Is this the liberal bias you were talking about? This is exactly the kind of narrow minded bigoted hate speech that I have become used to hearing from the left. Ignore Fox News all you want, but there is no justification for religious bigotry. None.

Romney has lead a life where he has shown live and compassion for others. Like Steve Jobs, Romney didn’t go around bragging about his acts of compassion.

Sometimes political bias can be so bad you can’t even see the human behind people you disagree with politically. You have this problem.

That said we do have problems in this country with our education system where other countries do far better than we do. I think we should be willing to see what makes other countries work better and how can we improve. I feel there is resistance to progress largely institutionalized by unions.

You are welcome to feel differently but you have given me a laundry list of excuses why teachers have problems. Excuses are never solutions.

I said: “he is a moderate republican from where I sit.”

Let me break that down for him:

HE—ISN’T—LIBERAL—ENOUGH—FOR–ME

or

I–DON’T–SEE–MUCH–LIBERAL–POLICY–HE–IS–A–CENTRIST–CORPORATIST–DESPITE–GOP–ATTEMPTS–AT–LABELING–HIM–A–SCARY–SOCIALIST

Your news shouldn’t be filtered through ANY political ideology nor should it be vetted by government or industry. Once any of that happens it ceases to be news and becomes instead propoganda.

This is the very simple reason I do not watch Fox News. I mean have you ever listened to Ann Coulter or Hannity. More hate and BS wrapped in the flag than any sane person should ever be subjected too, all spewed for partisan hacks so they will buy the book. It is disgusting.

Buying a company, raiding it’s assets, firing middle management, raiding the pension funds, offshoring the labor, laying off the American Labor, sell it, profit obscenely.

That IS what Mitt and Bain DO, it is indisputable.

Legal? YES Moral? Not in my world.

He will be friendly to this industry, it will continue, this business model is antithetical to US job growth, bottom line. Don’t stand in front of me and tell me you are for American workers and jobs when you have a twenty year history that is the opposite of your narrative.

Gloss over it all you want, make excuses all you want. It doesn’t make it not true, it means you don’t care.

One doesn’t have to beleive Obama is going to be great for this land to think Mittens is going to be horrible. Worse than Ford, Worse than Bush, more crooked than Nixon. Mark my words, part of me hopes he wins, so everyday I can point out to people like you what a huge mistake you are making.

The guy makes my skin crawl, every time his mouth opens he lies. He is phony, stiff, heartless and cruel. I think his religion is a cult and quite frankly we do not need cultists and religion extremists running this country IMO.

I also do not think BO has done enough, but I also know that over 200 pieces of legislation were shot down by the GOP, whose stated goal was to be uncooperative and see to it he had one term. I do not find that approach or mindset to be acceptable, so I am willing to see if he starts swinging hammers as a second termer.

I am more comfortable with the thought of him continuing than Mitt coming in, it is that simple.

I have worked in public and private schools as well as corporate and small business environments. (Educated IT pro) and let me tell you teachers work VERY hard. They also mostly do it with more tact and decorum than any work place I have ever been outside of schools. They MIGHT have a planning period to actually grade papers, work on lessons, explore new content to augment a lesson, but more often than not, that work goes home at the end of the day.

Most get a 30 minute lunch. For every subordinate (student) that they have, there is usually one or more parents subverting their authority, not ensuring homework gets completed, not helping students study, not getting them to school on time, not addressing the behavior issues their kid displays in class DISTRACTING and INTERRUPTING the lessons. Not feeding the kids (hungry crabby kids do not make good students) complaining to the administration over grades, expecting special treatment, and on and on.

It is a VERY demanding, often demeaning job. Regulations require constant ongoing education, the only way to get a raise is to take more college courses at night. Cannot easily move or go to another district if you have many years of experience, budgets are cut so much schools only want to hire fresh, inexperienced (NOT GOOD YET) teachers because they can get away with paying 18-25 K for them. Tell me one other job with masters and doctorate degrees where their performance is judged by welfare recipients, luddites and garbage men? Yes, they know they will not be getting rich, but c’mon, they face silly questions like your everyday.

In answer to how teachers are accountable: You cannot. You cannot simply say here are 27 kids, if you want a raise or to keep your job they must all be at level X by the end of the year. IT JUST ISN’T POSSIBLE. Too many variables the teacher cannot control. She cannot make a kid want to learn, she cannot make him not day dream, she cannot make him come to school, she cannot control all the things working against her.

What can and what do they do? Make innovative curriculum, use non-traditional techniques to engage students. Try to educate the parents, ASK the community for help.

Go to some schools on reading night, see how few parents and students attend. usually around %25. The teacher is often mandated curriculum, they have state mandated testing, federally mandated testing. If the teacher is fulfilling those requirements she is doing her job, she deserves to be paid. It does not EVER guarantee the final outcome of the students. Budget cuts have led to skyrocketing classroom size, a single teacher in a room full of 27 kids has less time available for individualized instruction/remediation than a teacher with 15.

The parent & students ACCOUNTABILITY is the issue, not most teacher. Americans no longer care for or value hard work, sacrifice, we want leisure and entertainment. Sure there will always be a few bad one, no matter the profession, that is the administrations role. The administration of EVERY school contains the highest paid people there, and often the least effective.

Don’t even get me started on how very little we teach critical thinking skills. That needs to be changed at the state and federal level.

Candy, I understand how some people might get frustrated when they see Chinese workers assembling iPhones. It’s easy to think that those jobs rightly belong in America. The reality is a little more complex, but when you understand it, there’s a surprising amount of good news for American workers.

The fact is, assembling iPhones and iPads is the final step of a complex process, and is really a low-skill, low-cost kind of job. China has spent decades building much of its economy around these low-skill jobs, in part because it has such a large labor force and plenty of workers who are willing to do the work. And, frankly, here in America you wouldn’t want to try to support a family on the kind of wages a job like that would pay. I know it sounds harsh, but it’s true. So I know this may sound odd when I say it, but I ask you to hear me out: I’m perfectly comfortable letting those kinds of jobs go to China or somewhere else.

In fact, some researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that for every iPad or iPhone manufactured, Chinese workers add $10 or less to the value of an iPad or iPhone. On an iPad, they found that American workers add $162 worth of value, and on an iPhone it was more than twice as much.

In America, when we talk about manufacturing, we should be talking about advanced manufacturing jobs for highly skilled workers that require a solid education and pay wages on which you can support a family. And the fact is, there’s a lot of American work that goes into an iPad or an iPhone or a Mac.

Read more at http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/17/how-romney-andor-obama-should-have-answered-candy-crowleys-apple-assembly-question/#5zXecSAKPUp7wVsh.99

We should be looking at the great things we do not the low skilled stuff we don’t.

The high standard of living isn’t consumption driven. But you wouldn’t know that. America is a great country and highly innovative.

I have total responsibility for my life. I don’t blame govt for my life. I have 100% control in my destiny. I believe regardless who is elected these jobs won’t come back. Your response insulting me is the typical response of a person who doesn’t have a credible argument.

You really are a tool.

I will check out the link you sent also.

I do not think it takes great intellectual dept to be a liberal political hack. There are many intellectually shallow conservatives, but on the other hand I know there are many very intelligent conservatives.

There are some liberals I respect, Steve Jobs was one but even he fought against teachers unions which are ruining California and he was very fiscally conservative with Apple.

I have been to China, and as a westerner I will admit I have difficulty telling the difference between many different Asian groups.

If my harsh words negate the credibility of my points then that’s my failing. However consider the tide of liberalism I swim against where the media destroys Nixon while it protects Clinton and Obama. On this board I read how terrible Romney and the Republicabs are and how flawless Obama is.

It just gets last my point if tolerance. If I particularly said anything that offended you I’m sorry.

You know that dress doesn’t flatter your curvy figure as much as some of your other dresses.

Are both of those statements the same just because they make similar points?

Does the attitude and the tone and delivery of the message count, or is the general idea behind a message the only thing that matters?

I can respect that you disagree with me but at least have something to say.

I do think that cutting Federal spending and lowering taxes is a good idea, but not if dont think lowering taxes and not cutting spending, or not raising taxes and increasing spending massively is a good idea. Fighting a war is somewhat understandable the deficit would go up, but really need to look how we treat future generation of Americans with this huge debt.

How do you suggest we hold teachers accountable for their students learning?

Bush deserves blame for the mistakes he made as well as credit for the things he did right. Obama deserves some credit, but he needs to man up and stop crying snout Bush, and own his presidency.

A completely different history and consequently completely different philosophy. Americans do not see things like Europe and likely will never want to.

If Europe wants to look at America through a European lens and completely misunderstand what exactly America is and what makes it uniquely great, go ahead. That doesn’t necessarily mean what Europe does is wrong, only that it doesn’t translate over here.

Obama is extremely liberal for what Ameruca is and what we stand for. And no, not just on gay rights or abortion rights, although clearly he’s in the left of those two issues. To me what makes him liberal is his insistence that America should apologize for what we are, and that we are nothing special, and rich and successful people are products of society and did not build their success for themselves. An apologetic and class division based world view.

His government take over of healthcare is just another example of this.

What was Obama’s response to the Fast and Furious question at the debate? Oh, that’s right. He wouldn’t answer it.

Why? Well, a couple weeks earlier, Obama was at the Democratic Convention spiking the football for killing Osama bin Laden and telling us that he had al Qaida on the run.

Then, we had the first successful terrorist attack on U.S. sovereign territory since 9/11, and on the very anniversary and by al-Qaida-linked killers.

This was not helpful to the Obama narrative. He had to convince us it wasn’t al Qaida. So, he sent the US Ambassador to the UN on the Sunday talk show circuit to tell everybody it was merely movie demonstration that went out of control. She appeared on five different shows to spin the yarn. Obama, too, went around telling the tale. He even said it at the UN.

Obama lied. People died. It’s a fact.

If that story was thought up by Obama’s campaign spinmeisters and not actually “bad intel” as was claimed and
then told to the american people AND the UN by obama (and his cabinet) they we have a extremely serious situation here.

But of course the media, normally charged with being the watchdogs of political crimes and misdoing, are nothing more than the lapdogs of this president. And so aren’t even asking “excuse Mr President where did the “story” you told in the rose garden the morning after the attack come from… specifically?”

ANyway, Obama is what we consider to be a red conservative, basically dead center. I find it funny that anyone would call him a ‘liberal’ unless the reason for the label is ONLY pro-choice and in favour of gay rights (which I doubt).

I’m willing to bet it is also a fact that you are incapable of rational thought or blaming Clinton or any democrat for his role in Sept 11 attack.

“Had President Bush not cut taxes while simultaneously prosecuting two foreign wars and adopting other programs without paying for them, the current deficit would be only 4.7 percent of gross domestic product this year, instead of the eye-catching 11.2 percent—despite the weak economy and the costly efforts taken to restore it. In 2010, the deficit would be 3.2 percent instead of 9.6 percent.”
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2009/08/25/6594/whos-to-blame-for-the-deficit-numbers/

Tell me how that message is any different from Obama’s point that the person who built a business didn’t build the infrastructure that is essential for that business to succeed.

You are far more despicable than the average clueless liberal brainwashed idiot.

You know someone has no salient point when they bring up Hitler. The Taliban is the new Hitler. I doubt you have studied much history, you are beyond ignorant, repulsive and offensive.

The fact that “Truth” agreed with you pretty much confirms that he is just as ignorant, bigoted and repulsive.

You can’t blockade or legislate penalties on business to keep them in the US (besides being immoral (do you think you are better or more deserving than Canadians or south americans? I don’t) Besides it just don’t work (as is evidenced by current migrations)

Why would I build something in the US and pay a minimum 35% of my earnings to the government in tax when I could build it in canada and pay 15%? (not to mention enduring five to tenfold the regulation and red tape)

The way to keep business in the US is to lower the cost of doing business, and stop limit all the federal (most of it nearly useless) legislation and regulations. This would simultaneously make them (US businesses) more competitive in the export markets. Simply erecting walls to limit ability to source the most efficient manufacturing tend to raise prices and make us less competitive in export markets.

Obama has over taxed and over regulated business (to the point where it costs significantly more to manufacture here in the US) His method to offset this is government subsidies.
He truly believes big business and “profits” are evil.
Obama even said (in the debate) that he wanted to tax the money US companies made overseas (which would simply force international companies to move their home offices to a place like Canada) We currently have an over taxed, over regulated and downright hostile environment to attempt to do business in. That needs to stop now. The last thing we need to do is to erect more barriers, more laws, more red tape, and levy even more penalties on businesses. (like outsourcing penalties)

Rather, what the US needs to to, is make the US a competitive place to conduct you business (with other countries (like Canada)).

Why only focus on taxes and loopholes and no mention of cutting spending?

One thing I never hear anyone talk about regarding independence is hydrogen. There’s an abundant supply in the vast oceans that could be collected and it could entirely replace gasoline in less than 20 years if we put converted effort behind it. That would be cheaper in the long run and better for the environment.

We still hear about Watergate where no one died because the president was a republican. Obama is democrat so 4 Americans can be assassinated under his watch with almost no security while there’s a marine detachment in Paris. No one gets to question why, nor ask why it took 3 weeks to arrive at the location to gather what little evidence there was still left, nor why they had to beg for security and it was denied. All because Obama is a democrat, and this is why a bias leftist lying moderator is a serious problem.

This is not paranoia. Watergate wasn’t paranoia it was a crime. This is even worse since people died. That people on the left are not outraged shows how little integrity liberals and democrats have: none.

Bush bears some responsibility for Sept 11, as does Clinton who let Obama go several times and idiotically tried to deal with international terrorism through the woefully inadequate criminal courts.

The problem with the assassination in Libya of our ambassador is that it was preventable and it was predictable that there would be an attack on Sept 11 on an embassy in an unstable country with known and active al Quada cells, and Obama or someone under him refused to adequately secure the consulate there, for reasons that still haven’t been explained.

He DID say that. Furthermore It illuminates his (socialist) way of looking at things (To each according to need. From each according to ability. Sound like a good idea to you kingmel)

Romney wants Keystone Pipeline, last night he tried tying it to American Refineries and lower fuel prices. The facts are it is an EXPORT pipeline to move canadian product to the gulf for EXPORT. IE NOT for North America. This will undercut American exports and likely RAISE the price of gas.

Turn off your tv, do a little research. Want a link?

Affirmative action≠non-discriminatory

Affirmative action=quotas
(which should be illegal based on non-discriminatory law.)

It has been shown to you by example (that Romney on his own thought they might not be giving woman a fair chance that is non-discriminatory not affirmative action) and DID something about it, and then idiots like breeze attempt to mock him for it. I’m sorry you (and breeze) are just clueless
You are eyes wide shut my friend