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Drale

(7,932 posts)
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:41 AM Sep 2012

EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True'

With the first Presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors. In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman is a tough stand-in for a President who basically lies in debates.

"I think the challenge that I'll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren't true," Romney said. "I've looked at prior debates. And in that kind of case, it's difficult to say, 'Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren't quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?"

The former governor told me he's tempted to use Ronald Reagan's famous line against President Carter in a 1980 debate, "There you go again" - the same line that Bill Clinton turned on Romney and the Republicans at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-romney-debates-obama-things-arent-true-105805916--abc-news-politics.html

This who article shows how much of a joke Mittens really is but theres one part that really gets to me.

Romney said the most important numbers in this election are 23, 47 and 16.

"23 million Americans out of work or underemployed. 47 million people on food stamps. $16 trillion in debt. And now the Federal Reserve, it says, " Look, this economy is not going well," he said.

What Mittens doesn't tell you is that is he's elected the numbers will be at least 46, 0 and 32. Thats 46 millions Americans out of work, 0 people of food stamps because he will get rid of them and 32 trillion in debt.

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EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True' (Original Post) Drale Sep 2012 OP
And Stephanopoulos didn't challenge Mitt's absurd claim C_U_L8R Sep 2012 #1
Psst. Mitt. Use Sarah Palin as a model HubertHeaver Sep 2012 #2
I think the debates will have a lot of tricks and I do not know if Obama can deflect them all lunasun Sep 2012 #3
If Mittens in debates Drale Sep 2012 #4

C_U_L8R

(44,998 posts)
1. And Stephanopoulos didn't challenge Mitt's absurd claim
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:48 AM
Sep 2012

What a waste of a Rhodes Scholarship...
a dictaphone would have been a better journalist.

HubertHeaver

(2,522 posts)
2. Psst. Mitt. Use Sarah Palin as a model
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:53 AM
Sep 2012

"...spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about". Ignore those obviously biased questions and follow the voices in your head (or ear, as the case may be). Don't let reality restrict you. You're above all that



lunasun

(21,646 posts)
3. I think the debates will have a lot of tricks and I do not know if Obama can deflect them all
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:01 AM
Sep 2012

he is not a superhero it will be a hard debate

and sometimes it is the mere image projected not the words said
if they can project liar ,loser and all kinds of stuff on him the debate will go to Rmoney
They have been working on liar for a while so

and it(Rmoney) is a tool who's blade perhaps sharpened by the likes of neocon Rove could challenge better than expected they said he practices a lot

They need to win votes off the debates

Looked how they jigged up Palin against Biden-
say it ain't so Joe
stuff like that can stick
or Raygun's- there you go again line in debates

For Biden too Ryan is a challenge on just his own hyper intensity

Drale

(7,932 posts)
4. If Mittens in debates
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:08 AM
Sep 2012

is anything like Mittens in every part of his political career he is fucked and theres no way he can fix it.

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