The problem with two-party debates was evident Monday.
Despite an aggressive tone, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney agreed with almost everything President Barack Obama has done.
This came as a surprise to some of Romney's supporters, who had not previously heard him cozying up to Pakistan and proposing U.S. investment in programs designed to improve the economic prospects of the Arab world.
The candidates did not even pretend to disagree on critical issues of foreign policy.
Should the president have the power to authorize drone attacks aimed at suspected terrorists in other countries? Should he have that power even when the target is a U.S. citizen?
Is America too close to Israel, giving it the ability to drag U.S. soldiers into a premature war with Iran?
Is it time to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp?
The only input Americans have on these issues comes when they vote for a candidate. When there are only two candidates and they agree with each other, voters have no voice at all.
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The two political parties are "parties" only to their leaders. To the rest of us they are a criminal organization stealing from the public to enrich themselves and their cronies. They have no redeeming value. They don't govern, they plunder; they don't lead, they destroy. Genghis Khan would make a better president and his general would make better congressmen. Why? Because he was truthful and honest. Everyone KNEW he was a thug, he neve purported to be anything else! ANYone who gives ONE DIME to a politician or a political party should be arrested for bribery. ANY politician who has ONE dime he cannot PROVE he EARNED and PAID income tax on, SHOULD BE IMPRISONED for the CRIME of CORRUPTION! ANY elected lawmaker even SUGGESTING that a proposed law provide them protection form criminal responsibility for ANY act considered criminal under ANY statute should be immediately removed from office and imprisoned as corrupt. NO lawyer should be allowed to run for ANY office as it provides an automatic conflict of interest. No judge should be allowed to except themselves from responsibility TO THE PUBLIC, both monetary and legal, for the decisions they make. ANY defense lawyer who stands in court and states their client is not guilty and then loses the case should be immediately sentenced as an accessory to the crime and locked in the same cell as their former client. Maybe THEN we'll get some relief!
Dumb.
If on some issues Romney starts at the same point as Obama, that does not mean Romney will handle the deeper nuances of that issue that same way as our glorious leader- and That is what determines outcome.
I Trust Romney's outcomes to be more to my liking than what the President has so far done.
Obama said Romney did not have any foreign policy experience. What did he have before he took office? Obama said Romney did not make students available tocolleges in his state, that it was before he took office. False. He did it in 2004 while he was in office. Obama said he would hire 100,000 new teachers. Where would the money come from and what would happen to the bad teachers we have now> Was this a statement to get 100000 votes? Obama said HE killed Ben Ladin. It wa the team and it was in planning for years before he took office. Obama is sying one lie a=fter another. When you tell these lies often enough, you begin to beleive them yourself.
Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler's Minister of Nazi Propaganda during World War II would be envyable of the snow job the Republican Party has done on the U.S. middle class. I take some solice in the fact that most of us expressing our opinions in this forum (me included) do not reflect the opinions of the majority of our neighbors!
Joe, learn how to spell or type, one.