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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Republicans constantly claim that President Obama can't run on his record. Somebody forgot to tell him that.
That seems to me to a pretty damn impressive list of accomplishments to me.
I guess being an armchair politician is kind of like being a leader, except with no responsibilities, accountability or transparency. Or record of accomplishment. Or the will to dress appropriately. Or put in the homework to be a pundent. - SarahPAC
And all of this against the tide of Fox, Rush, a recalcitrant Congress, tv punditry, racism, attack ads, and non-stop criticism for his every move. It's stunningly impressive. And even with Simple Sarah spewing her frustrations, he still keeps moving forward. I am so proud that he is my president.
Well, Gryphen, the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has some very, very, very exceedingly no good horrible awfully bad news for President Obama: "People are starting to notice he has no class." OUCH!!! The good news, of course, is that the only people who think our president has no class are people who themselves have no class. And so it goes...
That comment was pure veiled racism. President Obama has plenty of "class," if by "class" you mean intelligence, integrity, kindness, empathy and many other good virtues that are all but totally absent from 99% of Republicans. Beaglemom
A list of accomplishments like this is really impressive when you consider the obsrtuctionist mine field that had to be navigated to get it don. BP in OR
An aunt I'm pretty close to reminded me of something that's been taught in my family: no human being should ever judge another person's family, marriage or parenting. Is that not something that should be recognized by all?
This came up when we were discussing the gossipy nature of the country.
None of that shit matters, at all.
What matters to us (or what should matter) is leadership, motive and intention.
People say they'd vote for President Clinton again in a heartbeat so obviously personal lives don't matter. Why hold your opponents to a different standard? There's never been a bad candidate or something who would reap havoc on the country. The President is that powerful. all candidates are the same personally. They all have back stories and families and lives. There are lies told about all of them out of ignorance or hate or stupidity.
It's time to grow up and start thinking like a responsible person. None of that matters in the voting booth.
So if you know that someone is a liar and a cheat, you'll vote for them anyway? And if the media doesn't report that she is a liar and a cheat, what happens when the person is elected? It matters to me that Newt cheated on two different wives and then was vicious enough to attack Clinton for an affair that had nothing to do with his duties. Clinton had moral issues, true, but he was never hypocrite enough to go after someone else. AND he has spent the ensuing years helping people all over the world. I can't name one GOPer out of ofice who has done anything for society. They become lobbyists and scam the people, trying to get or keep the GOP in power. How much money is wasted on stupid ads and PACS that do nothing good? Think what a million dollars could do for your school system..just one million. Then think what Republicans spend on PACS. Disgusting.
...It couldn’t be more hilarious, watching these Republicans rend their garments over the Obama administration’s bin Laden video. Imaging the paroxysms we’d have been forced to endure if George W. Bush had iced the dreaded one is all we need to do to understand how hypocritical it all is. But what obviously gets under Republicans’ skin is not the fact of this video’s existence, but the fact that Barack Obama got him and they didn’t, which destroys their assumption of the past decade that they are “the 9/11 party.” And more than that—and this is the real story here—it’s the fact that the Democrats don’t appear to be afraid of the Republicans anymore. That, to Republicans, is what’s truly unacceptable.
Latest Attempt To Deny Obama Credit For Bin Laden Raid Falls Flat
Conservative media figures are suggesting that a recently released memo from Leon Panetta shows that President Obama doesn't deserve credit for ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. In fact, the memo fits the previously reported timeline of the decision to raid the compound and confirms Obama's role in making that decision.
Amazingly stupid people, CNN has really taken a nosedive. They're in the same league as Fox news. And that Dana Loesch loser should be laughed off the set.
The President gets slammed if he does, slammed if he doesn't by these rightwing nutjobs.
Republicans love to act like tough guys. Yet it’s the Democrat in the White House who got bin Laden—and the GOP that’s throwing a temper tantrum about a modest Obama ad.
Never underestimate the brilliant strategies of our president. He will win every time.
How Obama Suckered Romney into His Bin Laden Trap
Mitt Romney fell into President Obama’s trap on Osama Bin Laden, and now the president has closed the noose and made the Republican nominee appear weak on national security.
The Obama campaign set Mitt Romney up days ago by releasing a video of former President Bill Clinton praising President Obama’s decision to go get Bin Laden.
The video was perfect bait. It featured a Democrat claiming to be tough on national security, Barack Obama doing something that almost every American agrees with, and Bill Clinton. (Republicans have an odd relationship with former President Clinton. They pathologically loathe the man, yet they are irresistibly drawn to everything he says and does).
The bait was on the hook, and sure enough, Mitt Romney couldn’t resist taking it. In a rebuttal to the video Romney said, “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.” As the Obama campaign already knew, Jimmy Carter may have given that order, but Mitt Romney was already on record saying that he wouldn’t.
Back in 2007, Romney criticized Obama for saying that he would go in to Pakistan to get Bin Laden, “I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours. I don’t think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort.” Months earlier Romney also said, “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Romney totally walked into the setup, and at a press conference Obama closed the deal without even mentioning him by name,
Wasn't that brilliant? I had copied the link as well. President Obama knows his opponent well and I have no doubt the bait was on purpose. Add to that his appearance in Afghanistan, speaking of peace and thanking the troops, while Romney ran to NYC to politicize OBL's death while rehashing the war.
Great commercial. It's so easy to forget all that he's done in his first term. And I remember where I was when I heard about bin Ladin. I was here - and you told me! Thanks, Gryph.
May. 1, 2012 - 9:40 AM EST There really is no end to the bottom-less pit of Republican hypocrisy. It's perfectly fine to call Obama a socialist, communist, freedom-hating terrorist/illegal immigrant, but for him to question Romney's ability to make tough calls on national security as Commander in Chief is waaaaaay off-limits and disappointing. Republicans have a long and illustrious history of ignoring facts in favor of their own, incredibly limited view on reality, but it's reached an entirely new level when raising an issue on national security during a presidential election is labeled as a "campaign pivot" away from the economy.
And by the way Mittens... we're still waiting for your explanation on that Swiss Bank Account. You know... that thing people only set up when they want to intentionally conceal income from the IRS.
The draft dodging Willard would have to win EVERY swing state to get elected. He'll never get New Mexico.
So all the bedwetting by the DESPERATE and WEAK rightwingers, who got told to shut up and support the New England Country Club Elites trust-fund baby, doesn't really amount to a bucket of spit! Does it.
The day after President Obama and our wonderful Navy Seals took care of the Bin Laden problem, Republicans were tripping over each other to get to the TV cameras........Condeleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, were all flapping their mouths. And, since I do have a good memory, guess what they were all saying???? That President Obama could NOT have done this without the prior intelligence work of the Bush adminstration!
These people, like my 3 year old grandson, have an obsessive need to always be the center of attention.Let's be very clear. President Obama worked on this quietly from the time he was elected. He made a very tough choice in going into Pakistan and he deserves FULL credit for every damn moment. The Republicans have become a sick parody of the bully in the schoolyard. And, truthfully, there are a lot of their own party who are just fed up with them. My dear friends and neighbors, who have voted Republican their whole lives, tell me this party is just too mean-spirited to support this election. So, they are WHINING (again, another poor behavior) because Obama is taking credit for something he accomplished.............Must be tough because with this wonderful Republican controlled House, we've had our credit rating lowered, attempts to cut funding to Planned Parenthood and Public Television, and a lot of standing in front of cameras...........Whining or saying our lack of governing is all "Obama's" fault!!!! That whole thing about taking personal responsibility for both our success and our failures just isn't something they practice.....but they sure do preach to the poor and the disadvantaged about it, don't they?
Take a victory lap, Mr, President. You earned it. Putting up with these whiners and bullies alone gives you every reason to celebrate the one thing you didn't have to negotiate with this impotent Congress.
The Bush-Cheney regime failed in the war on terrorism while multiplying America's enemies a thousand-fold. According to the FBI, Al Qaida was made up of about 250 members on 911. Today, there are still around that number scattered throughout Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, etc. though, thanks to the Obama Administration their leadership has been destroyed and more Al Qaida members killed than under eight years of Bush-Cheney.
Remember, Al Qaida, our actually 911 enemy, has made up less than five percent of US enemy combatants in Afghanistand and Iraq. The Bush Administration played into the hands of Bin Laden and Al Qaida by invading two soverign nations neither of which invaded America based upon lies, deception and oil greed.
The Obama Administration ended the Iraq War, which had no Al Qaida members before the war despite the Bush-Cheney lies, and has redirected the war in Afghanistan which was largely neglected by the draft-dodging neo-con-artists. Republicans, like Romney, even today want to keep these senseless wars going to continue their massive war profiteering whose 435-plus, GOP-approved war profiteers posted $60 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse while failing in their nation-building. You do not hear inspector Rep. Issa going after the military contractor billions wasted, no calls to cut their $60 billion-plus, Reagan-era to present, unnecessary, unproven, SDI-spinoff anti-ballistic missile systems, or recovering all their "bridge to nowhere" GOP pork do you?
Republicans are the warmongers and war profiteers who like Romney love those government-created-jobs and defense (offense really) contracts; yet, like Romney, were serial draft dodgers and never serve in the military--the one career area not used by the rich, one-percent.
Republicans have nothing to offer and are desperate to trump up any issue. Notice they never mention GW Bush's phony flight-suited stunt aboard an aircraft carrier set up for a costly photo op of "Mission Accomplished." Of course, it was particularly a joke since Bush received a sweetheart, draft-dodging, Texas Air National Guard berth that he washed out of during his coke-snorting, party period and despite the multiple, dishonorable cover-ups, GW Bush never completed his six-year ANG committment. Check out Texas Monthly this May that reviewed all the cover-ups and distorted facts if you dare.
Bottom-line, the Obama Administartion has succeeded in foreign policy where the Bush-Cheney Administration was a disaster. No amount of GOP spin will change the facts.
Let Romney run on his platform of 'job creator'!! He's campaigning that he was proud of his economic record and job creation record in MA -- Really??? He's really going there?? Dumbass but knock yourself out!!! How proud to be 47th in the nation!!! The only ones that did worse? Ohio, Michigan and Louisiana. In other words, two rustbelt states and another that lost its biggest city to a hurricane.
He was so successful at it that as Governor he ran the State of MA up the list from the 30's to 47th in the nation in job growth during his four years as governor. He claims that his average of 15,000 jobs were created a year when he was Massachusetts' governor.
The Massachusetts jobs growth over that period, a pitiful 0.9 percent, badly lagged other high-skill, high-wage, knowledge economy states like New York (2.7 percent), California (4.7 percent) and North Carolina (7.6 percent).
The national average: 5.3 percent.
Remember -- this was prior to the massive economic collapse. The prior recession to his taking office was 2001. He was MA Gov 2003 to 2007 -- 2 years after and therefore in recovery mode -- and during those Rethug years that the Bush cuts for the rich 'job creators' were the best thing since sliced bread.
Bush ran his whole 2004 campaign on fear mongering and using and abusing 9/11.
Guiliani from 9/11 to today's date still uses and abuses 9/11. He only got into the Rethug Presidential field by way of running as 'America's Mayor' which I never believed 10 minutes after he spoke the first time on 9/11. In fact, I blame Guiliani in many ways for many of the deaths along with the terrorists -- I refer to him as the 21st terrorist as there were 19 and plus 1 missed his flight. He made no improvements and in fact made it worse by way of not improving the systems required by the first responders for a massive city of high rise structures/buildings. The lack of radio frequencies/capabilities in the City meant the first responders in many cases of fires in those super high structures meant they had no radio contact. Guiliani did fuck all to address the issue and was fully aware of the problem.
Personally - I would have held the door on him so he couldn't get out of a burning building. Fry you bastard.
These are the same fucking Republicans that had us in two wars and didn't even have the cost of it in their budget (Bush and Cheney). President Obama had to put it there after he took office, which INCREASED the deficit!
And, now we have Mitt Romney who is nothing more than a proven liar and a member of the Mormon cult!
Republicans on all levels of government need to be replaced in the upcoming election. Assuredly is time to get out and vote and take them down folks!
This ad campaign is sheer genius! Obama has Romeny's head spinning, and as someone posted above, Anonymous @ 8:42 AM Policusa did an excellent post on this,
I also heard on 1010 WINS News Radio, Romney showed up at a firehouse that was downsized due to budget cuts with three pizzas, exactly one (1) slice per firefighter, while politicizing OBL's capture and killing, after deriding Obama for politicizing OBL's capture and killing.
We know little of Willard's accomplishments as Gov. of Mass, since he and his staff wiped clean all of the computers at the state house when he left office. So much for full public disclosure, huh Willard.
I guess being an armchair politician is kind of like being a leader, except with no responsibilities, accountability or transparency. Or record of accomplishment. Or the will to dress appropriately. Or put in the homework to be a pundent. - SarahPAC
ReplyDeleteAnd all of this against the tide of Fox, Rush, a recalcitrant Congress, tv punditry, racism, attack ads, and non-stop criticism for his every move. It's stunningly impressive. And even with Simple Sarah spewing her frustrations, he still keeps moving forward. I am so proud that he is my president.
ReplyDeleteWell, Gryphen, the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has some very, very, very exceedingly no good horrible awfully bad news for President Obama: "People are starting to notice he has no class." OUCH!!! The good news, of course, is that the only people who think our president has no class are people who themselves have no class. And so it goes...
ReplyDeleteThat comment was pure veiled racism. President Obama has plenty of "class," if by "class" you mean intelligence, integrity, kindness, empathy and many other good virtues that are all but totally absent from 99% of Republicans.
DeleteBeaglemom
Isn't WSJ a Murdoch arm? In other words, Fox on paper.
DeleteA list of accomplishments like this is really impressive when you consider the obsrtuctionist mine field that had to be navigated to get it don. BP in OR
ReplyDeleteAn aunt I'm pretty close to reminded me of something that's been taught in my family: no human being should ever judge another person's family, marriage or parenting. Is that not something that should be recognized by all?
ReplyDeleteThis came up when we were discussing the gossipy nature of the country.
None of that shit matters, at all.
What matters to us (or what should matter) is leadership, motive and intention.
People say they'd vote for President Clinton again in a heartbeat so obviously personal lives don't matter. Why hold your opponents to a different standard? There's never been a bad candidate or something who would reap havoc on the country. The President is that powerful. all candidates are the same personally. They all have back stories and families and lives. There are lies told about all of them out of ignorance or hate or stupidity.
It's time to grow up and start thinking like a responsible person. None of that matters in the voting booth.
What on earth are you babbling about? Whatever it is doesn't make any sense.
DeletePoint? Please? Just a little help here, like a roadmap, that shows where we are headed. Otherwise, perhaps some salad dressing....Thanks!
DeleteOK now I know you are just drunk most of the time.
DeleteSo if you know that someone is a liar and a cheat, you'll vote for them anyway? And if the media doesn't report that she is a liar and a cheat, what happens when the person is elected? It matters to me that Newt cheated on two different wives and then was vicious enough to attack Clinton for an affair that had nothing to do with his duties. Clinton had moral issues, true, but he was never hypocrite enough to go after someone else. AND he has spent the ensuing years helping people all over the world. I can't name one GOPer out of ofice who has done anything for society. They become lobbyists and scam the people, trying to get or keep the GOP in power. How much money is wasted on stupid ads and PACS that do nothing good? Think what a million dollars could do for your school system..just one million. Then think what Republicans spend on PACS. Disgusting.
DeleteHaha.
DeleteWhat a stupid fucking comment!
Is the word "pumpkin" a verb in your family?
DeleteO/T Maybe booking Sarah wasn't such a good idea after all.
ReplyDelete'Good Morning America' Beats 'Today' For Second Week
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/good-
morning-america-beat_n_1464985.html
Hate to say "We told you so, NBC!" but we did!
DeleteThe Bin Laden Freakout
ReplyDelete...It couldn’t be more hilarious, watching these Republicans rend their garments over the Obama administration’s bin Laden video. Imaging the paroxysms we’d have been forced to endure if George W. Bush had iced the dreaded one is all we need to do to understand how hypocritical it all is. But what obviously gets under Republicans’ skin is not the fact of this video’s existence, but the fact that Barack Obama got him and they didn’t, which destroys their assumption of the past decade that they are “the 9/11 party.” And more than that—and this is the real story here—it’s the fact that the Democrats don’t appear to be afraid of the Republicans anymore. That, to Republicans, is what’s truly unacceptable.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/the-bin-laden-freakout.html
Latest Attempt To Deny Obama Credit For Bin Laden Raid Falls Flat
ReplyDeleteConservative media figures are suggesting that a recently released memo from Leon Panetta shows that President Obama doesn't deserve credit for ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. In fact, the memo fits the previously reported timeline of the decision to raid the compound and confirms Obama's role in making that decision.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201204300008
Amazingly stupid people, CNN has really taken a nosedive. They're in the same league as Fox news. And that Dana Loesch loser should be laughed off the set.
DeleteThe President gets slammed if he does, slammed if he doesn't by these rightwing nutjobs.
How the GOP Became a Party of Whiners Over Osama
ReplyDeleteRepublicans love to act like tough guys. Yet it’s the Democrat in the White House who got bin Laden—and the GOP that’s throwing a temper tantrum about a modest Obama ad.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/01/michael-tomasky-how-the-gop-became-a-party-of-whiners-over-osama.html
Never underestimate the brilliant strategies of our president. He will win every time.
ReplyDeleteHow Obama Suckered Romney into His Bin Laden Trap
Mitt Romney fell into President Obama’s trap on Osama Bin Laden, and now the president has closed the noose and made the Republican nominee appear weak on national security.
The Obama campaign set Mitt Romney up days ago by releasing a video of former President Bill Clinton praising President Obama’s decision to go get Bin Laden.
The video was perfect bait. It featured a Democrat claiming to be tough on national security, Barack Obama doing something that almost every American agrees with, and Bill Clinton. (Republicans have an odd relationship with former President Clinton. They pathologically loathe the man, yet they are irresistibly drawn to everything he says and does).
The bait was on the hook, and sure enough, Mitt Romney couldn’t resist taking it. In a rebuttal to the video Romney said, “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.” As the Obama campaign already knew, Jimmy Carter may have given that order, but Mitt Romney was already on record saying that he wouldn’t.
Back in 2007, Romney criticized Obama for saying that he would go in to Pakistan to get Bin Laden, “I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours. I don’t think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort.” Months earlier Romney also said, “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Romney totally walked into the setup, and at a press conference Obama closed the deal without even mentioning him by name,
http://www.politicususa.com/obama-suckered-romney-bin-laden.html
Wasn't that brilliant? I had copied the link as well. President Obama knows his opponent well and I have no doubt the bait was on purpose. Add to that his appearance in Afghanistan, speaking of peace and thanking the troops, while Romney ran to NYC to politicize OBL's death while rehashing the war.
DeleteGreat commercial. It's so easy to forget all that he's done in his first term. And I remember where I was when I heard about bin Ladin. I was here - and you told me! Thanks, Gryph.
ReplyDeleteMay. 1, 2012 - 9:40 AM EST
ReplyDeleteThere really is no end to the bottom-less pit of Republican hypocrisy. It's perfectly fine to call Obama a socialist, communist, freedom-hating terrorist/illegal immigrant, but for him to question Romney's ability to make tough calls on national security as Commander in Chief is waaaaaay off-limits and disappointing. Republicans have a long and illustrious history of ignoring facts in favor of their own, incredibly limited view on reality, but it's reached an entirely new level when raising an issue on national security during a presidential election is labeled as a "campaign pivot" away from the economy.
And by the way Mittens... we're still waiting for your explanation on that Swiss Bank Account. You know... that thing people only set up when they want to intentionally conceal income from the IRS.
The draft dodging Willard would have to win EVERY swing state to get elected. He'll never get New Mexico.
ReplyDeleteSo all the bedwetting by the DESPERATE and WEAK rightwingers, who got told to shut up and support the New England Country Club Elites trust-fund baby, doesn't really amount to a bucket of spit! Does it.
The day after President Obama and our wonderful Navy Seals took care of the Bin Laden problem, Republicans were tripping over each other to get to the TV cameras........Condeleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, were all flapping their mouths. And, since I do have a good memory, guess what they were all saying???? That President Obama could NOT have done this without the prior intelligence work of the Bush adminstration!
ReplyDeleteThese people, like my 3 year old grandson, have an obsessive need to always be the center of attention.Let's be very clear. President Obama worked on this quietly from the time he was elected. He made a very tough choice in going into Pakistan and he deserves FULL credit for every damn moment. The Republicans have become a sick parody of the bully in the schoolyard. And, truthfully, there are a lot of their own party who are just fed up with them. My dear friends and neighbors, who have voted Republican their whole lives, tell me this party is just too mean-spirited to support this election. So, they are WHINING (again, another poor behavior) because Obama is taking credit for something he accomplished.............Must be tough because with this wonderful Republican controlled House, we've had our credit rating lowered, attempts to cut funding to Planned Parenthood and Public Television, and a lot of standing in front of cameras...........Whining or saying our lack of governing is all "Obama's" fault!!!! That whole thing about taking personal responsibility for both our success and our failures just isn't something they practice.....but they sure do preach to the poor and the disadvantaged about it, don't they?
Take a victory lap, Mr, President. You earned it. Putting up with these whiners and bullies alone gives you every reason to celebrate the one thing you didn't have to negotiate with this impotent Congress.
The Bush-Cheney regime failed in the war on terrorism while multiplying America's enemies a thousand-fold. According to the FBI, Al Qaida was made up of about 250 members on 911. Today, there are still around that number scattered throughout Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, etc. though, thanks to the Obama Administration their leadership has been destroyed and more Al Qaida members killed than under eight years of Bush-Cheney.
ReplyDeleteRemember, Al Qaida, our actually 911 enemy, has made up less than five percent of US enemy combatants in Afghanistand and Iraq. The Bush Administration played into the hands of Bin Laden and Al Qaida by invading two soverign nations neither of which invaded America based upon lies, deception and oil greed.
The Obama Administration ended the Iraq War, which had no Al Qaida members before the war despite the Bush-Cheney lies, and has redirected the war in Afghanistan which was largely neglected by the draft-dodging neo-con-artists. Republicans, like Romney, even today want to keep these senseless wars going to continue their massive war profiteering whose 435-plus, GOP-approved war profiteers posted $60 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse while failing in their nation-building. You do not hear inspector Rep. Issa going after the military contractor billions wasted, no calls to cut their $60 billion-plus, Reagan-era to present, unnecessary, unproven, SDI-spinoff anti-ballistic missile systems, or recovering all their "bridge to nowhere" GOP pork do you?
Republicans are the warmongers and war profiteers who like Romney love those government-created-jobs and defense (offense really) contracts; yet, like Romney, were serial draft dodgers and never serve in the military--the one career area not used by the rich, one-percent.
Republicans have nothing to offer and are desperate to trump up any issue. Notice they never mention GW Bush's phony flight-suited stunt aboard an aircraft carrier set up for a costly photo op of "Mission Accomplished." Of course, it was particularly a joke since Bush received a sweetheart, draft-dodging, Texas Air National Guard berth that he washed out of during his coke-snorting, party period and despite the multiple, dishonorable cover-ups, GW Bush never completed his six-year ANG committment. Check out Texas Monthly this May that reviewed all the cover-ups and distorted facts if you dare.
Bottom-line, the Obama Administartion has succeeded in foreign policy where the Bush-Cheney Administration was a disaster. No amount of GOP spin will change the facts.
Let Romney run on his platform of 'job creator'!! He's campaigning that he was proud of his economic record and job creation record in MA -- Really??? He's really going there?? Dumbass but knock yourself out!!! How proud to be 47th in the nation!!! The only ones that did worse? Ohio, Michigan and Louisiana. In other words, two rustbelt states and another that lost its biggest city to a hurricane.
ReplyDeleteHe was so successful at it that as Governor he ran the State of MA up the list from the 30's to 47th in the nation in job growth during his four years as governor. He claims that his average of 15,000 jobs were created a year when he was Massachusetts' governor.
The Massachusetts jobs growth over that period, a pitiful 0.9 percent, badly lagged other high-skill, high-wage, knowledge economy states like New York (2.7 percent), California (4.7 percent) and North Carolina (7.6 percent).
The national average: 5.3 percent.
Remember -- this was prior to the massive economic collapse. The prior recession to his taking office was 2001. He was MA Gov 2003 to 2007 -- 2 years after and therefore in recovery mode -- and during those Rethug years that the Bush cuts for the rich 'job creators' were the best thing since sliced bread.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_podium/2012/01/a_big_number_for_romney_--_47.html
Bush ran his whole 2004 campaign on fear mongering and using and abusing 9/11.
ReplyDeleteGuiliani from 9/11 to today's date still uses and abuses 9/11. He only got into the Rethug Presidential field by way of running as 'America's Mayor' which I never believed 10 minutes after he spoke the first time on 9/11. In fact, I blame Guiliani in many ways for many of the deaths along with the terrorists -- I refer to him as the 21st terrorist as there were 19 and plus 1 missed his flight. He made no improvements and in fact made it worse by way of not improving the systems required by the first responders for a massive city of high rise structures/buildings. The lack of radio frequencies/capabilities in the City meant the first responders in many cases of fires in those super high structures meant they had no radio contact. Guiliani did fuck all to address the issue and was fully aware of the problem.
Personally - I would have held the door on him so he couldn't get out of a burning building. Fry you bastard.
These are the same fucking Republicans that had us in two wars and didn't even have the cost of it in their budget (Bush and Cheney). President Obama had to put it there after he took office, which INCREASED the deficit!
ReplyDeleteAnd, now we have Mitt Romney who is nothing more than a proven liar and a member of the Mormon cult!
Republicans on all levels of government need to be replaced in the upcoming election. Assuredly is time to get out and vote and take them down folks!
They will bitch, bitch, bitch. Now he has taken off the velvet gloves, and the race has begun.
ReplyDeleteIt won't be pretty this year, and the Repugs deserve every black eye they'll get.
Romney wants to run as a job creator,
ReplyDeleteWhen all he has ever done,
Is put people out of business.
What am I missing????
This ad campaign is sheer genius! Obama has Romeny's head spinning, and as someone posted above, Anonymous @ 8:42 AM Policusa did an excellent post on this,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/obama-suckered-romney-bin-laden.html
I also heard on 1010 WINS News Radio, Romney showed up at a firehouse that was downsized due to budget cuts with three pizzas, exactly one (1) slice per firefighter, while politicizing OBL's capture and killing, after deriding Obama for politicizing OBL's capture and killing.
FUCK THE GOP
ReplyDeleteWe know little of Willard's accomplishments as Gov. of Mass, since he and his staff wiped clean all of the computers at the state house when he left office. So much for full public disclosure, huh Willard.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Willard, how is Ben doing these days?