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Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:40 PM

Romney aide: Obama's student loan slow jam was "off key"

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Source: CBS News

(CBS News) Will we ever see presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney follow in President Obama's footsteps and slow jam the news?

Maybe, Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said on Saturday, but not at the risk of making light of the struggles of youth voters - a bloc with which the Romney campaign is trying to make inroads.

Mr. Obama amused some and irked others when he appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday night and talked about keeping student loan rates low, over a beat laid down by The Roots.

The Romney campaign didn't seem to find it funny.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57423687-503544/romney-aide-obama-slow-jam-was-off-key/





Nothing rMoney says in this "top ten" on David Letterman is in the slightest way Presidential. He comes across as a total joke.

On the other hand, everything Obama says in the "slow jam" is very Presidential and very serious.

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Reply Romney aide: Obama's student loan slow jam was "off key" (Original post)
truthisfreedom Apr 2012 OP
The Magistrate Apr 2012 #1
Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #11
Kalidurga Apr 2012 #12
Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #17
pepperbear Apr 2012 #2
The Magistrate Apr 2012 #8
Daveparts3 Apr 2012 #3
yardwork Apr 2012 #4
Grassy Knoll Apr 2012 #5
Jamaal510 Apr 2012 #7
surrealAmerican Apr 2012 #6
0rganism Apr 2012 #9
obxhead Apr 2012 #10
Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2012 #13
southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #14
goclark Apr 2012 #16
southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #18
goclark Apr 2012 #21
southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #24
JI7 Apr 2012 #26
CreekDog Apr 2012 #15
LaydeeBug Apr 2012 #19
RainDog Apr 2012 #20
sofa king Apr 2012 #29
RainDog Apr 2012 #30
goclark Apr 2012 #22
madrchsod Apr 2012 #23
deacon Apr 2012 #25
SemperEadem Apr 2012 #27
SemperEadem Apr 2012 #28
RBInMaine Apr 2012 #31
Drunken Irishman Apr 2012 #32
Guerrilla23 Apr 2012 #33
karynnj Apr 2012 #34

Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:47 PM

1. That, Sir, is Like Being Called Ugly By A Frog: Romney Is 'Off Key' Whenever He Speaks

About the only thing that seems to come natural to him is awkward moments and firing people....

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Response to The Magistrate (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:50 PM

11. Rmoney knows from off-tune, sir.

This is one battle I'll give him. He wins the battle of can't-carry-a-tune-in-a-bucket

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #11)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:04 PM

12. I am going to spit and sputter for a bit.

Did you see the end of that clip. I dunno what that woman is, but she is vile for sure. She was implying that liking Al Green wasn't very patriotic. That somehow Al Green and American is less American than America the Beautiful. Is she for f'n real?

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Response to Kalidurga (Reply #12)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:54 PM

17. It was Piers Morgan's show, so no telling.

Probably someone they found walking down the street and a producer grabbed her as "close enough for national TV".

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:55 PM

2. LOL! The president "made light" of the struggles of students....Uh, actually, NO.

He used the "spoonful of sugar" method, and he got his message DIRECTLY to the demo for which it was meant.

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Response to pepperbear (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:33 PM

8. Romney's 'Borrow From Dad' Advice, Sir, Certainly Made Light Of Srtudent Struggles

These people never accuse anyone of something they do not do as a matter of course themselves.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:55 PM

3. The Romney Camp

doesn't have much to laugh at, outside of themselves.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:58 PM

4. It's nice to have a cool president. knr

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:02 PM

5. How dare Obama be cool.....

War on Woman...
War on the Poor..
War on Students...
and now Ladies & Gentleman the war on COOL.

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Response to Grassy Knoll (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:19 PM

7. Republicans love wars, don't they?

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:02 PM

6. So is the Romney campaign suggesting ...

... that Obama should "keep his day job"?


I thought he did quite well.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:39 PM

9. whereas Romney's renditions of "America the Beautiful" are... what?

Hell, there isn't even a key involved most of the time.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:40 PM

10. Letterman looked like he was really struggling with that bit.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:21 PM

13. Romney is inspiring as a wet lettuce

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:21 PM

14. Here is the thing. Those who saw the slow jam news understand what it was about. So

you ask any college kid they know what it meant. Mittens will never get it. Sorry to say. The president went where the votes are and I think it was wonderful. We had 2 really cool presidents. Clinton and Obama. Republicans know they are cool. They don't have to cheat to get their votes unlike what the republicans are doing accross this country by disenfrenchising students and others.

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Response to southernyankeebelle (Reply #14)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:52 PM

16. Mitt looked like an Ironing Board

walking out on the stage.

He was one stuck up boring man --- please America don't get this fool anywhere near the White House.

Don't even let him in for the Everyday Tour

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Response to goclark (Reply #16)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 08:08 PM

18. We need to motivate the young people to vote this time around. It is so very important for their

future. Pass it around.

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Response to southernyankeebelle (Reply #18)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 08:54 PM

21. Absolutely the young are really important

I was watching Malisa Perry on MSNBC a few minutes ago.
She was highlighting the importance of the youth vote.
One of the guests mentioned how well President Obama relates and how excited she is to "Get Out The Vote."

What I worry about is the Rethugs Voting Laws making so many not able to vote that will be blocked out of the voting process by the evil Republicans.

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Response to goclark (Reply #21)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 10:28 PM

24. Me too.

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Response to goclark (Reply #16)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:51 AM

26. i clicked on that just to see him walk out based on what you said

and it was worse than i imagined.

he is the presumed nominee of a major party and he gets some weak applause.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:46 PM

15. Romney is tone deaf, so I'm sure he wouldn't have noticed, nor done better

when Romney gets creative we hear that "trees are the right height".

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 08:28 PM

19. no it wasn't. nt

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 08:32 PM

20. LOL. Republicans are so desperate

People DO NOT WANT the policies they propose - so they try to find other ways to make the issues about another politician rather than their own worthless policy positions.

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Response to RainDog (Reply #20)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:13 AM

29. It's funny, isn't it?

The last and best weapon they have is projecting their own liabilities onto the other candidate.

That got it close enough for them to steal in 2004, but it won't work at all now because the President has the option to steer the debate whenever he wishes.

However, the drones will still be among us here, desperately trying to sell the threadbare lies of "there is no difference between parties," "this guy is as bad as we were," and "we should consider candidates based upon their individual qualities, not their party allegiance."

But as I have said innumerable times before, catapulting lies only works until the public has been bitten in the ass by the truth, and every one of us bears Republican scars.

They're done. It's going to take at least two election cycles, including this one, to completely de-fang them, but it seems inevitable to me that by 2014 the GOP will be a pale shadow of the evil force of nature it once was. There is simply nothing left to steal, and that's all they can do.

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Response to sofa king (Reply #29)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:20 PM

30. I hope you're right

in your view of how to change these things.

the problem that I see in this nation is that so many people in this nation are reactionary. sometimes on both ends of the political spectrum - but the side that continues to force right wing positions into policy doesn't care that they are so far outside of the desires of the majority of the people here when it comes to laws that govern our interactions.

I think the Democratic party could do a lot better - push more for the issues that matter - because, unlike the Republicans and their positions, the majority of Americans favor a nation with greater wealth equality, opportunity for all, an expanded middle class, healthcare no matter one's station in life... it does no good to find a middle ground with extremists - that's no longer middle ground.

I certainly do not agree with every action taken by this president or any other one that I know of throughout history - that's not how political life works, tho.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 09:08 PM

22. Dave was very kind

Mi$$ was stiff as ice with a smile.

What a zero.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 09:40 PM

23. mittens is the most uninteresting man in the world

he is so uninteresting that the only way anyone pays attention to him is when he shades the truth.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:40 AM

25. Romney is GW II.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 10:45 AM

27. Where's the DUer with the skateboarding chick sig picture?

Haters gon' hate! ROFL!

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 10:48 AM

28. guess rmoney's coaching

by the osmond brothers isn't doing the job.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:54 PM

31. CBS REPUBLICAN CORPORATE SHIT NEWS. Nuff Said.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:18 AM

32. Just face it, Democrats are cooler than Republicans...





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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 09:55 AM

33. The Who said:

We won't be fooled again.

And that Who is us.

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Response to truthisfreedom (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 10:29 AM

34. Uhm - "off key" - I wouldn't go there if I were a Romney adviser

Ignoring the adviser's point - which was pretty strange itself - that it made light of the student's plight, the President can sing and too many of us remember that his opponent was pretty off key when he sang. (I still can't believe how much he sang - as he missed notes and lost the tune - just to prove I guess that he knew the words.)

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