You hit the proverbial nail right on the head, Rev. SmF.
> Learned rofessor,
>
> This is the main problem with Obama disciples - they don't listen or
> think very well. They are 200 percent convinced that only their or
> Obama's ideas work and any one else who has a different idea is
> stupid. The good doctor is no exception. She claims that Romney and
> Bain did not creat jobs. Bain itself is a comany with over 400
> employees which means it created jobs. Mr. Obama has never owned or
> operated a leomnade stand, so other than spending taxpayer money, how
> many jobs has he ever created?
>
> Besides Bain, the company did save jobs and create companies like
> Staples, SCM, Ampad and others most of which which are very
> successful. The problem with the socialistic Obama group is that the
> only jobs they consider are government jobs. The good doctor
> obviously is just lip-singing the chorus from the Democratic gay
> marriage convention which mainly says, I screwed up the first 4 years;
> give me another 4 years.
>
> SmF
>
>
> On 9/8/12, Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > My wonderful Sister Gloria, your take will not wash with the majority of us
> > Americans who actually vote. What is important is that the buck, whether
> > good or bad, stops with the POTUS. So for the majority of us, Romney wins on
> > this one.
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
> >> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >> <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> >> Cc: leonenet <leonenet@lists.umbc.edu>
> >> Date: 9/8/2012 10:40:44 AM
> >> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Unbaiased AP Says It Best In
> >> Its headline
> >>
> >> Let's face it, Romney does not have a plan for creating jobs- so Obama
> >> wins this one by default.
> >>
> >> Romney destroyed jobs, closed down plants and created turmoil for workers
> >> as testified by several of them
> >> a few days ago. He has no credible plan to turn things around and one
> >> suspects that things will get much worse
> >> on that front, should he move to the White House. His strengths may lie
> >> somewhere else - yet to be discovered.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
> >>
> >> www.vimeo.com/user5946750/videos<http://www.vimeo.com/user5946750/videos>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >> [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Abdul Karim Bangura
> >> [theai@earthlink.net]
> >> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 9:17 PM
> >> To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
> >> Cc: leonenet
> >> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Unbaiased AP Says It Best In Its
> >> headline
> >>
> >> Gloomy jobs report shadows race with 60 days left
> >>
> >>
> >> <http://enews.earthlink.net/article/pho?guid=20120907/cbb71beb-4cc3-4721-ad06-8fb546b69b04&article_path=/article/us&article_guid=20120907/cbb71beb-4cc3-4721-ad06-8fb546b69b04>
> >> President Barack Obama shakes hands with the crowd gathered Friday, Sept.
> >> 7, 2012, at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo -
> >> Matthew Putney)
> >> BEN FELLER
> >> From Associated Press
> >> September 07, 2012 7:33 PM EDT
> >>
> >>
> >> CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A dismal new snapshot of jobs in America shadowed
> >> the presidential campaign on Friday, testing the voter patience that will
> >> save or sink President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Seizing on the
> >> timing, Republican Mitt Romney said Obama's convention party had given way
> >> to quite a "hangover."
> >>
> >>
> >> Employers added just 96,000 jobs in August, not nearly enough to seriously
> >> dent unemployment, let alone inspire confidence that the economy is
> >> getting better. Even the good news — the unemployment rate dropped from
> >> 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent — resulted from many job-hunters just giving
> >> up.
> >>
> >>
> >> "We're going in the wrong direction," Romney declared, a view echoed by a
> >> majority of Americans still reeling from a massive recession.
> >>
> >>
> >> Obama put the emphasis on a trend showing employers have added jobs for 30
> >> months in a row now. He did so with a nod to public frustration.
> >>
> >>
> >> "We know it's not good enough," Obama said, dealing with the downbeat news
> >> mere hours after his confetti-flying Democratic National Convention. "We
> >> need to create more jobs, faster."
> >>
> >>
> >> With 60 frenetic days left until the election, the economic report was not
> >> grim enough to alter the political narrative of a consistently tight race.
> >> Yet the attention it commanded eroded any hope of a post-convention boost
> >> for Obama.
> >>
> >>
> >> Instead, it underlined his point that economic recovery will not be "quick
> >> or easy." No president has won re-election with unemployment over 8
> >> percent since Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Obama has embraced that Great
> >> Depression comparison, hoping to show why he and the nation need more
> >> time.
> >>
> >>
> >> Their conventions behind them and their debates just ahead, Obama and
> >> Romney sprinted into the next phase of campaign, targeting eight or so
> >> toss-up states. The two men headed the same way Friday, appearing in Iowa
> >> and New Hampshire, two states with small but potentially decisive
> >> electoral prizes.
> >>
> >>
> >> The economy has added just 139,000 jobs a month this year, a slower pace
> >> than last year. It takes roughly 200,000 jobs a month to shrink
> >> unemployment. In perspective, the economy was bleeding hundreds of
> >> thousands of jobs when Obama took office, but that does not comfort the
> >> jobless today.
> >>
> >>
> >> The new results only sharpened the competing and defining storylines of
> >> the election. Romney says the poor pace of job growth demands that Obama
> >> be thrown out of office, while the incumbent implores voters to compare
> >> the candidates' economic visions and see why only his would help the
> >> middle class.
> >>
> >>
> >> If the jobs numbers did hang over Obama, he did not show it, smiling and
> >> waving during rallies in Portsmouth, N.H., and Iowa City, Iowa. In both
> >> cities he returned to the themes of his convention speech, poking fun
> >> again at Romney while shrinking his competitor's economic theory to one
> >> idea.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Tax cuts. Tax cuts. Cut some more regulations. Oh, and more tax cuts,"
> >> Obama told the thousands who packed the grounds at Portsmouth's Strawbery
> >> Banke Museum. "Tax cuts when times are good. Tax cuts when times are bad.
> >> Tax cuts to help you lose a few extra pounds. Tax cuts to help you improve
> >> your love life. It'll cure anything."
> >>
> >>
> >> Romney was biting as well.
> >>
> >>
> >> On repeated occasions Friday, he challenged Obama's competency, lumping
> >> together the jobs report and Obama's prime-time convention address.
> >>
> >>
> >> "There was nothing in the speech that gives confidence that the president
> >> knows what he's doing when it comes to jobs," Romney told Fox News.
> >>
> >>
> >> It was a rejoinder to Thursday night, when Obama stood before a cheering
> >> crowd and essentially put the candidates on different levels.
> >>
> >>
> >> "The times have changed, and so have I," Obama said. "I'm no longer just a
> >> candidate. I'm the president."
> >>
> >>
> >> Trying to extend the buzz of his convention, Obama went back on the trail
> >> with Vice President Joe Biden and their wives as well. One of the longest
> >> days of his campaign would take him from North Carolina to New Hampshire
> >> to Iowa and ultimately Florida, where he begins a bus tour on Saturday.
> >>
> >>
> >> The monthly jobs snapshot came out even before organizers in Charlotte had
> >> finished clearing away the convention.
> >>
> >>
> >> "If last night was the party," Romney said in a statement, "this morning
> >> is the hangover."
> >>
> >>
> >> Romney's campaign also unveiled a battery of TV ads in Colorado, Florida,
> >> Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. The themes
> >> of the ads are tailored to the economic concerns within those states, from
> >> growing debt to potential defense cuts to collapsing home values.
> >>
> >>
> >> The gloomy reaction to job growth came in part because it fell even below
> >> the expectations that economists had for August. On top of that, hourly
> >> pay fell, the job totals for July and June were reduced, and the number of
> >> people in the work force dropped to its lowest level in 31 years.
> >>
> >>
> >> "This is not even close to what a recovery looks like," Republican vice
> >> presidential nominee Paul Ryan told CNBC.
> >>
> >>
> >> Obama aides said they came out of their convention with momentum and small
> >> but consistent leads in the decisive states. With each passing week of
> >> little movement in the polls, the campaign attention is turning to what's
> >> left: voter mobilization drives and October's three presidential debates.
> >>
> >>
> >> __
> >>
> >> Associated Press writers Jim Kuhnhenn in Portsmouth, N.H., Thomas Beaumont
> >> in Orange City, Iowa, and Nancy Benac and Christopher S. Rugaber in
> >> Washington contributed to this report.
> >>
> >>
> >> __
> >>
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> >>
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