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Look. I'm going to give you my take on the whole election thing.
I stole that "look" opening from President Obama. I love when he is going to make a point how he starts a sentence with "look".
I watched the republican national convention, the Democratic National Convention, all three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate.
Here's what you need to know.
Mitt Romney is a fraud and a very dangerous man. Ryan is his puppet.
Romney was proved to be lying or exaggerating over and over again. He was proved to have switched positions on major topics, topics that have direct impact on our lives, consistently. He consistently avoids giving details of his "plan".
He is a used car salesman. The kind when he first opens his mouth after you walk onto the lot, you just turn and walk away without saying a word.
He was rude to the President. You might laugh about that but when he put his hand in the President's face and said "You'll get your turn" I wanted to punch him in the throat. When he said "I'm still speaking" I wanted to punch him in the throat. This was after he consistently interrupted the President and all the moderators over and over again. You are not rude to The President of the United States. That says something about his character.
To be fair I know the President got some stuff wrong as well. I went to fact checking sites and there were things he exaggerated and things he got wrong. I am not happy about that.
It pisses me off when I hear professional journalists evaluate the debates by deciding who looked "more presidential."
It doesn't matter who "looks presidential". What matters is who is intelligent, who has a command of the facts, who is decisive, who has the capability of handling the world.
Chris Matthews made that comment before this last debate and it struck me. He said something like which candidate looks like he can handle the world.
That is what the president is required to do. Because of our role in the world and because the world is shrinking, because everything is interconnected and there are consequences, the president has to be a diplomat. He has to handle the world.
Romney is a neanderthal. I don't think he grasps foreign policy at all. If you forced him to sit down and explain the complicated relationships between middle eastern countries and how their religions conflict with one another I don't think he could do it. He would come across like the male Sarah Palin.
President Obama could do it with his eyes closed.
I will give you one concrete example of what republican policies lead to.
I am a part time employee of the New Hampshire State Liquor Commission. These people recently re-wrote the rules so that part timers cannot get paid time and a half or any kind of pay increase if they work on holidays or Sundays. Currently Sundays and holidays are voluntary. Part timers do not have to work them.
But that wasn't enough. Now they are trying to reclassify part timers into a sub human category where they can FORCE us to work Sundays and holidays, and for straight pay.
The employees' union in NH is weak and ineffectual. So part timers have no recourse, no one to defend them, and the commission does whatever they want to. Just like in Dickensian England in the 1800's.
republicans support a "Right To Work" platform. Sounds like they will protect the working man.
Wrong. They want to destroy unions so employees have no one to protect them. So all you need is an immoral and unscrupulous employer and as an employee you have absolutely no rights.  Ultimately it's the lack of conscience, the lack of morality that makes these employers so dangerous.
And there are lots of them out there.
That is one perfect example of how republicans mislead the voting public. They give a strategy a name that suggests the exact opposite of what it is. Then they lead you down a path to your own destruction.
Look. Romney is out of his league. He tries to cover that up with bluff and bluster. And he openly insults the voting public by lying to them, changing positions and denying doing it, and refusing to give facts to back up his proposals.
You do not want this man running this country.
If you bought a used car from him it would break down a hundred yards down the road. And when you walk back to demand that he remedy the situation he would say "Sorry. No warranty."
That will be his response to the middle class, the elderly, women, minorities, gays, college students, teachers, firefighters, the police, employees' unions, and foreign countries if, God forbid, he is elected president.