NP - Romney/Ryan

[Bekah]

Many people vote for the looks of the person - as viewed on the screen.     If I could go only by looks I'd vote for Ryan but that means I'd willingly watch him on TV,  but with the sound off.   I'd listen forever to Clinton or Obama and turn off the picture - (maybe peek - they're okay).  I'd turn off the TV (sound and picture) for Romney,  Bush and what's-his-name (the current veep) -  I've done it.  

Bek



On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Madeleine Maudlin wrote:

> What Americans enjoy the most is a hearty parade. Does this include things that are patriotic?  Absolutely.  What practitioners of a marching band need to keep in mind in their joyful parading is that they are singing the praises of good old fashioned American common sense.  That parades can be marched in circles but are not is tantamount to not persuade the lucrative capitalist interests to never advertising to an audience that prefers to observes things in a linear, or as Lincoln preferred, horizontal fashion.  The energy and zest of holiday cheer, especially in the wakes of big colorful floats, and in the wakes of big bloody wars, full of the grandest shock and awe, and floats in the shape of the magnificent men who make America run, bankers, floats made by loyal and happy and hardworking American bank employers for those American bankers, all marching toward one infinite goal: American pragmatism and hegemony.  Americans know who the bosses are, they are the capitalist visionaries of tomorrow, and the soldiers who are willing to kill for the bank accounts of those visionaries.  And I vote for them and grade them all with a blowjob and a smile.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:06 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Americans have only one philosophy: pragmatism. A candidate for the
> presidency needs to promise what he or she can never deliver or risk
> not being elected. Americans know this and even the young idealists
> are tempered by their unavoidable relations with the ordinay joe or
> jane on the job, so promises and dreams are things americans make but
> never keep because the work must get done and the work is rather
> mundane, slow, arduous, and requires courage and compromise (JFK).
> does that work include war? Yes. Americans accept that the dirty job
> of war must get done and that presidents must be willing to spill
> blood. That the wars are messy and for the most part a waste of life
> and resources is a given that most americans are, pragmatically
> willing to abide; that Obama promised less arrogance, more diplomacy,
> a better way of killing people in Pakistan & C0., the closing of Gitmo
> etc.,  was a minor part of what got him elected and few will turn away
> from him on these issues alone. H Clinton would have been more
> agressive as her ambitious campaign of killing has proved. the economy
> will save Obama, as it is performing much better than expected and
> will only improve. Obama has done well. I give him a B. Of course, I
> give Ben most of the credit for saving us from a Depression so
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I didn't mean who would I vote for as an U.S. citizen. That's no
> > question for me. And yes, only fools could be disappointed by Romney.
> >
> > But didn't Obama promise to end the war in A.? Didn't he promise to
> > put an end to G.? Or was I dreaming? And if he did why didn't he
> > follow through? Only asking.
> >
> > 2012/8/13 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>:
> >> Um. I don't like either candidate, it's just that Romney / Ryan is just very
> >> much worse than Obama / Biden. I'll vote for Obama again, and hope he does
> >> better in his second term. I got the reality thing handled. Thanks for the
> >> advice, Rich.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Think u have to be realistic here. Any vote against Obama now with mr Ryan
> >>> on the ticket is a very dangerous game. Obama with a 2nd term will do
> >>> better. I think he's slowly learning.
> >>>
> >>> Rich
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ... it's precisely a sea change (among other things) I'm hoping (as
> >>> should the residents of, say, New Orleans, Venice, Shanghai, The
> >>> Netherlands, et al.) to ward off ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Just so. And that's a part of why I don't like either  candidate.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Ian Livingston
> >>>> <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > Sure hope so. I still don't like either candidate. It takes someone
> >>>> > like
> >>>> > Romney to make Obama look really good. We need a sea change, not a
> >>>> > finger in
> >>>> > the dike.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> >>> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason
> >>> is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for
> >>> the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the
> >>> streets." -- Will Durant
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> >> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason
> >> is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for
> >> the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the
> >> streets." -- Will Durant
>