Romney creates profits, not jobs:
The nominee has pegged [Romney’s] hopes to a pledge to create jobs, citing his record in private business. But there is a stark difference between creating wealth for oneself and others, and creating jobs. Companies often increase their profitability by squeezing out workers, or outsourcing jobs overseas.
In challenging the President’s first-term record, Mr. Romney has displayed a chronic eagerness to say anything he thinks will win him the support of the audience he is addressing at the moment. That raises the question of what he truly believes: He has changed positions so often on so many basic issues — health care, women’s rights, government regulation — that it seems his only fixed principle is his own advancement.
It is difficult to see Romney as a credible candidate. One of his own campaign advisers said that regardless of what Romney said January through July, there would be an Etch-a-Sketch moment after he won the Republican nomination. And that’s what happened.
Romney’s magical economic plan:
You would think that Romney, with his business smarts, would offer a coherent vision for the nation’s budget challenges. Instead, he’s conjured a magical economic plan with deep tax cuts and increased military spending. Romney would eliminate tax deductions to offset lost revenue, but he refuses to provide details. It’s simply not credible.
Why Romney is not fit for President:
A strong executive who can buy and sell companies and is used to getting his way is not the same as a visionary leader who can pull people together.
Romney’s comment in a private donor setting – belittling the 47 percent who don’t pay income taxes as freeloaders – is damning and hard-to-shake evidence that he may not really care so much about many Americans of lesser portfolios.
In too many ways, Romney resembles a slick salesman, willing to fudge and say anything to close the deal.
“Barack Obama for Re-Election”:
In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments.
Obama helps small business:
Contrary to Mr. Romney’s claims, Mr. Obama has done good things for small businesses — like pushing through more tax write-offs for new equipment and temporary tax cuts for hiring the unemployed.
The Miami Herald on Obama’s firm position:
Not all Americans like what he stands for, but they know who he is. He has championed the middle class and has a larger, more tolerant notion of America that includes closing the inequality gap and evening the playing field, as exemplified by making an equal-pay-for-women bill the first law he signed. He has fought for the DREAM Act on behalf of the immigrant youths brought here by their parents, and he wants a Supreme Court that will continue to support Roe v. Wade. That’s crucial.
Why Washington Post endorses “Four more years for President Obama” instead of Mitt Romney:
The sad answer is there is no way to know what Mr. Romney really believes. His unguarded expression of contempt for 47 percent of the population seems as sincere as anything else we’ve heard, but that’s only conjecture… Every politician changes his mind sometimes; you’d worry if not. But rarely has a politician gotten so far with only one evident immutable belief: his conviction in his own fitness for higher office.
Richard Mourdock, GOP Senate nominee, opposes abortion even in the case of rape because “it is something that God intended.”
This kind of religious belief freaks me out.
John Franklin Stephens responses to Ann Coulter’s tweet calling the President retard:
After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.
The whole letter is worth reading.