Hi Boilermaker: If you were talking about Romney, did you take into account all the public service he did volunteering EQUALLY if you are going to defend good things about Obama. And are you equally holding Obama accountable for withholding information about his past, including his deferred criminal record and conflicts with law practice, none of which Romnay has to hide. As long as you are consistent, and hold BOTH MEN to the same standards of proof of character, I certainly have no argument with that!
From what I saw in the media, when Romney was confronted with things that offended people he apologized and corrected himself. If that is seen as wishy washy, then it is a negative. If it is seen as open to working with people and adjusting when perceptions are different and someone feels wronged, that is a good sign of character.
Romney backed off when people jumped on him for responding so quickly to the issue with the White House response to Libya. Now people are saying he was right.
It seems clear to me, any flip-flopping is from people on both sides putting pressure on him to either stick to the conservative no-apology approach to smashing the liberal/democrats the same way that side will smash opponents in the media without apology, right or wrong. Or to try to open up to work with diverse people and accommodate other moderates and even liberals, WITHOUT compromising the conservative Constitutional stances either.
I believe Romney was trying harder to reach out to more people. The hardline conservatives were pressuring him not to do this, and he was trying to do both things at the same time.
Obama and the Democrats were going to benefit from the populous vote by sticking to the game plan of slamming the whole party with Romney mixed in like the baby in the bathwater. So there was no motivation for them to do reaching out, only slamming by fearful stereotypes of the hardlined Republicans that Romney was not like, and was too moderate to please. He tried to reach out to both, by sticking to centrist unifying American values. But the slamming back and forth from left to right was too strong a force, like a tsunami, to try to keep the peace in the middle of all that.
Now people are saying he should not have tried to play the peacemaker, but should have ridden the tsunami wave of unapologetic conservative bashing of Democrats and played the politics-as-usual games. So sad to see a nice guy get smashed by politics he tried to avoid.
From what someone told me personally who met and talked with Mitt Romney long before the nominations and election campaigns were underway, he is a genuinely sincere good man whose heart is on serving God and serving the people in that way. Obama's mind is focused on politics, and we know how that goes. He is smarter in how to play the game, and it is unfortunately costing the Democrat party integrity, and any unity the nation can bring about standing on the Constitution which is being sold out under our feet. If you want to be fair about it, the GOP with allowing corporations including war contractors in Iraq too much free reign to abuse rights and freedoms without constitutional checks and balances was equally selling out the laws of the land, and that does need to be paid back to the public if we are going to have accountability for the budget and overspending and debts.
However, the correct way to hold the GOP accountable is NOT to bash Bush or the party, but uphold teh Constitution and demand accounting for unconstitutional provisions and contracts at taxpayers expense, and using that debt or credit to pay back taxpayers and rebuild the country, instead of charging taxpayers more for these debts and lack of capital!
So the approach the Democrats are using is equally backwards. Both parties need to stand together, uphold and enforce the Constitution, quit blaming the other party, but hold each to accounting for misspending and abuse of resources, and get the public paid back instead of charging us more in taxes for the abuses of bad govt. Most all the money misspent can be traced, if both parties help each other to identify and research it, and collect on the debt.
All this talk of holding parties and leaders accountable should be for collecting on behalf of taxpayers instead of just bashing each other's parties to get control of office. No one has really brought up the issue or idea of tracking where the money went and getting it back.
Even having the wrongdoers borrow or lend against the money they misspent, so we can use that for rebuilding jobs/economic structures through education and business, while these people pay it back who were actually responsible for profiting at taxpayer expense.
So until both parties take equal responsibility for corruption and abuse they allowed or participated in under their leadership, they are both playing this game of blaming the other.
If the parties don't agree to a truce, with conditions agreed upon as to corrections and restitutions for past corruption and abuses both parties' leaders have knowledge of and power/access to resources to fix, then I will write one up for them to sign their names to!!!
And if they won't sign it, by God, I'll post it online for all other citizens who see what I am talking about to sign it, and apologize to each other on behalf of party leaders who won't.
Someone's GOT to take responsibility, instead of charging their mistakes to the taxpayers....
WOW! you sure read quite a bit into a statement. I have been on many negotiations in my life and I know full well about giving and taking.My statement was about mitten and how he treated those that worked so hard for him. That is what I expected from him watching everything I did while he and the President were running for office. With how he had no real core principles that he stuck too showed his true character. So don't try to give me the little speech you just did about me being like any of those on-wayers.
Thank you very much
They do name streets after people like the right wingers who do not see the injustice of what has happened.
They call those streets ONE-WAY!
And they are the ones that shout about family values the most.
Honey, everyone starts by seeing things just their way.
If you only frame the rightwingers "your way" you are doing the same thing they are.
It takes mutual empathy to see the other person's side, equally as your own.
The more you think two-way and three-way, then you would
not paint people in this manner. You would be too busy trying to understand
and solve the problems that make them yell out so much. You wouldn't blame them
any more or less than you blame yourself when you scream out your own issues.
Believe me, these rightwingers feel the same frustration you just expressed.
They cannot understand why other people don't respond to the injustices
they see, and yell about these people being biased one way! just like you say of them!
) but man-o-man he is all over you with his signature and cock sucking...
