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
By: Patrick Roberts | Published Friday, September 7, 2012, 7:32 AM | Updated Friday, September 7, 2012, 7:32 AM
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He has been replaced by O’Rambo, the President who is mad as hell and is not going to take it any more.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.
as I read the hate toward my view and the love they have for percentages My estimate is they are the vocal .01%. (I don't place you in this category Seano.) Worldbank can seem to open a savings account there.
seanomelb | Sep 11, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT
Dear!Dear!dimwit did i touch a raw nerve. Go play Russian roulette with the other bigots on this blog.
paddyRanger | Sep 11, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT
now now Failed trash businessman.....Homer Simpson is about the intellectual standard for your views and I am sure it must be your favourite TV show seeing as how you mention it.....I had to look it up and see what you were talking about, such trash like you no wonder you like that show
seanomelb | Sep 09, 2012, 08:35 PM EDT
Nothing to do with love Briano.Maybe you should read a little about Chavez and his years working at the World Bank.Instead of getting in the gutter with morons like Paddyranger and argue the case.I mean paddyranger is about as educated as Homer Simpson(my apologies to Homer).
pilib04 | Sep 09, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT
Kaydog1, are you new to Irish Central. Can't say I have ever seen a comment by you before. What happened? Did you get an email from the RNC?
pilib04 | Sep 09, 2012, 08:02 PM EDT
Big Surprise. The Irish Central Teabagger, Patrick Roberts, does a hatchet job on President Obama.
Lynchy | Sep 09, 2012, 02:37 AM EDT
Do Republicans agree with disenfranchising as 'the ends justify the means'?
Has the conservative determination to use the popularity and strength of the Tea Party supporters to try and push through abortion legislation sucked in the liberal groups to fill the void? If there had not been so much emphasis and so many attempts at legislation to prohibit abortion without exceptions which led to the political execution of Todd Akin for holding an opinion which is apparently shared by many, could the liberals have risked the backlash of not including God and Jerusalem in the DNC platform?
Independent of the outcome of the election, will US politics become further polarised as the GOP stays the course of ultra conservativism and financing from Wall Street special interests leaving the DNC no choice but to get more funding from Unions and support from liberal causes including support for workers rights, immigrant rights, gun control and separation of church and state?
kaydog1 | Sep 08, 2012, 10:29 PM EDT
Patrick, if "Obambi" got shot, it wasn't by Republican anythings - it was by 4 unsuccessful yrs of tired old doctrinaire big-gov't socialist ideas which have NEVER brought the unemployment rate below 8%, coupled with the reckless addition of 5 TRILLION Dollars in new debt, and a yearly deficit of 1.3 TRILLION Dollars to pay for 'Obambi's'gifts to his campaign contributors like Solyndra, the Unions, and Health Insurance companies for Obamacare. These policies CANNOT get the economy going again, yet to hear the Dems talk, everything is 'fine', and what isn't so fine by definition is the fault of anyone and everyone EXCEPT Obama. Famously, Bush was to blame for his economy, because he was the President, but Obama is not to blame for anything because he is 'only' the President. Ultimately, when 50% of all non-college 18-20 yr olds are unemployed, and 50% of all college seniors are finding no jobs, word gets around, so the results of these policies speak for themselves to anyone who has to actually function in the non-coolaid real world.
As to the 'incredible' Dem Convention, all I saw was 2 days of Feminist Pro-abortion speakers,punctuated by a HILARIOUS scream of protest from the rank and file atheist majority when the leadership THREE TIMES attempted to railroad the word 'God' back into the platform. Well, the word is now back in there, but I doubt that God is much impressed.I do agree that Bill Clinton's speech was more inspiring than Obama's, but did you notice all the references Clinton made to his own trials and triumphs, all in contrast to Obama's lack of success. And talk about a 'War on Women', Bill Clinton stood accused of sexual harassment by no fewer than EIGHT different women, as I recall....
JimmyJK | Sep 08, 2012, 09:45 PM EDT
EphraimKibbey - agree
Republicans have been boiled down to 2 viewpoints.... The first is they believe poor people and especially poor black people are the absolute drain on the entire society and have created all of our ills. The second is that they will do what ever they can to amass more wealth and keep our society and communities more apart from opportunities....
There needs to be change in how our tax dollars are spent and reform in our philosophy. In my opinion illegal immigrants are illegal therefore see you later until you are legal. Illegals offer great work benefit but they are a financial drain on other services including schooling. A lot of corporations like illegals because of the very cheap labor. Also welfare should be a give and take relationship not a give only one. no society can have large groups of feckless immature people doing whatever they want.
BrainO and paddyRanger are like the black and tans. They are here to enforce the rule of the oppressor.
If the year was 1847 and you were in Ireland starving from the policies and direct rule of the english would you take a bit of food from them to survive? If you did.. would you not be another drain on the english tax payers? it's too bad the english did not have much food to provide and we died and we left
BrianO | Sep 08, 2012, 03:48 PM EDT
EK, What limits on unions collecting mandatory dues and donating such dues to buy off their representative, are unions people? I would instead argue that there should be no limits or controls, simply because I do not wish to be controlled or limited,
EphraimKibbey | Sep 08, 2012, 02:15 PM EDT
@rpbrown - I agree 100% that lobbying by corporations has pretty much strangled the idea that our representatives are there to actually represent US but I would go further and include the big money individuals who are not corporations but think their money will buy their guys votes and insure that their personal interests supercede that of the nation. To keep the one person one vote system alive, we must again be able to limit the amount of money that individuals can contribute. What we have now, thanks to Citizens United and the Roberts court, is legalized bribery. We need the amendment to state that only INDIVIDUALS are people AND that ALL campaign finances must be restricted to what can be raised from individuals at or below the proscribed limit. In addition, the candidate should be limited to that same amount as any other individual. Think of how many fewer political commercials there would be. Candidates wanting air time would be forced into real interviews were we could really see what their agenda was.
paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT
Yep Seano and Chavez.......BUTTbuddies !!
BrianO | Sep 08, 2012, 01:04 PM EDT
Seano your love of Chavez says a lot, Maybe its time to abandon country #2 for a true utopia.
paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
It was NOT Obama's father who marched for Civil Rights........It was Romney's !!
rgray222 | Sep 08, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
Obama has never been Mr. Nice Guy towards anyone who opposes him. He has been in the Chicago style mud pit his entire political career. He wants to appear to be Mr.Nice guy to the public but in reality he is a Chicago political thug! He has always been of the school 'the bigger the lie, the more people believe it' and if you tell the same life enough times people will believe it! The only thing that has become transparent in the Obama presidency is Obama himself. Everyone bought this nonsense the first time around but it will not happen a second time.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
peterson | Sep 07, 2012, 06:33 PM EDT
Obama is an ambar
Obama is emmbarASSment to the USA !!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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..
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
travelmpq | Sep 07, 2012, 02:23 PM EDT
16 trillion why Obama should be sent packing.
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.
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.
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?
Gracie1 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:40 PM EDT
I am appalled and disgusted at the moronic and ignorant tenor of the political commentaries here. The shortage of working brain cells is increasingly apparent and that is rather sad. I'd hoped for intelligent discourse and what I've been finding here, from the author AND commentors, leave one completely disappointed and simply provide further proof of the dumbing of the world, Ireland included.
AGRIPPAMOM | Sep 07, 2012, 01:33 PM EDT
The author of this nonsense couldn't have been listening to the same speech that most of us heard. Most of us, that is, except the right wing. They've got an image of our President which no one else sees and doesn't come close to describing him- which would explain Clint Eastwood's talk with an invisible chair in front of millions, and how these bozos lapped it up. All you have to do is read some of these comments to see how unhinged they are.
phobrien31 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:14 PM EDT
After a week of mudslinging and lying by republicans, I found that the democrats sounded pretty meek. As a retireee who lost half of my retirement savings and a third of my real estate value during the last republican administration (at least the market is approaching where it was when Clinton left office), I am bewildered by the eagerness of the author and so many of the comment writers to return to those "good old days". Lack of civility appears to be a common attribute of many of you.
Eschetic | Sep 07, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT
The right wing spin on this speech has been genuinely hilarious. Yes, as Mr. Roberts says, there have been some terrific speeches at this convention, but I have to say I got swept up in the simple glory of the President's inspirational talk and found myself thinking "THIS is why I'm a Republican!...no, wait; he's NOT! Well, he SHOULD be!. We really are MUCH better off than we were four years ago, and if the radical right keep harping on that tune it's going to be thrown back in their basically bigoted faces: we're no longer on the brink of a Bush Depression, the world is starting to RESPECT our leadership again rather than merely fearing and resenting us as Bush Cowboy adventurism abroad recruited the next two generations of terrorists, and with this first FAMILY as inspiration it's far easier to be proud to be an American again! No rational voter who LISTENS to both sides in the debates to come will want to go back to the deregulated hell which came close to destroying our domestic economy and international reputation. This is the best REPUBLICAN President we've had since Eisenhower - he just happens to be running as a Democrat. On to November and a second well earned term!
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT
BigD, capitalism offers the greatest opportunity for advancement. I can tell by your posts that you hate capitalism but it allows the poorest to achieve, very rarely does this happen in places like indonesia for instance.
BigDaddy | Sep 07, 2012, 12:43 PM EDT
Of course he slammed Romney. Did you think he'd talk about the last four years economy?
Fran, where is the stock market? Where are corporate profits? Are they up or down? If you do not know the answer, shouldn't you? The only people hurting in America are those who aren't rich and that is all you really need to know about the GOP, isn't it? Obama a socialist?!? Really? Obama is a moderate Republican and the RNC, Fox News and the right wing echo chamber cannot admit that reality. America has been evolving into 21st century feudalism for decades now but the GOP would have you think that government regulations are to blame for 9 year old children in Indonesia making Air Jordans for slave wages and that greed has nothing at all to do with why America has become a second arte nation.
PhlutiePhan | Sep 07, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT
@McNamara31: Take a whiff of reality. JFKs "Dream shall never die". However, "Dreams of my father" is not that dream. Oblunder is a radical Marxist. Take that to the back room and smoke it.
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT
I'm sure obama had a rea pro economy speech all set to piggyback on the great employment news due that day. I'm sure obama and company was confident that the statistics could be manipulated to give the speech real backbone and force. the only problem is that these numbers are harder to fudge due to the severity of the problem, pro government growth and control, rarely end up imroving the economy. So team obam had to go with speech B, which I'm sure irk obama, who I would bet, thought he could pull off the pro economy speech, he has a gift you know.
hermitTalker | Sep 07, 2012, 12:22 PM EDT
getting information from Convention speeches is like reading a film's advertising to decide whether to attend. IF we could take the time to read the actual figures the two parties use for comparison of their records, keep an eye on the CBO- Congressional Budget Office's actual figures and facts and projections, stay clear of the media spin, you will have a surer record of what the facts are.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:20 PM EDT
So far this is the only story covering the conclusion of the DNC last night.If this article was written to be anywhere in the park of political journalism, it failed IC and its readers miserably.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:05 PM EDT
Skibberrean "THE OBAMA DRAGON CAN BE BEATEN AND MUST BE BEATEN TO SAVE OUR BELOVED" Read what you have said man. It's sick! This is what the "filth" over on Fox has done to our democracy. The smears that have been orchestrated by Roger Ailes (ex Nixon man) to make Americans think a duly elected president is "to be feared,and not one of us" as many Obama haters post day in and day out on this website. People wake up, you're being taken on a very dark and nasty ride of misinformation and delusion all to win votes for the other guy. The very sad thing is, the day after the election a president will be elected, but the obvious hate, venom and mistrust will remain for years.
irismonkey48 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:04 PM EDT
Here in the US we like to check facts. The facts are that on the night of inauguration 17 Republican Senators made a vow to vote against and fillibuster every plan Obama put out and they have. His jobs bill that would create jobs is still being fillibusterd after passing the House and the Senate. So Obama has not even had a fair chance to implement his programs. The Republicans have fillibusterd more than 300 bills. ie HR 12 Paycheck Fairness Act, HR 466 Wounded Vets job security act, Hr 2352 job creation thru entrepreneurs. I wont list the rest but it is public record. Obama has been sabotaged for three and a half years. George W had eight years to destroy our country , why shouldnt Obama have eight years and a Congress he can work with?
cillowen | Sep 07, 2012, 11:51 AM EDT
why obama waltzes with morons instead of kicking Herlmut Romney and chimp about the place - he's just too controlled - an amazing human with nerves of steel. The girlie man mormon - just look at the way to looks about like a beauty queen. Ryan looks like an ancestor who's half starved.
paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 11:49 AM EDT
Roberts.......Obama has NEVER got out of the mud pit him and the rest of the demorat pigs. wallowing in it....are you blind to the fact they have ran the nastiest campaign in history and you have the nerve to say he is only starting now against Romney.
paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 11:48 AM EDT
conorsmom .........conor must be so proud have a moron for a mother!! you want to hear FEAR and HATE, did you see the clip from Demorat convention the silly old woman wanted to Kill Romney and said he was destroying the country, ....I will vote MITT and I will be better off under him than the cluster F....k obama thank you very much
OldMariner | Sep 07, 2012, 11:47 AM EDT
Nice guy Obama? How about when he called a bi-partisan meeting after his election to discuss the economy and when Sen. McCain brought up a few points, Mr. Nice Guy shut McCain up by saying that "After all John, I won the election". I also heard that he said the same thing to Eric Cantor during another meeting with a Republican representatives.
The former episode was taped and shown on TV(not by major networks).
conorsmom | Sep 07, 2012, 11:40 AM EDT
Nice to see FEAR AND HATE Mongering is still alive and strong with the RNC and uber conservatives in this country...
If you think your not better off now than you were 4 years ago, vote for Mitt and you will wish you are where you are now! There will be NO MIDDLE class left what-so-ever... Just the haves and the have nots...
And Mitt won't care..
FastEddy | Sep 07, 2012, 11:33 AM EDT
"President Obama jumps in the mud pit to beat back Romney ..." again. These democrats have nothing else to run on except the mud pit.
Mousemess | Sep 07, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT
Thank you Robert Patricks (since you took liberties with our president's name, I will do the same to your name)for your thoroughly juvenile and idiotic commentary about the stellar and intelligent acceptance speech of our president. I no longer know why I even bother to read this supermarket tabloid of an "Irish" newsletter that has not even one article in the Irish language which is the first official language of Eire/Ireland according to its own constitution, that has rotten journalistic standards as shown here by Robert Patricks or is that Patrick Roberts, that openly insults our president, is just a shill for the far radical right American political fringe and will look to unsubscribe chomh luath is feidir (as soon as possible).
BulldogMania | Sep 07, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT
Once again I'm not disappointed by the radical liberal editors of this website. Everyone has acknowledged that the DNC and Obama are running the dirtiest smear campaign in US history and yet we see this liberal rag trying to blame Romney. I've never heard so many LIES from one political convention, and the Jobs Report this morning was even more evidence that Obama has FAILED and things are getting worse. We've listened to nothing but personal attacks against Romney and Ryan...last week Ryan's wife was called a whore by a Hollywood actor on twitter, just to name one. Meanwhile, Romney wants to talk about jobs, or the lack of them, and someone he is the one running a nasty campaign. I suppose this is how the liberals sleep at night. ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK and then blame the GOP for being nasty. It makes NO SENSE, but neither does the DNC, OBAMA, BIDEN THE CLOWN or anything we heard in Charlotte this week.
Skibberrean | Sep 07, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT
OBAMA'S SPEECH READ LIKE A GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE. "MOVING FORWARD IN A VISION" HE SAID. FAIRY TALES ARE MORE THAN TRUE; NOT BECAUSE THEY TELL US THAT DRAGONS EXIST; BUT BECAUSE THEY TELL US THAT DRAGONS CAN BE BEATEN! THE OBAMA DRAGON CAN BE BEATEN AND MUST BE BEATEN TO SAVE OUR BELOVED REPUBLIC FROM HIS ALINSKY BELIEFS THAT ALL GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER. IF HE IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, ULTIMATELY IN THE END, THE CAPITALISM THAT BUILT THIS COUNTRY, WILL TRULY BE LED BY HIS HANDS TO SOCIALISM LEADING TO ULTIMATE COMMUNISM. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL AND THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT
The DNC Convention left us with distinct differences in governance: First, the belief that “We the people” are in this together; rather than the, “I’ve got mine” the heck with you style of the RNC primaries and convention. Obama clearly saved the American car industry, while Romney would have “let it die”. Democrats want to save Medicare and the security it provides the elderly, Romney/ Ryan will hand the sick and elderly over to the whims of insurance companies. On jobs history over the past 52 years, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, 66 million private-sector jobs have been created: Republicans created 24 million, Democrats created 42million.The party who destroyed the American economy with financial deregulation, two unpaid wars and more tax cuts for the wealthiest, want to come back and use the same principles of tax cuts and deregulation. And Mitt Romney failed to even mention Iraq, Afghanistan or our troops in RNC speech; good at starting wars, then failing at remembering those who fought and died in them.
jamthecat | Sep 07, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT
You know, Mr. Roberts, one of these days you're going to wake up and smell the reality instead of remaining lost in your never-never-land of right wing tripe, and you will finally see the GOP has lost its collective mind and joined hands with the devil. Obama's not great, but the flat out lies and deceit flowing from Romney, Ryan, and the right wing hate machine are pathological in their baldness and need to be addressed as such. If that's slinging mud, in your limited vision, then great. Fantastic. I hope he covers the bastards in it. They've given him plenty of reason to do so and I'm glad he's finally stopped kissing Republican ass and called them out for their non-stop obstruction over the last four years. He's been called a communist, non-American, socialist, Nazi, witch doctor, and a thousand other vile names, all of which the right wing know are lies and borderline racist (and which the likes of weeknocky keep repeating in the face of the evidence). If they can dish, they ought to be willing to take it...and they deserve every gob smack in the face. Ten times over.
mlklegal | Sep 07, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT
I suspect the choice of phrasing was to get a reaction and start a debate. I didn´t feel that the principle speakers were 'in the mud' though the speakers definitely stepped out from the shadows to present a different perspective on the first year after President Obama took over. From the outside it seems strange to me that the citizens of USA had/have an expectation that the World economic crisis could be solved in a few years and when compared to Europe and Japan, the USA seems to have taken at least some of the right steps towards recovery. It is unfortunate that the US economy has such an adverse effect on other economies to the point that when trying to solve any economic problem you are pretty much on your own. Positive economic conditions elsewhere might have provided some respite but alas there is not much sign of growth anywhere that can help the US or European economies.
kflanigan | Sep 07, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT
Who wrote this nonsense? Sounds like the writer is in Romney's corner.
weeknocky | Sep 07, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
Mr. Nice Guy? Come on, a man who never worked a day in his life, a scammer and socialist who hung with the likes of Bill Ayers and the Chicago boys. Give me a break!
kflanigan | Sep 07, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT
The only reason he's in the mud is that were the pigs of the GOP live.
borefield | Sep 07, 2012, 09:49 AM EDT
I wasn't aware Obama and crew ever got up out of the mud!, their superb lying abilities, deception and deceit at every turn, well nothing has changed, still the party of divide and conquer, no hope and change yet.
judiron | Sep 07, 2012, 09:45 AM EDT
he sticks that nose of his up in the air like he thinks he's a king, amen. The democrates have no idea what is going to happen to them when we become a communistic country and Obama is the czar. Hopefully we can beat him in Nov. and keep our country a republic.
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 09:40 AM EDT
He gets the jobs report the day before it comes out, which is today. normal job growth 220,000, expected job growth 200,000, actual job growth 90,00, workers leaving the job market 390,000. With thesenumbers the only tactic left is to demonize and attempt to destroy. hey it worked in Chicago.
Mr.Weekend | Sep 07, 2012, 09:38 AM EDT
Mud pit? Scorched earth? What 14-year-old is handling your convention coverage? The prez gave a great speech. If you think Obama is bare knuckle, let me introduce you to Andrew Jackson, the Kennedys, LBJ, and Nixon. They're in the, you know, history books.
Mr.Weekend | Sep 07, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
One reason progressives and leftists should vote for Obama this year:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Fran Connor | Sep 07, 2012, 09:26 AM EDT
Of course he slammed Romney. Did you think he'd talk about the last four years economy?
SeanODwyer | Sep 07, 2012, 09:04 AM EDT
Not the best speech but, Jesus, the guy can't win, can he? He's too soft, now he's too hard—even though he wasn't that hard! Gimmie a break. Nobody was going to out-Bill Bill — more people tuned in to watch him than watch the NFL. Tough, tough act to follow. Substantive? No. But, personally, I was happy to see Obama show some edge, make a few definitive statements, and take the Right to task.
jflanagan | Sep 07, 2012, 08:26 AM EDT
One of the least moving speeches of the convention. Gave me the impression his heart is not really in it like before.
Maybe is he was clear and everyone knew they were the "Hope" four years ago the economy would be better. He should have been more specific.
WoundedKnee | Sep 07, 2012, 08:15 AM EDT
Will Roberts or any of the Obama cheerleaders here answer one question: Why should progressives and leftists vote for Obama this year? I can give 20 reasons why they shouldn't.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.BrianO | Sep 12, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT
as I read the hate toward my view and the love they have for percentages My estimate is they are the vocal .01%. (I don't place you in this category Seano.) Worldbank can seem to open a savings account there.
seanomelb | Sep 11, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT
Dear!Dear!dimwit did i touch a raw nerve. Go play Russian roulette with the other bigots on this blog.
paddyRanger | Sep 11, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT
now now Failed trash businessman.....Homer Simpson is about the intellectual standard for your views and I am sure it must be your favourite TV show seeing as how you mention it.....I had to look it up and see what you were talking about, such trash like you no wonder you like that show
seanomelb | Sep 09, 2012, 08:35 PM EDT
Nothing to do with love Briano.Maybe you should read a little about Chavez and his years working at the World Bank.Instead of getting in the gutter with morons like Paddyranger and argue the case.I mean paddyranger is about as educated as Homer Simpson(my apologies to Homer).
pilib04 | Sep 09, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT
Kaydog1, are you new to Irish Central. Can't say I have ever seen a comment by you before. What happened? Did you get an email from the RNC?
pilib04 | Sep 09, 2012, 08:02 PM EDT
Big Surprise. The Irish Central Teabagger, Patrick Roberts, does a hatchet job on President Obama.
Lynchy | Sep 09, 2012, 02:37 AM EDT
Do Republicans agree with disenfranchising as 'the ends justify the means'? Has the conservative determination to use the popularity and strength of the Tea Party supporters to try and push through abortion legislation sucked in the liberal groups to fill the void? If there had not been so much emphasis and so many attempts at legislation to prohibit abortion without exceptions which led to the political execution of Todd Akin for holding an opinion which is apparently shared by many, could the liberals have risked the backlash of not including God and Jerusalem in the DNC platform? Independent of the outcome of the election, will US politics become further polarised as the GOP stays the course of ultra conservativism and financing from Wall Street special interests leaving the DNC no choice but to get more funding from Unions and support from liberal causes including support for workers rights, immigrant rights, gun control and separation of church and state?
kaydog1 | Sep 08, 2012, 10:29 PM EDT
Patrick, if "Obambi" got shot, it wasn't by Republican anythings - it was by 4 unsuccessful yrs of tired old doctrinaire big-gov't socialist ideas which have NEVER brought the unemployment rate below 8%, coupled with the reckless addition of 5 TRILLION Dollars in new debt, and a yearly deficit of 1.3 TRILLION Dollars to pay for 'Obambi's'gifts to his campaign contributors like Solyndra, the Unions, and Health Insurance companies for Obamacare. These policies CANNOT get the economy going again, yet to hear the Dems talk, everything is 'fine', and what isn't so fine by definition is the fault of anyone and everyone EXCEPT Obama. Famously, Bush was to blame for his economy, because he was the President, but Obama is not to blame for anything because he is 'only' the President. Ultimately, when 50% of all non-college 18-20 yr olds are unemployed, and 50% of all college seniors are finding no jobs, word gets around, so the results of these policies speak for themselves to anyone who has to actually function in the non-coolaid real world. As to the 'incredible' Dem Convention, all I saw was 2 days of Feminist Pro-abortion speakers,punctuated by a HILARIOUS scream of protest from the rank and file atheist majority when the leadership THREE TIMES attempted to railroad the word 'God' back into the platform. Well, the word is now back in there, but I doubt that God is much impressed.I do agree that Bill Clinton's speech was more inspiring than Obama's, but did you notice all the references Clinton made to his own trials and triumphs, all in contrast to Obama's lack of success. And talk about a 'War on Women', Bill Clinton stood accused of sexual harassment by no fewer than EIGHT different women, as I recall....
JimmyJK | Sep 08, 2012, 09:45 PM EDT
EphraimKibbey - agree Republicans have been boiled down to 2 viewpoints.... The first is they believe poor people and especially poor black people are the absolute drain on the entire society and have created all of our ills. The second is that they will do what ever they can to amass more wealth and keep our society and communities more apart from opportunities.... There needs to be change in how our tax dollars are spent and reform in our philosophy. In my opinion illegal immigrants are illegal therefore see you later until you are legal. Illegals offer great work benefit but they are a financial drain on other services including schooling. A lot of corporations like illegals because of the very cheap labor. Also welfare should be a give and take relationship not a give only one. no society can have large groups of feckless immature people doing whatever they want. BrainO and paddyRanger are like the black and tans. They are here to enforce the rule of the oppressor. If the year was 1847 and you were in Ireland starving from the policies and direct rule of the english would you take a bit of food from them to survive? If you did.. would you not be another drain on the english tax payers? it's too bad the english did not have much food to provide and we died and we left
BrianO | Sep 08, 2012, 03:48 PM EDT
EK, What limits on unions collecting mandatory dues and donating such dues to buy off their representative, are unions people? I would instead argue that there should be no limits or controls, simply because I do not wish to be controlled or limited,
EphraimKibbey | Sep 08, 2012, 02:15 PM EDT
@rpbrown - I agree 100% that lobbying by corporations has pretty much strangled the idea that our representatives are there to actually represent US but I would go further and include the big money individuals who are not corporations but think their money will buy their guys votes and insure that their personal interests supercede that of the nation. To keep the one person one vote system alive, we must again be able to limit the amount of money that individuals can contribute. What we have now, thanks to Citizens United and the Roberts court, is legalized bribery. We need the amendment to state that only INDIVIDUALS are people AND that ALL campaign finances must be restricted to what can be raised from individuals at or below the proscribed limit. In addition, the candidate should be limited to that same amount as any other individual. Think of how many fewer political commercials there would be. Candidates wanting air time would be forced into real interviews were we could really see what their agenda was.
paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT
Yep Seano and Chavez.......BUTTbuddies !!
BrianO | Sep 08, 2012, 01:04 PM EDT
Seano your love of Chavez says a lot, Maybe its time to abandon country #2 for a true utopia.
paddyRanger | Sep 08, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
It was NOT Obama's father who marched for Civil Rights........It was Romney's !!
rgray222 | Sep 08, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
Obama has never been Mr. Nice Guy towards anyone who opposes him. He has been in the Chicago style mud pit his entire political career. He wants to appear to be Mr.Nice guy to the public but in reality he is a Chicago political thug! He has always been of the school 'the bigger the lie, the more people believe it' and if you tell the same life enough times people will believe it! The only thing that has become transparent in the Obama presidency is Obama himself. Everyone bought this nonsense the first time around but it will not happen a second time.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
peterson | Sep 07, 2012, 06:33 PM EDT
Obama is an ambar Obama is emmbarASSment to the USA !!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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..
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
travelmpq | Sep 07, 2012, 02:23 PM EDT
16 trillion why Obama should be sent packing.
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.
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.
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?
Gracie1 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:40 PM EDT
I am appalled and disgusted at the moronic and ignorant tenor of the political commentaries here. The shortage of working brain cells is increasingly apparent and that is rather sad. I'd hoped for intelligent discourse and what I've been finding here, from the author AND commentors, leave one completely disappointed and simply provide further proof of the dumbing of the world, Ireland included.
AGRIPPAMOM | Sep 07, 2012, 01:33 PM EDT
The author of this nonsense couldn't have been listening to the same speech that most of us heard. Most of us, that is, except the right wing. They've got an image of our President which no one else sees and doesn't come close to describing him- which would explain Clint Eastwood's talk with an invisible chair in front of millions, and how these bozos lapped it up. All you have to do is read some of these comments to see how unhinged they are.
phobrien31 | Sep 07, 2012, 01:14 PM EDT
After a week of mudslinging and lying by republicans, I found that the democrats sounded pretty meek. As a retireee who lost half of my retirement savings and a third of my real estate value during the last republican administration (at least the market is approaching where it was when Clinton left office), I am bewildered by the eagerness of the author and so many of the comment writers to return to those "good old days". Lack of civility appears to be a common attribute of many of you.
Eschetic | Sep 07, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT
The right wing spin on this speech has been genuinely hilarious. Yes, as Mr. Roberts says, there have been some terrific speeches at this convention, but I have to say I got swept up in the simple glory of the President's inspirational talk and found myself thinking "THIS is why I'm a Republican!...no, wait; he's NOT! Well, he SHOULD be!. We really are MUCH better off than we were four years ago, and if the radical right keep harping on that tune it's going to be thrown back in their basically bigoted faces: we're no longer on the brink of a Bush Depression, the world is starting to RESPECT our leadership again rather than merely fearing and resenting us as Bush Cowboy adventurism abroad recruited the next two generations of terrorists, and with this first FAMILY as inspiration it's far easier to be proud to be an American again! No rational voter who LISTENS to both sides in the debates to come will want to go back to the deregulated hell which came close to destroying our domestic economy and international reputation. This is the best REPUBLICAN President we've had since Eisenhower - he just happens to be running as a Democrat. On to November and a second well earned term!
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT
BigD, capitalism offers the greatest opportunity for advancement. I can tell by your posts that you hate capitalism but it allows the poorest to achieve, very rarely does this happen in places like indonesia for instance.
BigDaddy | Sep 07, 2012, 12:43 PM EDT
Of course he slammed Romney. Did you think he'd talk about the last four years economy? Fran, where is the stock market? Where are corporate profits? Are they up or down? If you do not know the answer, shouldn't you? The only people hurting in America are those who aren't rich and that is all you really need to know about the GOP, isn't it? Obama a socialist?!? Really? Obama is a moderate Republican and the RNC, Fox News and the right wing echo chamber cannot admit that reality. America has been evolving into 21st century feudalism for decades now but the GOP would have you think that government regulations are to blame for 9 year old children in Indonesia making Air Jordans for slave wages and that greed has nothing at all to do with why America has become a second arte nation.
PhlutiePhan | Sep 07, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT
@McNamara31: Take a whiff of reality. JFKs "Dream shall never die". However, "Dreams of my father" is not that dream. Oblunder is a radical Marxist. Take that to the back room and smoke it.
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT
I'm sure obama had a rea pro economy speech all set to piggyback on the great employment news due that day. I'm sure obama and company was confident that the statistics could be manipulated to give the speech real backbone and force. the only problem is that these numbers are harder to fudge due to the severity of the problem, pro government growth and control, rarely end up imroving the economy. So team obam had to go with speech B, which I'm sure irk obama, who I would bet, thought he could pull off the pro economy speech, he has a gift you know.
hermitTalker | Sep 07, 2012, 12:22 PM EDT
getting information from Convention speeches is like reading a film's advertising to decide whether to attend. IF we could take the time to read the actual figures the two parties use for comparison of their records, keep an eye on the CBO- Congressional Budget Office's actual figures and facts and projections, stay clear of the media spin, you will have a surer record of what the facts are.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:20 PM EDT
So far this is the only story covering the conclusion of the DNC last night.If this article was written to be anywhere in the park of political journalism, it failed IC and its readers miserably.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:05 PM EDT
Skibberrean "THE OBAMA DRAGON CAN BE BEATEN AND MUST BE BEATEN TO SAVE OUR BELOVED" Read what you have said man. It's sick! This is what the "filth" over on Fox has done to our democracy. The smears that have been orchestrated by Roger Ailes (ex Nixon man) to make Americans think a duly elected president is "to be feared,and not one of us" as many Obama haters post day in and day out on this website. People wake up, you're being taken on a very dark and nasty ride of misinformation and delusion all to win votes for the other guy. The very sad thing is, the day after the election a president will be elected, but the obvious hate, venom and mistrust will remain for years.
irismonkey48 | Sep 07, 2012, 12:04 PM EDT
Here in the US we like to check facts. The facts are that on the night of inauguration 17 Republican Senators made a vow to vote against and fillibuster every plan Obama put out and they have. His jobs bill that would create jobs is still being fillibusterd after passing the House and the Senate. So Obama has not even had a fair chance to implement his programs. The Republicans have fillibusterd more than 300 bills. ie HR 12 Paycheck Fairness Act, HR 466 Wounded Vets job security act, Hr 2352 job creation thru entrepreneurs. I wont list the rest but it is public record. Obama has been sabotaged for three and a half years. George W had eight years to destroy our country , why shouldnt Obama have eight years and a Congress he can work with?
cillowen | Sep 07, 2012, 11:51 AM EDT
why obama waltzes with morons instead of kicking Herlmut Romney and chimp about the place - he's just too controlled - an amazing human with nerves of steel. The girlie man mormon - just look at the way to looks about like a beauty queen. Ryan looks like an ancestor who's half starved.
paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 11:49 AM EDT
Roberts.......Obama has NEVER got out of the mud pit him and the rest of the demorat pigs. wallowing in it....are you blind to the fact they have ran the nastiest campaign in history and you have the nerve to say he is only starting now against Romney.
paddyRanger | Sep 07, 2012, 11:48 AM EDT
conorsmom .........conor must be so proud have a moron for a mother!! you want to hear FEAR and HATE, did you see the clip from Demorat convention the silly old woman wanted to Kill Romney and said he was destroying the country, ....I will vote MITT and I will be better off under him than the cluster F....k obama thank you very much
OldMariner | Sep 07, 2012, 11:47 AM EDT
Nice guy Obama? How about when he called a bi-partisan meeting after his election to discuss the economy and when Sen. McCain brought up a few points, Mr. Nice Guy shut McCain up by saying that "After all John, I won the election". I also heard that he said the same thing to Eric Cantor during another meeting with a Republican representatives. The former episode was taped and shown on TV(not by major networks).
conorsmom | Sep 07, 2012, 11:40 AM EDT
Nice to see FEAR AND HATE Mongering is still alive and strong with the RNC and uber conservatives in this country... If you think your not better off now than you were 4 years ago, vote for Mitt and you will wish you are where you are now! There will be NO MIDDLE class left what-so-ever... Just the haves and the have nots... And Mitt won't care..
FastEddy | Sep 07, 2012, 11:33 AM EDT
"President Obama jumps in the mud pit to beat back Romney ..." again. These democrats have nothing else to run on except the mud pit.
Mousemess | Sep 07, 2012, 11:31 AM EDT
Thank you Robert Patricks (since you took liberties with our president's name, I will do the same to your name)for your thoroughly juvenile and idiotic commentary about the stellar and intelligent acceptance speech of our president. I no longer know why I even bother to read this supermarket tabloid of an "Irish" newsletter that has not even one article in the Irish language which is the first official language of Eire/Ireland according to its own constitution, that has rotten journalistic standards as shown here by Robert Patricks or is that Patrick Roberts, that openly insults our president, is just a shill for the far radical right American political fringe and will look to unsubscribe chomh luath is feidir (as soon as possible).
BulldogMania | Sep 07, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT
Once again I'm not disappointed by the radical liberal editors of this website. Everyone has acknowledged that the DNC and Obama are running the dirtiest smear campaign in US history and yet we see this liberal rag trying to blame Romney. I've never heard so many LIES from one political convention, and the Jobs Report this morning was even more evidence that Obama has FAILED and things are getting worse. We've listened to nothing but personal attacks against Romney and Ryan...last week Ryan's wife was called a whore by a Hollywood actor on twitter, just to name one. Meanwhile, Romney wants to talk about jobs, or the lack of them, and someone he is the one running a nasty campaign. I suppose this is how the liberals sleep at night. ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK and then blame the GOP for being nasty. It makes NO SENSE, but neither does the DNC, OBAMA, BIDEN THE CLOWN or anything we heard in Charlotte this week.
Skibberrean | Sep 07, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT
OBAMA'S SPEECH READ LIKE A GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE. "MOVING FORWARD IN A VISION" HE SAID. FAIRY TALES ARE MORE THAN TRUE; NOT BECAUSE THEY TELL US THAT DRAGONS EXIST; BUT BECAUSE THEY TELL US THAT DRAGONS CAN BE BEATEN! THE OBAMA DRAGON CAN BE BEATEN AND MUST BE BEATEN TO SAVE OUR BELOVED REPUBLIC FROM HIS ALINSKY BELIEFS THAT ALL GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER. IF HE IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, ULTIMATELY IN THE END, THE CAPITALISM THAT BUILT THIS COUNTRY, WILL TRULY BE LED BY HIS HANDS TO SOCIALISM LEADING TO ULTIMATE COMMUNISM. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL AND THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
McNamara31 | Sep 07, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT
The DNC Convention left us with distinct differences in governance: First, the belief that “We the people” are in this together; rather than the, “I’ve got mine” the heck with you style of the RNC primaries and convention. Obama clearly saved the American car industry, while Romney would have “let it die”. Democrats want to save Medicare and the security it provides the elderly, Romney/ Ryan will hand the sick and elderly over to the whims of insurance companies. On jobs history over the past 52 years, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, 66 million private-sector jobs have been created: Republicans created 24 million, Democrats created 42million.The party who destroyed the American economy with financial deregulation, two unpaid wars and more tax cuts for the wealthiest, want to come back and use the same principles of tax cuts and deregulation. And Mitt Romney failed to even mention Iraq, Afghanistan or our troops in RNC speech; good at starting wars, then failing at remembering those who fought and died in them.
jamthecat | Sep 07, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT
You know, Mr. Roberts, one of these days you're going to wake up and smell the reality instead of remaining lost in your never-never-land of right wing tripe, and you will finally see the GOP has lost its collective mind and joined hands with the devil. Obama's not great, but the flat out lies and deceit flowing from Romney, Ryan, and the right wing hate machine are pathological in their baldness and need to be addressed as such. If that's slinging mud, in your limited vision, then great. Fantastic. I hope he covers the bastards in it. They've given him plenty of reason to do so and I'm glad he's finally stopped kissing Republican ass and called them out for their non-stop obstruction over the last four years. He's been called a communist, non-American, socialist, Nazi, witch doctor, and a thousand other vile names, all of which the right wing know are lies and borderline racist (and which the likes of weeknocky keep repeating in the face of the evidence). If they can dish, they ought to be willing to take it...and they deserve every gob smack in the face. Ten times over.
mlklegal | Sep 07, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT
I suspect the choice of phrasing was to get a reaction and start a debate. I didn´t feel that the principle speakers were 'in the mud' though the speakers definitely stepped out from the shadows to present a different perspective on the first year after President Obama took over. From the outside it seems strange to me that the citizens of USA had/have an expectation that the World economic crisis could be solved in a few years and when compared to Europe and Japan, the USA seems to have taken at least some of the right steps towards recovery. It is unfortunate that the US economy has such an adverse effect on other economies to the point that when trying to solve any economic problem you are pretty much on your own. Positive economic conditions elsewhere might have provided some respite but alas there is not much sign of growth anywhere that can help the US or European economies.
kflanigan | Sep 07, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT
Who wrote this nonsense? Sounds like the writer is in Romney's corner.
weeknocky | Sep 07, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
Mr. Nice Guy? Come on, a man who never worked a day in his life, a scammer and socialist who hung with the likes of Bill Ayers and the Chicago boys. Give me a break!
kflanigan | Sep 07, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT
The only reason he's in the mud is that were the pigs of the GOP live.
borefield | Sep 07, 2012, 09:49 AM EDT
I wasn't aware Obama and crew ever got up out of the mud!, their superb lying abilities, deception and deceit at every turn, well nothing has changed, still the party of divide and conquer, no hope and change yet.
judiron | Sep 07, 2012, 09:45 AM EDT
he sticks that nose of his up in the air like he thinks he's a king, amen. The democrates have no idea what is going to happen to them when we become a communistic country and Obama is the czar. Hopefully we can beat him in Nov. and keep our country a republic.
BrianO | Sep 07, 2012, 09:40 AM EDT
He gets the jobs report the day before it comes out, which is today. normal job growth 220,000, expected job growth 200,000, actual job growth 90,00, workers leaving the job market 390,000. With thesenumbers the only tactic left is to demonize and attempt to destroy. hey it worked in Chicago.
Mr.Weekend | Sep 07, 2012, 09:38 AM EDT
Mud pit? Scorched earth? What 14-year-old is handling your convention coverage? The prez gave a great speech. If you think Obama is bare knuckle, let me introduce you to Andrew Jackson, the Kennedys, LBJ, and Nixon. They're in the, you know, history books.
Mr.Weekend | Sep 07, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
One reason progressives and leftists should vote for Obama this year: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Fran Connor | Sep 07, 2012, 09:26 AM EDT
Of course he slammed Romney. Did you think he'd talk about the last four years economy?
SeanODwyer | Sep 07, 2012, 09:04 AM EDT
Not the best speech but, Jesus, the guy can't win, can he? He's too soft, now he's too hard—even though he wasn't that hard! Gimmie a break. Nobody was going to out-Bill Bill — more people tuned in to watch him than watch the NFL. Tough, tough act to follow. Substantive? No. But, personally, I was happy to see Obama show some edge, make a few definitive statements, and take the Right to task.
jflanagan | Sep 07, 2012, 08:26 AM EDT
One of the least moving speeches of the convention. Gave me the impression his heart is not really in it like before. Maybe is he was clear and everyone knew they were the "Hope" four years ago the economy would be better. He should have been more specific.
WoundedKnee | Sep 07, 2012, 08:15 AM EDT
Will Roberts or any of the Obama cheerleaders here answer one question: Why should progressives and leftists vote for Obama this year? I can give 20 reasons why they shouldn't.