USA-presidenziali Novembre 2012

[shiloh]

"...Valanga di spot pro Romney negli Stati in bilico finanziati dall’industria bellica...."

«I proprietari di armi e i cacciatori temono che un’eventuale seconda amministrazione Obama, nella quale il presidente non avrà più la preoccupazione di essere rieletto, cercherà di distruggere questa grande libertà americana (!)».

http://www.unita.it/mondo/usa-e-la-n....457655?page=2

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hanno circa 12mila morti/anno per soli incidenti domestici causati da armi da fuoco.

classico esempio il bambino che trova la pistola del papy e si spara o spara all'amichetto.

eppure...continuano a ritenere che armarsi fino ai denti,abbassa il rischio di criminalità.

[Maucat]

Gli Yankee sono folli con la loro mania delle armi...
Obama se una volta rieletto (come spero) riuscisse a tagliare le unghie della lobby della NRA diverrebbe il più grande presidente della Storia USA...

In ogni caso l'Impero Yankee è in declino e sembra sempre più quello Romano del V secolo...

[shiloh]

The Final Debate is Tonight

The third and final presidential debate will take place tonight at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. It will be about international relations and foreign policy.
The format will be the same "parallel job interviews" format used in the first debate. Bob Schieffer of CBS will try to moderate it.

Schieffer has announced that the debate will be broken into six segments, each starting with a question from him. The topics of the questions are as follows.

•America's role in the world
•Our longest war - Afghanistan and Pakistan
•Red lines: Israel and Iran
•The changing Middle East and the new face of terrorism I
•The changing Middle East and the new face of terrorism II
•The rise of China and tomorrow's world

Undoubtedly President Obama will talk a lot about his getting Osama bin Laden, something George Bush promised for 7 years but failed to do.

Obama will surely also emphasize that he promised to end the war in Iraq, and did, and is on schedule to end the war in Afghanistan in 2014.

He will probably also call out Mitt Romney for flying to England in July and immediately insulting the Brits by questioning their preparedness for terrorist attacks at the Olympics.

Foreign policy is not Romney's strong suit, but he will almost certainly try to attack Obama on the deaths of four Americans in Libya last month.

All he can really do is criticize Obama since his experience in foreign affairs is limited
(unless opening bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands counts).

Iran (and what to do about it) is bound be contentious.

The problem for Romney here is that if Obama asks him point blank what he would do differently with respect to Iran,
Romney will be hard put to give a specific answer other than "bomb them,"
which is not likely to play well in a country already weary of two wars in the Middle East in the past 10 years.

While we won't know until tomorrow which candidate won the debate,
one certain winner is Lynn University, which is spending $5 million to prepare for the debate.
It is a gamble for the university that the publicity will put them on the map and increase enrollments.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/P ... tml#item-1

[shiloh]

October 22, 2012

Latest Swing State Polls
Here are the latest polls from the battleground, updated through the day:

Michigan: Obama 52%, Romney 43% (Angus Reid)

Ohio: Obama 48%, Romney 48% (Angus Reid)

Ohio: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (CBS News/Quinnipiac)

Pennsylvania: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (Morning Call/Muhlenberg

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/ ... polls.html

[shiloh]

October 22, 2012

Reaction to the Third Presidential Debate

The third and final presidential debate was President Obama's best moment in the campaign so far.
He was prepared on every issue and knew Mitt Romney's record of past statements just as well.

Obama succeeded because he conveyed his unique view of the world from the Oval Office.

For undecided voters watching, all they probably heard was that he's the commander-in-chief.

And that's what Team Obama wanted.

For the most part, Romney made an effort to look presidential by not attacking.

He was exceedingly careful and desperately tried not to make a mistake.
In fact, despite his rhetoric for the last two years,
he now apparently agrees with most of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

As a result, Romney's biggest opponent was not the president, it was his own words.

Obama did a brilliant job of bringing up past Romney statements
-- on Iraq, on the nation's biggest adversary, on Afghanistan, on Osama bin Laden --
to make him look unprepared for the presidency.

As the debate went on,
Romney tried many times to move the international affairs discussion back to the economy where he was more comfortable.

It was as if he had only 30 minutes of foreign policy talking points for a 90 minute debate.
As a result he seemed to string together random thoughts which often made him sound incoherent.

Obama won the debate hands down.

Bob Schieffer started off doing a good job as moderator,
framing questions but still letting the candidates engage each other.
But he lost control of the debate as both Romney and Obama often preferred to talk about the economy.
It's clear that both candidates know that most voters don't care much about foreign policy.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/20...al_debate.html

[shiloh]

October 22, 2012

No Second Debate Bounce

Nate Silver:

"The bad news for President Obama:
it's been almost a week since the second presidential debate, in Hempstead, N.Y.,
one that instant-reaction polls said was a narrow victory for him.
But there is little sign that this has translated into a bounce for Mr. Obama in his head-to-head polls against Mitt Romney.
Instead, the presidential race may have settled into a period of relative stability."

"There is bad news for Mr. Romney as well, however.
The 'new normal' of the presidential campaign is considerably more favorable for him than the environment before the first debate, in Denver.
However, it is one in which he still seems to be trailing, by perhaps 2 percentage points, in the states that are most vital in the Electoral College."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/20...te_bounce.html

[shiloh]

''Navi e baionette'': la stoccata di Obama a Romney

Il presidente, apparso più grintoso dell'avversario, attacca Romney che lamentava una riduzione delle navi in forza alla Marina:

"Se è per questo abbiamo anche meno cavalli e baionette perché i tempi cambiano",

ha dichiarato Obama,
"oggi abbiamo le portaerei e i sottomarini nucleari"

http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/p...eo=&ref=HREA-1

[shiloh]

" Mitt Romney non vede i morti ma solo perché non vuole vederli .
se lo facesse capirebbe che la mancanza di assicurazione sanitaria uccide la gente."

Paul Krugman

[shiloh]

ed ora un omaggio ad un grande democratico deceduto pochi giorni fa :


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" Non parlate di onore o di coraggio.
Non ci vuole nessun coraggio per un senatore, un parlamentare, un presidente ,
nell’avvolgersi nella bandiera e dire che rimarremo in Vietnam:
perché non è nostro il sangue versato."

George McGovern

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traduzione : son tutti bravi a fare i gay con il c..o degli altri.

[peanuts]

Secondo me Romney non ha mezza chance

E meno male