Arianna Huffington plans to vote Obama, might switch if Romney advocates Afghanistan pullout
Source: The Daily Caller
TAMPA, Fla. Arianna Huffington currently plans to vote for President Barack Obama in November. Huffington told The Daily Caller, however, that she has been disappointed by Obamas first term and would consider voting for Mitt Romney if the Republican candidate advocates an end to U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.
My vote does not depend on a particular party, like, Im not reflexively voting a particular party, but I will vote for Obama, Huffington told TheDC during a sit-down interview following an event about American entrepreneurs and job creators she hosted in Tampa on Wednesday.
Huffington reflected on her disappointment with Obama for campaigning on bold ideas, but instead governing as a timid president. And despite pledging her support to the president, Huffington said she wasnt sure he would change for the better in a second term.
I dont know. I think, as I said on The Huffington Post, its Obama versus Obama as well as Obama versus Romney, she said. We dont know whether the campaigning Obama of bold ideas or the governing Obama, whos been much more timid, is going to be the second term Obama if he wins.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/29/arianna-huffington-plans-to-vote-obama-might-switch-if-romney-advocates-afghanistan-pullout/
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)and the horse she rode in on.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Breitbarts role as Drudges right hand is well known; less public was his brief, memorable stint as one of four partners in the Huffington Post in 2005. Its a story that hasnt been told in great detail, but BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who also co-founded the Huffington Post with the sites namesake Arianna Huffington and media business figure Ken Lerer, recalled that period in an interview today.
Breitbarts role later became contested he brashly claimed total credit for the plan, which his former partners denied but he was an unmissable presence in the Soho office that was for a time Huffington Posts New York headquarters. There, for a month in the spring of 2005, he worked closely with Lerer (who is now Chairman of BuzzFeed), and Peretti, a graduate of MITs media lab, to launch the site...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/how-andrew-breitbart-helped-launch-huffington-post
FarPoint
(12,178 posts)I never knew any of that......what a wicked web they weave.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Her site has been getting less and less pro dem and in some cases shows signs of foxlike GOP bursts of bullshit. Anyone that can change vote on one issue is not a democrat and not smart and certainly not deserving of ever visiting her site again.
I barely do now anyway since she sold out, but she looks like she is Arianna flip flopper. Used to be repiglican didn't she? Perhaps now she has enough money with what she ripped everyone else out of with that sale, and has hung around the pigs long enough that she wants to go home.
Go, you stupid bitch, go back to the pigs and wallow.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Do you remember Arianna Huffington the conservative Republican? She and her husband Michael exploded on the political scene of the California Central Coast in 1992...
Unseating an incumbent cost millions and that was just the primary. Then there was the general election.
He spent $5.4 million, a national record, for a lot of negative television commercials, $5.1 million of his own oil fortune was poured into the race...
http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2008/09/arianna-huffington-conservative-republican/
Arianna Huffington Thinks Paul Ryan Is Like George Clooney
Arianna Huffington seemingly had a different opinion. According to the media mogul, Paul Ryan is more like Hollywood star George Clooney.
Hes like, a bit of a heartthrob, she explained, adding: He also looks good without a shirt.
She continued, adding a bit of criticism for the heartthrob: When hes next to Romney, Romney has a kind of twinkle in his eye. But heres the problem its a little bit you know how you fall in love with a woman because shes feisty, independent, has her own views and then you get married, and immediately you want to turn her into a doormat. And thats happened to Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan has become a doormat.
Pardon the source, which is wing nut but the video which is from Bill Maher's Real Time segment, shows that the quote is accurate:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hear-why-arianna-huffington-thinks-paul-ryan-is-like-george-clooney/
I could beat this dead horse a while longer, but no, I tell people there really is no liberal media. Just a few crumbs tossed to keep us swallowing subliminally the Reich wing message. Which is always that we and our views are weak, unwanted and we are the minority in the country. Not true.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)he wouldn't have this many children ...
freshwest
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)kimbutgar
(20,762 posts)still_one
(91,807 posts)Only pissed at her ex so she played the game to get back at him
BeyondGeography
(39,225 posts)I guess the war Romney would start with Iran doesn't faze her at all. Such phony "non-partisan" crap.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)something to the tune of "the site that reposts the most news from other sites"?
Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)of the Rude Pundit's comment yesterday about USA Today: "Their motto: Sometimes news gets in here."
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)She wants to be "shocking"
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Yeah.. vote for the WAR monger if he SAYS he'd pull the troops out. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Does she think these comments through, at all? The President has a PLAN in place, that will get us out of the war he did NOT start. But Huffington will consider voting for the Military Industrial Complex Candidate? Really? Yeah, the troops will leave Afghanistan, on their way to Iran and Syria, you twit.
"ooh.. I'm just soooo disappointed in the President." Again, is she stupid? Does she understand that the republican Congress pretty much put a wrench in everything 2 years ago? The President has brought back many industries, the housing market is booming, we've had PRIVATE sector job growth for 29 months. Did she not get her pony he promised? WTF?
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)She's just as big corporate as the Repugs .. who really cares who she votes for or what she has to say. Oh yeah, like voting for Mitt is going to be her anti-vote against Obama. She's an idiot.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)This woman changes like the wind. She's an opportunist.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)I guess Trump calling her ugly wasn't enough. Shes still shilling for these fools
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)now I feel re-energized.
If someone posts a hufpo link, I will track down the original story from the people who actually did all the work and post it to the thread, and they will FEEL THE SHAME.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Huffington was accused of plagiarism for copying material for her book Maria Callas (1981); the claims were settled out of court in 1981, with Callas' biographer Gerald Fitzgerald being paid "in the low five figures."[28][29][30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)wow
NRaleighLiberal
(59,922 posts)stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)I couldn't care less what this wealthy socialite thinks of anyone, particularly the president of the United States.
Why anyone else does is indeed a puzzle.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...kiss off Huffington.
I hate your rag publication.
JI7
(89,150 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Obama wasn't bold enough for her, so she might vote for Romney? What kind of fucked up logic is that shit?
Xipe Totec
(43,866 posts)Nedsdag
(2,437 posts)n/t
glinda
(14,807 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)She was, at the time, a Conservative guru.
Considering that Romney has already denounce Obama's plan to have troops out by mid 2013, she is unlikely to get Romney to pullout very soon.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)In that case, it's best to stick with Mitwit
railsback
(1,881 posts)What a stupid argument to even consider voting for a douchebag like Romney. She'll vote Republican AGAIN.
Mz Pip
(27,396 posts)I just might promise to pull out of Afghanistan but I doubt he would if he actually got elected.
Whatisgoingon
(8 posts)Whichever way the wind blows, and whatever brings in the most $$$$$.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...to sell her shit tabloid full of BS and woo-woo.
radhika
(1,008 posts)Bluestar
(1,400 posts)shift their position just for you, you media whore.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)so vote for RobMe, now there's a plan. PISS ON THIS WEIRDO !
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I am convinced this women is an idiot. Repubs like Trump call her ugly. Does she get what Repubs are like?
CBHagman
(16,964 posts)They criticize Obama for not doing enough on Syria, and they're positively spoiling for a war with Iran. The speeches tonight reflected that, especially Condoleezza Rice's.
Douglas Carpenter
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completely changing American foreign policy in the Middle East and cutting military spending by at last 30% and redirecting the money toward building infrastructure and strengthening the safety net. But I don't think I'm going to have to wait and see if he does that.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I guess she's into power and her own little world more than America's future.
I have nasty, nasty words for people like her!
think
(11,641 posts)not less than Obama. fuck this worthless war!
Rustycup
(41 posts)How is Rmoney going to pull out faster then 2014? Plus Iran. Maybe Rmoney needs to answer who is going to fight these wars because the military is already over extended.
MinM
(2,650 posts)Death at an Early Age?
http://www.ctka.net/2009/huffpo.html
bamacrat
(3,867 posts)This is a hope and wish, like saying I would vote for who ever said they would legalize pot regardless of party. Not going to happen but something to say.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Arrogance, thy name is Arianna Huffington.