Comparing the Two Candidates

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http://2012.candidate-comparison.org/?compare=Romney&vs=Obama

[Former_Member]

did you miss this part of the article?

What's the Real Reason Behind High Oil Prices?:

Oil prices are set by commodities traders who buy and sell futures contracts on the commodities exchanges.These are agreements to buy or sell oil at a specific date in the future at a specific price. Commodities traders can create a self-fulfilling prophecy by bidding up oil futures prices. Once this starts, it can create an asset bubble. Unfortunately, the one who pays for this bubble is you!

Like most of the things you buy, oil prices are affected by supply and demand. However, oil prices are also affected by oil price futures, which are traded on the commodities futures exchange. These prices fluctuate daily, depending on what investors think the price of oil will be in the future. When traders think oil will be high, they bid it up even higher. This soon causes rising gas prices.

Another reason for rising oil prices is the declining dollar. Since oil is denominated in dollars, the 40% decline in the dollar in the last six years puts upward pressure on oil prices. (Source: BBC, Oil Price May Hit $200 a Barrel, May 7, 2008)

Sometimes commodities traders drive up the price of oil, even when supply increases and demand falls. The EIA cited an increased flow of investment money into commodities markets. In other words, money that used to be invested in real estate or the global stock market is now being invested in oil futures. For more on the factors commodities traders use, see How Are Oil Prices Determined? (Source: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook)

[Former_Member]

you are right - when the republicans insist on minimizing or eliminating any standards or restrictions on the big money folks - yes, we get screwed at the pump...and everywhere else...

[Former_Member]

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/is-obama-to-blame-for-4-gasoline/

[Former_Member]

The $4-Per-Gallon President?

On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin wrote a post March 15 headlined the “$4-Per-Gallon President.” In it, she blamed the president’s “anti-drilling” policies — his moratorium, proposed 2012 budget and regulatory policies — for driving down domestic oil production and causing “pain at the pump.” She said gas prices have gone up “67 percent since he took office,” claiming it is “no accident.”


Palin, March 15: The evidence of the President’s anti-drilling mentality and his culpability in the high gas prices hurting Americans is there for all to see.

On “Fox News Sunday” March 13, Sen. Mitch McConnell was asked if Obama is to blame for rising gas prices, and the Senate GOP leader responded that “he certainly participated” in raising gas prices. “This administration in the last two years has been shutting down wells,” he said.

A blog item posted March 16 on the website of House Speaker John Boehner blamed the president for higher gas prices. The post, which carried the headline “Higher Gas Prices & Thousands of Jobs Lost: The Impact of Obama’s De Facto Gulf Moratorium,” cited the congressional testimony of a Republican official, Louisiana’s secretary of natural resources Scott Angelle, who claimed that the administration’s moratorium and delays in issuing new permits raised gas prices 37 cents per gallon from May 26, 2010, (the day before the moratorium) until the end of 2010. (It is worth noting, however, that the price of gasoline had gone up $1 per gallon before the Gulf oil spill. A gallon of gasoline in the U.S. rose from $1.83 on Jan. 19, 2009, a day before Obama took office, to $2.83 on April 19, 2010, the day before the oil spill, EIA historical data shows.)

So, why have gasoline prices gone up and what impact have Obama’s policies had on oil production and gasoline prices?

We talked to Fadel Gheit, a former Mobil Oil executive who is now a senior energy analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. Asked about the impact of the deepwater moratorium, Gheit said the moratorium had a “negative impact on production, but not as much as the politicians would like us to believe.” The impact of the moratorium on gas prices? ”Nothing. Zero,” he said.

[LocoBead]

http://www.vaows.com/2012/09/21/underground-video-2016-full-movie-free/

[Former_Member]

please - the dude/author that wrote/produced that movie is the poster child for propoganda and 'throw shit at the wall and see how riled i can get people'...

[LocoBead]

"He graduated in 1971 with a Degree in English, with a 3.97GPA. His young family then moved to Boston, and Mitt enrolled in both Harvard Law (HLS) and Harvard Business School (HBS). He obtained his MBA from HBS in 1975 and graduated cum laude from HLS with his Juris Doctor the same year, finishing in the top 5% of his class."

Must not be terribly brilliant.

[LocoBead]

Hmmm, sounds like you haven't watched any of it. They've taken it off line, but, it is suppose to go back up.

It certainly isn't even close to being comparable to Michael Moore's trash.

[Former_Member]

i watched interview after interview the man did talking about obama and if what he said is in the movie - still stand by my opinion of it.

[Former_Member]

i never challenged his intelligence...but just because someone is bright doesn't mean they are right...

[LocoBead]

Who said: “The President and I have a fundamentally different vision for this country and a fundamentally different value set.”

:)

[LocoBead]

Just FYI, The Aggies are stomping SC!

[Former_Member]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/2016-obama-america-fact-check_n_1835710.html


and every interview he did included the 'fact' that the title of his book PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that he embraced and basically IS his father in ideology and such...

i think that an objective fact check of the book and his 'facts' or some attempt to follow his convoluted logic down the yellow brick road might be way over due...

[Former_Member]

biden of course :) one of his better used and abused quotes :)

[LocoBead]

The last item in that article (I'm busy watching football) about the Churchill bust...the White House admitted to that the end of July.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9436526/White-House-admits-it-did-return-Winst...

I'll have to check the other items in that "fact check" later.

[Former_Member]

D'Souza says Obama removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office because Churchill represented British colonialism. White House curator William Allman said the bust, which had been on loan, was already scheduled to be returned before Obama took office. Another bust of Churchill is on display in the president's private residence, the White House says.


----did they admit is was because Churchill represented British colonialism?

and it's return was never disputed - at least it wasn't back in 2009....the only thing dramatic about it was the pearl clutching by the right as they came up with conspiracy and malevolent suppositions as to why oh why he returned it...


but i did enjoy one of the other links from that page...

As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America's enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London.

In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9424524/Mitt-Romney-would-restore-Anglo-Saxon-...

and remember - it was romney insisting that obama was totally responsible for what the embassy employee's were tweeting before the attack...we all do recall that statement, no?


But now - the tune has changed..."I'm generally not enthusiastic about adopting the comments made by people who are unnamed. I have a lot of advisers," he told Williams. "Actually we've gone from calling the rope line where I shake hands every day to the advice line. Because you have a lot of people that offer advice. So I'm not sure who this person is."

Romney added: "But I can tell you that we have a very special relationship between the United States and Great Britain. It goes back to our very beginnings -- cultural and- and historical. But I also believe the president understands that. So I- I don't agree with whoever that adviser might be."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57479578-503544/romney-camp-denies-anglo-saxon-heritage-comme...


seems the telegraph is england's version of faux news...but likes neither of the parties....LOL!

[SerenaSmithLampwork]

In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.

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romney's father was from mexico.

[Former_Member]

It has been a BAD week for the Romney campaign!

Severl conservatives have stepped up their criticisms. And Ryan was booed on Friday while speaking to the AARP.

(CBS News) Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, hasn't been shy about voicing her concerns about Mitt Romney's campaign, but in a Friday column she stepped up her critique.

"The Romney campaign has to get turned around," she wrote. "This week I called it incompetent, but only because I was being polite. I really meant 'rolling calamity.'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57517589-503544/noonan-romney-campaign-is-a-rolling-calamity-...

[Former_Member]

And then their was the release of Romney's 2011 returns, which created even more criticism and controversy.

[LocoBead]

Serena from SerenaSmithLampwork says

romney's father was from mexico.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

[SerenaSmithLampwork]

LocoBead from LocoBead says

Serena from SerenaSmithLampwork says

romney's father was from mexico.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

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oh, sorry, was this not about the country of origin of your father? was it really about obama being the son of a black man from africa?

[Former_Member]

What is Romney's secret for getting his tax rate so low?













He claims 47% of Americans as dependents! ;)

[Former_Member]

LOL!

[Former_Member]

Mitt Romney's attorney says he overpaid his 2011 taxes:

The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.

Mitt Romney in July said if he overpaid his taxes he wouldn't be qualified to be president:

"Frankly, if I had paid more than are legally due, I don't think I'd be qualified to become president," he said. "I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires."


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134888/-Mitt-Romney-claims-to-have-intentionally-overpaid-...


Mitt Romney's Friday release of his 2011 tax return puts that issue back in the headlines just when it had slipped largely off many people's radar screens.

Of course, it wasn't exactly as though the other headlines the Republican presidential nominee has made of late were all that helpful to his presidential campaign. At this point, maybe his campaign has taken so many hits, the release of information showing he and his wife, Ann, paid a 14.1 percent effective rate in 2011 on $13.7 million of income and that their rate averaged 20.2 percent over a 20-year period can't inflict much more harm.

There was something in Romney's tax data on which both his allies and opponents could fixate. For instance, the Romneys donated more than $4 million to charity in 2011 but claimed only $2.25 million in donations.

That level of charity was lauded by supporters like Rep. Catherine McMorris Rogers, a member of the House leadership who, in a statement on the campaign's website, said Romney's donations "are to be admired."

But drawing the attention of some critics was the explanation for why Romney didn't claim all the charitable deductions he was entitled to under Internal Revenue Service rules.

Brad Malt, a lawyer who oversees Romney's trust, said Romney's effective tax rate would have come in lower if the former Massachusetts governor had claimed the entirety of his donations.

That would have been a problem because it would have conflicted with a statement Romney made earlier during the campaign that his effective tax rate had been at least 13 percent in each of the past 10 years.

So Romney paid more taxes than he had to. But that conflicted with another statement from earlier this year, when he said during a Republican primary debate: "I pay all the taxes legally required and not a dollar more."

At another point, he said during an ABC News interview that if he had paid more taxes than he owed, that would disqualify him from the presidency. His exact words: "I don't pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president."

Despite that, he paid more taxes than he owed.

It wasn't just Democrats criticizing Romney on Friday after the release of his tax information. Alex Castellanos, a GOP strategist, was quoted by Politico.com's Maggie Haberman thusly:

" 'At first I thought this was an April Fool's Joke,' said Castellanos, who tweeted something to that effect at me earlier. 'But it isn't April. I can't imagine that David Axelrod will now say, I'm glad Mitt put this issue behind him. This will drag Mitt's taxes back into the debate. And there's not many days left. I just can't imagine why they would do this. There are 40 days left and you have now made more of them about Mitt's taxes ... you don't serve a life sentence and then confess afterward. They've taken their beating on this (already). ... I just don't understand how a (being) "little pregnant" strategy (works).' "

While some questioned the timing of the Romney tax dump, it wasn't as though the Republican presidential nominee had much more time. Having filed with the IRS for an extension earlier this year, the Oct. 15 deadline was approaching. That's one day before the second presidential debate. Putting the information out now could make it seem like old news by then.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/21/161588138/romneys-tax-release-gives-more-fodder-t...

[Former_Member]

and it seems like an unneccessary action...

he may have previously made the statement about the 13% or whatever, but if it was shown that he paid a lesser amount due to charitable donations - i can respect that...

so, it begs to question - is he just stupid or is he hiding something...