The first debate by President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt RMoney was disastrous. Obama wasn’t on his game, as he looked down a lot and didn’t speak eloquently like he normally would. RMoney seized the opportunity and won. So who is to blame? Jim Lehrer, the moderator.
RMoney stepped all over Lehrer and railroaded the event by taking control of the moderation process. I guess Lehrer must have been in shock when RMoney wanted to stop funding PBS. It was PBS that truly insulted the Republican Party when their god Ronald Reagan was in office, when Bill Moyer did a documentary called: Guns, Drugs and the CIA. More than just killing Big Bird, RMoney wants to silence the truth, and possibly stop the destruction of the RNC…but I digress. After the debate though, Obama came out swinging. Still, why did Obama seem hesitant? He didn’t want the right to use the race card and portray him as an angry black man?
Uh, the President is also white?
But let’s see what RMoney had to bring to the table. RMoney did not know that under the IRS rules, you can make a deduction on moving expenses.
Topic 455 – Moving Expenses
If you moved due to a change in your job or business location, or because you started a new job or business, you may be able to deduct your reasonable moving expenses but not any expenses for meals. To qualify for the moving expense deduction, you must satisfy two tests. Under the first test, the “distance test”, your new workplace must be at least 50 miles farther from your old home than your old job location was from your old home. If you had no previous workplace, your new job location must be at least 50 miles from your old home.The second test is the “time test”. If you are an employee, you must work full-time for at least 39 weeks during the first 12 months immediately following your arrival in the general area of your new job location. If you are self-employed, you must work full time for at least 39 weeks during the first 12 months and for a total of at least 78 weeks during the first 24 months immediately following your arrival in the general area of your new work location. There are exceptions to the time test in case of death, disability and involuntary separation, among other things.
If you are a member of the armed forces and your move was due to a military order and permanent change of station, you do not have to satisfy the “distance or time tests”.
Moving expenses are figured on Form 3903 (PDF), Moving Expenses, and deducted as an adjustment to income on Form 1040 (PDF). You cannot deduct any moving expenses covered by reimbursements from your employer that are excluded from income.
For more information on deductible and nondeductible moving expenses, please refer to Publication 521, Moving Expenses. Also refer to Publication 521 for information on moves to locations in and outside the United States.
I don’t own a business nor am I a CEO, but I’m sure RMoney took full advantage of his rights to disenfranchise the workers at Sensata Technology as he forced the U.S. workers to train Chinese Replacement workers to take their place. He has to. It is his fiduciary duty to make a profit.
Still, as RMoney promised at the debate: I have no plans to cut taxes that will add to the deficit, yet according to his website:
RMoney’s Tax plan
So which is it. Will he or will he NOT cut taxes? The only downside to President’s Obama’s debate was his reserved comments, while RMoney attacked both Lehrer and President Obama like the vulture (no offense to vultures) capitalist he is.
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buckeyewill
Oct. 4th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Romney is a political chameleon that will make Boy George blush in envy.
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Anne
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Jim Lehrer did not come off well, because he let the lying bully commandeer the debate. It was utterly sickening, because I know the president wanted to have a civil debate with someone whose policies he disagrees with. Instead, he got a flip-flopper who projected a lot of things onto the president that the GOP has been doing such as engaging in the trickle-down theory. Romney doubled down on lies even after the president refuted them. Now, I understand that a day later, Romney has already walked back on some of the things he said at the debate. How anyone can trust a man that John Huntsman compared to a well-lubricated weathervane is beyond me. But some folks are so anti-Obama that they don’t seem to care that the man they want to replace him would be as big a disaster for them as he would be for us “libs.”
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Sandra
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I at first blamed Jim Lehrer for letting the debate get out of control, but on reflection, I think he was probably just as flummoxed as most of us watching it. I dont’ think he has ever had an experience like Mitt Romney’s rudness, his constant interruptions and loud voice and he has moderated many a debate. I also blame PO to some extent but I think he in all likelyhood was just left speechless by Romney’s nonestop lies and his abusive manner. No matter ones feelings about PO, one thing we can all state honestly, he’s not the abusive, abrasive type. I hope now PO know what to expect, he will stand his ground in the next two debates. I’m left wondering though, if Lying Ryan will be using the same tactic on VP Joe Biden. My guess is he most certainly will.
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Ruby Andrews-Lester
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Why would anyone stand up and argue with a liar and a hater, putting out precious energy and letting a known liar take you down. The President did exactly what he should have, let him, (Romney), talk and when you let a person who is a bully and with such disrespect, talk, and ramble on as the such, he will tell you everything that you need to know about himself. In this case this man lies so much that he doesn’t know what he is saying, now that the dust has settled, people get it.The President has a HUGE job. One that no ordinary person could ever do, as most Presidents know, and most people don’t know, watch the hair, after maybe a year, it turns gray, The President doesn’t argue, he is a messenger of the people for the people and by the people, he doesn’t have to argue and convince anyone that he is who he is.It’s in the work that he does for the people, it’s in the way he delivers the message to the people, and in the way he treats his family, how he treats his family with love and respect, is how he treats the American people. Thats the way you handle a bully..Ignore a loud mouth. And by their words you shall know them, and when someone is telling you who they are…Believe them.
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DobieTracker
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 1:06 am
Lehrer did worse here than Gwen Iful (sp?) did with Palin.
President Obama needs to consult with a psychiatrist for advice on how to not react and how to overwhelm a maligneant narcissist.
I am NOT being snarky !
It is Romney’s raging narcissism that allows him—DEMANDS OF HIM—-that he do whatever is necessary to “win” even if lying to face of all viewers and rudely and aggressively disissing the moderator’s authority.
No one was expecting that.
We all expected Romney to abide by the rules of civilized debate etiquette.
Narcissist are mentally unstable—again NO snark, this is just a fact and Romeny is “one.”
Next moderator needs to be strong enough, and sharp enough to not allow Romney to get away with his “alpha dog” behavior.
Obama needs to be prepared for him, mentally, and emoitonally. Obama needs to RECOGNIZE THE KIND OF LYING NARCISSISTIC EGO he is dealing with.
If you dont identify the problem, there are an infinite number of solutions. Romney is as mentally unstable as Palin, he just has more money.
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Bo
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 2:36 am
It wasn’t so much about Obama not being on his game , in fact, he was looking down from the disbelief(then again, he probably wasn’t surprised) and frustration of Mitt standing there telling those damned lies!
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Freeman
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 6:02 am
I want Jessie Ventura for moderator!!!
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Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 6:12 am
LOL me too!
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Paws
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 7:36 am
Oh you are definitely on to something there!
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Dan
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 7:33 am
Thats what killed me most about the debate. Leher let Romney have the last word 90% of the time. Obama would be in the middle of a point Romney would interrupt him. Leher would then “clarify” what Obama was saying, then Romney would get the last word. Obama would get the first response to the next segment, only to be interrupted again! Obama looked like crap. I grant that, but in those plodding measured responses, we’re answers to Lehers questions! Romney talked about whatever he chose to. He spoke when he wanted to. Any jackass can just spout numbers, and rulings, laws etc. is there any truth to it? Hell no! Does it matter? Not really. The goal here was to appear in command. To appear Presidential. 99% of the people watching don’t have any idea what these guys are talking about anyway, so whats being said is secondary. Horrible but true. The fact that Romney is perceived the winner is proof of this. Obama needs to come out next time, not angry, but positive! Act like a infomercial salesman. That’s what Americans want evidently. Blow sunshine up our collective rear ends, stop measuring every syllable, and for Gods sake look at Romney. They are losing their minds about Obama looking down. (Note: he was looking down, writing down all the crap he was going to have to respond to. Any idiot could see that!)
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Inez
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
I could not believe that Mitt was allowed to steam roll over Lehrer, but constantly became the bully in the school yard. What a diservice to Obama who appeared shocked at the “giving in to Mittshit.”A total of ten lies were spouting out like the spewfrom the exorcist and Jim never tried to stop it. Shame on him. He deserves an apology to the President. Must be a Republican.When the moderator TAKES,,,,, A BACK …..ONE WONDERS WHERE HIS LOYALTY LIES.JERRY SPRNGER WOULD HAVE SHUT MITT UP!i NO LONGER WILL VIEW ANYTHING LEHRER IS INVOLVED IN.
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j
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 8:51 am
There are some people now who are scared to death of the prospect of Romney in charge of the country.
He is seen to be sick (mentally) he has no concept of the truth or reality and some of us are worried that he could topple over the edge, he could let John Bolton & Netinyahu send us into a war with Iran,
which could escalate into a world war.
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Reynardine
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 11:02 am
I am rather with all of you. Romney is a textbook example of a malignant narcissist, and Jim Lehrer is too much like those teachers and principals who, because they are too soft or biased to stand up to a bully, turn on his target instead.
A moderator like that needs to follow the practice of law school moot courts: keep switches for the mikes in front of them, and turn off the microphone of anyone who goes over the time, breaks into the opponant’s time, or gives the moderator too much mouth. If my old professor of property and Constitutional law is still around, let me nominate him: Ronald Benton (Sir Bloodlust) Brown.
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Tim From LA
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
One of us should have been moderator ;)
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mediabeing
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 11:33 am
If Biden gets to be VP for another 4 years, I want him to agree to immediately retire at end of VP term, and do only charity work from there on.
No lobbying for corporations!
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gsb
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
So Romney may have had a cheat sheet? What is the surprise there? I seem to remember Bush having an ear peice or a wire running down his back,expect republican’s to cheat, they know no other way.
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Tim From LA
Oct. 5th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
And a cod piece too
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