Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/07/2012 09:20 PM Report

Charlie, why are you attending these conventions?

All we hear about is that the race is now down to the battleground states and Obama is below 50% but Romney probably can't win them.

Let's take the crew to the Battleground States for a close look at their election process (audit the voting booths) and see the voters who will make the ultimate decision for all of us (I am afraid to look).

Spending two weeks at conventions when we are told over and over again that the race is now left up to the battleground states is wasting time and money.

Time is money or in this case time is a growing deficit and a growing debt.

Does anyone have any sense of urgency? Oh if, like in Britain, we could just call for an election now.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/07/2012 09:10 PM Report

“Romney needs cross-over appeal.”

Yes Mark, white men are no longer enough even with voter ID laws and corporations functioning as people.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/07/2012 09:06 PM Report

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie remember in January?

It is NOT just Obama and Axelrod:

“… Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism.” — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Jan. 10, 2012

“Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” — Newt Gingrich, Jan. 8, 2012

Look at this Bain deal in Italy:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-7-2012/that-s-a-mormon

WOW! Mitt Romney's business practices are too shady for Italy!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/07/2012 08:53 PM Report

“My biggest concern for the country right now is that neither of these well meaning, smart politicians is laying the ground work for dealing with the fiscal cliff and the big challenges in January.”

Mark, you are a genius.

Too bad we wasted all this time and money for two weeks.

rtb  09/06/2012 08:10 AM Report

Halperin will be remembered as the uneducated reporter who called a sitting president a "dick". Nothing more.

JimBullis  09/05/2012 08:34 PM Report

Staring us in the face is a 'big thing' infrastructure project that seems to be unnoticed, yet it could be more important than the Interstate Highway system put in place under President Eisenhour starting sixty years ago. I would challenge either set of politicians to avoid being the party left behind.

There is a massive area of under-used land in America which could be the basis of a powerful new economy simply by establishing a national water distribution system whereby flood and drought would be controlled and universal irrigation would be put in place. This would result in a new level of employment making immigration a manageable issue and a massive increase in export products making the trade imbalance a thing of the past.

This infrastructure concept inspired invention of the Miastrada Dragon that can be seen on youtube. This is a tractor that would make the farm labor acceptable to all sorts of folks, and even be a way to give disabled veterans a new opportunity.

ShalomFreedman  09/05/2012 05:48 AM Report

Foreign Policy does not seem to be a major factor in the election. Mark Halperin mentioned the concept without in any way alluding to the various problems the United States faces. He did not give any evaluation of the Obama policies, or how the Electorate considers these policies. He did not for instance raise the question of whether the United States public believes Obama credible in his promise to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

richard-lipscombe  09/04/2012 06:21 PM Report

Mark Halperin is right in his analysis...Republicans must now go on offense...Romney can win this election in a big way....

Mitt Romney should be going after California and the other states that Mark talks about...Ryan is going to California - he has a good message for a State with bankrupt local authorities and a bloated public sector...

what Mark says Obama wants to do is BIG THINGS (this is part of the Obama mythology)...his lack of doing BIG THINGS is why Obama will not be re-elected - it is just more of the same and why does he need 4 more years to do any of it?

cheers, richard

NeilMacCallister  09/04/2012 02:35 PM Report

A primary source of our economic calamities is our widespread disinterest in even secondary math skills -- especially among the Democrats.

In basic arithmetic we ask "4 + 4 = ___". Notice that here, the inputs are selected first, and it is the output that is unknown and awaited. This is Barack Obama's level of "Economic Analysis".

One-step up from that basic level is the secondary math concepts of algebra, in which we ask "4 + ___ = 8". Please note that here a starting point is known, and a firm endpoint is accepted. What is then calculated is "How much money do we have available to spend?" This is Paul Ryan's improved level of Economic Analysis.

At an even higher level of understanding, there exists in Calculus a "Fundamental Theorem" (..something to which physicists have long aspired, but a concept which Democrat economists absolutely despise!) That Fundamental Theorem states that "Even in a constantly varying field of factors, if you give me both our starting position and the position in which we want to find ourselves, I can tell you the exact work it will take to get us there."

That is Romney-level analysis!

REMant  09/04/2012 01:47 PM Report

It makes more sense to consider Bill Clinton as the anomaly rather than the Republicans, don't you think? Clinton was more like them than Carter and Obama.