3rdnlng Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) Romney will make the trains run on time. The comment was on the Greta show. No link, so I take full responsibility for the comment. We need someone that knows how to fix things. Romney is the guy. Edited July 1, 2012 by 3rdnlng
PastaJoe Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 Now they're stealing material from Mussolini? I thought trains were a liberal socialist idea to take away an individual's right to drive where they want when they want. Plus it would adversely impact the oil industry and require spending more on infrastructure.
3rdnlng Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 Not sure if you are trying to be funny or not but it was a metaphor. It had to do with Mitt's competence.
PastaJoe Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 Ask the workers at Niagara Envelope how well he "made the trains run". Meanwhile, Obama made the cars run off the production lines in Detroit, which they wouldn't be doing if Willard had his way and there were no loans to GM or Chrysler. http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article924536.ece
3rdnlng Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) Ask the workers at Niagara Envelope how well he "made the trains run". Meanwhile, Obama made the cars run off the production lines in Detroit, which they wouldn't be doing if Willard had his way and there were no loans to GM or Chrysler. http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article924536.ece I know I shouldn't get into this with you because it's a waste of time but did you actually think GM & Chrysler were going to close up shop? Obama should have let them go through the bankruptcy process and let the courts decide the fate of the union pension funds and the bondholders. Regardless, from the article that you linked: "Still, Romney never made day-to-day management decisions at the companies Bain invested in. What's more, Romney left Bain to run the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in February 1999, three months before Ampad announced the closing of the facility in Holland. Above all, Ampad was something of an outlier. As the New York Times reported last week, Bain invested in more than 40 companies between 1984 and 1999, and only seven eventually went bankrupt.Much more common were the successes, such as Staples and Domino's Pizza, which Bain nursed into the thriving companies we know today. "The jobs created at Bain Capital by companies that we helped start or that we helped manage, those companies today employ well over 100,000 more jobs than those that were lost," Romney told Bloomberg." Edited June 30, 2012 by 3rdnlng
DC Tom Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 Not sure if you are trying to be funny or not but it was a metaphor. It had to do with Mitt's competence. That is a REALLY ****ty metaphor, then.
3rdnlng Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 That is a REALLY ****ty metaphor, then. What, that Romney would make the trains run on time?
CosmicBills Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 Romney will make the trains run on time. The comment was on the Greta show. No link, so I take full responsibility for the comment. We need someone that knows how to fix things. Romney is the guy. Is that you, Crayonz? You wascally wabbit.
DC Tom Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 What, that Romney would make the trains run on time? Uh, yeah.
3rdnlng Posted July 1, 2012 Author Posted July 1, 2012 Uh, yeah. So, in your brilliance you don't relate making the "trains run on time" with competency?
IDBillzFan Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 Ask the workers at Niagara Envelope how well he "made the trains run". Meanwhile, Obama made the cars run off the production lines in Detroit, which they wouldn't be doing if Willard had his way and there were no loans to GM or Chrysler. There are few things I've been finding more fun to watch lately than progressives trying to justify Obama as a success based exclusively on some hypothetical situation that no one could every verify might or might not possibly have happened if he didn't do what he did. Obama/Biden 12: We killed Bin Laden, we gave the union their own car company, and it all could've been worse. :lol:
DC Tom Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 So, in your brilliance you don't relate making the "trains run on time" with competency? Actually, the "make the trains run on time" metaphor is usually used to indicate someone who !@#$ed up EVERY other important matter he touched. "But at least Mussolini made the trains run on time." You idiot.
3rdnlng Posted July 1, 2012 Author Posted July 1, 2012 Actually, the "make the trains run on time" metaphor is usually used to indicate someone who !@#$ed up EVERY other important matter he touched. "But at least Mussolini made the trains run on time." You idiot. So, he made the trains run on time at the expense of everything else? I shouldn't be even arguing this with you since you are just being an obtuse !@#$ looking to pick a fight. My contention is that Romney will look for practical solutions rather than blue sky it. You are without a doubt PPP's "Idiot Judge". Take that anyway you want.
Jauronimo Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 So, he made the trains run on time at the expense of everything else? I shouldn't be even arguing this with you since you are just being an obtuse !@#$ looking to pick a fight. My contention is that Romney will look for practical solutions rather than blue sky it. You are without a doubt PPP's "Idiot Judge". Take that anyway you want. No, thats just really a very poor analogy. Its always used facetiously as a backhanded compliment usually referring to fascists or communist regimes. Like, "Say what you want about the DDR but at least the trains ran on time." And if that isn't enough, a quick search on the origin of this quote yielded this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-popular-phrases-that-make-you-look-like-idiot/
DC Tom Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 So, he made the trains run on time at the expense of everything else? No. That's not what I said. That's not what the metaphor means, either. I shouldn't be even arguing this with you since you are just being an obtuse !@#$ looking to pick a fight. You shouldn't be arguing it because you're wrong. You DECIDED to get all pissy about it when I pointed out it's a really bad metaphor for your point, after which you decided you just had to argue with me and prove your ignorance. You CHOSE to argue with me over your metaphor, rather than simply make your point. My contention is that Romney will look for practical solutions rather than blue sky it. And I'd agree. So don't use metaphors that contradict your contention, moron.
3rdnlng Posted July 1, 2012 Author Posted July 1, 2012 OK, poor metaphor in historic sense, but if he "makes the trains run on time" is he a better option than the "Messiah"? That was my point. Does the majority here believe that Romney is more competent than Obama?
DC Tom Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 OK, poor metaphor in historic sense, but if he "makes the trains run on time" is he a better option than the "Messiah"? That was my point. Does the majority here believe that Romney is more competent than Obama? Poor metaphor in ANY sense...and I'd say it was equally as poor as "Messiah" (though, in truth, I've only heard that applied by his detractors to criticize his supporters). And I'd wager that, like most things, the Republicans here think Romney is more competent, the Democrats think Obama is more competent. That's quite honestly just a boring question. More interesting to ask: what makes either more competent than the other?
3rdnlng Posted July 1, 2012 Author Posted July 1, 2012 Poor metaphor in ANY sense...and I'd say it was equally as poor as "Messiah" (though, in truth, I've only heard that applied by his detractors to criticize his supporters). And I'd wager that, like most things, the Republicans here think Romney is more competent, the Democrats think Obama is more competent. That's quite honestly just a boring question. More interesting to ask: what makes either more competent than the other? Damn, you love playing your above the fray games. The answer is "competence".
DC Tom Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 Damn, you love playing your above the fray games. The answer is "competence". Competence makes Romney more competent? Nice non-answer. And height makes me taller than you. Thanks for playing.
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