Posted on 10/04/2012 8:06:51 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
Reeling from a debate performance where President Obama often seemed listless and subdued relative to his Republican opponent, the Obama campaign's top strategist said Thursday they would more aggressively challenge Mitt Romney on alleged inconsistencies in his policies.
"You know, you can't tell the American people up is down and down is up and ignore your history and ignore your statements," Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Thursday on MSNBC. "You can't square the circle, and Gov. Romney is going to be held accountable for that."
Axelrod went on to accuse Romney of playing "a shell game" at the debate and said the Republican nominee deserved "an 'F' for being honest with the American people."
In an earlier interview on NBC's "Today Show," Axelrod added that the president was "looking very much forward" to his next chance to debate Romney on Oct. 16.
"I know this, he will come, he will make an honest argument with the American people about how to rebuild the economy and the middle class and he'll hold Gov. Romney to account for these big gaps in the truth we saw last night," Axelrod said.
But Obama's longtime political strategist did seem to concede that the president had been bested, at least on style, in Wednesday night's pivotal showdown with his Republican challenger.
"I joked that Mitt Romney put more preparation into it than they did into the invasion in Normandy and you saw last night," Axelrod said. "I expected a strong performance, got a strong performance, but that's what it was — a performance."
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Dare I say (as a woman) that Romney actually came across not only as brilliant and confident...but rather sexy? Lucky Mrs.....
I’m really surprised that, with today’s technology, 0bama didn’t have a micro-bug planted in his inner ear giving him rescue prompts.
Americans are economically stupid. I have pointed out that all of Clintons economy was actually the results of Ronaldus Magnus’s economic policies. The trickle down took longer to be effective and was starting to show during Bush 1s last year before Clinton took office. But the media lied and lied and lied. People also forget that Reagans and Bush 1 had given incentives for small businesses to start and R&D so that is how the tech industry boomed. Clinton was in the right place at the right time and was trying to ruin the upturn, but then the 94 104th Congress took over and put Clinton in Check. So in the end it is Newts and Ronnies economy. Not Cigarus Moranus!
It’s a SNL skit.
The actor who did it is DEAD.
[Later on Mr. Axelrod stepped out in his full-length overcoat to go flash little girls at the playground.]
Ooops, I misremembered it as SNL. Thanks.
I joked that Mitt Romney put more preparation into it than they did into the invasion in Normandy and you saw last night,” Axelrod said. “I expected a strong performance, got a strong performance, but that’s what it was — a performance.”
Axel Dork.
Yes, Mitt was as serious about overthrowing a tyrant, and restoring freedom as we were at Normandy.
Performance means just what it says. You state a goal, and achieve it. Thereby
having performed.
Mitts into real life performance, and accountability.
You/your stooge is into theater performance. Feels good, but doesn’t really help real life.
And he wasn't even good at that.
For extra bonus points, name the actor.
His name appears to have been scrubbed from the interwebs...
You beat me to it. That image is exactly what I thought of as their get tougher response next time.
An IQ of 50 will still be an IQ of 50 in the next debate and there still won’t be a teleprompter to fake improvement!
That ship has sailed, Davy. The next debate is on foreign policy.
REBUILD THEM??? Would that be the same economy and middle class that he's spent the last four years ripping to shreds? Now you say he's going to do the opposite.
Davey-boy, with all this spinning, you must be dizzier than a drunk blond cheerleader by now!
Your candidate in his closing mentioned "fair share" and government's role as "channeling" the activities of "the People." Now, that is upside-down thinking!!! Under our "People's" Constitution, "We, the People" do the "channeling," and our servants in the branches of government protect our Creator-endowed individual rights to do so.
Americans might ask this President who is that exceptionally-qualified person/persons in government who do the "channeling" and by what authority? Certainly, the authority is not to be found in the United States Constitution!
America's Founders' principle of freedom for individual enterprise brought America from the crude tools of ancient Europe to the most free and prosperous destination for oppressed peoples. See the following essay excerpted from "Our Ageless Constitution," a 292-page history of the ideas of liberty in America.
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson
"The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate .... But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of a free people and the benign influence of a responsible government." - James Madison
America's Constitution did not mention freedom of enterprise per se, but it did set up a system of laws to secure individual liberty and freedom of choice in keeping with Creator-endowed natural rights. Out of these, free enterprise flourished naturally. Even though the words "free enterprise' are not in the Constitution, the concept was uppermost in the minds of the Founders, typified by the remarks of Jefferson and Madison as quoted above. Already, in 1787, Americans were enjoying the rewards of individual enterprise and free markets. Their dedication was to securing that freedom for posterity.
The learned men drafting America's Constitution understood history - mankind's struggle against poverty and government oppression. And they had studied the ideas of the great thinkers and philosophers. They were familiar with the near starvation of the early Jamestown settlers under a communal production and distribution system and Governor Bradford's diary account of how all benefited after agreement that each family could do as it wished with the fruits of its own labors. Later, in 1776, Adam Smith's INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and Say's POLITICAL ECONOMY had come at just the right time and were perfectly compatible with the Founders' own passion for individual liberty. Jefferson said these were the best books to be had for forming governments based on principles of freedom. They saw a free market economy as the natural result of their ideal of liberty. They feared concentrations of power and the coercion that planners can use in planning other peoples lives; and they valued freedom of choice and acceptance of responsibility of the consequences of such choice as being the very essence of liberty. They envisioned a large and prosperous republic of free people, unhampered by government interference.
The Founders believed the American people, possessors of deeply rooted character and values, could prosper if left free to:
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Such a free market economy was, to them, the natural result of liberty, carried out in the economic dimension of life. Their philosophy tended to enlarge individual freedom - not to restrict or diminish the individual's right to make choices and to succeed or fail based on those choices. The economic role of their Constitutional government was simply to secure rights and encourage commerce. Through the Constitution, they granted their government some very limited powers to:
Adam Smith called it "the system of natural liberty." James Madison referred to it as "the benign influence of a responsible government." Others have called it the free enterprise system. By whatever name it is called, the economic system envisioned by the Founders and encouraged by the Constitution allowed individual enterprise to flourish and triggered the greatest explosion of economic progress in all of history. Americans became the first people truly to realize the economic dimension of liberty.
Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
In the next debate I expect Hussein to pull out all the stops - interrupting, talking way part his time, false accusations, attacking, you name it! And if he gets trounced again, somebody is going to get an October Surprise so the dims can claim that he was “distracted” by bigger things.
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