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How I wish for a Jon Huntsman/Ron Paul candidacy… This is my take from reading the speech… not watching it.
He accuses the President of being silent on his record… which is a lie. The president touts his record daily to the criticism of the GOP. Think of the times the President has touted his foreign policy record only to be met with the challenges that he is politicizing the office of the Presidency.
They’ve ran out of ideas? Most of their ideas haven’t been tried yet because of the GOP-controlled house and the idiotic filibuster rules in the Senate.
Cheap tactics? Oh come on… You mean like lying about the welfare claims that even GOP republicans are debunking? What about the Romney-Ryan campaign promise to do away with fact (checkers) and just run on what people what to hear?
And he repeated the same lie about the GM plant – the plant closed under George W. Bush. And yet… oh wait… they don’t listen to facts. They only repeat lies…
Didn’t Ryan vote for the stimulus?
Repeal Obamacare and replace it with what? Romneycare? You mean the model for Obamacare?
And now, he has not added more debt. He brought more debt to light. Further, even Forbes says he is the lowest spending President in recent memory.
That line about our rights coming from “nature and God” is disturbing, for several reasons. First, their is the idea of natural law, but Ryan didn’t say natural law. In nature, not only are their rampant murders, rapes, and theft, but their is no justice. Also, lots of homosexuality. And no judgment. Natural Law is different. This leaves me to wonder if he simply does not know what he is talking about and instead used words he heard before, or if he is telling us that Romney-Ryan will unleash the corporations unless like wild boars…
Actually, the founding generation did not secure us rights. They secured the Articles of Confederation. The half generation later brought about the Constitution which took away rights and allowed that the Government gives us rights. This is the main issue with historical revisionists – they do not understand the great time and philosophical lapse between the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1789). It went from people to the select few. Like Romney-Ryan seem to want to do.
That speech is filled with a lot of lies and half-truths.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Just to let you know, you should proof read your spelling of the word ‘there’.
said the pot…
“and he repeated the same lie about the GM plant – the plant closed under George W. Bush. And yet… oh wait… they don’t listen to facts. They only repeat lies…”
February 2008, Obama: “I believe that if our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years.”
October 2008 , Obama: “As president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying jobs in Wisconsin and all across America.”
Obama had 5 years to keep his promise (during the same time he gave many financing to GM and he could also remove the CEO) but the plant is again in stand by after the stopping of the vehicle production not in 2008 but in 2009!
http://www.jsonline.com/business/130171578.html
You realize the plant closed BEFORE candidate Obama became President Obama, right?
And, the Presidential term is only 4 years, of which we are now drawing to a close.
maybe I do not understand the meaning of ‘to close’ if in a Sept. 19, 2011 article I could read: “GM Janesville plant still on standby”…
Anyway when the production stopped (april 2009) who were the President?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=341791989243603&set=a.135440809878723.31061.135432559879548&type=1&theater
Actually, the last vehicle was rolled off in December 2008
http://www.freep.com/article/20120831/BUSINESS0101/308310169/The-facts-about-Janesville-GM-plant-s-closure
First of all, sorry for my approximate English and thank you if you have the patience to answer…
I think that a Janesville gazette could be more accurate:
http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/apr/21/thursday-last-day-production-isuzu-line-comes-end/
Isuzu – foreign owned.
so if I read ‘ the plant closed ‘ now I realize that I must understand ‘the plant ceased only the production of the wholly GM cars…”
So if tomorrow the plant will resume the production of another foreign owned car/truk this would not mean that the plant has reopened after the stand-by.
Now I understand: GM plants producing foreign cars are actually closed.
“Forbes says he is the lowest spending President in recent memory.”…
And as Obama is a very nice guy he would thanks Republicans (an more responsable Democrats)…
“Indeed, his budget proposals called for even more spending in subsequent years. But the Congress (mostly Republicans but many Democrats, too) stopped him. If Obama had been a king who could impose his will, perhaps what the Republicans are saying about an Obama spending binge would be accurate…”
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor/2
a lot of ifs there… but I present facts.
budget proposals are facts…