[QUOTE=Kopimi;36821202]is this post serious or satire[/QUOTE]
Well he is mostly right, just that it's only for employers who have 50 workers or more. So if an employer has 55 workers for example, he might be tempted to just downsize to 49 to avoid paying for his employees' health insurance
Both sides have to defame one another because both have terrible records.
Obama hasn't done anything notable from his own doing that was successful besides support the formation and passing of certain positive Internet legislation outside of the matters of the negative SOPA and ACTA, turtled back on his original goals, claimed he had succeeded regardless, and has no phenomenal track record having ignored federal laws and had his administration blatantly ignore enforcing certain laws that conflicted with his objectives, among other things.
Romney is our best chance for some sort of business aid and leadership, but even that's a poor choice because of his business record and quick-dollar executive decisions made in the commanding positions he held in various private businesses. His ability to crumble up the jobs he had control over is a questionable factor that sits besides the fact that he actually does have private sector experience. So where is the real benefit here? He has experience, but it doesn't mean it's good experience. He's a businessman in the most essential sense.
It seems that this election boils down to who you [I]don't[/I] want as president rather than who you want to see, at least on the Republican side. I'm not sure how I am going to vote honestly
[QUOTE=rrunyan;36810420]It's citing media sources (spin sources) like ABC and not straight-up fact-checkers like the census or something.
That said, the entire GOP nomination was built around the fact that the nominees would have had to be as strong, and infallible as possible to beat Obongo.
Mitt Romney was not that candidate, but he proved to he could fight dirty so they let him win anyway.
Now Obama is just unfascining his belt, and Mitt is already going into the fetal position.[/QUOTE]
This isn't related to the ad, but why are FPers still saying Obongo.
You know it's meant as a racist term, right?
For some reason I burst out laughing when the video STARTS with "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message".
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];36824980']This isn't related to the ad, but why are FPers still saying Obongo.
You know it's meant as a racist term, right?[/QUOTE]
I'll take Obongo over Honest Ape any day.
The reason we do that is because we live in an age where you have to cater to the lowest common denominator. Saying Obongo is just being friendly to stupid people.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36815883]This is so immature, I thought obama was better than this. Present to me why you should be elected instead of why your rival shouldn't.[/QUOTE]
oh piss off, it's like you've NEVER seen a political ad before. this is increasingly mild compared so stuff i've seen this year, 2008, and even as far back as 2004 (when i actually started paying attention to politics)
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36815883]This is so immature, I thought obama was better than this. Present to me why you should be elected instead of why your rival shouldn't.[/QUOTE]
It was well made and it was as polite as arguing about your rival can be. You're not suppose to be polite in a campaign ad. "Oh, well Romney is great and he's perfect for a canidate, but you should vote me instead!" That's not how it works, bud.
[editline]18th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;36825045]For some reason I burst out laughing when the video STARTS with "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message".[/QUOTE]
Uh, most candidate ads have an approved message from the canidate. What's so funny?
I love Romney, he has things really figured out, he lives the way I want to live. Romney taught me that I really can have my cake, and eat it too.
In fact, just last week, I decided that I actually retroactively graduated from High School two years early. This means that I technically was uninvolved with anything embarrassing that might or might not have happened to me in my junior and senior years.
For some reason, my idiotic surrogatic politically brainwashed children senses are tingling...
Oh, and stop acting as if any media outlet is a viable source for information, especially for political terms.
(Watch how many dislikes and dumbs I get for being a conservative liberal)
[QUOTE=Bomimo;36825659]I'll take Obongo over Honest Ape any day.
The reason we do that is because we live in an age where you have to cater to the lowest common denominator. Saying Obongo is just being friendly to stupid people.[/QUOTE]
So where's the racist term come into play?
Are you catering to racists or something?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;36815167]With the electoral college system your vote is pretty much wasted anyways, unless you live in a swing state.[/QUOTE]
Not even
Popular vote is more of less just a survey to see how popular a president is, and in effect, gauge how likely you'll be elected as a senator
Voting for presidency is nothing more than symbolic gesture, bcause your vote actually has zero power on determining if he gets into office or not. It's useful again though, because if a president were to be elected by have almost no popular vote, the senators who ARE elected by the people would feel pressured from the population, and wither or not some of the issues a presidency brings to light are worth going after or not.
However you can directly elect governors and represenatives (and these are the people that actually vote on presidency).
Shame the entire political system in the US though focuses only on the president, when your vote has much more weight voting for your state. But nobody cares about state elections.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36815883]This is so immature.[/QUOTE]
It needs to adhere to the mass public. Not just your needs.
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