Things to do in Denver when you're dead (politically)
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Things to do in Denver when you're dead (politically)
I see this picture and it reminds me of that ad, "Where's the beef?"
So...it's Debate Night in America, which is a little like Hockey Night in Canada, except a lot less interesting. My editor forced me to write a fair and balanced preview and it went something like this:
OK, WE ALREADY know that Mitt Romney is no Jack Kennedy, but neither is President Obama. We know that they're both likable enough, that their campaigns sometimes remind us of that ad, "Where's the beef," that neither is going to exploit his opponent's youth and inexperience, and that the Soviet Union does not dominate Eastern Europe (anymore).
So, going into Wednesday's overhyped political Super Bowl of a presidential debate in Denver, it might be good if you ask yourself: Will Romney - behind in the polls in key battleground states - be better off if he hits Obama with a memorable "zinger"?
The New York Times reported last week that "Romney's team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August."
But James Hilty, Temple University professor emeritus and presidential scholar, said that getting in a few clever one-liners won't really help the Republican presidential nominee explain to voters who he is, or why he is here.
So, does anyone have a good "zinger" that Romney can borrow?
"My editor forced me to write a fair and balanced preview"...well, ya blew that one.— jimmymack- Things to do in Philly when you are dead...vote early and vote often.— FletcherT
- "There you go again, making sense"— Hamlet
- "Of course I have black friends, look at the guy to my left."— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver
- I have a good one. "On November 6th you have a choice between a presidet that spent all his life making profits and a president that has spent the last four years sinking us five trillion dollars in debt".— Phishface
- Interesting that Pf ignores Ryan's hand in the 6 Trillion increase in national debt. Ryan voted for the bank bailouts, car bailouts, unfunded wars and Bush tax cuts. Fiscal conservative? Haha.... — chasing history
- Wake da f*** up!— michael_b
- @chasing history: PF doesn't mention Lyin' Ryan's vote for EVERY Bush budget buster because Ryan's a "deficit hawk." Run up the debt under Republicans, holler about the debt under Democrats.— Bruce in NM
- All that I would note to Mr 'Hope and Change' is his success at GM with the Volt, and all of his 'shovel ready' jobs, and that 500 million dollar loss at Solyndra, and his 8% plus unemployment rate, and his social acuity in dealing with the Trayvon Martin case and his "Beer Summit", and bowing to all of those foreign leaders, and going round the world apologizing for America's faults. Yeah nothing to zing there.......except the fact is Obama is more revered here by the MSM then Mohamed is in the Arab world.— RufusG
- I just called up the writers on SNL and they told me it was impossible to zing Obama. They said that they spent four years trying but couldn't come up with a single one.— RufusG
- I've got to say one thing about Obama that keeps him in good stead with his constituency, "Obama Phones"!!!!!!!! He actually has believers who think that he gave them free phones. This is no joke, this is how these people (who can vote) actually think. Obama Phones, free gas, government paid mortgages........ the list goes on and on.— RufusG
- Your editor is either blind, illiterate or a bigger loon than you.— Phillies2008WSChamps
- According to Will and his friends in the MSM it's easier to pass Obama's head through the eye of a needle then it is for a rich, successful, prominent, true American like Mitt Romney to win the presidency. What, may I ask, has happened to this country?— RufusG
- "I voted for Obama and all i got was a 600% increase in drone strikes and thousands more innocent civilians murdered."— bp*philly
- Hey Will here's one zinger that I would use if I were Romney...... "The private sector is doing fine" saith lord Obama.— RufusG
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