If your voting for someone who's giving you something for free you didn't earn, or someone that says that he might take it away from you cause the working people who pay for it can't afford it anymore. Boy that's a tough one. Margaret Thatcher said: socialism works until you run out of other people's money.
 
If you'd turn off the Fox news channel you would know that George W. Bush lied about WMD and got over 162,000 people killed in Iraq because of some personal business with Sudan Hussen. That lean forward comment was pretty funny. Sad but true because they all screw us, no doubt. Oh and what wrong with playing golf?? Bush did it right after 9/11, remember? You dont? Fox didnt show it ? Oh, thats shocking!!:rofl:


Please educate yourself on the people you are killing.
The mans name was SADDAM HUSSEIN.
And the world as well as us would be better off if he were still alive.
 
The divide is between people who don't know how to balance a checkbook and people who do. ???

Dress classy, dance cheesy (Gangnam style) :laugh:

This thread is a perfect example of the caustic, divisive crap that is driving us apart. Stay classy, OP...
 
The divide is between people who don't know how to balance a checkbook and people who do. ???

Dress classy, dance cheesy (Gangnam style) :laugh:

Nailed it! :thumbsup:

Oh, and... :rofl:

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I got this today. Just remember, you now OWN IT.

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it.

The next terrorist attack you own it.
Can't get a job after graduation, you own it.
Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama's EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.
A nuclear Iran, you own it.
Bowing to the Soviet Union, you own it.
Another severe recession, you own it.
A volatile border with Mexico, you own it.
Trouble getting good health care, you own it.
Higher heath insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.
No budget, you own it.
Our allies mistrust, you own it.
Another trillion of debt, you own it.
More Benghazi situations, you own it.
No one willing to join the military, you own it.
Trouble getting to loan to buy a home, you own it.
More dependency on food stamps, you own it.
Trouble finding good employment, you own it.
Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.
A World Government, you own it.
The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves, you own it.
A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table rather it is "Dead on Arrival", you own it.
China controlling our world trade trampling all over us, you own it.
Loss of our freedoms as we have known it in the past, you own it.
A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constituion, you own it.
Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.
Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.
More government corruption and lies, you own it.
More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamists, you own it.
Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.
Your revenge instead of love of country, you own it.

President George Bush is out of it now, and there is not another good man for you to villify and lie about. In a way I am relieved that another good man will not be blamed when it was impossible to clean up this mess you voted for. Have a good day. God bless the United States! God is our hope now.
 
Keith a couple points:

1st No president can or will be able to stop Iran. They are an independent nation and will seek what they feel they deserve. I'm sorry you feel so inclined to fear for Israel's safety. They should be able to take care of themselves by now. Why is it we seek to stabilize Iraq and Afg and walk away leaving them to protect themselves but are constantly made to worry about Israel's security. Let them deal with it. And I am sure they will. Truth be told Pakistan is much more of an unstable govt and nation than Iran and they possess Nukes WE gave them.

2nd: More Benghazi situations are gonna happen again no matter what. We will always have enemies seeking our demise.

3rd: I don't really ever see the UN controlling us.


The rest meh maybe.
 
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