Tonight's Presidential Candidate Debate...

Romney's spent a lot of time preaching to the choir. Things are a little more difficult when you're talking to people who don't take everything you say as gospel.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

Obama was not referring to the specific attack. He was making a generalized statement of patriotic content to demonstrate that his administration was going to defend the US. In speaking of the specific act, he called it terrible, tragic. He did not call it it a terrorist attack.

Romney couldnt bring it home tonite. It was a cmplete reverse of Denver. I was watching PBS covergae and Romney left after a few minutes and Obama just lingered and took pictures with the audience

Post debate body language and lingering candidates is equally important.

PS, I really liked the way that OBAMA tied ROMNEY to the entire obstructionist GOP and TEBAGGER congressional agenda. Thats gonna resonate

Romney 'Binders Full Of Women' Female Hiring Boast Falls Apart

In response to a question about equal pay for women during the presidential debate Tuesday night, Republican nominee Mitt Romney boasted that as governor of Massachusetts, he was so frustrated by the lack of qualified female candidates for positions in his cabinet that he sent women’s groups out to actively recruit them.

“I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women,” he said.

Romney’s account of that story is false, according to two women who led an effort in 2002 to recruit female candidates to high-level appointed positions in Massachusetts. MassGAP, a bipartisan coalition of women’s groups dedicated to increasing the number of women appointed to top government jobs, approached Romney and his Democratic challenger Shannon O’Brien before the 2002 gubernatorial election and pressured them to sign a pledge to appoint more women if elected.

“It was an initiative of women’s organizations, not to force [Romney’s] hand, but to make it be something he had to follow through on,” Carol Hardy-Fanta, former co-chair of MassGAP’s higher education subcommittee, told The Huffington Post the morning following the debate. "He didn't go out looking for these binders.”

Liz Levin, who was the chairwoman of MassGAP at the time, told HuffPost that during the 2002 governor's race, the group spent months identifying, vetting and collecting resumes of qualified women for the high-level appointments.

"They told us ... that they were going to send [the binders] to us,” O’Brien recalled in a Wednesday interview with The Huffington Post. “Whoever won was going to get this."

Levin said Romney had little personal involvement with MassGAP. His campaign had tasked his nominee for lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, to work with the organization on recruiting women. Healey helped secure Romney's pledge to appoint women, and MassGAP presented the binders and highlighted especially qualified applicants to Healey after Romney was elected.

"We gave them names of people and there was a time that -- I think it was after they had the binder -- we set up a time to talk to them about the people in the binder," Levin recalled.

Not once did Romney meet with MassGAP, Levin said. "I personally thought he was busy," she explained.

Makes you wonder where they learned English; "terror" and talking about the Benghazi attack are relevant to what he said. Obama generalized it by also saying we will not tolerate these acts. "Chris helped establish their new country." Some people will find anything they can to challenge this administration - even at the risk of creating controversy where none exists.

She interrupted Romney 28 time; Obama 9.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.

But the former Massachusetts governor has had trouble explaining some of Bain Capital's business practices, which in certain cases included transferring manufacturing plants overseas and cutting U.S. jobs, to blue collar voters in swing states like Ohio and Virginia. Democrats, meanwhile, have taken the opportunity to portray Romney as a ruthless corporate raider, more intent on making a profit than on preserving American manufacturing.

AlterNet / By Joshua Holland
Romney's Bain Capital Is Sending a Bunch of High-Tech Jobs to China on the Day Before the Election
The story of Sensata Technologies is about the hollowing out of America's economy by a rapacious 1 percent.
October 16, 2012 |


On the day before an election that's supposed to hinge on jobs, taxes and the middle class, Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney founded, will close the doors of a factory in Freeport, Illinois, and ship 170 good, high-tech jobs to China.

The employees of Sensata Technologies were forced to train their Chinese replacements, and the American flag that long flew over the factory was reportedly removed while the Chinese engineers were visiting the site. A group of workers have set up camp across from the factory -- calling it “Bainport” -- and some supporters have tried to block the trucks hauling equipment out of the plant. According to Dave Johnson, there have been several arrests.

Sensata workers have asked to meet with Mitt Romney and hoped to enlist his help keeping their jobs in the United States, but he has refused, instead remaining on the campaign trail where he speaks often about “getting tough” with China.