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CHARLOTTE, NC -- Republicans gathered here to counter the Democratic National Convention seized Tuesday on President Barack Obama's self-grade of "incomplete" after his first term.
Picking up on the grade the president gave himself with a Colorado television affiliate, a series of Republicans pounced during a press conference at at the Nascar Hall of Fame, where Republicans have set up camp during the DNC.
"I have a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old. I know if on their report card they came home with an incomplete that means they failed," said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
The Romney campaign, backed by the RNC, is holding its own counter-convention in Charlotte this week, primarily challenging the president's record on the economy. Andrea Saul discusses.
When asked to grade his time in the Oval Office, the president told a local Colorado television station on Monday: "You know I would say incomplete ... but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term."
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Rep. Tim Scott and former Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza also spoke at the press conference and all used it as an opportunity to slam the president's self assessment.
"When the president was asked what grade he would give himself, he obviously had a quick look at his report card and saw a big 'I' on it. He thought the 'I' was for incomplete. The 'I' was for incompetent," said Sununu.
And tea party favorite Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) was able to draw on some personal experience when giving his interpretation of the president's answer.
"I understand an incomplete is a way to avoid a failing grade. As a freshman in high school, I flunked out," he said. "When you're in that situation you really want something that looks like an incomplete grade, but unfortunately what you get from the people who are actually grading you is a failed grade. Our president was asked the question: Are we better off? It's a failed grade."
NBC's Savannah Guthrie and Meet The Press moderator David Gregory join Brian Williams to discuss this week's events at the Democratic National Convention.
Haley also addressed women's issues just hours before Democrats are set to kick off their convention. One of Tuesday night's most-watched speakers will be Michele Obama, who is expected to stress her husband's humble upbringing. The well-liked first lady has been one of the Obama campaign's strongest assets in appealing to women voters.
As Planned Parenthood held a rally just a block away, Haley attempted to downplay the notion that abortion rights issues have alienated women from the Republican party.
"Let me tell you about women. Women are extremely smart. Woman are extremely right. We don't only think about contraception. We think about a lot more then contraception. I know pro-life women that are in the Democratic Party. I know pro-choice women that are in the Republican Party. but I also know that all women care about their budgets, they care about their jobs, they care about the economy," she said.
David Goldman / AP
Democrats gather in Charlotte, N.C., to officially nominate President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as the party's candidates for the 2012 presidential election.
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Lies of the GOP & Paul Ryan TeaWackers, Mitt R. Bain, Citizens United and all the Alec corps : that pays off the RepublicanPUKES Politicians. Its all about the Wealthy getting richer and the middle class getting poorer.....They don't want to help the poor...Who are the one's that leach off the taxpayer. The Wealthy: they get welfare both for themselves an for the Corps. ...But it seems that the Wealthy get away with it ..They steal billions and the few poor steals a few thousands. So what does the GOP want, is Screw the MIddle Class to get even with the few. As I say its the me me me and F everyone else.... The failures of the Republicans party trying to take away SS & Medicare & Health care for Woman so they can give their wealthy Blackmailers more money...To hell with the Poor and Needy. Let them freeze in the winter and stave the Old and Babies,let them die from bad water, do away with the EPA and thats what you'll have, just like all you Tea baggers want...You make me sick with your Me Me Me altitude. Greedy and you all call yourself a REAL Christians, Mormans. What a laugh: Wake up...Sounds like Mitt!!!!!!Fuss up your tax Return: Stop your lieing RYAN:
Flip flop Romney prochoice in 1994
Debt? Romney loves it
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Flip flop Romney prochoice in 1994
Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show
And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999.
—By David Corn
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Who lies? Tell us FOX NEWS
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On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
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We know Romney hate Obamacare
1. It's a tax! There wasn't much for Republicans to love in the Supreme Court's ruling that Obamacare is constitutional, except that they concluded the individual mandate is, for constitutional purposes (but not for others), a tax. The soundbites write themselves. Republicans can now brand Obama as raising taxes on the middle class, or, if they're feeling particularly blustery, "the biggest tax increase in the history of the world." But ABC News' Michael Falcone pulls up video from a January 2008 Republican presidential primary debate in which Romney seems to think such a tax is pretty great. When the debate moderator asks, "Governor … you imposed tax penalties in Massachusetts?" Romney defends the mandate by framing it terms of personal responsibility. "Yes, we said, look, if people can afford to buy it, either buy the insurance or pay your own way," he said. "Don’t be free-riders."
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2. It's "ultimate conservatism." In 2007, Romney said that when the uninsured show up in emergency rooms and get free health care, that's a "form of socialism." By contrast, his health care law was conservative and inspired by the Heritage Foundation, something that is true and that the Heritage Foundation would probably like people to forget.
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Romney said a version of this multiple times. In January 2008, he told Fox News Sunday, "I think it's the ultimate conservative plan." Last year, Romney also said his law was based on "fundamentally a conservative principle."
3. It's a good national model. Romney boasted that Congress and the President could learn a lot about health care reform from his Massachusetts plan during an interview with CNN in 2009, "I think there are a number of features in the Massachusetts plan that could inform Washington on ways to improve health care for all Americans," he said "The fact that we were able to get people insured without a government option is a model I think they can learn from." Start at 1:05 and note the lack of concern about constitutional issues.
4. It's humane. When Romney left office in 2007, his staff erased his office's emails from a server computer in an attempt to wipe them from the public record. But earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal found a few survivors, including Romney's own early drafts of his April 2006 Journal op-ed about the passage of Romneycare. Romney used language that would surely irritate many conservatives, and it was toned down when eventually published. Nevertheless, Romney's original thoughts are preserved forever:
Does Romney love God? Well his Church may not like the bible
The Mormon Church has bragged the Book of Mormon is “the most correct book on the face of the earth”. Those words were uttered for the first time by none other than Joseph Smith himself on Sunday, October 28, 1841.
“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”
In the real world if BO went in for a review of his performance and it was an incomplete for a 4 year performance he would get his walking papers as he will get in November. Actually in the real world where bo has never been with an incomplete he would have lasted no longer than a year even if he had a signed contract.
Guess who said I love America and Barack more today than I did 4 years ago. Jon Stewart no he wanted to but Michelle beat him to it.
By now, I'm sure many of you conservatives who are hopelessly drowning in self-denial about Obama's real record are so vested in the complete lunacy of Romney/Ryan's campaign strategy that it would take nothing short of an intervention to bring back many of you to the real world of straight thinking. For the last few days after the DNC freak show, many of Romney's and Ryan's messages have been mired in disgusting and sophomoric lies and half-truths. Is there not end to it!? No one is laughing anymore. The joke is over now.
Polls have clearly shown that they only gained barely a sliver of approval from swing voters. In one instance, their much anticipated "bump" was embarrassingly negative. Can you imagine that?!!? What are they thinking? Romney's "lie and switch" strategy is running his campaign in the ditch. ...So be it.
What boggles my mind is how all of you conservative leeches have locked on to Romney's insanity. You have become trapped and afraid to turn around because you have invested so much in the fraud. So you forced yourself to believe...THE BIG LIE. Sadly, you have no where else to go. You are compelled by your own fragile egoes--certainly not your common senses--to ride the "Romneymobile (like Thelma and Louise) off the cliff into utter destruction.
But, it's not too late. Wake up. Smell the coffee. Let the healing begin! VOTE OBAMA!
Tried that, he failed, now its someone elses turn to pick up on his "incomplete" job.
Didn't hear anything that we have not seen for the last 4 years. Gov't will send you a check.
voddkokk, at least I'm being truthful... I rather speak the truth over and over again than to spew lies over and over again. The choice is yours...
@Peter the Pan....No we are not furious at all, we know his 4 year policy of one term President. We are laughing ourselves to death because he is now coming up with bogus figures and political decisions. He is not a Commander in Chief, he has hung our troops out in Afganistan to "hold their own". Now Iran is saying they willl have Navy ships off the coasts of the USA in a matter of 3 years. Plus hid peacock feather are pluming out, looking might shabby, "talking" about taking action against Iran. If by pure 'seat of his pants' he wins...but he won't...then he'll either take on Iran or he won't and he will start a war with them and join other countries.
I cringe when I read remarks on MSN. Everyone is so stupid that I get embarrased for them and have to stop reading. It's like watching COPS and watching the dude who just had crack pulled somewhere from his clothing or body...saying "that's not mine, i don't know who's that is, i was just holding it for someone' A train wreck that you want to look away from but can't help it, and you watch it. three comments from this site and i'm outa here. Losers
With all the money Michelle spends on having an entourage...is there not one who dresses her and says "Michelle, your arms are more irritating to look at for most Americans...and now you want to wear one that is cut in even more? You look like you have a gym top on." or another "Michelle, the arms worked in your favor the first time because every democrap and liberturd wanted to try on a black president...the test drive sucked, so do your arms, cover them and the side of your teets up".
Romney/Ryan do not want to give people the shirt off there back. They would rater take the shirt off your back to reinforce the lining in there pockets.
Hispanics, use your heads. Obama cares nothing about you. If you really came here to be part of the AMERICAN DREAM, which obama has all but destryed, then do your part. If you came here to TAKE like most that are coming here now, SCREW you. Barry Soetoro Hussein and his TRACTOR JAWED wife are the most RACIST people in this country. VOTE him OUT. He is EVIL. CONCERNED AMERICAN and hispanic AGAINST obama
That's better than them turning themselves in to be "self deported". What a moron. Heehee.
You poor uneducated troll.....What do you know about the American Dream? You and persons like you blame this president for dividing America but you all know that you are the ones who divide the country. Who have always seen America as a "white land" in which other races had no claim. After all the "Founding Fathers" were all white and as Clint Eastwood put it the other night.. and by the way no one seems to have picked up on it.."We own this country" We meaning White Anglo Saxon Protestants(WASPS) You don't hear that term much these days but you haven't gone away. Though most white folks understand how the world has changed and have moved on it is persons like you who continue to live in the past and try to exert your poison on decent citizens..... But no matter what you call the First Lady she is a beautiful black woman who is appreciated and liked by most Americans, black and white and any other color you care to mention and also highly respected around the world. So go on living in your small mind and see where it gets you. Perhaps such venting is sufficient to keep you at heel like the good fellow you are. And we all know that you're not Hispanic.
why do Republicans continue to put their ignorance on display by trying to twist what the president says in to some outrageous statement . We thought they were lying to win votes. Now we know they truly can't understand the President because they lack the education. Ryan lies because he can't help it. and Mitt lies because he can't seem to remember his last position on anything........ What a mess these two would make of the White House and the country!!!!!!!
yeah, they will lauch Americans into another war and then look the camera squarely int he lens and tell the American people...."what war?"
I, for one, will be most relieved when the election is over and Obama is back in the saddle again. I am so sick and tired of watching Romney and Ryan look the camera squarely in the lens and tell yet one more lie/half truth. ...And not break a sweat.
Any one of them can approach you in the street on a rainy day while you are standing there getting soak and wet and tell you...its not raining. Too bad you conservatives don't have better sense to get out of the rain. ...Just standing out there in it. So sad...
Did anyone see a "BUMP" after that oh so righteous Republican Convention?????????? Dems FIRST night gets a 26 point BUMP!!! BEAUTIUFUL JOB!!!
Isn't Andrea Saul the one who said had a gentleman who lost his job and health insurance had lived in Massachusetts (Mitt's accomplishment he doesn't want to talk about) and the GOP was ready to fire her?
The "I" for incomplete award goes to...
The guy releasing only one complete year of tax returns!
The one per cent convention bump for the RNC may be the tiniest in history. Just a little bump away
from flatlining.
Quick! Somebody needs to Tampa Mitt's campaign chest!
"I have a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old. I know if on their report card they came home with an incomplete that means they failed," is a nonsense political slogan.
As a student I have two times to have an incomplete grade. The first one, I was missing the final examination because of long illness. As soon as I recovered I took the make-up final exam and I got my final grade as an "A". The second one was when I delayed one more month to collect more data bases in my research project . After completing my research with many compelling data bases, I got an "A" grade.
Why cant a democrat debate on this site without using personal childish attacks.
Incomplete is not good enough. Is that what we are getting for more than 5 trillion dollars of new debt? The federal government under Obama has been a failing business. I want the President to come clean on the promises he made on the economy. The President said that the stimulus "did its job" but according to a report issued by the President's own administration, unemployment has been worse than if the stimulus had never been passed. What did we get from those shovel ready jobs that the stimulus paid for?
I want the President to discus the trade deficit that just keeps increasing. The federal government keeps trying to stimulate the economy by flooding it with cash but it all leaks our because such a high percentage of the goods and services that we buy come from foreign countries. The current administration has had no success in improving the situation.
The President went on and on as to how bad deficit spending was. Without conditions of any kind to include any act of congress, the President vowed to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Well, this is the end of his first term. To keep the President's promise the federal deficit for this year, 2012, cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars yet the President's own White House is predicting that the deficit will exceed 1.2 trillion dollars. The President also promised transparency. I want the President to explain what magic he is going to perform between now and the end of the fiscal year in order to keep his promise to the American people.
I estimate that the money the federal government is borrowing today will end up costing the tax payers more than 9 times the amount borrowed to repay over the next 170 years. That is just my estimate. I want the President to present a plan for repaying all of the money that it owes. The tax payers have a right to know how much all this federal borrowing is going to end up costing them.
The President needs to be reminded of some words of wisdom that were spoken back in March of 2006. The words are as true today as they were then.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.
Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead,interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans–a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
~ Senator B. H. Obama, March 2006
This isn't grade school. The only economic crisis worse than the one handed to us under Bush, took 10 years and a world war to climb out of.
Perhaps the recovery would have been better if the Republicans had been wiling to put Country before Party. They have tried to extend the pain for political gain.
Okay....Did all of you miss what the Governor of Mass. had to say about Mittens and the mess that he left behind there? This and his former job should be telling EVERYONE, Dem. Independent, and Rep. just EXACTLY what he would do as a president! A person is only as good as his track record folks..... Just sayin'
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