@km, I bet Romney won't bring up the Churchill bust. Too much else to cover tonight. Also, it's pretty small beer. And, lastly, Obama merely returned the Churchill bust in the Oval Office which had been on loan from the British. There is actually another Churchill bust in the family residence part of the White House.
@Betsy, That was from the homepage to this chat. If you're looking for a play button for the audio stream, you'll see that at 9 p.m. ET when the NPR live stream begins.
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A likely big question tonight: Is China manipulating its currency’s value to make its goods cheaper in the U.S. market? Romney has called China "a currency manipulator."
The IMF, as well as private economists, say China’s currency, the yuan, is indeed undervalued by some 30- to 50- percent. But that’s been true since the mid-1990s. Obama said China’s “currency has actually gone up 11 percent since I've been president because we have pushed them hard.”
@ Andrew Anderson: If they break the rules, then Bob Schieffer takes away 10 electoral votes from their final total. No, not really. What really happens? Basically nothing.
The politics of the currency issue can get complicated. A year ago, the Senate passed a bill, sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, intended to end currency exchange rate intervention by China. It passed 63-35 on a bi-partisan vote, but the GOP-controlled House has been blocked it since then.
Was there one coin toss or three coin tosses? Seems like Romney's won everyone.
Romney is apparently cramming much of what he knows about the Middle East into the Libya question.
Romney mentioned Mali. Sort of unexpected.
"We can't kill our way out of this" Getting more and more moderate, Mitt.
Romney sounds like John Kerry in 2004. "We can't kill our way out of this" he said. Very Kerryesque.
"We can't kill our way out of this mess." Can anyone think of GWB saying that?
@km, I bet Romney won't bring up the Churchill bust. Too much else to cover tonight. Also, it's pretty small beer. And, lastly, Obama merely returned the Churchill bust in the Oval Office which had been on loan from the British. There is actually another Churchill bust in the family residence part of the White House.
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I'll bet these two are just happy to SIT for a change.by CokieRoberts via twitter 10/23/2012 1:07:00 AM
First mention of women, less than 1 minute into the first answer.by Ari Shapiro via twitter 10/23/2012 1:07:08 AM
1st Q on libya schieffer asks romney about his comments that libya is an example of an "unraveling" obama foreign policyby sgeorgenpr via twitter 10/23/2012 1:07:24 AM