Truth will make you FREE! Romney's true attitude?!
TRUTH will make you FREE - Romney's true attitude?!
YESTERDAY – 225th anniversary of the signing of our US CONSTITUTION which opens identifying WHO is empowering the CONSTITUTION. This declaration asserts that POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY would be the SOURCE of political power for the US CONSTITUTION once ratified. What a SHOCK to learn that the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY had asserted that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent on government” and that they think “they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it." He added that his job “is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” What do YOU think?
Before readers comment, be sure to note that Romney hastily called a news conference last night to try to diffuse the controversy. He acknowledged having made the remarks and stood by them, although he conceded that they were “not elegantly stated” and that he had been “speaking off the cuff in response to a question.”
Did YOU read that carefully? ROMNEY acknowledged that he made the remarks and re-asserted that they articulated THE TRUTH. Romney did concede that they were “not elegantly stated” as he was “speaking off the cuff in response to a question.”
TRUTH BE TOLD - NOW we have the candid articulation of MITT ROMNEY’s real attitude toward WE THE PEOPLE of the US! What do YOU think?
NOW we know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will make us free!
I urge you to read the whole article by Philip Rucker, Dan Eggen, Rachel Winer and Feliciz Sonmez published by the Washington Post, “Leaked videos show Romney dismissing Obama supporters as feeling entitled to handouts.”
If you access the article using the link above, YOU will be able to view the Romney video online. See it for yourself! Remember: MITT ROMNEY affirmed that he did make the remarks!
It is VERY interesting to note that in that article, the journalists noted that Romney said his comments underscored the contrast between the two candidates’ divergent visions for the nation.
They quote Romney, “This is ultimately a question about direction for the country: Do you believe in a government-centered society that provides more and more benefits or do you believe instead in a free-enterprise society where people are able to pursue their dreams?”
They note that Romney added that his is a “free-people, free-enterprise, free-market, consumer-driven approach.”
And then the contradictory report asserting that Romney, trying to provide some context for the comments he made in the video, told reporters Monday night that he was talking to donors about campaign strategy, not his vision for the country. Which is it?! What do YOU think?
I read with more and more interest Romney’s clarification as to his statement, “It’s not elegantly stated. . . . I’m speaking off the cuff in response to a question.” Romney said that “people who are parting with their monies are very interested in knowing can you win or not and that’s what this was addressing.”
Romney continued, “Of course individuals are going to take responsibility for their lives. My campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again, particularly those who don’t have work. This whole campaign is based on getting people jobs again, putting people back to work.”
I agree with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina’s statement, “It’s shocking that a candidate for president of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as ‘victims,’ entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take ‘personal responsibility’ for their lives. It’s hard to serve as president for all Americans when you’ve disdainfully written off half the nation.” What do YOU think?
Complementing the Washington Post article is the New York Times' "The Caucus - the politics and government blog of The Times" post by Michael D. Shear and Michael Barbaro, "Romney Calls 47% of Voters Dependent in Leaked Video." You may want to read this report too.
This whole situation makes the upcoming – Wednesday, October 3, 2012 – first presidential debate the more significant.
I agree with Dan Balz’s OpEd column published in the Washington Post, “Mitt Romney’s real test: First presidential debate.”
I hope you will read Dan Balz’s column and then comment. What do YOU think?
I KNOW I am going to be watching for first presidential debate at the UW-Waukesha PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCH w/DISCUSSION. Sponsored by our Political Science Department with Chair, Dr. Margaret Hankenson as moderator, the whole Waukesha community is invited to participate. Having participated in the on campus debate watches w/discussion during the 2008 presidential campaign, I am confident that there will be a healthy civil discussion of the debate between President Obama and Governor Romney.
Balz asserts, “The real test is how he responds. The history of campaigning suggests that, at such moments, much more depends on the candidate’s performance than that of his team. It is a leadership test in real time. What he says and does on the trail in the coming days and, far more important, how he conducts himself in the first presidential debate should answer that question.”
In his analysis, Balz notes, “Romney advisers note that the Gallup tracking poll that showed the president with a six-point lead last week now shows the rivals separated by three points. That’s better than things looked a week ago, but Obama’s three-point margin is still significant, given how stable the race was for so many months. And the president’s approval rating in the Gallup track has held at 50 percent since the Democratic convention.
“That’s why so much depends on Romney. In the estimation of allies and opponents, Romney still hasn’t found his voice as a candidate or a message compelling enough to win over persuadable voters. To these strategists, he hasn’t risen to the challenge of defining his presidency. In Devine’s words, Romney needs real substance, not ‘fluffy substance,’ in his message.”
Balz concludes, “Past candidates have used debates to change the race, even if temporarily. Amid doubts and criticism, can Romney do the same?” What do YOU think?
COUNTDOWN TO US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012 as of right now as I put this post online is: 48 days – 14 hours – 33 minutes – 22 seconds.
If you want to check the EXACT days – hours – minutes – seconds when you are reading this blog, check out, “Elections Countdown for Days till 2012 Presidential Election” on the mycountdown website. Take a look!
Here we go…
Mr. E.
John Eyster lives in the Edgerton area. He is an adjunct professor of political science at UW-Waukesha and an advocate for democracy/civics education in Wisconsin high schools. John is a community blogger and is not a part of The Gazette staff. His opinion is not necessarily that of the The Gazette staff or management.
Sep 21, 2012 at 2:38 a.m.
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neocon:
You are dead on in what no one bothers to talk about in QE3. Of course I have been saying since the beginning of the year that there would be QE3 and then later 4-5-6-7-8-9......Anyone who looks aside the partisan bickering can see the obvious, in that the ENTIRE ECONOMY is being supported by monetary creation. It is the reason you have record corporate profits every quarter, a sky rocketing stock market, all despite ZERO economic or job growth. It is nothing more then a total sham. A complete mirage designed to keep the Greensapn 'wealth effect' theory going strong. The QE will NEVER stop. Free $$$, Zero interest rates which the fed can create at will (not markets)will NEVER rise (it will be an overnight 1929 on the markets if they did). The easy-free $$ liquidity will continue on until you have a total economic implosion. It matters NOTHING on who is in office. Both sides love Bernancki, the fed, and a bogusly rising markets. Even if one came in office and made cuts, you still have no shot at EVER balancing the budget; as 40 cents of every $ is now spent on deficit. Imagine the riots if you cut say 3% of any government program or pay. All that deficit will simply be retired by fed monetary creation. History has shown TIME AND TIME AGAIN that the economic demise of all past civilizations is always proceeded by the final desperate step, in mass currency creation. The TRUE matter of fact is the debt will NEVER as in EVER go down, and all it's growth will simply be retired by more and more fed monetary creation. It will work for a while, but eventually you will have a complete financial-currency COLLAPSE, as you always do when you take the absolute last resort hail Mary shot, in monetary creation.
Sep 20, 2012 at 7:02 a.m.
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Neocon...love your post!
Sep 19, 2012 at 3:36 p.m.
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*RAF, if you think the debt is bad now, just wait. If Mittens is elected an expensive war with Iran is almost a certainty*
A war with Iran would be infinitely cheaper now than after they have atomic weaponry. Also infinitely cheaper than cradle-to-grave socialism. Pick your poison.
Sep 19, 2012 at 3:36 p.m.
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*RAF, if you think the debt is bad now, just wait. If Mittens is elected an expensive war with Iran is almost a certainty*
A war with Iran would be infinitely cheaper now than after they have atomic weaponry. Also infinitely cheaper than cradle-to-grave socialism. Pick your poison.
Sep 19, 2012 at 2:10 p.m.
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RAF, if you think the debt is bad now, just wait. If Mittens is elected an expensive war with Iran is almost a certainty.
Sep 19, 2012 at 10:04 a.m.
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How about the truth setting you free John...23 billion in newly printed money. The Fed has the green light to print more after this batch of "Quantitative Easing" which only weakens our dollar and only increases inflation, and we wonder why we are paying more at the pump. 16 Trillion in Debt and no end in sight, but hey..who cares the bill isn't going to be paid by you is it John? (it only equates to each and every citizen of the US, regardless of age owing $16,000...so far)The Fed now owns a greater percentage of our debt than ever before..keep borrowing and printing money to pay debt to create more debt.
Invite the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House and snub our ally Israel.
Half of the households in America on the Federal dime for something, half of America not paying any income tax. Millions on Social Security Disability that EVER before..forget the recent investigation by the SS administration itself that it found a sampling in just 3 states, 30 percent of the SS disability claims were fradulent and the benefits shouldn't have been paid. The SS administration KNEW of this and did NOTHING!
The US was #1 in competiveness in the world when Obama took office, now #7...credit downgrade, unemployment up, doesn't include the increase in those that stopped looking for work...
Health care that was rammed through at the 11th hour that nobody wants, nobody read and nobody understands...war on the coal industry in which 8 plants will close this month shedding close to 1 million jobs, no keystone pipeline which would further help our energy independence..limit exploration but take credit for increased productivity that the previous administration ok'd and started. "you didn't build it, the govt did" "Workers of the world Unite!" George Soros: "a weak US Dollar is good for the world economy and is necessary with China driving the economic engine" say what George?
"God Da#$n America" oh wait, he wasn't at church the day they taught "religion"
Embassy's attacked across the world, American staff killed and attacked and the White House can't get it's story straight...time to cut the Military...
But Hey!!! did you see Obama ROCK Letterman and JZ's party last night????
Romney was spot on, the truth is John to you and those of the Progressive Left, the truth hurts and to deny that this contry is on the edge of financial and a social cliff and fall into a black hole the likes of which the world has not seen...well, you are living in denial!
I guess I will just "cling to my bibles and guns" because things are so tough..truth hurt yet?
Sep 19, 2012 at 9:58 a.m.
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FUTP said, "Poobah must really be looking forward to that redistribution of wealth..."
No, Mitt's promise to increase wealth redistribution won't affect me, FUTP. I'm not a defense contractor benefiting from one of the greatest wealth redistribution scams ever devised -- U.S. military spending of over $700 billion per year.
Sep 19, 2012 at 9:40 a.m.
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Once again eyester wouldn't know the truth if it slapped him in his face!
Sep 19, 2012 at 8:49 a.m.
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futp it happened in CA didn't it?
Sep 19, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.
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The TRUTH is that part of the video is missing.
Critical audio gap in “complete” Romney tape released by Mother Jones (Update – Corn responds, 1-2 minutes missing)
"According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/cri...
Sep 19, 2012 at 2:08 a.m.
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John I need your help again. I was looking for your comments on the US credit rating downgrading, for the either the first or second time in our nation’s history, I couldn't find them. While looking for those I also couldn't find your comments on the US debt level eclipsing the size of our GDP, the record 4th straight year with a deficit over 1 trillion dollars, and this despite the fact our nation has not had a budget for over three years. Thanks again for your help.
Sep 19, 2012 at 1:55 a.m.
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John, I found more "truth" for your story on Romney, while skipping all stories on Obama. Turns out President Jimmy Carter's unemployed grandson, James, helped dig up the video while hoping to get himself a job.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:52 a.m.
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John need your help again. I was looking for your comments made by then Sen Obama, on the campaign trail, declaring under his plan "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" and "that it will bankrupt them" (talking about utility companies). I looked and looked but couldn't find your remarks on these comments either, thanks.
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:26 a.m.
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"The campaign hastily convened a late-night press conference to address his controversial statements, and Romney stood by his "off the cuff" comments, while conceding that they were "not elegantly stated." He claimed his comments where merely a "snippet" and not the "full response." That was not true; his comments were shown in full. He added, "I hope the person who has the video would put out the full material."" [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012... ]
Well, Mitt has gotten what he asked for. The full tapes from the fundraiser have been released by Mother Jones.
Here they are: [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012... ]
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:22 a.m.
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John I need your help. I have been looking for your comments about, then Sen Obama, on the campaign trail talking about "bitter clingers". I have been unable to find them, could you point them out for me please. Thanks.
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:27 p.m.
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billnewbie said, "You know, the old Marxist rallying cry, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"."
As opposed to Romney's capitalist creed, "From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed."
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:31 p.m.
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How typical of you John. You fake being upset over the truth said by a person you have no plan voting for anyway. Perhaps you failed to realize under the person you voted for the numbers stated by the person you have no plan voting for are correct. If you were really interested in his comments you would want to see the whole video, not the little pieces cut to stoke the left fringe.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:27 p.m.
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NVgrf thanks for the laugh considering the goose stepping you do for the democratic party and public unions to hear the words blind and brainwashed come from you is hilarious. Congrats on supporting failure, don't worry the rest of us will keep paying for it.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:50 p.m.
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I noticed today that someone was rummaging around some archives and dug up an old recording of President Obama, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3aGJfDS... ) before he became President, stating that he believes in income redistribution. You know, the old Marxist rallying cry, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". I'm sure his supporters will find ways to justify our President holding Marxist principles so dearly. Or else they'll just attack Romney for recognizing that so many have a financial interest in income redistribution, or that Ryan's a liar, or that Romney's a.... well, you get the idea.
When your candidate of choice can't defend his record, smearing the opponent with deliberate misrepresentations of what they say is all you can do.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:17 p.m.
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"Gotta love the blinded, brainwashed lower middle class folks here who attempt to justify this guy's beliefs. They will vote against their own self interests. Stick a fork in Mitt, righties. He's all done!"
This coming straight from the guy who claimed Medicare was an example of an efficient and well run government program......yeah--efficient and well run if one isn't taking into consideration the $500 billion in waste and fraud which plagues the program! So let's roll from that mess straight into obama's HCR, which is projected to cost us "only" another $2 trillion that we don't have.......and this guy is claiming the right votes against their self interests?? Too funny:)
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:22 p.m.
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Gotta love the blinded, brainwashed lower middle class folks here who attempt to justify this guy's beliefs. They will vote against their own self interests. Stick a fork in Mitt, righties. He's all done!
Sep 18, 2012 at 5:48 p.m.
Sep 18, 2012 at 5:47 p.m.
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One of the candidates has disdain for the Constitution.
Sep 18, 2012 at 4:52 p.m.
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So one of the candidates for President of this country has quite a bit of disdain for around half of the citizens of the country. I don't think that a person who has this negativity would be a good president, not at all.
Sep 18, 2012 at 4:51 p.m.
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Essentially, what Romney seems to be saying is that most people vote to protect their own selfish interests. Dependence on Government payments is at an all-time high. If I've heard it said once, I've heard it a thousand times, "people vote their pocket books". Of course, that isn't 100% true any more than it's 100% true that the rich support Republicans. However, it is true that a great many people "vote their pocketbooks". That's true whether one relies on government handouts or on the sweat of one's own brow.
It is also true, though certainly not 100% for everybody, that many folks think they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to cell phones, to big screen TVs, even to intoxicants and cigarettes as well as a host of other "necessities" of modern life. The Democrats have mined those attitudes for votes rather well of late. Romney has effectively pointed out that strategy. I'm not surprised that the Democrats, and John Eyster, cry foul. Even though the Democrats don't mind creating dependence in exchange for votes, they don't really want to admit it. Even they know it's not something to be proud of.
Sep 18, 2012 at 2:33 p.m.
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thatwaseasy: I ughhhh...actually agree with you. Wow:)
Sep 18, 2012 at 2:21 p.m.
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I love all this phony outrage by the mainstream media and their water carriers like Eyesore. These are the same people who happily denigrate Christians, heterosexuals, anyone living west of Manhattan, pro-lifers, hunters, homeschoolers, on and on and on.
There is a leech class in this country and everyone knows it. The government is going broke providing cradle-to-grave unessential services to citizens when all it owes them is a secure border and a common defense.
Sep 18, 2012 at 1:23 p.m.
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I THINK..IN ALL FAIRNESS...That a HIDDEN CAMERA be placed in Obamas private quarters.
Sep 18, 2012 at 12:16 p.m.
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Anything for you, dear.
Sep 18, 2012 at 12:04 p.m.
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poobah thanks for once again making my point.
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:56 a.m.
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"More than one-fifth of Romney's moocher 47% are elderly: people who pay no income taxes because their income takes the form of Social Security - many of those people are Republican voters (even if they don't understand "dependency" to apply to them).
Only about one-fifth of taxpayers are non-elderly people who pay no tax at all, and they are paying no tax mostly because they are unemployed in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, a crisis that candidate Romney blames on the president and promises to correct. It seems a hard saying to call these promised beneficiaries of a Romney recovery people who don't take responsibility for their lives." [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20... ]
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:54 a.m.
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Sigma40, my thoughts exactly. Well said.
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:10 a.m.
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tthompson
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:10 a.m.
Even if there was 60% who pay no taxes, to think that every single one of them will vote for Obama because of 'free handouts' is...well...delusional.
It's the same delusional thinking that the rich support only Republicans. Isn't Beyonce having a $40,000.00 plate fundraiser?
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:08 a.m.
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JozeMozes
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:12 a.m." WE are victims" hahah - Democrats hope you believe that and let them run your life. Mitt Romney and republicans want all to be able to be that corporate boss and own your business or be successful. Democrats want you to be a victim.
Good lay down soldier. I pat your head.
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:44 a.m.
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I have noticed a trend that the partisan fools that support Obama and Romney do nothing to promote their candidate, but spend their recources blasting the other guy. That is a clear indication we have no good choice in November from the the two major parties. I am glad I finally woke up and stopped follwoing the parties as unfortunately 80% of the voting population blindly does. There is a clear choice in November but the GOP is doing their best to keep him off ballots and both the Dems and GOP are doing everything they can to keep him out of the debates. I would really think the followers of the two parties would wake up and ask why they are so hellbent on keeping him out of the spotlight. It is pretty obvious why but the petty bickering is drifting a thick fog of rhetoric that the majority of voters refuse to cut through. We will not be any better in 4 years no matter which of these clowns wins, and for that we deserve the negative effects of failure that the majority sadly supports.
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:10 a.m.
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ciarra - Dollars dont better education, thats been proven. Your mindset that its all about the dollar is the demise to this country.
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:10 a.m.
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Even if there was 60% who pay no taxes, to think that every single one of them will vote for Obama because of 'free handouts' is...well...delusional.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:58 a.m.
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I have to point to Mr. Deter's comments in the "Letter to the Editor", today's Gazette as an example of "blind" voters led like sheep to slaughter. He states how much Romney will do for us, when Romney himself has stated how he will end the "Roe Vs. Wade" right to choose, even in cases of incest and Rape; will resort to giving "vouchers" to our senior citizens who deserve more respect than that for all they've done for our great nation; who has said he'd cut down funding for our students, who are our future; who has even gone as far as to cut back on Veteran's health rights; Massachusetts ranked No. 1 in state debt per person when Mitt Romney was governor..what's he going to do to the US; Massachusetts also lost a huge amount of manufacturing jobs in the four years while he was in office.
Not only that, he has lied (proven by Fact Finder) time and time again, insulted other countries, and stuck his foot in his mouth so many times we've lost count. Do you really believe he'd make a good President and representative of this United States of America? You'd better be looking again! The Job statistics aren't as bad as you believe them to be, check under the right places the government statistics, not Romney, not Obama, not any candidate's site, go to the source, nor are any other claims, go directly where the facts are and you'll see the TRUTH..it'll help you decide who to vote for..and hopefully you'll wake up before it's too late...and you regret your vote.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:51 a.m.
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I have a new found respect for Mitt and then some. The leaked video and all he said is 100% true. Who cares if he offended anyone...this nation is full of a bunch of obese, lazy leaches that do nothing but live off of handouts. I say the same thing all the time. We are not going to fix it by pretending its all good and acting as if its the new trend to be on welfare. Living on welfare should be embarrassing, and if you are on welfare and not embarrassed and ashamed.... you are the problem of America.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:48 a.m.
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Romney takes complex domestic and foreign issues
and turns them into cartoons.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:46 a.m.
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Top 5 reasons mitt won't release his tax returns.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kut9MuIhD...
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:41 a.m.
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It is obvious mitt is scared to show his tax returnes....what is he hiding?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrms3xGvk...
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:39 a.m.
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Payback for Romney.
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:24 a.m.
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Mitt...the truth will set you free!!!! Show your tax returns and be FREE!!!
Sep 18, 2012 at 9:04 a.m.
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http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/03/...
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:57 a.m.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31...
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:44 a.m.
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Diane Hendricks doesn't pay taxes and I am sure she feels like a victim.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:26 a.m.
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"WE are victims".....oh my goodness, that sounds like something Sandra "Julia" Fluke would say.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:12 a.m.
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WE are victims, of a corrupt government who spends our children's money (tax) on a defense budget that benefits a few and the powerful (representation). I have worked my ass off my entire life and paid into a retirement system (socialistic) that has constantly been plundered (entitlement).
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The majority of decent people in this great country are like minded. We want religious freedom from the stupidity our ancestors endured and what we witness overseas.
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We don't want to see those less fortunate go hungry, without shelter or miss a chance at an education.
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How disconnected from reality you must be when you have thousand dollar shoes and elevators for your cars. You hide behind that capitalistic ideal that made this country great but missed the whole fracking point, patriotism.
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The coming civil unrest in this nation won't be about black versus white, old versus new. Rather, haves versus have-nots. The latter are legion :)
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:11 a.m.
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Since the clip of video was from a May event Romney had......why did it take so long to surface if it was so damning?
What Romney said is fact and truth, unfortunately the Obama WH doesn't subscribe to either.
Go watch the movie "Runaway Slave"...it is about the mindset of people enslaved to big government dependency.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:10 a.m.
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It was clear before this campaign even started that Romney's senior campaign staff didn't have the talent it would take to run against what may well be the most effective campaign staff ever assembled. Romney relied on making a point that America needed a CEO, but is now failing in a very public way as CEO of his own campaign.
John, the 3% lead is probably within the margin of error, but the thing to be watching is Obama's electoral college strategy. With "leaners" assigned to either candidate currently leading in those states, Obama has held a 332-206 lead in electoral college votes for the last eight weeks, with very little variation. As you noted, there's very little movement and a very small undecided population.
Romney has a huge problem with his latest statement which is NOT a gaffe. It's clear from his remarks and from his followup that this is a true disdain he has for 47% of Americans. I believe it was highly improbable that Romney could have defeated Obama prior to these remarks and these remarks just makes his path to an electoral college victory even that much more difficult.
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:05 a.m.
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I really wish I believed Romney would lead with the attitude he displayed in that clip, however seeing his track record he is just Obama lite.
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.
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There is no doubt the democrats like to keep their voting base chasing the carrot of handouts. If they ever empowered them to become self sufficient they wouldn't win another election.
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:53 a.m.
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What is your point regarding Northman's statement FUTP? Didn't he say exactly what you are?
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:50 a.m.
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Boy John, you sure know how to rile up the "tea party".
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:48 a.m.
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I think what Mitt Romney said was true. Take John Eyster for example. If you read one of his past articles, it's obvious he was in favor of ObamaCare. So would John vote himself some largesse from the public treasury? Of course he would. And you couldn't convince him otherwise. So what Mitt Romney said was true.
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:15 a.m.
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Context will make you FREE!
"[M]y job is not to worry about those people,” Romney said. “I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
He sure sounds like a callous bugger there, doesn’t he? All those people who he is not going to help, not going to care about. What a monster!
Except he wasn’t talking them in general. He was talking about them as voters, acknowledging that people who pay no taxes and who are dependent on handouts have no interest in tax cuts, and probably won’t vote for him in any case. He won’t sway their votes, so he’s not worried about them.
As for “47 percent of Americans are “dependent on government” and that they think “they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it." Are you trying to deny this? Do you have some facts to make us think this isn’t entirely true? If the number was 37 or even 27%, isn’t that still alarming?
Sep 18, 2012 at 7:10 a.m.
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Obama should have called a special press conference to explain why he thought there were 57 States.
The media should be ashamed.
Embassies are on fire throughout the world, another suicide bomber killed 12 people last night in Afghanistan.
Obama doesn't even like our Constitution, because it does not accomplish the "redistribution of wealth", which is his goal. He stated such in an 2001 interview.
2001 Obama WBEZ Interview Redistribution Wealth Warren Court
http://youtu.be/OkpdNtTgQNM
Sep 18, 2012 at 6:37 a.m.
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
200 years plus and counting with Romney. Collapse and dictatorship with Obama. Be careful what you wish for liberals.
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher
Sep 18, 2012 at 6:15 a.m.
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Romney should take it further that as Obama's base, no Republican will get the vote of someone who lives off our Government. 47% of Americans don't pay any taxes, that is the truth and saying you'll lower taxes to them is falling on deaf ears.
..Just as Obama doesn't worry about the white working middle class.
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