Obama calls Romney to offer congratulations

 

Updated 12:20 p.m. - President Obama called Mitt Romney on Wednesday to congratulate the former Massachusetts governor on winning the necessary delegates to secure the Republican presidential nomination.

The Obama campaign released a short readout of the call, which occurred at 11:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

"President Obama said that he looked forward to an important and healthy debate about America’s future, and wished Governor Romney and his family well throughout the upcoming campaign," said an Obama campaign statement emailed to reporters by spokesman Ben LaBolt.

"It was brief and cordial," said a Romney campaign aide. "Gov. Romney thanked the president for his congratulations and wished him and his family well."

Romney, per NBC News projections, surpassed the necessary 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination after winning last night's Texas primary.

Neither Obama nor Romney has any public campaign events on the schedule today.

Garrett Haake contributed.

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Another example of the mind games Obama is playing--the most disingenuous president.

    Reply#345 - Sat Jun 2, 2012 4:28 AM EDT

    I find it simply unbelievable that people are even entertaining the notion of voting for Romney. President Obama demonstrated a lot more class and tact than I would've been able to. I have absolutely zero respect for Romney as a politician and as a human being. The man has made it abundantly, plainly obvious that there's nothing he's unwilling to say, no lie he won't tell, no position that's not flexible, no depth of sheer hypocrisy he's unwilling to sink to in order to get more power. Here's a little picture of what I'd bet my life savings will happen if Romney gets elected President...

    If he gets elected, he'll be so in debt to the massive corporations that already own him, we might as well rename the position of President to CEO instead.

    He'll start as many illegal wars as he can manage because the CEOs of Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and all the other corporations that rake in billions in profits over the bodies of our dead soliders tell him to.

    He'll repeal health care reform (even though it was his brainchild in Mass. to begin with) and give insurance companies the power to trample on the rights of whomever they so please (because the insurance company CEOs tell him to).

    He'll repeal Wall St reform and give mega-banks the power to trample on the rights of any consumers they so please (because Wall St bankers tell him to) and merrily cause yet another crash of our financial system. Remember the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" speech? And his plan to solve the housing crisis by letting it bottom out and letting investors swoop in and clean up the remains? Of course that's what he wants, and that's what he'll work towards if he gets elected. The only thing Romney cares about is profits. His tenure with Bain Capital proved that, and every action he's made since then reinforces it. He'll do everything he can to wreck our economy so his corporate cronies can swoop in like vultures and peck at the remains.

    He'll roll back equal pay for women and all of the other recent advances we've made in women's rights, and he'll do everything he can to outlaw abortion completely because his anti-choice cronies tell him to.

    He'll try and institute a Constitutional amendment banning marriage equality across the board, and he'll repeal as many anti-discrimination laws currently protecting gay people as possible.

    He'll get rid of as many watchdog groups and environmental restrictions as he possibly can because he doesn't care in the least about our environment, especially when compared to corporate profits.

    He'll slash vital programs like Social Security, Medicare, as many other safety net programs as he can, science and research programs, infrastructure upkeep and improvement, clean energy investments, job creation, education, and anything else he can squeeze in, and he'll raise taxes on the lower and middle classes, all so he can slash tax rates for millionaires and billionaires.

    Romney has demonstrated that he clearly has a sociopathic personality and views American citizens as mere stepping stones to feeding him more power and money. He's merely a shadow of whoever stands in front of him, spewing out whatever he thinks will ingratiate himself to them (and doing so completely ineptly most of the time). Personally, I view him as being guilty of treason and as a complete traitor to this country. When someone acts in such a way as to deliberately cause harm to their own nation, that someone is guilty of treason, and every action Romney has made, almost, seems calculated to do as much damage as possible so his corporate interests can benefit.

    Anyone who thinks all the above is extreme or unlikely obviously hasn't been listening to what Romney's been saying and how he's been behaving. I'm not being melodramatic in the least when I say that a vote for Romney is a vote to end the United States as we know it, to eliminate all the things that make this country great, to completely wreck our planet and environment, to giving the finger to the rest of the world, and to rolling back civil rights 50 years, if not more.

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    Reply#346 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 12:14 AM EDT

    He'll start as many illegal wars as he can manage because the CEOs of Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and all the other corporations that rake in billions in profits over the bodies of our dead soliders tell him to.

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    You must be talking about obama here, get your facts straight.

      #346.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:34 AM EDT
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      Romney wants to lower current tax rates for everyone by 20 percent. This benefits the wealthy most: Dropping the highest bracket from 35 percent to 28 percent, for example, yields a much bigger savings for those at the top than lowering the 15 percent bracket to 12 percent brings for taxpayers in that group.

      Romney also would eliminate the much-despised alternative minimum tax, which hits the rich and some middle-class taxpayers, too. He wants to repeal Obama's health care law and its taxes. Romney would pair his tax cuts with huge spending reductions eventually reaching $500 billion per year.

      How do you make this work, you cut all the fraud, waste and abuse.

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      Reply#347 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:32 AM EDT

      obama better work one on one with his teleprompter and get it warmed up.

        Reply#348 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:37 AM EDT

        Call it a cop out or sticking my head in the sand if you want to. I am voting for Romney because he is the lessor of two evils. Call him a CEO if you want, this Country is one of the biggest businesses in the world and could use someone who realizes that you have to pay for what you do by making cuts in other areas. Obama has amassed a huge amount of future debt for us, our children, and Our grandchildren. I do not know about you but I sure did not agree to it. I find it embarrassing that we owe China a fortune and have spent a lot of our taxpayers money bailing out failing businesses. In my business (and I have successfully ran this business for over 30 years) I learned early on to spend what I could afford to spend and if I could not afford it do not do it until I can. That Romney has made a personal fortune running businesses makes me think maybe he is good at it. I also appreciate that he is a happily married family man who does not appear to think with his zipper.

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        Reply#349 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 8:36 PM EDT

        So how many people do you think he will lay off?

          #349.1 - Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:26 AM EDT
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          I hope he gets rid of every unnecessary Government Agency that has no real function. If that means lay offs- so be it! Sometimes it is necessary to cut expenses to stay in business. Also I hope he stops any new entitlement programs that we cannot fund from being implimented. If you have no way to pay for it you should not do it- period. Our Government should be ran like a business and they should know that you cannot borrow your way out of debt. I am very worried about the future of this country, I have never seen things so bad in my lifetime. I respect President Obama as he is our leader, but he has not done a good job and has not accomplished anything he promised while he was campaigning. Romney may not be the answer, but what we have now sure isn't either. Just my opinion.

            Reply#350 - Wed Jun 6, 2012 11:38 PM EDT

            So which government agencies do you imagine filled with people doing nothing? How many food inspectors do you think we cane afford to lose? How about port inspectors? We don't even have enough of those in the first place. Want to get rid of more? Education? Send fewer of our kids to college? Sure. It's not like our position as the #1 nation on earth is being challenged... oh wait, we are not #1 in acedemics... or health... or... geez, what do we have left to be number 1 in? Oh yeah, the military. So how many of our servicement do you want to send from the front lines to the unemployment lines? Enough to make us the #2 military power?

              #350.1 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 8:51 AM EDT
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              I am not talking about necessary programs (education, Military, Port of Entry, etc.). I am talking about his Czars and special interests (Solyndra,Banks, Car Companies & etc.) Of course I do not want people to lose their jobs, sometimes it is necessary to make cutbacks. I think we are the Greatest Country in the World- I wish everyone else still thought that. Entitlements are great in theory- but only if you can fund them, otherwise they are not sustainable. I for one hope Social Security is still available when I am ready to retire- I have paid in to it for 47 years. Any other entity that loots a retirement fund would be in serious trouble. Leave it for what it was intended for, then it would not be in jeopardy. Just Sayin..... It is frightening.

                Reply#351 - Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:48 PM EDT
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