Mitt, are you retracting what you said to your prospective 1% donors? Is this a retraction?

I had to read your post 3 times just to be able to comprehend what you were trying to say, michigan northener.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/06/charlie-crist-says-he-didnt-leave-gop-it-left-me/
“I didn’t leave the Republican Party – it left me,” Mr.
Crist told the Democratic faithful gathered at the convention Thursday night.
“Then again, as my friend Jeb Bush recently noted that, Reagan himself would
have been too moderate and too reasonable for today’s GOP.”

In his remarks, the party-switching former Florida
governor lauded Mr. Obama for his swift response to the financial crisis and
accused the Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate
Rep. Paul Ryan of practicing an unyielding brand of partisan
politics that would make it impossible to revive the economy.

“They’re beholden to ‘my way or the highway’ bullies,
indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the idea of
compromise,” Mr. Crist said. “Ronald Reagan would not have stood for that.
Barack Obama does not stand for that. You and I won’t stand for that.”

GOP 1) Don't want us to see Romney's Tax Returns, 2) Don't want us to know who's contribution to their campaigns, 3) Don't' report ANY of this on Faux News. 4) Grover Norquist was NOT elected! 5) Now voMITT won't tell us where he disagrees with Ryan on his budget!!! GOP, why don't you believe in the America people?

GOP - why do you LIE about Obama being born in Kenya but not ask for Romeny to release his tax records like Obama and even Romney's father have? What about no transparency from Romeny donors? Why are all GOP hypocrites?

Your smarter then me Ranman87.

Is he talking about Bush? A french comic?

Bush was reading books to school children in Fla. I don't know where the french comic was.

Is this a representation of Romney supporters? If so God help us.

Romney is about the 100%??? Please allow me to laugh directly in his face!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah...gasp...hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahhahahahahahahaha!

Whew! is that lying bastard funny or what?

GOP - are you a nut bag? Here's a fast test: Gulf disaster was a private industry issue and not a natural disaster. BP held the tech. to fix the problem and insisted it had it under control throughout the beginning of the crisis. Again, this is a private corporate disaster in a Bush deregulated industry. This is my catch-all argument --- anyone who blames Obama for this is nothing more than a partisan hack and probably nuts to boot.

I would like to respond to your comments, I think; if only I could understand what you are saying.

Per CBO -- BUSH LEFT Obama $1.2 Trillion DEFICIT, and 3 Trillion in DEBT projected into Obama's term. Add to this the worst economic crisis in 80 years. 2006 Senate, 49/49/2. These are FACTS. Learn what they mean and until then refrain from posting...

Romney --- why won't you release your tax records like Obama and your Father did before you? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING???

Here We go again another FLIP FLOP from ROMNEY, the REPUBLICANS are the reason the country has split, and this is because they have NO RESPECT for the Elected President of our country, they act like a bunch of spoiled brats after the fact, these people would rather destroy our country which is what they are doing and now ROMNEY has driven a larger wedge, We the people don't want Republicans to control this country period, they are greedy and control freaks that think We all should be sheep like them, well everyday the Democrats become stronger and even Republicans have started to switch sides, because you people are ignorant and can't understand right from wrong.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, watch the hat!

Whoa look, a rabbit!

Michigan northerner:

where was he when America was attacked ? seriously . where was he ?

Where were you? And now that we know it happened where will you be? Strapping your boots on?

ROFLMAO

Yeah sure Mitt, I believe ya! *wink, wink, nod, nod*

Bahhahhahahhahahahhhhhhhhhaahhhhh...... ah, hahhahhaahahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahahhhhhahhahahhahsh.... gag.... :D

He takes someone for a bunch of fools, but I can tell you it's not the people that use their brain. Be that Republican or Democrat. BECAUSE smart people from both political affiliations think YOU F'D UP MITT. :)

Simply turn that Etch A Sketch upside down, give it a good shake and presto chango....47% becomes 100%!

I don't suppose it's ever occurred to ol' Willard that if he wasn't born wealthy and hadn't had everything in life handed to him, he'd be the one on welfare.

Please let me excuse Michigan Northerner ...

what he wanted to say is .... Where the hell was our president at the time, Reading a children's book...and continued reading....

And Mitt was probably busy transferring $$$$ from America to his Cayman Is. , Belize and Swiss accounts.

Here is who the 47% really are.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-47-who-they-are-where-they-live-how-they-vote-and-why-they-matter/262506/

Romney makes truly stupid comments without thinking---not a great trait for a President. He can't afford to repeat the "country club" lies he is used to.

Hey Wake up Now,

I personally know some "isms" who vote for republicans,,,

They are one issue puppet voters as I call them. And they are very low on the scale .. So remember that some of those so called 47% ers do vote republican.

Thanks for the clarification Michigan Mark

WE, as the American public need to come together to remove ALL these corrupt politicians and business leaders from power. Do not buy the dem good, repub bad and visa vs BS!

Gold, like Mitt Romney's bull@!$%#, can never be more than 99.999% pure.

"First of all, this is a campaign about the 100 percent. And over the last several years, you’ve seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. We had hoped to come back together but instead you've seen us pulled apart," Romney said. "I am concerned about the fact that over the past four years, life has become harder for Americans."

First of all, your campaign is about the rich. You can't etcha sketch your way out of what you said. You can care a less about the little people that you step on every day. Secondly if you really where concerned about the fact that over the past four years life has become harder for Americans, then you would have helped pass the Obama Jobs bill instead of trying to do every thing possible to make the economy go down the toilet to make the President look bad. Why don't you go back to Mexico since that seems to be your choice of places to have been born in.

Oh, what an amazing flip flop!!! He just looks like an idiot now!!! First, I stand by my words that I am not concerned with 47% of the American people but today he says, "I will work for 100% of the people!" His own party is pulling away from this idiot. He is the biggest liar and so out of touch with real people... what a freakin' joke!!!!

WOW Michigan the birthplace of Mitt W Romney. Are you the only two michiganers voting for Romney?

Says a lot!

Oops!! There he goes again!! Mitt just performed another flip-flop without even blinking an eye!! This guy will say ANYTHING to cover his tracks or reverse his position. The only problem is that he has to wait until others tell him how stupid his position is before he can flip. Move along folks - there is no leadership here.

Just another day of flip-flopping from the buffoonish clown, who doesn't understand reality in the real world, and can't see beyond his nose while looking down his nose at "You people" beneath his status. And then, poor "lil" Ann pouts that nobody understands him. Oh please, give us a break!! We understand his "kind" all right to know that we can't trust him anymore than you can throw a brick house. So much for the worst duo Republican choices that the GOP managed to scrounge up.

Independent Thought Post # 1.5

"There are none so blind as those, who won't see." Or is it that you just don't want to pay more taxes that match your pay? Romney couldn't even handle the visits overseas , without insulting the people in that Country during the first-two of his 3 stops. And you think he would be a better person for Pres. It's thinking like yours that has elected some buffoonish clowns in the past. Romney can't open up his mouth without starting fights all around him even in his own party. This duo are right up there on the same trench rank as Bush/Cheney, who started 2 wars without a plan or money until after borrowing/stealing it from the SS.

Monkey changer...Nope. You must have misunderstood my comments,

I am NOT supporting Mitt,

FLIP FLOP MITT

47 is not 100

Say anything to get elected, change what you say over and over, pander t each audience saying what that particular audience wants to hear.

Even you REPS know that is true

Monkey changer...Nope. You must have misunderstood my comments,

I am NOT supporting Mitt,

If you don't like talking to people who miss sarcasm and who are easily confused by basic logic, then don't talk to liberals anymore.

Independent,

It's going to take a little more time to fix the precedent set forth by our previous prez,

2 very very expensive wars, We, the country are still fixing the mess.

Just think of all the infrastructure we, the Americans, could have fixed/ repaired if Bush wasn't so trigger happy.

I'm giving Obama another 4 yrs,

Mitt would be a sell-off

To the OP, please consider going to school and getting an education.

To Mitt, flip flopping yet again? You never were for 100% of Americans, remember your comments? You don't worry about them. You said the same months regarding those on unemployment.

To those promising disaster if Obama is reelected, get a grip. The economic indicators are all up from when he took office. Romney has yet to release ANY specifics or his 2011 tax return, yet you have made this election a referendum on Obama, without regards to what Romney would do.

Flip-flopping worked out so well for John Kerry, Romney decided to give it a try...good luck Mitt!

Indy

And you must have been hibernating for 8 years , previous to this four.

Y'know, you really have to hand it to Citizen Romney!

The last time I saw anyone backpedal this fast was at the circus.

And that was a clown, too!

Michigan,

The support for Obama is a hyperbole of insanity. The last four years are all Obama's. Check out the economic indicators, all of them, and prove your insinuation.

If the Republicans actually had a fiscally responsible candidate who wasn't dancing the George Bush shuffle, I might consider voting for them.

But as long as they keep churning out this neo-con trash, it ain't gonna happen.

Sorry Michigan Mark I stand corrected! I got you mixed up with independent dude!

Jungle,

Your best bet is to honestly examine and consider which one is (truly) the worst of two evils. Choose wisely.

Wow The libs have there talking points down tight....Tax returns???? must still be ass sore over Kerrys boat that he was keeping in another state to avoid taxes. Really the tax issue is BS as the IRS would have been all over Romney had he been cheating. obama is failing BIG TIME both economic and in our foreign relations. The way obama is treating Israel is disasterous, and the latest middle east violence is another disaster for obama as his admin. is clueless as to the cause of the attacks or they are outright lieing to we the people to make obama look good. Really obama is an outright FAILURE and WILL be voted out this Nov.. Romney is correct as this and EVERY election effects the 100% of we the people. obama's lies are to transparent and will not fool the vast majority of we the people, and the the people that choose to keep their eyes closed are his voting base that feel obama can do no wrong. Israel don't deserve to be wiped from the face of the earth yet if obama has his way they will be as obama wont provide any assistance, in fact the only assistance he will provide will be to his muslim brothers. Our country needs to get on the right track to recover and Romney is our only hope at this point of time.

"…It ought, though, to be no surprise to see the elite come back home to Obama. As Glen Ford has rightly argued, Obama is not so much the lesser evil, but the “more effective evil.” That is, Obama has proven to be the best face for American capitalism—the most reliable curator for the interests of American capital. The articulate, black, charming, and ostensibly liberal Obama has demonstrated in four years to be the best man to lead the coming frontal assault on Social Security, Medicare, and public education. Just as Obama has proven over four years of indefinite detention and expanded drone warfare to be a most adept administrator of U.S. imperialism…"

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Romney and the More Effective Evil

Crown Obama: It’s Over

by BEN SCHREINER

The most remarkable aspect of the now widely watched video of an “off-the-cuff” Romney, paradoxically enough, was just how unremarkable his recorded comments really were.

Sure, Romney managed to slur as parasitic all those who feel there is a human right to food, health care, and housing. Sure, Romney revealed his intention as president would be to obstruct peace in the Middle East. And sure, Romney even threw in a racist joke to boot. But how is any of this particularly surprising? How else does one think the elite speak of the working class, Palestinians, and minorities at their clandestine fundraisers?

Of course, all of this is not to say that Romney’s ill-advised candor won’t haunt him. It assuredly will. After all, in the U.S. two-party system—as Romney himself correctly noted—the political campaign is nothing more than a marketing campaign. It is about crafting a marketable brand and then raising the necessary funds from the gatekeepers amongst the ruling elite to peddle it all to the American electorate. It, like all branding, is about creating the most compelling illusion: whether that is the Obama illusion of “hope,” or the Romney illusion of “restoring America.”

But the truth—of which there is plenty to be found in the leaked Romney video—destroys illusions. The self-deception necessary for one to embrace any illusion is thwarted by any insertion of reality. And this was Romney’s greatest sin: to be caught speaking the sordid truth amid a campaign based on perfecting the art of deceit.

The latest self-implosion of the über-capitalist Romney, however, hardly signals a victory for all those below the upper echelons of the economic elite. Lest we forget, the reason political campaigns are based on marketing (i.e., the practice of trying to get people to buy what they neither need nor really want) is because both parties share the same agenda. They’re in essence selling the same defunct product, albeit adorned with slightly different colored glosses.

The true political battle in the two-party system, then, is fought out amongst the power elite over which candidate offers the most effective vehicle through which to enact their agenda. And it is clear in this respect that the power elite are once again beginning to circle back around to Obama. This process was well underway prior to the leaked Romney video, evidenced in that August saw Obama out raise Romney on the back of large contributors for the first time in four months.

It ought, though, to be no surprise to see the elite come back home to Obama. As Glen Ford has rightly argued, Obama is not so much the lesser evil, but the “more effective evil.” That is, Obama has proven to be the best face for American capitalism—the most reliable curator for the interests of American capital. The articulate, black, charming, and ostensibly liberal Obama has demonstrated in four years to be the best man to lead the coming frontal assault on Social Security, Medicare, and public education. Just as Obama has proven over four years of indefinite detention and expanded drone warfare to be a most adept administrator of U.S. imperialism.

Romney, on the other hand, has demonstrated time and again much the opposite. A highly affluent man who belittles half the country as parasites and speaks on his joy of firing people, it ought to be clear, will struggle to sell “entitlement reform” to a public still cherishing the remnants of a social safety net. Likewise, a man who alienates allied nations on trips abroad and bungles an international crisis (as was seen in Romney’s initial response to the Benghazi attack) is not likely to serve as an effective administrator of the American imperial project. In short, Romney’s ineptitude has proven to be a potential liability for the power elite. Hence, Mitt is toast.

Crown Obama. It’s over.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/19/crown-obama-its-over/

Just basking in the glow of the fires of the RWNJ's heads as they implode watching their candidate spin, spin, spin . . . .

Romney is implying that "redistribution" of wealth is a new idea or un-american?

Thomas Jefferson: "...Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."

(In other words Jefferson was later called "Progressive taxation" The more you had the more you payed in taxes)

Benjamin Franklin: "no man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."

I wish Obama really was a re-distributor of wealth in this country, we need one badly. Unfortunately he's a fraud who gets a lot of help from the corporate media who help him in his deception as much as possible (Remember Obama let the tax cuts for the rich stay in place when he could have honored his campaign pledges and ended them in December of 2010)

From roughly 1933 to mid 1970's we had redistribution of wealth, a tax rate on the top income bracket of 90% during the 1950's (during the Republican Eisenhower administration) 70% until 1980's and before WWI during the Wilson Administration it was 70%.

These two periods, especially the last, had a lot to do with creating the large prosperous middle class the U.S. used to be famous for. (though Europe during this period was even more redistributionist).

Heres some more quotes from american history about....EEEEK!!....REDISTRIBUTION

Populist Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate Huey " The kingfish" Long speaks during the 1930's (no wonder they shot him):

Huey P. Long (1893-1935): "Unless you redistribute the wealth of a country into the hands of the people every fifty years, your country's got to go to ruination. Too many men running things that think they're smarter than the Lord."

Theodore Roosevelt: "The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which it is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. Again, comrades over there, take the lesson from your own experience. Not only did you not grudge, but you gloried in the promotion of the great generals who gained their promotion by leading the army to victory. So it is with us. We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary."

In 1776, artisans from Philadelphia put forward a provision for inclusion in the original state constitution of Pennsylvania. They advocated for a limit on the concentration of wealth. "An enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind; and therefore any free State hath a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession of such Property."

Noah Webster, writing in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution in 1787, expressed that "a general and tolerably equal distribution of landed property is the whole basis of national freedom" and wide spread distribution of property was "the very soul of a republic."

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."....Justice Louis Brandeis

Geezo, Romney flip flops again. Can he stick with one story or will it change again. We are making slow steady progress in this country and you won't know what Romney will pull the rug from under progress. He won't be such an eager beaver to please once he get into office. He will be in hiding.

Straight democrat votes are needed, they shinaigans must stop.

After all the political positioning by each party and the candidates, one thing is totally clear: Romney isn't presidential material - maybe a nice guy (I've got my doubts, but . . . ), successful Wall Street Exec (not necessarily a plus for the resume, but . . . ), decent family man (OK, that's a plus), blah, blah, blah. But nothing is more irritating and less attractive than someone who is slippery and duplicitous every day of the campaign. Politics isn't for the faint of heart, but this guy doesn't seem to have one and he can't stay on point for more than a few days before he is back peddling, retooling his image, creating that next big turn around moment (and the next one and the next one).

I'm not very satisfied with the President in so many ways, but he looks like the only game in town and Romney seems to be doing everything he can to make himself an complete jackass and unelectable. I'll be glad when this is over and we can see if the GOP is still hell-bent on obstructing any kind of progress, unless it's 100% their way or no way! I fear it may take another election in 2014 before the GOP begins to represent the more moderate, center, center-right majority of the Country (you know, we called it the two party system), and dearly hope our struggling economy is strong enough to absorb another two years of angry tantrums by the GOP if they can't get over themselves - Guys, you've lost and that's that. It's time to get on with the business of people.

The jig is up Mitt!

During the elections of 2004 we saw the republicans eat their own when they eviscerated John McCain to make way for George W. and now we see them jumping a sinking ship as fast as they can...........

this party is so screwed up.....they have no actual platform or ideas, they have no leadership, they have no cohesion except that they all know the same talking points and none of them seem to know what they are doing or what they are supposed to be doing............they are like a ship full of deaf blind mutes that has no rudder and no way to figure out where they are going or how to get there.

what a bunch of clowns............how can anyone vote for these elitist baffoons?

Republicans have turned running for office as a champion of the people into a joke.........and you know what?

THIS IS NO JOKE, THIS IS BUSINESS THAT EFFECTS OUR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN.....PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BEING THE AFTER THOUGHT IN A CAMPAIGN...WE SHOULD BE THE ONLY THOUGHT....

TAKE THE MONEY OUT POLITICS AND GET RID OF MONEY FLUSH LOBBYIST AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.....

PUBLIC SERVICE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A CAREER...........IT WAS MEANT TO BE A LIMITED TIME SERVICE TO YOUR COMMUNITY, STATE AND/OR NATION........PUT LIFETIME TERM LIMITS ON OFFICES AND GET THOSE SALARIES AND BENEFITS PACKAGES VOTED IN BY THE PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR THEM, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT FROM THEM.

You couldn't pay me to support a republican............but as a democrat I know our party always thinks in terms of helping ALL Americans..even those who lie about us, scoff at us, call us names, compare us to historical evil entities, say how it is a weakness to help others (when indeed it is a sign of greatness), call us unpatriotic because we would advocate for peace instead of rushing to war, believe that setting up health care for all is a waste of money (like all of them are never going to get sick or have an accident through no fault of their own and need medical care---which if they have no insurance the rest of us will have to pay the bill for it)....as a democrat I pray each night that those who support republicans of this new ilk will begin to really see what is there and hear what is said and realize that the democrats care more about them than their own party.

If enough time passes I have to believe the lights will come on and there will be an epiphany....I have to believe that people are smarter the the republican leaders assume they are and that love of their families and their families futures will counteract the push to inflame their egos and lead them down the path of fear and hate...........I will always have hope that truth will prevail and intelligence and tolerance and compassion will be the foundation for a new tomorrow where we all work together.

I am so tired of the fear, hate, division....pitting one American against another....enough...........

it is time for peace...for nation building..........for unity.......no more negative ......we need positive....

can't believe the republicans in the senate filibustered and voted down the jobs bill the our homecoming veterans.............even after the republicans got to pt everything they wanted into the bill they still killed it.................how patriotic is that?

tell us again Mr. Romney who you would be working for............it sure is not our veterans, it sure is not our elderly, it sure is not our poor and it sure is not the middle class (that $2000.00 per household increase in taxes won't help the middle class), it sure is not the student............who is left..........

oh, yeah, the uber rich and corporations...............

careful republicans your true selves are showing and everyone is paying attention...........the jig is up...why don't you just leave gracefully and let good, honest, compassionate, hard working, intelligent folks take over from here....

see ya.

Mitt Romney and Ann Romney need to get T-shirts that read: I am with Stupid, and wear them together the same day.

He thinks that after all that flip flopping we are going to believe him now. I am tired of seeing him change his speech and "re-invent" his campaign every week.

Obama/Biden 2012

Obama has done nothing for Hispanics until recently when he gave amnesty to thousands that are here illegally,

Last count there are thirteen million illegals in the US some say as high as 20 million. The few thousand that were allowed to remain here are parents of children born here and have been good citizens. By all things christian this was the right thing to do not break up families. A real step in the right direction is the number of people the Obama admin has sent back to their home country which is way more than any sittin President has ever done. These people for the most part are criminals which is where any thinking person would start. Reagan gave amnesty to a lot more !

Now for the story on VoMitt and his flip flops which is now a complete revolution and a hard spin if you ask me. Here is a quote from your new messiah....

"I’m concerned about the poor in this country. We have to make sure the safety net is strong and able to help those who can’t help themselves. I’m not terribly worried about the very wealthiest in our society; they’re doing just fine."

Whoopsy daisy??? Guess he was not in a room full of rich fat cats when he made that statement! Next he goes in front of the fat cats reverses his opinion then catches hell for it then reverses again to say he is for 100% of Americans. I cannot believe anyone can even for one minute believe anything this ass hat says.

Here is more VoMitt:

"I didn't get involved in politics early in my life," adding he didn't get "politically involved" until after he ran the 2002 Olympics.

The truth: Romney ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994. He might remember spending $7 million of his own money on the race.

The remarkable thing about this one was he took a leave of absence from bain capital to run for the senate.

The quote above for his speech on being concerned for the poor was in JANUARY OF 2012!!!in South Carolina!

American Airlines intends to cut 4000 jobs and warns 11,000 more.(Wall St Journal) Obama forces another 4000 Americans out of a job

Geez I did not know Obama was the head of an airline also. you idiot.

And now Mitt Romney is "Re-shaping" his campaign by attacking the President with a segment of a speech that he did FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, AS COMPARED WITH HIS ASININE WORDS 2 months ago!!!

YEAH!!!! The Republicans are REALLY bringing the REAL ISSUES to the table. Mitt ROmney spends his time in fundraisers, to keep HOARDING MONEY TO attacK the PRESIDENT!!!

That is the only thing that he knows: HOW TO SWINDLE MONEY!!!!

• Mitt Robmey: It's over, it's overrrrr, it's overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
• Tea Party: It's over, it's overrrrr, it's overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Romney starts his new career as he was voted Comic of the Year.

"Now and then the president says I’m the grandfather of Obamacare. I don’t think he meant that as a compliment but I’ll take it. This was during my primary. We thought it might not be helpful. But I’ve actually been able to put in place a system that fit the needs of the people in my state. And I’m proud of the fact that in my state after our plan was put in place every child has insurance."

WOW! Romney is finally admitting that the HCL originated with him and that Obama copied his plan. I wonder how that will go over with the extreme right wing freaks who believe that the HCL is the doomsday bill?? True to his word, Mr. etch-a-sketch is shaking it! But, it won't be long before someone from his campaign once again tries to re-state what Romney really meant to say. Otherwise, the big pockets that have been funding him will go away.

Face it Mitt. You went so far to the right that those that supported your nomination will not let you move back to the middle. Rush the Lush and Vannity Hannity are going to pounce on your new liberalism.

On the tape Romney says he did it all himself, he didn't get any inheritance from his dad. Well, he was wealthier than his dad when his dad died and they gave a chunk of it for a tax wright off and the rest into trusts for their sons. So far correct. What he neglects are the private schools he was privileged to attend. Or the part of the story that Ann Romney told the Boston Globe in 1994 that they were college students when they married and "... neither one of us had a job because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt's father. Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education". Hmmm, was he paying income taxes?

Also, according to Ann Romney, "When Mitt was accepted at Harvard Law, we came east, this is when we took the now-famous loan that Mitt talks about from his father and bought a $42,000 home in Belmont. We stayed there seven years and sold it for $90,000, so we not only stayed for free, we made money. We had no income except the stock we were chipping away at."

Now, was that really a loan? Doesn't sound like they paid his Dad any interest. Did they give any of the original $42,000 back to Mitt's father?

Nope, he didn't get any help from his father! He did it all by himself! So, why don't you get out there and do the same? You don't need a loan to get a college education, just go ask your father! And, of course, after that you can get $42,000 to buy a house, you don't have to go to work and save for a down payment. What's stopping you? Are you lazy? Not working hard enough? You'd rather mooch off the govenment with a student loan, a Pell Grant?

Maybe your father wasn't/isn't rich like his was? And, never mind that the cost of a college education is much more that it was back then.

WHERE ARE YOUR TAX RETURNS WILLARD?!?!?!

VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET!!!! Republicans are all the same!

Forgot to add -- those studen loans -- they really are loans and you have to pay interest on them as you pay them off.

This country is failing because of its political leadership! There is no doubt about it! That applies to both parties, Democrats as well as the Republicans.

I recall, about 15 years ago, Osama Bin Laden was talking about his life long dream to bring America down by destroying our wealth and world wide influence by destroying us financially. The rest we will do ourselves from within.

At the time I thought that couldn’t be possible. Today I know better.

9/11 was one of the tools used to make his dream a reality (no disrespect to thousands of families who lost their loved ones on that day), we have not nor will we recover from that terrible day anytime soon.

Bin Laden left behind a dreadful legacy, we are broke and in disarray, people are divided and polarized.

Turning things around will require a strong stomach and a courageous person. In November we will get a chance to start the repair job. We already know that the path we have followed the last 4 years is not the path that will lay the foundations required to deliver what’s required. So let’s not stagnate and waste another 4 years on the same.

Mitt Romney, we need to give him his chance to have a go at turning things around. He may just be the man we’ve been waiting for. If he fails to deliver he’ll be out in 4 years and we’ll get another chance then. This is a long term project, a couple of generations perhaps, so lets be smart about this for once.

Shake that etch a sketch mitt. I wonder how anyone can possibly vote for this guy? Even most republicans can't like him. At least those republicans left that can think a bit for themselves.

Romney: 'This is a campaign about the 100 percent'

The 100% of those who are in the 1%+ Category? ROMNEY wants to limit my civil rights, tell me what religion I should be, WHO I can marry, and what women can do with their own bodies. This is not about America, its about the conservative FAR RIGHT teapartyrepublicants.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

And of course he isn't using the whole tape, just the redistribution part. Just like they snipped the "you didn't build that" out of his speech.

The really ironic thing about it is that Romney has given at least two "you didn't build that" type of speeches himself. Once to the Olympic athletes in Utah.

For once ROmney says what he reallly thinks and people (even his advisers) turn away in disgust. I guess he's learned his lessson - but not before the electorate has learned ours.

And of course he isn't using the whole tape, just the redistribution part. Just like they snipped the "you didn't build that" out of his speech.

Mmmm, no. Not really. If you think it's "just like" that, you really don't comprehend how context works.

There's a difference between taking one short sentence completely out of surrounding context which ultimately changes the meaning of the sentence - and taking a whole section of a speech out.

There is no 'surrounding context' which changes the meaning of what he said here:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax."

Unlike Romney, I pay plenty of income tax.

NOBODY should vote for Giggles Romney until he can PROVE he's not one of the 47% he expressed so much hatred for.

Simple equation: Giggles go get your tax returns or go home and get your freakin' shine-box.

Good to see that Romney is finally sticking to his guns and not pandering to his audience du jour. Now that he's corrected the misperceptions caused by the surreptitious taping, his campaign should be able to get back on track to defeat that African usurper so we can start to take back our country and bring back the America we all remember.

Then again, reality may set in, and he will go down in flames. Couldn't happen to a more deserving sort. This is what happens when a candidate uses all his accumulated clout to force his way to the head of the pack in front of more viable candidates (does anyone remember Bob Dole's campaign?) for what will ultimately be a (perceived) personality-based popularity contest, the rules of which are quite different from dictating to those who are dependent upon a paycheck for their smiling show of support....

Wrongme's logic is just so messed up, it is hard to pick a place to start. Self-deportation. Why would I sneak across a border and then decide to self-deport myself? I just self-imported myself. Makes zero sense.

If Bush hadn't failed on his immigration reform, the issue wouldn't even have been 'kicked down the field' for Obama to take the blame.

There isn't a sentence in this interview that he utters that is defensible. Hold on - I need to correct another idiot.

If I had wanted waffles for breakfast, Mitt, I would have gone to I-Hop, this morning.

P.S. I thought you stood by your "47%" comment....

This isn't about what he said... he 'says" a lot of things. And this isn't about what he meant by it. And I honestly don't think this was about disparaging the many kinds of people that legally do not pay federal taxes...

This is about the fact that he BELIEVED the red meat bull@!$%# coming from the Tea Party and raised money and set policy based on it. I believe he really didn't have a clue as to WHO doesn't pay taxes and WHY. He's just THAT out of touch. He's clueless.

This whole notion that somehow half of America, only under Obama's watch, became part of a permanent Welfare state is the biggest piece of racial garbage I've ever heard... and it IS the racial undertones that are louder as spoken in Tea Party circles. It seems that some of this might have seeped into Romney's strategy somehow.

So Romney can't reset this. This isn't simply an etch-a-sketch moment. This is a fundamental belief of a candidate that should never see the light of day of any public office ever again.

Too Late Willard! Typical Republican do over... Bush really didn't mean the Total Mission Accomplished... it was just a little party where I flew on an aircraft carrier and swaggered cuz I was bored party...

It was just like my Wealthy Boss that laid me off in 2007 so he could redistribute his wealth to another account!

Shake, shake, shake Shake that Etch-A-Sketch. Shake, shake shake. Shake that Etch-A-Sketch. Shake, shake, shake. Shake that Etch-A-Sketch. Sooner or later, like all pathological liars Romney is going to completely forget who he is, where he is, what he is. Actually, it's probably happened just now, he is adrift in his world with no character, no courage, no convictions. Romney, a draft dodger AND a tax dodger is really barely a citizen and certainly no leader.

Where are the tax returns????

Apparently Andrea Mitchell has Alzheimer's or some type of brain trauma, because now she is unable to recognize Mr. Obama when she see him in a video. Could it get any more partisan over at NBC?

Wow, another flip-flop from Willard "Mitt Mr. Burns" Romney and his etch-a-sketch speech writers.

Liberals are so funny, most can't write or spell very well, and have a really hard time understanding the issues. So much for my morning laugh, I have to work today.

Anyone but Obama!!!!!!

Romster says: Seriously I really really am for the 100% except in cases where they're part of the 47% and not Republicans or geezers or corporate welfare recipients. Some of those 47% still won't vote for me but I'll like them on facebook.

This clown really has his head up his a$$.

Yes. Mitt this is about the 100%, but you stated that you only cared about the 53%. The pulling apart has been done my the extremists ( teabuggers) in the republican party. I voted for Nixon, Goldwater and Reagan, but today they would be called liberals. I will never vote for a member of the republican party again until it represents me and the middle rather than the extreme right!

Andy Blackwood! I work everyday!

Romney: 'This is a campaign about the 100 percent'

These people, like Andy Blackwood, never stop lying and being hypocrites.

How's that Andy? LOL!!

OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!

Old flip flop does it again. He thinks people forget what he's said in the past. He's not worried about the very poor because there are safety nets for them, the same safety nets he wants to eliminate. Then he's not worried about the 47% who won't vote for him anyway. So where is this 100% could this be his elite population who he'll pander to. The ones he's so worried about giving tax breaks to. The ones making over $250,000. People don't forget what comes out of your mouth Mitt.

@ Submerged Lumber Guy

Romney, you're what America needs, bailout Bama sucks.

Enough of Obamas wars, enough of Obamas $300,000,000 campaign supported by superpacs.

Lumber Guy, what are you blithering about?

Those wars -- they're Bush's! Those superpacs -- they're Karl Rove's super pacs and their $300 million campaign fund.

Check your "facts". You're sounding like the village idiot.

Mitt Romney: "Pay no attention to the things I say when I think no one is listening and that are probably a good indication of what I truly think and feel. No, listen to me NOW rather, as I tell you what I think you need to hear to gather your vote so that I can become king president. Once king president THEN I can enact all the legislation based on the ideals I'd rather hide from you. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

VOTE FOR ME! "

It's always the radical few that make the most noise. Just look at the liberal loons this morning and their "witty" little posts. Mitt is the man to lead us out of this dismal economy and the obumbo failures and the libs just can't stand it.

Mitt 2012

so amused that people continue to cry for Romneys tax documents. If anyone beleaves the IRS has not done a full examination of his tax records by now your really in the dark. If there were anything we would know because of the anouncment of an audit or pending tax evation suit.

Nothing there. His actual tax rate on years released is in the 15.4% range and is most likely higher than any of you who keep posting the same question "where are your tax forms " over and over and over again. Move on to a real subject of concern. If the only reason you are not giving Romney the time to investigate his true positions then releasing those tax papers wouldn't make any difference anyway would it ?

We as voters need to get beyond the trivila BS of Tax papaers and birther crap and party line thinking if we are ever to get our country back on track. It is time to put people in office who will do whats right not simply because there is an R or a D beside their name. We dodn't have a good choice for President this election nor is there a good backup if something happens to one of them. Can't imagine either VP taking over. However there are plenty of congressional seats up and other local offices to fill. It starts there and works up to the Presidency. Time to act like real Americans and vote responsibly.

Americans ……… Obama has not returned this country to a productive path. He has failed. You don't have to love Romney to vote for him, you just have to know that it's time to give the next guy the chance. Obama has failed miserably on two of the most important duties of a president - economics and foreign policy. Sure Romney isn't perfect, but sometimes you have to vote for the lesser evil, sometimes you have to be big enough not cling to your previous support of a president that turned out to not be what any of us hoped he would be. We need change in this country, we are suffering - look around. We are more divided than ever, we are not respected universally around the globe, our economy sucks with no real signs of improvement. WE NEED CHANGE. Whether you are enamored with Romney or not, he is the only choice we have right now for change. It's him or stay on this failed course. As Americans it's our duty to take our partisan banners down, put our stubborn pride in our previous decisions aside, and do what's right for the country. staying this course is not the right path.

Because Obama cares about the 100% so much......

The 1% are still the 1%, and 23 million of the 99% are unemployed!!!

Not to mention that he added 5.9 trillion (plus 14 billion from GM as of today) that our kids and grandkids will eventually have to pay back or become Greece 2!!!

HASTA LA VISTA OBAMA!!

Romney and Ryan speaks the truth, it comes down to " you have a choice". We go down the road of total Government Control and everyone live off the Government doling out to who they see fit and owea payback to, or we put someone else in and turn things around so everyone has a chance for prosperity, People come to this Country because they believe in America you can be anything you want to be. They get away from a Governments control!!

Romney said his campaign is about "100 percent" of Americans...

C'mon, Mittens! How stupid do you think Americans are? Even your own side is tired of your phony flip-flopping. We know that what you said behind closed doors was the truth, and this latest flip-flop is just another lie for public consumption.

You might have a fancy degree from an Ivy League school, but everyone knows you can't teach someone to be smart. You are the idiot sitting in the corner in the fool's hat. How on earth can you be the leader of the free world when you can't tie your own shoes?

You are not presidential material! Begone with you!

The top 1% are sitting on a pile of money waiting for sales to increase enough to hire more workers. They now earn 24% of our nations income (10% in 1980). This unused money has been taken out of the pockets of the rest of us (99% get to share the 76% of nation's income, down 14% in last 32 years) and out of our economy. The middle class is short on money to spend and the rich have to much that they even invest in 10 year T-bills at 0% return. 0% interest on vast sums of money for 10 years shows the extent of this problem of unused money in our economy.

That we now come up short on consumer spending reflects how the rich have taken too much and it is now hurting our economic growth. Coincidentally, their share of our nation's income also peaked at 24% before the Great Depression. This is the root cause of our slow economic growth.

To increase their share of the nation's income from 10% in 1980 to 24 % in 2012 IS a massive redistribution of wealth. To reduce their share is only reducing the excessive redistribution of wealth we have experienced over the last 32 years. If we cannot prosper as a nation because one group is hoarding money in their prideful quest to win the game, we all suffer.

Woohooooo! Good news kiddies, there is a new poll out this morning and it tells the tale. Obama 53%, Romney 38% among independents. Whooohooooo!

I'm sorry, I don't have a link or any details but this poll was taken after the disclosure of Romney's 47% remarks and they show how the nation has responded to his prejudicial comments.

If you don't believe me, just look at the first three comments on this thread. The first was pro-Romney and got 31 approval votes (at this time) and the next two were anti-Romney and got HUNDREDS of responses. It's not scientific, but it's significant.

Obama/Biden 2012

Michigan Man, Where was Bush on 9/11/2001 when the twin towers fell?Where was he? Oh thats right, not in the White House.

Let it Go Man in Michigan.

well I find R getting more arrogant , ignorant, and PATHETIC every hour..

first when his family left Mexico, where is grandfather and father were attempting a poligamist type community.. they arrived in the USA BROKE, and lived on Gov't support( an interview with his own MOTHER)... His father received Gov't support to get started in business.. Yet he looks down his nose at us from his Throne.. enough LIES.. please tell the world the truth. Stop being ashamed of your beginnings..

As a family the Romneys have received their share of gov't support.. but remember HE BUILT IT himself

certainly is a shame that the MORMONS don't have some type of confession LOL. R would be busy for a long time

WE ARE NOT ROUTING FOR SPORTS TEAMS - drop the blind allegiances and loyalty to stupid political parties already. face it - we are NOT in good condition as a nation.

It is time for a change. even if you don't love Romney - HIS IS THE ONLY CHOICE WE HAVE FOR A CHANGED COURSE.

Also - Romney does not equal Bush/Reagan anymore than Obama equals Clinton/Carter. Different world, different times, different challenges. Let's get our heads out of the past and face this moment and our future.

Romney and the others like him don't give a damn about this country or the majority of Americans. It's out and I'm glad. His own father, on moving to the US received government aid, yet he looks down at everyone else.

Ryan's budget calls for a 70% reduction in the Veterans Administration's budget--yet, he's hell bent on going to war in Iran. Let him and his sons be the first to go and the last to return. Any Vet that votes for that fool will see.

Yes, Romney will lose, but Rove is shifting the money and trying to influence the congressional and Senate races. No more right wingers or tax evading Tea Baggers!

Mitt Romney NEVER said he didn't care for 47% of the people, he said he didn't think he could get their vote because they were dependent on Government. (I think he is wrong by the way)

Romney never called anyone lazy, or worthless, he simply said some people had become addicted to the government hand outs and that some people now even feel they are entitled to government hand outs. What Mitt Romney also said (not being reported) is that he wants to help these people so they don't need government hand outs and can care for themselves.

So who is it that really cares for this 47%, the one who wants to bring them out of poverty and off the dependence of Government and make them self efficent, or the one who has lead this country to record numbers of people of food stamps, disability, welfare, and government assistance?

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Romney and the others like him don't give a damn about this country or the majority of Americans.

What I find most laughable about these statements is that if you look at charitable givings you would see Romney and "others like him" give much more money as a whole and a percentage than those self righteous, caring liberals.

shaak322

I found your post very interesting - sincerely. but tell me, what has either party done to change that top heavy distribution? in 4 years, what has Obama done to change that? I hear a lot of talk, but what has he really done. The only shifts I see are more money going into the government, not the middle class. There is a fine line between redistribution of wealth and socialism/communism/big brother.

Too bad we can't all start a pool and take bets on what "michigan nothener's" blood alcohol level was late last night.I certainly hope he meant "Michigan Northerner."

Romney shouldn't have gotten mixed up with any percentages above 10 to begin with. He has no familiarity with any above 10. He measured His profits in amounts, and His taxes?, maybe?, in percentages below 10?, least, if He really paid any taxes. 1 percent are bankrolling His campaign. He is beholden to 5 percent, and may or may not represent 50 percent, or maybe 53 percent as President. He won't have anything to do with, first it was 49 percent, then He changed it to 47 percent. Either 49 percent or 47 percent are nothing but a pack of entitled, teat sucking bums, whom the 1 percent, and the 5 percent hate. Romney must do as His 1 percent tell Him, since that 1 percent will handle the 5 percent for Him. Now the campaign realizes Romney must gain more than 50 percent of the voters to get elected. They suddenly remembered He didn't have the whole 50 percent in His pocket and had already thrown away 47 percent, or was it 49 percent?, sooo, they now have decided Romney should retake that 47 or 49 percent He already threw away, to replace some of the 50 percent that was His, before that percentage listened to Him and ran away. Some though, in the 5 percent think Romney can only recover maybe 20 percent of the 47 percent He threw away, so they hope He really threw away 49 percent and can recover 20 percent, since 20 percent of 49 percent is a higher number than 20 percent of the original 47 percent. To assure Romney can hope for an overall total of 40 percent they now have Him going after 100 percent. 100 percent is an unknown to Romney, and It scares the hell outta Him, at least a certain percentage of Him.

You are so right Mich. Romney is the MAN to save use from the evel empire of BHO and the muslims. Wake up "working people", don't be a fool again, Vote for Mr. Fixit.

Logic required,

Did you ever think they give more because they have more you fool??? Da!

Well written and informative comments, shaak and skip.

Mitt Romney called half of Americans 'losers'.

In 47 days we will go to the polls in record numbers to make sure Romney personally feels what it really means to be a loser.

VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Mad dog,

Are you for ? I didn't think there were really people still living who were fighting the Crusades? And doing it with that low a mentality! The "Evil Empire" is Darth Romney and the republicans!

Is the only thing you dumbass Libs have against Mitt that you haven't seen his tax records? Seriously, give it a f*cking break people, it's redundant and pathetic, that's all any of you ever say, either that or "How's George W. doing?" Still waiting to see Obama's birth certificate, still waiting to hear any specifics from Obama, still waiting to se how Obama's going to save America, still waiting for Obama to answer his empty promises that he made to America 4 years ago, still waiting! Low lives.

@boltonbill

Absolutely right. As a Veteran, I'm insulted when Mitt does his Foreign-Policy "Tough Guy" stance on our biggest threat... Russia? When he rattles his saber at Iran. ...And when he tells the Palestinians to "suck it up" and listen to Israel.

Where does this P$#@k get off acting like this? He was 18 years old in 1965, and when the draft ended in 1973 he was 26 years old. Prime military serving age. In those 8 years he got every kind of deferment he could to avoid being drafted.

His oldest son, Taggert, was born in 1970. He would have been 20 years old during the first Gulf War in 1990. He didn't serve. His next son, Matthew, was born in 1971. He would have been 19 years old then. He didn't serve either. Both Taggert and Matthew were 31 and 30 when the World Trade Centers came down in 2001, so, technically they were a little "over the hill" for the new Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Mitt's third son, Joshua, was born in 1975. He would have been 26 years old when 9/11 happened. Pushing the envelope, but the military would have still taken him if he were to have the patriotic fever and love for his country to want to serve. Apparently, Josh didn't have a whole lot of love for his country. He didn't join up.

Mitt's fourth son, Benjamin, was born in 1978. He would have been 23 years old on 9/11. Don't bother checking. No patriotism here. He didn't run off to fight for his country.

Mitt's last son, Craig. Born in 1981. Would have been 20 during 9/11. Did he serve his country? Nope. Another highly patriotic son, eh...?

I gotta tell you Bolton, I think we should amend the Constitution to state that only 35 year old, veteran citizens of the United States may run for the office of President. If we put a guy into the position, and call him "Commander-in-Chief", then I think it behooves us to ensure he's got at least a little bit of prior military experience. What do you think?

GOP MISLEAD WITH: "LESS PEOPLE WORKING NOW HAN 2009" - These job losses occured during Obama's first year --- it took time to turn things around from Bush's 750K jobs lost per month ---- and if you read the graph at left you can clearly see that Obama turned the trend around. Just imagine if Bush had remained! Just imagine if Romney is elected. GOP, GO BACK TO SLEEP!

Graph at left: RED = job losses/Adds under BUSH. BLUE= Job losses/Adds under Obama. GOP, how can you not see the truth here? Obama turned the Bush nightmare around and if you can't see this you need help. GOP YOU NEED HELP!!!

Short and to the point. I like it!

Reagan never should have broken the Airline Industry union nor deregulated it.

@ Mich.

Where was Dumbney when we were attacked?

191st CAM Sq

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American Airlines is cutting jobs because the owners screwed up and ran the company into the ground. The 1% is at fault not Obama.

I don't see many (if any) Romney supporters here or anywhere else, just Obama haters.

In watching the RNC I noticed the majority of those attending were pale skinned.

When watching the DNC I noticed there was a nice mix of skin colors of those attending and even some had their kids with them.

I truly believe Obama has done a phenomenal job so far considering the Republicans have tried to counter him each step of the way. Probably there would have been a better outcome for the country at this time if Obama's skin color had been the paleness the Republicans prefer.

They were against him from day one. Our country and it's people be d*mned, they have worked for over 3 1/2 years to make him a one term president.

I don't care if Obama is green, striped or plaid, I'm very happy with all he has accomplished and look forward to him being re-elected, pale skinned person that I am.

Romney/Ryan - Flip Flopping Away!

Obama/Biden - 2012

Very nice break in the rhetoric. Now let's focus.

Hey Mittens, please pay attention:

Guess it's over, call it a day
Sorry that it had to end this way
No reason to pretend
We knew it had to end some day, this way

Guess it's over, the kicks are gone
What’s the use of trying to hang on
Somewhere we lost the key
So little left for you and me
And it's clear to see

Too much, too little, too late to lie again with you
Too much, too little, too late to try again with you
We're in the middle of ending something that we knew was over
Ooh it was over
Too much, too little, too late to ever try again
Too much, too little, too late, let’s end it being friends
[- From : -]
Too much, too little, too late, we knew it had to end
And it's over, it’s over

Guess it's over, the chips are down
Pity all our bridges tumbled down
Whatever chance we try
Let's face it why deny it's over, it’s over

Too much, too little, too late to ever try again
Too much, too little, too late, let’s end it being friends
Too much, too little, too late, we knew it had to end
And it's over, it’s over

Too much, too little, too late to ever try again
Too much, too little, too late, let’s end it being friends
Too much, too little, too late we knew it had to end
And it's over, it’s over

American Airlines intends to cut 4000 jobs and warns 11,000 more.(Wall St Journal) Obama forces another 4000 Americans out of a job!

These are the type of people who blame Obama for poor weather. If all airlines were laying off employees, I'd be concerned, however one airline? Perhaps they should consider attracting more customers and operating more efficiently. The reduced flights will be picked up by a competing airline.

It is not really up to the president to create jobs in a capitalistic society. Congress CAN give incentives to businesses, that's about it. Also the uncertainty generated by GOP obstructionism has many businesses taking a wait and see approach. Will the GOP's reckless insistence on not asking the wealthy to help out push us over the fiscal cliff? Will the GOP refuse to cut the bloated DOD budget while insisting on additional tax cuts for the wealthy?

Now that the GOP led house has voted itself a two month vacation without answering any of these questions, we'll have to wait even longer for answers.

It is so hard living in a southern redneck state where the people don't have sense enough to know what is good for them and what is bad for them! God, I am so proud to be a liberal!!! One of the poorest states and it is a red state. Bush took us to the edge of a financial cliff... Obama stopped the bleeding and is slowly trying to bring this economy back around... and these nutcases want to vote for Romney so we can walk right off that cliff with the same Bush BS philosophies. I really hate to be back at war again and send so many of our young men to fight another useless war in another hell-hole. And with Israel involved and our backing of Israel, I am truly afraid that this will be WWIII and our borders might not be so insulated from this one.

Judging from the pic above, Mittens needs to SO lay off the self tanner ... poor man is looking a bit ... orange.

Actually bubba guess who's involved with American Airlines - Three guesses begins with "B" next letter - why it's an "A" third letter no it can't be an "I"

Sure as Hell Bain Capital - back to dirty tricks - guess old Willard will still get a piece of his pie

This guy is unbelievable, maybe we should start calling him the 'Chameleon Man'. The way he lies with a straight face must come from all those years as a vulture capitalist.

Mitt Romney says that his campaign is about the 100 %. One hundred percent of what???

He has changed his flip-flopping views since day # 1. HE had an opportunity, but THE REAL MITT ROMNEY IS A PLUTOCRAT WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE, THAT IS ONLY INTERESTED IN SERVING HIS MASTERS: the lunatics of the tea party.

Grover Norquist never thought that finding a PUPPET LIKE MITT ROMNEY WOULD BE SO devastating.

THE WORDS ARE OUT; EVERY TIME THAT HE OPENS HIS FOUL MOUTH HE LETS OUT THE " real Mitt Romney"

PFFT!

He is the best thing that has happened for Democrats in quite a while and may just make people even forget for a while about how bad Bush was. The say Rowe is going to toss him under the bus and come back with Jeb in 2016. So if hillary wants it that should be a cake walk.

say Rowe is going to toss him under the bus and come back with Jeb in 2016

We definitely don't need another BUSH in the White House. However, I never thought that i would say this: MITT ROMNEY MAKES BUSH LOOK SMART!!!

Nobody thought that we could see a stupidier person than Bush. OH MY! Look at the CROP of REPUBLICANS this time around: Cain, Santorum, Bachman, Gingrich, PErry, AND NOW ROMNEY!

A PARADE OF LUNATICS

1. Mitt Robmey is toast!!!
2. The traitorous TeaBag Party is toast
3. Time for you losers to GET ON THE GOOD SIDE OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait for the debates! It will be the show of the year! LOL!

Descrs...

Typical Republicans right? Tea baggers get elected into office because they strictly adhere to the constitution and then deadlock all progress by fighting with everyone including their own party. They claim to be working FOR the average Americans, but then are more than willing to take months of vacation time off when we need them in Washington working for average Americans. Tea baggers were just another Republican distraction that worked in complicating Obama's presidency and helped the GOP separate the most extreme voices in their party, but now they are held captive by that extreme and aggressive ignorance. To anyone that voted for a tea bagger, time to vote these worthless ideologues out of office where they belong. We need more moderates with realistic views of progress from both parties to get reelected, not more religious extremists with no substance and clearly no ability to make things better. TIME TO VOTE ALL REPUBLICANS AND TEA-BAGGERS OUT OF OFFICE FOR GOOD!!!!

Romney Quote<with assumptions>......

<My fellow Americans....despite what you may have seen me say, with your own eyes, several months ago to a collection of my wealthy donors>.... First of all, this is a campaign about the 100 percent. And over the last several years, you’ve seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. We had hoped to come back together but instead you've seen us pulled apart. <I have been reminded, by my party's panicked and insistent plutocrats, that I should ensure I am never again recorded speaking my true opinions lest you deadbeats....uhhh, rather, voters...get the right.....I mean, wrong....impression of me.....Now, if any of you might be in possession of any other surreptitious recordings of me at other events, please proceed to meet with my campaign manager so you can discover, first-hand, just what a generous man I am>

.........EndQuote

The GOPeaParty has declared they would settle for "ANYBODY but Obama". It seems they have gotten their wish. Now, that wish is morphing into a curse. Don't let them spend and spin Romney into office or we will all reap the consequences of that curse.

Bubba

The airlines have been in financial trouble since 9-11-01. Remember the Bush bailout for airline industry. They continue to struggle with the costs associated with all that speculation in the oil markets spurred on by the explosion in wealth of the very rich. How is this Obama's fault? Our oil production is up 20% since 1989 and our consumption is down 4%.

The middle class is buried in debt and would rather pay that debt down than fly to a vacation paradise. There aren't enough rich people to support the airlines at the level they need to do anything but lay off workers. The rich have taken too much (24% of our nation's income, up from 10% in 1980). That the middle class cannot to fly as they once did should come as no surprise to you.

If the rich paid their workers more like they used to, the middle class would be flying more and the airlines would be hiring people.

Karen..........as I tell my wife.................psssst.........remember HE"S black and living in the WHITE house................think that explains any of the negative comments???

Republicans are led by the nose ring by Grover Norquist [no new taxes and cut the SS and Medicare benefits to "balance" the budget] and have NO PLAN and NO VALUES except to protect and reward their 1% supporter with tax cuts to keep themselves in power.

MITT: What exactly ARE you hiding in those taxes you won't release?? Maybe they will slip out like that 47% tape you are etch-a-sketching into 100% these days

Yes Mitt, it is about the 100%! And the 100% are going to show you just how far you've fallen come election day!!

Romney is a buffoon with too many feet to eat!

The 100%? I don't know. Smells like some kind of communist, socialist, marxist plot to me.

Hello Mitt or @!$%#t.

I am talking to the man in the mirror, I'm telling him to change his ways.

You have dissed 100% of us. My suggestion is put on an Ron Paul mask and start over. You would get more Votes.

Or maybe try a Michelle Bachman mask or a Ric Perry mask, Go address the KLu Klux Klan and blame one of them for what you say.

You should not even be running for garbage man.

Gold, like Mitt Romney's bull@!$%#, can never be more than 99.99% pure.

Mitt yesterday it was about the 47%. Today it is about the 100%. Are you now saying that 100% of us are lazy and are depending on the government to help us.

As a former President recently said. "ITS Arithematic Mitt". Should we add the 47% to the 100%?

(that's googy math) or should we subtract the 47% from the 100% , which means only 53% of us are lazy and dependent and the government?

Mitt Romney called half the citizens of this country 'losers'.

In 47 days, American voters will go to the polls in record numbers to tell Mitt Romney how we feel about that.

We will cast our ballots to re-elect President Obama, and to make certain that Willard Mitt Romney understands personally what it really means to be a loser.

VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Mitt Romney called half the citizens of this country 'losers'.

Well that is a BOLD FACE lie! Please give me the quote where he said they were losers. He never even said he didn't care about them he just says that he didn't think he would get their vote.

Why do you liberals feel the need to put words in peoples mouths and speak as if you know what they "really" mean. Romney gives more money much more money (even as a percentage of income) than Obama or most liberals for that matter. Saying he doesn't care when he voluntarily gives 100 times more than the Obama's is silly. Obama wants to be charitable with other peoples money so he can buy votes, Romney wants people to be charitable with their own money and he leads by being an example.

Can someone tell me what is a FREE Benefit, I know we have 7% on Welfare , Who are the other 40%? Are they the Senior Citizens who have paid into the Social Security INSURANCE part of the 40% are they the Military who fight and die for YOUR FREEDOM part of the 40% are they the struggling college STUDENTS who have a part time job part of the 40% Is it my 2 young kids (12 and 13) part of the 40% who dont pay Federal Taxes? I pay 22k in federal taxes, about 28% of my money. I have no problem being a good AMERICAN for my kids,your kids,My Military Your Military, My Senior mom and Your Senior Mom and Your College Kids because 1 day Hopefully my Kids will go to College. Why is it OK for Mittens and the top 1% not pay there Fair Share? are They and You REALLY THAT UN AMERICAN?

MEDICAL INSURANCE

SOCIAL SECURITY INSURANCE

DISABILITY INSURANCE

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

They are not Freebies They are Insurances That I and you all pay into

This campaign is about the 100 percent...the lies on both side of the ticket 100 percent of the time. As for American Airlines laying off workers, I hope they lay off their manager in Montgomery. I was in Montgomery when my wife called from Spokane, WA to tell me that her mother had died. I immediately cancelled my plans and made my way to the airport to try to find my way back across the country. An American Airlines plane was leaving in an hour and a half. There were empty seats on the plane. American Airlines refused to allow me one of them and the manager actually told me to get to the side so she could help paying passengers. I HAD a ticket, just not for that particular flight. Bottom line the plane left without me. I ended up paying 750.00 to Delta for their next flight so I could make it home. American Airlines is a no good, classless organization. I wrote a letter explaining my experience to their corporate headquarters and received a voucher good for 100.00 off my next American Airlines flight! WHAT A PATHETIC COMPANY!

Well that is a BOLD FACE lie! Please give me the quote where he said they were losers. He never even said he didn't care about them he just says that he didn't think he would get their vote.

OK, then...I'm happy to oblige. Here's a little test of reading comprehension for you.

Quoting Romney verbatim:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.... These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. So he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean, that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Willard Mitt Romney clearly and unequivocally stated that 47% of Americans, the 47% who pay no federal income taxes, believe they are victims who expect government to give them handouts, will never be convinced to take responsibility for themselves.. are in short losers, moochers, bums, whatever synonym you like.

This is an astonishingly arrogant and exceedingly stupid statement from a man who stands before the American voters asking us to choose him as our leader.

Awaiting your spin, Logic.

kaybeetoys,

So what you're saying is he never once used the word losers as you said he did.

Mitt Romney called half the citizens of this country 'losers'.

Thanks you for admitting you were lying.

1. Mitt Robmey is toast!!!
2. The traitorous TeaBag Party is toast
3. Time for you losers to GET ON THE GOOD SIDE OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL. I guess you've been to the future then? Next time you hop in your time machine don't bother coming back. I find it hard to believe that Pres Obama will be look upon kindly in the future considering all that he's managed to ruin in four short years.

Here's the deal, this is not an election about social issues. This is not about race, immigration, marriage, or women's rights. Like it or not, Obama HAS divided this country by focusing so heavily on social issues. Romney's gaffe was that he articulated this fact horribly wrong. But this election should not be about who said what and when or where. It's about the economy and who has a proven track record of creating wealth.

I don't care what you think of Romney personally, he may be a terrible guy, but he knows how to make money - and that's what this country and its citizens need right now.

Romney: 'This is a campaign about the 100 percent'

(Depending on who he's talking to.)

If he's talking to his base, it's about something entirely different.

Obama/Biden 2012

kaybeetoys.......

You aren't likely to get much response and certainly not "spin" from LogicReguired. The GOPeaParty stands flat-footed and slack-jawed reacting to Romney's comments. They can't spin this. All they can hope for is that other news soon comes along for American voters to focus upon. That's why they are mostly represented here today by crickets.

Of course, we all knew this is how Romney feels about us "little people". We just never believed he would be so careless that it would be recorded for all the world for all time, to see. But, crooks and liars usually are undone in their web of deceptions.....sooner, or later. Thanks to God that Romney revealed his true self before the election.

MmmMmmBeer......you said:

Quote......But this election should not be about who said what and when or where.......EndQuote

You must be delusional. Do you actually believe Romney can say ANYTHING and none of us should pay it any heed? Folks: This is a good example of why the GOPeaParty is not fit to lead this country.

American Girl-724855

Romney: 'This is a campaign about the 100 percent'

(Depending on who he's talking to.)

If he's talking to his base, it's about something entirely different.

Obama/Biden 2012

Yeah.....Because Obama is really SO MUCH better, right?

The 1% are still the 1%, and 23 million of the 99% are unemployed.

Not to mention he added 5.9T (plus 14 billion from GM as of today) to the debt that our kids and grandkids will be paying on unless they want to become Greece 2.

Try growing a brain.

It doesn't matter if you have a "D" or an "R"....We are all (100%) in the same boat when it comes to our country's fiscal troubles.

"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 US Government cannot 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. 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 Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Liberals are so used to the concept of being lied too and ling themselves that when someone speaks the truth it is all of a sudden controversial...

FACT: Almost 50% of Americans right now are in some way dependant on the government through a government based program.

FACT: That is the highest number of dependents in HISTORY.

FACT: Obama supporters have a small chance of being changed to vote for Romney. Take black Americans for example. 95% voted for Obama in 08. Around 95% will vote for him again.... No need to spend a lot of time putting out a message to a population that will 95% of the time vote for Obama and those stats have NOTHING to do with welfare...

Romney points out truths that are happening in this country, and the liberal media labels his words controversial... So damn funny.

Mitt. Don't you hate it when your pandering to one demographic gets reported outside your intended audience and pisses off all the other demographics you need to pander to in order to have any chance at all of winning?

kaybeetoys,

So what you're saying is he never once used the word losers as you said he did. Thanks you for admitting you were lying.

Ah but Logic... but I never said Romney used the word "losers"...I said he called them losers.

Just like you're calling me a prevaricator. (Hint: it's a synomym. Look it up.)

Surely you have the intelligence to see my point. :)

MmmMmmBeer

Here's the deal, this is not an election about social issues. This is not about race, immigration, marriage, or women's rights. Like it or not, Obama HAS divided this country by focusing so heavily on social issues. Romney's gaffe was that he articulated this fact horribly wrong. But this election should not be about who said what and when or where. It's about the economy and who has a proven track record of creating wealth.

I don't care what you think of Romney personally, he may be a terrible guy, but he knows how to make money - and that's what this country and its citizens need right now.

Er, shouldn't that be MmmMmmKOOLAID ?

MmmMmmBeer......you said:

Quote........he may be a terrible guy, but he knows how to make money - and that's what this country and its citizens need right now.........EndQuote

Well, perhaps President Obama will appoint him Sec. of Treasury or Commerce. But, Romney is NOT presidential material. He is a bean counter. But, he probably should not be trusted in any capacity. He has shown himself to be a liar.

If all we needed for POTUS was someone who knows how to make money, we could elect Warren Buffett. He is far more wealthy than Romney. Furthermore, Buffett seems to care about people and has far more common sense. But, we don't need to look any further than President Obama. He is the right man for the job. We are all fortunate to have him. Some of us even realize that.

You folks seem to think very superficially about virtually every issue you comment upon.

Karen C. . . I am a Romney supporter; not an Obama hater.

Truth be told, Romney was somewhat correct about the 47%. He did not paint a fair picture of 47% of the population, but he was correct in that no matter what he does or says--at least 47% of the population will vote for Obama. Just like Obama plays to his base. What they both are after is the 6 or 7% of undecided votes. That is where the election will be won or lost. Romney should not waste his time or money trying to sway the 47% of the country who will vote Democrat no matter what; just as Obama should not waste time or money trying to sway the other 47% who will vote Republican.

Sad, really if you think about it that roughly 6% of the country will decide the race.

America - how is Mitt Romney's tax plan different from George W. Bush? If these cuts work, why isn't this country swarmed with jobs? Is this not the "VOODOO ECONOMICS" that George W. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, warned us about?

Yep - he's flip-flopping again just on statements he made yesterday. He is truly the etch-a-sketch candidate!

GOP liars and hypocrites. Obama is NOT a Muslim but your boy Mittens is HIDING his taxes! Obama and Romeny's dad showed their taxes... WHAT ARE YOU HIDING ???

FACTS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR ON FOX
NEWS:
FACT: Roger Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox
Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican
presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.

JOBS -- Under Obama, 4.5 Million private sector jobs have been
created in just the past 3 years - this after Bush losing 750K per month at the
end of his term. Labor Force Statistics from the Current
Population Survey (Source: BLS Rpt. LNU02000000)

GOP MISLEAD WITH:
"LESS PEOPLE WORKING NOW THAN 2009" - These job losses occurred during Obama's
first year. It took time to turn things around after Bush's 750K jobs lost per
month. If you read the graph at bottom you can clearly see that under Obama job
losses were turned around.

DEBT - - per Congressional Budget
Office -- BUSH LEFT Obama $1.2 Trillion DEFICIT, and 3 Trillion in DEBT
projected into Obama's term. Add to this the worst economic crisis in 80
years. GOP 2006 Senate, 49/49/2. Who's to blame for our
debt?

STOCK MARKET- Under Bush, DOW closed at around 8000. Under
Obama, we're now at 13000! Obama's policies have benefited "ALL our retirements
and 401K" with stock market recovery!

ECONOMIC GROWTH - Positive Growth
now AFTER BEING HANDED Negative by Bush.

TARP - with the threat of
further regulation, most of TARP has been paid back w/ interest! Under Bush,
this $$$ was loaned unconditionally amounting to corporate
welfare.

TAXES, taxes are lower for all but the richest, despite GOP
obstruction! GOP recently fought tooth-and-nail to increase the burden on the
middle class via the payroll tax. Thank You Mr. Obama. Furthermore, Tax Policy
Center -- taking a close look at Romney's proposed tax and economic plan ---
concluded that it would cut taxes for the richest Americans and actually raise
them on the poor.

OBAMACARE: Nixon, McCain, Romney and Gingrich, all FOR
mandate before they were against it! Romney implemented the ORIGINAL Obamacare
and mandate was originally a GOP idea!

TERRORISM - under Obama's
leadership and renewed focus he promised during the 2008 election - we got
Bin!!!

AMERICAN LIVES - Egypt and Libya uprising - NO AMERICAN
DEATHS!!!

*** All of these things and more with NOTHING but GOP
Obstruction and fingerprinting!

IN TRUTH, IT TAKES A
FAILED PERSON TO CALL OBAMA A FAILURE.

It's astounding to me, that for the most part. every GOP TeaBagger. posts on here, are either lies or totally incoherent.

No idea of the facts at all, just gibberish. These days, fact checking is easy, unless all the 'Facts' you know, are from Faux News, Hannity or Reilly or Rushbo.

Oh well, I suppose when the news comes in late evening on November 6th, they will be shocked, that Obama/Biden are back in the White House. Of course they will all be leaving the Country to Canada, again.

Now, if they want that so called Socialism, that's the place to go. Maybe that's why Canadians are a happy and polite and friendly people. They all have decent Health Care.

I guess those Republicans, never were taught, that if you can't say anything nice, about someone, don't say anything at all.

What Romney really meant to say was "All you moochers and parisites out there must have misunderstood me, besides what gives you the right to listen to a secret recording showing how I really feel about you losers".

If Romney doesn't lose this election by a landslide I'm going to have to question the sanity of the American people as a whole............. well at least 47% of the American people.... sorry I couldn't resist.

We are tired of seeing Mitt's face, and election time can't get here fast enough!

Please make sure that you are registered, and have everything in order to v o t e

Don't let the thugs of the Republican party send you away because you did not register, that is their strategy to make this flip-flopper win!!!!

Vote Democrat!!!!

His etch o sketch is broken and not working.

"In Bush’s first seven years, the deficit averaged $476 billion, while Obama
averaged $1,588 billion over just his first three years, more than three
times what Bush spent. (Source: U.S. Treasury)"

Does not include Bush's war debts which were not part of the 476 Billion dollars he spent. Your numbers are so far from the truth maybe you should read what you are posting. Bush incresed the national debt from just over 5.4 trillion to 11 trillion dollrs while he was in office which makes you sorry interpretation impossible.

FAE.....

What meds are you on there buddy, and what GED program are you still trying to pass? I honestly have no idea what you are talking about, and your ranting looks oddly familiar to signs associated with paranoid schizophrenia. Maybe you should go see a psychiatrist, as I think Obamacare will cover those expenses for you. Just one more way Obama cares about even the craziest of our dumbest citizens.

VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET, AND REMOVE AS MANY REPUBLICANS FROM OFFICE AS POSSIBLE!!!!!

Sorry Mitt, you can't "un-ring" the bell.

you are right on. Does he REALLY think that anyone with a mind, no matter how uneducated, (which is most of his base) will believe anything he has to say now????? Good grief, give us 47% some credit. Fooled us once, shame on you, fooled us twice shame on us......not this time around. Go home Mittens, to your many houses, cars and horses...we don't need or want you.

breadex..................etch-a-sketch was worn out from overuse because it was shaken so hard with revising this latest news!

Wonder if he could etch-a-sketch his tax returns and release them if he got the newest, improved model??

Yes Irespond, it is a sad day when we expect voters to be alive, registered, and vote only once. You cannot drive legally without a license and you should not be able to vote unless you are registered. If you do not understand how to get registered you probably would not add much to an election anyway.

A government charging people to vote for that government spits in the face of our founding fathers. Why do you hate America so much, robert? Can you list the documented evidence of dead people voting and people voting twice in the last election, robert? Why would you rather spit on America rather than face the fact that foxy-notsy news has you duped into a fake controversy, robert?

This one of the clearest elections in US history.

On the Republican side you have a group that at least since the 1980's have been the party of GREED.They stand for the 1%,while using race and religion to convince enough of the other 99% to vote for them,and forget that they don't serve them.The days of any moderates,let alone liberals in the Republican Party are long past. A Republican said to me,that there are moderates in their party and used John McClain as an example,huh.The Republicans care nothing for Lower Middle Class,and the Lower Class in our Country.Romney's video before his $50,000 a plate donor meeting says it all.

On the Democratic side you have a Party that has the interests of the whole country in mind.In spite of not being able in one term to undone the disaster of Bush's failed eight years.Which brought us the closest we have come to the Great Depression of the 1930's.And,all the while having to fight against the Republicans,who are willing to see our Country collapse whether than co-operate with the President.And with a continuing world-wide recession looming.They still have been able to stem the worst of the economic problems and we see the turnaround starting.And doing as much as they could to ease the burdens on the weakest of Americans.The President completed the pull out from Iraq,and has arranged a time schedule to pull out our soldiers from Afghanistan.Wars that the Republican administration under Bush,got us into.Cost the lives of thousands of Americans and wounded many thousands more.Wars unfunded by Bush,that many economists believe cost us in the trillions of dollars.It was the Presidents dedication that saw Osama Bin Ladin finally brought to justice after years of Bush's failure.There is still a lot to be done to make our Country whole again.But at least with a man like President Obama,we known our President works for 100% of the people.And isn't trying to thrown 47% under the bus.

Well now that Romney has lost the election all we need to do now is kick the worthless do nothing Republicans out of Congress and the Senate that way we can get the country moving FORWARD again.

I'm so sick of listening to all the hate filled right wing rhetoric and lies that does nothing but divide the country, and I know I'm not alone. There's only one way to shut up these destructive Republican/Tea Party fools and that's to kick them the hell out of Washington for good.

If we want to see our country thrive again we must destroy the Republican culture of greed that has infected Washington, D.C. for so long.......... The only way to do that is to vote for Democrats.

BigAl Las Vegas....

You're absolutely right buddy!!!! We would be mistaken to think that this BS ends with Mitt loosing in November. American progress and Obama have been held hostage by the Republican Party in Congress and the Senate! Technically, Democrats have a majority in the Senate, but we need to give both the Congress and the Senate a thorough cleansing of GOP members. We need to get as many GOP members out of the way as possible!! A party of obstruction has nothing to offer the American people, and it's time we stopped letting these GOP moochers be dependent on the government for the benefits and an income that just waste tax payers' money.

VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET AND REMOVE THE GOP FROM EVERY OFFICE POSSIBLE!!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

NOW let's vote out all of Repugnican supporters in the Congress and Senate!!!!!

VOTE 2012 as if your country depended upon it, vote out Romney supporters TOO.

Now let's see the rats scurry about etch a sketching their own support of this 47% unadulterated rich weasel.

NC says-"VOTE 2012 as if your country depended upon it, vote out Romney supporters TOO."

You are right,our country does depend on it.This election will show if we want our country moving forward with the party of hope.Or backward with a Republican party of GREED.There is no other choice.A third party is not an option to vote for.This is the most important election of your lives.What kind of America to you want.Vote OBAMA/BIDEN Nov.6th,2012.

Loki....

I have a term for this. It's called a "Mutterance"

Definition of Mutterance: Making a doggedly defiant statement that completely contradicts a person's own position, while back-peddling to the sound of their own voice.

I coined this term in honor of the king of Mutterances: Willard "Myth" Romney

Carter's grandson found the youtube.com video under anne omynous!

Good job! for the exposure of the Romney monster.

!G-Dog-787120

Romney is our present day Scrooge!

Obama/Biden 2012

G-Dog:

Thurston was too genuine for Romney. Montgomery Burns has that true cynicism and complete insensitivity to most of the human species that so encapsulates the core of Romney. Romney just needs his Smithers to help him keep his foot out of his mouth.

The 100% line is so in keeping with Romney's aw shucks, I'm a great liar and a great guy attitude. Romney doesn't think about the 47% that he figures won't vote for him because at the end of the day, it's all about Mitt. He went to Bain for a rigged game. And now he wants to rig the game for the people that keep their money in the Cayman Islands. He has revealed himself as a horrible human being. And I'm glad Carter's grandson found that obscure video and gave it greater publication. Because in the grand scheme of humanity, Romney's face is not fit to wipe Carter's behind. Carter is a great soul. If there is a God, Carter's ticket is punched all the way through the pearly gates and Mitt has some explaining to do. And even the teabaggers know that is true. Carter is the type of guy that would go down into a nuclear plant on the verge of explosion and wade into contaminated water if he thought he could save some lives. And Rosalyn would be right there with him. Mitt and Montgomery Burns would be gassing up the helicopter and getting out of town - even if their plant created the mess.

LOL's, great posts

Quiet1 +(go!), for some reason when I think of Romney I think of Dickens. The headmaster in Oliver, or the ghost of Christmas future fit as well as Scrooge. (Maybe I should think Tale of Two Cities!)

Beyond, I agree about Monty being the closer match, heh. There is a God and we are all part of it (imo). Funny stuff, or twilight zone... it's always hard to tell which is the closer description.

Seeing so MANY posts tonight in favor of the President!!!! Way to go Democrats!!!

Obama/Biden 2012 - the Chair IS NOT empty!!!!

Romney and the entire rotten Republican Party represent everything that's wrong with America today.

American voters can cure the Republican disease infecting our country by simply voting for Democrats...... Democrats represent the people, Republicans represent fear, division, hate and greed.

let me do the math here now

47% + 10% of the independent votes + ahh plus tax break for the 1%ers yeah that equales to 100%

Im pretty sure thats right?

That's what Thomas Jefferson said before he was instrumental in creating the two party system.

Let Gary Johnson into the debates. Read about him and his policies. THERE IS ANOTHER CHOICE! WILL YOU MAKE THE BRAVE CHOICE? VOTE GARY JOHNSON 2012

I think I read somewhere that he was questioned once on a statement he made and he responded with a I dont remeber syaing that but if I did I agree with it. he does not remember much of what he says thats why he gets in so much trouble. My mother told me not to lie because she said you have to have such a good memory if you do. Mitt need s to pay attention to that.

THERE IS ANOTHER CHOICE! WILL YOU MAKE THE BRAVE CHOICE? VOTE GARY JOHNSON 2012

Many very capable people do not stand a chance because the STUPID laws of CITIZENS UNITED.

IF we really want to get intelligent, capable people into the parties, WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT LAW, AND ALLOW LIMITED MONEY TO DONATIONS. MORE INTELLECTUAL DEBATES SHOULD BE ALLOWED, AND THE WHOLE THING NEEDS TO STOP BEING A FREAK SHOW. We have had enough circus and LUNATICS for a while.

It leaves a BAD TASTE in the mouth!!!!

Thank God. Somebody that sees how things work. We are rare in this country. But in time I hope to see more and more. I will say it loud this time. UNTIL WE BREAK THE STRANGLE HOLD BOTH PARTIES HAVE ON THIS COUNTRY WE WILL KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER. AND IF THEY ARE KEPT IN OFFICE WE DESERVED WHAT WE GET. Now it is hard for people to even think beyond what they know. It is safe. But we have to change. Our founders are not just rolling in their graves. They are wondering why they bothered at all. We the people were given a great gift. And We the people have allowed it to be corrupted. Benjamin Franklin once said "Political Parties will destroy this country" And it appears Benjamin was correct they have almost done it.

I would bet my bottom dollar that Romney didn't pay taxes for most of the last ten years, that's why he won't show us his tax returns. He's not only a dog abuser but a tax evader too.

BTW does anybody out there know how I can open a secret bank account in the Cayman Islands or should I just ask the Romney campaign.

Do you really think ANYONE in the Red states that contain the highest number in Romney's 47% of freeloaders and non-taxpayers even realize they meant THEM??

I would personally be shocked if those same people would reply that Romney ONLY meant Democrats not THEM...........they worked for and deserved government payments.

excessive: And do you know that the elderly are one of the most wealthy demographic groups. Not all certainly, but many have done very well.

The left incessantly paints this picture that once you hit 65, you are automatically destitute, can't take care of yourself, have no money, are completely dependent on the government for your meager existence, and must choose between dog food or medicine.

Perhaps that is true for some. And for those for whom it is a reality, I have absolutely no problem taking care of them. But it is not true for most seniors.

Sure, SOME elderly are wealthy - at least 1%, but probably about 5% are sitting on a couple mil, massaged by their financial planners. (People in the $250k range, contrary to Mitt's erroneous claim -are about 5% of the population for income.) Some actually have pensions - they were old enough to qualify for something besides a 401k. Half of the 47% is elderly and working poor families with a couple kids for exemptions - at $50k, they'd have 4 exemptions - maybe a child care tax credit, maybe a real estate interest deduction. Other retirees are at risk - like that Rhode Island town in the news that went bust - and their pensions took a 55% hit to the downside.

One reason why the elderly are one of the most wealthy demographic groups is Social Security, in which most people have put in for their lifetime and expect to get free. Otherwise they are at the mercy of the whims of the stock markets, or their employee pensions. Just ask the people at Enron about whether they can trust private businesses to manage their pensions.

excessivelyperky,

You should do some fact checking yourself. Of the approximately 47% of Americans that pay no taxes, the elderly only make up around 10%. I dont agree that 47% of people are basically worthless and just live off the government but there is still imo a large percentage that are.

I cant post links but my info comes from taxpolicycenter dot org



Mitt Romney is a true man of the people......... as long as those people are filthy rich and are willing to cut a $50,000.00 check to his campaign.

Open - about 10% make LESS than $20k annually - many are elderly - and nope they sure don't qualify to pay Fed income tax - but they are paying some, at least consumption-based, taxes.

The elderly have already paid their dues to society and I of course have no problem with people actually getting help that need it. Its the rest of them that I have a problem with. As far as "consumption based taxes", everyone that spends money has to pay that, no getting around it unless your spending someone elses money. All percentages aside, there truely is a large number of people in this country that are completely reliant on the government and its "handout programs" and too lazy or worthless to get off their asses and get jobs. Alot of them cant keep a job even when they do get one because it interferes with their sleep, partying, and getting high.

The Republican Party of today is incapable of shame.

He really isn't. Take into account the process that got him the nomination; he was pushed aside by Herman Cain, by Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and even Michele Bachmann for a short period of time. Everyone knew Romney was the most moderate of the bunch, and even lambasted him for it leading into the primaries; take what we know of Romney from years past and compare it against a GOP that would rally behind a Santorum or a Bachmann and see if there's any reasonable expectation of that party leadership fronting a moderate candidate if he wasn't malleable to their demands.

Like with this story, his message is different from interview to interview. I don't even feel like he knows what he's saying anymore, the puppet can't adjust to the puppeteer and everything comes out as a mess of contradictions and half-truths. The real Romney being available would be better for everyone, even though I still wouldn't want him elected, and he isn't a bad person...he's just being made to dance to a drummer other than what he stands for so that he can get elected. It won't work, and McCain had the same problem 4 years ago; McCain is great, even if I disagree with him, but he wasn't himself when campaigning either once the wacko Palin message took the reins of his campaign.

TA Clark ...

...he's just being made to dance to a drummer other than what he stands for

Mitt let himself be bought by the highest Adelson, Koch and Murdoch. He!!s bells ... Adelson was the first official visit of Ryan! S A D!

No man is made to dance unless his choice is to dance.

Obama/Biden 2012

Sorry TA CLARK - Romney has no spine - Why does he want to be president - because his daddy couldn't

Because Lady Ann wants to live in the White House - hell she's already scoped the place for her horses

or just because - he is 65 and this is the golden ring

All of the above reasons are superficial and not good enough to lead this country

I remember a movie where Robert Redford won his election and said "What now?"

Now that Mitt Romney has reminded me what a social parasite I am, I think I'll start sending back my social security checks................. Even though I paid into the system for 50 years Mitt has convinced me that I should be eating cat food and scrounging through garbage cans for my next meal....... Perhaps my sacrifice will allow Mitt and the Republican Party to give bigger tax cuts to rich people.

Shut up and vote Romney or we are lost, end of story!

The chances for leaving Speaker Boehner with the legacy as presiding over the least productive House of Representatives in the entire history of the United States are improving.

We want them out! If you come to Washington to be an obstructionist, we want you out!

Realistically, no president will ship out 12 million low income Latinos. But he is correct, something has to stop the illegal and blatant disregard for our laws. What does it say for the character of a person, regardless of background, to enter this country and your first action is not coming here legally.

The other thing I don't get is Obama now makes several million a year now....he is the 1%. Realistically, if you call one 1%er the other guy is too.

I say put the resumes up and compare them....then decide who to vote for....be honest. One has more experience in every way regardless of his income.

Personally, I don't believe I should get anything for nothing...oh, its a nice thought, but not something I was taught, not something I ever want my kids to learn or do....work for what you get and if your not satisfied, go out and get what you need to earn it.

Sharing the wealth just perplexes me. It is like saying I will work 60 hours this week but only get paid for 40 because johnny is less fortunate....something is really wrong with that idea.

I wonder how many of the 47% live in RED states? I'm sure they don't mind being called "victims" that are incapable of being responcible for their own lives.

Of course in all RED states those 47% moochers have been fed a steady diet of hate and lies for so long some of them probably believe that their still fighting the civil war. Wake up RED state Americans the Republicans have been using lies and division to rip you off too.

Gorilla, those extra zeros are called glasses...something that is used to really read the balance sheet of America and the complete disregard in spending us into oblivion. Mitt can make sense of it all. He may not be the most personable but he has what it will take. Tell me how many lawyers are out to save you money? All or nearly all are more out to screw you out of money than to help you save money. Where is Obama's glasses...5 trillion in new debt.....any fool can see that, in obama's comments(2008), is just not patriotic.