7 Essential Questions You’ll Never Hear at the Debates

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Sean Kerrigan, Contributor

Sadly, you could also title this article “The Most Important Questions That Need to be Asked.” Today, our debates are merely a stage upon which candidates can exchange quips or attempt to act presidential. Most important issues are never discussed and those mentioned have little depth. 

Before we list some of the questions that should be asked, a brief history of national debates is required. When historians cite the classic debate style, they are usually referring to a series of US Senate debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. In that case, each debate was typically three hours long, with the candidates delivering lengthy policy speeches. 

While three hours was the norm, in at least one instance in 1854, Lincoln and Douglas debated for a total of seven hours. Douglas went first, delivering a three-hour policy speech, followed by another three-hour speech by Lincoln. The debate concluded with a relatively brief one-hour rebut from Douglas. These debates were closely read throughout the nation and eventually lead to Lincoln’s nomination for President in 1860. 

How many among us can tolerate an hour-and-a-half debate between President Obama and Governor Romney?

Mitt Romney Exposed!

John Hankey

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Open War Policy Revealed by Romney's NeoCon Advisers

Brandon Turbeville

On October 1, 2012, Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney outlined his own version of imperialist American foreign policy before the Virginia Military Institute. What Romney described was, in its goals, no different than that of any other President since JFK.

As was made clear in his speech, the presentation of the mutated Manifest Destiny to be ushered in by Romney would be significantly more open than the “leading from behind” destabilization and coalition-based Obama treachery, as the candidate has clearly stated this on more than one occasion.

Essentially, while Obama has continued and accelerated every disastrous policy of the Bush Administration, Romney has openly announced his intention to do the same. The only difference is that the Romney doctrine will supplant the deceitful, secretive, and treacherous nature of Obama’s foreign policy for a more ham-fisted and brazenly aggressive position.

Don’t Vote For Evil

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Paul Craig Roberts, Contributor

Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the world. I am quoting Chavez from memory, not verbatim. “Yesterday standing at this same podium was Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulfur.” 

Chavez is one of the American right-wing’s favorite bogymen, because Chavez helps the people instead of bleeding them for the rich, which is Washington’s way.

While Washington has driven all but the one percent into the ground, Chavez cut poverty in half, doubled university enrollment, and provided health care and old age pensions to millions of Venezuelans for the first time. Little wonder he was elected to a fourth term as president despite the many millions of dollars Washington poured into the election campaign of Chavez’s opponent. 

While Washington and the EU preach neoliberalism – the supremacy of capital over labor – South American politicians who reject Washington’s way are being elected and reelected in Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia. 

High Moral Principles!

Colleen McCool, Contributor

The elephants and donkeys deserve the bird! Obama and Romney have forsaken the American Dream. They hardly disagree at all on the important issues. What will they debate?

A declaration is an affirmation. Independence means self-government. They could have called The Declaration of Independence, The Affirmation of Self-Government! 

Gary Johnson and Judge Jim Gray are the only choice to Save the American Dream: Self-Government, freedom from big government tyranny and oppression.... and to Restore Justice, the guardian of Liberty! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.

All who follow a code of ethics or principles are self-governors. Our system is meant to protect the self-governors from those without ethics and principles, perpetrators of fraud, rape and violence. The state does not run the affairs of people in a free society. It upholds justice between people who conduct their own affairs. 

Penn Jillette - Voting For Lesser Of 2 Evils Leads To More Evil

The lesser of two evils: it’s all relative

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Matt Taibbi: The Secret to Mitt Romney's Fortune? Greed, Debt and Forcing Others to Pay Bill

DemocracyNow.org - A new article by reporter Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sheds new light on the origin of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's fortune, revealing how Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. Taibbi writes: "What most voters don't know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: By borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America's top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth."

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Reality Check: Ben Swann one on one with Romney and Ryan, did Romney really not know about RNC stripping Maine delegates?

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2012 US Elections -- Obamney vs. Rombama: What Should We Do About It?

War, economic collapse, and personal devastation await Americans no matter who they vote for - and what we should do instead.

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Tony Cartalucci, Contributor

A vote for Obama will bring war with Syria, Iran, and eventually Russia and China. The economy will continue to suffer in order to bolster the interests of off-shore corporate-financier interests, while the collective prospects of Americans continue to whither and blow away. A vote for Romney, however, will also bring war with Syria, Iran, and eventually Russia and China. The economy will also continue to suffer in order to bolster the interests of off-shore corporate-financier interests, while the collective prospects of Americans continue to whither and blow away. Why?

Because the White House is but a public relations front for the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London. A change of residence at the White House is no different than say, British Petroleum replacing its spokesman to superficially placate public opinion; when, in reality, the exact same board of directors, overall agenda, and objectives remain firmly in place. Public perception then is managed by, not the primary motivation of, corporate-financier interests. 

It is the absolute folly to believe that multi-billion dollar corporate-financier interests would subject their collective fate to the whims of the ignorant, uninformed, and essentially powerless voting masses every four years. Instead, what plays out every four years is theater designed to give the general public the illusion that they have some means of addressing their grievances without actually ever changing the prevailing balance of power in any meaningful way.

40 Points That Prove That Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate

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Michael Snyder, Contributor
Activist Post

What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year. We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it. The Democrats are running the worst president in American history, and the Republicans are running a guy who is almost a carbon copy of him.

The fact that about half the country is still supporting Barack Obama shows how incredibly stupid and corrupt the American people have become. No American should have ever cast a single vote for Barack Obama for any political office under any circumstances.

Obama should never have even been the assistant superintendent in charge of janitorial supplies, much less the president of the United States.

The truth is that Barack Obama has done such a horrible job that he should immediately resign along with his entire cabinet. But instead of giving us a clear choice, the Republicans nominated the Republican that was running that was most similar to Barack Obama. In fact, I don't think we have ever had two candidates for president that are so similar. Yes, there are a few minor differences between them, but the truth is that we are heading into Obama's second term no matter which one of them gets elected. The mainstream media makes it sound like Obama and Romney are bitter ideological rivals but that is a giant lie. Yeah, they are slinging lots of mud at each other, but they both play for the same team and the losers are going to be the American people.

Romney threatens war-murder on Iran, repeats Obama/Bush ‘wipe off the map’ lie

Carl Herman, Contributor
Activist Post

The Telegraph’s 2-minute video below shows Mr. Romney claiming Iran’s leaders would “wipe Israel off the map.” Mr. Romney’s senior national security advisor stated that Mr. Romney would “respect” Israel if they initiate armed attack on Iran for alleged “malevolent nuclear intentions.”





President Obama last threatened to war-murder Iranians with British PM Cameron in March. Their press conference included multiple and additional demonizations of Iran’s government.

Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama are repeating a known lie about Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s 2005 speech that anyone can verify by reading the speech. To lie that a national president threatens the existence of another nation is the most egregious lie imaginable.

Romney Proves Himself to Be Irrelevant, Vows to Fight Medical Marijuana

Eric Blair
Activist Post

Recently on the campaign trail Mitt Romney said that he would fight marijuana legalization "tooth and nail".  During a town hall meeting in the "Live Free or Die" state, New Hampshire, Romney used the same tired argument that marijuana leads to a "culture of drugs" in young people. 



This argument is increasingly becoming ridiculous, and the voting public knows it; all except the probably inebriated paid staffers clapping in the background.

Soros Revelations in His Own Words (Video)

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György Schwartz a.k.a. George Soros speaks on a number of subjects FYI :
-Obama and Romney are both the same 00:01 / -Abandons Obama 00:43 /
- If Obama fails 1:20 / -Tax evasion 1:42 / 
-"Daddy Warbucks of Drug Legalization" (with evil intentions) 3:53 / 
-Open Societies 05:02 / -Anti Bush 06:43 / -Anti Capitalism 08:46
-Anti Reagan 09:13 / -Money in US Politics 10:14 / 
(he calls politicians, "AGENTS and "AGENCIES", Soros says,"they are agents who are suppose to represent the interests of the people 10:25 )
-DECLINE IN MORALITY 11:56 / -Communism 13:24 / -China 14:07 /
-Prefers weak US Economy 17:19 / 
-Profits guide peoples behavior 19:55 / -Christianity 21:00 / 
-Soros Reality 22:55 / "absence of life after death can be proven" 23:45 /
Soros says his Reality resembles Religious belief 24:07
-Soros says world economy is in crisis but he, of course, can fix it; i.e. Soros says only his plans can help so he can make a profit and promote his agenda. 24:53

David Horowitz - Leftist turned conservative. First to expose Soros.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977 

George Soros says Obama must go
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/22-11-2010/115867-george_soros-0/ 

Billionaire George Soros Surrenders
http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/13-10-2010/115352-george_soros-0/ 

The Freedom of Evil in America
http://youtu.be/IeJVvmz-euU 

"Liberalism: Psychosis, Evil or Ignorance?"
http://english.pravda.ru/history/29-11-2010/115965-liberalism-0/ 

America says "NO" to Socialism
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/03-11-2010/115640-america_sociali... 

The Power of the US News Media Exposed 
http://youtu.be/9fZmPEO_wbM 

The Unknown Putin. Part 1 
http://youtu.be/qCU4C6ajgBI 

The Unknown Putin Part 2 
http://youtu.be/LRSVNPQKDkM 

Vladimir Putin's Christian Faith - in his own words
http://youtu.be/u3d_yxJhmjk 
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Mitt Romney's 13 Globalist 'Working Groups' Exposed

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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “Romney’s Foreign Policy Advisers Exposed as Globalists” where I compiled a list of the 22 individuals selected by Mitt Romney to serve as his foreign policy advising team back in October 2011.

Along with the names of each of these individuals, I included a list of globalist, neo-con, or otherwise nefarious organizations or government offices that they belong to or have belonged to in the past.

Besides announcing a foreign policy advising team, Romney also announced 13 (interesting number) working groups dedicated to regional and issue-specific policies. It is not surprising that the individuals, although somewhat less important in terms of their pedigree, are themselves diehard globalists.