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Romney-Obama debate: a lost chapter of "Atlas Shrugged"

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Our take on the first debate in The Washington Times

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If Ayn Rand were to write a Christmas story, it would look like last night's presidential debate, in which good triumphs over evil, as looters and moochers get shamed and exposed for what they really are.

Indeed, for those who noticed how eerily Obama's term in office resembled the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario of America's decline, last night's presidential debate must have felt like a lost optimistic chapter from that great novel.

For almost four years now we've been seeing Rand's dystopia coming to life: cronyism in the government and big business, manipulative media, corrupted education, dying economy, social stratification, massive poverty, unemployment, and disillusionment - all the result of a well-meaning attempt to "fundamentally transform" this country on the basis of "giving everyone his fair share."

And finally, in full agreement with Rand's writing style, comes a larger-than-life businessman-turned-politician and defends capitalism - not just on the grounds of its efficiency, but also morality - because taking people's earnings by force in order to subsidize something they disagree with, is fundamentally immoral.

And, just like in Rand's works of romantic realism, we finally saw the American president as he ought to be - a wise, understanding, and trustworthy father figure, who knows what he is doing and is willing to take charge, doesn't fear the responsibility, says what he believes, and does what he says.

Next to him, the current "president" Obama appeared like a failing student before a finger-wagging disciplinarian grownup. Early in the debate Romney established his dominance by patiently reminding Obama that, having raised five boys, he could recognize juvenile debate methods: repeating a lie hoping it would pass for the truth was one of them. Blaming Bush was another, one might add.

It didn't help that the moderator Jim Lehrer sometimes debated Romney on Obama's behalf while Obama gave out big smiles. Nor did it help that the news networks had been working as Obama's propaganda machine. Having someone else in the national media to act as his mouthpiece, frame his debate, never challenge his actions, skew the polls, and build the consensus in his favor, must have dulled his instincts and made him unfit for the struggle of political survival. In the end, Obama's own "you didn't built that, someone else made that happen" approach became his undoing and effectively made him a poster boy for exactly why no one should follow this philosophy in real life.

Obama's philosophy of government was also a failure on every level.

When asked a trivia-style question about the role of government, he guessed correctly: to keep the people safe. The problem is, he himself didn't believe in it - which was obvious in the way he said it, as well as in the way he had sacrificed America's national security to political correctness.

Obama's definition of the second government priority - to run the economy, manage individual successes and failures, and guarantee everyone "a fair share" - is incorrect. What's worse, Obama has always treated it as the government priority number one. Which is why in the time of economic crisis, as Romney pointed out, Obama's priority was to establish "affordable healthcare" - a supposedly well-intentioned reform that in real life was a death blow to small businesses and the economy in general.

And while Obama was trying to justify it by giving a list of excellent talking points that ended in "etcetera," it's an open secret that the devil is in the etcetera. One wonders if his extensive plan covers wound licking.

Obama's manipulative "real life" sob stories were no longer having an effect either. His complaint about seeing how children in a Las Vegas school were using outdated 10-year-old textbooks reminded us, first of all, of his trip to a Vegas fundraiser with hip hop musicians at a time when a US ambassador in Libya had been killed and the Muslim world was being swept with anti-American protests. In addition, as we now know, those "outdated" textbooks may actually be more truthful than the ones printed after Obama and Bill Ayers had sneakily "reformed" the school curriculum to make it serve the leftist agenda.
Romney's well-calibrated radar impeccably detected every Obama's attempt to lie, distort, or manipulate reality.

The "president's" dishonest bragging about an increase in domestic oil and gas production was immediately cut short by Romney, who explained that the production was up only on private lands that weren't yet under Obama's reach, but down on government-owned lands subject to Obama's harmful regulations.

Obama tried another old and tried trick of big-oil-baiting that always worked in the past. This time it was also quickly pre-empted: oil tax breaks actually go to small subcontracting companies, and the money in question is negligible compared to the government subsidies Obama has given to pie-in-the-sky "green" energy projects, most of which went bankrupt.
With refreshing bluntness, Romney told the self-appointed economic manager-in-chief, "You pick the losers." That summed up Obama's economic policy of "fairness," with all the resulting government waste, abuse, cronyism, and corruption.

To be completely honest, Romney's otherwise stellar, larger-than-life performance still contained traces of pandering to the moochers - sadly, a necessary ingredient in today's political games. Thanks for setting those rules, Democrats.

And yet, if you were a manager of a failing company and two business consultants named Romney and Obama came to your office, whom of the two would you hire right away, and whom would you show the door? Even if you're a Democrat who picked Obama in 2008, the answer in this election is obvious.

Romney may not be a smooth operator. In fact, he may well be the only alpha male in the country who doesn't consume alcohol. And yet Obama, with all his street cred of alleged coolness trails behind as a clumsy and insignificant beta. Romney wins just by standing next to Obama. Which raises the question: why didn't the GOP elites pick Romney in 2008, but now suddenly favor him in the face of an imminent Obamageddon?

It is for the same reason that "Atlas Shrugged" still remains and will always be relevant for as long as humanity continues to flirt with the fallacy of "progressivism" while questioning the credentials of capitalism as the only just, fair, and moral socio-political system known to man.


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I think maybe Atlas has shrugged his way to Red China to experience real capitalism, again.

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I denounce Atlas Shrugged

I will now share a quote that I've seen many other progressives use:

What is the difference between Atlas Shrugged and The Lord of the Rings?
Answer: One is a fantasy novel about unrealistic superbeings, and the other is about Hobbits.

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This is all being ignored. Most quickly dismissed what they were seeing..."Romney's slick..how do you think he conned so many people out their money?"

The excuses are being lapped up...they waited for their talking points and for their spin masters to tell them how to handle it.

At first it's fun...when they haven't had time to confer with one another...they have their own excuses. But now they are all repeating the same lines again.

He should not have backed off of his 47% remark...they are dependent, they need others to survive and nobody needs them.

Romney did appeal to true liberals...progressives hated that. That's their weakness...

I hope he keeps the pressure up.


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Oh, my. Red Square received a marriage proposal in the WT comments, a sure sign the Cube hasn't lost any of its edges.

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LIES! ALL LIES!!!!! OUR GREAT LEADER WAS THE VIKTOR IN THIS "DEBATE" AS ANYONE KOULD SEE!!!! HE WAS PLAYING DUMB SO THAT THE KAPITALIST ROMNEY WOULD BE LED INTO A FLASE SENSE OF KONFIDENCE! WE KNOW! WE SAW!!! WE WERE BEHIND THE SCENCES!!! THIS WAS ALL PLANNED BY OUR GLOPRIOUS LEADER SO THAT HE KAN KOME BACK NEXT TIME AND KORREKTLY DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT THIS ROMNEY!
[/color][highlight=#ff0000][highlight=#ff0000]ON TO THE NEW NOVEMBER REVOLUTION!! OUR GLORIOUS LEADER WILL NOT BE STOPPED!![/highlight][/highlight]
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I don't have a TV, so I listened on the radio. The President sounded horrible, repeatedly repeating the $5 Trillion Tax Cut mantra, despite Governor Romney answering his false acusation three times. I'm looking forward to the rest of the debates, needless to say....
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Yakov-Luvlas wrote:I don't have a TV, so I listened on the radio...

No worries comrade... it looked something like this:
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And this...

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... but other than that.. nothing much to see here.. move along move along....
We have a country to finish subverting to our favored way of life.

Beets & Vodka Anyone?

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Romney lied, socialism died. Or something like that.

He won because he lied. And everyone knows you can't debate a liar. I say the reason Obama just stood there and said nothing is because he, in his absolute dazzling brilliance, knew that Romney's endless lies would say everything, which is to say nothing. Or something like that.

It's like what Yul Brynner said in The Ten Commandments: "Let him rave on that men may know him mad."

Granted, it would've been nice if Obama had mentioned the 47% remark, Bain Capital, Seamus the Dog, the missing tax returns, and oh yes, the lies, the constant lies. Then we could've heard Romney tell even more lies.

I hope at the town hall debate, Romney gets questions about all that stuff. I have faith in the American people that they will do the right thing that matters!

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You're exactly right, Pinkie (as usual). Who are we -- mere mortals -- to even touch the very hem of the garment of the deep understanding required to even question his steaming pile of nuances?

I'm sure right now as we breath, Dear Leader is sitting with Darth Axelrod, skyping Dark Lord Soros and channeling Saul Alinsky's ghost, just in time for the next debate.

We can, and should, expect him to ask Mittens™ those very important questions that are burning on EVERY American's mind and etched into every American's kitchen conversation -- so much so I had these issues tattooed to my kitchen table. Such as "where's those damn tax returns?", "why did you put your dog on top of your car?“, "admit Bain Kkkapital is eeevil", show us how much money you're hiding in Cayman and Swiss bank accounts", and "why did you vote for George Bush?"

If O'bumbo doesn't ask these questions and get TRUTHFUL answers for a change, he can kiss his FOR MORE EARS goodbye!

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Delighted that you show their pictures side-by-side.
below dear leader's picture should be the caption this is your brain, below the other guys photo should the this is your brain on drugs.
his clear victory brought glory to the people's ideals!!!!!

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Corporeal Whinny wrote:You're exactly right, Pinkie (as usual). Who are we -- mere mortals -- to even touch the very hem of the garment of the deep understanding required to even question his steaming pile of nuances?

I'm sure right now as we breath, Dear Leader is sitting with Darth Axelrod, skyping Dark Lord Soros and channeling Saul Alinsky's ghost, just in time for the next debate.

We can, and should, expect him to ask Mittens™ those very important questions that are burning on EVERY American's mind and etched into every American's kitchen conversation -- so much so I had these issues tattooed to my kitchen table. Such as "where's those damn tax returns?", "why did you put your dog on top of your car?“, "admit Bain Kkkapital is eeevil", show us how much money you're hiding in Cayman and Swiss bank accounts", and "why did you vote for George Bush?"

If O'bumbo doesn't ask these questions and get TRUTHFUL answers for a change, he can kiss his FOR MORE EARS goodbye!

Dear Leader needs to go on the OFFENSIVE and shell out endless attacks in the next debate:

-Attack Romney on his tax returns
-Attack Romney for killing a cancer patient
-Attack Romney for his wealth
-Attack Romney for being a felon
-Attack Romney for Bain KKKapital
-Attack Romney for being racist
-Attack Romney for hating women
-Attack Romney for working in the evil, greedy private sector

He needs to talk over him to make sure that Romney doesn't get a word in. Also hopefully we will have better moderator. Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow be preferable.



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Another possibility is Champed for one, Chomped for the other.


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Don't forget, boys and girls, the Vice Presidential Debate is coming on Thursday!

Yes, pull up your most comfy chairs, grab a six-pack and some delicious official Vice Presidential Debate Popcorn™, and get ready for the comedy event of the season, as financial whiz Congressman Paul "Math" Ryan takes on Vice President "Joe the Clown" Biden!!

On every channel that matters, Thursday, October 11, at 9:00 PM Eastern - don't miss it!

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Prog off;

There are only two reasons why Joe Blow would not bring his "A" game:

1. He does not have one, or
2. He forgets where he left it.

Duh mudia over estimates him, it is impossible to under estimate him.
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Reason for editing this post: Ooopsie Doopise!

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Don't worry about ol' Joe. He will crush that Ryan guy

His IQ is much higher than yours





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NancyPeloski wrote:Don't worry about ol' Joe. He will crush that Ryan guy

His IQ is much higher than yours

Comrade Peloski, you DO have a point.

Now for the next challenge:

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R.O.C.K. in the USSA wrote:
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Don't forget, boys and girls, the Vice Presidential Debate is coming on Thursday!

Yes, pull up your most comfy chairs, grab a six-pack and some delicious official Vice Presidential Debate Popcorn™, and get ready for the comedy event of the season, as financial whiz Congressman Paul "Math" Ryan takes on Vice President "Joe the Clown" Biden!!

On every channel that matters, Thursday, October 11, at 9:00 PM Eastern - don't miss it!

Image Why should we worry about this Ryan? What kan some Pavel Ryan do to our glorious Second Leader? Everyone knows who will win: IT WILL BE OUR SECOND GLORIOUS LEADER KOMRADE JOSEF BIDEN!!!! HE WILL WIN BECAUSE HE IS THE SECOND MASTER OF THE GLORIOUS ONE'S TEAM! VIKTORY BIDEN! WE DEKLARE IT NOW BEFORE THIS "DEBATE" STArTS! HE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE BETTER THAN THIS RYAN!!!
[highlight=#ff0000]VIKTORY KOMRADE OBAMA! VIKTORY KOMRADE BIDEN! VIKTORY TO THE NEW NOVEMBER REVOLUTION!!![/highlight][hr][/hr]Image It may not be with a bowl of popcorn, but I am definitely goiong to tune in to see how Paul Ryan dissembles the Vice-President, especially after the embassy assaults, and more especially after Mr. Biden's gaffes....

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Comrades, I came up with another way in which the debate was rigged in Romney's favor: Everyone in the auditorium was required to stay quiet and not emit so much as a peep during the debate.

No applauding Obama. No cheering Obama. No shouting, "We love you!" to Obama.

No booing Romney. No hissing Romney. No heckling Romney. No shouting, "You lie!" to Romney.

If only they'd allowed all of the above, I just KNOW Obama would've won! He would've been victorious! He would've cleaned Romney's clock! He would've mopped up the floor with Romney! He would've kicked Romney's butt!

THIS* is what should've been the deciding factor! It's the most reliable tool there is for declaring Obama the winner and Romney the obvious loser that he is!

Free Speech was suppressed that night! I say we declare the debate unconstitutional and null and void like it never even happened!

*As seen at the DNC Convention when voting to revise the platform that according to Dick Durbin, no one reads anyway.

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I couldn't agree with you more, Commissarka (especially considering that shovel of yours that's always lurking in the background). The fact is, at a university or other other properly progressive arena of note, Romney could have and would have been shouted down until he was forced to just leave the stage. That's the 99% at work, DEMOCRACY at work! And instead, they were forced by this groveling Lehrer to be silent.

I think it's about time we stop letting the Rethugglikkkan controlled mainstream media run these debates!!

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Just noticed the American flag lapel pins in the side-by-side-pictures posted. Mitt's is bigger. If they each wore a pair of them there could be a sound bite opportunity.




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Greek columns will not help Obama this time around:


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Robert Fine wrote:Greek columns will not help Obama this time around:


You're probably right, Comrade Fine. He'd have to be dressed up in a tutu with olive branches on the sides of his huge ears, playing a Stradivarius, while the Jumbotron in the background flashes images of burning US embassies -- and the south side of Chitcago -- as he explains his positions and policies.

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My Our entire Kollectiv can hardly wait for The Alternate Kommissar "Vice Presidential" Debate. Commissar Biden will obviously DESTROY Thought-Criminal... Uhhh, WhatzHisName? This is obvious because ComBide is OBVIOUSLY the most Brilliant Genius Who Has Ever Held The Office Of Vice President Assistant Commissar!

But is UnImportant! - Our Saint Obammunist wins this "election" by A Landslide Of Historic Proportions! [And if He doesn't win in overwhelming numbers, then this is prima facie evidence that The Rethuglikkkan Nazis have engaged in shameful levels of voter fraud! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT COMMISSAR OBAMA WILL BE RE-ELECTED To Another Four Six LifeTerm!]

But in the case that the CLEARLY FIXED ballot boxes manage to "elect" Thought-Criminal Romney, then Atty. Gen. Holder must begin Investigations - including wholesale Imprisonment - To Regain Progressive Obammunism in "The Pathetic States Formerly Known As 'The United States'"...



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Here's a video that gives some Obama background with a little help of our Choom graphic and, of course, John Sununu.



 
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