SOUND OFF: Obama and the Convention
What did you think of President Obama's speech last night and the Democratic convention as a whole? Will you vote vote to re-elect the President in November?
President Barack Obama capped off the Democratic National Convention Thursday night with a speech that highlighted his foreign policy wins, health care reform and immigration reform.
Over the past three nights, Democratic leaders also took aim at the Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an Independent and former Republican, spoke at the convention along with a number of Massachusetts Democrats, including Gov. Deval Patrick and Sen. John Kerry.
What did you think of the the Democratic convention. What did you think of the President's speech? Were you swayed in either direction after watching the proceedings from Charlotte? Who are you supporting in November?
Let us know in the comment section below.
Manifold Witness
9:10 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
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Yes, Mr. Obama speaks of jobs and mortgages and education and the prohibitively high cost of the college education that US citizens should provide to illegal aliens, but he never mentions that he got wealthy while in public office, or that his daughters go to private school, or that his daughters won't have to worry about shouldering huge student loans.
Mr. Obama said: "Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known". Both Obama and Biden mentioned God a number of times.
Mr. Obama is all for government & taxpayer resources being involved in private business when it's his idea: "We can start rewarding companies that open new plants…."
Mr. Obama says that oil imports were cut last year, “more than any administration in recent history."
"Weaker consumer spending hit gasoline demand" is the real reason, but Mr. Obama didn't mention that.
Yes, Mr. Obama talks about maybe cutting the deficit. He didn't mention that the "US national debt in nominal dollars has increased more rapidly under President Obama than under any other U.S. president, and that it had increased by $4 trillion since the beginning of his term of office". (Google it.)
Mr. Obama talks about the need to rebuild infrastructure in the USA. (But he doesn't say where the taxpayer-funded stimulus money went.)
He talks about reducing taxes.
Mr. Obama talks about a lot of things.
Manifold Witness
11:59 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
Best line of the night came from Mr. Obama:
"Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of health care"…
Barack Obama promise to the American people on September 6, 2012.
Mark those words, folks. Mr. Obama has promised to strengthen Medicare by "reducing the cost of health care".
Mr. Obama spoke as though someone other than Mr. Obama has been in office for the past few years.