WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney sought on Tuesday to quell the controversy surrounding his comments disparaging nearly half of the electorate, attempting to engage in a philosophical debate over the role of government even as some in his party began distancing themselves from their presidential standard-bearer.
As the full 49-minute video from a private May fund-raiser emerged online, Romney largely stuck with his controversial comment that President Obama’s supporters are “dependent on government,” even as he acknowledged that some among his targeted 47 percent cannot be so easily categorized.
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I am beginning to think that Romney is a Democratic Party plant ..... he can't really be this stupid a candidate can he that he would say these things in front of people he doesn't know, even if they are major donors. If he thinks it (and I am not saying his thoughts are right) wouldn't it be wise to reserve those comments for the inner circle? Or is he just so desparate to be President that he will say anything he thinks his audience wants to hear? I keep hearing Ann Romney in an interview say "it is our turn" .... their turn for what? Making a fool of himself. Joe Scarborough this morning said he wants to put a paper bag over his head until after the election. Romney is going to be the laughing stock and will have to go live in the Caymen Islands with his money.
Make sure you get copywrite protection for your comment. If Obama wins in November you can expect 'anti-liberal/Democrat/Obama talk/schlock/jocks on radio, cable and the internet will use that as a basis for four more years of partisan attacks. You might as well reap royalty payments for it.
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Here goes the Glob with another "gotcha" item re Mitt Romney. Yet this journal that likes to consider itself some sort of "newspaper of record" at the regional level ignores after a brief one-day run the tale of the American ambassadress to the United Nations, Susan Rice, who was wakened early this past Sunday and told to go appear on not one, not two, not even three, but five of the very influential Sunday morning television news talk programs. And she spewed the same line about the Benghazi, Libya attack that took the lives of a U.S. ambassador and three American diplomatic employees - it was that terrible movie trailer produced by some guy in California who claimed first to be jewish and later admitted to being a Coptic Christian from Egypt. But no Islamic militias did it, claimed this Rice lady who touts her doctorship. No matter that the Libyan president said, in English, that a militia with a title including the word "Shariya" (Islamic law) had a significant role. Rice disappeared after her fast round of talk shows. And two days later, so pretty much has the speculation that there was general intelligence warning that American diplomatic posts in the Middle East might be targeted. Just the Obama-dictated Rice hype of the nasty little movie trailer that demonized the Islamic prophet. Another example of a blame game by the guy who wants to think he is a commander-in-chief that is at least the equal of Truman and Wilson, and the Chicago gang of lackies that seem to run him, his White House and his presidential campaign. Talk about spookey!!
Let me see if I can explain the difference. The scenario described in the article actually happened. Romney said the words. You can watch them on youtube. The scenario you describe is conspiratorial fantasy. It exists only in your head (and probably over on Free Republic and breitbart).
Is this the fundraiser where an almost certainly Democratic operative somehow penetrated a Romney fundraiser with a teeney secret video camera? And is that operative a scion of an American presidential family with the surname Carter? And does the operative have the first name James, something like the legal first name of President Jimmy Carter? And Mother Jones? Sure, that is an extremely likely left-listed publication that everybody would go to with a perhaps illicitly-obtained videotape perceived as hurting Romney. So the bottom question is, is release of these two videotapes (Romney on Palestinians and Romney on the 47%) a contribution by the Carter clan to the Obama effort, perhaps made to avenge GOP accusations that Obama's presidency is as weak as Carter's was during the Iran hostage crisis?
So what? That's politics. Both Obama and Romney deserve whatever negative flak they reap from unwise comments.
Perhaps the Romneys were expecting a warm Thanksgiving dinner invitation and Christian (Mormon?) forgiveness from the Carter family in return for the Republican portrayal of Jimmy Carter?
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“The American people are not concentrated at all on China, on Russia, Iran, Iraq,” he added.
And if Romney's statements here and actions while abroad reflect his "concentration" we should be afraid. But give the devil his due...he didn't tell any Polish jokes in Poland.
again, he is correct. Since O is playing dirty he just needs to come out and say, yes, this is true and ere is why.
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Hey...all I know is that Obama is always wrong so Romney must always be correct! All the tinfoil hat wearers tell me that that is so, so it must be so!
The Republican Party simply does not get it. Romney IS the Republican brand. It is a brand that began with the Tea Bag Party and ends with Mitt Romney loosing Because people need help, the economy needs help, Wall Street needs to be regulated to within an inch of its life because of the egregious things it has done. People have actually died over this with no job, no health care or they are living in squalor in motels, cars and under bridges with no home and worse as if it could be worse many have even committed suicide. I would say that doesn't merely SAY regulation that SCREAMS for it. When that happens government is NOT the problem it's PART I say PART of the the solution but Republicans can simply never ever admit that FDR had it right. First government must try something and if that doesn't work it tries something else but at least try. Money flowing from the top down did not work in 1932 and surely WILL NOT work now. We've played that Las Vegas-like game over 40 years and lost big and THAT is what is wrong with Mitt Romney. The fault dear Brutus is not in Mitt Romney it's in the Party and you will NEVER EVER EVER be able to right that ship until the Party makes a course correction left and the Party will NEVER do that. So the Republican Party will be a corpse unless and until it realizes that it MUST!
Romney was a round peg TRYING to fit into a square hole and now he has NO idea what he is or how to fit himself. He's LOST, unsure and I believe his basic nature IF one can find it is more like his father. It MUST hurt him so to want something so badly but he must say and do such unethical things with his OWN taxes and sputter such inhumane thoughts to get it. I personally could NEVER live with myself but then again I'm a Democrat because even with some of the bad that Party has much humanity and good it eclipses Republicans by miles. It can and if prayerfully a Congress of Republican know nothings, obstructionists and disloyalists pays the price it will gain power back in November.
Americans, the majority of you are NOT the 1% and NEVER on God's good earth will be!
As for his foreign policy blunders -- well that's another story but my holy god when I heard what he said about the lack of understaning of nuclear fission I became nauseated. Seriously my stomach turned. Forgive him, Father, for he knows not what he does. Thank God we found out in time!
Mitt Romney is not talking about the elderly, veterans or unemployed, but those that make it their life work to and democrats push gaming the system. Why have we had 3.6 million people go on SSI since Pres. Obama became president or an increase in food stamps (EBT) to 47 million people (we know how those EBT cards work...and not for food.
This is who he is talking about: a police officer on detail and I were talking today (regarding redistribution of wealth by Pres. Obama) and he was telling me a fellow police doing duty in the social security office when a drug addict came in to CLAIM SSI because he is an addict and cannot work...and this drug addict not only got his SSI claim but they are going to give him retroactive compensation back to the time he became addicted to cocaine...total amount he will get about $42 thousand dollars....and you know where that money is going up his nose......so all you suckers that work extra, pay your bills, are paying for losers like this one...
This is not some elderly person but a dirt bag...and it is going on all the time, also a family with children having a ADHD problem can collect SSI at $700.00 per month for each child. Now two of my children had reading disabilities and no way were they paid or should be paid for this type of problem. You wonder why this country is broke because of liberals that like to spend other people's money and another example the wife killer getting a s#ex change on the taxpayers dime and then we have to pay his lawyers and that is not going to be cheap. I think that money should be used on our disabled veterans not a wife killer.
Time to look at what we are spending and cut the fraud & waste.
This has been the face of the Republican party since 2000. Glad Mitt couldn't manage to keep his mouth shut. The Tea Bag-ger party needs to disappear before they ruin the country.
"Appearing on David Letterman’s show, Obama said that anyone who wants to be president has to “work for everyone, not just for some"---Yes, that's our President busy at work.--On the DAVID LETTERMAN Show!--Mideast is in FLAMES, Barack Obama parties and CAMPAIGNS.--Too busy to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu. Nice Job by our president, who single handedly put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt and Libya.
"Nice Job by our president, who single handedly put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt and Libya." WOW. Obama is running three countires at once? By HIMSELF? Almoast as IMPRESSIVE as randomly capitalizing WORDS.
to @esfdsdf Which three countries is Obama running? One of them is definitely NOT the U.S. Right now he is helping out radical Muslims in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon (Hezbollah), and especially, IRAN
I think Obama's view of the Palestinians is about the same as Romney's. That's why his administration has pretty much disengaged from the peace process.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with what he said. Good for you Mitt! Watching the northern ireland conflicts over the last 70 years you see nothing was done until they sat to talk. Palestine will lose all backing from all of the countries that hate Israel so they will not accept peace.
We need tough love to get us out of this hole we are in and Obama has proven he cannot say no to any social welfare program. If anything needs to be regulated it is those programs not business. Mass health is 22Billion a year with 10 B coming from Obama. In 2005 it was 8 billion. The recession did put more people on it but most have homes and assets they should not get free healthcare. These are the cadillac plans obamacare goes after. Mass health covers everything,transplants,home health visits you name it. A persons net worth should be established then pro rate the benifits from there. This all or nothing is consuming our society.
How about the new video of Pres. Obama speaking at Loyola University 10/19/198 stating he believes in distribution of wealth...same thing he said in 2008 to Joe the plumber.
Just like communism...everyone no matter how hard you work should be equal....many wealthy people donate millions to help others besides creating jobs......you didn't build that....he doesn't care if you worked 80 hours a week to start your business and maybe mortgaged your home...it really isn't yours...spread the wealth but don't spread his or Liz Warrens.
We should believe what he is saying...Cuba, Venezuela here we come.
Do you think Pres. Obama will now have time to gather his security advisors instead of being on
Limp the Pimp, David Lettermen, and Jay-z and fund raiser in Las Vagas or are those appearances more important then our embassies security.