B-Man
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Is there an ad where Obama calls Romney a felon or is it all the media/surrogates? If ad can someone link it?
No..........not media/surrogates, his own campaign team, people he chose, and is responsible for.
and given the chance to correct/clarify about the "felony" remark, they refused.
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"BAINERS" are the new "Birthers"
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Transparency for Everyone . . .
By Victor Davis Hanson
July 12, 2012
As calls increase for Romney to release more of his tax returns, there should be a grand deal with the Obama reelection campaign, one that allows both candidates to be completely transparent across the board, in the manner that John McCain was in 2008, but Barack Obama was unfortunately not.
So a suggestion: Each candidate might release five years (or perhaps even ten years) of past tax returns; at the same time, each candidate should release his undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and each candidate should release his complete medical records.
The latter is critical as we see in the case of Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., and as we remember the Left tried to make the argument, based on reporters’ access to his school and medical records, that McCain’s age, his injuries, and his bout with cancer should have been a legitimate concern. I recall as well that there were murmurs that McCain’s GPA at the U.S. Naval Academy and class ranking were topics of concern.
Such a compromise would end the back and forth and the mutual requests for full disclosure. And given that higher education, student support, Obamacare, and tax policy are now hot-button issues, the public should be informed about their next president’s university record, his full health record, and his recent tax record.
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Link didn't work for me. Here's a new one
Thanks Ox.
Mitt Romney responds in an official statement:
"President Obama believes that millions of Americans have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihood because he failed to tell a good story. Being president is not about telling stories. Being president is about leading, and President Obama has failed to lead. No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency.".
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END OF STORY....................except for the one or two ostriches left who buy this Obama Campaign spin.
From Fortune Magazine thru CNN (not exactly Romney supporters)
Documents: Romney didn't manage Bain fundsBy Dan Primack July 12, 2012:
New evidence for when Romney really left Bain Capital.
FORTUNE -- Mitt Romney did not manage Bain Capital's investments after leaving to run the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, according to confidential firm documents obtained by Fortune.
The timing of Romney's departure from Bain became a lightning rod earlier today, when The Boston Globe published an article suggesting that Romney remained actively involved with the firm longer than he and his campaign have claimed. The sourcing is largely SEC documents that list Romney as Bain Capital's CEO and sole shareholder through 2002 -- or three years after Romney officially left to run the Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
These claims are very similar to ones made last week by David Corn in Mother Jones, which we disputed at the time.
Now Fortune has obtained new evidence that supports Romney's version of events.
The title of this thread is the REAL lie.
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I believe that this was just a "trial balloon" floated out (through Drudge) by the Romney campaign. I believe Sec. Rice when she says that she is not interested.
I still think that it will be Governor Susanna Martinez of New Mexico.
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I love it! While Conservatives are whimpering that Romney needs to actually fight, Obama is murdering this sniveling little creep. Let the whining losers complain that Obama is playing too rough for them, this is winner take all politics and the weak should be crushed. David Gergan, who is connected with Bain Capital, by the way, was whining on CNN about Obama playing to hard against Princess Romney, whatever!
Destroy the enemy and do it while ya smile!
I would like to think that this was satire,
but sadly (for Park) I do not believe that this was the case.
It must be a type of transferance, when your "opponents" point out the obvious hypocrisy of your leader, to make yourself feel, better , in your mind you dismiss it as whining.
When criticism of said leader increases from all points, including past friends, it is dismissed with a "he's murdering them"
Sad.
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I think today has been clarifying.
Whatever pretense of civility existed in the Obama campaign is gone.
It’s okay, perfectly okay with the President for his campaign staff to call Mitt Romney a liar and potential criminal:
“No,” Obama press secretary Ben LaBolt said in response to a question from POLITICO about whether the president would apologize.
Name calling is okay.
It’s the official policy of the President of the United States.
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President Obama, explaining his "biggest mistake" which was "thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right" and missing that "the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."
The people who voted for him, including me, really did expect him to bring the country "a sense of unity and purpose and optimism," but I don't think a "story" is what we needed. He came to us with a story — his life story, told in his "Dreams" book, and somehow that led to people imagining him able to bring the country a new sense of unity and purpose and optimism. He chose, however, to do policy that simply wasn't unifying. It was highly partisan and divisive, and for the longest time it has felt as though he is simply running for reelection. So the "story" of Barack Obama, the President, is not a compelling story at all.
And now, he seems to be saying: I'm such a great speechmaker, so if only I'd speechified more I could have sold all my policies as a good story, like I sold myself in the first place as a good story. As if all he needed was more words. He's so good with words.
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I don't know what the qualifications are to be a 'Tea Partier' but I'll answer your question.
Unfair? More like downright ignorant. Last I checked there were two houses of Congress. Exactly how many Senators are part of the Tea Party? Answer: 4. And the Democrats control the chamber. And how many House members? 62; 14% of the House. So a group that represents barely a quarter of the party that controls one of the two houses of Congress is the group running Congress? That's joe-the-six-pack level stupidity.
Once again, we have people allowing the media to spoon feed them the perspective that the left wing wants you to imagine, which is: "Obama vs. the Scary Tea Party".
p.s. and someone who is planning to vote for Obama yakking about the lack of compromise is really priceless.
Best reply that I have read all day KD.
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The above is tremendously hard to understand. Not only does it make little sense, but you didn't answer the question.
If most of those without photo IDs are capable of obtaining an ID, as we have agreed, then how will the proposed reform limit minority voting?
Since you refuse to answer, I'll break it down for you.
The only way the reform can limit minority voting is if minorities simply choose not to obtain a photo ID.
Therefore, when you assert that the regulation will limit minority voting you have insinuated that they are either too dumb, lazy or apathetic to obtain a photo ID. You didn't have to utter those very words, they are implied.
You forgot the "elephant in the room" (yes.....pun intended)
Having to produce a photo ID will cut down greatly on fraud,
by decreasing multiple voters (cases documented throughout the US)
by decreasing voters voting for someone else (or deceased)
by decreasing Illegal voters.
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You do understand that every economic situation is different, right?
You don't understand that we CAN look back on the previous 10 (post ww2) recessions and note that the administrations policies have produced the weakest recovery ?
Right?
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Global economy, ever heard of it?
Hypocrisy by Mr Obama, and his campaign,
Ever thought about it ?
Ox..........Great to have you posting..
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Okay....
I don't follow Axelrod on twitter, and I've probably seen him speak on TV like once.
Not to worry, fjl2nd. You're still in the loop.
In this case, Axelrod feeds the daily slant to the Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, and the rest.
and then you (and others) pass it along.
"the circle of Life Spin "
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regarding the 'media' coverage;
Naturally, most of the coverage about Romney’s speech to the NAACP focused on the boos. It reflected badly on Romney, we are meant to understand.Question: Is there any doubt that if a liberal Democrat addressed a gathering of conservatives (I know, impossible to imagine, but stay with me), and was booed for his trouble,
that the press narrative would be how badly this reflected on the audience? - Mona Charen
I think that we all know how the press would have "reported" that...........................
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For all of the people who do not have these photo ID's, are they going to be provided to them for free so they can vote??
Or are we going to enforce a poll tax?
Quit playing dumb fjl2nd, it doesnt help the discussion.
You know darn well that ID's ARE provided free (to those who need assistance) in the states that require them.
You seem to just want to type "Poll Tax" as much as possible....................lol
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Obama camp cites 'scheduling conflict' for NAACP convention no-show
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign insisted a "scheduling conflict" is behind the president's decision to skip this year's NAACP convention.
"We declined a few weeks ago and [the] NAACP was pleased [Vice President Joe Biden] was able to attend," a campaign official told CNN.
While the president's schedule appeared to be wide open for Thursday–raising questions as to why his campaign cited "scheduling conflicts"–CNN confirmed Thursday morning that Obama and his wife, Michelle, are sitting down for an interview with CBS News.
A check of White House log shows no real"conflict". I suppose that CBS would refuse to move the interview................lol
Perhaps we should refer to them as "stone cold liars" .....lol
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Earlier today on The Situation Room on CNN, Wolf Blitzer told viewers:
"Here is something I’d like to say to President Obama: You should have attended the NAACP convention in Houston today. Mitt Romney did. It was the right thing to do. The Republican knows the nation’s oldest civil-rights group isn’t exactly friendly turf but went anyway. On the whole, got a polite reception, but was booed when he said this: [from videotape] “I’m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare.” Despite the boos, it was a smart political move for Mitt Romney to address the NAACP. He knows he is not going to win over a lot of black voters, but attending these kinds of events is important in reassuring a lot of the suburban white voters that he is a moderate, decent politician, someone that wants to work with all Americans.
I’m surprised the president was a no-show. He is sending Vice President Joe Biden, will send a video. I checked the president’s schedule for today. He is here in Washington, D.C., over at the White House. He’s got meetings. I assume those meetings are very important. but he could have found time to pay his respects to the NAACP. The president should not take the African-American vote for granted. Let’s not be under any illusions. He received 95% of the black vote four years ago. He’ll do almost as well this time around for sure. But his problem is voter turnout. The president needs excitement, he needs enthusiasm in the African-American community, especially in the battleground states he carried in 2008. Fewer African-Americans may go to the polls this time. They might not vote for Romney, but might not show up, especially now that black unemployment has risen to 14.4%. It’s a lot higher than the 8.2% for all Americans.
So in my opinion, the president missed an opportunity today. My bottom line is this: Romney did the right thing on this day, the president did not. Now some folks will disagree with me, Kate. That’s just me offering my sense of what’s going on".
Mitt Romney gave a quality speech, with confidence, to a group that’s not exactly debating its endorsement. And, once he was booed, he hit some kind of stride. I harbor no delusions about Romney running away with the black vote, but maybe, just maybe, he made some progress there today.
As Blitzer noticed, it was respectful. He even got a standing ovation — a Republican, at the NAACP convention — besides the applause he received for his commitment to defend traditional marriage.
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I agree. Nothing wrong with having ID to vote.
The whole point here is to make it hard and disenfranchise as many as possible.
How embarrassing for you.
You try to make reasonable points on voting districts and you screw it up with a bigoted comment
Repetition does not make it so.
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No ID - no check cashing
No ID - no alcoholic beverages
No ID - no visiting Department of Justice
No ID - no tanning at tanning booths
No ID - no DVD rental
No ID - no welfare checks
No ID - no bank account
NO ID - NO VOTING
What's the question?
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From Mr Romney's speech;
""With 90 percent of African-Americans voting for Democrats, some of you may wonder why a Republican would bother to campaign in the African American community, and to address the NAACP. Of course, one reason is that I hope to represent all Americans, of every race, creed or sexual orientation, from the poorest to the richest and everyone in between.But there is another reason: I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African American families, you would vote for me for president. I want you to know that if I did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color — and families of any color — more than the policies and leadership of President Obama, I would not be running for president.
The opposition charges that I and people in my party are running for office to help the rich. Nonsense. The rich will do just fine whether I am elected or not. The President wants to make this a campaign about blaming the rich. I want to make this a campaign about helping the middle class.
I am running for president because I know that my policies and vision will help hundreds of millions of middle class Americans of all races, will lift people from poverty, and will help prevent people from becoming poor.
Most liberal African-American activists are obsessively committed to the idea that race discrimination not only exists but is a huge barrier to advancement of black Americans. This idea, whether true or not, is their meal ticket, and they will never give it up, no matter what the facts may be. But Romney, rather than challenging the convention’s cherished belief head-on, shrewdly made it part of his appeal for African-American votes:
"If someone had told us in the 1950s or 1960s that a black citizen would serve as the forty-fourth president, we would have been proud and many would have been surprised. Picturing that day, we might have assumed that the American presidency would be the very last door of opportunity to be opened. Before that came to pass, every other barrier on the path to equal opportunity would surely have come down.Of course, it hasn’t happened quite that way. Many barriers remain. Old inequities persist. In some ways, the challenges are even more complicated than before. And across America — and even within your own ranks — there are serious, honest debates about the way forward.
If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone. Instead, it’s worse for African Americans in almost every way. The unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income, and median family wealth are all worse for the black community. In June, while the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2 percent, the unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up, from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent.
Americans of every background are asking when this economy will finally recover – and you, in particular, are entitled to an answer.
If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families could send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly offer the hope of a better life. Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept. Today, black children are 17 percent of students nationwide – but they are 42 percent of the students in our worst-performing schools."
Romney highlighted the conflict of interest between the Democratic Party’s two most loyal constituents–African-Americans and teachers’ unions:
"Charter schools are so successful that almost every politician can find something good to say about them. But, as we saw in Massachusetts, true reform requires more than talk. As Governor, I vetoed the bill blocking charter schools. But our legislature was 87 percent Democrat, and my veto could have been easily over-ridden. So I joined with the Black Legislative Caucus, and their votes helped preserve my veto, which meant that new charter schools, including some in urban neighborhoods, would be opened.When it comes to education reform, candidates cannot have it both ways – talking up education reform, while indulging the same groups that are blocking reform. You can be the voice of disadvantaged public-school students, or you can be the protector of special interests like the teachers unions, but you can’t be both. I have made my choice: As president, I will be a champion of real education reform in America, and I won’t let any special interest get in the way."
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Direct link to the Nature study.
Orbital forcing of tree-ring dataA new study published in the journal Nature Sunday completely debunks all previous claims that temperatures in recent decades are in any way historic, demonstrating instead that things were much hotter on this planet during Roman times.
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Yes. And he's perfectly capable of going there and NOT lobbing shots at their golden boy...you know, give a stump speech that talks positively about YOUR beliefs rather than talking negatively about your opponent's.
A very simplistic rendition.
Mr Romney was specifically booed when he stated that he would work to repeal Obamacare. He was honest and stated his plan,
Thats what we want all candidates to do, whatever the venue. Those who booed were well withintheir rights to show disagreement.
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And the other side is basically admitting they want to limit the number of minorities and poor people who vote.
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That is a lie.
There's no other way to put it.
The actual citizens of the country deserve to know that the integrity of our elections is being protected and that registered voters do not have their votes diluted by "multiple" voters, deceased voters, and unregistered voters.
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Voter ID requirement may affect black voter turnout, Dems Fear
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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C'mon BC, you're smarter than that.
If there is NO ID requirement, then anyone can show up to be "Rosie" and actually vote, or any of the dead people referenced in the story.
Saying, "Oh, its just a registration problem" is short-sighted, its leads to voter fraud just as easily.
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