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winter  10/01/2012 05:24 PM Report

Romneys dilemna is that if he reveals his true self on that debating stage he's cooked. Looking forward to the zingers though. Maybe he could bring some tap shoes and the President could bring a cell phone and multi task while Romney keeps us entertained.

Obama opens the debates: Before we start Mitt, lets hear one of those zingers everybody is talking about. Rimshot

BENEZRAA  08/31/2012 01:09 PM Report

BATTING .333

Well, I spelled "Presidency" correctly one out of three times below, which would be excellent, if I were swinging a baseball bat; my apologies to the editors among us; clearly spelling, spieling, and baseball are two different things. And, whether Clint's Irish Wake proves to harbinger that of Obama or Romney, I'd share a drink in the White House with any of these human beings, be they Mitt, Paul, Barack, Joe, or Clint, knowing that each in their own way has the best interests of the USA at heart.

BENEZRAA  08/31/2012 12:58 PM Report

CLINT EASTWOOD'S IRISH WAKE FOR OBAMA'S PRESIDNCY

No one should take offense at Clint Eastwood's performance at the RNC. While some may be thinking, "I always thought that Clint Eastwood had an imaginary friend," Clint's performance of a drunken Irishman addressing a deceased Obama Presdiency, presumably propped up in that chair, should be obvious; and it was realistic, right down to the implied vulgarity. One may or may not be a Romney supporter, but, Clint Eastwood's RNC eulogy of the Obama Presidency -- however premature or even unlikely -- may even have been done in different forms before at other conventions. If I were President Obama, I'd give Clint a ring-a-ding on the phone and invite Clint to drop by the White House for a toast to absent friends.

Slim  08/31/2012 04:08 AM Report

Cut to the chase, Republicans have picked their white , elite, rich, privileged, and distant mannequin, to run against President Obama in November. If America turns to these clowns again, then we will truly deserve the catastrophe we will get.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 03:08 AM Report

'Not in a bad place against an incumbent.'

Indeed.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 03:06 AM Report

'A person who is fluid and inauthentic and switching on positions.'

Sounds like we have a huge deficit . . . of integrity.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 03:05 AM Report

Ann on love and Chris on respect. Stephen Colbert does a great job in four minutes on their speeches:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418456/august-29-2012/the-mitt-romney-story--- ann-romney-s-gop-convention-speech

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 02:55 AM Report

We hear, the idea of being very rich and working at Bain capital will that go away?

A CEO who fired people or did he create new jobs?

Nope. Very, very, very rich. Fired many, many, many people.

Anyone who has ever been downsized, right-sized, laid-off or fired knows Mitt Romney.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 02:51 AM Report

We are told that three women spoke on this convention day. The question raised, what is the problem with the party and women?

Please take five minutes and watch Samantha Bee reporting on this:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-29-2012/rnc-2012---the-road-to-jeb-bush-2016---the-repub lican-platform

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 02:47 AM Report

Of course it is not Mitt Romney's party yet. It will never be.

It is the "I hate Obama" party so Mitt is the default vote when hate is the driving force.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/31/2012 02:44 AM Report

To balance Paul Ryan let's turn to the Nuns on the Bus over with Bill Moyers:

http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-nuns-faith-and-politics/

Catholic vs. Catholic and one out of four voters.

BENEZRAA  08/31/2012 01:27 AM Report

IT'S WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT ON THE EAST COAST USA ...

... and thus in the early Friday morning hours well before daylight, having heard the Testimony and The Plan on Thursday night from the RNC. The Testimony to Romney of those, who know him best, brought tears to my eyes, opened up my heart, and for a moment I was a Romney believer. Then Romney presented his vision for America and my mind returned to me (praise The Lord). The Testimony put me in awe of Romney; but, The Plan put me in awe of Obama. The Romney Show is all about an accelerated Carbon Based Fuel Economy dressed up in highlights of Freedom To Learn, Freedom of Race, Religion, and Creed, and Big Military. Different Day, Same Old Same Old....

Slim  08/30/2012 11:17 PM Report

These media showcases touting the insights of eachs pundit of the year are enormous wastes of time and money. Strategy is only a tactic, not a philosophy, vision, or policy. Not a solution to our monumental problems of race, disparities of wealth, influence, and priveledge, but these exclusively white purveyors of wisdom ignore the obvious facts of the real issues and solutions offered by this president and sabotaged by Republicans and their cadre of true believers.

BENEZRAA  08/30/2012 10:03 PM Report

ANNE ROMNEY SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO THE FEMALE VOTER {BUT, ALSO TO MANY MEN}.

Anne Romney speaks to American Women, having made the most significant speech of the RNC. She impresses that What America Needs Is A Good Husband, and this will appeal across many demographics. The "I am just a coal miner's daughter... (Loretta Lynn)" appeal may consolidate the vote of the Aspiring Poor -- after all, the Aspiring Poor are proudly independent, often to a fault, and many political operatives will always deliberately take advantage these "Believers" (I know I heard that phrase used twice already in podium speeches Tuesday evening). The appeal of the American Need for a Good Husband goes not only to the economic need, it also goes to the emotional need for Normal Family Life. This is a rising tide that seeks to separate out from the Liberalism of the Obama Family Model. President Obama and First Lady Obama are themselves a model of a Normal Family. The distinction is that First Lady Obama in addition to being an Housewife is also a Professional [attorney]. Anne Romeny is an Housewife devoted only to her Husband and Children and not otherwise employed [please correct me, if I am factually mistaken]. Another distinction is that President Obama has come out in support of Gay Marriage and is not and has not enforced the Defense of Marriage Act [please correct me, if I am factually mistaken], and on his Watch "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" bit the dust. "Normal Family" (not "Common Family") as a Pillar of National Integrity continues to be a bona fide credo of the Republican Party, is no secret agenda of Romney nor of the Republican Party nor the RNC in progress. Conservative Democrats and Independents may feel torn between the sensibility to favor Family Integrity in The Law versus the sensibility to not give The Rich, The Banks, and The Offshore Interests a Blank Check at the expense of the poor and the disenfranchised.

KoolMama  08/30/2012 08:22 PM Report

I would love to hear what will be done to put those "millions" of people back to work in the United States! We have outsourced our future it seems. The job creators are interested in pure profit no matter the cost to american workers.

EPatrickMosman  08/30/2012 07:38 PM Report

In 1939, ten years after the crash on Wall Street, FDR's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., wrote in his diary and told the House Ways and Means Committee:

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong…somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises…I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started…And an enormous debt to boot!”

Does history repeat itself? Yes, it does. And there is every appearance that after the White House tried once,a failure, now proposes to repeat the errors of the Great Depression that came to be known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.

tabs  08/30/2012 06:53 PM Report

Romney has to be upfront and personal in his acceptance speech tpnight.

richard-lipscombe  08/30/2012 05:52 PM Report

Katti Kay is the only real person in this discussion....I sensed that she had much more to say than the framework - 'we are New York or Beltway Liberals' that is becoming the signature of Charlie Rose's Roundtable - to be able to expand on a true 'outsiders' view of this race...

Dan Balz? What a bore! He has a great persona for radio...

Maggie Haberman is most disappointing because she is suppose to be the 'young turk' from politico...She is arrogant and self-serving with all the insights of a Beltway Liberal..Of course she comes from a Liberal background but she is as stiff and rigid a Liberal as I have seen.... Is she really the best talent you have Charlie Rose?

Cheers, Richard.

winter  08/30/2012 05:22 PM Report

Now that the GOP is jumping all over the "you didn't build that" remarks made by the President news as to just how many of those critics actually partake of government loans and subsidies is laughable. This "socialism" red meat post hypnotic suggestion thats become standardized by its users is most actualized by Kenysian economics (...and military spending). I don't know if theres ever been a better illustration of "Tilting at Windmills" ever. Only fools argue that growing the pie is possible w/o adressing demand shortage and only scoundrels try to suggest that lighting tax break candles at the altar of the Job Creationists will Miracle down jobs on the Faithful. Infrastructure job creation as in the Jobs Act was and is the sanest most valid way out of the mess.

EPatrickMosman  08/30/2012 03:23 PM Report

Mr.Rose,

Now you and every media talking head or opinion guru on today's show and on MSM TV obsess incessantly about "who is Mitt Romney?", a man who has been in the public and private spheres and in the political process for years. This is a complete 180 degree turn from your attitude and that of Tom Brokaw and the media from four years ago up to today about candidate Barack H.Obama, now President Obama.

Perhaps this will refresh your memory:

In October 2008 Tom Brokaw sat down with Charlie Rose and both of these wise old pundits admitted that after Obama had been campaigning for two years they still know nothing about him as illustrated by the following exchange about candidate Obama between Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose in October 2008.

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't, either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his

thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people

who are advising him?

BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through

very aspirational (sic) speeches.

BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

Mr. Obama's past was and still is written in invisible ink, no high school records, no college records, no SAT scores, no university records, no GPAs from any school, no written dissertations,no questioning of his drug his use,smoking pot and cocaine,of his Pakistan trip, what passport was used , who was visited, who paid, the proverbial "pig in a poke". Mr. Obama's written record are two 'memoirs' one rather poorly written and the second more scholarly that some question the authorship.

Had the media spent as much time investigating Barack H Obama's background as a mini-me Al Sharpton community organizer, his relationships with Reverend Wright, Rezko, his communist grandparents,"Frank" the communist role model, and Ayers,the unrepentant terrorist,as they did on Governor Palin, they would have been found him to be only a glib, smooth talking operator on a par with Ponzi scheme promoters, boiler room stock salesman and the run-of-the mill grifters who pry on the both the greedy and the innocent.

Rolling over for a favored political person is par for the course for the political media. America bought the 'pig in a poke' and found not a rock but a marxist/socialist wanna-be diktator. The American voters were deliberately kept in the dark then and even now.

His goals are clear and as Norman Thomas, the long time Socialist party Presidential candidate predicted:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

REMant  08/30/2012 02:01 PM Report

Yesterday I mentioned the pols might want to move these convocations to other times or places, but now that the GOP has decided to ensure that future delegations reflect the state party primary vote, the rationale for them is more of a charade than ever. Everyone knows there is never any agreement, much less enthusiasm for the nominees to begin with, and yet the powers that be insist on erecting such Potemkin visions, supposing they are energizing their supporters, home actually watching football. The chance is fatter than last nite's color guard, getting an invitation to sing the national anthem, or even hearing word of whom one voted for. On that score Tuesday's maneuverings were as disgraceful a spectacle as any we've come to expect from Congress. It is certainly no way to build a party, even if the latter weren't completely at odds with the goal of an independent, self-reliant citizenry to begin with. I thought for a moment last nite I had tuned to the wrong tent and was watching the Paralympics.

For its part, the Left has decided such things are a sacrilege while anyone, anywhere is in need of government help. In this it turns out they're joined by the former Republican secretary of state, whose reception tells me that Rep Paul made the wrong choice. There's no point at all in working or voting for these kind of ppl. Rice, of course, lied from one end of her allotted time to the other: about postwar American policy, about the all-mercenary military, about Chinese motives, about American ambitions. All the worse, because I'm sure she doesn't realize it.

In the view of these old Cold Warriors, what we built is the military-industrial complex. Nowadays she is really in the wrong party. Indeed, she'd make a better Obama speechwriter than any he has. Neither, however, has been able to explain how such a narrative of "exceptionalism" differs from, in her words, "a narrative of grievance and entitlement." Because if you are really talking about self-reliance, you cannot simultaneously be talking about leadership, greatness, interventions, destiny, and all that. Ron Paul talks about self-reliance. The Reaganites and Bushies never have. Nor, I dare say, can anyone explain why PBS cut her off in midstream, esp when the PBS anchors loved it, but it happens much too often, at least in "flagship" DC area station. Her speech can be found here: http://www.policymic.com/articles/13803/condoleezza-rice-rnc-speech-full-text-and-highlights).

Rep Ryan's part was to indict the sitting president; a role he fulfilled well. But he offered few solutions except retrenchment. It is hard to retrench when ppl are cold and hungry. Ask Herbert Hoover. And you can talk all you want about creating jobs, but unless you figure out how to make us more productive you aren't going to get very far. The chances are that in the face of foreign competition Americans are going to face further declines in their standard of living unless they remove trade restrictions and end currency, as well as, foreign wars. Our problem is not just government debt, but debt, period. Debt manifested in a depreciating currency. Debt, which not only discourages work, but prevents realization of the real benefits of trade. The oratory, while good, was tho, in its attempt to cover absolutely everything, a bit too long. You do have to learn to quit when you're ahead.

I have to take issue, too, with the frequent assertion that Romney is inherently unlikable. The question is whether popularity leads to success, or success to popularity, as Gov Christie's mother put it, which might be said to define the difference between the parties. It may well be that Mitt's one of those ppl, whose mind outstrips his ability to communicate, not uncommon, in my experience, in businessppl as opposed to lawyers, of whom the opposite can be said. There are a lot of lawyers in the Democratic Party, indeed in both parties. Clumsy, however, he certainly is. May be why Bush pere took such a shine to him.

I think, incidentally, those at The Times and The Post, who seem to want two identical big-tent parties, have a rather narrow view of life.