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NAACP crowd boos Romney for vowing to repeal health reform
According to recent polling - YOU betcha!
How about those BOO's Willard received before the NAACP? lol
Dude really isn't the sharpest tack in the box when it comes to knowing his audience!
did you hear abour Romney's new face? It is one of Bill Clinton. Romney is like Bill Clinton now because Clinton CUT TAXES.
I have to admit that I thought Romney was intelligent but I guess I am being proven wrong - BY ROMNEY HIMSELF!
LOL...What a tool!
I don't want a politician that changes the positions or who they are based on the folks looking at them. You know......like when Obummer gets his ebonics kickin' in high gear because he standing in front of the NAALCP
Keep Gurgling Baby! The taste will go away soon enough!
Obummer - Wiping HIS ass with YOUR Constitution!
that's funny hearing that coming from the party of Bush/cheney.
Oh' I forgot about that conservative selective memory.
it's working, all right - but it's not attacks on Romney, it's telling truth about Romney. All of us voters are entitled to truth.
This is priceless....Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running around with her speech impediment and screaming about the fact that Romney has over seas accounts and investments overseas......
GUESS WHAT???? SO DOES SHE.....
DWS is also irate that Romney hasn't released more tax information.
GUESS WHAT???.....SHE HAS NEVER RELEASED HERS...
...but Debbie is not running for President, Mitt the Vulture is.
Are the
attackscriticism of Romney working? Yes, and only because most voters recognize that truth can be negative. The rest of us recognize lies, such as the ads by Karl Rove's GPS Crossroads. And the New Majority Agenda - WTF?Devdoc12able -- RNC Chair Reince Priebus AKA Chicken Little is running around yelling about how the Sky is Falling: "A vote for the president is a vote against liberty, freedom, and America!"
Hahaha, really, seriously?
"Why yes Dorothy.....only evil conservatives tell lies". Like Eric Holder hasn't told a whopper or two *think Fast-N-Furious*
or Obummer is going to lower your taxes.....lmao....s-u-r-e....only if you're one of the leeches on here that don't pay any to begin with
Obummer - First Read's ATM Card
Wow, are you talking about Mitt Romney, the King of Flip Flop?
Chris@SLC -- Case in point above, but this is a MUCH deeper problem than selective memory. Did you see the chain Email being distributed among the Teapublican (and Mormon) faithful? Not only does it promote Birthers, transcripters, and in general offensive and propaganda BS (e.g., "regime" instead of administration), the LIES about Romney are mind-bending.
Folks, some time back when Romney was tagged for claiming he started a company, he stopped for awhile, but now that media attention on that has died down he is back at it. Bill Bain started Bain Capital! Romney did not risk anything--no capital, nor job security, or even his reputation. And regardless of the handful of companies that survived Bain's corporate raiding versus the many more that went under, the bottom line is Romney profited 100% of the time, often with use of taxpayer funds.
Romney doesn't say much about the Olympics anymore, and for good reason. He jumped on the chance to use his connections in Utah to resurrect his political career. The Olympics weren't even over before Romney was campaigning. Everything has been a stepping stone for him and that's all.
The rightwing chain Email (is there any other kind?) even claims that Romney is completely transparent (unlike the president) including his tax returns! The Bermuda story is much more relevant than folks realize -- Romney put this in Ann's name the day before he was sworn in as governor. And then in an attempt to appear not to be a "tax hiker," he increased regressive fees--regressive meaning on the backs of the poorest 95%. And Massachusetts would have ranked even lower in jobs if so many people hadn't moved out of the state. Then on his way out, Romney took the hard drives with him.
Mitt's father George Romney said that only one year's tax returns could be a "fluke." Like blind trusts, Romney knows full well that he is presenting a "fluke" because he, unlike any other politician in history, has money offshore including a Swiss bank account. Unfortunately Mitt only learned the wrong things from his parents -- Who should have forced him to make his own way so that now he would be his own person.
Legal is not the same as ethical or moral. A candidate can cheat on his wife who is dying from cancer, and that is not illegal. But do we want this candidate to be our POTUS, Commander in Chief, and leader of the free world? No. Character matters. Romney -- He's not in it for you.
Obama/Biden - 2012!
Considering all the money being spent and national polls showing a dead heat but swing states have our President leading, I would say yes the attacks are working.
Furthermore, the surrogates are far more explaining the Health Care Law which the Keiser polls says is turning people more positive toward the Health Care Law.
One more thing, those are not attack ads they are truisms. Everything about R-money is fake accept the ads reporting what a liar Willad is.
ATTACKS ???
Bishop WILLARD of the Church of the Magic Panties is his OWN WORST ENEMY ....
his Etch-A-Sketch brain is connected to both sides of his face, if you want to know his positions on anything all one has to do is position themselves on the side of Bishop Willard that is telling them what they want to hear...
Beside that the guy is NEEDY, he has an un-natural desire to have EVERYONE in the COUNTRY LIKE HIM... almost as if he thinks the election is a facebook page ....even John Boehner knows Bishop Willard is his own worst enemy, just read his quote from this past weekend " “Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney."
The GOP sent yet another failure to the top of the pile in hopes that the rest of the country was just as mendacious & ignorant as their leadership is, they were SURE they could beat a Black man from Chicago with a WAR HERO, this time they assume America wants a spineless Cult Bishop who was born in MEXICO a millionaire ?
SORRY GOP, wrong again and this time it might cost you clowns the total collapse of the GOP,
you are doing the LIBERALS WORK FOR THEM & come November we will thank you by gutting your abortion, women's health invasion & voter purges in addition to regaining the Senate & a substantial number of House seats .
We will owe it ALL to your inabilities & foolish assumptions.... don't bother sending a bill tho...
we are going to be paying off GWBUSH's bills for the next 25 years & are going to be pressed for cash .
Bev,
Only in your feeble mind...
And what is with typing in bold every post??
Attacks? Or truth?
Guess it depends on your perspective.
But, Romney has a Bain problem, as the American people become more aware of what he did, they will reject him
Are they working? Sure. The truth always DOES work.
NDD,
Yes, the truth always works. Lunch brake, for those of us that work. Just kidding, I'm on vacation.
The so called "attacks" are just telling the truth about someone who shouldn't be running for anything - except maybe sanitation engineer!
Once again, "Concern" since you seem to be unable to help yourself:
Brake: the thing that stops your car.
Break: A rest period from work.
When may we expect a cogent, sensible post from you?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/more-tenuous-claims-about-romneys-bain-capital-record/2012/07/10/gJQAZmKDbW_blog.html
Barack Hussein Obama's attacks on Romney outsourcing proven false.
Devdoc12able - wrong again!
NDD,
Never, as long as you have to take your time to read my cogent post. Your Ego keeps showing others what you really are. So what if I make some spelling errors, at least I don't lie or idolize as you do.
I'm LOL while I Post. Keep it coming little Pony.
Actually, I read your posts for the same reason people gawk at car accidents.
I have never seen such a MESS in my life.
HINT: Learn what to capitalize: Ego, Post and Pony are incorrect.
Most 10 year olds know that.
Seeking Sanity,
Factcheck.org and Washington Post stands firm in their assessment. Stephanie Cutter Obama's campaign manager wrote a six page letter defending the ad.
Fact Check came back and said, In a nutshell, the Obama campaign is all wet on this point.
Beverly - a belated Happy Birthday! Soooooo sorry - I meant to call Sunday but the days lately have been crazed! Hope it was great! You, Feisty and I have to go for drinks SOOOOOON!
If you and Fiesty go for drinks make sure you bring a Conservative to pay your tab or else you'll just be another Obama supporter running out on a debt you owe.
that's funny conservative are running to....
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/more-tenuous-claims-about-romneys-bain-capital-record/2012/07/10/gJQAZmKDbW_blog.html
READ THE LAST LINE IN THE ARTICLE.
So it's OK that wiltard can Lie and BS. He should be swiftboated for his deception.

And yet many beg to differ. Fact check seems to have lost a lot of credibility.
Concern ... PLEASE I beg of you ... GET A DICTIONARY!
From about.com (which if you've not got Google as your homepage, about.com might just work for you as well) ...
And no, I don't need everyone going all ballistic on me for trying to correct this little error ... this trainwreck of a commentor goes bananas on me daily with such choice words as libertard, idiot, and moron ...
GAH!!!
Did you expect anything different? You have got to be kidding.
I like to see Obama, sorry President Obama, giving one of his speeches in front of the National Rifle Association. At least Mitt had the courage to give one in front of the NAACP.
And yes feisty, P Obama's adds are working a little. However it is too early and the race is still too close to call.
Concern - our President would have no problem talking in front of the NRA because, unlike the constant lies of the GOP, he isn't for taking guns away.
The truth about Romney is working and will continue to do so. He's useless and unfit to be our President.
Obama/Biden 2012
Concern Citizen-856329
Did you expect anything different? You have got to be kidding.
I like to see Obama, sorry President Obama
President Obama released his tax returns.
FYI: Willard knows what is in those documents because he had to sign them in order to release them.
Whose sorry now? Not our President; I would say.
Insanity,
You have got to be kidding me. Do you really think that Obama would speak at the NRA. Please wake up sweetie.
Romney 2012. Yes the truth wins sometimes. Please wake up from the obsession.
Concern - oh you made a funny - I guess in your mind but as I always say, people like you show daily there is no sanity to be found in the GOP.
Our President would address the NRA any day and be fine. See he actually knows what he is talking about - unlike Romney who never knows from day to day what he thinks.
Talk about obsessions - you clearly have one with Mitt. Too bad your standards are so low.
Obama/Biden 2012
She has one with Feisty too!
NDD - at least her obsession with Feisty is several steps up from Romney!
The NRA would have to invite him, first.
They won't do that.
He's a charming man and he would walk out of the room with some NRA supporters voting for him.
Even Republicans rate him high on likeability (likability?).
He wouldn't even go into Wisconsin with all the union people begging him to. What makes you think he would go to an NRA meeting?
You people live in fantasy land.
Invite him and find out.
newdayDAWNING...RETURNED
But, Romney has a Bain problem, as the American people become more aware of what he did, they will reject him
newday,
That's what I'm talking about. Even the WSJ and the Fear Factory aka FOX NOISE are criticizing R-money for his failures to be forthcoming.
Bev, where have you been? FOX Noise has been saying that for about 3 weeks now.
Oh I forgot you don't listen to FOX, just MSN. There is nothing like expanding your horizons.
True enough, Bev! I just think Mittens is going to wear badly. The refusal to release tax records is not going over well.
newdayDAWNING...RETURNED
True enough, Bev! I just think Mittens is going to wear badly. The refusal to release tax records is not going over well.
newday
R-money knows it. He thinks he can ride the wave of time; but his "Bermuda Triangle" as Rachel put it last night is soon going to be discovered it is not quite the mystery Willard wants it to be.
A foreign investment, however, is not the same as an offshore tax shelter. A more conscientious politician would have urged his blind trusts to have nothing to do with shelters not available to the general public. And Mr. Romney is tarnishing an important political tradition — one set by his father, George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns in 1967 — by continuing to keep the sources of his income in the shadows.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/mitt-romneys-financial-black-hole.html?_r=1&hp
Beverly, would have loved to see Romney's speech to the NAACP. I am sure he was STUNNED at their reaction!
Factcheck has proven the WSJ article false. Look it up,
Devdoc12able
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/more-tenuous-claims-about-romneys-bain-capital-record/2012/07/10/gJQAZmKDbW_blog.html
Barack Hussein Obama's attacks on Romney outsourcing proven false.
Have you seen the NYT or MSNBC refuting the attacks on R-money claim our President as an outsourcer?
The campaign continued, "Mitt Romney, who’s personally profited from investments in companies that were pioneers in shipping American jobs to India and China as a corporate buyout specialist, would slash funds to spur the clean energy sector in America, eliminating renewable energy jobs in states like Colorado and Iowa and ceding the industry to China. The American people deserve a President who will fight to create jobs here in America, not the 'Outsourcer-in-Chief' Mitt Romney promises to be.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12682713-video-first-read-minute-are-the-attacks-on-romney-working?threadId=3516319&commentId=67859146#c67859146
R-money is a ‘Corporate Raider’still
John Boehner in ROLL CALL this past week-end......
“Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. "
Most of the garbage Obama has been spewing has been fact checked as lies, yet Obama spews them again. Seems you libbies love swallowing you some BS.
YOU cannot produce any "fact check" site which has listed more UNTRUTHS spoken by BHO than the truths he has spoken... NOT ONE...and that not only makes you a LIAR it also is self validation of yYOUR inability to speak truth YOU HAVE DEBASED & EXPOSED YOURSELF...
but that is what conservatives & TeaBaggers do in place of speaking truth on issues before this country..
and it is also why the GOP is just month away from total collapse once they throw another election this November .
That is Romney’s newest claim. OK. So I have one question for Mitt Romney; will you support tax legislation to curb outsourcing? I have one more question; if you have nothing to hide regarding your tax returns, why are you willing to suffer the obvious and very significant political damage to keep them secret when you could stop it all by doing what every other presidential candidate has done?
Obama has made significant proposals to fight outsourcing through tax policy, punish outsources and give the money to those that create jobs here. He has released years of tax returns. It looks to me like candidate Romney is afraid to expose a significant Republican lie; rather than the US tax codes being onerous for the wealthy, it is loaded with candy for them!
It was not my intent to write this piece, but on MSMBC Chuck Todd interviewed Republican Senator John Cornyn about voting separately for the middle-class extension which everyone agrees is the right thing to do, and the tax cut for the wealthy later. Senator Cornyn did his verbal bluster-speak. Chuck Todd waited and then nailed him with the question; are Republicans afraid to vote on them separately? Senator Cornyn said that Republicans will address all of it after the elections. That is the classic non-answer answer made famous in the movie All the President’s Men.
I would like to add this to the debate about extending tax cuts for the middle class right now. Republicans deplore uncertainty. It is the route-cause of everything that is wrong with the economy according to all Republicans. Well why won’t they put their vote where there rhetoric is?
The middle-class is uncertain what their paychecks will look like in January. This stifles spending by the most important part of the economic engine. Republicans can end that uncertainty tomorrow by having a vote extending their tax cut. Why don’t they just love this easy fix!
Barack Hussein Obama has attacked Romney on his success, his religion, his wife, and his bank accounts.
None of it has worked. Because people want a POTUS that is successful, he has the freedom to choose a religion, spouses should be off limits, and again his money he earned who cares.
"Divider and Chief" only has divisiveness and class warefare as he has a disastrous record on the major concerns affecting the AMERICAN people.
Yes they are working. Willard is getting beat up big time, and we will continue to point out how bad Willard is for the Nation.
Wrong again J1
Let's see the lying sack-o-crap devdoc show references of Obama attacking Romney's religion and wife. Common, devdoc .. you can do it .. or is this another one of the many lies you have been posting over the past few weeks. Oh, and nit wit, for your information:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/12/obama_candidates_wives_should_be_off-limits_113837.html
You need to "fact-check" your first sentence, devdoc. After which I believe you'll have to take it back.
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees;
please note that Swiss Bank account Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he was against the war.
Promoting the draft, while Americans were dying, he skipped out, then says he wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is his way of management.
Some may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and should not be given anything or elected for anything.
For those who are not old enough to remember the military draft, it was a mandatory commitment for two years that was implemented during the Viet Nam War. If your number was called, you went and served like it or not. Young people may say, I wouldn't go and they can't make me, think again.
This is what Romney promoted as if he were a "responsible citizen", then he left his fellow citizens to serve and some died for us and him. I am ashamed of him as I am retired military member, and forget about representing our country Mr. Romney.
I am one of the Military members who are against Romney, this has nothing to do with politics.
Muck Robme is not releasing his tax returns because:
A/ He believes the Swiss Franc is a stronger more stable currency than the USD
B/ He is a self serving greedy unpatriotic billionaire who will divest from the US economy to make more riches
C/ He is doing something shady or cheating the system
D/ He is claiming charitable donations to the Mormon cult as tax write offs.
E/ All of the above
I would like to see his long form tax returns like every other presidential nominee in US history and like Muck Robme's father who provided him his silver spoon inheritance.
Romney was booed by the NAACP, because he made two cardinal mistakes. The first mistake was referring to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Obamacare. Clearly, the shrewd progressive activists with the NAACP know that calling the legislation Obamacare is a rightwing push to racialize the issue. The second mistake was focusing on the fiscal constraints and costs of health care reform, rather than acknowledging the uninsured and consequences they are forced to endure, and failing to present a pathway, albeit a free market pathway, to expanding coverage. Veiled attempts to exploit wedge politics, and ignoring the suffering of the innocent is not going to go over well with a Civil Rights group.
"Bishop WILLARD of the Church of the Magic Panties"
"COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him"
These comments are more and more common, and prove progressives have no limits in their vicious political attacks...can ony imagine what these comments will look like in October !
They pale in comparison to the viscious attack and untrue comments about President Obama many conservatives post here every day. Spare us the faux outrage McDonnell.
This is priceless....Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running around with her speech impediment and screaming about the fact that Romney has over seas accounts and investments overseas......
GUESS WHAT???? SO DOES SHE.....
DWS is also irate that Romney hasn't released more tax information.
GUESS WHAT???.....SHE HAS NEVER RELEASED HERS..
most of what i read here in the comments aswell as in the video is complete drab, Romney only showed up at the NAACP *BECAUSE* it wasn't his audience, he knew that and so does everyone else. its trying to reach out, as for the overseas accounts and "changing his stance...well lots of people have overseas accounts its been the american way for quite some time now....and changing his stance? well i think a person that never changes his stance is either stubborn or afraid to admit they made a mistake, Obama never changes his stance....Obama never admits he made mistakes, unlike Rommney
Ya gotta love the frothing at the mouth panic the liberals are in. I mean really, trying to pin outsourcing of jobs on Romney when he was running the Olympics and wasn't even involved in the day to day management of Bain. A management, which includes many liberal democrats who not only also say that Romney wasn't involved, but are also campaign contributors to Obama as well.
Seems the Obama campaign doesn't mind a bit taking the money from all of those jobs that were outsourced by those liberal democrats at Bain.
And then, of course, you have the famous San Fransisco - Oakland Bay bridge which was built in China. No union iron worker jobs for Americans on that one. California is importing a bridge from China that could have been built by Americans; this in the liberal Mecca of California.
Funny how you hear crickets chirping in the liberal camp whenever that subject is brought up. California is owned by the liberals, so there's no where to run to hide from their own hypocrisy.
Just another couple of examples of why I hate modern day, post FDR liberalism to its rotting core. It is made up of nothing but lies, delusions, and hypocrisy. It truly is a pile of dog sh!t ideology.
And by the way, I am not a Romney supporter, nor will I be voting for him.