The gloves are coming off tonight when President Obama and Mitt Romney duke it out in Denver.
They’ve been holed up for days practicing their jabs and sucker punches for the big debate. But Obama and Romney both have glass jaws when it comes to hard-hitting questions about the economy, taxes and health care.
The president has a huge blind spot in explaining his broken promises to fix the economy, end partisan gridlock in Washington and rein in runaway federal spending and mounting public debt.
Obama won’t be able to run away from the blistering combination of facts and figures that define America’s economic slump: unemployment still above 8 percent, an anemic 1.3 percent economic growth, a record 46.7 million Americans on food stamps, and a crushing $16 trillion national debt.
And he’ll have to take it on the chin when confronted with the fact that his signature legislative accomplishment — ObamaCare — remains woefully unpopular.
Likewise, Romney will find himself on the ropes fending off questions about the still-undefined details of his plan to reform the income-tax code.
It will take some fancy footwork for the Republican to dance around his own immense wealth and the relatively low income-tax rate he enjoys, as he lays out his plan to reduce everyone’s income taxes by 20 percent.
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The American League is more interesting (Baltimore vs. New York, the two leading centers if Yiddishkeit). And frankly, the Orioles and Yankees are much more serious about their work than Romney or Obama – at least they are honest, hard working and do their best.
L’maan Hashem, I hope Romney sticks to the issues. Never mind accusing Obama of campaign sins or other non-issues and narishkeiten.
It’s because of those non-issues that the Republicans brought up back in 2008 that I was more than reluctant to vote Republican. Maybe I wasn’t the only one thinking that way…
#2, Give me a break, you are a died-in-the-wool 0bama supporter, if not a paid campaigner, and never once entertained the idea of voting Republican in 2008. What “non-issues and narishkeiten” did they bring up then? That 0bama is personal friends with terrorists and antisemites? That his mentors were communists, anti-Americans, and antisemites, and that he was a member of the Marxist New Party? That he vigorously opposed laws to protect the lives of babies who manage to survive abortion? That he’s not a mench? How are these non-issues or narishkeit?
akuperma
that may be correct, howwever the Orioles and Yankees has no shaychis to what will hapen regarding any type of policy (foreign or domestic)
why do i have to agree with aperkuma for once. exact sentiment this doesnt interest me in the slightest
The media was hyping the debates in a boring political environment. Manufacturing disputes. And as I listen to the debate, I see it as totally B O R I N G……
Romney knocked it out of the park Obama was totally druged up it was like he doesnt even want to be reelected I think he had enough
#6 nicejew BORING than you are not intellectual— and its not for you a non wise acute person b/c the whole big picture of your matzav excapes you –go back to your pashtus – u dont chap the enormous sakana your in if the Pres wins -u dont see the BIG picture big shame