The polls are now stunning, and seem to suggest Romney has pulled ahead of Obama across the country, with the electoral college now swinging towards Romney despite both Obama and Biden handing their Republican opponents their hats during the last two debates.
I was talking to someone who put it this way: This is a time of indecision and fear about the future of our economy and the world as a whole. We have lost confidence in ourselves because of the increasing fracturing of society, the constant war by the Republicans against every measure Obama takes to right the economy, the still failed housing market and huge outstanding debt, and, as in Germany in the 1920s and 30s, a large number of people just want a strong man at the helm, someone who they feel will make them safe, even if he will ride rough shod over women's rights, the poor and the middle class. For them, all they want is security.
For this class of people, the rude, take-command, insulting bully that Romney was during the debates is exactly what they want, someone who will not let China, Syria, Libya, or any other country push us around, and who promises to give me a 20% tax cut, no matter how mysterious its funding may be.
For them, it does not matter he was found out to be a liar in the debates, be was an aggressive liar and they want to borrow an aggression they themselves did not feel. It is like cheering for the more aggressive boxer or football team, substance and efficiency does not matter so much as pure aggression.
These same security-seekers also see
clearly into Obama’s soul, seeing a person whose own core principles seem
weakly held, as he has readily handed Republican’s victories time and again
trying to get their support. Liberals
call him half hearted, and going to half-hearted solutions that really satisfy no
one.
We wanted a president who would give
everyone universal health care, the single-payer solution, and instead he gave
us Romneycare. We wanted someone who would send a lot of Wall Street
criminals to jail, and not even one was indicted for anything. He is Mr. Halfway, half measure, never really
fighting for anything during his entire term.
And, he gave the nation the fatal
perception of a weakling, unable to stand up to the bully during the first
debate. He could not look Romney in the
eyes or call him a liar. We needed Biden
for that. This is a possibly fatal first
impression that may never be overcome because the president really is not a
brave man, but a fight-avoider, a compromiser like England’s Neville Chamberlain, who
sold Czechoslovakia down the drain to curry favor with Hitler in 1938, and who
was wildly cheered by the English, and jeered by Hitler and the German people.
Really, this is the moment of
truth. Which side of history will you
stand on? Will you vote for the bully, or for a man who sometimes really does stand behind the 47% who don't pay federal income tax?
So, look at the article below and be afraid, BE VERY AFRAID!
Mitt Romney Leads Obama By 6 Points: Gallup Poll
The Huffington Post | By Luke Johnson Posted: 10/18/2012 10:32 am EDT Updated: 10/18/2012 12:59 pm EDT
Mitt Romney has a six-point lead on President Barack Obama, according to aGallup poll of likely voters released Wednesday. He leads 51-45 among likely voters, and 48-46 among registered voters, according to a seven-day average.
Gallup's margin is large among recent polls; seven other national polls released in the last two days show margins varying from +3 Obama to +4 Romney.
The Gallup poll showed Romney at 50-46 on Tuesday and 49-47 on Monday.
The numbers do not reflect Tuesday night's debate, in which many observers concluded that Obama had a stronger performance than Romney, if only slightly.
In the first week of October, Romney was tied with Obama at 48 percent each, according to Gallup, which recently announced changes to its survey methodology.
You are right. We're in an appalling sickening mess. What's the answer? Hillary in 2016? But if Romney wins, by that time China and the plutocrats will own everything; the middle class will be virtually extinct; the sick and poor and old and disabled will be dead; illegal abortions will be killing women who can't afford kids; the environment will be more foul; and Romney will have started WWIII.
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Dear Ed,
ReplyDeleteI have a serious question: Do you really believe that parliaments, politicians, systems of government, kings or queens or emperors could right the world?
I doubt they ever could.
What I know for certain though, is that enough people with nothing but love in their heart can right the world immediately - without any form of governance...just by being, acting silently and infecting others with pure Love and Grace.
does that resonate with you too?
that seems what is the spiritual aim : "infecting others with pure Love and grace "(so beautiful sentence!)
ReplyDeletein that world who is an horrible hell love is so difficult to be growing that it may be very distressing !
i remember about all these beautiful indian groups so free who were all extermined by the might and many others situations like that in history , and now what it happens in america and many others countries . What can we do ? it seems a so enormous tsunami everywhere !
sylviane
Interesting item: I saw on CNN a couple of days ago that a Readers Digest interviewer had asked Obama and Romney what their favorite words are. Obama said "grace" and Romney said "indomitable".
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Ed, are you familiar with Romney's tenure as governor of Massachusetts? From my understanding, he was much more of a moderate than a conservative at the time. I have a feeling that during the primaries, Romney portrayed himself as much more conservative and reactionary than he actually is, because he realized that that kind of attitude is necessary these days to win a Republican primary. We have the Tea Party to thank for that. But now that the primaries are over, Romney has changed his stance back to a semblance of moderacy, and I believe that that's where he'll stay (if his years as governor are any hint).
ReplyDeleteI'm a liberal myself, and I'd certainly prefer it if Obama were reelected; however, I don't think Romney's election would precipitate Armageddon, or that Romney is our nation's Hitler waiting to happen.
To Alexander: Your views are similar to those of Lao Tzu, although I don't remember him saying much about love. He spoke of harmony and goodwill instead.
harmony, goodwill, a free attitude of givingness, peace, beingness, kindness from the heart, love are synonyms in my view..
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ReplyDeleteNot true. The eight years of Bush were worse than I can imagine. Romney in and it is guaranteed that Medicare, Medicaide, and social security will come under fire, even worse than under Bush.
ReplyDeleteBesides, who is Romney? he has the same indifference to truth and forthright communication as Nixon/Bush/Cheney. Lying appears to be their official policy.
Of course, if Obama wins, he too is going to attack Social security as was done in 1982 when the age rate shifted upwards, and benefits lowered. But Obama waon't say anything about that. No lock box for him.
Obama might turn out as the big "disappointment" of the 21st century. A friend who four years back was supporting Hillary Clinton told me that was the reason he wasn't so thrilled with him. I voted for him nonetheless and my "hope" for "change" was that he would then crucify Bush and his administration in the harshest terms imaginable for the Iraq War debacle, the war on privacy and human rights here in the U.S., the policy of extraordinary renditions, etc., essentially an unmitigated condemnation short of an impeachment(though even that wouldn't have been so bad after all). Did it happen? Of course not, only because Obama's "turning the other cheek"(and the attorney general Holder's complicity in this as well) was because of this "compromising mentality" and it only continued with the kowtowing to the Repugs in the Congress.
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I agree Mark. I had hoped for an FDR and instead got a Ruthaford Hayes. A Republican in Democrat's clothing. A wimp. I have been waiting for another FDR as long as I can remember, and I thought Johnson got close. He pushed through Congress the changes Kennedy never could have gotten through. Had he had another term, I can imagine we might still be The Great Society, instead of a country heading downwards.
ReplyDeleteAnother former candidate who lost forty years ago has just died. It may have spoken volumes about the sorry state of the electorate back then that he lost. I'm speaking of course of Senator George McGovern, easily one of the most ethical candidates in my lifetime to have run for President. When I use that word "sorry", however, it's to virtually excoriate the public for having been so hoodwinked by Nixon who when the Watergate affair was already well exposed in the news still managed to win and by such a landslide no less. A plague on the houses of all those Mephistophelean repugs!
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