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I’m looking forward to four more years of this – hopefully eight

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http://youtu.be/kSznL29JyhQ

Mitt Romney at the Al Smith dinner.

Written by Steve Kates

October 19th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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He puts some sharp remarks in there – I would be interested to see a video of Obama’s facial expressions as Romney sinks the boot into him (and deservingly so).

Not bad for a guy who was accused of being wooden.

Lee from WA

19 Oct 12 at 3:03 pm
Love the Sesame Street reference.

Had a dig at the press too.

Aqualung

19 Oct 12 at 3:08 pm
Anyone else note one of O’s more interesting remarks was: “Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name.” Of course his middle name is Hussein. How weird. He even uttered this with an open sense of longing. Wrong context, wrong setting – so it fell flat to nervous forced laughter.

Why do I continually get the feeling that Obama sends out cues based on gesture or subtext confirming his commitment to the civilization Jihadists. I don’t believe anything he does is left to chance. Even the BS about the video ( which incidentally has backfired), beautifully timed to coincide with his speech to the UN about freedom of speech and the rioting is curious to say the least.

Oblique123

19 Oct 12 at 3:16 pm
Obama’s middle name joke was implying his opponents are racist.

Having said that, the idea he is committed to civilizational jihad is bullshit.

Abu Chowdah

19 Oct 12 at 3:30 pm
The point being, Obama engages in actual vile slurs, so there’s no need to fabricate insane bullshit to attack him.

Abu Chowdah

19 Oct 12 at 3:31 pm
That’s a side of Romney I have not seen before. He’s smart, witty and doesn’t sound like he’s up himself (unlike Obama).

DavidLeyonhjelm

19 Oct 12 at 3:33 pm
Greatest political speech of the campaign so far.

Justin

19 Oct 12 at 3:50 pm
I’ve got a dinner at one of Perth’s best restaurants riding on this result. I hope Romney wins!

tbh

19 Oct 12 at 3:57 pm
Putting your money where your mouth is? I like it!

Abu Chowdah

19 Oct 12 at 4:02 pm
Putting your money where your mouth is? I like it!

LOL

Token

19 Oct 12 at 4:13 pm
Brilliant.

CC

19 Oct 12 at 4:16 pm
It would be nice to see the 1980 Al Smith dinner with Reagan. Can’t find the video of it though

Gab

19 Oct 12 at 4:16 pm
I’ve got a dinner at one of Perth’s best restaurants riding on this result.

Nando’s is pretty good. Enjoy!

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 4:16 pm
which restaurant? Had a couple of pints at durty nellies yesterday lunch and washed down a delicious chicken, mushroom and cider pie. top drawer.

harrys on the boat

19 Oct 12 at 4:17 pm
The Red Cabbage was my choice of wager, IT

tbh

19 Oct 12 at 4:17 pm
As you might expect, I suppose, the majority of ABC News Radio people voted almost 2 to one in favour of Obama based on the campaign to date. So the debates counted for nothing and the last four years were no warning to them that something might be wrong. Rusted on. I heard Jennifer Byrne the other day expressing horror at the thought of Romney being elected.

blogstrop

19 Oct 12 at 4:25 pm
Not bad tbh, south of the river though………..

harrys on the boat

19 Oct 12 at 4:27 pm
blogstrop – in a country where the vote is 50/50 our ABC has yet to find a republican voter, let alone a republican leaning pundit.

shameless at Frank Gallagher level.

harrys on the boat

19 Oct 12 at 4:29 pm
Keep your head buried in the sand Abu. There is no question civilization Jihadists are active, particularly in the US. It’s no longer the stuff of conspiracy theories. Wake up and do some research.

Oblique123

19 Oct 12 at 4:33 pm
Harry, it’s great for me, I live nearby!

tbh

19 Oct 12 at 4:34 pm
flash b’stard!!! city/river views no doubt!

enjoy the meal!!

harrys on the boat

19 Oct 12 at 4:38 pm
Finally saw it… good speech. Sometimes there’s a tendency to go overboard with the self-deprecation in these things, but Romney had a few good zingers against Obama.

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 4:40 pm
“Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name.”

In other words: You’re all racists. What a douche.

Back in ’08, I read something that rang true about Obama. His humour in these speeches ranges from, “Hey aren’t I a great” to his form of self-deprecating, “well, I’m only pretty great”

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 4:45 pm
Just did a google search – it was this guy.

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 4:45 pm
Class!

jules

19 Oct 12 at 5:16 pm
1980 Al Smith dinner with Reagan…is this what you’re after Gab?

CC

19 Oct 12 at 5:38 pm
Thank you but sadly no, CC although I will watch that debate. you kinked.

I was after the Al Smith Dinner 1980 where Reagan gave the speech before he was elected.

Gab

19 Oct 12 at 6:03 pm
Sorry, I meant linked not kinked lol

Gab

19 Oct 12 at 6:08 pm
This is amazing. A Leftist columnist has just defamed Mitt Romney in The Age. What is it with the Left and lies?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/republicans-tune-in-to-coded-racism-20121018-27ts9.html

Post-racial? Romney stood up in front of a television audience of 60 million people and said that gun violence in America happens because poor black single women are bad mothers. He said it as he stood beside the black son of a single mother.

Mitt Romney did not “say” anything of the sort. We know that this is a fabrication, because Romney’s actual statement was supplied by the writer herself:

America needs “to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone”, he said.

So Romney said nothing about “poor black single mothers” at all. Chloe Angyal has lied about Mitt Romney and should have multiple defamation suits filed against her. It goes without saying that she should be banned from working for any public or private organization for life.

Fisky

19 Oct 12 at 7:00 pm
Obama cracks a joke about his middle name and the right wing blogosphere goes nuts.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 7:08 pm
sdfc, we’re just sitting here, mouths agape, that the American president could say something so childish, implying that that he is a victim of American culture.

Tom

19 Oct 12 at 7:42 pm
This is amazing. A Leftist columnist has just defamed Mitt Romney in The Age.

I’d be comfortable with Romney nuking Australia’s eastern seaboard in retaliation.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 7:45 pm
SDFC do you condemn the libel against Mitt Romney by a Leftist journalist in Fairfax?

Fisky

19 Oct 12 at 7:46 pm
That Angyal article is as bad as Singleton’s. No, honey, Republicans and their fellow-travellers did not think of black people, we thought of broken families. If you thought of black families, in particular, shame on you.

dover_beach

19 Oct 12 at 7:48 pm
The Age article is just stupid Fisky. Thanks for making me read it. That’s a minute or so I wont get back

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 7:52 pm
If you thought of black families, in particular, shame on you.

Should you ever wonder what the Left are up to, just take note of whatever they are accusing other people of.

Fisky

19 Oct 12 at 7:56 pm
Some people are idiots. Same with that woman in the Fin the other day.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm
sdfc, what? I see no nuts. Well, oblique123 a little bit. And the OP isn’t even about that. There have been, by count, thrice as many comments on nice restaurants.

wreckage

19 Oct 12 at 8:09 pm
Wnhat’s the point of trying to read an ulterior motive into

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm
a joke.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:14 pm
Remember when Romney was the centrist moderate that all the leftists were dreaming of running against Barry? Those were the days.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 8:14 pm
What’s the point of trying to read an ulterior motive into

We don’t see an “unterior motive”. We see his underlying mindset.

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 8:17 pm
Yeah right.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:19 pm
lol. You’re right, sdfc. We see a conspiracy of some sort.

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 8:25 pm
It’s a measure of how far to the left the Greens and Labor have carted the national government in the past two years that anyone who defends the socio-economic status quo is regarded as an evil, conspiratorial right-winger. The middle class is crying out for the national government to return to the centre from the extreme left.

Tom

19 Oct 12 at 8:31 pm
Fisky,

I’m guessing this is one of those “even if they don’t know it, they’re SUBCONSCIOUSLY being racist by saying things like poor single mother!!” deals.

Either that or they’re like the Crikey boys and just get cut-and-pastes from the Daily Kos and HuffPost…

MDMConnell

19 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm
I watched about 15 mins of the second debate. After hearing how bad Obama was in the first I thought I’d have a look.

I was pretty impressed with both in terms of their delivery.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:38 pm
BTW it’s a sign of how things are going that the Left went through THREE hysterical manufactroversies yesteray.

1) The “women in binders” comment.
2) Romney’s son’s joke about wanting to hit Obama.
3) How much Ann Romney’s dress cost.

I guess none of them gained any traction, since they chopped and changed three times.

MDMConnell

19 Oct 12 at 8:41 pm
I was pretty impressed with both in terms of their delivery.

There’s no doubt Obama’s delivery was better in the second. His first debate was horrible.

Even he makes jokes about his first debate now, but he got to the end of the first one thinking he’d done OK. He thought he’d won. LOL.

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 8:46 pm
2) Romney’s son’s joke about wanting to hit Obama.

I missed that one?

Fleeced

19 Oct 12 at 8:48 pm
I was pretty impressed with both in terms of their delivery.

They’d mop the floor with any Australian pollie.

Everyone in the ALP has a speech impediment and all the LNPers sound like a Mogadon and Serapax users convention.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 8:50 pm
Look at Alan West speaking extemporaneously on the constitution and Islamofascism for real speechifying though.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm
Gillard would come closest in terms of thinking on her feet.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm
Yes, her resolution of that whole ~~East Timor, Malaysia Papua New Guinea~~ border thing was masterful improvisation. The High Court certainly thought so.

C.L.

19 Oct 12 at 8:58 pm
If you want to know why both Ryan & Romney have not been overly aggressive in the past 2 debates, this provides a good answer:

Most ominous for Obama is evidence that the slippage has occurred not only among usually Republican-leaning blue-collar white women but also their white-collar counterparts. Largely because most college-educated white women hold liberal views on social issues, the Democratic nominee has carried them in four of the past five presidential elections; in 2008, 52 percent of such women backed Obama. Until Denver, national surveys consistently showed him winning a majority of these white-collar women. Number-crunchers in Romney headquarters believe their candidate is unlikely to prevail unless he can reduce that margin.

Several polls since the Denver debate say that Romney has done just that. Both this week’s ABC/Washington Post national survey and the cumulated results from the past two weeks of Gallup nightly tracking polls found that Obama had fallen behind Romney among college-educated white women and was attracting 45 percent of them or less, according to data provided to National Journal. Usually, Democrats run much more strongly among college-educated than noncollege white women. After that decline, however, both surveys found only a small gap between them. Recent state polls in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Ohio also found Obama losing ground with upscale white women since September.

I read that Ryan practised long and hard to learn how to ignore Biden and recent polls indicate it worked a treat.

Token

19 Oct 12 at 9:00 pm
I read that Ryan practised long and hard to learn how to ignore Biden and recent polls indicate it worked a treat.

He spent months hanging around drunks at bus stations and mental asylums learning to block out their ramblings.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 9:04 pm
CL

I agree she shows an appalling lack of judgement however in terms of speaking off the cuff she leaves Abbott for dead.

sdfc

19 Oct 12 at 9:06 pm
Thought I’d pop over to Little Green Footballs for a laugh. The man who featured so prominently in the 2004 election as the blogger who brilliantly employed that animated giff to expose a fraud is now reduced to this:

At Florida Fundraiser, Paul Ryan Mocks ‘War on Women’.

Gotcha!

FORT MYERS, Fla. — GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Thursday night poked fun at the Democratic argument that the GOP is waging a “war on women.”

“Now it’s a war on women; tomorrow it’s going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that,” Ryan told donors at a Naples fundraiser, according to Shushanna Walshe of ABC News.

Charles Johnson: animated git.

C.L.

19 Oct 12 at 9:07 pm
I want a PM who rarely speaks

Tal

19 Oct 12 at 9:10 pm
That man lost it didn’t he?Big time

Tal

19 Oct 12 at 9:11 pm
Classic! I see Crazy Chuck Johnson is still making every 3rd post about how he’s tweaked the server and done this to the flooglewhatzit. He’s also made sure you cant leave his site by clicking back. Never liked him – he’s a briny musselman.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 9:12 pm
He spent months hanging around drunks at bus stations and mental asylums learning to block out their ramblings.

Close.

Token

19 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm
I agree she shows an appalling lack of judgement however in terms of speaking off the cuff she leaves Abbott for dead.

She not only has appalling lack of judgement, she is tone deaf as well.

When she delivers prepared speeches she always takes on that sing-song preachy voice that p**ses people off.

Token

19 Oct 12 at 9:18 pm
LGF was never a good site to read

Tal

19 Oct 12 at 9:24 pm
Never let it be said that the left aren’t fucking bonkers. MSNBC host goes nuts.

Infidel Tiger

19 Oct 12 at 9:38 pm
Gillard would come closest in terms of thinking on her feet.

When she’s not tripping over.

Gab

19 Oct 12 at 9:53 pm
I watched about 15 mins of the second debate. After hearing how bad Obama was in the first I thought I’d have a look.

It was the first debate that he flunked out in. He was better in the second debate.

If you want to see what everyone’s talking about, and the performance that has possibly cost him the election, check out the first debate. Not the second.

dd

19 Oct 12 at 9:57 pm
What an asshat.

dover_beach

19 Oct 12 at 10:02 pm
Gillard would come closest in terms of thinking on her feet.

I get what you’re saying and there’s some truth to it. However she’s at her best when she’s venomous and angry; that’s when she is most animated and articulate and when she puts in her big performances. The mysogyny speech wasn’t the first of its kind; it was merely the one that McTernan decided to promote.

dd

19 Oct 12 at 10:02 pm
The MS~~NBC~~LSD host, that is.

dover_beach

19 Oct 12 at 10:03 pm
“Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name.”

In his 2008 Al Smith dinner speech Obama said “I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for president”.

Viva

19 Oct 12 at 10:08 pm
Wow. The lefties in the US are really going nuts.

What happened to Romney’s flagging campaign?

Can you imagine the local cranial detonations if Prime Minister Abbott meets President Romney in the Oval Room?

C.L.

19 Oct 12 at 10:11 pm
Oh God, this was brilliant. The line I liked best was Romney’s jab at virtually the entire nutbar Left, about it being possible to oppose someone’s views without loathing the person. I wonder if it will sink into any skulls at all? Or will they just put it out of their minds as soon as they realise he’s talking about them?

Absolutely, horrifyingly brutal, though – and may I say, deservedly so, especially since Obama had to sit through the whole thing and listen to himself being flayed, with no right of interruption and no moderator to save him.

perturbed

19 Oct 12 at 10:13 pm
In his 2008 Al Smith dinner speech Obama said “I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for president”.

That was funny.
He didn’t even try to make a joke out of it this time. Or maybe he did but forgot his line and messed it up.

dd

19 Oct 12 at 10:15 pm
However she’s at her best when she’s venomous and angry; that’s when she is most animated and articulate and when she puts in her big performances.

I can’t remember a good speech when she did not ambush the media with a talking point or when she did not have the speaker to ensure the opposition can’t fire back.

During the last election in the town hall style debate she got owned.

Token

19 Oct 12 at 10:17 pm
“Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name.”

Everybody fucking knew his middle name in 2008; just like everybody fucking knew he was black back in 2008 — and they still elected him President of the United States.

It’s a sad look for the most powerful man in the world, elected by the majority of the US citizenry, to still be playing the victim/racist card.

If the majority of Americans will elect to the highest office in the land a black man with the middle name “Hussein,” they are not as bigoted and racist as Obama and Co keep making them out to be.

That so many are turning against him now has nothing to do with either his race or his middle name – they’re simply judging him on his performance as they did Bush I and Carter, and finding him wanting.

sdog

19 Oct 12 at 10:38 pm
That so many are turning against him now has nothing to do with either his race or his middle name

Exactly the same as with Gillard; the opposition to her has got nothing to do with her sex (or rather gender): playing the victim is the final strategy when you can’t run on your record.

Cold-Hands

19 Oct 12 at 10:55 pm
What do you expect from a race-baiter like Barry, Sdawg?

Token

19 Oct 12 at 10:55 pm
No, no, no, sdog. Some people voted against him, which proves that all Americans are racist. He might get voted out after only one term, proving that Americans are racist. He might hit the term limit and the constitution not get amended, proving all Americans are racist. Finally, even some people who voted for him are disappointed with his performance- because they are racist.

I know these people and I absofuckinglutely GUARANTEE that they have not for one nanosecond stopped thinking America is the most racist place on earth, before, during or after America electing a black President.

wreckage

19 Oct 12 at 10:58 pm
Only when a wheelchair-bound black lesbian Muslim single mother with HIV is unanimously elected president for life will some people be satisfied. Although probably some of them will still accuse straight white Christian men of doing so to look good.

perturbed

20 Oct 12 at 1:48 am
wreckage @ 1058,

True!. Happened in Albany, WA at the end of August. I was talking to a US citizen from Wisconsin about everything and I said the US Election trends are being watched here in Australia and that Romney looks like mounting a considerable challenge to Obama.

She said straight back to me that if Obama loses, it will be because Americans don’t like black peolpe in the White House.

Mike of Marion

20 Oct 12 at 7:06 am

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