The first 2012 Presidential Debate may have started light, with President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney sharing a firm handshake and a few jokes. However, the candidates wasted no time focusing on the economic challenges facing Americans, with each contrasting his own vision for the country with his opponent's.
During our live coverage, Patch asked residents around the country to join in the debate through emailing us questions, joining our live blog and tweeting their thoughts with #PatchPolitics.
Residents around New Jersey joined the lively discussion, as the president and presidential hopeful had at each other in a face-to-face battle of words.
"[Romney] should ask what Obama has done for us in the last 4 years. (sound of crickets)," said Patch reader 'John B'.
Just as the Obama and Romney disagree, our readers were not seeing eye-to- eye on our live blog.
"Romney is gonna set up trade with Latin America because he has sent so many jobs over there with the busineses he owns but yet he doesn't support the immigration laws that Obama has tried to pass...hmmmm??," one reader said.
Many on Twitter pointed to the tone of the debate. While Obama technically held the floor longer, readers pointed out the strength in Romney's voice and the fact that the candidate didn't seem to pull any punches.
"Romney comes across strong and in control," Patch reader 'John B' said in our live blog. "Obama is pandering to the young vote," he later added.
While both candidates frequently ran over their allotted time for question and answer segments, giving moderator Jim Lehrer a difficult job, some readers said Romney's strong voice in the debate was not enough.
"Romney refuses to give details on any plan on any subject," Patch reader 'Tonto' said.
But with the groans and moans from both sides of the aisles heard in our live blog as opponents laid out plans, one Patch reader named Kelly ended our live blogging by saying what many may have been thinking:
"Thank goodness that's over."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/paul-ryan-interview-abruptly-ends_n_1949721.html
Maybe you can tell us how does voting for the great fraud Obama help the middle class? How is it helping the residents of Detroit or Camden? And free phones doesn't count. Tell us why does the Government spend more on Medicare than the revenues collected? This UNPAID program is growing the deficit.
Sesame Street" posted a statement demanding Obama take the ad down: Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down. Can we talk about the economy now? Gas prices? Four American assassinated by al-Qaeda? The collapse of middle class incomes? The rise in gas prices?
Regarding my intelligence: I guess I am not very smart because I cannot figure out how to make people like you see the light. I guess my Sunday school teacher was right: "...a people without understanding will come to ruin!" Have fun talking to the wall, Jeff. I am through with you too. RE: "jeff 12:55 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 John Jay: do you work? we know you aren't an intelligent person"
PS: "The single best social service program is a job". . .so where's the jobs!
PS: "The single best social service program is a job". . .so where's the jobs!
Good question - where are the jobs? Do tax increases create jobs? Does spending $1.5 trillion a year more than you have create jobs? I'd have to say these 2 things don't help create jobs. As for Obama and Alinsky. They are tied at the hip. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294454/still-alinsky-playbook-john-fund?pg=1 Alinsky’s tactics of intimidation are a case in point. His most oft-quoted rule is “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. . . . One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.” Obama’s White House has honed that tactic to perfection. In 2009, then– communications director Anita Dunn sneered that Fox News “really is not a news network at this point.” President Obama himself has, in the spirit of Alinsky, gone out of his way to lambaste “fat-cat bankers” and greedy health insurers. “[The administration has] shown they’ll go after anybody or any organization that they think is standing in their way,” Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said in a February speech. “You know the drill. Expose these folks to public view, release the liberal thugs on them, and then hope the public pressure or the unwanted attention scares them from supporting similar causes down the road.”
PS:comparing the 200-300 years of African American history with a "generation of immigrants". . .Please!. . .I could just see the black Professor Melissa Harris Perry(MSNBC) flames coming from her nostrils, ready to explode) So anytime you and Donna want to go there and make the comparisons. . .
What I meant was the electorate (at least those that voted for Obama) were experimenting with an unknown Community Organizer/Obscure State Senator/US Senator/Savior/President/Tyrant