Debate on C-span

[Elspeth]

Egypt:

Schieffer: Any regrets about saying Mubarek should go?

Barry: No. American has to stand with Democracy. Jack Kennedy reference (drink an Irish whiskey). Now concerned about ethnic minorities and women in Egypt. Must abide by treaty with Israel (ding! drink!). It's a red line for us. Their young people must see opportunities in Egypt. HEY BARRY, HOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE AT HOME?????

Barry has entrepreneurship training for Egyptians. Trying to prevent them from being corrupt. LOL!

Schieffer: Gov Romney, would you have stuck with Mubarek?

Mitt: NO. I wish we had noticed the thread far earlier (even before the current administration.)

THIS DEBATE WILL BE ABOUT STYLE, NOT SUBSTANCE. Any small differences in policy are tiny.

SO how to they look?

[djones520]

Didn't Romney just say that Syria is Iran's "path to the sea"? I guess Iran forgot about the Persian Gulf.

It's easier for Iran to ship illegal arms through Syria then directly from their own shores. Plausable deniability, etc...

[Elspeth]

Didn't Romney just say that Syria is Iran's "path to the sea"? I guess Iran forgot about the Persian Gulf.

Good catch. Give yourself a pat on the back and a drink. :)

[Elspeth]

Mitt: "Nowhere in the world is America's influence greater than it was 4 years ago."

Barry doesn't get to respond!

Schieffer goes on to "America's role in the world."

Mitt: Human rights, freedom of expression, free elections.....etc. America must be strong. America must lead. America must strengthen its economy at home to be strong. (Brings in domestic issues) Must strengthen our military. In 2000, no mention of terrorism--then 9/11 happened.

Tension between Israel and US, Pulling missile defense from Poland--PROBLEMATIC

Green revolution in Iran, Barry remained silent, Mitt says this was wrong.

Barry: America is stronger now than when I came into office.

GEtting out of IRaq and Afghanistan. We have been focusing on other alliances and making them stronger. ISRAEL! (Ding! Drink!) Now we are rebuilding America. MEntions auto industry. Best education system in the world (vomit). Reducing oil imports and clean energy.

WE must reduce deficit by cutting what we don't need but asking the wealthy to pay more.

Mitt is wrong and reckless polices. Mitt praises Bush and Cheney. We will not maintain leadership this way.

[SarasotaRepub]

Man...same old shit. Blame Bu$h and Cheney. What an empty suited loser...

[Elspeth]

Mitt: talks about job creation. We are way below Obama's estimates of unemployment.

Domestic oil production
Increasing trade (esp. with Latin America)
Training programs that work for workers and schools that put parents and students first and teacher's unions behind.
Get off the spending and borrowing binge (No Greece for us!)
SMALL business. 2/3 of our jobs come from small business. Good jobs,


Barry: Mitt talks about small businesses, but in MA when Mitt was governor small business suffered. Barry starts in on education. "We've reformed education. Schools are finally beginning to make progress, Want to hire more teachers in math and science." Says Mitt says that hiring more teachers wouldn't make the economy grow and that small class size doesn't make a difference." But it does make a difference.

Says Barry who is in the process of destroying public ed.

[djones520]

I really like this moderator. He cuts the BS off, gets them back on topic.

[ABC in Georgia]

Man...same old shit. Blame Bu$h and Cheney. What an empty suited loser...

Right on, SR!

An empty suit, on the defensive from the beginning. Love it! Love it!

Just look at Romney's face while listening to O's "same old shit" as you said. Looks as if he, Romney, actually feels sorry for the poor fool!

Gotta go ... can't type and listen at same time! *sigh!*

[Bongo55]

Didn't Romney just say that Syria is Iran's "path to the sea"? I guess Iran forgot about the Persian Gulf.

He was talking about the Mediterranean Sea, Your not very up on your ancient trade routes are you? But being a lib I suppose education is not your strong suit.

[Elspeth]

Mitt: Education, talks about MA, talks about standardized tests 4th and 8th graders who came out #1 in English and math. Bipartisan education principles.

Barry: BUt that was 10 years before you took office. Test scores fell when you became governor.

Mitt: Top of class students go to MA univeristies.

Schieffer gets them back to foreign policy.

Mitt: We're cutting 5% of budget but NOT military. Website has plans including GETTING RID OF OBAMACARE!!! YAY!!!!

We get rid of programs
We take Medicaid and give it to the states to run (Barry is trying to interrupt)

Schieffer: let's get back to the military,

Barry: Mitt's math doesn't work. Wants to soend 2 trillion that the Pentagon isn't asking for. Military spending has gone up every year since I've been prez. You can't spend 2 trill extra and 5 trill on tax cuts, closing loopholes and deductions which you don't mention--the math doesn't work.

We need to be thinking about cyber security and space. What are we going to need to keep the American people safe. This allows us to reduce our deficit.