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usamamasan1

"I'm for Mitt Romney,"
George W Bush

keeponrockin

usamamasan1 wrote:

"I'm for Mitt Romney,"
George W Bush

Because that's a great endorsement...

usamamasan1

Alarm Grows Among Dems About Obama’s Chances


It has taken months of bad news, but Democrats increasingly believe that President Obama might just lose his re-election bid.

The latest wake-up call comes in the form of a New York Times/CBS poll showing Republican Mitt Romney in the lead not just among registered voters overall, but with women and independents.


You need money to win Ohio, but it may not be worth the price of all this gay pride to get it. As the Times poll showed, a huge majority believe Obama’s rhetorical reversion was about politics, not a personal moral journey.-


The Times/CBS survey is unique in that the pollsters called back the same phone numbers they had a month before. In April, Obama and Romney were dead even. Now, Romney leads by 3 points overall. That’s still within the margin of error -- a statistical tie.

But the shifts with women, moderates and independents are all statistically significant. Obama lost 5 points with each of those demographics.
Team Obama has for months been warning Democrats not to be overconfident and warning of a close election, with the president increasingly sounding the alarm for donors and activists in recent campaign appearances.

Since the general election season kicked off in earnest in the last week of March, Obama has had an almost unbroken string of losing weeks, starting with his overheard conversation with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

There was the back-and-forth with the Supreme Court over his health law, the attack by one of Obama’s advisers on Ann Romney, the GSA Vegas scandal, the hookers in Cartagena and then the baffling case of the gay marriage half-reversion.

Some of the problems were just bad luck (hookers), some were just blunders (hot mic) but much of the rest has been about Obama trying to galvanize his base coalition and secure the massive donations he needs to finance the most expensive campaign in history.

His trip to New York on Monday was the best example yet. Obama delivered a groaner of a speech at Barnard College in which he did everything but shout “girl power” at the end.

And then in an appearance on a left-leaning ladies chat show, ABC’s “The View,” Obama rhapsodized about his partial reversion to previous support for gay marriage in advance of attending a fundraiser with his party’s fundraising shop for “gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender” Democrats that featured Ricky Martin, he of Menudo, bikini briefs and “She Bangs.”



You need money to win Ohio, but it may not be worth the price of all this gay pride to get it. As the Times poll showed, a huge majority believe Obama’s rhetorical reversion was about politics, not a personal moral journey. Even those who are fine with gay marriage, may find it unseemly to see Obama waving the rainbow flag so vigorously in pursuit of cash

While Obama was in New York, he also stopped by to scoop up some money from Wall Streeters, including some private equity folks -- an industry his campaign was simultaneously describing as parasites and vampires.

If you wonder why Obama felt the need to single out JP Morgan Chase and its CEO for praise despite a $2 billion shellacking the firm took on its own investments, fundraisers like these are a big part of the answer.

All of this pandering may be necessary to keep Obama’s campaign dreadnaught moving ahead, but it comes at a cost, especially when so much of it is contradictory or confusing.
Obama believes marriage is a human right regardless of the gender of one’s preferred spouse, but thinks states out to be able to suppress that human right. Okay.

Obama thinks Romney is a vampire, but is happy to take the money of his rival’s fellow bloodsuckers? Gotcha.

David Brooks, a New York Times columnist who is quite taken with Obama, writes in today’s paper that while Americans think Obama is doing a bad job on the economy and that the country is off track, Obama stands a good chance of being re-elected because of his demeanor: an “ESPN” brand of post-modern machismo cool.

When Obama supporters like Brooks make argument like these, they are engaged in willful self-deception.

There has been nothing very cool about the past 7 weeks for Obama. The president has twisted himself into a policy and rhetorical pretzel to win the support and money he needs from the members of the Democratic coalition.

The Times poll tells the tale: Obama’s nuzzling of the base, beseeching of donors and policy contortions have given Romney the chance to start winning over the narrow band of undecided persuadable voters.

If Democrats don’t want to see Obama defeated, they had better suck it up. Obama is not the superman they believe him to be, nor is his campaign the masterwork they have been led to believe.

The president knows how tight a spot he is in. His supporters are just now realizing it.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05 ... s-chances/

Believe in America!
WOOT!

Newch91

usamamasan1 wrote:

"I'm for Mitt Romney,"
George W Bush

That's sure going to fire up voters to vote for Romney. :roll:

usamamasan1

FIRE ON THE PRAiRIE


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a speech in Iowa scheduled for later today, will take aim at President Obama's economic stimulus, calling it a "fire on the prairie."

"President Obama started his days in office with the trillion-dollar stimulus package - the biggest, most careless onetime expenditure by the federal government in history," according to excerpts from Romney's prepared remarks. "And remember this: The stimulus wasn't just wasted - it was borrowed and wasted. We still owe the money, we're still paying interest on it, and it'll be that way long after this presidency ends in January."

In the speech, Romney says that the federal debt is "not a Democratic or Republican problem," although he places the blame for it squarely on Obama, signaling that the stimulus will be a central theme of his campaign going forward.

"We can't spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make worse every day," Romney is quoted as saying. "When the men and women who settled the Iowa prairie saw a fire in the distance, they didn't look around for someone else to save them or go back to sleep hoping the wind might blow another direction. They knew their fate was in their hands. And so it is today. A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation, and every day we fail to act, we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve."

Believe in America.

Woot!

BinauralJam

usamamasan1 wrote:

"I'm for Mitt Romney,"
George W Bush

peacefrompaul

Newch91

:fp:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/0 ... h-prairie/

Romney To Decry ‘Prairie Fire Of Debt’ While Ignoring That His Plan Makes It Worse

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will return to Iowa today for the first time since the state’s January caucuses, where he will highlight the national debt and target President Obama for “add[ing] more than $5 trillion to it” — ignoring that the majority of the added debt since Obama took office is the result of Bush-era policies.

According to excerpts of his speech, Romney will lay out America’s responsibility to address the “prairie fire of debt” that “threatens what it means to be an American”:

Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. Here in the heartland you know in your hearts that it’s wrong. We can’t spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make worse every day. [...]

A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve. This is not a Democratic or Republican problem. That fire could care less if you have a donkey or an elephant in your front lawn, it’s still coming for your house. There’s plenty of blame to go around for both parties. But in my years leading businesses, an Olympics and a state, I’ve learned one simple principle of leadership that never falters: Leaders lead. I will lead us out of this debt and spending crisis.

There’s one major problem with Romney’s rhetoric: his economic plan makes the debt worse. Romney’s tax plan gives a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut to all Americans and repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax, costing $10.7 trillion over the next decade and reducing federal revenues to just 15 percent of GDP, according to Center for American Progress Director of Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden. Romney hasn’t offered a plan to pay for those cuts, instead simply asserting that he will balance the budget.

But balancing the budget under those terms would be next to impossible. Even if Romney limits tax deductions for the richest Americans as he says he would, he would need 6.5 percent economic growth for the next five years to keep his plan from adding to the deficit. To put that in perspective, the best five-year period of growth since World War II was from 1961 to 1966, when the economy grew at 5.8 percent per year.

Cliffy6745

Newch91 wrote:

:fp:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/0 ... h-prairie/

Romney To Decry ‘Prairie Fire Of Debt’ While Ignoring That His Plan Makes It Worse

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will return to Iowa today for the first time since the state’s January caucuses, where he will highlight the national debt and target President Obama for “add[ing] more than $5 trillion to it” — ignoring that the majority of the added debt since Obama took office is the result of Bush-era policies.

According to excerpts of his speech, Romney will lay out America’s responsibility to address the “prairie fire of debt” that “threatens what it means to be an American”:

Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. Here in the heartland you know in your hearts that it’s wrong. We can’t spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make worse every day. [...]

A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve. This is not a Democratic or Republican problem. That fire could care less if you have a donkey or an elephant in your front lawn, it’s still coming for your house. There’s plenty of blame to go around for both parties. But in my years leading businesses, an Olympics and a state, I’ve learned one simple principle of leadership that never falters: Leaders lead. I will lead us out of this debt and spending crisis.

There’s one major problem with Romney’s rhetoric: his economic plan makes the debt worse. Romney’s tax plan gives a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut to all Americans and repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax, costing $10.7 trillion over the next decade and reducing federal revenues to just 15 percent of GDP, according to Center for American Progress Director of Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden. Romney hasn’t offered a plan to pay for those cuts, instead simply asserting that he will balance the budget.

But balancing the budget under those terms would be next to impossible. Even if Romney limits tax deductions for the richest Americans as he says he would, he would need 6.5 percent economic growth for the next five years to keep his plan from adding to the deficit. To put that in perspective, the best five-year period of growth since World War II was from 1961 to 1966, when the economy grew at 5.8 percent per year.

Woot

gimmesometruth27

peacefrompaul wrote:

but

but

but....


i thought the wars were obama's fault??

he started them from what my short term memory recalls...

whygohome

usamamasan1 wrote:

"I'm for Mitt Romney,"
George W Bush

gimmesometruth27

of course bush is for romney. he is going to not only continue bush's policies, but expand them. why would bush oppose this?

this endorsement is a no-brainer. literally...

josevolution

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

peacefrompaul wrote:

but

but

but....


i thought the wars were obama's fault??

he started them from what my short term memory recalls...

Everything Bush started is Obama's fault i mean everything and Rommney is the one responsible for the bailout of car manufacturers ...

usamamasan1

He described the Obama presidency as a "disappointment, at best."

"This is a tough time," Romney said. "This is not as it was promised to be."


Obama as a candidate "was very critical of his predecessor, because the predecessor put together $4 trillion of debt over eight years," Romney said in a speech in St. Petersburg, where he began a two-day campaign and fundraising swing through Florida, a hotly contested state. "He said that doing that was unpatriotic -- irresponsible and unpatriotic -- and he said he would cut the debt in half if he became president. Instead he doubled it."



"Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over," he said. "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship."

Romney added: "Maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons."

Newch91

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/0 ... achusetts/

Under Romney, Massachusetts Had Highest Per Capita Debt Of Any State

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a speech in Iowa yesterday to blame President Obama for a “prairie fire of debt” that is supposedly spreading across the nation. Romney continued the assault today, giving a speech in Florida in front of a giant clock featuring a running total of the nation’s debt.

As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, Romney’s attack ignores that his own economic plan would add more than $10 trillion to the national debt. It also ignores Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts, which had the nation’s highest per capita debt total when he left office in 2007.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (compiled by Connecticut’s chief analyst in 2009), Massachusetts had $10,504 in per capita bond debt in 2007, the highest total in the nation. No other state had more than $10,000 in per capita debt, and only one had more than $8,000. Massachusetts ranked second, behind only Alaska, in per capita debt as a percent of personal income, with debt making up more than 21 percent of each resident’s income.

State bond debt isn’t altogether a bad thing — it finances infrastructure projects and other programs that benefit state residents. But Romney’s accumulation of it while governor is an element of his Massachusetts story that he regularly omits.

Romney has painted the national debt as a moral crisis that “threatens what it means to be an American.” And yet, Romney’s past and his plans for the future prove that he isn’t actually willing to address it.

Newch91

What are you scared of Mitt?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/201 ... 23627.html

Romney camp 'physically' restricts reporters

Tweets from the campaign trail:

Jim Acosta (CNN) @jimacostacnn: Romney campaign and Secret Service attempted to keep press off ropeline so no q's to candidate on Bain

Kasie Hunt (AP) @kasie: Campaign staff and volunteers trying to physically prevent reporters from approaching the rope line to ask questions of Romney.

Sara Murray (WSJ) @SaraMurray: Press lead on the #Romney bus announces there will be no questions for the candidate today. "Isn't that our decision?" a reporter asks.

Ginger Gibson (Politico) ‏@GingerGibson: Campaign staffer trying to block reporters from getting to rope line to tell questions. She's generally being ignored.

Michael Barbaro (NYT) @mikiebarb: Romney campaign aide trying to block reporters from rope line now. Reporters refuse to leave.

The Romney campaign did not return a request for comment or explanation (obviously).

UPDATE: Romney campaign press secretary Andrea Saul emails early Wednesday afternoon:

This was an error on the part of the campaign staff and volunteers. We have reminded them that press is allowed on the rope line to record the governor’s interactions with voters.

Byrnzie

usamamasan1 wrote:

Obama as a candidate "was very critical of his predecessor, because the predecessor put together $4 trillion of debt over eight years," Romney said in a speech in St. Petersburg, where he began a two-day campaign and fundraising swing through Florida, a hotly contested state. "He said that doing that was unpatriotic -- irresponsible and unpatriotic -- and he said he would cut the debt in half if he became president. Instead he doubled it."

Name one attempt by Obama to right the economy that wasn't hijacked and blocked by the Republicans.

usamamasan1

The loan program run by the DOE, known as section 1705, for example.

Big picture, how about Obama being the all-time leader in adding to the outstanding Treasury debt? Obama is the clear winner at adding to the U.S. taxpayer obligations. He has found his place in history.

peacefrompaul

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

peacefrompaul wrote:

but

but

but....


i thought the wars were obama's fault??

he started them from what my short term memory recalls...

It's his fault for continuing them and making them more discreet with the use of Drones. They are certainly Bush's fault for starting them.

Newch91

usamamasan1 wrote:

The loan program run by the DOE, known as section 1705, for example.

Big picture, how about Obama being the all-time leader in adding to the outstanding Treasury debt? Obama is the clear winner at adding to the U.S. taxpayer obligations. He has found his place in history.

Yeah, because the $800 billion dollar tax cuts for million-and-billionairs and the 2 wars that cost hundreds of billions of dollars are Obama's fault. :roll: