Mitt Romney accuses Barack Obama of not understanding the American spirit

[highplainsdem]

http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/02/mitt-romney-accuses-barack-obama-not-understanding-the-american-spirit/CQtjrmkBNd4ycHljgpAXNI/index.html

LAS VEGAS - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tonight accused President Obama of being naive and of not understanding the American spirit, delivering a sharp speech that included new criticism of the administration’s decision to detail its Afghan troop pullout schedule.

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Romney concluded by lauding innovators, pioneers, builders, and others with spirit “in their DNA.”

He said: “We share this spirit. I don’t think President Obama understands that. I don’t think he has the feeling of this American spirit that drives us to be successful and to innovate and to create. And by the way, the success of some does not make the rest of us poorer. The success of some makes us all better off.

“The president seems intent on dividing America, on replacing ambition with envy, on poisoning the very spirit of America by causing class warfare. This is wrong. What is right for America is to be united, to thank providence for the great blessing to be born here, and to recognize the responsibility we have to keep the light of the shining city on the hill bright.”

Romney's so delusional.

[tabatha]

1. He cannot stop the crap from flowing out of his mouth.

Come November I will be sick and tired of him.

[L. Coyote]

46. Clever baiting and framing of issues is crap, and works if not contextualized properly

What the Republican Party did the the world and is still doing to the USA is the issue and Mitt knows he cannot let that become the discourse. He is a clever propagandist, ...


or at least those who hands him his lines are

[applegrove]

2. I can just picture Romeny's delivery. He doesn't pop. And his campaign is so uncreative that

they have to use Reagan's old metaphores. Why doesn't Mitt say something novel?

[msongs]

3. shining city on the hill is salt lake city home of....well you know nt

[elleng]

4. mittens can't discuss his family history,

due to circumstances we can understand, but he has the NERVE to say this about President Obama? There is something WRONG with this man!

[groundloop]

5. "innovators, pioneers, builders...." - how would a corporate raider know about that???

I have a special dislike of people like Mittens. A few years ago my company went through bankruptcy, many people lost their jobs, and our reputation was tarnished amongst our suppliers. All thanks to a corporate raider who was taking on huge debt in our companies' name and selling off profitable parts. I recently googled this asshole and see that he's at it again, another company his "investment" group bought declared bankruptcy a few months ago. What he's doing is identical to how Mitt made his money, sucking the life out of companies, killing jobs, screwing creditors, and pocketing millions. And none of it has anything whatsoever to do with innovating, pioneering, or building.

[tabatha]

13. Yep, we're innovators and have struggled

but have never considered outside money after all that was how the company was formed - because a take-over of a previous company was so shitty.

[pangaia]

33. Right on

So how in the world do we get democratic politicians to fight back.?? This guy is so obvious, so shallow, so hollow, so ignorant of the human condition...

[newspeak]

35. the "greed is good" argument

he must be another history revisionist. You know mitt, some of those innovators were "screwed" by the wealthy. Innovators who had their inventions stolen, innovators who made mucho dineros for the wealthy robber barons. And their wealth was made on the backs of labor, unless, they inherited it.

Another repug who wants us all to go back to those glorious gilded age days, where there were intolerable working conditions, low wages and the serfs knew their place; while some of those robber barons labored hard to find new ways to screw the people.

Oh, the good old days, I remember healthy, in the black american companies with generational happy employees before junk bonds and raiders like yourself. I remember healthy communities, instead of ghost town neighborhoods. So, mittens who are you really for, the american people and the country or your "friends" on wallstreet who'd sell out the country for a buck? Enquiring minds want to know.

[patrice]

6. This spirit you speak of, Mitt, what if there was no money associated with it?

[Angry Dragon]

7. I dislike Rmoney more and more each day

[Firebrand Gary]

8. "The success of some makes us all better off." - Really?

I have a hard time believing that Romney is a flip flopper, I think he is a liar. He lies by telling people what they want to hear. When that need changes so does Mitt.

[Amonester]

9. Someone should tell that point-zero-one percenter that a lot of ninety-nine...

yes, a lot of ninety-nine percenters would have preferred to be born in a country that has Single-Payer Health Care, for a starter...

Also, in a country where the gap between the 1% and the 99% doesn't grow wider each and every single year since the 1980s...

In a country where when you buy a house and finish paying it, no corporate 'person' can foreclose you based on forged documents...

Thieves, all.

[HughBeaumont]

29. On the subject of single payer . . .

. . . isn't that part and parcel the reason there ISN'T as much innovation as there COULD be .. . because people who would otherwise BE entrepreneurs have to stay in shitty jobs for the insurance and the health care costs would crush them if they struck out on their own?

Remove the dominant element of privatized for-profit health care from the mix and the US would no longer have the employers calling all the shots, particularly when it comes to wages and worker mobility.

[BlueMTexpat]

31. Exactly!

This is such a no-brainer.

[JJW]

10. Okay, we get it

It's all about the spirit of making more $$$$$$.

[6000eliot]

11. How could a guy who came from nothing to become the first Black president possibly understand?

One needs to be born into wealth and have everything handed to one for one's entire life in order to get the America spirit!

[nobodyspecial]

44. No kidding

I kept reading what he is saying and thought, "Who the hell is he talking about?" What he has is just a bunch of poll-tested phrases strung together. If you asked for specific examples of how Obama has done any of this, I'm sure he couldn't.

And, don't overlook the coded language. "Doesn't have it in is DNA" translates to a black man is lazy, doesn't want to work hard and simply wants to take from others. It also sets him apart from others.

[FrenchieCat]

12. I'm really sick and tired of this asshole!

He has no plans that would help anyone but him and his corporations.

I can't wait to watch his stupid mean ass concede....
and I will do everything in my power to make it so!

[TahitiNut]

17. Just another GOP heirhead.

He's a mitt-wit.

[Brigid]

40. Heirhead!!

I am sooo stealing that!

[TahitiNut]

48. Consider it a gift. I was inspired by Duhbya ... it seemed fitting.

[newspeak]

36. well, he'll probably win nevada

it's the paulians and the mitten (mormon) supporters here. Major mormon influence, Utah, nevada, and idaho.

must add, this rugged individualism bullshite has been sold to the american people for a long, long time. It actually helps the elite when the people buy into it. Good book to read is "gun fighter nation." And as the native americans have said "the west wasn't wild until the white man came."

[emulatorloo]

14. Every word out of his mouth is a lie, especially when he talks about Obama.

Additionally, the "politics of envy" is not an election winning slogan.

[Politicalboi]

15. PWB

President While Black is what he means.

[nxylas]

21. With a nod and a wink to the birthers thrown in

He may as well have added "Well he wouldn't, would he?"

[msongs]

16. Ignore him at your own peril...he is attempting to set the agenda and frame the issues nt

[FrenchieCat]

19. Sounds like the same ass shit to me.....

His Agenda is "Obama is other".....

Can he think up of anything else....or is that it in terms of his issues?
I mean....really.....what a sorry unimaginative asshole!

[truthisfreedom]

18. He's floating attack points. Expect subtle changes on this theme, each of them becoming more racist.

Ultimately, mittens can only attack Barack's color. Barack is simply too good.

[Londoncalling]

20. Is this a sly way of saying Obama isn't American?

An outsider who can't understand what it is to be an American because he isn't one.

[rfranklin]

24. That is exactly what he is saying...

It's as obvious as the dog strapped to the roof of his car.

[Londoncalling]

25. And just as cruel too...

It is whipping up the Republican hate and appealing the truely hateful Tea Party supporters who are not convinced by Mittens.
Mitt straps his dog to the roof of his car, Obama takes his dog with him in the Presidential limo and talks to him..says alot about the differences in character.

[BadgerKid]

28. Which is completely BS given Obama's own tale.

This is only just more GOP red meat.

[chelsea0011]

22. President Obama's life is the very best of the "American spirit"

[marmar]

23. Translation: He's 'different' ....

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink

[JoePhilly]

26. Mitt isn't a real Christian because he doesn't care about the poor.

He said so himself the other day.

If he's going to play the "Obama is an Indonesian Kenyan" card ... smack him with the "Jesus cared for the poor" card.

[madrchsod]

27. so the president is`t an american......

[lostnote12]

30. Shining City on the Grassy Knoll

.....I think Romneys vision of the American spirit is televised weekly on American Greed!!!!!

[McCamy Taylor]

32. "In their DNA"? Time to start talking about Mormons and African-Americans, I see.

"As he explored joining the church in 1988, Perkins said he asked Mormons near his Los Angeles home about the racial doctrines. They gently explained that blacks were the cursed descendants of Cain, the biblical murderer, he recalls.

"'Let's say you have this powerful witness of God telling you that this church is truly of him," said the 48-year-old salesman and video producer. "And then the people in that church lovingly tell you that you are cursed. How do you reconcile those two things?"

"Perkins says Mormon leaders couldn't offer an answer.

"The LDS church has neither formally apologized for the priesthood ban nor publicly repudiated many of the theories used to justify it for more than 125 years."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-02-01/mormon-romney-black/52920394/1

[mainer]

34. Yeah, what would a poor boy "from Kenya" understand about success?

seeing as he never got anywhere, except the White House.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Still pushing 'trickle-down' economies, eh?

[DonCoquixote]

38. DNA?

Well, then someone better tell this son of a Mexican that his DNA is in question. Granted, I can think of many Mexaicans that would have made a better leader than Mitt, but if he wants to portray himself as all american, I suggest that we bring up that he is alos the son of an IMMIGRANT>

[hue]

39. No truer words, "Romney's so delusional." Yet they underestimate his insanity. n/t

[craigmatic]

41. So let me guress mittens think the spirit of America is inheriting money and getting richer.

[Harriety]

42. This shallow fellow doesn't have a clue...

as to how to run a country. I just shake my head when I hear him speak. He's not a evil person per se as Gingrich is, but he is not nearly smart or deep enough to understand anything outside of corporate interests.

[fascisthunter]

43. That's NOT the American Spirit, Mitt! That's called SOCIOPATHY!

you fraud...

People like you are enemies to the majority of Americans trying to make a living.

[mvd]

45. What a joke. Romney talks about Obama having class warfare while..

saying he doesn't care about poor people. I'd say it's Romney that's out of touch with what the "American spirit" is. And BTW, those with success don't create jobs when the middle class and poor don't have much to spend and help give business.

[Democrats_win]

47. Poison spirit = not caring about poor people.

His disgusting and dismissive comments about not caring about poor people shows how hollow his words are. The POTUS must raise the spirits of the poor instead! Romney is a terrrible candidate which foreshadows his raping of America should he ever be elected anything.

[cbrer]

49. "We share Vulture Capitalism"!

Mitt Romney's version of the American Spirit.

What a douche.

[kiranon]

50. This is Romney's don't hate me because I'm rich and you're not speech.

Charming it isn't. And, if he wants to keep the lights shining, we need to invest in alternative sources of energy and conserve our resouces. Perhaps, he could sell a few of his extra homes and cars.

[Politicub]

51. Is that all he's got?

Reelection will be a cakewalk for President Obama.

[Zoeisright]

52. And what's that, WILLARD? Lying, cheating, and stealing, a la you?

You prick.

And if I hear ONE MORE repuke whine about "class warfare" when THEY started it I'm going to explode.

[saras]

53. His idea of "create" is traumatic insemination

[cstanleytech]

54. Its not envy Mitt, its the promise of those like you that was if we gave you a break

in your taxes that you all would be the "job" creators and you and those like you have failed the entire nation Mitt.

[truthisfreedom]

55. We started off disappointed that our president, that we elected, did not fulfill his

promises.

Now we're faced with the worst atrocity created by republan madness.

Republans! How can they live knowing that they've given birth to this insanity?

OBAMA ALL THE FUCKING GOD-DAMMNED WAY! BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN OUR COUNTRY, AND HE'S ACTUALLY OUR VERY EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT!

[madokie]

56. I think Romney knows he's full of shit

but that matters not as his plan is to feed on racism and division enough to garner the votes to make it possible for the pukes to steal another election
think bush the lesser was scary, wait for mittens to be in the wh