Romney vs. Obama - 2012 Presidential Debates - Let's score it!

[Gandalf]

I cannot get over how fickle the US general public is. Latest polls apparently have Romney ahead and on the back of what exactly? He blatantly showed contempt for half of the nation and on the back of a debate which showed him talking out of his arse, people have now decided 'he'll do then'. It is nonsense. Part of me cannot help but feel it is all one big pantomime, a giant puppet show and the ultimate aim is just to give the masses a good show. 5 days later it will be back in Obama's favour and you find that what you really have is nothing more than Presidential pop idol.

What an absolute joke of a political process. No firm policies and we know for a fact that any half baked pledges will never be implemented. As ever there is no accountancy in US politics, just a huge charade and a lot of rancid air being blown around.

[Mars_ax]

I cannot get over how fickle the US general public is. Latest polls apparently have Romney ahead and on the back of what exactly? He blatantly showed contempt for half of the nation and on the back of a debate which showed him talking out of his arse, people have now decided 'he'll do then'. It is nonsense. Part of me cannot help but feel it is all one big pantomime, a giant puppet show and the ultimate aim is just to give the masses a good show. 5 days later it will be back in Obama's favour and you find that what you really have is nothing more than Presidential pop idol.

What an absolute joke of a political process. No firm policies and we know for a fact that any half baked pledges will never be implemented. As ever there is no accountancy in US politics, just a huge charade and a lot of rancid air being blown around.

And what's even stranger is our " joke of a political process" has been copied by other countries around the world.

[Gandalf]

I cannot get over how fickle the US general public is. Latest polls apparently have Romney ahead and on the back of what exactly? He blatantly showed contempt for half of the nation and on the back of a debate which showed him talking out of his arse, people have now decided 'he'll do then'. It is nonsense. Part of me cannot help but feel it is all one big pantomime, a giant puppet show and the ultimate aim is just to give the masses a good show. 5 days later it will be back in Obama's favour and you find that what you really have is nothing more than Presidential pop idol.

What an absolute joke of a political process. No firm policies and we know for a fact that any half baked pledges will never be implemented. As ever there is no accountancy in US politics, just a huge charade and a lot of rancid air being blown around.

And what's even stranger is our " joke of a political process" has been copied by other countries around the world.

I believe very few nations have a 'democracy' quite like that of the USA. It is a two party dictatorship where the will of the general population is largely ignored. At least real dictatorships don't pretend to be anything other than what they are. Romney or Obama? Behind closed doors its the same old teams of advisers regardless of who gets in. An elite for the elite and a few crumbs passed down to a general public that gets the raw end of the stick. Forty years of history is proof of the pudding.

[El Kabong]

I believe very few nations have a 'democracy' quite like that of the USA. It is a two party dictatorship where the will of the general population is largely ignored. At least real dictatorships don't pretend to be anything other than what they are. Romney or Obama? Behind closed doors its the same old teams of advisers regardless of who gets in. An elite for the elite and a few crumbs passed down to a general public that gets the raw end of the stick. Forty years of history is proof of the pudding.

we're not a God damned Democracy we're a Constitutional Republic! When we say The Pledge of Allegiance we don't pledge allegiance to The Democracy, we pledge "To the Republic".

[Gandalf]

You claim to run on democratic principles, thus you are surely, at least in name, a democracy.

[El Kabong]

You claim to run on democratic principles, thus you are surely, at least in name, a democracy.

Republic

[Gandalf]

You claim to run on democratic principles, thus you are surely, at least in name, a democracy.

Republic

Your quibbling over nothing. You are a republic founded upon democratic principles.