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The weekend feeding frenzy

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Some hours after I posted the Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza! there were interesting new developments in the 2012 Presidential race that can be appreciated best visually.

It began with this advertisement from the Obama campaign that had everyone all a-twitter:

David Kurtz at TPM, in particular, is awestruck by the ad:”One for the History Books” he titles a post, and at one point he comparing it to FDR LBJ’s Daisy ad (this one).

Locally, The Stranger‘s Paul Constant expressed some enthusiasm for the ad (his emphasis, not mine):

Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I’ve seen in a long, long time. It minces the hell out of Romney’s offshore fortunes and his record as a jobs exporter (in the private and public sectors). And it makes fun of Romney’s singing voice, turning his version of “America, the Beautiful” into a symbol of his warped view of patriotism

The Romney campaign hit back with an ad that can only be described as pathetic:

The thesis is that by hitting Mitt Romeny hard on the Bain thing, it somehow negates Obama’s “Hope and Change” message of the last campaign. The writers obviously try to confuse Obama, the President, and Obama, the candidate.

For over three years, Republicans have been warning about how President Obama was “changing America into something unrecognizable.” Now, the Romney camp is “warning” America that Obama is just like other candidates.

It is conceivable that this ad actually helps Obama, by defusing the “changing America into something unrecognizable” argument for folks who don’t recognize that campaigns are not the same thing as policy.

The weekend has brought out a plethora of politicos making the rounds on the talk shows, including bulldogs like Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Karl Rove—who has the naked audacity to “warn” Obama about negative campaigning. That’s hilarious!

But of all the interviews, the ones with Romney campaign senior adviser Ed Gillespie are the most interesting.

In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Gillespie stated (my emphasis):

“He is going to release them [2 years of tax returns], Candy, we’ve made that clear, and that’s the standard that Senator McCain, Republican nominee in the last election said was the relevant standard. It’s the standard that Senator John Kerry as the Democratic nominee said was the standard.”

First…he really ought to rethink citing the losers of the past two elections as the model. Just sayin’.

Another problem is that John Kerry did not say that was the standard. Gillespie was off by an order of magnitude. Kerry released 20 years of tax returns. So, about that “standard”….

And on NBC’s Meet the Press we get this gem when David Gregory asked about Mitt benefiting financially from Bain even while on leave:

He actually retired retroactively…

Watch the 00:01:57 clip:

The Twitterosphere has gone bananas with the hash tag #retroactively.

I’ll close by pointing out two things.

First, when the Romney campaign has to “explain” the subtly of Romney’s position during the “bad” Bain years by using a five syllable adverb, they’re not just losing the campaign battle, they’re fucking losing their base!

Secondly, I’ll point out again what a precarious position Romney is now in. We know he was drawing a six-figure salary for, apparently, being on leave; for being completely detached from decisions at Bain. But the media smells blood in that—they will relentlessly attempt to unearth evidence that Romney did make some big decisions. And they’ll probably find something.

But even if they don’t, Romney still has the (relatively unexamined) implications found in Gregory’s question: As the owner of and sole shareholder in Bain and other spin-off companies, Romney was at a minimum receiving salary and investment profit from outsourcing, layoffs, liquidations, the offshore tax havens and, apparently, disposal of fetuses.

That he solely owned Bain through 2001 is undisputed fact. It just makes him look like a weasel to absolve himself of all responsibility, while earning millions, because he was on leave. Or retired.&

&retroactively.

Comments

  1. 1

    It is conceivable that this ad actually helps Obama, by defusing the “changing America into something unrecognizable” argument for folks who don’t recognize that campaigns are not the same thing as policy.

    It certainly helps Obama that the Romney camp is using out of touch elites in their ad. Some angry old while guy, David Brooks, and the that other guy- the one that called the president an asshole. Yeah, lets see more ads featuring these guys.

  2. 2

    David Kurtz at TPM, in particular, is awestruck by the ad:”One for the History Books” he titles a post, and at one point he comparing it to FDR’s Daisy ad (this one).

    That was LBJ’s ad, of course, not FDR’s.

  3. 3

    Good point, Darryl.

    I was wondering why no one was asking how getting paid and owning the company, and standing by as they destroyed the livelihoods of so many, was much better than being directly involved when all those decisions were made.

  4. 4

    Another problem is that John Kerry did not say that was the standard. Gillespie was off by an order of magnitude. Kerry released 20 years of tax returns. So, about that “standard”….

    And on NBC’s Meet the Press we get this gem when David Gregory asked about Mitt benefiting financially from Bain even while on leave:

    He actually retired retroactively…

    That’s a fucking implosion right there.

  7. 7

    @5

    We may end up with Jeb Bush as the Republican Nominee after the Convention

    It’s starting to look like it wont be Mitt.

  11. 11

    @1: Yeah, David Brooks. I assume that he sounds sensible and moderate, even mainstream to conservatives.

    Man, what an epic Fail.

    BTW, the #retroactively stream is hilarious, well worth checking out.

  13. 13

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....osses.html

    Romney’s Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses

    By Anthony Luzzatto Gardner Jul 15, 2012 3:30 PM PT

    Mitt Romney touts his business acumen and job-creation record as a key qualification for being the next U.S. president.

    What’s clear from a review of the public record during his management of the private-equity firm Bain Capital from 1985 to 1999 is that Romney was fabulously successful in generating high returns for its investors. He did so, in large part, through heavy use of tax-deductible debt, usually to finance outsized dividends for the firm’s partners and investors. When some of the investments went bad, workers and creditors felt most of the pain. Romney privatized the gains and socialized the losses.

    Nice expose from Bloomberg…a well know “lefty” rag.

    The guy Romney is a fucking crook…a criminal.

  14. 14

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201.....st-romney/

    Rove accuses Obama of using ‘gutter politics’ against Romney

    By David Edwards

    Sunday, July 15, 2012 13:09 EDT

    The architect of former President George W. Bush’s controversial 2004 and 2008 campaigns is calling on President Barack Obama to stop using “gutter politics” to suggest presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney could be guilty of a felony by lying about when he left Bain Capital.

    After The Boston Globe revealed on Thursday that Romney was listed as the “sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president” of Bain even after he claimed he had retired in 1999, Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter noted that lying on SEC filings was a felony.

    TOO FUCKING FUNNY!

  15. 15

    A couple of related stories.

    Forbes, The Capitalist Tool, has 35 Questions Mitt Romney Must Answer About Bain Capital Before The Issue Can Go Away

    Because Slick Willard can’t answer most of these questions, he won’t even try.

    Next, Rmoney’s Senior Advisor and spokesperson, Ed Gillespie, seems today to have confirmed David Javerbaum’s March hypothesis A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney

    A bit of context. Before Mitt Romney, those seeking the presidency operated under the laws of so-called classical politics, laws still followed by traditional campaigners like Newt Gingrich. Under these Newtonian principles, a candidate’s position on an issue tends to stay at rest until an outside force — the Tea Party, say, or a six-figure credit line at Tiffany — compels him to alter his stance, at a speed commensurate with the size of the force (usually large) and in inverse proportion to the depth of his beliefs (invariably negligible). This alteration, framed as a positive by the candidate, then provokes an equal but opposite reaction among his rivals.

    But the Romney candidacy represents literally a quantum leap forward. It is governed by rules that are bizarre and appear to go against everyday experience and common sense.

    No, Javerbaum did not publish that column #retroactively.

  16. 16

    Did I see Mark Halperin in the Willard (R-Money) ad?

    Oh my! According to Puddydope, he’s a “leftist”..

    What’s he doing being used in a Willard (R-Money) ad?

    Puddydope must be wrong as usual…

  17. 17

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....74209.html

    Jason CherkisBecome a fan.

    jason.cherkis@huffingtonpost.com

    Mitt Romney Bain Capital Document Lists Him As ‘Managing Member’ In 2002

    Posted: 07/15/2012 9:36 am Updated: 07/15/2012 10:40 am

    WASHINGTON — Add another document to the pile of evidence contradicting Mitt Romney’s continued insistence that he ended his active role with Bain Capital in early 1999, part of his long-running effort to avoid responsibility for the company’s activity, related to outsourcing and bankruptcies, during the years that followed.

    A corporate document filed with the state of Massachusetts in December 2002 — a month after Romney was elected governor — lists him as one of two managing members of Bain Capital Investors, LLC “authorized to execute, acknowledge, deliver and record any recordable instrument purporting to affect an interest in real property, whether to be recorded with a Registry of Deeds or with a District Office of the Land Court.”

    Christ…when’s it going to stop? This is like a bad TV movie.

  18. 18

    HA’s crazed deranged databaze ylbfool asked about Mark Halperin…

    Mark Evan Halperin (born January 11, 1965)[1] is the senior political analyst for Time magazine, Time.com, and MSNBC – WikiPedia

    The last one proves my original post which was crazed databaze attack #68

    EPIC FAYLE #68!

    Gotta hand it to HA’s crazed deranged databaze ylbfool, he keeps flagellating himself. I guess he enjoys pain!

  19. 19

    61. Puddybud, identifying Zitz and FartAss as De Fools Dey Are spews:

    Halperin is a right wing tool

    Wrong again yelling loser boy. Halperin is a left wing tool. He’s been criticized for his biased coverage of GWBush.

    Whenever you see something you dislike you diarrhea with your stupid pronouncements. Remember your FireDogLake commentary?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    05/05/2011 at 4:23 am

    Hmmmmm…

    …I bet the puddypussy won’t try to explain how Halperin gets into a raw-money campaign ad.

    Typical lying fuck.

  20. 20

    In October 2004 the Drudge Report published a memo Halperin sent to ABC News staff about coverage of the U.S. presidential election directing them not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable” and that both John Kerry and George W. Bush used “distortion” in their campaign, but that Kerry’s distortions were not “central to his efforts to win.” – Mark Halperin

    The Prosecution Rests Your Honor. No sentient life form in ylb, just a wife sucking mooch!

    Nuff Said Sucka!

  21. 21

    I bet the puddypussy won’t try to explain how Halperin gets into a raw-money campaign ad.

    The same way Bob Schieffer got into a Mitt Romney campaign ad you moron!

    rujax = small black dickhead robot, used by DUMMOCRAPTS. You are just what the New Black Panthers claimed you to be… a whore and prostitute!

  22. 22

    Going to be fun watching the wingnuts over at SP twist themselves into knots defending the fraud Romney over the next 4 months.

  23. 23

    Oy, so this is what Puddy uses as evidence that Halperin is a lefty?

    Let’s quote the memo more completely:

    Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn’t mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable when the facts don’t warrant that. I’m sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage.

    This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions. It’s up to Kerry to defend himself, of course. But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the candidates are saying to serve the public interest. Now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right.

    In other words, Bush was more prolific and adept at lying than Kerry was, and Halperin pointing out the facts makes him a lefty. Hell, this is even better than the Alan Greenspan was a liberal claim.

    I think we’ll be remembering this for a long time; according to Puddy, if you tell the truth you’re a lefty.

  24. 24

    Too damn funny! Puddydope gets so twisted in knots when he’s exposed to be such an idiot right wing tool!

  25. 25

    The business press does not seem enamored with Slick Willard.

    Bloomberg Jul 15, 2012 3:30 PM PT

    Romney’s Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses

    Mitt Romney touts his business acumen and job-creation record as a key qualification for being the next U.S. president.

    What’s clear from a review of the public record during his management of the private-equity firm Bain Capital from 1985 to 1999 is that Romney was fabulously successful in generating high returns for its investors. He did so, in large part, through heavy use of tax-deductible debt, usually to finance outsized dividends for the firm’s partners and investors. When some of the investments went bad, workers and creditors felt most of the pain. Romney privatized the gains and socialized the losses.

    Feeding frenzy, indeed.

  26. 26

    Who do see in the R-Money ad:

    Bob Schiefer – moderate right winger, never hesitates to harshly criticize Dems.

    Bobo whathisname – unapologetic right wing tool who holds up the right wing end on the NY Times editorial page.

    Mark Halperin – embarrassing pseudo journalist who flagellates himself like a whipped dog before right wing morons like Hugh Hewitt.

    I like that ad. It’s hilarious!

  27. 27

    Don Joe,

    I see you too are a moron… Halperin is on MSNBC… what are the needed qualifications to be on MSNBC… A leftist! Halperin is on all the time. Now you can try and assert Michael Steele on MSNBC… but he’s only a contributor and you RARELY see him on MSNBC!

  29. 29

    Perhaps look at how much Obama has spent, virtually all of it going negative, and consider where it’s gotten him thus far.

    AP:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....73609.html

    That’s a hundred million dollars, shot, just in battleground states, and it’s only July.

    Small wonder Obama’s begging for cash and looking heavily at foreign sources for it. That money is gone, he’s even with Romney, there are nearly four months to go, and eventually the rich guy thing will grow old and his record will have to come up.

    Enjoy this, lefties. I suppose it wouldn’t surprise me if Biden is replaced, but I doubt you’ll see Romney replaced.

    Are you really going to talk rich guy for four more months?

    Really? That’s your plan?

  30. 30

    Bob Schiefer – moderate right winger

    Bwaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa

    Tooooooooooooooo

    Damnnnnnnnnnnnn

    Fuuunnnnnnnnnnny

  31. 31

    The slobbering libtard MSM is really afraid of Mitt. Why? All these attacks and Obummer is basically even with Mitt in latest Gallup Poll! There is way more attack from the leftist media than we saw on Obummer in 2008. Hillary was right. Dirty!

  38. 38

    “Bin Laden’s Dead, GM is Alive”?

    Bin Laden – used Bush’s pre-configured infrastructure! Set it up if the mission failed a navy admiral would be the fall guy!

    GM – Bush allocated $17.4 Billion. Obummer upped it to $62 Billion to cover his UAW peeps and threw out Bush’s loan preconditions. Obummer can’t stop crowing about how he saved Government Motors and the car industry. So rujax, if the Government Motors bailout is such a success story, why can’t it pay back its debt to taxpayers? Now how much does Government Motors owe the taxpayer?

    Man this rujax is a moron!

  39. 39

    GREAT…puddy is now against democracy.

    Where does it say illegal aliens can vote in any US Election rujax?

    Still stoooooooooooopid and another HA cellar dweller!

  40. 40

    39. Puddybud spews:

    GREAT…puddy is now against democracy.

    Where does it say illegal aliens can vote in any US Election rujax?

    Still stoooooooooooopid and another HA cellar dweller!

    07/15/2012 at 7:57 pm

    Florida and other state’s anti-voting laws disproportionately targets old people, students and minorities (particularly African American).

    Why does puddywhippedpussy hate African Americans for God’s sake?

  41. 41

    Florida and other state’s anti-voting laws disproportionately targets old people, students and minorities (particularly African American).

    PROVE IT!

    Watch, a DUMMOCRAPT leaning leftist blog will be his next entry.

    rujax, why are you a whore and prostitute to DUMMOCRAPTS?!? Where does it say illegal aliens can vote in any US Election rujax? – Yeah you can’t answer the question!

  42. 42

    41. Puddybud spews:

    Florida and other state’s anti-voting laws disproportionately targets old people, students and minorities (particularly African American).

    PROVE IT!

    Watch, a DUMMOCRAPT leaning leftist blog will be his next entry.

    rujax, why are you a whore and prostitute to DUMMOCRAPTS?!?

    07/15/2012 at 8:07 pm

    I’ll give the puddywhippedpussy same answer he gives everybody else:

    “Prove I’m wrong, asshole. PROVE the MASSIVE instances of voter fraud…YOU PROVE IT!!!! I’m NOT your fucking research assistant.”

  43. 43

    @33
    Last I checked this thread was about the complete implosion of your guy. That Romney’s the best you, and a whole lot of people like you, could come up with is laughable. If you look at what Romney did as Governor, his politics are closer to mine than than yours. Yet, that’s who you’ve got.

    But hey, it looks like you might have a second chance as Romney’s campaign just cratered. Maybe they’ll pick someone else at the convention.

  49. 49

    I’m trying to figure out how many Private Sector jobs Obama created before he became President?
    Is it…ZERO!
    This attack on Romney will come back to bite him.

    Obama is clueless about the Private Sector. he views it as a minefield for mining $$ to grow government.
    It’s mid-July.3-1/2 months to election day and Obama is shooting his load now. That’s called desperation. Romney is about to rope the dope.

  51. 51

    Notice when Obummercare tax was getting traction, the libtard press attacked Romney for Obummer.

    Remember ObummerCare is a tax!

  52. 52

    In other news…

    Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes

    And this was interesting…

    Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton’s delegation in the port city of Alexandria.

    A senior state department official said that neither Clinton nor her vehicle, which were around the corner from the incident, were struck by any of the projectiles. Protesters chanted: “Monica, Monica“, a reference to Former President Bill Clinton’s extra-marital affair. Some chanted: “leave, Clinton”, Egyptian security officials said.

  54. 54

    DNC, the economy is yours!

    So here is the punchline…

    “We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place”

  55. 55

    @ 27

    Halperin is on MSNBC…

    We get it, Puddy. If you tell the truth, you’re a leftist. You don’t have to keep repeating the point.

    As for the President’s record, I rather like this graph. That big jump in initial unemployment claims in early 2011 follows shortly after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. After running on a Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! platform, just how many jobs bills have the Republicans in the House of Representatives passed, Puddy? What’s the ratio of jobs bills to attempts to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act? Republicans in the House of Representatives own this economy now, Puddy. That’s a fact.

    Which brings us to Gov. Romney’s record. He certainly can’t run on his record as Governor of Massachusetts. His most significant political accomplishment was health care legislation that’s virtually indistinguishable from the Affordable Care Act.

    And, now, it looks like his business record is becoming even more toxic than his political record. That’s why the Romney campaign has been flailing about this past week. These are the only cards they have left to play, and they’re making their candidate look like an effete wuss (demanding an apology!?) in the process.

    Gov. Romney now has no record on which to run. And this is all before the Republican National Convention. By the time we get to the Republican National Convention, people’s stomachs are going to churn at the mere mention of Bain Capital. They’ll be showing videos at the Republican National Convention, and people are going to shut their TVs off.

    Sucks to be you, Puddy. I’d suggest you find some avocation other than wingnut sock-puppetry. ‘Course, you’re too stupid to take that advice, so you’ll be here entertaining us all into November.

  56. 56

    @Puddy everywhere:

    “OMG, Oh Noes, Mitt’s campaign just imploded! I must go online and try to keep members of the left distracted!”

    Sorry, the news is: your guy imploded.

  57. 57

    See, Romney’s imploding:

    Pres 2012: Republicans Scattering Over Romney’s Implosion
    Home » Uncategorized » Pres 2012: Republicans Scattering Over Romney’s Implosion
    Jul 15, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDem
    How do you know Mitt Romney’s campaign is falling apart? You look at Republican reactions to it.

    First there’s Karl Rove concern trolling:

    “The fact of the matter is that if the president continues to make this charge — this outrageous charge that his campaign had that Mitt Romney is guilty of felonious activity, could’ve committed a felony — that’s a big mistake,” Rove said, predicting the line of attack won’t help Obama with independent voters.

    If Karl Rove is out giving Democrats advice, you pretty much know you should do the exact opposite…

    That said, other Republicans aren’t being as kind to Romney. Conservative pundit and world’s oldest frat boy, Bill Kristol, is saying that Romney should just hurry up and release his tax returns:

    “Here’s what he should do. He should release the tax returns tomorrow,” Kristol said. “In this craze, you’ve got to release 6, 8, 10 years of back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two.”
    http://bluearkansasblog.com/?p=9508

    And all the righties are doing exactly what Puddy’s doing.

  58. 58

    Ha, ha, this is precious:

    GEORGE WILL: Absolutely. Mitt Romney has said he has released all that’s necessary for people to understand “something” about my finances. Now “something” is a pregnant word… The costs of not releasing the returns are clear, therefore he must have calculated there are higher costs to releasing them.

    Maybe Puddy thinks George Will is a leftist?

  60. 60

    If you tell the truth, you’re a leftist.

    Nope! Glenn Beck told the truth about Eqypt. Beck told the truth about Van Jones. SCOTUS Chief Justice told the truth about ObummerCare being a tax!

    Nuff SAID Sucka!

  61. 61

    @ 60

    SCOTUS Chief Justice told the truth about ObummerCare being a tax!

    An act for which the right has vilified him.

    Too. Damn. Funny.

  62. 62

    That’s because they wanted ObummerCare repealed. After thinking about it… ObummerCare is a tax. It’s his albatross!

  63. 63

    Oh Don Joe,

    Forgot one more thing… Glenn Beck was the first to tell the world about Obummer’s Truth Teams.

  64. 64

    But remember, anyone who earns less than $200,000 per year will not pay one dime any any new taxes at all, not income tax, not capital gains, not dividends, not any kind of new tax etc etc etc.

    But they will on average pay $1300 for Owebammacare IN NEW TAXES!

  65. 65

    More Progressive Thought in action…

    “The key aspect of constantly raising the middle class in my mind is to exclude the poor and the unemployed from the concept of the people and to exclude immigrant labor from the concept of what American politics is geared to. This concept of the middle class is an attempt to create a buffer zone or sense among the people that there is this other group of people that are not part of the middle class that they have no relationship to at the bottom, the immigrants, poor and largely people of color. The key responsibility for progressives in my mind is to reject this concept of the middle class from my perspective as a journalist, buying into the middle class paradigm is the beginning of a dulling of the consciousness for working people in America in the 21st Century.” Juan Gonzalez – Democracy Now

    Wow you progressives are a strange bunch! How telling…

  66. 66

    Microsoft is leaving MSNBC…

    Finally got rid of that simpleton group! Maybe MSNBC will deliver real information!

  68. 68

    Owebamma is on track to spend 12 trillion dollars more than the government even takes in, more than doubling the entire national debt of the last 230 years.

    That is hardly something to be proud of in an election year. We are heading toward a Financial cliff, and these are not just my words they are all over the financial news today, if someone does not put this country on a path to financial control, we will fail as Europe is failing. These massive social programs cannot be sustained at current levels. Period!

  69. 69

    I have some questions for the Fascists that come in here, and you know who you are.

    1) If you are criticizing Obamas “negative” campaign advertisements, and accepting Karl roves assessment of them, how then can you justify Mr. Roves use of words like “coward” and “intellectually anti-American” when he was advising the campaign of Saxby Chambliss against Max Cleland, a three-time-decorated United States Army officer and Vietnam Veteran, while also using a whisper campaign of him self-inflicting his wounds that left him a triple-amputee?

    2) If you seem to believe that Mr Romney is an honest man, why then did Mr. Romney order the destruction of all records pertaining to his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts in the final days of his administration as Governor?

    3) If you seem to believe that Mr. Romney is an honest man concerning his tenure as CEO, President and sole owner of Bain Capital, Why then is there an obvious conflict between his statements that he left Bain to run the Olympic Committee in 1999, while testifying before Congress while under oath in 2002, that he was still in charge of Bain Capital at that time?

    4) It is a Felony to knowingly file false statements to the SEC. With this in mind, how can you rationalize Mr. Romney’s sworn testimony that he left Bain Capital in 1999, while filing documents with the SEC in late 2002 that he was still in charge of operations at the firm, receiving salary and taking dividends from that Company?

    5) If you seem to believe that Mr. Romney is an honest man and worthy of holding the office of the President of the United States, why then is he hiding foreign income, and maintaining bank accounts in the same foreign banks that the drug Cartels in Mexico and Columbia use to invest their money in the US Stock market?

    Answer those questions, Fascists. Answer them as honestly as you can without rhetoric or hyperbole.

  70. 70

    So, Glenn Beck is Puddy’s standard of truthfulness. This Glenn Beck:

    When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s

    When the Muslim Brotherhood actually establishes some kind of Caliphate, get back to us on Glenn Beck’s truthfulness. Until then, you’ve only managed to prove my point.

    To steer this back on topic, no one typifies Republican mendacity quite like Gov. Romney, who is currently running the most fact-free and dishonest campaign in the history of American Presidential politics.

    If “the ACA is a Tax!” ends up being the Republican rallying cry, then Republicans are fucked.

  71. 71

    Gov. Romney, who is currently running the most fact-free and dishonest campaign in the history of American Presidential politics.

    fact-free and dishonest.. Damn! No wonder Puddybud supports this guy!

  72. 72

    Signs that the Obama Re-Election campaign is working:

    Republican talking heads show up on Sunday morning talk shows to demand that the President “apologize” for his campaign use of Romney’s own words and signed documents against him.

    Puddy shows up on HA to try to change the subject (again).

  73. 73

    The truth is that the President is a known entity. We know how he will perform in office. If Republicans don’t like that performance, they are free to vote for Romney, Ron Paul, or Ross Perot for that matter, or anyone else who appeals to them.

    Romney, on the other hand, is a squishy pile of mud who has spent most of his career trying to avoid taking a principled stand on – well, anything. Heck, he can’t even declare which state he lives in anymore, or when he left Bain Capital, or release his tax returns to show he had nothing to hide.

    Like an entitled brat, he acts like “you HAVE to believe him”, unless you have a smoking gun which says otherwise, in which case he will change his story again anyway.

    Mitt’s not used to the level of scrutiny he’s receiving. The “help” just doesn’t talk to him that way. The written record doesn’t support what Romney claims is the truth. His flip-flopping from one explanation to another looks like a fish that’s just been landed on the boat, desperately tryng to regain the safety of the water.

  75. 75

    Only one, ONE post from Serial “Makes fun of the looks of African American girls and then claims it was a JOKE and he’s not a bigot” Conservative on Romney and that was an attempt to change the subject. Typical conservative troll. Strive to tear the Democrats down, but won’t stand UP for his republicans and their values.

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    When the Muslim Brotherhood actually establishes some kind of Caliphate, get back to us on Glenn Beck’s truthfulness. Until then, you’ve only managed to prove my point.

    Having been paying attention have you. They just kidnapped two black peeps from a religious pilgrimage!

    Stupid and staying that way!

  79. 79

    In response to my reference to the Caliphate, Puddy @78, said,

    Having been paying attention have you. They just kidnapped two black peeps from a religious pilgrimage!

    Undoubtedly, Puddy’s referring to these two tourists:

    Two Massachusetts tourists abducted in Egypt’s mountainous Sinai region were freed on Monday after three days in captivity, the local head of state security said.

    Egyptian authorities had sought help from local tribal leaders to mediate with a Bedouin tribesman who kidnapped Michel Louis, a Boston pastor, mother-of-two Lissa Alphonse of Everett, Massachusetts, and their Egyptian guide on Friday to protest at the jailing of his uncle on drug charges.

    Got that? Egyptian authorities, who are led by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, have secured the release of these tourists who were, in fact, kidnapped by Bedouin tribesman.

    What any of this has to do with the establishment of a Caliphate is a mystery that not even Puddy can solve.

    But on this:

    Was Glenn Beck right on those topics?

    We know. Glenn Beck was not correct on these topics. The political events in Egypt have not, in fact, led to the establishment of a Caliphate.

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