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Comments on Israel's poor decision to back Mitt Romney

Before the past election, in which President Obama had a widespread victory, Israel decided to back Mitt Romney. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but this seems a very poor decision given the widespread support of Obama leading up to the election. Binyamin Netanyahu seemed to have nothing but good things to say about the US and the president before this election, due to our close alliance with training of military personnel to financial aid. However, there may be some backlash for Israel due to this betrayal. I don't know how Mr. Netanyahu thought he could get away with backing the candidate with lower support, knowing he had blown most of his campaign money early on and was liable to gain much more. This seems like an obvious error, and Israel may have to pay for his mistakes. It may be time for Israel to start getting some more sensible leadership who will stay away from backing one candidate or another and jeopardizing their friendship with the United States.

Hi everyone,

I have decided to start expanding my blog and will now have other politically-minded youth posting on it. So from now on you may see posts from others on this blog. Also, the blog can now be reach at the web addresses http://tobytalk.tk or http://tobytalks.tk.

Mitt Romney- The benefit of the non-incumbent

There are some giant problems with the GOP candidate running for the highest office in the United States this year. Mitt Romney lacks some very important foreign relation skills, his numbers don’t add up, and he tortured his dog. This seems to be the general consensus of the American people right now. Let’s explore the root dilemma of this candidate.

Mitt Romney has his faults, and he has benefits, the main one being that he has the potential to fix the US, but is untested. Let’s start out with that benefit. We have seen what Obama can do, like the things I talked about in the previous section. However we haven’t seen what Romney can do. We don’t know if he would fly into the white house with a cape flying behind him and fix all Obama couldn’t in one day. The fact is, we don’t know. Here’s what we do know. He has flip-flopped on almost every issue since the start of his political career, and has some major mishaps we have to take into account. I will start out with one of the most major dilemmas. His forty-seven percent statistic. This wasn’t an accurate statistic in the first place, but he topped it off with a cherry by saying, “I don’t care about that 47%.” This may be one of the only true facts he has presented us with for the entire election season.  When you take a fact checker to the presidential debates, you would be surprised the ratio of true to untrue, especially in the first and third presidential debate. But the fact is, most people don’t look at the facts, and the statistics he is throwing out there sound good. It doesn’t matter what he’s saying, as long as he is saying it’s his campaign strategy, and Obama definitely didn’t use that in the first debate, as he said almost nothing to combat Romney’s “facts”. And that is why the election could go either way this Tuesday.

Parties

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty." -George Washington

George Washington had some faults in his views. No one can deny that. However, I happen to agree wholeheartedly with this quote. I have my own favorite party, as many will know, however I will not specify in this blog for the purpose of maintaining an atmosphere of opinion on certain overall policies and not general party platforms. Despite this favorite, I know that parties are the root of much corruption of the political system. People sign their name on a paper to align themselves with a party because people they respect did, being parents, guardians, or other figures of trust in their lives. This paper is just the start of those people punching ballots blindly, not because they have payed attention to their platform, but because their family was part of the party that backs the candidate that particular year. This is just too many lines of connection for me. People should vote for a candidate because they have become informed to the candidate's planks, and believe that said candidate's planks will benefit the country more than the other candidate's. This is the only way that the political system in this country will become righted.

Introduction

Welcome to Toby Talk!
This is where I, a fifteen year old boy, talk about politics. Although I expect few people to read this blog, it makes me feel like I have a voice which I have felt like many don't in recent years. For all reading this, although you may not share my views, I hope that you will comment with your own thoughts and opinions.
Thank you for taking a look at my humble start to this blog,
Toby Jones