SPEAK OUT: Is the Presidential Race Becoming Too Negative?

andrew August 16, 2012 at 05:11 pm

making richer richer cutting education is that also going to make more jobs i think not its just going to make life worse and harder obama hasen;t been able to exactly do this yet but think about it being presidents a tough job and romney and vice prez. apparently want to eliminate our future by cutting off education and only letting the rich succed that seems like cutting off all the rugged damaged parts of the economy (THAT CAN BE REPAIRED BUT WITH A LOT OF EFFORT) and shrinking it to a less damaged part but with that i don't see more jobs i just see a lot more hardships and people need help to get jobs because it "COSTS MONEY TO MAKE MONEY" Obama is really trying but i don't support Obama either but if i had to choose it would be Obama i mean for gods sakes peoples livelihoods and families are at stake those who have worked hard have worked for nothing and those who are working hard will have worked for nothing......if you are Mormon i urge you too not vote for Romney if your only voting out of loyalty to your religion and rethink your decision. if you still voting for him out of religion the remeber this your putting families childrens....our future at stake. SCREW YOU ROMNEY!

Captain Cook August 17, 2012 at 01:58 pm

Andrew, sorry your upbringing leads you to this tirad....get help, lad.

Scott Ritz August 17, 2012 at 03:41 pm

Yes, the hate is getting out of hand. Using the N-Word to describe how Mitt Romney views President Obama is about as low as you can get.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/romney-campaign-reaching-out-to-nbc-news-president-over-toures-niggerization-comment/

John August 17, 2012 at 03:52 pm

No, I do not thank the 2012 presidential campaign has become to negative. Issues that need addressing draw an expected tone with the American voter.

John August 17, 2012 at 04:07 pm

Comment to Scott. My comment that I do not thank the 2012 election has become negative…I do not agree with Romney’s choice of words. The subject does set the stage for the individual voter to choose. I will state, this election is one of the most important in my life.
Issues that carry a very deep tone with me are: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79826.html

Scott Ritz August 17, 2012 at 04:09 pm

In the article it wasn't Romney who used those words it was an Obama supporter.

Scott Ritz August 17, 2012 at 04:33 pm

Toure's statement was motivated by hate and his own prejudice. Americans are better than that.

John Floyd II August 17, 2012 at 05:00 pm

No matter who ends up farting on the Oval Office chair in January, we're bloody well buggered! With America being locked firmly into a two-parties-only political system with no possiblity of additional parties ever gaining any meaningful strength or power, it's become a matter of voting for the lesser of two evils (or against one or the other). Unfortunately, both of these truly-gormless prats in the 2012 presidential race are running a photo-finish when it comes to sheer incompetence so pick your poison, America!

Scott Ritz August 17, 2012 at 05:12 pm

Governor Romney was describing the tone of the Obama Campaign so far. The fact is the tone has been angry and divisive. How else should he describe it? Uplifting and unifying? Appealing to prejudice to achieve an outcome (winning the presidency) by using the race card sadly is effective but it is immoral.

JustABill August 17, 2012 at 06:37 pm

Andrew, I would like to thank you for proving just how broken the public school system really is here in the great Democrat run state of Maryland.

JustABill August 17, 2012 at 06:51 pm

Oh come on Frank. I suppose you expect people to scrutinize every word they say just to make sure they do not use words that others might misconstrue as "code words." I guess if that is how we are supposed to live in the utopian world then I will expect the President to ask for crisps to put in his bowl of coup and to never honk his car horn ever again because I am allowed to take offense to words like cracker and honk.
The Obama campaign is quite clearly running on a hate / class warfare platform and they are doing nothing to hide that overtly blatant fact. It is sad that they do not have anything positive to drive their campaign, but they clearly cannot run on the empty promise of Hope and Change now can they!?!

JustABill August 17, 2012 at 07:17 pm

Frank, the entire country is being divided by the Obama campaign. This is not JUST about the color of a person's skin. "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." and "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness." (Dr. Martin Luther King) Perhaps the President should try to be a leader for all of the people all of the time and not just the people he needs to get votes from to be reelected.

JustABill August 17, 2012 at 10:23 pm

Class warfare specific enough Frank ... quit playing dumb ... or ... oh never mind.

JustABill August 18, 2012 at 01:45 am

Class warfare goes far beyond just the tax issue and your lame old 1% BS just does not hold water when your beloved President now calls people earning $250,000 a year millionaires just as Governor O'Malley believes $150,000 is a reasonable millionaire threshold. Last I checked in this area those are the middle class families you Democrats say you will never raise taxes on and are always out to protect.

JustABill August 18, 2012 at 04:33 am

No Frank, incorrectly calling the people that pay more than half of all the federal and state tax revenues collected each year "the 1%" and words like "fair share" are talking points used by Democrats in an effort to anger lower income voters in hopes of wining their votes.
If you say they are talking points then fine talk about them for us all to better understand your point. If you want everyone to pay their "fair share" then why don't Democrats ever want to overhaul the tax code with a fair tax that would in turn reduce the number of IRS employees to less than 20% of the current system? And, why did the Democrats put so many new taxes into Obamacare that directly affect the lower income and middle class people they claim to be supporting causing the IRS to need 30,000 new employees? Democrats tried this class warfare in 1980 and it worked so well we ended up with one of the greatest Presidents in our nation's history so please, by all means, keep it coming.

RobertS August 20, 2012 at 01:58 am

The posting from Mr. Andrew is a perfect example of why there's so often a dearth of civility in our political discourse. I moved to DC a few years ago from San Francisco, which was plenty civil as so long as you subscribed to the prevailing liberal orthodoxies. In reality, SF was anything but civil ("tolerance for me, but not for thee"), and while DC is certainly more family friendly, the political discourse here is not so far removed from SF. Please respectfully agree to disagree instead of hurling ad hominems that do nothing to elevate the dialogue and get to the important matter of addressing our society's many issues. Ad hominems in all caps (shouting) are icing on the incivility cake. Respectfully submitted, RS

B Allen August 26, 2012 at 02:38 pm

Andrew, what the hell are you saying here? Does not make any sense. Quit carrying the water and thik for yourself. Why would you vote for NObama when he is definatly over his head, has no idea how to run anything other than an community association, has NEVER held down a real job or had to meet a payroll. He has NEVER as they call it "created a job or a business", had failed over and over in making wrong decisions, wrong policies and poor judgements. He ever said, if he did ot get the unemployment rates down and reduced the deficit in his first term, that would be it, an "one term pres" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0

B Allen August 26, 2012 at 02:43 pm

@RobertS, yes you will find the liberal meaning of "civility" is or applies to only those who have a thought process such as theirs. if you disagree or even question, they start with the name calling, threats, egotistic statements and so on.

B Allen August 26, 2012 at 02:52 pm

Well, when one would think that the democrats could not get any lower then under a rock in the deepest parts of the ocean, then they come out with a NEW low. The lies and deception of the democratic party is hilarious. It is amazing how they think that their people are actually believing them when they twist the facts and produce fiction. When they alter the numbers in their favor or give some lame comment as to why the numbers are not real, even if they come off a government website. When they try to say that the republicans don't like educated kids, clean air, clean water, they wanna push grandma over the cliff and not give her medical treatment, that they hate women...should I go on? It is all rediculous. Sad thing is, there are people out there that take their lies and deception, hook...line ...and sinker!!!! Seems that in order to be a lib, you need to have 98% of grey matter removed and allow only 2% for bodily functions and to carry their water.