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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#34351: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:31:50 PM

@Tentacles

Its the sad truth.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:33:28 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#34352: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:31:57 PM

42 allies? guess we ARE the answer to everything.

I'm baaaaaaack
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#34353: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:31:58 PM

@No Name: "It's the economy, stupid."

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:33:16 PM by Ekuran

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34354: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:33:12 PM

Has Romney's plan to raise the military budget by 2 trillion been raised? He needs to be hammered on that since he's campaigning on the idea that he'll reduce the deficit.

GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#34355: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:33:15 PM

This is starting to make me sick. And now im getting political ads on the side of the web site.

Obama, you just screwed up there.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:33:31 PM by GearLeader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#34356: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:33:36 PM

Hmmm... I'm calling it the election right now.

Romney will get 47% of the vote.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#34357: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:33:48 PM

What does the deficit and raising taxes on the rich has to do with a debate about foreign affairs?

darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#34358: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:33:48 PM

I'm really, really bothered by the fact that they keep going off into unrelated tangents. I understand they want to do that to get jabs in, but I really want them to answer the actual questions.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#34359: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:34:07 PM

If you mean Gary Johnson, he's just a conservative who supports legalizing pot.

And gay marriage. And abortion. And military noninterventionism. And...really, he's a liberal with a conservative hands-off economic approach.

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#34360: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:34:16 PM

oh, sure, NOW Obama decides to pivot to jobs...

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#34362: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:34:27 PM

There's go that 12 million jobs lie.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#34363: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:34:32 PM

I'm getting a US army ad, and an ad showing the "R-Money" thing.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:35:47 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
Violence Is Necessary!
#34364: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:34:51 PM

This is BS! What kind of debate BS is Romney trying to pull here?!

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mailedbypostman Since: May, 2010
#34365: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:10 PM

[up][up][up][up][up][up][up]They can't really do much else cos their stances are supposed to be rather similar I think.

Though Mitt can surely try to dodge and weave around that.

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:35:29 PM by mailedbypostman

GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#34367: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:32 PM

Bob Schifer isn't doing anything. He's basically a more polished Jim Lehrer.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Actual Wrestling Legend
#34368: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:45 PM

Uh.. did Romney just propose outsourcing MORE of our shit to Latin America? As a solution to spending and borrowing?

He started to babble incoherently a lot earlier than usual.

I'm a skeptical squirrel
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#34369: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:45 PM

This is Romney's 5 point plan? Things Obama promised to do and did?

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34370: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:46 PM

Sorry but voting for third parties is stupid. Even if they get in how are they going to do anything? Remember a President is nothing without a congress and neither side has any incentive to do what they want.

As for Gary Johnson he's also a far right fanatic when it comes to economic issues. I can't support someone like that.

GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
LostAnarchist Violence Is Necessary! from Neo Arcadia Itself Since: Sep, 2011
Violence Is Necessary!
#34372: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:54 PM

I don't wanna hear it. Romney should not be winning this, dammit!

edited 22nd Oct '12 6:37:04 PM by LostAnarchist

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DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#34373: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:35:55 PM

Well, they have nothing to debate on foreign policy. They're both being as wishy-washy, non-descript, and centerist as possible. Is Romney talking about outsourcing jobs to fucking Latin American? Has he caught a case of the stupid.

R Omney, you're a fucking business man. "Spending and borrowing binge" is how macroeconomics work.

Couchpotato20 Will kill you from Hell Since: Apr, 2011
Will kill you
#34374: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:36:26 PM

Anyone know what the fuck Romney is saying?

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darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#34375: Oct 22nd 2012 at 6:36:26 PM

WHYYYYYYYYYY

Why do you both have to keep moving away from actual foreign policy details??? Stop eet. Save us, Bob!

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