The opening skit on Saturday Night Live made fun of the presidential election. Mainly it is about Obama feeling confident despite the fact that he should be in big trouble. His secret weapon is Mitt Romney who keeps getting himself into trouble. This actually is close to real life. There were great opportunities for Romney to gain ground this past week. The spat between Obama and Netanyahu, the crisis in the Middle East and the Chicago teachers strike are all gold mines that Romney should have exploited. Instead he makes a stupid statement about the crisis, and failed to attack more vigorously on the other two. Now he is caught on camera disparaging 47% of the population saying that they don't pay taxes and are dependent on government hand outs. Obviously this will be used by the Obama team to show that Romney is only for rich people and that he despises half of the population. Even if this does not hurt Romney directly, it will put him on the defense for a while and make it again difficult to attack Obama where he is most vulnerable, the economy.
Monday, September 17, 2012
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Like I said before, it just seems like both candidates are doing whatever it takes to lose the election.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot riding on Egypt and how the situation is handled. I am interested to see if oil prices jump or fall, depending on what happens there and Libya.
Gas going up will hurt Obama and Romney should jump on that. But if prices go down, it can only help Obama.
-LBOAYM
I don't get Romney. I think he does politics like a business person. The customer is always right. If your customer is liberal Mass., then you are for abortion, gays and government run health care. If your customer are conservative Republicans then you say the opposite. I think he could have been a decent candidate as a moderate Democrat. I don't think deep down inside he is all that conservative. On the other hand he may despise people who don't make as much money as he has.
ReplyDeleteObama must feel relief that the Chicago strike is over. Now if the Middle East crisis calms down, he can concentrate attacking Romney. I don't like the fact that he went on Letterman. In times of crisis going to a talk show does not seem appropriate to me.
Did that preacher came to Dearborn and why would he go there?
The preacher has not come to Dearborn yet. I heard that he thought of coming in October. Maybe you'll run into him at the airport.
ReplyDeleteHe's been here before and was going to burn the Koran and the government stopped him. The last time he came, he held a rally.
-LBOAYM