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- I was hopefull when I saw that "60 Minutes" was interviewing both presidential candidates. Finally a balanced venue. I was disappointed. Romney was asked hard-ball questions under the bright lights in a library (close-up camera angle for the bad makeup/spray tan), more of an interrogation type setting, while President Obama was asked softball questions in front of the Golden, Colorado Rec. Center, a setting representing youth and vigor, as well as a soothing natural landscape (profile camera angle, which flatters most folks).
Even the poster behind the studio moderator showed Obama on top. Nice try, but slanted. - Reply to this comment
- He wants us to vote for someone who's vowed to privatize Social Security and Medicare to lower the rich tax.
As Governor he was for Romneycare and pro-choice, now he's anti-health plan and anti all abortions.
Thanks to the Bush's rich tax cuts, he profited $100 extra billion last 12 years. Reason he wants to extend them forever. And reason he hides his tax reports and offshore accounts.
By Freedom for America, Romney means free hand for his company Bain to run wild and make more millions selling factories and jobs to China.
While Obama killed bin Laden, Romney said we shouldn't go after him.
Watch Romney go from "liberal" governor to Rightie in the primaries to centrist as candidate to Rightie reborn to whoknowswhat.
If president, Romney's vowed to re-established what nearly destroyed the nation: Bushanomics.
Pinocchio Romney a liar? "Yes," Newt Gingrich.
Don't buy a used car from Mr Romney. - Reply to this comment
- Personally, I think Scott Pelley's questions are what journalism is all about. Don't ask easy questions. Ask questions that the answer informs an audience to better understand a person's position or their plan. If you don't agree with the answer or find it wrong then ask a follow up question to clarify. As an example, Mr. Romney is in need of a history lesson on who wrote the constitution; that was bad.
Whereas, the interview with the President was nothing informative and was like throwing soft balls, fluff and no real meat to any question or follow up (Steve Croft should be fired as a journalist - horrible job). The interview questions were leading talking point based only. As an example, the President said he cut taxes to the middle class and now there has been over 30 months of job growth and implies a surplus of JOB growth. The interviewer didn't even point out the fact, the President just extend the Bush tax cuts to the middle class and ask what else did his administration do to cut taxes to the middle class or ask if he is giving Pres. Bush credit? That would have been nice to know if anything else was done to help the middle class other then the Bush tax cuts. Mr. Croft didn't question the truth or how the President came to the conclusion the past 30 months having job growth. Maybe explain to the President when your net Job creation in 4 years compared to Job lost in the same period that is in the negative isn't called GROWTH. It would force the President to admit he was picking and choose data from specific categories from the Department of Labor and Statistics to suit his agenda; I don't know this since the President didn't reveal his source of this "job growth the past 30 months". The President made it seem Mr. Romney wants war, again Mr. Croft never followed up with do you really believe that? Or have you heard Mitt Romney say he wants war? The President says Mitt Romney ONLY wants to cut taxes for the wealthy. NO, Mr. President he wants to cut taxes across the board for ALL Americans by 20% (he said it in this interview on CBS) and not once did the interview correct the President on the lie that purposely misleads Americans. - Reply to this comment
- I am really upset with Scott Pelley and "60 Minutes" for letting Mitt Romney get away with two major gaffs during the interview last night. These gaffs make it very, very obvious that the Republican Presidential candidate knows little about the founders and foundations of this nation. Gaff #1. Romney stated that John Adams wrote the Declaration of Independence. He did not. The writer was Thomas Jefferson, nominated by Adams to perform that task. Gaff#2. Romney stated that John Adams was an author of the U.S. Constitution. He was not. Adams did not attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He was in England, acting as U.S. Ambassador. Mr. Pelley let these mistakes slide. Inexcusable. I won't even go into Romney's ignorance of military and foreign policy.
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- I am an aspiring journalist and I was disappointed with Scott Pelley's interview with Mitt Romney on 60 Minutes. I felt that he could not hide his bias and he hoped that Romney would falter. He asked he questions quickly with an arrogant smirk. I felt like he hoped for a "gotcha" question, and he failed. I wonder how he would handle an interview with President Obama?
I think Mitt Romney helped his campaign last night with his direct, unfaltering answers.
If Pelley represents fair and unbiased journalism, I may rethink my future. - Reply to this comment
- Personally, I would love to ask this question: What happens if you are elected to a second term, do you then "inherit" the worst economy from yourself?
KROFT: The national debt has gone up sixty percent in -- in the four years that you've been in office.
OBAMA: "Well, first -- first of all, Steve, I think it's important to understand the context here. When I came into office, I inherited the biggest deficit in our history. And over the last four years, the deficit has gone up..."
My Comments: Let me put this in context, when you "volunteered" to be elected president you knew it was not the best situation and have admitted it is worse now after your 4 years in office.
*you did not inherit it, you had a choice to run for office, if you inherited you wouldn't of had a choice- as an example heir to be King by birth or an heir to a will is not your choice to be named in a will - Reply to this comment
- Does appear that CBS choose not to air the part where Obama admitted to untruths in his ads about ROmney.
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- His answer on using the ER was amazing in it's ignorance. Proof he has no clue on what drives up healthcare and why the Affordable Care Act is so important to the future of this country. It's economics people not any socialistic dream you might try to spin on it. What happens when healthcare is out of control in the future if nothing is done is as serious as the real estate bubble bursting. Obama has the good sense to do the unpopular thing and address is instead of doing the easy thing and passing it off to our children to deal with. Republicans are so short sighted and only care about themselves, their wallets and big business. They don't care about the future of this country, they only live for now.
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- Those without health insurance will use the emergency room as their primary care physician, under Romney, at the expense of the states and the taxpayers. And you call yourself a businessman, Mitt.
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- Romney's taxes from last year on his retirement income would pay for Obama's entire SALARY for the next four years, if he got re-elected. If you add what Romney paid in taxes plus what he gave to charity, he would cover the president's salary and most of Michelle Obama's travel expenses ($467K just on the 2010 trip to Spain with the girls and a quite a few select friends)... Heck, it would even cover Obama's 380K/year Golf dues at the Vineyard Club... So did Romney, a retired American, pay taxes? More than most of us on this forum will earn in a lifetime...
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