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The Greatest Debate strategy ever--Part four (Original Post) trumad Oct 2012 OP
That's a lot better. Two weeks ago it was Leon Spinks I. Hoyt Oct 2012 #1
A simple technique for destroying Romney and his gang is too. . . . LIBERterryAN Oct 2012 #2
knr chknltl Oct 2012 #3
Please don't demean the President with this nonsense cthulu2016 Oct 2012 #4
I don't see the OP demeaning the President SunsetDreams Oct 2012 #6
I Think The OP Is Suggesting That Ali Used A Rope A Dope Strategy In Their First Debate DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #8
More Like The First And Second Norton Fight DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #7
Please trumad Oct 2012 #9
I Have Written Several Times Here I Didn't Think The President Did All That Poorly DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 #12
hee hee. n/t Whisp Oct 2012 #5
Now what's my name???? malaise Oct 2012 #10
Thank you. I quite agree. nt bemildred Oct 2012 #11

LIBERterryAN

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2. A simple technique for destroying Romney and his gang is too. . . .
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:56 AM
Oct 2012

Take a look at what the barking mad GOP has done to M2v and MZMv --- the velocity of money over the last 12 years with their horrible fiscal policy. What I'm taliking about here
is how the GOP (on a micro scale) gives $1.00 of tax cuts to the top 1% who save 50% of
their incomes (instead of the bottom 99% who only save 8% of their incomes) and, because
of this, the economy is only bigger by $0.30 1-year later. That's called a "multiplier." Then,
in order to pay for their looting, they cut government spending by $1.00 and, because of this
the economy is smaller by $1.50 1-year later.

So for every $1.00 that the GOP gives in tax cuts to the top 1% that create zero jobs and pay for it by cutting government spending on the bottom 99% that create lots of jobs our
economy ends up smaller by $1.20 1-year later. We lose jobs and gain more debt. Then the
barking mad GOP says " wow am i mad about debt and job-losses!" when in fact the GOP
creates all of the debt and destroys all of the jobs --- by the millions. Literally.

Thus, the amount of yearly GDP that our economy gets per every dollar in our money supply
is always nose-diving because of the GOP's CLASS WARFARE.

That is an easy and simple argument to make over and over again = the end of the GOP.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
4. Please don't demean the President with this nonsense
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 01:39 AM
Oct 2012

He did lose the first debate, and doing so was not a strategy.

If it was a strategy then he would be the stupidest person on the planet, and he is actually extremely intelligent.

He turned in a superb debate performance tonight.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
8. I Think The OP Is Suggesting That Ali Used A Rope A Dope Strategy In Their First Debate
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 01:50 AM
Oct 2012

The difference is Ali KO'd Foreman in the eighth round.


He was superb tonight. October 6th not so much...

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
7. More Like The First And Second Norton Fight
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 01:48 AM
Oct 2012

Ali took Norton lightly , lost their first fight, and came back to beat him...

Or more like the first and second Spinks fight where the same fact pattern emerged. I don't really think those fights really meant much because Ali was essentially done as a great fighter by then and Spinks wasn't very good...

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
12. I Have Written Several Times Here I Didn't Think The President Did All That Poorly
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:02 AM
Oct 2012

But it doesn't matter what partisans like you and I think. What matters is a plurality or majority of Americans didn't think he did well. Even Muhammad Ali had a bad night. He had two to be exact. I don't count the losses to Spinks, Holmes, and Berbick because he was done.


The bottom line is whatever happened on October 6th Barack Obama punished Willard Romney. I think Louis-Schmeling ll is the better metaphor. Joe Louis got caught sleeping in their first fight but came back to literally punish Max Schmeling in their rematch.

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