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President Barack Obama set off on a college tour on Tuesday intended to recapture young voters' enthusiasm heading into the height of his re-election campaign.
The president told an audience of Iowa coeds that they should be more invested in his campaign than any other age group, during a stop at Iowa State University in Ames.
"The truth is you've got more at stake in this election than just about anybody. When you step in that voting booth, the choice you make in that one instance is gonna shape your country and your world for decades to come," Obama told about 6,000 students. "I know that's a pretty heavy idea to lay on you on a Tuesday but it's true."
Obama warned that his Republican opponent Mitt Romney, if elected, would enact policies that would be detrimental to college-aged students and recent graduates, seizing on Romney’s opposition to the national health care law, which has allowed students up to age 26 to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans.
"Gov. Romney promised that sometime between taking the oath of office and going to the inaugural ball he'd sit right down, grab a pen and kick 7 million young people off their parents' plan by repealing health reform," the president said.
Playing on the Republicans’ derisive term for the law – "Obamacare" – the president said, "Maybe we should call his plan Romney Doesn't Care. Because I do care."
Speaking in front of thousands of enthusiastic college students is an unusual route for an incumbent to take while his opponent’s party is kicking off its convention, but the president took a full-steam-ahead approach, even taking a jab at the Tampa confab during his Iowa speech.
“It should be a pretty entertaining show,” Obama said. “It will be and I’m sure they’ll have some wonderful things to say about me,” he continued, referring to Republicans gathered in Tampa.
The president’s three-state college tour, which after Iowa takes him to Colorado and Virginia, taps into two key elements of his 2012 re-election strategy: winning a combination of battleground states as well as repeating his lopsided victory among college-age voters.
By the end of this trip, the president will have visited five colleges in August alone, all of them in key swing states: Rollins College in Florida; Capital University in Ohio; plus the three schools in Iowa, Colorado and Virginia.
The good news for Obama in recent polling? He’s still leading Mitt Romney 52 to 41 percent among young voters, a key part of his winning 2008 coalition.
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Forget about Iowa!
Get a load of what Team Willard's supporters are up to in Ohio;
If there are not already laws in place against this kind of practice... there should be!
"I know that's a pretty heavy idea to lay on you
Somebody needs to tell Obama it's not 1972 and he's in Iowa......
Poor fisty. Just can't stand that things are all tied up in Ohio now, and Obama is well under 50%. LMAO
Maybe if Obama learns to spell Ohio it will get better for him.
LMAO
Obama, the amateur in the White house.
Somebody needs to tell Romney cutting taxes doesn't close the deficit.
It's Mandatory....but not required.....???WTF....is that like retoractively retired.....or maybe a little bit pregnant???? Is that GNOP speak for flip and flop???
GNOP can't accept facts. THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Show us the 1040's Mythe....What ARE you hiding!?
RedSuxRule-
Hows that amateur GM working out for ya? Are you moving to LA with the rest of the RedSux?
President Obama will win in Ohio. Red Sox will win a World Series before Romney wins an election.
If the Red Sox win another Worlde Series will Romney claim to be there at Fenway for the deciiding game like he told an Air Force pilot he was in 2004? Oh, wait he lied - the game was in St. Louis and he was in NH campaigning for GW Bush!
Maybe he meant the time before that - oh wait, that was over 100 years ago!
Wonder if Romney told those coal miners about his little speech in 2003 where he said coal plants kill people....
"I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that (coal) plant, that (coal) plant kills people". - Mitt Romney, 2003
Paul Ryan - The Deficit? I Built That!
Mitt Romney - "Big Business is doing fine..."
Feisty,
"if there were laws against this type of practice", then perhaps powerful public employee unions couldnt force their members to pay their hardearned salary to Democratic Party coffers...and union members couldnt be forced to work on political campaigns...
Right?
Huffington Post!! ROFLMFAO Huffington Post! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! What a joke... actually two jokes... the Huffington Post and Dumfux! ROFL!!!!!!!
Stick with blathering about "clueless" college students, probe-boy! Much more your speed!
Hey numbnuts... before you stroke out, you might want to read the source again...
Here's a paper towel, wipe the egg off you face!
PS: Have you found a job yet, you gubment sucking parasite?
Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend
Reminds me of the saying on a gift shop t-shirt: "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Forget about Iowa!
Get a load of what Team Willard's supporters are up to in Ohio;
If there are not already laws in place against this kind of practice... there should be!
You got that right.
This reminds me of the miners working under apartheid in South Africa.
MYTH Romney is gambling all Americans are stupid. Too bad he will find out the hard way that pandering to uninformed right wingers like those poster here won't help.
RepubliCons bad for human beings.
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Watching that scenario as it unfolded, I was thinking, they don't look like a happy bunch. Now I know why.
What a lousy move, these guys work very hard in a dangerous environment and this is what is done to them. Shame on any employer using its employees in this way, you are right Feisty, there should be a law against that kind of treatment.
Wow..between "jobless" Brianb the freeloader and "America needs another cup holder" WhiteCollarCriminal, they have reduced themselves to posting one and two sentence quips instead of defending their Ryan/Romney ticket...actually, I'm quite surprised WCA is here at all, i mean, without Spanky's skirt to hide behind an all...but have no fear, I hear "counselor" is fresh from rehab.
I bet you two guys' balls don't drop in time to pull that lever for Ryan...err...Romney.
Anyone other than me ever notice how Fisty starts off the day being fairly civil (I said fairly with tongue in cheek) with the early stories and subsequent posts and as the day goes on gets more and more nasty with the name calling and insults?
Must sit at the computer all day waiting to get that pre-release e-mail from FR (first poster most of the time) while partaking in the "kool-aid" of her choice. You may want to switch to some other type of "adult beverage" as what you are on daily now makes you mean. And no one likes a mean
drunkcommenter.I thought the exact same thing Gingerbread Mamma!
I find these kind of strong arm tactics by the GNOP, appalling!
Handing back the towel to dumfux... no egg found here. Dumfux, you really need to stop imagining things. Hey, I hear your favorite yearly activity has been hurricaned out... Southern Decadence has been cancelled in New Orleans... To inform everyone else, that's the gay Mardi Gras. It's a week long party for queens and other gay people. Since Dumbfux is a queen, he misses out this year.
That's the best you can do after being thoroughly bitch-slapped? lmao!
You really need to find a job and quit trolling the internet all day with your misogyny & homophobia... you impotent slug!
FR: The good news for Obama in recent polling? He’s still leading Mitt Romney 52 to 41 percent among young voters, a key part of his winning 2008 coalition
Factor in the African Americans, Latinos, women, Independents, seniors, Native Americans and other minorities, and "MYTH" looks real bad.
The more MYTH opens his lying mouth the more America distrust him.
Romney's refusal to release his tax returns from any year prior to 2010, and especially his local state return from 2010, is about hiding evidence of a felony crime, as much or likely more than it is about hiding embarrassing details of off-shore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland, etc.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9397
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Show US those tax return so the righties won't vote for candidate who committed voter fraud. Righties hate voter fraud
Annie show US your COSTCO card
dumbfux said: That's the best you can do after being thoroughly bitch-slapped? lmao!
I guess you missed the rest of my post (on purpose)... I know you are really upset about not being able to attend Southern Decadence... but don't p!ss your pants over it. There will always be next year to snuggle up to and handle your other queen friends.
Fisty just got OWNED!! LOL@IT
No BB!
I find your homophobia both predictable & boring!
Be a man, get a J-O-B & support your family you leech!
Quit sucking off the system you hate so much!
dumbfux said: I find your homophobia both predictable & boring!
How many times have I told you to stop hitting on me. What about me not being gay don't you understand? Geez... I thought queens were smarter than that... tell me, what are you going to do with the feathers now that you won't be going to New Orleans? You do have purple and green ones don't you? Maybe you can store them until next year...
Sorry BB!
Don't flatter yourself, impotent, unemployable, women hating, homophobes just aren't my type!
Dream on... you bottom-feeding parasite!
This kind of reminds one of Germany in the 1930s where people were told to attend Nazi party events but it was not mandatory. Those who didn't show up to the events were quickly unemployed, jailed, or never seen again. Fascism is alive and well in the once grand old pary.
Clueless college students caught up in the Obama celebrity tour in 2008, arent buying his recycled garbage this time around.
Graduates now, they are asking:
Where's my job, Mr President?
What happened to your promises of cutting the deficit in half? Improving the economy? Bipartisanship?
Wont get fooled again!
"Clueless college students..." Bob, you old sweet-talker! Do you think you just won over a bunch of those kids to the Republican party with your insult?
Bob In Virginia: You know bipartisanship is a two-way street, right?
Bob -
I am sure they will be thrilled with the Romney plan to allow more Visas for foreign grads, so companies can hire them at lower wages.
Obama may have not added as many jobs as expected. but Romney has promised to take jobs away and give them to foreign students.
How about the higher interest rates on student loans, so big banks can make more money? Or the Ryan plan to cut Pell Grants in order to finance tax breaks for the wealthy?
I am sure the college students will come out in droves to support those ideas.....
Paul Ryan - The Deficit? I Built That!
Mitt Romney - "Big Business is doing fine..."
Republicans sound so childish when they say "Obama promised unemployment under 6%." Then they turn around and assert "the free market fixes itself."
Which is it, it's all up to the President to create jobs, or the less the government interfers with the operation of the free market, the better?
Bob, the real question for the college students is although Obama may not have been able to do everything he had hoped to make things better for you, do you think Romney will do any better? Romney will have congressional support, so things may get done, but will tax cuts for millionaires and repealing the ACA give you a job, or cut the deficit, or improve the economy, or promote bipartisanship? Kids are not stupid.
Amy is catching on! You just stumbled your way into the truth, but way to go Ames!
This is a big step for you!
JS1 ye have too much faith LOL.
According to just one news report, there were 6000 students there to hear Obama at Iowa State.
The student body there is 30,000.
The tickets were free- and students in some sections were offered free credit for showing up.
Not a good sign- kind of like what happens to a has been rock star when the groupies have moved on.
Still, Obama will always have Amy.
"Clueless college students" Aw Bob that condescending attitude is one of the reasons republicans do so poorly with young people.
Tell me Forrest - College students in 2008 weren't clueless? Those that bought into the hype of Hope and Change? How were they not clueless when there has been no hope... but lots of change that most Americans don't want. Did Obama cut the deficit in half like he promised? Did he bring unemployment below 6% like he said he would? For college students that voted for him... they were clueless.
Oh, they have a clue FG. All that blind enthusiasm for The One four years ago has worn off. College grads are now working jobs that require at most a high school education. Lucky for them they have mommy and daddy's health care, cause they are not getting any on their burger flipping jobs. The promised jobs aren't there for the students these days, they see what this administration has done to the economy, they'll let Obama know about it soon enough.
Obama 2012 - "My promises are still empty"
JAS1-
What does Romney offer that is better? He wants to take away jobs from US grads and give them to foreign students (at lower salaries) by increasing Visas - and the wages will be lower at the jobs he doesn't take away because of the competition!
Romney also promises to take away their health care, raise the rates on their student loans, and cut their grants.
The only college students that will vote for Romney are the "clueless" ones!
Not much. He might be able to work with Congress better than Obama has done, Obama has been a complete failure at doing so. Romney might be able to communicate the message to Americans that the government has to spend less, and yes, collect more in taxes, both with rates, and with growth. Entitlements need to be reformed, that's been Ryans' message, and it's been ignored by Team Blue, so there is hope there. Not exactly the most popular path, but it's the path that needs to be taken. It's going to take a great communicator to get these messages across, and it will take a leader that will stay the course on getting it done. Doing so will strengthen the country in the long run.
That's where the country is at TNS, it's broke. Someone has to lead on fixing it. Is Romney the guy who can do it? Who knows. Obama has demonstrated he can't do it. Hopefully Romney can do better.
How about leadership. Obama has shown nothing but narcissistic behavior since day one. He was so anointed by those who voted for him he thought he could do no wrong and that they wanted exactly what he was thinking in any and every instance (thus the executive orders and don't give me that repubs did it too. Green card amnesty in direct violation of the law? Give me a break. Oh and I anticipate the Reagan amnesty for 3 million coming now. Didn't like it then and still don't). At least Reagan and Clinton knew how to lead and get both sides of an argument to agree.
30 years ago we had Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. Today we have Obama. No Cash and no Hope.
tnsevol - even if Romney is 1/1000 better than Obama... it's still better. At least we know Romney isn't going to be taking us down the Marxist road anymore... There won't be any more questions about a birth certificate... college records... and for the next 4 years we will see his tax returns...
See how simple that was?
Any parent of a child in college is very thankful for this provision of the AHA as is the student!! Keep reminding them Mr. President!
You really think the college students are happy with that? Hell the majority of them won't opt for healthcare if they get a job and have to pay anything for it. They are invincible in their own minds and don't think they need it and it would take money away from their ability to buy "stuff" they always dreamed they had. Just like investing in their retirement. They can do that later.
Suuuuure... Parents LOVE paying the premiums for their kids. Do you know how much money is taken out in premiums for adult children? Gee Layton, get a clue.
Talk and Brian, as we've ALREADY been paying the premiums for our kids in college, it's not that big a deal and they don't have to purchase the student insurance. It is VERY APPARENT THAT YOU TWO ARE NOT PARENTS! Get a life!
Screw off Layton. I am a parent. Pay if you want... I'm very happy for you. I don't care if you pay until you are 99.
Nice Brian! And you use that mouth to kiss your kids? Sure hope your kids don't have pre-existing conditions as they drop off your plan and try and get one of their own .....
Who is sucking off the evil gubment teat because he isn't man enough to take care of his kids on his own!
Layton,
Of course you're thankful, someone else is paying for your kids insurance.
No one helped me with insurance, when I got out of college. When my daughters went to work, they paid for their own insurance. My oldest daughter is on a tight budget, so I've been paying for her and my granddaughters insurance for the last couple of years. It's relatively inexpensive and I would not expect other tax payers to pay for it, even though Obama thinks they should. I guess that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats.....Democrats want others to pay for it.
The sooner we get rid of Obama, the sooner we get rid of Obama care.
Dave D - is reading comprehension NOT your strong suit???? I am paying for my kid's insurance thanks to the provision in the AHA that allows me to keep them on my policy while they are in school. Bless the stupid GOPs hearts, if kids can't afford insurance after 18 - their policy of choice has always been to go to the ER and let the taxpayers suck it up. Or, if they qualify . . . Medicaid. What part of this provision are you so upset about???? It's not costing you a damn thing!
I guess that Odumbo is going to tell all the kids to go to college, study hard, and he will have a handful of food stamps for them when they graduate.! This guy is a habitual liar, and he wouldn't know the truth if it hit him in the face. Can you really imagine what another 4 years of this loser would do to this country. Dumbo has to go!
I heard that the other day obama was asked how he gets to sleep at night, after such hectic days of campaigning. He said that he counts sheep until he falls asleep. Michelle chimed in immediately and said that he counts Democrats, not sheep. Well, the way the story goes, they decided to put it to a floor vote at the DNC. The chair called for the vote....one time....two times....three times.....at this time, the chairman, seeing he couldn't decide by floor vote, since they appeared to be deadlocked, called it a draw. He then concluded that it didn't really matter....sheep or Democrats.....they're all the same!