You've got to be kidding.
Now Mitt Romney has taken a little, harmless off-the-cuff remark made by President Obama Friday and tried to turn it into a big negative deal on the campaign trail.
President Obama, at a campaign appearance in Ohio on Friday, Nov. 2, heard some people boo-ing at the mention of Romney. Obama responded by saying: "Don't boo, vote....voting's the best revenge.."
Now, Romney is running a campaign commercial focusing solely on this "nothing" moment. Except Romney has attempted to transform it into a very serious matter.
In the TV ad, Romney is seen asking an audience of his supporters, "Did you see what President Obama said today? He asked his supporters to vote for revenge -- for revenge..."
The ad then shows an excerpt of Obama's remark, with just his words about "revenge" so that it's taken completely out of context. (with nothing showing Obama's response to the people supporters booing Romney's name,etc.)
Then, the camera focuses back on Romney, who says, "Instead, I ask the American people to vote for love of their country."
So, Romney uses this pitiful ad to portray himself as the "good" person with only the most noble, patriotic intentions while trying to make Obama look like a "bad man" motivated by revenge. Romney had to know that Obama was NOT really urging his supporters to vote out of revenge, but that didn't stop him. He's got no moral compass. Anything to win. He's much more of a sleazy huckster than members of the media or the public seems to think. Do you think Romney's campaign decisions and moves are motivated by his "love of country"? He'd probably try to sell you on that.
You can't tell how desparate Romney felt when he made this ad because he distorts, lies and misleads every single day.
In my view, while some might view this ad as irrelevant, I see it as a metaphor for Romney's entire campaign. He's got the media covering this lame, little negative ad as a "campaign development" without, instead, explaining how misleading and base-less the ad is or questioning how Romney could even run such an ad. Shame on the news media, including those political reporters assigned to the campaign fulltime for failing to draw attention to the mendacity of Romney's campaign remarks.
If Romney wins this election blatantly twisting events and facts like this, he surely will not deserve the victory. Win or lose, Romney has displayed "new lows" in terms of the bull he slings on the campaign trail.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Romney is the biggest liar in presidential campaign history!
With just a few days before the 2012 presidential election, I want to go on record with this:
I believe Mitt Romney is the most dishonest of all the presidential candidates I've observed in my entire life.
I started following elections as a 12-year-old in 1968, so, that shows you how strongly I feel about Romney. I know almost all politicians lie and I admit it's hard to rank Romney below Richard Nixon, but, I do. (My impression is that Nixon did the vast majority of his lying after he was president.
Every time I watch Romney, it's hard for me to take him seriously. He just doesn't seem authentic about anything most of the time. He seems like a big phony. He lies so openly that he's almost daring voters to care. For just two recent examples: He aired a controversial advertisement in Ohio suggesting that Chrysler might move jobs to China to produce Jeeps. He was criticized by many parties, including Chrysler itself. Yet, Romney left the inaccurate ad airing.
That's Romney. He lies right out in front of everyone. In the first debate, when President Obama referrrred to his plans for a tax cut that would be given to the most wealthy, Romney denied having such a plan. Romney has spoken about the plan for months and months, but he denied it about three times to the President's face, and misled some viewers into thinking he was the "bold aggressor" in the debate, when, in fact, he was being as shifty and reckless as possible. He should've lost ground due to that lying, but, the media propelled him, citing his gains in the "horserace."
He and his running mate Paul Ryan are the most glaringly anti-choice ticket in our lifetimes; yet, Romney, in a devious, sleazy way, made a few, off-the-cuff remarks, about two weeks ago, to create confusion about his stance on abortion. Remember it? Romney said something about how, he didn't know of any abortion-related legislation out there that he felt required action on. As if to suggest, his anti-choice position wasn't as "threatening" to women. Nice try, Mitt, but, that's a bit too glaring a contradiction!
I could go on for 40 pages with Romney's lies and contradictions. He's made a false claim in the first debate that his health care plan covered pre-existing conditions when, in fact, it didn't and his staff had to correct the record afterward. That's pretty low. Seventy-million people in the audience heard the false statement but, I'm sure the correction didn't reach as many. (And the Romney camp was not pleased?)
Romney indicated very clearly he'd prefer to do away with FEMA and give that federal agency's responsibilities to state and local governments, but, then, predictably, after Sandy hit this week, Romeny first avoided press queries and then said he'd not eliminate FEMA.
Romney has repeatedly accused Obama of allowing states to weaken their rules for requiring welfare recipients to get jobs, but, the facts prove Romney's lying. Obama has, in fact, allowed states to try different approaches, but has not loosened the rules regarding work.
For many months, Romney has been aggressive in warning that the US must take a tougher posture toward Iran. He's sounded more hawkish than almost any national leader on this. Then, in the foreign policy debate - unbelievably - Romney "converted" on this, and said he supported Obama's sanctions and presented no concrete difference in his position to the President's.
Romney's positions on many foreign policy issues are unclear because, as Obama said, he's been "all over the map."
Romney, in the primaries, rarely mentioned his job as governor of Massachusetts. He was too busy appealing to the far right-wing side of the Republican party. Now, with only weeks before the Election, after his sudden transformation into a centrist in the first debate, Romney is raising is record as governor a lot more often. Clearly, he's trying to create an impression that he's a "centrist" and can work with Democrats, blah, blah, blah.
OK, I'll stop here. I challenge anyone reading this: Think slowly about all the candidates who have campaigned in past presidential elections on either side. Did anyone but Romney behave like a "super-chameleon" by switching so often that one can't track him? Anyone else make the term "flip-flopper" seem way, way too mild a term for the frequency of shifting? Anyone else who couldn't even do "small" things in a natural, authentic way? ("Binders full of women..") For example, Romney's lame attempt to put on an event this week in Ohio to help victims of Hurricane Sandy: Romney switched what was scheduled as a campaign event into a "storm relief" event and asked people to donate goods to the Red Cross without apparently doing so in a way that would be as helpful to the Red Cross. Plus, US Sen. John McCain, who attended, ended up speaking to reporters and blasting Obama's handling of the Libya tragedy. It looked like Romney was "going through the motions" at a contrived event, and, he was.
Romney has "gotten away" with releasing only two years of his income tax returns; He simply refused to release more and the press simply gave up on asking anymore or making any more fuss. Romney has gotten away with not discussing details of all his years at Bain Capital. Romney has not discussed his serious involvement with the Mormon religion and its influence on his life, views and values. No one has really prodded him on either large topic.
Now, in a highly unusual move, in the last two weeks of the campaign, Romney has refused to talk to any members of the press He's locked them out, apparently to minimize any risk of mistakes or problems. He and his camp must think that will increase his chances to win.
It's interesting. Even now, it's hard to tell why the amorphous Romney wants to be President besides just wanting the power and influence. He's been so shifty and the press has failed to make a real effort to hold him accountable for his shifts, denials and lies.
Tonight, I heard a rare, refreshing excepton to the press norm of letting Romney "off the hook" for his chronic lying. I heard the legendary Gloria Steinem, interviewed on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, bluntly heap substantive criticisms on Romney. At the very end of her interview, Steinem said, spontaneously, "He (Romney) is the least honest, most plastic candidate I have ever seen in my life."
Right on, Gloria. Where are other public figures who know Romney is a documented, chronic liar?
No matter what the outcome on Election Day, I believe Romney is the biggest liar of all the presidential candidates I've seen in my life. I don't trust him. I hope very much that he loses, for the sake of our country.
I believe Mitt Romney is the most dishonest of all the presidential candidates I've observed in my entire life.
I started following elections as a 12-year-old in 1968, so, that shows you how strongly I feel about Romney. I know almost all politicians lie and I admit it's hard to rank Romney below Richard Nixon, but, I do. (My impression is that Nixon did the vast majority of his lying after he was president.
Every time I watch Romney, it's hard for me to take him seriously. He just doesn't seem authentic about anything most of the time. He seems like a big phony. He lies so openly that he's almost daring voters to care. For just two recent examples: He aired a controversial advertisement in Ohio suggesting that Chrysler might move jobs to China to produce Jeeps. He was criticized by many parties, including Chrysler itself. Yet, Romney left the inaccurate ad airing.
That's Romney. He lies right out in front of everyone. In the first debate, when President Obama referrrred to his plans for a tax cut that would be given to the most wealthy, Romney denied having such a plan. Romney has spoken about the plan for months and months, but he denied it about three times to the President's face, and misled some viewers into thinking he was the "bold aggressor" in the debate, when, in fact, he was being as shifty and reckless as possible. He should've lost ground due to that lying, but, the media propelled him, citing his gains in the "horserace."
He and his running mate Paul Ryan are the most glaringly anti-choice ticket in our lifetimes; yet, Romney, in a devious, sleazy way, made a few, off-the-cuff remarks, about two weeks ago, to create confusion about his stance on abortion. Remember it? Romney said something about how, he didn't know of any abortion-related legislation out there that he felt required action on. As if to suggest, his anti-choice position wasn't as "threatening" to women. Nice try, Mitt, but, that's a bit too glaring a contradiction!
I could go on for 40 pages with Romney's lies and contradictions. He's made a false claim in the first debate that his health care plan covered pre-existing conditions when, in fact, it didn't and his staff had to correct the record afterward. That's pretty low. Seventy-million people in the audience heard the false statement but, I'm sure the correction didn't reach as many. (And the Romney camp was not pleased?)
Romney indicated very clearly he'd prefer to do away with FEMA and give that federal agency's responsibilities to state and local governments, but, then, predictably, after Sandy hit this week, Romeny first avoided press queries and then said he'd not eliminate FEMA.
Romney has repeatedly accused Obama of allowing states to weaken their rules for requiring welfare recipients to get jobs, but, the facts prove Romney's lying. Obama has, in fact, allowed states to try different approaches, but has not loosened the rules regarding work.
For many months, Romney has been aggressive in warning that the US must take a tougher posture toward Iran. He's sounded more hawkish than almost any national leader on this. Then, in the foreign policy debate - unbelievably - Romney "converted" on this, and said he supported Obama's sanctions and presented no concrete difference in his position to the President's.
Romney's positions on many foreign policy issues are unclear because, as Obama said, he's been "all over the map."
Romney, in the primaries, rarely mentioned his job as governor of Massachusetts. He was too busy appealing to the far right-wing side of the Republican party. Now, with only weeks before the Election, after his sudden transformation into a centrist in the first debate, Romney is raising is record as governor a lot more often. Clearly, he's trying to create an impression that he's a "centrist" and can work with Democrats, blah, blah, blah.
OK, I'll stop here. I challenge anyone reading this: Think slowly about all the candidates who have campaigned in past presidential elections on either side. Did anyone but Romney behave like a "super-chameleon" by switching so often that one can't track him? Anyone else make the term "flip-flopper" seem way, way too mild a term for the frequency of shifting? Anyone else who couldn't even do "small" things in a natural, authentic way? ("Binders full of women..") For example, Romney's lame attempt to put on an event this week in Ohio to help victims of Hurricane Sandy: Romney switched what was scheduled as a campaign event into a "storm relief" event and asked people to donate goods to the Red Cross without apparently doing so in a way that would be as helpful to the Red Cross. Plus, US Sen. John McCain, who attended, ended up speaking to reporters and blasting Obama's handling of the Libya tragedy. It looked like Romney was "going through the motions" at a contrived event, and, he was.
Romney has "gotten away" with releasing only two years of his income tax returns; He simply refused to release more and the press simply gave up on asking anymore or making any more fuss. Romney has gotten away with not discussing details of all his years at Bain Capital. Romney has not discussed his serious involvement with the Mormon religion and its influence on his life, views and values. No one has really prodded him on either large topic.
Now, in a highly unusual move, in the last two weeks of the campaign, Romney has refused to talk to any members of the press He's locked them out, apparently to minimize any risk of mistakes or problems. He and his camp must think that will increase his chances to win.
It's interesting. Even now, it's hard to tell why the amorphous Romney wants to be President besides just wanting the power and influence. He's been so shifty and the press has failed to make a real effort to hold him accountable for his shifts, denials and lies.
Tonight, I heard a rare, refreshing excepton to the press norm of letting Romney "off the hook" for his chronic lying. I heard the legendary Gloria Steinem, interviewed on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, bluntly heap substantive criticisms on Romney. At the very end of her interview, Steinem said, spontaneously, "He (Romney) is the least honest, most plastic candidate I have ever seen in my life."
Right on, Gloria. Where are other public figures who know Romney is a documented, chronic liar?
No matter what the outcome on Election Day, I believe Romney is the biggest liar of all the presidential candidates I've seen in my life. I don't trust him. I hope very much that he loses, for the sake of our country.
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