WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden has mangled a heaping helping of facts over the years. Despite being newer to presidential-campaign politics, Republican Paul Ryan has already earned something of a reputation for taking flying leaps past reality.
How'd they do Thursday night?
Here's a look at some of their claims:
BIDEN, on whether U.S. should have beefed up security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya before the deadly terrorist attack there: "We weren't told they wanted more security there."
RYAN: "There were requests for more security."
THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at a congressional hearing this week.
Charlene R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security, told lawmakers she refused requests for more security in Benghazi, saying the department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate. "Yes, sir, I said personally I would not support it," she said.
Eric Nordstrom, who was the top security official in Libya earlier this year, testified he was criticized for seeking more security. He said conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?"
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RYAN: "We should have spoken out right away when the green revolution was up and starting, when the mullahs in Iran were attacking their people. We should not have called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.
THE FACTS: Neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in his administration ever considered the Syrian leader a "reformer." The oft-repeated charge stems from an interview Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave in March 2011 noting that "many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer." She did not endorse that view. The comment was widely perceived to be a knock at senators such as John Kerry of Massachusetts who maintained cordial relations with Assad in the months leading up to his crackdown on protesters.
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BIDEN: "We went out and rescued General Motors."
THE FACTS: Actually, the auto bailout of General Motors and Chrysler began under President George W. Bush. The Obama administration continued and expanded it.
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RYAN: "And then they put this new Obamacare board in charge of cutting Medicare each and every year in ways that will lead to denied care for current seniors. This board, by the way, it's 15 people, the president's supposed to appoint them next year. And not one of them even has to have medical training."
THE FACTS: Ryan is referring to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law. It has the power to force cuts in Medicare payments to service providers if costs rise above certain levels and Congress fails to act. But it doesn't look like the board will be cutting Medicare "each and every year," as Ryan asserts. Medicare costs are currently rising modestly and the government's own experts project the board's intervention will not be needed until 2018 and 2019 at the earliest — after Obama leaves office if re-elected to a second term.
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BIDEN, when asked who would pay more taxes in Obama's second term: "People making a million dollars or more."
THE FACTS: Obama's proposed tax increase reaches farther down the income ladder than millionaires. He wants to roll back Bush-era tax cuts for individuals making over $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000.
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RYAN: "We cannot allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapons capability. Now, let's take a look at where we've gone — come from. When Barack Obama was elected, they had enough fissile material — nuclear material — to make one bomb. Now they have enough for five. They're racing toward a nuclear weapon. They're four years closer toward a nuclear weapons capability."
THE FACTS: Ryan's claim is misleading. Iran isn't believed to have produced any of the highly enriched uranium needed to produce even one nuclear weapon, let alone five. That point isn't even disputed by Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored the world at the United Nations last month to create a "red line" at enrichment above 20 percent. Iran would have to enrich uranium at much higher levels to produce a weapon. There is intelligence suggesting that Iran has worked on weapon designs, but not that it has developed a delivery system for any potential nuclear warhead.
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BIDEN: "What we did is, we saved $716 billion and put it back, applied it to Medicare."
THE FACTS: Contrary to Biden's assertion, not all the money cut from Medicare is going back into the program in some other way. The administration is cutting $716 billion over 10 years in Medicare payments to providers and using some of the money to improve benefits under the program. But most of the money is being used to expand health care coverage outside of Medicare.
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RYAN: "What troubles me more is how this administration has handled all of these issues. Look at what they're doing through Obamacare with respect to assaulting the religious liberties of this country. They're infringing upon our first freedom, the freedom of religion, by infringing on Catholic charities, Catholic churches, Catholic hospitals."
THE FACTS: The requirement under the health care law that most employers cover birth control free of charge to female employees does not apply to churches, houses of worship, or other institutions directly involved in propagating a religious faith. It does apply to church-affiliated institutions such as hospitals and charities that serve the general public.
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BIDEN: "Romney said 'No, let Detroit go bankrupt.'"
THE FACTS: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has gotten endless grief through the campaign for the headline put on his November 2008 opinion essay that he wrote for The New York Times. But his point was never that he wanted the auto industry to go down the tubes.
Romney opposed using government money to bail out Chrysler and General Motors, instead favoring privately financed bankruptcy restructuring. His prescription seemed improbable. Automakers were hemorrhaging cash and the banking system was in crisis, so private money wasn't available. Without the government money, it's likely both companies would have gone out of business. Romney did propose government-guaranteed private loans for both companies after bankruptcy.
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RYAN: "This one tax would actually tax about 53 percent of small-business income."
BIDEN: "Ninety-seven percent of the small businesses in America pay less — make less than $250,000."
THE FACTS: Both are correct, but incomplete, when sizing up the effect on small business of raising taxes for individuals making more than $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000, as Obama wants to do. Republicans say that would hit small-business owners who report business income on their individual income tax; Democrats say the overwhelming majority of small businesses would not be affected.
According to a 2010 report by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress, about 3 percent of people who report business income would face a tax increase under Obama's plan. That support's Biden's point.
The same report says those business owners account for about half of all business income. That supports Ryan.
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Comments » 52
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"Biden was rude, disrespectful, obnoxious and is not an example of how I would show children the way to properly debate or act. "
Do you know what that is? It is targeting marketing. If you talk to Republicans you have to use their language. Otherwise they can not understand you.
That was the biggest mistake of
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT!
He talked civilized to Mitt Romney. Next time he will it do in the Republican way:
''I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.''
—Mitt Romney, who grew up in one of the wealthiest communities in America, attended an elite prep school, worked for his father, the governor of Michigan, and used stock to pay for his multiple degrees from Stanford, BYU, and Harvard (leaked remarks from a private fundraiser, May 17, 2012)
Nothing else than BS! But Republicans like to listen to BS!
EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
They couldn't find a better moderator for that debate than Martha Ruddotz??? Her ex husband was a friend of King OBAMA in college. And OBAMA attended her wedding. No wonder she wouldn't stop Biden when he was interupting Ryan.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You found a reason that your boy was so pale with fare. You are a very bad loser. Ryan had nothing to say. Like his Master:
Mitt Romney looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes ... He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping ... He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership.... He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial.
R&R the loser ticket. No doubt about that.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
will pruning him to his real size.
A little gnome with no quality as leader for a great nation like America. And that is good so.
EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
Mitt Romney gives 30 % of his income to help the less fortunate.Mitt Romney has selflessly helped people who have had sick children or tragedies in their life. One family he even paid for their two kids to go to college. You are way off base.Mitt Romney has had a passion for people his whole life. And he doesn't brag about it,other people tell the story for him. P.S. Julius Genachowski,Martha Raddatz's ex husband is Obama's current appointed head of the FCC. Chicago politics played out in Washington!
tathiede writes:
I'm sick and tired of people voting for candidates just because of how they look and not learning what they are all about and their political views. If you think Mitt Romney looks questionable, then what about Obama's big ears and Biden's false teeth?!
26yearsonmarco writes:
Klaus,
As much as I hate to admit it, Biden won the debate hands down, and will be known from now on as a Master Debater.
Poor Ryan, due his good upbringing, could not say the things that I'm sure were on his mind, while being brow beaten by this Master Debater.
20_Days writes:
The Polls are in:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states...
You lose again Klaus.
20_Days writes:
They had this jerk figured out years ago!
Proverbs 29:9
http://cdn.times247.com/media/picture...
EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
I guess that shows that Paul Ryan has good character.Something Washington needs more of. And personally,seeing Biden laugh,smirk,and make light of the topics while Ryan was talking was a disgrace. America is in trouble and he thinks it's a joke. The jokes on you Biden,it backfired.People did not like it!!!
EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
Thanks for the link,now I feel even better!!!
20_Days writes:
ECFP.....You are welcome, it is my pleasure!
RayPray writes:
"Mitt Romney gives 30 % of his income to help the less fortunate."
This means nothing.
The Great OBAMA has given 47% of YOUR income to help the Food Stamp nation!
Senile Kinnock Biden has enabled the Great OBAMA -- our Jesus with drones -- to reclaim his ineffable mojo.
Robot Romney is careening toward the scrap heap of uncool....
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"Mitt Romney gives 30 % of his income to help the less fortunate."
There is nothing in his tax statement!
But
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
has given 47% of OUR income to help the Food Stamp nation!
HE WILL WIN!
KlausStoertebeker writes:
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
Days ago it was DEMOCRATS they can not understand 7.8% unemployment5 rate in US. Now my dear Republicans are lying by the numbers.
There is only one winner: Joe Bidden. Who was this guy blogged: Can not wait see Paul Ryan sectioning Joe Biden. Nothing else than dreams.
And you are still dreaming about your man. But he is not good:
There is something indicative about his character because it seems like Mitt Romney was kind of a bully. This was not the only bullying thing he did. He also took poor kids' lunch money -- oh, I'm sorry, that's his present-day economic policy.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT will win. Next duel with Mitt Romney he will sectioning him. No doubt about that!
20_Days writes:
Keep dreaming Klaus, Obamas chance of re-election is going down and going down big! Not a chance in "your" dreams will he recover in 24 days!
FOUR GOOD MEN DIED, OBAMA, BIDEN, CLINTON AND RICE LIED!
20_Days writes:
Monitors to Obama are like oxygen to Obama!
No monitors no brain function.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
What will you do if
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
will win by a landslide? Best for you is go to Denver to an assistant living facility and make Marco Island happy.
Your guy M.R. by a demonstration of his education level:
"Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba." --invoking a phrase that translates to "Fatherland or death, we shall overcome," which Fidel Castro has used to close his speeches for years, and which is associated with Cuban oppression.
Mitt has really no chance to win. That is what he has in common with Waldi of Marco Island.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Klaus,
Watch this video and let me know if it has any meaning to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=...
20_Days writes:
Do you know what the sweetist sound we will hear at sunrise on January 22, 2013?
Obama saying, "I am no longer President of the United States of America!"
KlausStoertebeker writes:
You want to know what I think about this
"Glory, glory Hallelujah" video of some right wing Republican tea-party member called themselves patriotic?
OK!
1. It is very good assembled.
2. I am confirm with the statements of great President Abraham Lincoln and great President Woodrow Wilson. Both Democrats.
3.I miss a statement of great President Franklin Delevan Roosevelt. He will fit good too. Like great President Woodrow Wilson he was not agree join WWII like Wilson WWI. Unfortunately for America both were forced to step in.
4. I am totally disagree with the statement of Georg W. Bush. BS class!
5. I am totally disagree with the session that American soldiers defend Americas freedom in Vietnam or Iraq. Two useless and not necessary wars. And both costs big losses for America
6. I like the description of the American way of life. Even if it a little bit to much pseudo patriotic but brainwashing for Americas mid-west people.
But what I really like is the support for
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT!
A free elected leader with exactly the vision and power America has to expect from a President with format and wisdom, goals and responsibility for the American people.
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
is exactly the sinews of Americas government.
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
is the right man, on the right time, on the right spot.
1. The American people will not have another warmonger can not wait to get another bloody nose in Iran.
2. The American people will not have another tax reducer for the 100 000 millionaires in America.
3. The American people will not have another bigot pseudo moralist take women's right away in the fundamental question of controlled parenthood or abortion.
4. The American people will not have another sectarian guided by an obscure life philosophy.
5. The American people will not a life in unbelievable dire poverty.
NO! The American people will have a future with countable government decisions in a favorable national and international environment.
Summary: The American people will re-elect
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT!
Because he knows the American people and their needs and wishes.
His challenger Mitt Romney knows nothing about the American people. I guess he never saw a super market inside the last 10 years.
'Speaking of Paul Ryan by the way, a new poll actually found that 42 percent of Americans do not approve of Mitt Romney's running mate, which isn't too bad considering most Americans don't approve of Paul Ryan's running mate.
Finally I will sing on November 6, 2012 election day:
"Glory, glory Hallelujah!....."
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
4 year more in office!
So - I wrote you what I think. What did you think?
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Do you know what the sweetist sound we will hear at sunrise on January 22, 2013?
President Barack Obama the great saying,
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Glory, glory Hallelujah.....
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT!
26yearsonmarco writes:
Klaus,
Your thoughts are clear from your opening statement:
"Glory, glory Hallelujah" video of some right wing Republican tea-party member called themselves patriotic?"
I disagree with you as is my Constitutional Right to do so, as it is your right to voice your opinion, assuming you are a citizen.
I will be voting against your Great Obama because I treasure my Rights, and I feel your Great One will take them away from me, my children, and grandchildren.
By the way, I have Patriotic Ancestors who fought for the Constitution, and I am prepared to do the same.
20_Days writes:
Barack may be saying that on the day after inaugeration day to himself, because inaugeration day is January 21, 2013 and Romney will already be sworn in.
FOUR MEN DIED, OBAMA, BIDEN, CLINTON AND RICE LIED!
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"By the way, I have Patriotic Ancestors who fought for the Constitution, and I am prepared to do the same."
So you are related to Lieutenant Dan friend of Forrest Gump and his Patriotic Ancestors who fought for the Constitution in the Revolution War? Interesting! But how can you come to the conclusion that you must fight for the Constitutions Americas again? And whom will you fight? How? Do you think it is time for another revolution war? I mean who will put the American Constitution away?
I think you made a little bit to much what I call sabre-rattling! Or have you nightmares? Is the ghost of Eugene V. Debs at midnight with you? I know a lot of Americans are infected with a socialistic phobia. I hope you are clean!
However - I can still you. America under his present fantastic outstanding leader
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
has no talent at all to be a socialistic. So you can rest your whatever you "prepared to do the same".
It is crystal clear for me and the rest of the world: "America has no talent to be socialistic at all".
Maybe by tendency with Mitt Romney.
His Romneycare....is close to socialism. You know his program(?):
• Punitive To Individuals. Everyone must buy health insurance or face tax penalties equal to 50% of cost of standard policy.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on free hospital care were converted into subsidies to help the needy buy insurance.
• A health insurance “exchange” was established to help connect the uninsured with private health plans at more affordable rates.
• Health plans can offer consumers higher deductibles and more restrictive physician and hospital networks in order to lower costs.
• Punitive to Businesses with 11 or more workers that do not offer insurance must pay a $295 per employee fee.
• Established payment policy advisory board; one Board member must be from Planned Parenthood. No pro-life organization represented.
• Provides Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for copay of $50.
WOWWWWWW! That is big stuff!
I mean
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
is light-years away from this Romney-BS. And he will be re-elected. But watch Mitt Romney. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The Massachusetts people will never vote for Mitt Romney again. He was to expensive for them.
Finally we will sing together on November 6, 2012 election day:
"Glory, glory Hallelujah!....."
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
4 year more in office! We both are on the same side.
20_Days writes:
Klaus,
Do you realize that all of your ranting now means nothing, here in Florida, never mind Marco Island. You see at least on Marco most people are happy being Republicans not like you who selected a place that you are miserable in and would like all others to share your misery.
Sorry, but you lose, again.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
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RayPray writes:
"The genius of mankind, the greatest genius of all times and peoples."
That's what admirers called Stalin.
Obviously, they failed to anticipate the advent of the GREAT OBAMA, the twilight reflection of GOD in Chicago....
20_Days writes:
Hope you can find another Democrat on Marco who believes you and will be voting for Obama.
From what the polls look like you will have to invent a few more blog names commiserate with.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Klaus,
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OBAMA’S 923 EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN ONE PART OF ONE TERM??
YES, THERE IS A REASON. IT IS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS DETERMINED TO TAKE CONTROL AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE. Even some Democrats in the House have turned on him, plus a very small number of Democrat Senators question him. HE SHOULD BE QUESTIONED. WHAT IS HE REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH??? DOES THIS SCARE YOU AS MUCH AS IT DOES ME?
It’s not really surprising that he appointed "Czars" to be in charge of everything. EMPEROR OBAMA? HITLER? Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.....THIS IS NOT FUNNY, AND IF YOU VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN, YOU CAN EXPECT MORE! Remember what he told Russia's Putin: "I'll be more flexible after I'm re-elected."
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months! What did Congress do in those 40 months? (The House - considerable. The Senate-nothing, not even a budget nor allowing any House bill to be considered.) A whole new order must prevail in Washington DC as a result of this next election!
Now look at these:
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education, and welfare functions.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the registration of all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen-year period.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Executive Orders Continued:
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
Feel free to verify the "executive orders" at will... and these are just the major ones. I'm sure you've all heard the tale of the "Frog in the Pot"... you all comfortable??? Watch Obama's actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you where America is headed.. Just this week, Obama has issued a new executive order that seeks to"harmonize" U.S. economic regulations with the rest of the world. This new executive order is yet another incremental step that is pushing us closer to a North American Union and a one world economic system. Unfortunately, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening. The American people need to understand that Barack Obama is constantly looking for ways to integrate the United States more deeply with the rest of the world. The globalization of the world economy has accelerated under Obama, and this latest executive order represents a fundamental change in U.S. economic policy. Now federal regulators will be required to "harmonize" their work with the international community.
IS THIS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE?? THEN PROVE TO YOURSELF IT'S WRONG. Just Google it! BEWARE!! Our freedoms are disappearing.
20_Days writes:
Don't pick on Klaus, he is happy!
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Leadership nothing else than leadership. Did you know all the EXECUTIVE ORDER W. Bush signed? All in the name of national security reason. Triple number of
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA the GREAT.
Winner of the 2012 election. Challenger Mitt Romney will be history soon. Than he can go on vacation with his family:
Mitt Romney and his family have a big two-day weekend plan after election day. They're going to hike to the top of his money.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"The globalization of the world economy has accelerated under Obama, and this latest executive order represents a fundamental change in U.S. economic policy."
President BARACK OBAMA the GREAT
is protecting the worldwide activities of MacDonald, Boeing, Chase Manhattan Bank, apple, Microsoft, GM and and and. America is the biggest global player. Do you know that 40% of your national income is coming from the GLOBAL S? So be not worry - be happy! Even as Iowa farmer you are a participant on this first class politic.
By Mitt Romney s politics you need never this kind of executive order:
Romney, speaking in May of 2012 about the U.S. auto industry's comeback: ''I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.
Romney, writing in a 2008 New York Times op-ed titled ''Let Detroit Go Bankrupt'': ''If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.
EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
This is why Hugo Chavez has endorsed OBAMBA. Scary stuff,and the real scary part,is most people don't have a clue of what's going on.
20_Days writes:
Hugo Chavez, isn't he the guy who picks coffee?
You know, the stuff, Biden had too much of prior to his, historical, proving that he is a pompous bully and fool, demonstration at his LOSING debate with Ryan.
20_Days writes:
Come to think of it we had one Democratic president who taught our children that oral sex is not sex and a Democratic vice president who not only lies but that being disruptive and being nothing less than a bully is appropriate behavior by adults in nothing less than a vice presidential debate.
Both of them should be and have been thrown out of office like Nixon was.
Typical Democratic behavior, if you don't have or wish to admit to a wrong in a polite answer just bully the other person into stopping the conversation.
This goes on all the time, even on these blogs.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Klaus,
Here is the number of Executive Orders written by past Presidents:
Teddy Roosevelt 3
Others to FDR None
Franklin D. Roosevelt 11 in 16 years
Truman 5 in 7 years
Ike 2 in 8 years
Kennedy 4 in 3 years
LBJ 4 in 5 years
Nixon 1 in 6 years
Ford 3 in 2 years
Carter 3 in 4 years
Reagan 5 in 8 years
Bush 3 in 4 years
Clinton 15 in 8 years
George W. Bush 62 in 8 years
Obama 923 in 3 1/2 years!
Any other questions????
20_Days writes:
26,
That is almost one a day as long as he has been in office, except for vaction days of course.
I think that is one of the tell tale signs of a megalomaniac.
26yearsonmarco writes:
I can't wait to hear from Klaus, and it seems 1P has thrown Klaus under the bus.
20_Days writes:
If you come across 1ParadiseLost let her know that I am still waiting for the Secret Service to show up at my house as she threatened.
porschett writes:
Klaus, Klaus, Klaus,
A University of Colorado analysis of state-by-state factors leading to the Electoral College selection of every U.S. president since 1980 forecasts that the 2012 winner will be Mitt Romney.
The key is the economy, say political science professors Kenneth Bickers of CU-Boulder and Michael Berry of CU Denver. Their prediction model stresses economic data from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including both state and national unemployment figures as well as changes in real per capita income, among other factors.
“Based on our forecasting model, it becomes clear that the president is in electoral trouble,” said Bickers, also director of the CU in DC Internship Program.
According to their analysis, President Barack Obama will win 213 votes in the Electoral College, short of the 270 he needs. And though they chiefly focus on the Electoral College, the political scientists predict Romney will win 52.9 percent of the popular vote to Obama’s 47.1 percent, when considering only the two major political parties.
“For the last eight presidential elections, this model has correctly predicted the winner,” said Berry. “The economy has seen some improvement since President Obama took office. What remains to be seen is whether voters will consider the economy in relative or absolute terms. If it’s the former, the president may receive credit for the economy’s trajectory and win a second term. In the latter case, Romney should pick up a number of states Obama won in 2008.”
Their model correctly predicted all elections since 1980, including two years when independent candidates ran strongly, 1980 and 1992. It also correctly predicted the outcome in 2000, when Al Gore received the most popular vote but George W. Bush won the election.
The study will be published this month in PS: Political Science & Politics, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association. It will be among about a dozen election prediction models, but one of only two to focus on the Electoral College.
While many forecast models are based on the popular vote, the Electoral College model developed by Bickers and Berry is the only one of its type to include more than one state-level measure of economic conditions.
In addition to state and national unemployment rates, the authors looked at per capita income, which indicates the extent to which people have more or less disposable income. Research shows that these two factors affect the major parties differently: Voters hold Democrats more responsible for unemployment rates while Republicans are held more responsible for per capita income.
Accordingly -- and depending largely on which party is in the White House at the time -- each factor can either help or hurt the major parties disproportionately.
20_Days writes:
What the heck else do we need get rid of the Obama, Biden from the White house and Clinton and Rice from our government. The lied, they covered up and they are still lying.
Four Good Men Died, Obama, Biden, Clinton and Rice have been PROVEN to be liars.
What else have they lied to us about that has not yet come out?
They should all be impeached and thrown out of all of their offices before the inauguration in January.
There is nothing more to say than what is said above and to be repeated up and to the election.
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EastCoastFloridaPerson writes:
Since new to the blog,I was getting the picture of him. I commented that hopefully he was not a registered voter and could not vote. Now that you set the record straight.....I am relieved that his ranting nonsense is just that.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Why does Czar Klaus have to be a Citizen in order to vote for Obama who can't produce his birth cirtificate??
MarcoBiker writes:
Lib100 .... Klaus baby is hilarious, although quite often boring. If he could only harness all that energy and put it to some meaningful use.
It's amusing to see someone do three or four droning posts in a row. He must babble to his plants and "Hope" posters all day long.
20_Days writes:
Klaus made #1 in something.
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/20...
MarcoBiker writes:
23 ... ha ha ha. Klaus, our favorite troll!
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