Round #3 of the Presidential debates will air tonight on CNN, MSNBC, CURRENT TV, AND C-SPAN at 9:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. CT. You’re welcome to join 3 Chics for live-blogging. Please feel free to drop links, photos, and comments throughout the day.
Tonight is Mitt Romney’s last chance for Americans to determine if he’s Commnander-in-Chief material.
If Bob Schieffer the moderator of tonight’s debate does his job, we’ll hear Mitt Romney’s answers to the following questions tha Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says Mitt Romney needs to answer:
Question #1: How exactly would you finish the job against al-Qaeda, and what would you do differently than the President has done? currently he’s said that finding and capturing OBL was “not worth moving heaven and earth”
On May 2, 2011, as Commander-in-Chief, President Obama ordered the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden through extensive counter-terrorism strategies. And for the past 3 1/2 years under his command, we have devastated some of Al-Qadea’s top leadership. Romney needs to answer what he would do differently to go after Al-Qaeda’
Question #2: How will you end the war in Afghanistan? So far, it’s been CRICKETS from Mittens on how he would end America’s LONGEST war in Afghanistan and bring our troops HOME. Dude didn’t even mention Afghanistan in his RNC speech!
President Obama has refocused our troops efforts in Afghanistan, after the 911 attacks and started troop withdrawls, after some nation-building there. And he has a plan to use the $AVINGS to nation-build at home in America. The president is committed to ending the war in 2012 and bringing our troops home. Is Romney willing to do the same? It is UNACCEPTABLE to tell American voters that we have to wait to hear your plans after you think you’ll get in office.
Question #3: What will you do differently to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon? So far, it’s been CRICKETS from Mittens on his response. His fumbling and bumbling and WAR-MONGERING on this issue has actually led Americans to believe he is not fit to lead. Meanwhile President Obama has issused some of the strictest& crippling sanctions on Iran and they are WORKING. DO YOU WANT ISRAEL TO GO TO WAR WITH IRAN, MITT ROMNEY? Just answer the question.
Question #4: After months of reckless bluster on the campaign trial, how will you work with other countries around the world to achieve our national security objectives? So far, during Mitt’s internation tour, he managed to insult our CLOSEST ALLY, THE UK. He’s also managed to insult Russia, calling them our greatest geo-political foe, and he talks tough on China, while he continues to benefit financially from having out-sourced American jobs. Can Romney foster a working relationship with G-8, after riding in on his big Caddy and insulting half of the countries?
Question #5: How will you get tough on China? Mitt Romney is all TOUGH talk on China, and has no back up or creds when it comes to designating China a” CURRENCY MANIPULATOR” Members in his own party disagree with his stance on China.
The President also took aggressive action against China on behalf of American tire workers when it was flooding the market with Chinese tires, saving 1,000 jobs here at home as a result. And our consistent pressure on the Chinese to allow their currency to appreciate has yielded results – its value has risen about 11 percent since 2010.
Question #6: What exactly would you have done in Libya? We don’t know where Mitt Romney stands on this issue. He’s taken so many stances. First we shouldn’t have gone in, then it was: We went in too slow and aggressive, then it was we shouldn’t have supproted the mission and then celebrated?
And does Governor Romney agree with Congressman Issa’s decision to release State Department cables that exposed the names of Libyans working with the United States on security and to fight extremism?
Ask Muammar Qadhafi how well things worked out for him, after he threatened to attack and kill his people, Mitt Romney. By working with NATO and our Arab partners, President Obama was able to order the capture of Qadhafi without putting our troops in harms way. What would you have done to protect the Libyan people?
If Governor Romney wants to prove that he’s ready to be the leader of the free world, he must, at a minimum, answer these questions in specific detail. If he fails to do so, he will once again have fallen short of the Commander-in-Chief threshold.
Don’t buy into the media’s undecideds. FOLKS know exactly who they are going to vote for.
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Senator John Kerry on MSNBC with LO: “Mitt Romney scared me tonight.
Kerry is clowning Willard
LOL
Post-Debate Impressions
by BooMan
Mon Oct 22nd, 2012 at 10:58:24 PM EST
Tonight was the worst ass-kicking any presidential candidate has ever received in a debate in the history of presidential debates. Mitt Romney was slaughtered. And let me explain why.
Ordinarily, the Democratic candidate does much better on substance than the Republican. This has certainly been true since at least 1992, including in the vice-presidential debates. But the problem is that the majority of the voting public is not well-versed enough on substance to know who is telling the truth or which statements are realistic and which are ridiculous. I don’t say this to denigrate the intelligence of the American electorate; it’s just a fact that most people can’t devote enough time to politics to have informed opinions about policy. That’s particularly true of foreign policy.
As a result, it was possible for George W. Bush to make a fool of himself and still win a debate against Al Gore because Al Gore acted like a jerk. It was possible for John Kerry to completely decimate George W. Bush three times and still not win the election. And it was possible for Sarah Palin to appear on stage with Joe Biden without the entire Republican Party being struck by a lightning bolt. The reason Mitt Romney lost bigger tonight than any candidate in history is because he lost on every measure other than substance and he lost on substance, too.
Simply put, Mitt Romney was the beta-dog all night in every exchange. Obama never took his eyes off him. He never failed to attack. Romney was reduced to agreeing with Obama on half the questions. Romney got pushed around by the moderator. His demeanor was weak. His expression was weak. His arguments were weak. If this were a 12-round heavyweight bout, Romney lost every round.
Now, the spin from the so-called “savvy” Republicans will be that Romney softened his position and thereby tacked to the middle. He was the candidate of “peace” and he “didn’t get dragged to the right.” I think we have all seen that these debates are not won and lost by how the candidates position themselves ideologically. They are won and lost by which candidate dominates the other candidate.
Winning on substance is preferable to losing on substance, but it has proved to be no substitute for being both more formidable and more likable. Obama was both tonight.
Having said that, I also told you before the debate started that Obama probably couldn’t move the fundamentals of the race much unless Romney committed a titanic gaffe. Romney didn’t do that.
So, despite trouncing Romney in a way that has never been done before, I do not think Obama will suddenly see a massive shift in the polls. What he will see is a modest bump in the polls. But, God willing, that will be enough to win.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/22/225824/60
rolandsmartin@rolandsmartin
Romney talked about sanctions against Iran. Obama has already put them in place. This is utter nonsense!
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Mitt Romney is totally out of his league!
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
Howard Kurtz: President Obama slams a passive Mitt Romney as ‘Reckless’ on foreign policy http://thebea.st/SjPUo4
CBS NEWS INSTANT POLL 53 OBAMA 23 ROMNEY
REV. AL IS HILARIOUS…
WILLARD HAS ROMNEYSIA
Rev Al is killing me.
nobody knows what the fuck a Romney Doctrine would be ….
Willard’s so bad, it almost makes you long for George W. Bush
BWA HA HA HA HA HA AH
Me too! Rachel is calling Romney’s character for playing with people’s life.
Rev Al: “You can change your mind, but not at the risk of my behind.”
Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo
That awkward moment when Mitt Romney realizes that getting foreign policy information from Fox News and John Bolton mighta been a bad idea.
Bobfr @Our4thEstate #
AdmitItMitt you’ve got more investments in Chinese slaves than any Presidential candidate in the history of the USA.
LOLGOP @LOLGOP See that look in Mitt Romney’s eyes. That’s the feeling a guy with $300 million has when he’s found something he can’t buy.
Ceb
October 22, 2012 at 10:06 pm
PBO just needs to say “I AM the President and the Commander in Chief.” and drop the mic.
This is done. it has been a thing of awesome beauty.
“I’m still speaking”
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Mitt Romney is one rude mofo. How did this fool get to be a candidate for the presidency? How could he make it on the world stage.
Come on Mr. President. SHUT this fool down. Make your closing arguments, and shut this mofo down.
ABFoundation ✔@ABFalecbaldwin Mitt looks angry. Like McCain. Mitt’s thinking, “I can’t lose to this guy. I didn’t kiss all this country club ass to lose to this guy.”
Teitr Smith@MrTeitr
Romney is getting smoked like a Cure81 ham. If Obama doesn’t like the smell of bacon, I can’t tell.
Potus:You can’t airbrush history
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Potus kicking ass. Mitt Romney is a pure ass clown!
Mitt Romney: I’M WHITE, AND THEREFORE, I’M RIGHT!
Bill Maher ✔@billmaher Mitt’s entire debate strategy: What he just said, but from a white guy
THERE YOU GO! Out of the mouths of another white guy. He ought to know.
Mitt: LET DETROIT GO BANKRUPT
Potus: “You are familiar with sending jobs overseas!”/ Wham! Bam! KaPow!
WHENEVER PBO STICKS IT TO MITTENS WITH TRUTH ,HE WHINES ABOUT BEING ATTACKED. TITTY BABY.
go 3chics on twitter!!
Rommey is desperate! PBO has fully exposed him as a LIAR.
LET DETROIT GO BANKRUPT
GOVERNOR YOU’RE TRYINGTO AIR BRUSH HISTORY.
GOVERNOR ROMNEY IS RIGHT. YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHINA, YOU SHIPPED OUR JOBS OVERSEAS AND INVEST IN BUSNESSES IN PLACES LIKE CHINA.
America would be a lot STRONGER if we didn’t have folkslike Mitt Romney pilaging, lying, cheating and stealing to gather their golden eggs, while the rest of us Americans lose jobs, homes, and pensions.
I love my PRESIDENT!
Conservatives already bemoaning Romney’s debate performance http://thkpr.gs/RR918B
D Wasserman Schultz@DWStweets
POTUS:”When I went to Israel, I didn’t take donors,” says Obama to Romney. “I didn’t have fundraisers. I went to Yad Vashem.”
Cheryl Contee@ch3ryl
Wow RT @TheCut: “We’ve got to make sure our partners are pulling out responsibly.” Must… resist… sex… joke… #debates” #jjp
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BWA HA HA HA Love it!
Romney is FLAILING. He’s just using the time now to parrot PBO, just talking LOUD & SAYING NOTHING.
What you mean “Bob you can let the President have a long segment., Romney?
It’s DEMOCRATIC SENATORS, not Democrat. Romney; you just don’t have it dude,
you brought up the trip, Romney. You were a full-blown fucking nightmare on your foregin policy tour. YOU WENT THERE.
I’ve said this before:
I LOVE
I MEAN LOVE
that Barack Obama has been so kick ass on foreign policy.
and, that he beats the shyt out of the GOP with it
LOL PBO BEATING ROMNEY’S AZZ LIKE HE STOLE SOMETHING.
OH WAIT, THAT MOFO IS A THIEF. HE’S STEALING ALL OF PBO’S LINES AND SAYING THEM LOUDER.
When I took my trips, I SAW THE TROOPS; I DIDN’T ATTEND FUNDRAISER, MITTENS!
GET’M MR, PRESIDENT!
GTFOH with that apology tour nonsense, Romney!
“We also have less horses and bayonets!”
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PBO: THE 1800s ARE CALLING F0R ITS FOREIGN POLICY BACK, MITTENS!
Mitt Romney agrees that President Obama’s “crippling sanctions” on Iran are working. http://j.mp/XMzTKY
Governor Romney. you’re saying the same things I’ve said only LOUDER! BWA HA HA
“This isn’t a game of battleship Gov.”
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Everything Governor Romney said IS NOT TRUE, BOB. HE’S BEEN TELLING WHOPPERS since this began.
BAYONETS & BATTLESHIPS. BWA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHERE ARE THOSE TAX RETURNS MITT ROMNEY, SINCE YOU KEEP PIVOTING AWAY FROM FOREIGN POLICY?
Potus is kicking his ass all over the place.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR THE MILITARY SPENDING?
Mitt’s running from foreign policy. LOL! POTUS kicked his ass and now he’s scared!
Mit Romney how the fuck are you going to pay for $5 trillion cuts? He doens’t want to talk about foreign policy. GO.NO.CREDS.
The policies that you promote do not include small businesses, MITTENS.
Romney is sweating bigtime!
Get him PBO. Romney’s a mofo clown, who is just praying that he can remember his talkingpoints. He’s got no EXPERIENCE in this topic, and he has nothing, and keeps pivoting back to educationa and the economy
YOU CUT EDUCATION. That was 10 years before you came into office Mittens. LIAR!!!
A VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY/PAUL RYAN IS A VOTE FOR BUSHES WARS
MITT ROMNEY WE WOULD HAVE STRONGER ALLIES IF YOU’D STOP GOING ABROAD AND INSULTING THEM.
Here’s the deal with Republicans and brown people. They don’t give a flying fuck that Arabs, Muslims, Blacks, die in wars. THEY DON’T CARE. Mubarak had to go, and the fear of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over is very unsettling for these folks.
thefieldnegro@fieldnegro
O shows some female love. Nice touch. Yes, women in the Middle East must become educated.
And equal pay. son of bitch; can’t even support equal pay here at home. MOFO is a muthafuckin jackass.
ROMNEY IS PARROTING EVERYTHING POTUS IS SAYING.. OMG; I HATE THIS MAN
Paul Begala@PaulBegala
Man, Mitt is staring daggers at POTUS. Doesn’t he know about the split screen?
What you heard GOVENOR ROMNEY SAY IS HE DOESN’T HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS.
BUSTED BITCH!
He’s doesn’t have a clue.
Romneyis way out of his league. He’s a war-mongering, fear-mongering fool. Of course none of his 5 sons would ever go to war.
Aisha Tyler@aishatyler
POTUS is opening the whoop ass early in the meal. “Here’s what I’VE learned as Commander in Chief. Add “young Padawan” and you’ve got gravy.
LOL Hilarious! Are you hearing that fool, stalling and repeating exactly what PBO is saying. HE’S GOT NO FOREIGN POLICY CHOPS. NONE!
Go get him, Mr President! School this clown!
Pres Obama: You said we should have gone to Iraq with no WMD, you said we should keep troops in Iraq. Wrong, reckless, and all over the map!
Romney canonly stick to talking points, and when he is challenged, he starts getting louder and faster, about ABSOULTUELY NOTHING.
He’s shook!
rolandsmartin@rolandsmartin
Wow. Obama says we helped take out Khadaffi for the cost of two weeks in Iraq. Smart to weave in the dollar figure
symmetry11@symmetry11
“We can’t kill our way out of this mess”…This coming from the man who wants us to go to war with Iran.
Come on PBO. School these MOFOs. Romney; I can’t stand the sight of him glaring at the POTUS.
Sabrina @Charmed86
What the fuck is Romney talking about?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN. JUST LIKE WAR. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Poor Mitts; he’s been studying his talking points on Lybia
Romney won coin toss and gets first question and final closing statement.
Cheryl Contee@ch3ryl
“I will pwn you Muthaclucka” RT @coolitsdaisy: What does Obama tell Romney when they handshake?!?!?
*HOLLERING*
Cuban Missile Crisis 50 year anniversary LYBIA!!!
Here we go! Go, Mr President!
ThinkProgress@thinkprogress
On CNN, @AriFleischer is pretty sure Romney will pray before the debate. He’s not sure about Obama.
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Good grief! The ignorance never ends!
HERE WE GO FOLKS! 2 MINUTES AND COUNTING
Colin Powell: “C’mon Mitr, THINK!
This sign was seen in Washington D.C., where it looks like Romney will lose the vote: http://huff.to/RqBB0X
Photo Credit: Michael Grass
OH MY
A Comprehensive Timeline Of Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy Positions During The Campaign
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/22/1054581/a-comprehensive-timeline-of-mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-positions-during-the-campaign/
Mitt Romney has spent considerable effort trying to avoid foreign policy and national security this campaign season. But when he’s had to engage, he’s forced to strike a delicate balance between satisfying his neocon advisers and right-wing war base on the one hand — while speaking to the rest of the country, which has no appetite for the militaristic Republican policies that have plagued this country since 2001, on the other.
BWA HA HA HA HA Stop it!
Hilarious!
GOP Rep Upset Obama ‘Waited 4 Minutes’ To Call Libya Attack An ‘Act Of Terror’. http://thinkprogress.org/tag/intelligence/
Bush’s Seven Minutes of Silence
THERE YOU GO!
President Obama: Please proceed, Governor.
Mitt Romney: Candy, I want to make sure we get that for the record.
Get the transcript: Mitt Romney and the Republican Party’s antipathy toward reality
MR. ROMNEY: I — I — I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Get the transcript.
MS. CROWLEY: It — he did in fact, sir.
So let me — let me call it an act of terrorism — (inaudible) —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Can you say that a little louder, Candy? (Laughter, applause.)
MS. CROWLEY: He did call it an act of terror.
Jay: What did Mitt Romney do?
LOL Look at Jay’s sweet, innocent inquisitive eyes.
He likes the video I posted because it has the cartoon sounds.He just laughs when I play it. lol
“Please proceed, Governor”….
LOL Ya gotta post that vid, SG2.
UPDATED: What Everyone Should Know About The Benghazi Attack
Six weeks following the assault on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, many questions remain regarding the nature of the attacks, what the Obama administration knew and when, and the way that knowledge was delivered to the public. Adding to that confusion is the GOP’s desire to politicize the issue in the run-up to the presidential election.
Mitt Romney was widely scorned for criticizing Obama in the assault’s immediate aftermath for allegedly sympathizing with the attackers. But days later, Romney, his allies and other pundits found an opening to again criticize the administration. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice claimed that the attack in Libya was an outgrowth of the protests in Cairo against an anti-Muslim film. But the administration’s story soon changed.
This shift in story — while always likely given the nature of intelligence — launched a new round of condemnation against Obama. Accusations and speculation of administration lies and cover-ups have been the major focus of the narrative since then.
But the reality is much more nuanced than what the built-up narrative suggests. The following is a timeline of not the attack itself, but the response to it, by the Obama administration, Mitt Romney’s campaign and the right-wing:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/15/1014241/timline-benghazi-attack/
How Mitt Romney’s Latest Attack On Libya Is Falling Apart
By Judd Legum on Oct 20, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Read on: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/20/1054141/how-mitt-romneys-latest-attack-on-libya-is-falling-apart/
Damn; if looks could….
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy follies
by Jon Perr-Daily Kos
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As the presidential candidates prepare for their third and final debate on Monday, recent polling suggests Mitt Romney has cut into President Barack Obama’s sizable lead on foreign policy issues. But if his demagoguery on China (where he apparently still profits from his portfolio of Bain investments) and Libya (where he accused the president of “empathizing” with the attackers) has fueled that uptick, Romney’s laughably long list of foreign policy flip-fops, flubs and follies may come back to bite him. As it turns out, the man who got a “Four Pinocchio” rating for his repeated claims that Obama apologizes for America has a lot to apologize for.
Romney Opposed U.S. Strikes Against Bin Laden in Pakistan. In December, Romney brushed off Chuck Todd’s suggestion that Obama deserved credit for ordering the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden:
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/21/1147216/-Mitt-Romney-s-foreign-policy-follies
Steve Benen agrees: “Over the weekend, however, the Republican’s entire line of criticism started to unravel.” http://on.msnbc.com/QNAfvH
More than two-thirds of al Qaeda’s top leaders have been eliminated under President Obama, and Osama bin Laden has been brought to justice.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151119635621943&set=a.413933741942.188832.12301006942&type=1&theater
THIS
And that’s why they’re mad!