Mitt Romney is demanding an apology from President Obama for what he claims are actions that are beneath the dignity of his office. Romney was referring to suggestions by President Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager – Stephanie Cutter, that Romney may have violated the laws and indulged in criminal activities for lying to the SEC.
This was too much for the apparent morally advanced Mitt Flip Romney. He went on five different television news shows on Friday denying all connections with Bain Capital during the time Stephanie Cutter mentioned. Furthermore, Romney wants the President to apologies to him for “the kinds of attacks that are coming from his team.”
“The president needs to take control of these people. He ought to disavow it and rein in these people who are running out of control. He sure as heck ought to say that he’s sorry for the kinds of attacks that are coming from his team.”
So naturally, the President’s campaign team put this video together as an answer to Romney’s pleas.
This one should win an award. But then again, every time Romney opens his mouth someone in the President’s campaign has material for another Romney debunking.
The ad shows Romney singing (if you want to call it that) America The Beautiful – a song that highlights some of the wonders of this country. Meanwhile, in the background, some little known facts pop up about Romney’s so-called love for this nation – his outsourcing of American jobs, his offshore bank accounts etc., etc…
By now you have to wonder if Romney and his advisors are singing, Bain Bain go away, come again some other day, as President Obama joined in the chorus of Democrats, some Republicans and Americans in general, all demanding that Mitt Flip Romney release his tax returns.
The longer Romney holds on to this information, the more suspicious the American people becomes. Think about it… if Romney has nothing to hide, if his hands are clean in all his business dealings, if he had nothing to do with the financial empire he created and all his money came from the investments of “a blind trust,” then he should put a stop to all this inquiry. He should just show his papers and prove them all wrong! Instead, Romney has decided that calling President Obama a liar is his only defense.
“You can never satisfy the opposition research team of the Obama organization,” Romney told CBS on Friday while defending his role at Bain Capital. He also demanded an apology from the president for Stephanie Cutter’s suggestion that he, Romney, may be a criminal for lying to the SEC.
“This is simply beneath the dignity of the presidency of the United States,” Romney said.
“There is no whining in politics,” said John Weaver, a Republican strategist. “Stop demanding an apology, release your tax returns.”
This is a campaign for the President of the United States of America – the most powerful job on earth. Over the last few weeks, President Obama has slowly gained in the polls because Romney won’t come clean on his papers. There would be nothing better for Romney if he can prove to the American people that the President’s campaign is lying. If he could prove that, he would see a substantial jump in the polls and the President would lose ground with independent voters.
But there is no evidence to suggest the President’s campaign is lying because Romney cannot supply any. Romney is hiding something and until he demonstrate otherwise, we will all continue believing that whatever he is hiding is more important keep it a secret than for him winning the presidency in November.
Mitt Romney – the man whose only foreign experience has to do with his offshore bank accounts betting against the United States dollar and his marvelous ability to ship American jobs overseas – got the seal of approval from Dick Cheney as America’s only hope to deal with foreign crisis.
This approval, coming from the same Dick Cheney who was part of the Bush Administration that allowed the biggest terrorist activity on American soil and who plunged America into debt by starting a trillion dollar war with a country on the guise of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
David Edwards writes: During a Wyoming fundraiser, the former vice president said that his experience in Washington taught him that every president would have to deal with an international crisis that could mean sending U.S. forces into harm’s way.
“When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis, who has to make those key decisions, some of them life-and-death decisions, some of them decisions as commander-in-chief, who has the responsibility for sending some of our young men and women into harm’s way, that man is Mitt Romney,” Cheney said, according to The Associated Press.
For his part, Romney called Cheney a “great American leader,” but avoided mentioning to former President George W. Bush until a question-and-answer session when he contrasted President Barack Obama’s policies with Bush’s “freedom agenda.”
While Cheney has not been a vocal presence during the 2012 campaign season, he may have good reason to trust that Romney will be hawkish on foreign policy.
“Of Romney’s forty identified foreign policy advisers, more than 70 percent worked for Bush,” The Nation’s Ari Berman pointed out in May. “Many hail from the neoconservative wing of the party, were enthusiastic backers of the Iraq War and are proponents of a US or Israeli attack on Iran.”
Martha Stewart was involved with insiders trading. She also lied to the Securities and Exchange Commission – The SEC – and she went to jail.
Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggested that Mitt Romney may be a criminal on a conference call with reporters this morning about a Boston Globe report that shows that Romney stayed at Bain Capital three years past when he said he’d left.
Cutter said that there were two ways to interpret the story. The first: Mitt Romney was “misrepresenting his position” at Bain to the Securities and Exchange Commission, “which is a felony.”
Or, he was “misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people. If that’s the case, if he was lying to the American people, that’s a real character and trust issue,” Cutter said.
Cutter called on the Romney campaign to clear up by the issue by releasing the candidate’s tax returns.
“If the SEC filings aren’t accurate, then prove it,” she said.
Bob Bauer, head lawyer for the Obama campaign and a former White House counsel, also implied that Romney could be in legal trouble. He said that SEC documents are “very carefully scrutinized by lawyers because of the very severe consequences that follow from making statements to the SEC that aren’t correct.”
“Of particular consequence woud be a misrepresentation that involved a controlling person,” Bauer said, and “Romney is the controlling person.”
The Obama team’s charges against Romney extended all the way to his handling of the Salt Lake City Olympics, which Cutter described as “less than wholesome.”
“These aren’t just campaign tactics, this is important information,” Cutter said.
The individual mandate in RomneyCare requires that all capable Massachusetts residents buy Healthcare. The individual mandate in ObamaCare requires that all capable Americans buy Healthcare.
How then, can Romney call those in favor of ObamaCare freeloaders, but apparently considers those on RomneyCare as diligently doing their civic duties?
After his speech to the NAACP, Romney said this to a group of supporters;
By the way, I had the privilege of speaking today at the NAACP convention in Houston and I gave them the same speech I am giving you. I don’t give different speeches to different audiences alright. I gave them the same speech. When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare, they weren’t happy, I didn’t get the same response. That’s OK, I want people to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, that’s just fine. But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free.
Are we there yet? Are you at a point where you’re actually beginning to feel sorry for this guy… a guy we affectionately call Flip Romney because of his rather uncanny abilities to lie?
Well if not there yet, here’s another example.
Flipper over the last few weeks have been under increasing attacks Democrats to release his financial documents – a practice that began when his father George Romney, released 12 years of his taxes when he ran for president. But Flip Romney so far, has only released his 2010 taxes and a projection for 2011.
Romney’s taxes are important for a number of reasons, but mainly to show the American people that he is transparent in every way and has nothing to hide. Various reports however, have surfaced showing foreign investments by Romney in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands and other Swiss accounts, so naturally people are concerned that the next president of the United States could be a man who made money investing in other countries betting against the American dollar.
To combat this assumption, Romney is going around on the campaign trail claiming to have nothing to do with these investments. The investments were done by a “blind trust” he says, and he knew nothing of them or where his money went.
Well that’s all fine and good if it was the truth.
However, the video below shows Mitt Romney contradicting himself yet again. In 1994 when Romney was campaigning against Ted Kennedy for the Massachusetts Senate seat, Kennedy used the Blind Trust excuse to explain some of his investments. The 1994 Romney dropped this bit of information: that blind trusts are an “age-old ruse.” His exact words – “The blind trust is an age-old ruse, if you will, which is to say you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do. You give a blind trust rules.”
So what are we to believe now Flipper? What are we to believe now!!!
Mitt Flip Romney took a trip today, apparently got lost and found himself in-front of an unfamiliar audience, the NAACP – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Okay, maybe he didn’t get lost and we all know his trip was planned, but the audience was still unfamiliar to Mr. Romney and his awkward speech and frequent booing from the audience highlighted this unfamiliarity.
One part of Romney’s speech to the group that is getting a lot of play right now was when Romney told the audience, “I’m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare, ” – the President’s signature policy that has growing support among the American people and the poor and middle class in general.
But what was strange and what got a lot of attention was not so much the booing, it was Romney’s expression as the booing was happening. As if relishing the moment, Romney stood on the stage with a sly smile on his face for an extended period, nodding his head ever so slightly as if to say, “yes, boo me. Boo me!”
The whole scene looked as if it was a message for another audience, like his Republican base maybe. It seemed as if Mitt Romney wanted his Republican supporters to see him as a man who is serious about “repealing Obamacare,” – a law they have voted to repeal 33 times since it was sworn into law in 2010. It seemed as if Romney wanted his base to know that he was willing to go in-front of an audience who supports the law and tell them he will repeal it.
Other areas of his speech got chuckles and giggles mixed with some more boos from the audience. One of those areas was when Romney told the audience that he would be a better president for them than President Obama is.
No, we are not saying that President Barack Obama (he is black you know) is the only candidate to represent the black community. The black community has voted religiously for white politicians for decades. What caused the chuckles in the audience I believe, was Romney’s words – reminiscent of other things Romney has said, like “I love American cars,” and “the trees are the right height here” while talking to a Detroit audience. Or when he said, “I am learning to say y’all and I like grits, and things,” while talking to a Mississippi audience earlier this year.
This particular NAACP audience knew that Romney was being Romney, so they giggled, they chuckled and some even booed. This audience knew Romney was pandering to them for votes.
Last time we mentioned Chris Christie in a post, he was busy chasing after someone on a boardwalk in New Jersey after an apparent criticism was lodged his way. “You’re a real big-shot!” Christie shouted, after the man passed by. “You’re a real big-shot, shooting your mouth off!”
We are mentioning him again because of something else he said on Monday.
Mr. Christie, a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Flip Romney and himself a possible vice presidential candidate, spoke before an audience at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. No, it is not that Christie actually spoke instead of shouting at the audience that made news, it is what he said and the obvious relevance of his message to Flip Romney that had people talking.
Romney, as you all know is a flip-flopper. He constantly changes his position in a blatant attempt to get votes. With that in mind, listen to the words of Chris Christie as he delivered a message any flip flopper should understand.
“We shouldn’t be listening to political consultants whispering in our ears, ‘Say as little as possible,’ we shouldn’t be listening to those voices that say, ‘Just use the party doctrine and don’t stray.’ We should be telling people how we think and how we feel and let them judge us up or down. […] You can’t lead by being a mystery. You can’t lead by being an enigma. You can’t lead by being aloof. You can’t lead by being programmed. I think you have to lead by being yourself and who you are and then people will trust you. And when they trust you, they will follow you.”
No names necessary. This was a hit at what is unfortunately becoming a Romney trait – selling your soul to gain a vote.
President Obama himself has jumped into the flap over Mitt Romney’s tax returns, saying voters are entitled to more information on the Republican’s offshore bank accounts.
“What’s important is if you are running for president is that the American people know who you are and what you’ve done and that you’re an open book,” Obama told WMUR-TV of Manchester, N.H., in an interview on Monday.
“And that’s been true of every presidential candidate dating all the way back to Mitt Romney’s father,” Obama added.
Obama’s campaign has also released a new video on Romney’s finances.
George Romney, then the governor of Michigan, released 12 years of tax returns when he sought the presidency in 1968.
Mitt Romney has released only his most recent tax returns; Obama’s camp is demanding more as they raise questions about Romney’s overseas accounts, and whether he has used them to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Why exactly is Mitt Flip Romney holding on to his financial information this long and this hard. We already have lots of data that would make the average voter look at Romney with squinted eyes and a raised eyebrow. Data like his $75 million investment in a company that destroyed fetuses, his multiple offshore bank accounts that set up to bet against the US Dollar, his work at Bain Capital where he oversaw thousands of American jobs eliminated, and now this: a new revelation that he has another offshore account set up as an IRA account containing between $20 to $100 million dollars.
With the present rules of an IRA account where a maximum yearly contribution of about $5000, questions remain about how in the world Romney’s IRA could have as much as $100 million.
To put things into perspective, if Romney followed the present IRA rules, he would have to contribute $5000 for 20,000,000 years to meet his present IRA holdings. We know Romney’s Mormon religion forbid him from drinking alcohol or doing drugs, but no matter how healthy he eats or how extreme his exercise routine is, he is not 20,000,000 years old!
But alas! Paul Krugman is saying there are “legitimate” ways Romney could have saved this fortune in an IRA. Krugman says:
There are legitimate ways that could have happened, just as there are potentially legitimate reasons for parking large sums of money in overseas tax havens. But we don’t know which if any of those legitimate reasons apply in Mr. Romney’s case — because he has refused to release any details about his finances. This refusal to come clean suggests that he and his advisers believe that voters would be less likely to support him if they knew the truth about his investments.
And that is precisely why voters have a right to know that truth. Elections are, after all, in part about the perceived character of the candidates — and what a man does with his money is surely a major clue to his character.
A new poll released Sunday indicates the presidential race between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama is still tight in a dozen major battlegrounds.
According to the latest survey by USA Today/Gallup, the president has a small advantage over his Republican rival, 47% to 45%, in 12 key states. The two-point margin falls well within the poll’s sampling error.
Obama’s edge over Romney represents the same two-point margin he held when the same poll was last conducted in May.
When zooming out to include voters from the other states, the gap expands to a four-point margin in favor of Obama, 48% to 44%.
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