Klown
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I have a problem that Crowley picked it as one of the questions to be featured. It has not relevance to this decision - and if anyone wants to know what Romney plans to do, they can ask that.
I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited LBJ as causing the cultural divide that still plagues the country and asking him if he will continue those disastrous policies because he is a DEM too.
I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited Carter as causing the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression (except for Obama's) and asked him to differentiate himself from the disastrous policies of that DEM.
I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited Carter as giving us the Iran regime and asked how Obama's foreign policy is different from that awful disaster since he seems to be following closely in Carter's footsteps in Egypt, Iran, and Libya.
No - this was just another no-win question for Romney and a no-lose question for Obama that Crowley picked out of the morass to give Obama a boost. Romney actually provided as good an answer as could be expected.
We are deciding the economic fate of our nation. You really think discussing how we suffered the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression under the last Republican president should be off the table, out of a show of respect for the man? I don't have any ill-will toward GWB as a personal matter, but these things matter.Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
His answer certainly was, when he threw a former sitting President of his own Party under the bus.
We are deciding the economic fate of our nation. You really think discussing how we suffered the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression under the last Republican president should be off the table, out of a show of respect for the man? I don't have any ill-will toward GWB as a personal matter, but these things matter.
OKStop spouting leftwing lines. It wasn't the worst collapse since the great depression. Go back and look at what Reagan walked into.
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed.
The world’s largest economy contracted 1.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the last three months of 2008, compared with the 0.8 percent drop previously on the books, the Commerce Department said yesterday in Washington. Gross domestic product has shrunk 3.9 percent in the past year, the report said, indicating the worst slump since the Great Depression.
In the early-1980s, the country was fighting a decade of stagflation. Paul Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, decided to wring inflation out of the economy by sharply raising interest rates. The medicine worked to cure inflation, but it threw the economy into a deep recession. Recovery came when the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates again and sparked an investment boom.
In contrast, the 2008 financial crisis was the result of a credit bubble. It came when the Federal Reserve was already trying to stimulate the economy with low interest rates. It was — and is — global in nature, and for the economy to recover, households need to dig themselves out of debt such that they can begin spending again. Unlike the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, that takes time. A long time. To attach some numbers to this story, in 1982, household debt amounted to about 45 percent of GDP. In 2009, it was 100 percent.
Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
I don't think it was disrespectful at all. Politicians should be called out when they make poor decisions.
Freedom of speech allows a person to ask any question they want so long as it does not violate standing law.
Do you feel the comparison of Obama to Hitler or Stalin is fair? And how is this different from your problem with the mans question?
Because there is no difference. Impuning a sitting President is no different than impuning a former one. Only the Cons are going too far wiht thiers.
I just thought it was an odd question to begin with that really dididnt have much relevance to either man's message and as I said before was a bit of a cheap shot at Bush. The guy has refused to comment on Obama's polcies for the last 4 years and has turned down tv interviews but yet they still brought him front and center on the national stage.
I just thought it was common sense to be honest! Romneys and GWB's backrounds and political views are very different. Romney may be pretty vague at time but anyoen with an ounce of common sense can see how different the two men are whcih is why I thought the question was unnecessary!