I can’t wait to hear adaher’s answer to this.
I’m thinking it will be blamed on Romnesia - but I am waiting with baited breath ready to be proven wrong.
A country that accepts the Olympics has a responsibility to make it run. Would be pretty humiliating if the US became the first country to not hold an Olympics because we screwed it up.
The only ones responsible for making sure our auto companies succeed are the auto companies. And while the bailout may have bought Obama regional votes, Americans are voting with their dollars that they’d rather not buy cars from companies on the dole. There’s a reason Ford has sought to advertise that they didn’t need a bailout, an even better reason why this infuriated the administration.
The Olympcs is not a public event. The IOC is an NGO. That N? It stands for Non, as in Non-Governmental Organization.
I note that some right-wing group has actually sponsored an anti-Obama piece on his “failed foreign policy in Libya” which has popped up on everyone’s Facebook page. Preparing the ground for the next debate, I see.
Yep. Just like the Iran announcement prepares the debate for Obama.
Well, sure. And highlights the strengths of each party. The GOP is going with blatant lies and scare tactics because that’s all they have. The Democrats have a stronger actual foreign policy position to work from.
What Iran announcement are you talking about Adaher? You’re kinda cryptic and there’s nothing notable in the news here.
I was assuming it was the suggestion that Iran had agreed in principle to talks, although Iran is not confirming anything.
Exactly. There’s only one Iran announcement.
Uh huh. So the conservative principles of small government and a free market are important, unless you have a REALLY GOOD REASON! Can we borrow that feckless attitude for, say, health care? Or are Democrats the only ones who should be held strictly accountable for the things conservatives claim to believe?
The White House made no Iran announcement.
They have done no such thing.
Ah, but they did:
Quote from the ad:
I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That’s what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta’ pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me.
One ad that was pulled almost as quickly as it was aired. Not exactly a theme they’ve woven into their marketing plan.
But I’ll give you that Ford “sought to advertise that they didn’t need a bailout.” I just now noticed the odd wording of your original statement.
The difference is that the “bailout” to corporations ended up saving millions of jobs, and ensured that the economy stopped tanking and started to turn around, and actually ended up being a good investment, since much of the money was repaid.
Whereas the taxpayer money that went into the Olympics saved face for the International Olympic Committee, and was not repaid.
If we had it your way, there would be no auto industry in N. America anymore, and you’d be buying your next car from Japan or Korea.
That’s probably why GM posted record profits earlier this year. Things are just going terrible for them since the bailout.
I think the Republicans would let the entire country fail. Without a government in the way, they’d be free to run a pure plutocracy or corporatocracy or whatever (what else do they think the government is ‘in the way’ of?). I think that would amount to a new Dark Ages for just about everyone not at the top.
It is terrible to Republicans- those workers belong to unions, which protect their rights, goddamnit!
JFTR, countries don’t accept the Olympics. Cities make proposals to host the Olympics. In the USA, this is done, AFAICT, without any Federal involvement.
So Salt Lake City put forth a great proposal and won the 2002 Winter Games. Then they realized they didn’t have the resources to back up their big mouths, so Romney stepped in and persuaded the Federal government to bail SLC out.
If we as a nation were to accept your notion that “a country that accepts the Olympics has a responsibility to make it run,” that would be carte blanche for any city in the country to make extravagant proposals to win the Olympics, secure in the knowledge that taxpayers around the country would open their wallets to make good on their unsupported pledges.
That would be a pretty stupid way to run things, wouldn’t it?
Interesting view of how the two campaigns’ ground game compares.
The state where Romney has the most offices is Florida with 48. Obama has more than 48 offices in seven states, including teeny-tiny six-electoral-vote Iowa.
CO: 61 Obama offices, 14 Romney
FL: 102 Obama, 48 Romney
IA: 66 Obama, 13 Romney
NC: 53 Obama, 24 Romney
NH: 22 Obama, 9 Romney
NV; 26 Obama, 12 Romney
OH: 122 Obama, 40 Romney
PA: 54 Obama, 24 Romney
WI: 68 Obama, 24 Romney
The only states Romney has more offices than Obama are Utah and Missouri. Nate Silver has it at 98% or higher that those states go to Romney, so it seems a bit WTF? to have invested that much in offices there. Although, Obama has multiple offices in California, Oregon, New York, South Carolina, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Montana, Arizona and Texas, so I have a similar WTF? reaction to that.
Also with Silver, in his top five tipping-point states (the states most likely to provide the decisive electoral votes-- OH, WI, VA, NV, IA), Obama has 329 offices to Romney’s 118-- that’s almost three times as many GOTV centers for Obama.
As much as the Romney people are banking on the air war to score an ultimate victory, the Obama camp is counting on their boots on the ground to win it. And, for my money, that’s the only thing that matters. Opinion polls mean far less than actual pull-the-lever GOTV.