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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He has been replaced by O’Rambo, the President who is mad as hell and is not going to take it any more.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 07, 2012, 05:21 PM EDT

McNamara31....been to Europe plenty of times in last year, and you are wrong....Obama is a bigger joke amongst people who can THINK

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McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 05:03 PM EDT

paddyRanger Is that your "fair and balanced opinion"? If you get out of the U.S. once in a while, you would know the very opposite is true. Most of Europe and a good part of the rest of the world considered George W, America's clown.

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paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 04:39 PM EDT

"the world is starting to RESPECT our leadership again rather than merely fearing and resenting us "...........hahaha what a pile of steamning manure haha the world respect us ...what planet do you come from, the world is laughing at the US and has zero respect for the clown in the white house right now

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BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 04:33 PM EDT

Its not fair for there to be rich and poor, it's more fair to have poor and poorer, they are much easier to control. Just ask Fidele, or Hugo, or ahkmahd adinnerjacket.

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Frosty38 | Sep 07, 2012, 04:31 PM EDT

travelmpq are you on the right board or what did you put in your Irish Tea last night

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paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 04:26 PM EDT

Hollabackgirl.......under Obama EVERYBODY would be a peasant, way to go, the American people are not fooled by Obama which is why he is going to loose..

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Frosty38 | Sep 07, 2012, 04:26 PM EDT

Neal on FOX got a reading from a Dem senator he told him they are NOT fair and balanced LOL

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BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 04:23 PM EDT

At the end of January 1993, the month that President George H. W. Bush left office, the total national debt was $4.1672 trillion, You do the math. Ephraim you would raise taxes in a recession? Re distribution only works if there are funds to re distribute, you don't want to kill the golden pigeons.

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hollabackgurl | Sep 07, 2012, 04:09 PM EDT

Romney and Ryan ARE Geroge W Bush and Dick Cheney all over again. They have the same economic theories, the same military ambitions and they will run the country into the ditch the same.

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EphraimKibbey | Sep 07, 2012, 03:52 PM EDT

@travelmpq - only five of those trillion came during Obama's watch and only two billion of that from his policies. The other three trillion comes from the still running Cheney/Bush tax cuts. As often as you try to lay the Cheney/Bush bill before him, we will reject it as not his.

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hollabackgurl | Sep 07, 2012, 03:51 PM EDT

Obama is going to win re-election. The millionaires who picked Romney can spend every gold coin in their Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts but the American people are not fooled. We don't want to be a nation of millionaires and peasants, we don't want Romney/Ryan.

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travelmpq | Sep 07, 2012, 02:23 PM EDT

16 trillion why Obama should be sent packing.

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cillowen | Sep 07, 2012, 02:09 PM EDT

Try Archives at KewSurrey and discover a mish mash of caveats on records between 1914-21 being destroyed no one knowing as to reason why. Portions of surviving materials being sent to Canada, Australia - truly a disgrace. A web page expressing these truths are on the world wide web.

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handsome68 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:51 PM EDT

As usual with candidate/ President Obama, the man gave a very good speech, mentioning, for good measure, predecessors like Presidents Lincoln, FDR, and Clinton. Clinton and he remind me of Adolf Hitler. You know, the fellow who got built the marvelous autobahn and that wonderful little car, the Volkwagen. With Obama, you will just have to take the good with the bad, as well.

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McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:43 PM EDT

PhlutiePhan "Take a whiff of reality" Its you friend that needs to do so. My responses are based on facts (and reality) of how this economic collapse occurred and what it will take to get us out of it. And one things for sure, what we do "not" need is the same bunch that got us (the middle class) into it at the price and benefit of the Romneys of this world.And BTW, which Romney are you for? The one who established healthcare and then wasn't man enough to admit it? Or the one who firmly was pro choice, then took that back also? Or the one who profiteered for decades by raping troubled companies like KB Toys (Bain pushed KB into bankrupting by loading it up with debt) Or that empathetic son of the auto industry, that basically said "let em die"(Sounds pretty much like let them eat cake doesn't it) Or the one that could never pass a good opportunity to outsource more American jobs. Or possibly the one who has 32 billionaires buying his way to the presidency?

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