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Mitt Romney gives a brutal PowerPoint critique of Obama’s foreign policy

Oh...there you go with the hyperbole and sarcasm again.

I like how Arthur was kind enough to post twice just so we can see his mind working. "Old" didn't carry enough punch... reposted as "ancient". :lamo
 
You lost it four years ago. Sour grapes! He knows how to make a PowerPoint presentation?

Mitt Romney gives a brutal PowerPoint critique of Obama’s foreign policy - The Washington Post

Progressives and the media don't like having their nose shoved in the last 7 years Obama **** littering the US carpet. They support Obama to the death and will Hillary as well, regardless of what is found, what she's done, who's paid her or the Clinton foundation off for access or influence.
 
Your Clinton, Obama derangement Syndrome is sincerely clouding your feeble judgement, Who invaded Iraq in 2003???? I'll give you a hint he's a drunk Texan..

One last time Bushie had the WH, and congress he said let's go!! He's the one that beat invaded not the Clinton's...

Obama was in office 6 Full years after Bush invaded and 2 years before the drunk signed the Sofa treaty yet its Obama's Failure, nice try but as usual Fail...

Congratulations on breaking my Irony-o-Meter.

Out of curiosity, do you blame JFK for the Vietnam War?
 
Greetings, Erik. :2wave:

Well said! :thumbs: People just don't seem as happy today as they used to be in years past, and I blame that mostly on "chaos overload." We had a known enemy in WW2, and we dealt with it and won - how many wars are we fighting today and slowly losing to savages like ISIS - and I don't want to hear that they're not really "wars," because they sure are, and it's costing millions of dollars in the process, which we can ill afford! Then there's Russia and China doing their best to keep us on edge, which just adds to the chaos! Are we wrong in defending our allies in Ukraine and the South China Sea? I don't think so but it is also going to keep us occupied while our infrastructure slowly continues to crumble at home from lack of money. Disgusting!

Greetings, Polgara. :2wave:

"chaos overload" I like it. Aptly labels the MSM News' focus on sensationalistic stories, and the distraction of the electorate by this coverage rather than the Free Press holding politicians accountable and informing the electorate as to their elected official's actions and proposals.

Part of the reason of the crumbling infrastructure isn't the lack of money, it's the lack of proper management by these very elected officials. Now that the condition of the infrastructure has become critically neglected by these politicians, their first stab at a solution is (drum roll please) is tax hikes. Hell, if it had been properly managed all along, no tax hikes would be needed.

Isn't the real question 'What do we have to put in place to assure proper management and maintenance of the infrastructure we have, keeping the politicians from diverting the clearly needed funds for such from other foolish and stupid programs?' Of course nobody wants to talk about that; the long term fix for the real problem.
 
The American Society of Civil Engineers which presents occasional report cards on the nations infrastructure gave us a "D" on all 12 categories of our nations infrastructure and said that 3.6 Trillion needs to be spent by 2020!! We've spent that much money in the last dozen years chasing two bit dictators out of the Middle East while creating more trouble then there was before.

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org
 
True, but weren't those mostly external threats and challenges? This is from within, assaulting the soft underbelly of the interior and the people's very spirit.

I guess we'll see if the nation can pull itself from this or not.
The civil war and the great depression were not external threats.
 
The American Society of Civil Engineers which presents occasional report cards on the nations infrastructure gave us a "D" on all 12 categories of our nations infrastructure and said that 3.6 Trillion needs to be spent by 2020!! We've spent that much money in the last dozen years chasing two bit dictators out of the Middle East while creating more trouble then there was before.

2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure

A perfect example of long and how poorly, and how much money (which should have gone to infrastructure but was siphoned off for other spending), the politicians have done.

Some sort of governance controls legislation needs to be put into place to prevent the politicians from ****ing around with the infrastructure money.
 
A perfect example of long and how poorly, and how much money (which should have gone to infrastructure but was siphoned off for other spending), the politicians have done.

Some sort of governance controls legislation needs to be put into place to prevent the politicians from ****ing around with the infrastructure money.

The problem with that is the same people who are ****ing around with the infrastructure money are the ones who would have to pass the legislation against doing it.
 
The problem with that is the same people who are ****ing around with the infrastructure money are the ones who would have to pass the legislation against doing it.

And there in lies probably one of the weak points in this form of government, but not certain which other form of government wouldn't have this, or probably much worse, problems. Better to stick with this one, I think.
 
And there in lies probably one of the weak points in this form of government, but not certain which other form of government wouldn't have this, or probably much worse, problems. Better to stick with this one, I think.

Churchill said it best: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
 
And there in lies probably one of the weak points in this form of government, but not certain which other form of government wouldn't have this, or probably much worse, problems. Better to stick with this one, I think.

I think that it would be in line with Jefferson's (I think it he) comment that we'd need a revolution every twenty years, to say that ALL incumbents should be swept out, all fresh blood knowing that as soon as they become the stale blood, they'll get what the last bunch got. But what unifying voice would lead the charge against the partisans, on both sides, who exist in overwhelming numbers, that would stand in the way of it?
 
I think that it would be in line with Jefferson's (I think it he) comment that we'd need a revolution every twenty years, to say that ALL incumbents should be swept out, all fresh blood knowing that as soon as they become the stale blood, they'll get what the last bunch got. But what unifying voice would lead the charge against the partisans, on both sides, who exist in overwhelming numbers, that would stand in the way of it?

I'd agree with sweeping out all the old blood and whole sale replacing it with fresh blood, but term limits have been tried a number of times and haven't succeeded, probably for the same reason that Dittohead not! observed earlier with the infrastructure maintenance budget.

The patients are in charge of the insane asylum!
 
**** Romney, his old ass is still pissed he lost 4 years ago, very fortunately He will see the grave before he ever sits in the WH..

He was a failure as Gov of Massachusetts, probably couldn't run a taco stand in Tijuana, and he wanted to be President:lamo

Oh looky who liked your post. Nuff said. :lamo
 
I'd agree with sweeping out all the old blood and whole sale replacing it with fresh blood, but term limits have been tried a number of times and haven't succeeded, probably for the same reason that Dittohead not! observed earlier with the infrastructure maintenance budget.

The patients are in charge of the insane asylum!

Lol, I hear ya. I wasn't really referring to term limits though. I was talking about sweeping out all incumbents during elections, and informing the new blood that as soon as they begin acting like the old bunch, which is the general direction of things, they'll be swept out just as the old bunch was in the next election.
 
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