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Subscribe to RSSCONCORD, N.H. -- Count GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney among those not planning to tune in for President Obama's nomination acceptance speech tonight.
Romney told reporters today he has not been watching the Democratic convention, and didn't plan to start tonight -- unless the president planned to report on promises made in 2008, rather than conduct what Romney referred to as a "promises reset."
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"I think this is a time not for him to start restating new promises, but to report on the promises he made. I think he wants a promises reset. We want a report on the promises he made," Romney said after ticking off a list of what he considered to be Obama's broken promises, including tackling the national debt and boosting job creation.
"The president needs to report tonight on his promises, rather than try and reset a whole series of new promises that he also won't be able to keep," he continued.
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The unannounced appearance today by Romney at a veteran's event staged by his campaign -- his second semi-public "drop by" in the battleground Granite State -- included Romney briefly addressing vets gathered to phone bank on his campaign bus. He later talked to a pooled group of reporters and took a handful of questions.
In a new TV ad criticizing President Obama, Mitt Romney's campaign appears to be targeting single women voters who may like the president a great deal but are skeptical if he can deliver the type of change that he was talking about. NBC's David Gregory reports.
Among the questions Romney faced: Why did he choose not to mention the war in Afghanistan during his own acceptance speech last week? Romney parried, saying he addressed the issue the day before, to an albeit much smaller audience, at the American Legion national convention in Indianapolis.
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And he said the word "Afghanistan" just once in that speech.
Then Romney took a swipe at Obama for not also addressing the group. "The president was also invited to the American legion, and uh, he was too busy to go," Romney said. "It was during my convention. I went to the American Legion, described my views with regards to our military, our commitment to the military -- my commitment to our men and women in uniform."
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Mrs. obama showed us what a selfish, hollow soul anne romney is by her intelligent, meaningful speech tuesday. Perhaps mitt is afraid of being exposed as well. In either case i have never heard of a good statesman who would not hear both sides of a situation so we must assume romney is nothing more than a dime a dozen politician without morals or scruples.....or interest in doing the right thing.
Craig:
I said from 2008 that the expectations of Obama were too high..even the ones he set for himself.
He had to dig out of the precipice of a great depression, a banking crisis, two failed wars, a mass murderer of american citizens that hadn't been caught, a horrible foreign image, and millions of Americans with no health care.
Could he have done all that he wanted???
Sure...if there was no obstructionist congress and senate. Obama's only real mistake was thinking that Republicans are patriotic Americans who care more about their country and fellow countrymen to put politics aside long enough to help Americans in a crisis.
They're not...republicans are treasonous, sneaky, stealing, racist obstructionists...always have been.
Obama's crime was being naive...and its a mistake he won't make again!
Realistically, things ARE better. We avoided a great depression and although its slower than we'd like...we're on the RIGHT track.
Romney will return us to where we were under GW Bush and worse. That's why they won't mention GW Bush's name and kept him away from the convention.
But every American with half a brain knows what's going on.
Where are your Tax Returns Mr. Romney?
Where are your Tax Returns?
Maybe that's why he's not going to watch. Too busy hiding his taxes, money and outsourcing records while everyone else is watching the speech.
Hint: If you are running against someone, you study them as much as possible, including their speeches.
TheNIKNIK- Great post- Nothing to add except "Fired UP and Ready to GO! Watching DNC convention!
Obama/Biden 2012 forward not back!
Thank you Humm.
Step 1: Vote 4 more for Obama
Step 2: Vote Lyin' Ryan and his cohorts OUT of Congress and the Senate.
Step 3: Overturn Citizen's United and suppression laws to stop minorities, the elderly, the poor and the youth from voting.
Funny......if Romney watched the DNC then maybe he would have answers to all his questions! There's been substance discussed in NC, and you can't say much of that happened last week in Tampa. So, would this be an indication of how he would lead....by not keeping an eye on his competition? Not smart at all if you ask me - even if he is really watching it and his comment was smoke and mirrors.....it looks WEAK.
I don't blame Mitt Romney for tuning out
Obama's and Biden's acceptance speeches.
As you get older, you learn not to listen
to people you know are going to lie to you,
and you don't talk to fools.
This coming from a supporter of the party of lies, the GOP. I really don't think they own or know a truth.
Funny, I watched the fact checkers last night and they found very little to say about Clinton's speech...except to comment on how long it was (takes a long time to counter that many lies).
Romney lied his ass off but when Ryan spoke..the fact checkers went nuts....NOTHING he said was even close to true. In the days after, he spent DAYS "clarifying his misspeaks" (the word perfected by GW Bush after his many lies).
Every ad they run...every time they speak, this team of goons lie.
Good luck finding a lie in Obama's speech...he doesn't NEED to lie.
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden are both nice
guys; good wholesome family men who don't
cuss, drink or smoke.
Nice guys and good wholesome family men
don't smuggle assault weapons across the
border for the drug lords of Mexico.
Nice guys and good wholesome family men
don't harbor men who do smuggle assault
weapons across the border for the drug
lords of Mexico, in the bosom of their
administration. Nice guys and good wholesome
family men don't extend Executive Privilege
to the men inside their administration,
who smuggle assault weapons across the border
for the drug lords of Mexico, especially when
those weapons were used to kill American Border
Patrol Agents.
I realize Barack Obama and Joe Biden's
sympathies lie with the people of Mexico,
apparently, even the drug lords of Mexico,
more than they do with us. Maybe Obama has
allowed his old college cocaine habit to
cloud his sympathies, but I think they are taking
their sympathies just a little too far.
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lying again. he will try to learn from a pro. all the time not knowing that a fake like him will never be able to speak in public and look like anything but a fake. WAKEUPAMERICA.
Romney can't watch it...he's having a debate with the empty chair.
He's not expected to do well or to enjoy much of a bounce in the polls after its over though.
I bet he'll watch reruns of "Clint rambling at a chair" episode instead.
hey republicans do you feel any safer know than you did 4 years ago. we the democrats got osama bin laden and all his men and you didn't ,we finished what you couldn't. and now we are on our way in saving our economy one in which your republican party destoryed . help save america vote democrat......
He's already too depressed after the Clinton speech.
Romney is not going to watch for the simpliest of reasons. When you put a dummy away in it's suit case, they actually do stop talking and moving. Dummies like Romney never do have thought.
Sounds good to me! Who wants to throw up dinner?! A bunch of people did that last night when slick willie was on. If you were guilty of something though - you'd want him defending you. He could sell fire to the devil!
lmao "promises reset". Coming from the mascot for Etch-A-Sketch... PRICELESS
The statement about not watching the Presidents speech is just amazingly ignorant. He wants answers to his questions; yet when Obama gets the chance to do it on stage at the convention, Mitts basically covering his ears, closing his eyes, and "blah-blah-blah"ing out his mouth to tune it out. This man is ridiculous. I wish a supporter of his would tell me one stance he's held in his political career without flip-flopping it at least once.
He didn't listen when the Koch brothers told him what he's supposed to stand for either.
That's why he keeps screwing up and changing it every day.
You'd think he'd have learned to listen to his betters by now.
This insight into the mind of Romney now makes me even more eager for the debates. If he's not willing to study the man and what he has done (as apposed to what his cohorts have been telling him what hes done) then I'd be willing to bet that the fact-checkers are going to have a FIELD DAY after each of the debates against Mitt.
Romney will not watch because he will not understand someone who has policies. He will have his minions watch and tell him what he needs to know.
Welcome back Feisty, I love your posts.
Good point. Now Willard won't be able to mention anything that Pres Obama says in his speech without admitting that he (Willard) has coaches telling him what to say.
This is the best the republican nominee can do? "I'm not gonna watch it! Wahhhhhhh!"
What an idiot, and a LOSER.
Robme knows he has already lost. "I'm not gonna watch it" are not the words of self-confidence.
Mitt the ostrich that sticks its head in the sand because he can't stand to hear the truth. Is anyone else as disappointed as I am in a supposed "executive?"
Statements like this ("no, I am not going to listen to what the competition has to say and how it's received) force my independent vote away from the republicans in the same way that McCain's choice of Sarah Palin only because she was a woman repulsed me. (McCain thought that female voters would vote for a woman simply b/c of her gender and not b/c of her stance on issues - pathetic, clueless man.)
Mitt knows what obama will say,,,,LIE, LIE,LIE! Why should he listen?
Romney won't have control over the speech nor will it be all about him and how wonderful he is so he has no reason to listen to it. Of course one way to defeat the enemy is to find out what he is all about. Obama is very much aware of Willard's speech. Bubba did a great job last night so Willard should be shaking in his 10 thousand dollar oxfords or the 5 thousand dollar sneakers. (you know if you dress like the riff raff they think you're one of them) Jeans, plain shirt and sneakers or a simple dressy oxford and that's our boy.
Romney is a sociopath who will say or do ANYTHING to get what he wants. It is quite obvious and that includes selecting one of the biggest liars ever to run for political office in the US as his running mate. If that liar can get Willard what HE wants that is all that matters.
I am mortified for Ann Romney, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and their speech writers who did not mention our solders in Afghanistan - that is heartbreaking that the people who execute on the US's largest budget item (defense) did not cross the Romneys', Ryan's, nor speech writers' radar screens - there is no excuse.
The Party of No is consistent................No to everything including watching the speech. He might learn something but that's o.k. he's not going to win anyway.
You might as well watch Obama's speeches from last year, or the year before, or the year before that, etc. Nothing new, no new ideas, same old crap. The GOP has been running an ad in which Obama's 2008 campaign speech is almost identical, word for word, with his 2012 campaign speech. Same old story, all talk and no accomplishments. Why bother?