Just so I get this straight... Obama got into his schools by earning his way in and Romney got in because of his connections. Is that what you are pretending to know. I do not even understand your point about growing up in the the civil rights era. In order for that to have an impact on you would have to grown up in america... right? Regarding running a country...we see the results when you hire someone who has never shown competence are running anything.
The guy has no character Jem . . . . even the big dicks within the republicans say so, and im not even talking abt the likes of Lucrum or 377 or Tsing Tao. If that was not the case, why is he having so much trouble raising campaign funds?
Romney did not run for a second term. If he was such a blockbuster success why did he not do it? His excuse which was very skillfully ridiculed by "pious baloney" speech of New Gingrich was that Romney did not want to spend all his life in the public sector. Had Romney not lost to Ted Kennedy way back, Romney would have been a senator for almost 20 years by now. It is not an advantage to be born black in this country, in fact, it is a considerable disadvantage. It was a MASSIVE disadvantage in 1960s. Obama had a hole he had to climb out of before he was even born while Romney was parked comfortably on 3rd base. Romney has a track record of private equity success. He ran certain companies into the ground, outsourced certain companies, screwed people out of benefits and built up certain businesses with low wage unskilled labor (sports authority and staples). I don't know about you but this is NOT the model I want for the country. Strip and flip is not good for anyone but the person doing it.
If Obama had grown up in the continental U.S. I would given him credit for growing up in a difficult period. But he was overseas in either HI and in asia. I give him credit for being well spoken and intelligent. I don't give him credit for doing that while avoiding crack heads, junkies, dealers and guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and then earned a joint JD and MBA from Harvard University. Romney entered the management consulting business, which led to a position at Bain & Company. Eventually serving as CEO, Romney brought the company out of crisis. He was co-founder and head of the spin-off company Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. His wealth helped fund most of his future political campaigns. Active in his church, he served as ward bishop and later stake president in his area. He ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to long-time incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney organized and steered the 2002 Winter Olympics as head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and helped turn the troubled games into a financial success. Romney was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002 but did not seek re-election in 2006. He presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees that eliminated an up to $1.5 billion deficit. He also signed into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation, which provided near-universal health insurance access via subsidies and state-level mandates and was the first of its kind in the nation. During the course of his political career, his positions or rhetorical emphasis have shifted more towards American conservatism in several areas.
One question: Would you ever want JP Morgan or Rockefeller as president? The answer to that question would be very telling and insightful for you. I am actually being charitable to Romney in comparison because those were the titans of their day and Romney is a pipsqueak in comparison.
Well JP Morgan was apparently a relative of my grandfather. But do I trust wall street bankers? No, but I trust them more than a leftist friend of Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright.
Comments like that reaffirm my belief that I am better served in the democratic party. Barack Obama was in large part raised by his grandparents. Jem implied here that this was some kind of a privilege which is a load of crap. Barack Obama could have easily grown up to be a rapist or a loser of a human being with 8 baby mamas and no sense of commitment or responsibility. Given the problem of shortage of responsible black men(and men in general), Obama is exactly the kind of person that republicans should put on a pedestal while they spend every living breath trashing the guy. These people are animals. I tip my hat to someone who while being predisposed to avoiding commitment is happily married with 2 daughters, got multiple degrees and achieved success in life. Given the same set of circumstances, your goldenboy Romney would have been lucky to be a greeter at wal mart. Only a moron would say ABO because there are WAY worse man to be. ABO is just a substitute for "I can't form a cohesive argument as to why I don't like Obama besides the crap fed to me by fox news and rushlimbaugh" It was very telling to me to see triple a in the beltway post something like "... he is a conservative now". Romney could be an NRA member "now" or an honest human being "now" as opposed to "always".
Yes Sir you are.Obama isnt perfect but he is a hundred times better then Romney and most republicans imo