WTF? I mean, WTF? (updated, WTF?)

[ProSense]

Gary Shapiro

Mr. President, Stop the Personal Attacks

Dear President Obama,

I thank you for your service to our nation and applaud your passion on many issues including health care, gay marriage and a compassionate approach to immigration reform. You are an admirable politician and a level-headed president.

But I ask you to consider how your campaign strategists, in an understandable desire to win, diminish you in their efforts to demean your opponent, Mitt Romney.

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Putting aside the unauthorized comments, like from Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen who said, "Anne Romney never worked a day in her life," consider these other malicious attacks:

The attacks on Bain. You and your allies have continued to spend millions on ads attacking Mitt Romney with half-truths and allegations about Bain, often for things that never occurred or did not occur while he was there. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker, a Democrat, found the attack "nauseating." Steve Rattner, formerly President Obama's car czar, called it "unfair." Former President Bill Clinton agreed that Romney was a successful businessman and qualified to be president. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, also a Democrat, called the attack "disappointing." Mitt Romney created and ran a successful company. The Bain smear campaign is beneath you. And you should apologize and fire your campaign official who said Romney committed a "felony."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/mr-president-stop-the-per_b_1695698.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012

Dear Gary Shapiro, you're an ass!

Forbes: 35 Questions Mitt Romney Must Answer About Bain Capital Before The Issue Can Go Away
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjwalker/2012/07/14/35-questions-mitt-romney-must-answer-about-bain-capital-before-the-issue-can-go-away/

Obama campaign memo: Unanswered Questions About Mitt Romney’s “Retroactive Retirement”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002956292

Yes, Romney Perjured Himself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002960206

Romney loses WaPo fact checker Glenn Kessler
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002980717

Mother Jones finds two more major Romney outsourcing investments
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002990305

Mitt Romney losing the Bain battle, ctd.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002985084

Keep Bain alive!


Updated to add this since Shapiro mentions Clinton:

Bill Clinton: ‘A Little Odd’ Romney Only Released Tax Returns For One Year

Former President Bill Clinton said scrutinizing Mitt Romney’s offshore investments is fair game in this election. Speaking to NBC’s “Today,” Clinton said he is “perplexed” that Romney only released a year’s worth of tax returns. “That struck me as a little odd,” he said.

Watch the interview:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/bill-clinton-little-odd-romney-only-released-tax

Release the tax returns.

[AtomicKitten]

1. Dear Mr. Shapiro: Go Cheney yourself.

[Scuba]

2. Gary must not have mirrors in his house.

[freshwest]

30. He works for a VAMPIRE capitalist. No mirrors allowed. If Mitt corners the garlic market, look out!

[The Magistrate]

3. Who Is This Turlingdrome, Ma'am?

What a nimrod! What a ultra-maroon!

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

[ProSense]

7. He's

"President and CEO, the Consumer Electronics Association"

Still, is this a joke or was he drunk when he wrote it (or did Romney pay him)?

You should hold yourself above the attacks from your campaign. They only serve to diminish you. As for Governor Romney, he too has accused you of European-style socialism -- but this is not a personal attack -- it is a judgment of your economic views. To his credit, Mr. Romney and his surrogates are not mentioning personal issues in your background.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. And why won't he swutting well shut up?

Well played, Sir - Hitch-Hiker's insults need a wider audience.

He's the head of an electronic manufacturer's trade group. So he won't want nasty things said about companies that do a lot of heavy outsourcing, like the 2 electronics firms in the Bain Capital cover-up.

[freshwest]

17. +1

[lpbk2713]

4. The truth to rethugs is like daylight to Dracula.

Me? I'm LMAO here.





[big] "WAAAH!! No fair!! Stop telling the TRUTH !!" [/big]

[Tsiyu]

16. Perfect, LMAO too

Guess Shapiro is another delicate, precious, frail flower.

Defending Bain? Really?

If this lunatic hack had any conscience, he'd be defending all the Americans Bain screwed out of an honest living.

But poor, poor Rmoney needs the love more, I suppose. Rmoney doesn't have enough $$$$$$$ yet...

My message to Obama: Keep attacking Rmoney. The American people need to hear the truth for a change.

[freshwest]

18. +1,000 for getting right down to it!!

[Tsiyu]

23. Kickety kickety

so all may see and spread far and wide.



Oops!

[freshwest]

26. Same goes for the media... People need to THINK:

[Tsiyu]

28. Very. very nice!

[Motown_Johnny]

5. AOL owns Huff Po now

and AOL stands for Absence Of Liberals.

Just more Right Wing garbage.

[freshwest]

29. I remember the BFI pushing AOL, and wouldn't have anything to do with it. They demand and are..

Getting total message control for the zombie armies. They are enemies of all living beings that don't obey these odious ones.

Mitt = Bain = Clear Channel = Rush = Beck = Hannity = Savage

And AOL = Absence Of Liberals. I'll remember that one. Don't forget that Breitbart helped set up Huffpo with Arianna.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Run, rabbit run!

[lunatica]

8. But he's soooo concerned!

LOL!

[onenote]

9. Gary Shapiro is a pompous ass who last year called the Obama administration

the "most anti-business administration" in Shapiro's lifetime. Which was a rather impolitic thing to say for the head of a trade association that has to deal with members of both parties (and an FCC headed by an Obama appointee).

[Angry Dragon]

10. It must be because the republicans are the only party to do personal attacks

Willard is a strange man

[Initech]

12. A guy who made millions outsourcing and gutting companies of their assets is not to be trusted on economic issues.

Keep Bain alive!!

[spanone]

13. gary, your concern is duly noted and ridiculed.

[freshwest]

19. Hahahaha!

[ProSense]

25. Yeah:

The "attacks" aren't working, but we demand that you stop them, now!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. The more they whine, the more you know you hit the bullseye

[Life Long Dem]

15. "Former President Bill Clinton agreed that Romney was a successful businessman and

qualified to be president." So end the damn attacks! Not gonna happen.

[freshwest]

20. Obama wanted to talk about issues. Instead you lie continually like what's linked below.

Romney's "We Did Build It!" banner based on a lie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125159252

Sorry, but we know your game. Obama has even asked for a philosophical discussion about how to bring the country back to full prosperity and all you've had is lies and hysterical screams of 'socialist' through your many paid shills:



So, screw you and the robot you rode in on!

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

[flamingdem]

22. W & T & F

[steve2470]

24. k&r nt

[bluestateguy]

27. Double down on the attacks. Double the ad buys. Step up the rhetoric.

That's what Rove would do were the Democrat the one with the Bain ties.

When they stop attacking working people and putting people out of work, we'll talk about lowering the rhetoric.

[ProSense]

31. Yup! n/t

[HappyMe]

32. Call the waaahmbulance!

Someone haz an owie!