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Obama said on Letterman last night: "One of the things I've learned as president is you represent the entire country. My expectation is if you want to be president, you've got to work for everybody, not just for some.”
He also added this though about his response to his “bitter” remarks four years ago: "When you run for president, you are under a microscope all the time. All of us make mistakes. That incident in 2008, I immediately said, 'I regret this.’”
That is something Mitt Romney has not done.
Pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA is out with an ad hitting Romney for his closed-door remarks. The ad, Priorities says, will run in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
ANNOUNCER: Behind these doors [shows picture of a mansion], Mitt Romney calls half the American people…
ROMNEY: ‘dependent upon government who believe that they are victims.”
ANNOUNCER: Victims? Behind these doors [shows a modest home with a baby being washed in a sink], middle-class families struggle. Mitt Romney will make things even tougher, raising taxes by up to $2,000 to give multimillionaires a $250,000 tax break.
ROMNEY: ‘I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility.’
ANNOUNCER: And Mitt Romney will never convince us that he’s on our side.
“Several hundred lawyers protesting an anti-Islam video forced their way into an area in Pakistan's capital that houses the U.S. Embassy and other foreign missions on Wednesday, and the United States temporarily closed its consulate in an Indonesian city because of similar demonstrations,” AP writes.
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I'm pretty sure that in Oct, 2010 he told Republicans to "sit in the back of the bus"...
Yea that's working for everybody!!!
It's time to turn the page on this failed presidency...
The middle class and your grandchildren can't afford 4 more...
16 TRILLION and counting... tick tick tick
16 trillion and how much of that was spent by republicans? How much was already slated to be spent when Bush left us this mess? The way you state it, it's like Obama personally went to the five and dime and spent it himself. Stop insulting us.
Now we know that the video was wrong, LAWYERS in Pakistan are protesting.
You REALLY don't want to get lawyers mad at you. They might decide to triple bill you.
dirp, you need to get a cup of coffee and wake up, you're babbling on about lawyers? What are you talking about?
Marks you only insulted because the truth hurts...
"It's Bush's fault"...Stop insulting my intelligence with your juvenile comment!!
The fact of the matter is we are 16 TRILLION dollars in debt and 5 TRILLION dollars of it came on Obama's watch and in 3 1/2 years!!!!
So let's turn the page on this failed presidency and maybe your children/grandchildren will have a chance at a decent All American lifestyle instead of paying for Obama's failed attempt at transforming America into a European style third world country!!
The middle class and your grandchildren can't afford 4 more...
And of course not one republican supported their states receiving any of that money either right?? Like Paul Ryan...
This isn't some small town election for mayor. This is the most powerful office in the world. Obama can be critisized for doing things that may or may not be 100% right, but he's playing in the big game and playing well. He's repaired a lot of the damage that Bush did in those 8 horendous years. Romney is a bush league amateur who thinks having money makes him qualified. He, like Bush can barely make it out of the house without embarasing themselves and the country. People die because of Bush. Lots and lots of people died because of Bush and his bungling. Trillions of dollars thrown away on wars and rich guy contracts for his friends. Romney is as bad or worse.
Didn't Obama campaign on the promise to up the war in Afghanistan and haven't people died as a result? Isn't Obama working for the very same rich folks you have so much hatred for?
Conservatives unite and let's stop enabling the biased liberal media by buying their sponsors products. Why must we tolerate all bad news about Romney and all good news for their man when we have the power to bankrupt their sponsors? If your TV station is unfairly reporting the news then make sure that you don't purchase anything advertised on that station.
There you go David, taking a play from the book of this life long Democrat, you see, I boycoyt each and every republican business in my area - what is good for the goose is usually good for the gandar you see and I have no intention what so ever of ever spending one dime with a republican if I know that is what they are. Have I bankrupted any businesses? Maybe I have, maybe I have not, but I have learned I live just as well without doing business with republicans and since I work for my money I will continue to spend it with those I respect which does not include any republicans in our area.
David:
You asked: "Why must we tolerate all bad news about Romney and all good news for their man..." ?
The answer is very clear, Romney is nothing but bad news.
President Obama is good news.
david stutz Rmoney wants to boycott 47% of Americans. Its like those Americans don't exist to him. If Rmoney gets elected that 47% better not expect much from Rmoney. The only thing Rmoney will be working for is his donors. The small guy gets the scraps.
Good luck with that one David!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you want some cheese with that whine David?
So tell me again: what is the good news about Romney that we're not hearing?
The good news Irving, is he can't get his silver foot out of his mouth.
No, he only has 47% of a silver foot in his mouth.
Romney has contacted foot and mouth disease from the new batch of magical mormon underwear he has recently received. It appears his money above principles philosophy has done him in. His new batch of magical mormon underwear were manufactured in a a Bain Capital sweat shop in China. Another prominent mormon,Glenn Beck, has been infected by these defective underwear also. The mormon Church has responded quickly and is anouncing that the new hair cream will have the same mystical powers and is available immediately on the Bain Capital website.
Will the media answer the question, how could George Romney run for President in 1968 if he was borne in Mexico. Is Willard right when he says his father was borne in Mexico?
I have been wondering the same thing and all that I have found is that back then not many people were causing an issue about it because they hadn't defined natural born citizen. It was assumed that if your parents were Americans that you were automatically a natural born citizen no matter where you were born physically. George's parents never gave up their American citizenship when they lived in Mexico. He was out of the presidential race before it could be really looked into.
David stutz,
not that you don't already realize the President has a plan in place to exit Afganistan. Mitt thinks we should stay.
You, like your candidate are deflecting because the door is slamming shut in your faces.
How can you guys keep blaming the media instead of Willard for providing them with a bumper crop of stupid stuff to report.
The reason Willard has to keep reinventing himself is that he has no idea who he really is
Yay Obuma! He is everybody's Prez! He golfs all the time like I would if I didn't have a full time job (after losing one during the Obuma Presidency)! HE THINKS THE MURDER OF AN AMBASSADOR IS A BUMP IN THE ROAD (right-on my clueless commander in quief !!! Muslims are awesome! Christians cling to guns and religion! Yay Obuma! What a man of the (illegal, violent, radical) people! Now where's my foodstamps and free Obuma phone you community organizing, wussified follower of an anti-American preacher? Wait....I guess Obuma isn't "in touch" with me (or my neighbors, co-workers, friends, Christians, Jews, working people, literate people....).