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Subscribe to RSSCINCINNATI, OH -- Paul Ryan, an ardent Green Bay Packers fan, blasted NFL replacement referees for their questionable call last night that cost the Packers the game against the Seattle Seahawks.
“I got to start off on something that was really troubling that occurred last night," said the Wisconsin congressman and Republican vice-presidential nominee at the top of his town hall here. "Did you guys watch that Packer game last night? I mean, give me a break. It is time to get the real refs."
But he didn't stop there. Ryan actually tried to draw a line between the replacement refs and President Obama.
"And you know what, it reminds me of President Obama and the economy," he contended. "If you can’t get it right, it is time to get out. I half think these refs work part-time for the Obama administration in the Budget Office. They see the national debt clock staring them in the face. They see a debt crisis, and they just ignore and pretend it didn’t even happen. They are trying to pick the winners and losers, and they don’t even do that very well.”
*** UPDATE *** President Obama tweeted with the personal "BO" signature, meaning it came from him: "NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon. -bo"
The Obama campaign then also tweeted out that Obama already called for the real refs to come back on a radio show last week.
On WTAM-AM in Cleveland, Obama said, "But one thing I got to say, though, is it just me or do we have to get our regular refs back? ... I can't get involved with it, but I'm just expressing my point of view as a sports fan."
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This thread appears dominated by "occupy something types" so I will leave you with a new black rap:
Obama
Yo Momma!
U Nose
Dis Brotha
GOTS TO GO!!!!
=dats rite:)
Bring back the union refs.
Disaster happens when billionaires lockout the certified professionals.
Ryan's strained analogy illustrates how desperate he and Romney are getting. Squeal little piggies, squeal! It'll all be over soon.
LY'IN RYAN why don't you GIVE OUT VOUCHERS. Since you GOP TEA MORONS are so FANATICAL about FOOTBALL and VOUCHERS?
Blaming the NFL referees on Obama!!!
Newsflash!!: Today the sun rose in the East approximately 2 seconds later than it did yesterday. The Romney/Ryan campaign quickly blamed Obama for this saying "Clearly, his extremely left-weighted views caused a small tilt in the axis of the earth causing this calamity of mega-proportions."
Hot Daddy...Yea, lets put in out of touch, draft dodging, tax evading, Job killing, resume building, billionaire in there that is only interested in the title and giving his rich friends bigger tax breaks..That makes perfect sense-NOT
How fast did you run that marathon? When you or Romney get one thing right let us know.
This is actually not a game! Or is it?
As a challenger, these guys SUPPOSE to tell electorates what they want to do for the country and her more than 300 million people if they are elected. They haven't. Or oh I think they have!
Cut taxes for only the rich 1st and now cut taxes for all and balance the budget with hmm.. Nothing, repeal Affordable Healthcare, and for the poor and inbetweeners in the US of A ( NOT the poor in Quagadougou) who need relief on ill health, to wait until near grave and then call an ambulance. Ah yes.. write off 47% or roughly 141 million American people. You don't want to go back to argue about validity of health insurance on a death bed!
It is clear that there is no vision grandeur forthcoming. Any Party or group of people who planned from Day 1 to make an elected President of the most important Country in the World fail within the same country, and have carried that plan out to the letter have a LOT LESS INTEREST in making the Country great. Failure of a President impact people's progress. And they can not say that they didn't understand that unless they are all like Akin whose knowledge of women body in cases of RAPE surpass the most brilliantly educated woman in the universe..
Well the World cant wait for November 6th. Current President has turned things around for better even according to a Republican on Politico web site. Benefits of these turnaround will be VERY visible soon and most will start to feel the difference.
Bush waged wrong and right war and lost interest in finding the master terrorist. Americans gave him 2 terms. Right now, a friend of mine who used to call himself a Canadian in public during Bush era is now back to calling himself an American again. Obama deserves 2 terms too and this is without bias.
After November 6th Paul Ryan and Todd Aiken can get together and commiserate about the ref's strike and "legitimate rape".
Losers the both of them and their cronies.
Anyone from Congress offering advice on how to improve something should be dismissed as a joke.
Paul's just pissed off, because the Seahawks from Liberal Seattle won! LOL
But he's right, the ref's do suck!
ryan is such a douchebag
Sooooo Skippy the Liar thinks UNION refs are better....? How could that be!!! And somehow there's an analogy... "a line" .... from a bad call in a football game to President Obama...? If Skippy the Liar can't actually come up with something he can lie about, he drops into fairytale mode... lala-land! NOT ready for primetime presidency! Lord help us if Mitt Many-Faces Money-Man and Skippy the Liar end up in the White House!
Ryan HYPOCRITE!! Stood by Walker when he was busting unions but when something bad affects his little amusement for the night then he supports a union. Typical hypocrite. I want what I want, when I want it. Just another reminder for everyone. Usually you get what you pay for. High school officials vs paid professionals. Unions are good when it affects my football viewing, otherwise they can all pound sand!
Dear folks:
Have to agree with Paul Ryan... Yesterday's last "idiotic" fall, reminded me all the calls President Obama makes about the Economy, Unemployment, Foreign relations, the National Debt, etc. He is 24/7 "denial" of what is happening before him!
Can't wait for the Presidential Debates! i.e. no Teleprompters allowed!!!
Although a NE Patriots' Fan, consider that Commisioner Goodell, his NFL Staff, the referees who "spinned" the interteption into a "phanton touchdown", must all be kicked out, letting other Professionals run the NFL...
isnt that the crux of the libertarian argument- its all about MEEEEEE
All this is comming from a person who is a member of the lowest rated congress that has ever been recorded... ya right...
I too am from Wisconsin and the NFL has totally lost any credibility they had left. Paul Ryan never had any. I am not a liberal, I am a middle aged white guy that does pay a lot in taxes and Paul Ryan is and has always been a yapping little puppy dog, he even has those big ears. He is insignificant and soon he will go back to being the rep. from Janesville, pissant little town that lost their GM plant. He is a punk, the kid that got his head put in the toilet bowel, like I said insignificant but Roger Goodell is not and he should be first tarred and feathered and then drawn and quartered. The tool of the owners and you can see they never ever will put the fans first, just like Romney will always put the "owner" his friends first.
I really like the NFL, always have, but it's still just football. Sports shouldn't garner even a second of our legislators time or comments. From an economic perspective sure, but refs and doping etc. is a waste of our taxpayer money. Congressional hearings for baseball? Stupid.
The call that cost the packers the game was reviewed by the upstairs. I mean, is he saying the entire league suc ks. He says he wants smaller government but now is a union supporter that says give them whatever they want to have harmony. This guy is a piece of work. Romney, do you know what nfl football is? I doubt it.
Paul Ryan = the species: Douchas Bagas.
Make up your mind, Paul. They can either settle with the refs or bust their union. Pick one.
This story reinforces the idea, that politics in America is self-serving, and has little to do with the aspirations & hopes of the people!!
Desperate, grasping at straws Ryan compares the mess with the replacement refs to Obama. Packer fans send Ryan packing. Maybe you can offer him a job as a cheezy has been b'gosh in Oshgosh.
So Paul is learning from sociopath Mitt that it is okay to say or do anything as long as it gets you what you want.
The players make the NFL. No one cares about the owners. Without the players, no one would care about the team and the revenue decreases. Owner loses or sells team. The players deserve better. The owners are just greedy slavemasters that have sociopathic traits and think it is "their" team. Yeah, they bought it. But without fans the owner will not want to keep the team long. Screw the NFL's 1%. The best way to get even is to boycott the games.
The huge elephant in the room which no Republicans will talk about, and no reporters follow up on, why do all Republicans have to sign pledges to Grover Norquist to NEVER raise tax's not matter what? Just that FACT should disqualify all Republicans from running for office.
Ryan your voting record speaks for it self, the Ryan plan speaks for itself. The Catholic Church doesn't agree with your policies. Your Ann Rand philosophies are catching up to you.
Yeah, I don't remember ever saying "The Pledge of Grover Norquist" in elementary school. Until he disappears from sight, I can't understand why anyone (including the average GOP'er) would vote republican. Talk about needing tarred and feathered!