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BEDFORD, NH-- Maybe it was sharing the stage with N.J. Gov. Chris Christie last night that did it, but Mitt Romney was ready to engage when Occupy protesters disrupted his rally for the second night in a row.
As chants of "Live Free or Die, Always Occupy" broke out in a familiar refrain, and police closed in, Romney did something few in the hall expected, or had seen before. He told one protester to stop shouting and ask a real question.
"How about instead of shouting, why don't you say what you think, say your view. What’s your view madam, what do you think?" Romney asked.
While the question was unclear - the protester was deep in the crowd - Romney's answer unambiguously laid the elevated role of money in presidential politics squarely at the feet of President Obama.
"The answer is, this president is spending money and has spent money, we have had over the history of this country a public funding plan for our presidents, and you know what? This president has been the first one to throw aside the public funding program to break all those barriers and to spend massively more than any president in history," Romney said. "This country is too important to hand over to President Obama for a second term."
In 2008, then candidate Obama chose to forgo matching public financing for his campaign, and ultimately spent a record $747 million dollars pursuing the White House - a controversial decision at the time. Romney had spent $17.6 million dollars this election cycle through the end of September, according to the latest filing data available.
With the crowd energized, the frontrunner Romney closed out his stump speech by urging the supporters to vote in tomorrow's primary, telling them "you're going to make a big statement tomorrow."
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Impressive, I would not know how to answer that in crowd mentality. But, after a minute or two: How would Mitt Romney handle the burdened lower class? Where wealth is coagulating at the top and the lower class is thrown scraps. Would you let the Plutocrats have their way, the opportunist or democracy win out?
Q: How do you know if a snake or Mitt Romney was run over in the road?
A: There are skid marks leading up to the snake.
Willard "Mitt" Romney says he likes to fire people. He was quoted as saying that today. That is the political equivalent of putting on a suicide vest and pulling the chord. Rick Santorum wants to start bombing Iran like yesterday and not to be outdone Rick Perry wants to re invade Iraq. Newt is getting ready for his sweet revenge on Romney by running a 27 minute attack ads on Romney's business past. All the while, Ron Paul is doing a great impersonation of Mr Burns from the Simpsons. Meanwhile back at the White House they are praying Jon Huntsman does not catch on. You can't make this stuff up..better than Reality TV!
May the Best Candidate who can lead the USA out of its recession win. Make the USA the worlds most powerful economy, a leader in Military and a leader in Financial power. Now consider the Indian games and plans. India plans to export as many manpower to the USA, EUROPE, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. ie. Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Christian countries. India proposes to make Human Lobbies in each of these countries. Inspite of RECESSION in the USA and EUROPE Indians are GOING IN HUGE NUMBERS TO THESE COUNTRIES. In the recent Pravasi Bhartiya Divas in India where the people of Indian Origin collected together they made a mention that More and More Indian Professionals, workers and technicians and academics inspite of Lack of Skilled Manpower in India will be exported to the USA, EUROPE and AUSTRALIA and other countries INSPITE OF RECESSION. WHY? This is to make Human Lobbies in the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christian Countries. GOD BLESS THE USA.
Kevin Valentine Moraes
Mira Road (Thane)
Mr. Obama raised $750 Million with an "M" while John McCain was about $200 Million behind him according to ABC News.
There was a 27% increase in spending for the 2008 campaign by both parties and outside groups totally 5.3 Billion with a "B" according to Politico. 2.7 Billion of that was for the presidential election of which President Obama's spending accounted for approximately 44%.
Mr. Romney sunk $45 Million of HIS OWN MONEY into the race. FORTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS out of Willard's own wallet. And he didn't even make it past Florida. There really isn't much of a leg for the former governor to stand on.
Everytime I see Romney perform, he reminds me of Howdy Doody (for those old enough to remember the wooden puppet from the 1950's). He (Romney) is eternally cheerful, smiling and perky. A little goofy, but not to the extent of Bush or Perry. He's obviously smarter that those two idiots combined, but he exudes insincerity and phoniness. He will be anything to anyone as long as he can promote himself. It all comes down to trust. Obama has his faults, but I trust him to do the right thing. I wouldn't trust Romney as far as I could throw him and, at my age, it wouldn't be very far.
You might surprise yourself Jack, if there was a cliff nearby!
Not to worry. No matter what the SEIU supported Occupy losers do, Holder and his hand puppets won't do a thing to stop them. http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/09/doj-inspector-general-refuses-to-investigate-occupy-public-safety-threats/
This administration stinks to high hell from the top on down.
The republican party been preaching the same crap for more then thirty years every election they stick a different bow on thier crap but still the same crap.It might be a different messenger but still the same crap.Don't you people get tired of stepping in the same crap.
The jobs bleeding stopped as soon as President Obama was elected!
When The Party of No got control of the House, trouble started again!
Obama's Job Creation Record
When Republicans claim Obama hasn't created jobs, they are using The Big Lie.