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President Obama jumps in the mud pit to beat back Romney -- No more Mr Nice Guy as he goes for the jugular in convention speech - VIDEO

Posted on Friday, September 07, 2012 at 08:15 AM

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Barack Obama delivering his speech on the final day of the Democratic National Convention (Tom Pennington/AFP/Getty Images)

Remember Obambi, the candidate Democrats were afraid would be too nice and genteel and get eviscerated by the Republican attack machine?

Well if this 2012 campaign proves anything, it is that Obambi is dead.

He has been replaced by O’Rambo, the President who is mad as hell and is not going to take it any more.

O’Rambo comes out out firing and doesn't take prisoners. He believes in a scorched earth policy, destroy the village to save it if necessary.

Obama's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention was for the red hot meat eaters, not for the faint of heart.

It was pretty much a lengthy diatribe against Mitt Romney, excoriating, slamming, criticizing and sticking the presidential boot in.

All that was missing was a Romney pinata and a baseball bat. I'm not sure it worked.

Sure, the President has to go on the offensive but it is a sign of his own lack of accomplishment that he wants to mud wrestle rather than engage on a policy level.

The foreign policy attacks were effective sure, especially on Romney's inane focus on Russia as our major foreign policy villain, but I think few voters will be swayed by such a concern.

It is obvious what the polls are telling the Obama people. Define Romney, drag him down, before America gets a full view of him.

This is bare knuckle politics, nothing to do with dream aspirations.

Obambi had those, and Obambi got shot somewhere between inauguration in 2008 and the Republican attack dogs getting unleashed.

Obama’s speech was not the best of the convention. It was not even second best or third.

Bill Clinton stole the show, the old dog for the hard road, Michelle won the hearts and minds, and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student called a slut by Rush Limbaugh, stole the show after her prime time

speech.

So Obama, who ran a poetic campaign full of hope and promise last time has now become the lumbering grizzly,older and more dangerous, much more likely to attack if approached. I'm sure it is what the pollsters are telling him, but it is a sad reflection on American politics nowadays that the only defense is attack and that hopes and dreams are for sissies.

Welcome to the mud pit Mr. President.

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paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 07:55 AM EDT

EphraimKibbey........gaining jobs every month..........BS.....no we are not gaining jobs every month, who do you work for the DNC, spouting the democrat lies

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paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 07:53 AM EDT

another MORONIC post from the cretin downunder.....the only person wishing to stifle the middle class in USA is Obama and he is already doing it.....cretin stay in australia and mind your own business cretin, you don't even live here you opinion is worthless as you are, millionair businessman my ass......FAILURE

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seanomelb | Sep 08, 2012, 12:25 AM EDT

Briano Chavez has given land tenure to millions of his poor,thus enabling them to borrow money for crops or business start-ups for the first time in Venezuela's history. Creating a middle class where little existed. Unlike Romney/Ryan and you teabagger friends who wish to stifle the middle class in America and return them to the poverty stricken class society of Venezuela pre Chavez. You need a lesson in modern Venezuelan economic history. Four more years.

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irishpjk | Sep 08, 2012, 12:08 AM EDT

wtfOf course Obama spent his night ripping Romney, you don’t think he was going to spend time speaking about his three plus years of failure, did you? He lied to us in 08 and he is still doing it, if enough people fall for it he will be elected again. The up side of that is by 2016 things will be so bad that his party will be lucky to finish in second place. Remember it took twelve years and help from the liberal media and slick Willie to overcome four years of Carter. That was the last time I voted a democrat.

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rpbrown | Sep 07, 2012, 10:01 PM EDT

I MEAN COME ON, OF THE WORLD'S 100 LARGEST ECONOMIES, 51 ARE CORPORATIONS. THAT MEANS A FEW OF THE CORPS THAT OPERATE IN AMERICA COMBINED HAVE A BIGGER ECONOMY THAN THAT OF OUR OWN SOVEREIGN NATION! ISN'T THAT AN OBVIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. STOP PUNCHING EACH OTHER AND REALIZE WHERE THE REAL PROBLEMS LIE!

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rpbrown | Sep 07, 2012, 09:56 PM EDT

YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL BEING PETTY FOOLS! REAL PROGRESS CANNOT BE MADE BY ANY POLITICAL PARTY UNTIL WE PASS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT KEEPING CORPORATIONS OUT OF POLITICS. NOTHING HAS REALLY IMPROVED DRAMATICALLY (WELL IT HAS IMPROVED UNDER OBAMA TO BE FAIR) BECAUSE CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE SURE THEY ALWAYS COME OUT ON TOP AND THEY CAN BUY OUR REPS FOR WHATEVER AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY WANT. THIS MUST STOP!

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Frosty38 | Sep 07, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT

I think you better know more about him before bashing him. If you want the other one then vote for him

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hollabackgurl | Sep 07, 2012, 07:53 PM EDT

Do you support welfare programs and education grants and Universal Health Care for Post Born Americans? I bet you don't Marint. You make fine speeches but you want to throw the poor on the scrap heap don't you?

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mairint | Sep 07, 2012, 07:30 PM EDT

Yes, Obama speaks with fork'ed tongue. A true hypocrite. The President takes the taxes from the American people The President directs a large amount of those taxes to Planned Parenthood for the killing of preborn Americans. The gullible American audience cover their ears and shut out the uncomfortable words - and applaud. Surely they see through his language by now? Oh yes, he makes a mockery of marriage as he throws it to the wind for whatever same sexers want to do with it. No Obama, God will NOT bless that sort of America, especially whey they booed at Your Name being put back in the Dem. platform.

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EphraimKibbey | Sep 07, 2012, 07:13 PM EDT

I think that the convention answered the question being asked by the GOP quite well. They asked if we are better off than we were four years ago? Four years ago the economy was losing jobs every month, now we are gaining jobs every month. Four years ago the stock market was in free fall. Now it is closing in on its precrash numbers. Four years ago housing prices were plummeting. Now they have started back up in many markets. Four years ago the American auto industry was set to have a "going out of business" sale. Today they are back and employ more people than before the crash. Four years ago Osama Bin Laden was hiding out conspiring against us and W. "didn't really care where he was." Now he is at the bottom of the ocean. BAM! Dangerous question to ask GOP as it makes people THINK. You don't want that.

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peterson | Sep 07, 2012, 06:33 PM EDT

Obama is an ambar Obama is emmbarASSment to the USA !!

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EphraimKibbey | Sep 07, 2012, 06:00 PM EDT

Sorry, I guess the software doesn't recognise plus signs. There should be one between each of the numbers before the equals sign. Next time I will know to write out "plus." So why does it recognise the equals sign but not the plus? Inquiring minds want to know.

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EphraimKibbey | Sep 07, 2012, 05:57 PM EDT

That's 10 1 3 2 = 16 How's my math? After the President is reelected, and the Democrates control both houses, the president's plan to reduce the debt 4 trillion dollars by cutting spending as well as increasing revenues (as the Simpson/Boles commission suggested and Paul Ryan voted down twice) can begin.

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EphraimKibbey | Sep 07, 2012, 05:46 PM EDT

@BrianO - Glad you asked. Here they are courtesy of TreasuryDirect.gov: 2010..13,561,623,030,891.79 2009..11,909,829,003,511.75 2008..10,024,724,896,912.49 2007...9,007,653,372,262.48 2006...8,506,973,899,215.23 2005...7,932,709,661,723.50 2004...7,379,052,696,330.32 2003...6,783,231,062,743.62 2002...6,228,235,965,597.16 2001...5,807,463,412,200.06 2000...5,674,178,209,886.86 1999...5,656,270,901,615.43 1998...5,526,193,008,897.62 1997...5,413,146,011,397.34 1996...5,224,810,939,135.73 1995...4,973,982,900,709.39 1994...4,692,749,910,013.32 1993...4,411,488,883,139.38 When he took office in '09, Obama had them add in the almost 1 trillion for the 2 wars that Cheney/Bush had kept off the books. So that's 11 trillion Cheney/Bush while in office, 3 Trillion for the tax cut gift that keeps on giving (to the rich) and 2 trillion for Obama's stimulus.

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paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 05:22 PM EDT

Eight-nine million Americans are not in the labor force, 89 million who are capable of working are not. There are 119,000 fewer people employed in August than July. You might be hearing that that 96,000 jobs were created. That could very well be true but so what it’s nothing when you consider they were expecting anywhere depending on which expert you listen/read, anywhere from 225 to 250,000 new jobs, they got 96,000, but a number that’s not being reported by the leftist media is that 119,000 fewer people were employed in August than in July, 119,000 people LOST their jobs, while 96,000 people found jobs, so what’s the net gain ?? it’s a wash, as usual with Obama, And they were full of this 4.5 million jobs created in last four years under Obama….the real number is 300,000……under Obama goal is to destroy the capitalist America the USA he hates (read his books, he has said as much himself) he wants to so called level the playing field, in other words make you all peasants in his wee scheme of revenge against his mothers people who he despises…(AGAIN read his book he say’s it plainly himself). Why trust a lawyer to fix a broken economy, trust a Businessman with a proven record of turning around companies that are fixable, Romney has SAVED and CREATED more jobs in USA than Obama has….wake up people you can NOT trust Obama further than you can throw the gobshite

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