The Mitt Romney Thread

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Is Obama going to show us the real thing?

[The Dude 206]

how's that straw man construction going?

How so Charles? I think it is a case of you not expressing yourself clearly. I do apologize for my part, for the horrible grammar in that sentence you bolded. I meant to ask if you felt that the submitted birth certificate was a forgery. You are the one who made the comments that it was a reproduction, that it looked nothing like your Hawaii birth certificate.

[Ban Hammer 13,490]

How so Charles? I think it is a case of you not expressing yourself clearly. I do apologize for my part, for the horrible grammar in that sentence you bolded. I meant to ask if you felt that the submitted birth certificate was a forgery. You are the one who made the comments that it was a reproduction, that it looked nothing like your Hawaii birth certificate.

no, i didn't do that.

[The Dude 206]

no, i didn't do that.

the birth certificate rob posted is the newer version. where's the original version - you know, the microfiche one? i was born in hawaii just a few months after obama and my birth certificate looks nothing like the one posted by rob - it looks like it was printed off of a microfiche machine, then stamped (the raised seal is still there btw).

Whatever Charles, you can't actually argue a point on anything, so you argue semantics. Good luck with that.

[Ban Hammer 13,490]

Whatever Charles, you can't actually argue a point on anything, so you argue semantics. Good luck with that.

i said it was the newer version - thus acknowledging that hawaii updated their birth certificates. i didn't say it was a reproduction like you accused me of doing.

but you choose to get all wrapped around the axle for some reason about that.

[웃 910]

Poll: Obama at 46 percent to Romney's 45

By Michael O'Brien - 04/20/11 10:39 AM ETPresident Obama would face a statistical tie against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ® if the 2012 election were held today, a new poll found Wednesday.

A Marist/McClatchy News Poll released this morning suggested that the race between Obama and Romney, a leading contender for the GOP's presidential nomination, is closer than previous surveys have suggested.

Obama enjoys just a single-point advantage over Romney in the Marist poll. In the hypothetical matchup, 46 percent of registered voters said they would reelect Obama, while 45 percent would elect Romney. Nine percent were undecided.

That represents a diminished gap between Obama and Romney since January, when the same poll found that Obama had a 51-38 percent advantage over the former Massachusetts governor.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ® also stands within striking distance of Obama, according to the poll. Obama would take 48 percent of the vote to Huckabee's 43 percent, with 9 percent undecided.

Importantly, both Romney and Huckabee enjoy advantages in the poll over Obama among independent voters. Independents break for Romney 45-42 percent, and for Huckabee 44-41 percent, according to Marist.

The poll contains other warning signs for Obama.

Forty-four percent of registered voters in the poll said they would definitely vote against Obama in 2012, compared to 37 percent who definitely intend to vote for Obama's reelection. That margin widens with independents, 47 percent of whom said they would definitely vote against Obama, and 32 percent of whom favor his reelection effort.

The poll is consistent with others, though, in reporting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ® and real estate mogul Donald Trump trail well behind Obama in hypothetical matchups.

Obama would best Palin 56-34 percent and beat Trump 54-38 percent.

The poll, conducted April 10-14, has a 4.5 percent margin of error in the tests of head-to-head matchups, and a 3 percent margin of error for the national sample.

Edited April 20, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[The Dude 206]

i said it was the newer version - thus acknowledging that hawaii updated their birth certificates. i didn't say it was a reproduction like you accused me of doing.

but you choose to get all wrapped around the axle for some reason about that.

I would suggest you focus more on clear communication than trying to be a pedant.

[Ban Hammer 13,490]

I would suggest you focus more on clear communication than trying to be a pedant.

being clear doesn't help when you're trying to say i made a statement which i obviously didn't make.

[mawilson 2,133]

I would suggest you focus more on clear communication than trying to be a pedant.

Where I'm from, "pedant" doesn't have the negative connotation you think it does.

[The Dude 206]

Where I'm from, "pedant" doesn't have the negative connotation you think it does.

They speak english on your home planet? The negative connotation is the "Trying" part.

Edited April 20, 2011 by The Dude

[mawilson 2,133]

They speak english on your home planet? The negative connotation is the "Trying" part.

A pedant is someone who is concerned with formalism and precision -

a bad thing only if you're flying through life as a dewy-eyed beneficiary

of dumb luck in a society that likes to consider itself a meritocracy,

but is actually an idiocracy.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Where I'm from, "pedant" doesn't have the negative connotation you think it does.

Where you're from? Shakespearean England?

[mawilson 2,133]

Where you're from? Shakespearean England?

From a family of pedants

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Go Mitt.

[mawilson 2,133]

Go Mitt.