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Subscribe to RSSRestore Our Future is going up with an ad featuring Olympic athletes touting how Mitt Romney turned around the 2002 Olympic games.
“Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope,” says famed figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi in the ad. Yamaguchi won a gold medal in the 1992 and was an ambassador for the 2002 games. She also donated the maximum to Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
“Mitt gets things done,” says Jimmy Shea, who won the 2002 gold medal in Skeleton. “He changed my life.”
“It meant a lot to athletes like myself to be able to realize our dreams,” says speed-skating gold medalist Derek Parra.
The only other pro-Romney ad run this general election has also been by Restore Our Future. Americans continue to have a more negative than positive impression of the former Massachusetts governor, according to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. Just 35 percent viewed him favorably in the latest poll out this month, while 40 percent viewed him negatively.
Here's the script:
Kristi Yamaguchi: As an athlete, you're training your whole life for that one moment at the Olympics.
Narrator: But America's Winter Olympics were mired in scandal and deficits. They turned to Mitt Romney.
Fraser Bullock: He faced a 400 million dollar budget deficit and turned that around to a hundred million dollar surplus.
Narrator: And after September 11th, Romney delivered the Olympics safe and secure.
Jimmy Shea: Mitt gets things done. He changed my life.
Kristi Yamaguchi: Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope.
Derek Parra: Mitt allowed athletes like myself to be able to realize our dreams.
Narrator: Restore our Future is responsible for the content of this message.
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Romney brings a sense of hope because he is a true LEADER! Not like the amateur in the white house now, who has never lead anything in his life.
We need a leader not someone who thinks they can 'lead from behind'. Not someone that is going to follow the advice of Jarret and the other loony tune advisers.
Fisty, I saw some of your antisemitic rants over the weekend. You should really be ashamed. I guess that is just the typical libby tolerance showing. You know, you only tolerate other's opinions if they match yours and attack them if they don't. Kinda like Chick-filet.
Anyway, I knew Fisty was a big racist, now she proved it.
Domineco: Don't you think it's time to change "Bubba" to President Clinton. Your GOP roots are showing.
Would you like to respond regarding your choice of words?
What the ad failed to mention was the amount of money that Mitten's hit up the government for to turn around that deficit in Salt Lake...
Obama/Biden2012
Dayumm! That must be some good weed she got. Romney is an abysmal failure and the laughing stock of the world.
4more for 44
Definitely Obama/Biden 2012
We need a leader not someone who thinks they can 'lead from behind'
Redsux - True leaders have a plan, not just talking points. True leaders have diplomacy, NitMitt totally lacks it. Trueleaders have vision, Nitmitt's only vision is using The GOP stategy during the Bush days... Mitt is a joke
Former athletes should stick to stuff they know about, like their sport......
Obviously politics/Willard is not something they know anything about!
Hmm...so let me see if I get this straight...
The President of Chick-Fil-A donates to organizations with anti-gay agendas (see also: ATTACKING OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS) and that's okay but attacking Chick-Fil-A because of this is not?
If he did such a great job saving the Olympics then why
did he “lose” all his records of accomplishments ?
Ron Indiana
Funny, you don't hear the reporters refer to Bush JR as "Dubya."
Won't help Mittens at all. Will bring light to all his secrecy with shredding of Olympics documents. Why did he do that? Was it because everything was not as it should have been? He also did that with his short stint as Governor. Can't trust anyone who shreds and erases stuff. Can't trust someone who bets "AGAINST" the U.S.A. with his money. Can't trust anyone who doesn't want to share his taxes with the U.S.A. But most importantly, can't trust anyone who is cruel to dogs and horses. Obama/Biden/Holder 2012
RedSoxRule.........................
We HAVE a leader in the White House at this time. It's just a shame that you can't see it. Simply calling him an ametuer as you do lends no credibility to your comment.
Helping to put on the Olympics as Romney did is fine, but hardly something that should be considered leading. The Olympics have been going on for quite some time without Romney. All Romney did was to participate in the administration of the games when they were held in Salt Lake City. Had he not participated would the games have gone on? I believe so. So I don't see how that makes him a leader. He was simply a cog in an already well oiled machine.
Perhaps you could give some examples of true leadership and inovation that Romeny has performed that would sway people to his side.
You also stated that Feisty said some things over the weekend that were antisemitic. I didn't see anything like that, but I wasn't spending a lot of time here over the weekend. Again, perhaps you could give some examples. But in the same vein, how do you feel about what Romney said about Israel/Palestine? Saying that Israel is more cultured than it's neighbor seems more than just slightly racist to me. But again, maybe you could put your spin on it for us.
I wonder if Michelle Obama will still be proud of our country when she and her hubby are sent packing in november!
Chilled, you're funny. Do you say that about the Hollywood dimwits that back Obama? There is a crew that should really keep their mouths shut. LMAO
Noid, it is his money, he can donate it to whoever he wants. If you don't like it, don't eat there. But the attacks on his company are idiotic. They employ a lot of people, server all comers and do great work in the community. They make the best chicken sandwich around.
I did see signs of leadersh1t in Romney.
Finally we hear the truth. Romney 2012!
Where are the Obama accomplishment Ads running? And what's in them exactly?
Athletes aren't exactly renowned for their intelligence.
Rmoney is just the leader we need. He leads by example with tax shelters. Pays less than 15% in taxes. Outsource jobs. Do we need that rich of a man as a President? Who do you think he will side with, the rich, the middle class or the poor? Remember he said the poor have safety nets to help them so he's that got that one covered. As for the middle class get ready to bend over here comes Rmoney. The rich will do just fine because Rmoney backs the paul ryan plan to screw the middle class of America. America use to be for everybody. Now the rich want it, and make the rest of us slaves for them.
Kristi Yamaguchi: ‘Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of Nope.’
Absolutely.
'Nope' is defined as 'no hope', in the Dictionary of PIGOTRY
Speaking of Mitten's trip abroad and his gaffes: Why would he make the statement that he wants to see Isreal move its capital to Jerusalem, when Isreal never had any plans to move it there in the first place. Why try to create an issue that doesn't exist? He's speaking on the International scene, not talking to some backwood tea-baggers in Bum-@!$%# Kansas, that the next day he could flip-flop by saying that he meant moving their Capital to Trenton.. What a Maroon, and a possibly dangerous one at that!!
Obama/Biden 2012
Actually Amy, Ron's post from earlier today suggested that the use of "Bubba" and "Dubya" was in poor taste because We have all seen both of the terms used.
I happen to agree with Ron, but by all means don't let your blind hatred for anything that is not Pro-Democrat get in the way of a good story.
BTW If Kristi Yamaguchi supports Mitt Romeny and she is a 1%er, does that make her unpatriotic as you stated on FT today?
Kristi Yamaguchi - is - 'only body no brain'
Mitt Romney ......- is - 'nobody but Citizen Bain'
All Willard has in his bag of tricks is, " it's Ronald Reagan this, Ronald Reagan that, Ronald Reagan loved me, Ronald Reagan did this, Ronald Reagan did that, Ronald Reagan had a plan Ronald Reagan loved this Nation and let's name it all Ronald Reagan."
Hey redsux, as long as people like the chic-filet guy use their money and position to actively work to deny others rights they themselves enjoy, then he gets what's coming and he ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Obama spent a bunch of money on things and came up with the really cool saying "Hope and Change". He also community organized lots of stuff. Top notch, that Obama fella.
Obama 2012 - "I talk a lot"
*puke*
Coming from you, that's a compliment.
BTW If Kristi Yamaguchi supports Mitt Romeny and she is a 1%er, does that make her unpatriotic as you stated on FT today?
Kristi best get ready for a slew of hate filled emails and phone calls. Seems that if you support Romney in anyway the moonbats get more than a little nasty.
It is amazing to me Brockton, that the left would demonize an Olympic Athlete, who represented the USA with class and strength, the way that the Libs here are demonizing Kristi Yamaguchi.
Kristi Yamaguchi - is - 'only body no brain'
Athletes aren't exactly renowned for their intelligence.
Former athletes should stick to stuff they know about, like their sport......
etc,etc,etc
It really is sad, but says more about the people posting than it oes about Ms. Yamaguchi.
I know that all of the left soes not feel this way, I would like to see some of them call out their "peers".
Representing with athleticism and representing with her brain (or lack thereof) are two different things.
Many football players cannot seemingly put a coherent sentence together, but that's not what they pay them to do.
Everyone should stop spending money at chick-filet. Until they support all Americans. chick-filet will not get a dime of my money till they make a apology. If everyone does that and there profits suffer think of that lesson they would learn.
Kristi certainly isn't demonstrating those "Chicago values" Mayor Rahm likes to talk about.
Yes, anyone that disagrees with Liberal doctrine is just not smart. That way of "thinking" certainly does represent the "Chicago values" Mayor Rahm talks about.
Who is Kristin Mama-hoochie anyway?
From Wiki-Pedia '
Kristi Yamaguchi
In 1996, Yamaguchi established the Always Dream Foundation for children. The goal of the foundation is to provide funding for after school programs, computers, back-to-school clothes for underprivileged children and summer camps for kids with disabilities
Yamaguchi is the author of Always Dream, Pure Gold. In 2011, she published a children's book, Dream Big, Little Pig,[10] which was #2 on the New York Times bestseller list; a portion of the proceeds went to the Always Dream Foundation to support early childhood literacy programs
Kristi Yamaguchi received the Inspiration Award at the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards
Sure Ruken, she's a real knucklehead and you are oh so smart.
But maybe Pig's comment explains it. Seems you folks are just bigots.
Why don't you like Asian-Americans?
Yea, because philanthropy must imply intelligence. That's why all the football players who have foundations must really have PHDs.
Perhaps you should wander back into the closet and take your lithium. Don't get shot by a rival gang while you're in there.
Hey ruke how about you write a #2 NYTimes best seller on how to eran a fake degree and boast about it on line and get back to us?
Why do you hate Asians?
Stereotype much?
Why don't you keep deflecting you emo freak? No wonder women won't go anywhere near you.
Must be awful to dwell in the closet like you do.
Stereotypes come from somewhere. The football player in my Native American Studies class certainly fit the bill.
Romney used more taxpayer money than all the previous US hosted Olympics combined.
Salt Lake Olympics lost money without taxpayer bailouts.
Good old Mitt, was for bailouts before he was against them.
Redsoxrule - well you must have been absent from Boston lately, I just came back from vacation up that way, man do they hate Mit, he is not gonna carry Mass, and probably not anything at all in New England, if he does then we will know this election was illegal just like 2000 & 2004.
Who is Kristi Hoochie Mama, anyway? Is she working in the Hooters?
Romney spent millions hiring lobbyists to get taxpayer money for the Olympics.
In fact, here is a Romney quote from after the Olympics when he talked about how he turned it around...
“got record funds from the federal government.”
WOW! So ALL athletes must be that way, huh?
WHAT A BIGOT! WHAT A HYPOCRITE! WHAT AN A$$ YOU ARE!
HAHAHAHAH!!!!!
What a dumbf*ck.
It is so difficult for the liberal media to promote Obama's leadership as a positive thing for the country. It's ok to tell the truth. The country will be better for it.
Ruken, you realize that your comments are no better than the person who stood behind a black person in line while they cashed their welfare check and made the conclusion from that experience that all blacks are on welfare and food stamps. My next door neighbor's son is being recruited by a ton of schools for football including Harvard, Penn and Yale. Some dumb football player I would say. Its people like you and Pigotry and Seeking Sanity and yes Fiesty, that embarass progressive liberals with their personal attacks and inability to respect others with differing opinions. There are plenty of progressive liberals on here who I substantively disagree with and in many instances hate their skewing of the facts to fit their agenda, however, I respect their passion and beliefs even if different. Just as there is nothing wrong with an Olympic athlete respecting Mitt and there is nothing wrong with respecting Romney for the great job he did with the Olympics, Bain and his personal success while still disagreeing with his political positions. I respect Obama greatly for his success and his personal achievements while disagreeing with his political agenda. Your behavior and posts are just shameful and are an embarassment to all liberals. If you cant win on the merits of your argument then just shut up.
White Collar, in your mini-biography, you left out the one thing that makes Kristi Yamaguchi pertinent to this discussion; that she was an Olympic skater.
Instead, you extrapolate to the assumption that all liberals hate sports, hate Asians hate Asian Americans. And then Sick of the Bickering joins in to accuse liberals of stereotyping. Wow.
Penn State huh? Yea...
Yea, because athletic scholarships are totally based on academics.
Ruken, no havent you heard of the University of Pennsylvania? Its an Ivy league school if that is too hard for you to understand. Further, the Ivy league doesnt give scholarships, wow and you guys call fiscal conservatives dumb. Maybe you should think before you post next time.
Nah Felden, if you read my post at 1.27 you will note that I said that I am sure all Libs don't feel the way Ruken does and was hoping some might actually call her out.
Pretty sure everyone knew she was an Olympic Champion, seems a lot of folks here questioned her intelligence. Hence, the stuff about writing books, starting foundations and pretty much being an all around great citizen.
Uh Ruken, Penn State and Penn are 2 different schools.
Figured you would know that what with your phony degree and all.
Where did you get that phony degree anyway?
University of Illinois at Guantanamo?
Like Jack Gillchrist -- the bus and truck business owner in one of Romney's ads (lying propaganda) -- if Neil Cavuto of FOX interviewed Kristi Yamaguch, on must wonder what this person really believes...
Romney lobbied for federal money and gave his Bain partners sweetheart deals to produce the most expensive US Olympics to date.
Funny seeing the emo jobless b*tch talk about intelligence.
Keep spending your weekends trolling internet boards. LOL!
Obama, and Romney are virtually the same on all these policies we give Obama crap for. They might as well share a set of bunk beds in the oval office. I don't know why the Liberals even bother bashing him. It's win/win for them...They just won't be able to call anyone racists anymore if he gets elected...
Aside from pursuing every government agency for tax dollars to fund the 2000 Olympics, Romney used his Bain connections to pressure companies like Staples to be a sponsor. In that particular case Staples did not succumb, however the shady dealings in Romney's so-called "business experience" are never ending.
Show us the tax returns Romney! Did you pay any taxes in 2008/2009? How did you get so much money in your IRA? What about the gray market tax shelters, did the IRS miss this? We The People demand 8-10 years tax returns, because NO, we aren't going to "just trust you on that."
Ash6 -- Will you and your ilk ever stop with the GOPee Wee Herman "I know you are, but what am I?" fallacious arguments and false equivalency? Folks who embrace this crap, along with ad hominem attacks, straw man, red herring, and worst of all breaking Godwin's Law only prove they can't make their case for their position. This BS is so old and tiring, please stop or don't post.
Ruken can diss the opinion of athletes because he believes Hollywood has all the answers. And, why am I not surprised that Ruken was in a native american studies class with athletes that have "no brain"?? That about sums Ruken up.
Ash, Republicans will be considered even more racist if Obama gets voted out of office. MSN, CNN are already saying "it will be a shame if the first black president doesn't get re-elected". How's that for racism?
sparkly/ash...Are you aware that the "reverse racism" tactic was invented by the KKK in the late '60's/early '70's? If you do not wish to be considered racist, perhaps you should think twice before using KKK tactics in your arguments.
The fact that your true leader Rush uses the tactic proves where Rush's heart really is. The fact that you mimic him means that you are either racist, or you are ignorant and thoughtless. Which one is it?
I wish President Clinton would say what he really thinks of President Obama at the DNC convention. If he did I am sure he would talk about all of Hillary's fine qualities and how if we had elected her instead in 2008 we would not be in this mess. Maybe when he talks about Obama if he is forced to say things he does not support he can put an L on his forehead with his thumb and finger so we can understand that while he may say Obama is a great president he really means what a loser.
shocked? My "true" Leader?...you know what they say about assUme, right? And shocked....I am not republican...I voted for Obama, so take your reverse racism remarks, KKK and garbage and put them where they belong. ASSume. It's not reverse racism when the color of Obama's skin is commented on by anyone..it's racism, period.
Mittens and the Olympics. Of course the fact that he had taxpayer dollars to do it......
Funny how he NEVER talks about that part.
To hear Mittens you would think he funded it himself.
Hey newday,
How many modern Olympics are put on solely with private money, especially post 9/11 with the incredible security costs?
Mittens funding it?
Nah ... but no one with any credibility seems to deny that Romney turned it around and saved it.
Obama ever accomplish anything like that?
Bob: I don't disagree, and that is exactly my point. Mittens did nothing extraordinary with those Olympics. Taxpayers did.
"Obama ever accomplish anything like that?"
Yes indeedy, saved the nation from a great depression!
How odd.
You seem to marginalize Romney as a leader and give credit to the tax payer for making it a success ... while giving full credit for a (fictional) success to Obama with no mention of the tax payers.
And how much of that stimulus was Obama's money ... how much of the $5 trillion of new debt is Obama's?
And btw - the recession started in Decmber 2007, peaked in September 2008 and officially ended by economic measurements, definitions and standards by June 2009 - way before Obama did anything that could have any possible effect (actually it ended despite the shock of Obamacare).
So what Great Depression was avoided?
So you want the government to start giving mention to the taxpayers for every act it does with our money?
Wasn't it nice of these Olympians to thank me and other U.S. taxpayers for bailing out the Olympics. That Mitt--he sure was smart to hit up Congress to make the Olympics profitable. I'd have been happier if they'd have been a little less profitable and not outsourced the pins and some uniforms but Mitt is all about the outsourcing.
NewDay, Ruken, SteelerFan - this is a great article that explores the question I have pondered for some time - Why was Romney selected to 'salvage' the 2002 Olympics. It is a great read and poses very good questions.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/28/1114471/-Why-was-Mitt-Romney-chosen-as-CEO-of-02-Olympics
Just read that article, RedDev: fascinating. Wonder if anyone will dig out the true answer?
"Was the great depression avoided?"
bob, do you really NOT know the answer to that? Of course it was.
Christy
Is that Hope like in HOPE AND CHANGE?
Mitt Romney makes a good figure head. Good figure heads don't make good Presidents. Sorry, Kristi, putting a clean face on the Utah Olympics does not qualify Romney to be Commander-in-Chief, anymore than being a ice skating princess qualifies you to judge who would be a good President.
"Figure head"? Amy, where do you get these inane talking points?
Mitt Romney saved the Salt Lake City Olympics.
He left his highly successful job to help out his country, at no salary. His leadership saved the Games.
Romney didnt take a salary as Massachusetts Governor, either. If he had stayed at Bain Capital he would have been a billionaire, instead of a multi millionaire...
It is Barack Obama who is a shallow "figure head", he never succeeded at leadership, only at speeches...
The ad should have included that bastion of competitive spirit (criminal) Tonya Harding!......lol
Romney did more to insure a successful Winter Olympics than anyone else. Of course of left will whine and cry because he used federal money which every country does, including the United States.
What did Obama do for the U.S. Olympic Committee, nothing except waste a bunch of tax payers money by sending Michelle first and then himself to push for the Olympics in 2016 be held in Chicago. How did that turn out? A waste of taxpayers money. If I remember right, Chicago came in dead last in the bidding.
Romney's resume compared to Obama's is stunning, they don't even begin to compare. Romney believes in the power, progress and innovations provided by private business while Obama believes in the ineffectiveness, expense, and regressive nature of government solutions. It's a sad day to see liberals so critical of success and innovation while supporting the wastefulness of the government.
How embarrassing that was for the country. Obama and Chicago thought they had the Olympics all wrapped up. The most powerful and charismatic president ever, his lovely wife, celebrities like Oprah endorsing the plan. Chicago, and the USA finished 4th in the voting, out of four. The Olympic Committee picked the crime ridden city of Rio as the winner. They were probably too scared to venture to Chicago which is more crime ridden.
sfcret - Romney did very little to help the Olympics and what he did do - he did with government support.
Bidding for the Olympics is not the role of the President. President Obama added his support but the committee wanted it in Brazil - that was known up front. Our President and First Lady have always done great jobs for the US. The Olympic pick was the fault of no one - Brazil was in the front from day one.
If you actually knew ANYTHING - you would know that. And, Michelle Obama did so much better than pathetic Anne Romney would EVER have done!
You're so jealous of our First Lady and it shows with every post. You truly are pathetic!
And I see JAS has done her usual dumpster diving for her post. It's all she has.
Out to meetings all - I'm sure sfcret will take this opportunity to attack. Small minded GOPer!
Obama/Biden 2012
It's more sad to see jobless morons like JAS1 think that voting for someone who supports more failed supply-side economics is a good idea.
If Romney did such a good job with the Olympics, why did he have to shred all the evidence?
If Romney was such a honest clean governor, why did he take all his hard drives with him and hide the evidence?
Most of all if Romney is so honest prove it with releasing your tax returns, some of the only evidence that Romney hasn't shredded already.
Any party that whines about an elected President's birth certificate for 4 years wants us to believe that Mitt the twits tax returns are not important but President Obama's school records are?
The republicans demand birth certificates and school records from our first black president that no other president in our history has been asked for, but the republicans candidate won't even release his tax returns that all presidents release.
If there wasn't something big to hide in Romney tax returns he would not be hiding them.
SAVE THE AMERICA YOU LOVE...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
SeekingSanity - Hit and run I guess is your game. But you never cease to amaze me with your stupidity. You say it is not the Presidents job to bid on the Olympics, and I agree, so why did he go and waste our taxpayers money? I guess Obama and Michelle wanted a government paid vacation.
As for your stupidity about using government money, name me one Olympics that did not use Government Money? But then you would have rather see the Olympics fail than admit Romney turned them around. You are a pathetic uniformed individual.
And what are your qualifications for being a judge of who would be a good president? What a goofball!
Seeking Sanity--now you really are showing your lack of knowledge. It is definitely not true that Brazil was the favorite from day 1, in fact most prognosticators has Chicago as the favorite because of Obama. It was extraordinarily disappointing to the Chicago Olympic Committee and it wasnt until they flew to I think it was switzlerland to make their case, that they felt the chill that they may not win. I actually know someone that was on that committee but who didnt fly to help make the case, but he worked like a dog to bring the Olympics to Chicago. It was an enormous disappointment to our city and it is just not true that Obama knew it from the beginning. Trust me you would be far more credible if you werent an Obama apologist for every single aspect of his life.
The fact that posters want to give the government credit for providing money to the Salt Lake Olympics rather than leadership show their true colors and their lack of any understanding how success is created. If all it took was money to be successful, do you realize how few failures there would be? Leadership, talent and business acumen are needed for success and obviously Romney has that and was successful multiple times. Let that go, because its just factually true and your better argument is that you disagree with Romney's political positions rather than his past success because you guys just sound incredibily stupid. If it was just about money we wouldnt even need a president now would we.
Some one (Romney) accomplished something good.
Someone else (Obama) accomplished nothing.
The left has to hate anyone who does something or their doctrine and False God is irrelevant.
Did the SLC Mormon Olympic Committee need a trusted CEO to contain their potential bribery penalties?
Hey, weren't the Salt Lake City games the ones with the French judge who was on the take?
My recollection is that it was the good city fathers of SLC who bribed members of the selection committee to favor SLC.
"Americans continue to have a more negative than positive impression of the former Massachusetts governor, according to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. Just 35 percent viewed him favorably in the latest poll out this month, while 40 percent viewed him negatively."
Of course, at David Axelrod's request the NBC News poll admittedly sampled 12 percent more Democrats than Republicans, so they can hype numbers that favor their hero Obama.
Hey, Bob, if my goal was to purposely inflate the sample in favor of Democrats would I admit that I did it?
Sounds like floppy Bob is still grasping at straws.
Chuck Todd admitted such, knowing that previous NBC polls had been "outed" as skewed toward Democrats . The most recent NBC poll was even worse, 12% more democrats....the purpose is to create a pro-Obama headline, not truly predict the outcome of the election.
Willard Romney Olympics documents aren’t being released for the public to view. Why?
Willard Romney is not being honest about his time at Bain Capital. Why?
Willard Romney and staff spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in order to keep his records secret. Why?
Willard Romney refuses to release his tax returns. Why?
Why? Because this man Willard Romney is hiding many things, and don't we the people have the right to know what he is hiding.
Not until the day he sits in the oval office. Right now he is a private citizen just like you and me.
Job1, we can all ask similar questions regarding Obama's personal history and secrecy from his financial dealings with Tony the "fixer" Rezco to his relationships with jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and all the factual inaccuracies in his books, to his failure to release his grades and transcripts. But you know what? So what. Are you so worried about losing on the merits that you worry about Mitt's effective tax rate? I would be alot happier with someone who actually was financially successful regardless of tax rate than someone like Obama with no success at all so no concerns about paying tax. Why was Obama's charitable contributions less than 2% of his income until he started running for President? If he is so concerned about others why didnt he put his own money where his mouth is? See, it gets aggravating doesnt it having to defend someone on issues that are not related to their ability to be the President? I still think Clinton was one of our best presidents but wow his moral and ethical standards sure werent what we would expect now were they? Get your head out of Mitt's personal life and tell us substantively why Obama has done such a wonderful job. At least Backhouse (clearly through the most transparent and almost fraudulent skewing of facts) trys to win converts by providing why Obama has been a success. Why cant you try the same thing?
How about the money stashed in the Cayman Islands? You remember the Cayman Islands, right, Kirk? Those beautiful islands "off the coast of England" that you've been to?
Your credibility is still nonexistent, Kirk. I guess you'll have to call me all sorts of names now...like you did the last time I pointed out that you don't know what you're talking about.
Because Romney "a true leader" and we need "a CEO" to run the government will sure outsource the building of roads in these Cayman Islands as his "CEO" instincts will adhere too.
Americans are to fall for this TRICKED UP ECONOMICS trap Romney is coming with, see...trickle down economics has failed.
CEO's ought to stay out of government. The role of government is to collect revenue through taxes, provide regulation, legislation and security.
Bob In Virginia
Enough of this "oversampling" conspiracy. There are 12 percent more registered Democrats than Republicans. Roughly 45 to 33 percent. I hope you can understand that a sample composed equally of Republicans and Democrats would not reflect the opinions of the general population.
You could take a survey of only Dems and only GOPs and average the result. Would you consider that unbiased? It would certainly be meaningless.
This was a Winter Olympics. I don't recall Kristi doing any downhill there. I had a hunch this was coming. WLS-Chicago's morning "Don and Roma commentary" today was how Romney turned around the 2002 Olympics - implying he was an expert and fully within is rights to comment on the London Olympics. Gee, I wonder if there is any coordination between supposedly "local" radio stations and the GOP/Romney/FOX/Murdoch campaign? I sense this is his pivot away from Bain, etc, and a sly use of ad time during what most pundits thought would be the downtime during the actual Olympics.
Have you ever seen skeleton...holy cow is that sport crazy...headfirst luge. I've jumped out of a plane multiple times and gone bungee jumping in some pretty cool places. But I don't think I'd have what it takes to rocket down a sheet of ice headfirst!! That's the kind of endorsement I want when I start up my Grimey 2016 campaign!!! ;-)
To quote/paraphrase? the late Joseph P. Kennedy (John's dad), "we're going to sell him like soap flakes." What next for Romney - an endorsement for vitamins?
I must be missing out - the only skeleton I've seen is of dead animals and oh, that key we used to lock some very creaky doors in the 'old' house I grew up in. And Grimey, I hope you run as a Libertarian - I cannot vote GOP/TP, no matter how much I like ya.
From Mitt Romney's book "Trunaround" . . .
Like handouts . . . . and as John McCain stated the games were
Seems to me all he did was extend on what he did at Bain. But this time took government monies to make all of his buddies some $
Then Layton if Bain is so evil why do Democrats take their political contributions? Isn't that biting the hand that feeds you? LOL talk about hypocrites.
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/21/democrats_and_bain_2/
http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-23/nation/31814221_1_obama-campaign-mitt-romney-romney-claims
The Bain issue is the work ethic and how Mitt uses this type of "work" to justify the fact that he as the business acumen to run a country. The DNCC may take money from those who work at Bain but I'm pretty darn sure it's nothing compared to the Koch Bros and Rupert. Be very careful opening that door, ksw.
Layton try again, I have seen over and over again about Bain's outsourcing, blah, blah, blah. As far as political contributions go both sides take too much from special interests. Democrats just like to think their's have some type of moral excuse attached to it so it makes it somehow more acceptable. Democrats took money from the same senior executives at Bain they demonize for making "ill gained " profits from outsourcing.
Independents like myself are tired of extremists on both sides.
Oh please - if you were independent, you would both laud and criticize both opponents. All we get from most of the so called independents is bash Obama, and praise-Jesus-hallelujah Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Palin, Cain, McCain, Gingrich, Perry. Independent, indeed!!
Red Dev do you have reading comprehension issues? I said both sides take too much money from special interests.... You should tell your friend Seeking the same thing, she claims to be independent but has nothing but insults for the other side.
ksw, our "conversation" is over. In one post you've managed to insult both RedDev PS and Seeking, whom I consider friends. If you want to have a little posting war, go find someone else to play with.
Ah Layton that explains a lot. I wouldn't be so proud to consider Seeking a friend with her mouth of nothing but insults. You must like people who bully. My children have better manners and problem solving skills and know calling people names is childish.
Not at all .. ya see, you said both sides, then went on some diatribe about Democrats blah, blah, blah; Democrats blah, blah, blah; Democrats blah, blah, blah blah. Again, Independent, indeed!!
Ya see, I was Independent once, heck even voted for Republicans a time or two. It took the AIDS epidemic to understand the hateful, vile nature of the true GOPers. Death camps, defunded research, throwing ill people out of hospitals, kicking children out of school. Why even St. Reagan wouldn't mention the disease, preferring instead, to pander to the extreme right wing Christian freaks. As thousands of Americans from all walks of life were dying, the GOP turned their backs and denied medical help, all the while pilfering the bank accounts and property of the dead/dying. That is why you will never see a GOP vote or a faux claim of "Independent" from this radical leftie.
I have seen the face of evil - and that evil is the GOP and their new BFF, the TP.
So Reddev I think your statements are the very definition of bigotry to categorize all people the same. So there are no Christian's who are democrats? You radical guys are funny with your stereotypes. I would never vote a straight party ticket.
Of course their are, but very few (if any) that are extreme-right-wing-Christian-freaks. As evidenced by the number of Christian religions, not all Christians are created equal (Thank God, Allah, Yahweh, Krishna or whoever).
@Layton - Cheers Mate!!
Sorry Beverly obama will not be reelected with this economy thats getting worse and also 55% now want obamacare repealed as its growing as we learn more about it last month it was 53% and its been 52% for 3 yrs The Superpacs are going to Frighten many many voters in the fall with tidbits that are awfull like the Gov can raid your bank acount whenever they want and the ever present Death Panels that are now easy to see along with Medicare being robbed of funds as OLD PEOPLE need to Go in this plan KEEP DREAMIN THOUGH LOL
frankbrown - President Obama WILL be re-elected. Romney isn't fit to lead a boy scout troop - much less our country and he shows that daily.
Obama/Biden 2012
Romney is LED by Limbaugh, Norquist and other crazies from the far, far right-wing!...so see, he goes in whatever direction he's told!....
Leading from nowhere in sight, not even from behind.......the weather vane effect!
Listen Romney did never contribute to the Olympics being rescued. they were fine just needed a little help and old Mormon was around and got the call. Yamaguchi is just Yamaguchi she is a barely qualified qlympian. The only reason she won anything is because that year there was no one o challenge any poor thing that had half a chance to compete???
"[Romney] faced a 400 million dollar budget deficit and turned that around to a hundred million dollar surplus"
Hey, sounds similar to Barack Obama, who faced trillion dollar deficits, and he turned that around by.....um, well...he didnt.
Yea, because the state is totally just like the federal. Completely.
Don't lose any more hair over it.
I'm guessing if all of the people Romney had to work with were openly hostile to helping him and admitted their number one priority was seeing that he never got to help another Olympic committee, he probably wouldn't have done very well. I would give Romney credit for turning around the SLC Olympics if he could tell me precisely what he did to do that. What did he specifically do that any Fortune 500 CEO wouldn't have done in the same circumstances? Personally I doubt that some encouraging words from a Bain CEO is something the athletes were really thinking about when they were doing their events.
Bob republicans like to forget that it was the 1.3 billion in taxpayer money that really saved the Olympics. Bob you need to man up and just pull that vaginal probe out of your ears, it is rotting your brain.
You do know Romney saved the Olympics with all that awful free government money that Romney complains about the poor wanting.
You know all the same free money Romney claimed was the reason blacks voted for President Obama.
SAVE OUR VOTING RIGHTS...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
JUST SAY NO TO MITT THE TWIT.
So you admit that Obamacare won't work because the supposed model for it was done in A state. That has been one of my points since the "Romneycare" debate came up. The nation is too big and GovCo too top heavy to make it work, work well, and not be abused.
Uh...I said that where?
In response to Bob.
For all of the Mitt supporters, it kind of sounds like Mitt is saying that the athletes didn't earn those medals. Or is this really more about Mitt (Obama) saying that there were other circumstances beyond the athletes (business) themselves that helped contribue at least a little bit to their success?
Yeah, that's the answer for the left wing of the left wing...refuse to acknowledge Romney has had success in the public sector (Olympics), the private sector (Bain), and tear down US Olympic athletes who have anything positive to say about him. That makes a lot of sense.
Out of curiousity...did any of the public sector work Obama did in Chicago ever turn a profit?
I like the suggestion that what if the rest of the people working on the Olympics decided that Romney should fail and refused to work with him to save the Olympics? What if one of the main leaders came out and stated publicly that his main goal was to see Romney fail? Not to save the Olympics, but to see Romney fail. Wouldn't they be traitors to the Olympics?
What if just like the republicans, they didn't want to save jobs or America, they just wanted to make President Obama fail.
Just like the jobs act. We were told by the republicans fighting against jobs for Americans, that the small surcharge to get Americans working again would irreparably harm the so called job creators.
No jobs, but those same millionaires and billionaires have hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the election for the republicans that have promised them forever tax cuts no matter how much it harms America.
I would have to be really, really dumb to think republicans cared about America or jobs.
The polls clearly show Romney will be elected obama is under 50% in every swing state and :
Rasmussen ;
Romney 47%
obama 44%
No incumbent has ever been reelected when approvals under 50% and obama has been there more than 2 yrs its not because Romney is a Great candadate You Libs are missing the Point its because of the worsening economy numbers and the unpopular obamacare that people are realy starting to NOT LIKE AT ALL Calling him Mittens and Bashing him (as a businessman ) is not going to work as he has had about an 80% rait in growing business`s and Hiring thousands of workers while obamas economy keeps dropping Barrys one and Done
Exactly,people vote with their wallet,they country is in bad shape,so time for change!
The more I see of Romney, the more paranoid I am becoming. He is lacking in tact and diplomacy causing divisiveness at home and abroad. He criticizes Britain's Olympics before they start and insults the Palestinian's culture and economy contrasting it to that of Israel, their hostile neighboring country that occupies and deliberately isolates them. He wants the U.S. to bomb Iran and he wants to move Israel's capitol to Jerusalem without asking. What is he going to do/say in Poland? At the rate Mitt is going, he will start WW III even before the Americans elect him.
We can't discuss Mitts foreign policy for fear he has none.
We can't discuss Mitts personal finances for fear he's taken privileged advantage.
We can't discuss Mitts governorship for fear he looks like Obama's best pick for Veep.
We can't discuss his business experience for fear he personally pioneered outsourcing for profit.
Romney isn’t capable of fixing the economy because it's people just like him that brought us to this point in the first place.
During the financial crisis, Citigroup hired Bain & Co to determine how to separate its commercial and investment banking operations.
They concluded "tax considerations" made a breakup "inefficient".
"The untroubled self-confidence of the psychopath seems almost like an impossible dream ..."
And yet i see him as a step up from Obama. The thin skinned amatuer psychopath.
Speaking of psychopaths, how's that curl-snipping, police officer mimic, NitMittWit RomneyShambles?
Mittens...not just scum...LYING SCUM!
The funds came from a gov't bailout to bailout the games.....
Today Mitt said he doesnt know the % he paid in taxes; last week he didnt remember what day his wife's $1.0 million horse was particpating in the Olympics; he doesnt remember he was once pro-choice, once pro -madate, once pro-assault weapon ban, or anything else that might keep him from getting elected this year. I might actually vote for him if he stopped lying..being honest in just one damn interview might make a difference...Why does this guy change his story everyday to please some group? GEEZ..what a whimp...no guts to stand up to anything or anybody if might cause an issue..WHIMP
I like the upbeat positive image of Romney.Obama always looks like he crapped his pants with that sour what did i get myself into look.
Im voting for Ron Paul,Romney should ask RP to be VP so his supporters would throw theyre weight behind Romney.
Pigotry and Fiesty (by aliasis)...Obie brought a big sense of DOPE to the White House. Please try to understand that two ways: 1) stupidity, he is in a position way above his ability and 2) he must smoke it to come up with statements he scrambles when the teleprompter heats up and shuts off.
The Audacity of DOPE(y).
FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back," he began, defending his policy of higher tax rates on high earners. "They know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
BARRACK OBAMA
You, Romney, Obama, and Ron Paul hit the showers. You drop the soap, and Ron Paul is the only one not sneaking up behind you while you're trying to pick it up...
Kristi Yamaguchi - what the hell kind of name is that? Sounds real foreign to me. I want to see her papers. Where was she born? So, she's a skater. Hmmm.....yeah, she owes alot to old Mittens. All that money she made off the Olympics.
Deficits? You mean what Bush gave to the President? Surplus? You mean what Clinton gave to Bush?
The rightwing nuts are really reaching on this one. Romney's a cheat, a liar and a tax evader.
Surplus? What Surplus? You mean that crafty bookkeeping that didn't reflect the ".com" burst until after Bush took over? Credit where it's due... In your defense however... Bush didn't notice either, the clown was drunk during his entire 2 terms...
In 2001 the Heritage Foundation used the Clinton budget surpluses as the basis for their argument for tax cuts. Bush said that the government was "storing up money." That was a factor in his push for tax cuts.
In 2001, WSJ an artical entitled "Where Should We Put the Surplus" stated that "Current surplus estimates are so large that the government's passbook savings acct. if nothing changes, will soon become the Mt. Everest of cash hoards".
Alan Greenspan supported the Bush tax cuts on the basis that running surpluses without a debt was a bad thing.
I could go on and on.......
Mitt Romney has integrity and that integrity was demonstrated as he saved the Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Athletes who worked hard to accomplish their goals respect a leader who respects them. Obama gutted welfare so now the government gives welfare money without a work requirement. Obama is bankrupting our country financially but even worse he is destroying our country by using class envy and stealing from the working class and paying it to illegals, unions and all his Chicago buddies.
Luke, you really must read more. Yes, he saved the Winter Games in SLC thanks to the money supplied by the United States Federal Government. Why did he get rid of the papers and hard drives for the SLC Olympics and his governorship in Massachusetts? What is he hiding in his tax returns? Why take your money out of the United States if you want to be President? ???????
So many questions, where are the answers?