The no-holds-barred effort to defeat Obama
Armstrong Cable, the nation’s 15th largest cable company, operates in six states, including Ohio and Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, for the first time in company history, it decided to offer all of its subscribers free access to a recently released movie. In the past, it has always charged subscribers to see such movies.
The film in question? “Obama’s America: 2016.”
“There is no agenda here,” Dave Wittmann, Armstrong’s vice-president of marketing, told the Pittsburgh CityPaper.
Maybe not. However, it’s interesting to note that last month, Jay Sedwick, Armstrong’s chairman, maxed out his donations to Mitt Romney’s campaign at $5,000, and gave another $25,000 to the Republican National Committee. The company also is listed as providing American Crossroads — the Karl Rove SuperPAC — $1.32 million in in-kind cable access last month.
The movie itself is such an obvious hackjob, designed largely to inflame those already nurturing resentment of Obama’s success, that I’m dubious it will have much impact. But it’s interesting as yet another example of the lengths that some in the 1 percent are willing to go in this campaign.
There are multiple examples of companies pressuring their employees to vote for Romney, warning them they might lose their jobs if Obama is re-elected. Earlier I highlighted the example of David Siegel, owner of Westgate Resorts, who sent such a letter to his workforce. Atlanta-based Georgia Pacific, owned by the Koch brothers, sent a similar letter to its 45,000 employees, warning that “many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences” if the wrong man is elected president. Just to make clear who that wrong man might be, the packet included columns written by the Koch brothers endorsing Romney and condemning Obama.
None of this is illegal, at least not in the wake of the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court. But it does provide interesting insight — especially in light of Mitt Romney’s infamous little speech about the despised 47 percent — into the largely unexplored undercurrents of this campaign.
– Jay Bookman
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straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:01 am
Butch, lighten up. I have no idea what you are talking about concerning polling data and you assume too much with regard to my party affiliation. This election, like most, comes down to making a choice between bad and worse. Obama clearly has a horrible record so I default to the next best thing.
the cat
October 25th, 2012
10:01 am
Thank you for deleting
USMC’s posts. UGH
DownInAlbany
October 25th, 2012
10:01 am
ITS ALL BUSH’S FAULT
October 25th, 2012
9:56 am
CONS, no amount of lies , hate or racial crap can save you. Remember this is going to make more people vote for OBAMA.. You are creating a landslide for the DEMS please keep it up…LOSERS…
There are about 3 dozen folks who frequent this blog and none of them are “undecided.” If you think what goes on here will “…make more people vote for OBAMA…” BAWWWHAHAHA
Mick
October 25th, 2012
10:02 am
donovan
Lighten up! We had to endure four more years of the previous guy after he took us on an ill advised war of choice misadventure in iraq after lying about wmd.
Then to top it off, at the end of his term he left the country in shambles whereby no matter whom was the next guy, there would be no quick fix.
So, just sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the movie. Regardless of who wins, I think we’ll all be able to move on…
Goldie
October 25th, 2012
10:03 am
Why anyone in America would vote Romney/Ryan and send us all back to the same failed Bush policies is beyond belief.
4 More For 44!
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 25th, 2012
10:03 am
They are offering the movie for free because those who want to watch it can’t afford much beyond the trailer payment.
It’s a nice gesture.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 25th, 2012
10:05 am
Well, all I can figure is, somebody’s lying like a cheap rug. Either Obama’s going to win this colledge thing or Romney’s going to wipe the floor with him. I reckon we’ll know the truth in about 12 days. Either us Conservative Republicans will be sucking the big one like #1 Foxy Lady tells us to do or we’ll be plumb drunk with joy and getting ready to get rid of Obamacare, welfare cheats, and big taxes.
I don’t know anybody dumb enough not to of made up their mind by now. Let’s just hold the dang election now and get it over with. All I do know is there’s going to be alot of scratched car and trunk bumpers from getting rid of the stickers of the losing canadate.
Have a good Thursday everybody.
Doggone/GA
October 25th, 2012
10:05 am
“Obama just stamped out any remaining dignity left in the oval office by using profane language to describe his opponent”
When Johnson was President he once said “I don’t trust any man unless I have his balls in my pocket”
Verbal Kint
October 25th, 2012
10:05 am
“Why anyone in America would vote Romney/Ryan and send us all back to the same failed Bush policies is beyond belief.”
Why would anyone vote for 1% GDP growth for the next four years is beyond belief?
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:06 am
Keep: I condemn the mere vocal intent of committing voter fraud.
Mark in mid-town
October 25th, 2012
10:06 am
Jay, the Obama Campaign strategy from the very beginning was to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in an unprecedented negative advertising campaign aimed at character assasinating Romney so as to have Romney defined this way among the population-at-large. I believe that months ago, you described such strategy as “shrewd”. I thought it was a despicable strategy, and that it was far more despicable in my opinion than the race that George H.W. Bush ran against Dukakis in 1988, which up until the campaign Obama has run in 2012 was the most despicable I had seen. I was so turned off by what the first Bush did in 1988 that I ended up voting for Dukakis, even though I thought Reagan was one of the great presidents. Please don’t complain that outside groups supporting Romney are going all out to defeat Obama. Both sides are going all out to defeat the other. But with specific regard to the Obama and Romney Campaigns — Romney has engaged in a much cleaner race than Obama. Anyone who can’t see that has their partisan head in the sand.
Goldie
October 25th, 2012
10:07 am
The movie director has already admitted that he has never met or spoken to Our President so he obviously doesn’t know him either… what a jerk for suckering the Cons out of their $ only to hear and see the same old birther crap again!
straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:08 am
Doggone/GA – No one can say that you don’t know your history….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 25th, 2012
10:08 am
yuzeyurbrane: An employer voicing his opinion on who he will vote for is legal but it is an open question about tieing that to threats re employment. That will require a fact intensive individual evaluation of each document discerning how general the employment prediction is versus how specific to the employer’s own business. If I were an employer, I would be thinking hard about whether pushing so aggressively for Romney is worth the risk of some time in the slammer.
I would imagine that some HR departments will be very concerned about who may be terminated after the election. There will be some claims that an Obama supporter was terminated wrongfully. Even in Georgia, an “at-will” employment state, an employer cannot terminate for an unlawful purpose.
I would also hope that we see more shareholder actions on these matters as weak as the laws are to protect shareholders from these types of abuses.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 25th, 2012
10:08 am
There’s a link on the right that the Cons will love. It uses fear to sell product:
Jim Rogers: It’s Going To Get Really “Bad After The Election” (Money Morning)
Rafe Hollister
October 25th, 2012
10:08 am
Obama has been bad for business, why shouldn’t they oppose him anyway possible? Check out the EPA rules they have waiting to announce after the election. You think his war on fossil fuels is over, based on what he said at the debates, think again, it has just gone undercover.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:08 am
Why would anyone vote for 1% GDP growth for the next four years is beyond belief?
As though voting for Romney and Ryan will fix that.
Economists agree that the GDP will grow at about the same pace or better over the next 4 years regardless of who is in office. The only things that will change that are the unlikely event of passing the American Jobs Act, or the likely event of a Romney/Ryan ticket signing more tax cuts into law (which would REDUCE GDP growth – FACT).
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
10:09 am
Can anyone explain to me why this is relevant
Well, in the wake of Citizen’s United, you’re going to see all kinds of precedents made in campaigning. I don’t think we’ve even come close to seeing the most brazen of them yet.
They are no different..
When a true moderate Republican comes out and openly states he doesn’t trust this new “moderate” Romney, I would tend to think they are not quite one and the same as you say. That’s just my view though.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:10 am
Check out the EPA rules they have waiting to announce after the election.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
*deep breath*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 25th, 2012
10:11 am
Adam, I have no problem with that and join in that condemnation.
Verbal Kint
October 25th, 2012
10:11 am
Adam – I believe they give us a much better chance than the current adminstratiion, that’s for sure.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:11 am
On Topic: They are giving the movie away for free because no one will pay to watch it.
BOOOM!
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
10:12 am
southpaw – “Only USMC can say for certain, but when you compare the later map to the earlier one, that looks like a “yes, Obama’s losing ground” to me.”
Agreed, between 9/25 and 10/25 Obama lost some electoral votes. However, he still beats Romney by 50 electoral votes. Whether he’s lost or gained is a moot point as long as he is at or over 270 come election day.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:12 am
Verbal Kint: Adam – I believe they give us a much better chance than the current adminstratiion, that’s for sure.
I believe that, for sure, Romney/Ryan give us a worse chance than Obama/Biden.
straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:12 am
Now this is funny, I don’t care who you are….
“The President goofed up when talking about the desire for wind turbines being manufactured in America, saying he wanted them manufactured “here in China.”
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:14 am
straitroad: Right wing media take: OMG HE THINKS WE ARE OWNED BY CHINA
mm
October 25th, 2012
10:14 am
Game over if Obama’s lead holds in Ohio and Nevada. Romney could win all of the other swing states and still not win.
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
10:14 am
“Why anyone in America would vote Romney/Ryan and send us all back to the same failed Bush policies is beyond belief.”
Why would anyone vote for 1% GDP growth for the next four years is beyond belief?
In math, 1% > 0%. As weak as 1% GDP growth is, it’s better than the freefall we had before due to the last “conservative” in office. Given that Romney is probably a liberal today because of how hard he’s shifted from the right to get to the middle, we can’t say that Romney will do any better than that 1%.
Regardless to who’s in office, it’s up to the private sector to push that percentage up. It has nothing to do with politics, as it’s all about supply vs demand. Until somebody tunes out the voices in their head and realize that you have to put money into the hands of the people who will spend it, our economy will continue to be f**ked up. Clinging tightly to money like it’s the last Krispy Kreme doughnut in the box doesn’t help our economy.
willie lynch
October 25th, 2012
10:15 am
“If you can’t beat em fair and square, cheat.” Oh yeah, Country First!
nelson
October 25th, 2012
10:16 am
Bernie Marcus, CEO Home Depot and employer of 350,000 people would like Mitt Romney President, the current business climate is very unsettling and needs a new direction. He looks at the country with the eyes of a businessman and what he sees not only in this country but in Europe as frightening. The lack of direction, the escalating debt burden.
Romney does have the insight of a business man as well as political expertise. The time is here, a new direction towards a more uplifting vital future, one built on solid decision making, a solid foundation, an energetic new direction. The time is now.
rightwingextreme
October 25th, 2012
10:16 am
Jay, is there any difference between this and ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, UNIVISION, MTV, BET, NYT, LATIMES, AJC, TIME, NEWSWEEK, THE VIEW, DAVID LETTERMAN etc, etc covering/pandering for Obama?
They harped on Romney for not releasing his taxes from a million years ago, but not one question as to why Obama won’t release his college transcripts.
Stephenopolis quickly reminded Obama that it was his Christian faith….not his Muslim faith in an interview.
Obama just yesterday said if you look at interviews from me 10 years ago you would see I haven’t changed. Fox did look at them and guess what….he’s changed. Not one word in the mainstream media.
Has there ever been a debate when the moderator had the transcript ready for a question and jumped as soon as the President said to?
Mick
October 25th, 2012
10:16 am
What really strikes me as how gullible can people on the right be? How can there be any truth to romney and job creation when we are now in a global economy and europe is in a stall? At least obama has us trending in the right direction and that is fact, what you would get with romney and tax cuts is also known – it doesn’t create jobs and increases the deficit. Been there, done that…
RB from Gwinnett
October 25th, 2012
10:17 am
Hey, now I have some even better suggestions from a reputable source for how to commit voter fraud. I don’t even have to steal your power bill, I can just create one on my PC with your name on it!!! That’s a GREAT idea and I wish I’d thought of it!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/24/rep-morans-son-caught-on-tape-quits-staff/
Ya’ll keep making excuses for those voter ID laws, libs, ’cause nobody would actually do any of this stuff, right?….
Mighty Righty
October 25th, 2012
10:17 am
How do you like the taste of your own crepe? It tastes bad unless it is Hollywood produced like Farenheir 911 or some of the other distorted and misleading and outright lying Democrat, Liberal, propoganda being released just before the election. Other crepe is the ignorant or incompetent media still trying to hide the biggest scandals in american history named Benghazi and Fast and Furious where american cistizens died while the administration bodly lied to save its political golden goose. Well, in spite of the media, the golden goose is cooked.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:18 am
Brosephus: Not to mention I’d rather have a 1% GDP growth based on real and tangible economic indicators as opposed to a 3-4% growth based on a bubble.
Junior Samples
October 25th, 2012
10:18 am
Dang, I wish we had a cable co like that in Georgia.
straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:18 am
Adam – I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Common Sense
October 25th, 2012
10:19 am
You claim it is an obvious “hack job”.
Did you watch it? Exactly where did the hack job occur?
The big O is a disaster
October 25th, 2012
10:19 am
YOu know w/ Obama you get 4 more years of failure and blaming someone else (will he blame himself if he’s re-elected and wastes 4 more years and adds more debt??!) At least with Romney you get a plan. You may not like it, but he has something now before he is elected, (yeah, he will win) that Obama STILL doesnt have….a real, decisive, clear plan. Obama is STILL running on beating up Romney…but what is his plan to better America if elected?
Crickets…..
Exactly. He is a hack and you ALL know it. I trust the 1% more than Obama, they have a lot to lose and they have the knowledge and will power to undo this mess.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:20 am
Ya’ll keep making excuses for those voter ID laws, libs, ’cause nobody would actually do any of this stuff, right?….
I have long said I have no problem with the concept of requiring photo ID to vote in the long run. T He problem I have is forcing it on the entire population without ensuring that all legitimate voters have the IDs, or as many of them as possible in all good faith, for free, and without having to travel 120 miles (or even 5) under their own power to get them – BEFORE you start requiring it in elections.
JackThrock
October 25th, 2012
10:20 am
Jay,
The counter balance to this story would be to point to the endless parade of “journalists” who are anything but impartial in their reporting and coverage. There’s a no holds barred effort across the board to demonize Romney and prop up Obama. Name someone in the major media who is asking tough questions, holding the administration accountable on Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Obamacare costs, sequestration plans, tax plans, etc. These individuals are Obama advocates, not journalists. And let’s not forget the no holds barred efforts of union bosses who try to influence others’ votes. It’s no holds barred any way you look at it. And why is it like this? Because individuals on both sides of the aisle believe very strongly that this election is important to the future of the country.
RB from Gwinnett
October 25th, 2012
10:20 am
The AJC, bringing you all the news the DNC wants you to hear!!
Still can’t bring themselves to write a story about Libya and the cover-up. Geez…
CJ
October 25th, 2012
10:21 am
We need a constitutional amendment, not only to overturn the activist decision that corporations have constitutional rights, but to overturn the false notion that money equals speech such that those with the most money have the most speech. I wish that the Obama campaign and Democrats had made such an amendment a major part of their campaign.
Most of us don’t want to live in a plutocracy. We should do something about it.
straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:22 am
“Why would anyone vote for 1% GDP growth for the next four years is beyond belief?”
Because a lot of people have very low standards or don’t even know what GDP growth means. You have to understand that a large portion of the population wakes up each day wondering how they can shove their hand deeper into someone elses pocket.
alex
October 25th, 2012
10:22 am
let’s see beyonce and the rest of the “business ” ceo’s are for obama;Many CEO’s who actually employ people see the dierction of the country and fairly or for you unfairly lay it on the line for their employees,hmmm…Let’s see that again, an intelligent person who runs a large corporation and has extensive experience in the economics has an opinion for his employees, bad idea, sheeesh, stretching on this one Jay, …… Must be bored or just confirming your own bias, how so very intelligent, a real reniassance man our own jay..yea!
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:22 am
Common Sense: Did you watch it? Exactly where did the hack job occur?
It’s kind of obvious. He doesn’t actually interview anyone who experienced life with Barack, and makes a specious link between his own life and Obama’s, and uses a word no one on the right understands but they all use it anyway (anti-colonial) to describe basically a projection of what Obama must think and feel due to Dinesh’s very limited worldview. In addition, I am convinced he is more in it for the money than anything else.
Obama 2016: Wealth redistribution from conservatives to D’Souza. Until they started giving it away for free, that is
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
10:23 am
nelson – “Romney does have the insight of a business man as well as political expertise.”
The last 2 “business man” Presidents we had were Bush II and Carter. Which one would you like to compare Romney to?
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:23 am
JackThrock: The counter balance to this story would be to point to the endless parade of “journalists” who are anything but impartial in their reporting and coverage.
Perhaps you would like to share your evidence?
….that’s what I thought.
Cosby
October 25th, 2012
10:24 am
Hack Job..like the main street media…Obama was not vetted by anyone but given passes…all you have to do is read Obama’s book – Dreams From my Father – to have an idea of what he really stands for…but wait..he gets a pss from Rev. Wrights church of hate – even after sitting in the pews for 20 years, he gets a pass on how he was admitted to Ivey League Schools, who paid for them or how he took trips abroad while in School…he gets a pass to his relatinships with known anti american’s as Bernadette Dorn and others, he gets a pass on hate speech an class war fare but Romney..well he gets beat up over a tax return and a religion…yep Jay Hack Job…nothing like you and the main street media…hopw about really looking into Barry’s background and who influenced him and who is backing him..naa…you have that tingle running down your leg!!!
TaxPayer
October 25th, 2012
10:24 am
The one percent probably spend more on PACS than they do on their employees. Of course their PAC contributions are tax deductible though.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 25th, 2012
10:25 am
RB, you still have no evidence of voter fraud but hey we understand that you are can’t (or won’t) comprehend the nuances nor the deficiencies of the voter ID laws in securing the more likely potential voter fraud….but go ahead with your rage.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
10:25 am
Mighty Righty – “incompetent media still trying to hide the biggest scandals in american history”
You mean like Watergate and Iran-Contra? I’m pretty sure they covered both of those events.
indigo
October 25th, 2012
10:25 am
“largely unexplored undercurrents of this campaign”
These “undercurrents” are, unfortunately, all too simple and all too comtemptable. They are a combination of corporate greed and white racism. Big Business wants to keep raking in their obsene profits off the backs of the American people and all to many white voters want a return to a really white White House. Since Romney is nothing more than a Bush clone, and we know how Bush politics wreaked such havoc on our nation, their is no other explanation as to why the race is now a dead heat.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:26 am
RB: Still can’t bring themselves to write a story about Libya and the cover-up. Geez…
You mean the coverup where they said it was a terrorist attack and later said they no longer believe that the terrorist attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim film, but have been consistent on the fact that it was an attack because, you know, RPGs and stuff?
The coverup where they basically told us everything they knew, just not in enough time for the 24 hour news cycle? That kind of coverup?
trans·par·ent adjective \tran(t)s-ˈper-ənt\ : characterized by visibility or accessibility of information
Mick
October 25th, 2012
10:27 am
All of you that keep harping on libya, I will say this; president obama has an obligation to explain the whole deal and he should have a press conference pronto, but will he? No, the politics of it will make that improbable. This president has held the least amount of press conferences and that is totally unacceptable.
If romney didn’t change his views with the political winds, he’s have this in the bag…
ragnar danneskjold
October 25th, 2012
10:28 am
After his now-known-to-be-knowingly-deceptive YouTube comments to the United Nations, seemingly Chauncey will say anything to be re-elected. That is sufficient justification for a “no-holds” barred effort to remove an incompetent from office.
tm
October 25th, 2012
10:29 am
Isn’t Obama supporter Weinstein’s movie about the killing of bin Laden set to air two days before the election?? What is good for the goose…
willie lynch
October 25th, 2012
10:29 am
nelson
October 25th, 2012
10:16 am
Funny how America is doing better than Europe in this global recession. Funny how the steps taken by President Obama and not those that have been touted by Ryan/Romney (austerity) have been credited with salvaging the American economy. You can look to Europe and see what the Ryan/Romney plan has done.
If Romney is elected president his only course will be to put the current policy on steroids. In this climate spending stimulates growth just ask Greece.
straitroad
October 25th, 2012
10:29 am
Adam, you are reaching on the Libya situation. obama has been all over the map on this one. You will defend him because you have to, but anyone with an ounce of sense knows this has been covered up because it counters the administration’s narrative.
Common Sense
October 25th, 2012
10:30 am
Adam,
That does not make it a hack job. It makes it a point of view. It would be a hack job if facts were manufactured, truth twisted beyond recognition.
No examples of that have been given.
Fred ™
October 25th, 2012
10:30 am
the cat
October 25th, 2012
10:01 am
Thank you for deleting
USMC’s posts. UGH
++++++++++++++++++++
He didn’t delete them all lol, the whole first page is filled with USMC spam. Did he get a time out or is he on break for a few minutes from spamming the blog? It’s almost time for Ahem’s spam shift to start isn’t it?
But on subject: Isn’t it against FCC regs to broadcast for one candidate for free without offering equal free time to the opposing side? Sorry if thta has already been addressed, but I didn’t see it in my quick scan of the first 150 posts……..
18 Reasons Mitt Romney is just like George W. Bush
October 25th, 2012
10:30 am
The Republican challenger tries to distance himself from Dubya, but the facts tell a different story
By Tim Dickinson
October 18, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Mitt Romney clearly wants to run away from the Bush legacy of unnecessary war, budget-busting tax cuts for the rich and economic collapse. When a town-hall debate questioner finally forced the GOP nominee to directly compare himself to Dubya earlier this week, Romney insisted: “President Bush and I are different people.” But place the two men’s biographies side by side, and the similarities that emerge are not just striking, they’re uncanny.
Here are 18 ways that Willard Mitt Romney is just like George Walker Bush:
1. They were both born to fathers named George.
George Romney was an auto industry executive and the governor of Michigan. George H.W. Bush was the 41st president of the United States.
2. Each has a patrician initial, W., in his name.
Romney’s W. is for Willard, honoring J. Willard Marriott, the hotels magnate and his father’s dear friend. Bush’s W. is for Walker, honoring his great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, a famous financier for whom golf’s Walker Cup is named.
3. Their fathers were prominent executives before embarking on careers in politics.
George Romney was CEO of American Motors in Detroit. George H.W. Bush was a millionaire oilman, the president of Zapata Off-Shore in Texas.
4. As boys, both were brought up by beloved housekeepers of color.
The Romney family employed Birdie Nailing, an African-American woman. The Bushes relied on Paula Rendón, an immigrant from Mexico.
5. Both summered at waterfront estates in New England.
Romney kicked back at the Marriott compound on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Bush vacationed at his family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
6. Each attended an elite all-male prep school.
Romney is an alum of Cranbrook School for Boys in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
7. Because neither excelled at sports, both became cheerleaders.
Romney was the caretaker of the Cranbrook cheerleading squad’s mascot, a duck. At Andover, Bush knew his way around a megaphone.
8. Each received mediocre grades in high school.
Romney was not known as a standout student (a 1961 report card obtained by the Boston Globe showed two Bs, a C and a B+). Bush lived in fear of flunking out.
9. Both rode their pedigrees to elite universities.
Romney, by then the son of Michigan’s governor, was accepted by Stanford – where his friends teased him as “just not qualified.” Bush was a legacy admission to Yale.
10. Both graduated with degrees in the liberal arts.
Romney was an English major. Bush majored in history.
11. Each dodged service in Vietnam.
Romney received draft deferments related to his Mormon mission to France. Bush served stateside in the Texas Air National Guard.
12. Their fathers each lost a prominent bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
George Romney unsuccessfully contested Richard Nixon in 1968. George Herbert Walker Bush went up against Ronald Reagan in 1980.
13. Both dads’ campaigns were defined by a reference to the paranormal.
George Romney’s 1968 campaign collapsed after he blamed his prior support for the Vietnam war on “brainwashing.” George H.W. Bush was trounced in 1980 after referring to Ronald Reagan’s tax-cut plan as “voodoo economics.”
14. They attended Harvard Business School at the same time.
Romney received his MBA in 1974, Bush in 1975.
15. Each lost his first race for national elected office.
Romney was defeated in his Senate race against Ted Kennedy in 1994. Bush lost a House bid in Texas in 1978.
16. Each became governor of his adopted home state.
Romney went on to win in Massachusetts in 2002. Bush unseated Texas governor Ann Richards in 1994.
17. As governors, each championed an issue dear to Democrats.
Romney reformed health care in Massachusetts. Bush reformed education in Texas.
18. Both campaigned for president on an “across-the-board” tax cut – and promised it wouldn’t explode the deficit.
Romney’s tax-cut math just doesn’t add up. The last time America took a faith-based plunge on this kind of tax policy, Bush turned a $5 trillion projected surplus into $5 trillion in new debt.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 25th, 2012
10:33 am
Fred – “Did he get a time out or is he on break for a few minutes from spamming the blog?”
I think his head exploded when I pointed out to him that that in the real world, a 50 electoral vote lead is not considered losing. Obama 294, Romney 244
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 25th, 2012
10:35 am
Down in Albany? There are about a half dozen folks living in Albany. Please get a life.
guy
October 25th, 2012
10:35 am
If obama and his secret supporters weren’t so far radical none of this would be going on. If obama loses it will be his damaging economical agenda that does him in. With such a biased and liberal press to protect him,the truth about obama has to be exposed by those who are concerned with the future of the U.S.A. We will know soon!
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:35 am
straitroad: You will defend him because you have to, but anyone with an ounce of sense knows this has been covered up because it counters the administration’s narrative.
Um, no. See, a cover-up means he was deliberately misleading about whether or not an attack happened, etc. Not this useless nonsense over whether he labeled it correctly or whether an anti-Muslim video was part of the equation.
Mighty Righty
October 25th, 2012
10:35 am
The only way to judge the future is by the past. No one knows what Romney will do in spite of Obama’s claims to the contrary. But we all know what Obama will do because we have lived through four years of Obama. Four years of high unemployment, trillion dollars deficits, a shrinking economy, a shrinking work force, a growing welefare class, more food stamps, lower wages, jobs moving over seas, higher taxes, higher food cost, highr gasoline prices,higher health care cost wile quality of health care goes down, filed greend jobs program, more unrest in the world, an administration that can’t tell the truth about anything, yes we have been there, we know what it at the end of the road, The choice is simple Romney and a new direction or Obama and the same A vote for Obama is a vote for more of the same. A vote for Romney is a vote for a brighter future. Today a growing majority agree it is time for a change.
TBone
October 25th, 2012
10:35 am
I could be wrong here but I am willing to bet that the American people see what this president is doing to this country and we are going to see “change” before there is no “hope” to preserve this country. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:36 am
Common Sense: Do you really want me to break out the fact checking on Obama 2016 or do you just not care to look up this information on your own?
Georgia
October 25th, 2012
10:37 am
News Quiz: Cheerleading made the news recently. What changes do they want?
1) They want to make cheerleading a sport. (regulate fewer injuries)
2) They want to make cheerleading a religion. (scriptural banners)
3) They want cheerleaders to go commando. (support the troops)
4) None of the above
alex
October 25th, 2012
10:37 am
“despised”,” infamous”",undercurrents”, ohh Jay has his thesaurus smoking-Ohhhhh let’s “demonize” and hypnotise(sp?) Happy Holloween——Ohhhhhhhh, Here”s Johnny…
BOOM, Adam, Boom, really?- how creative, now just where in the world did YOU come up with that, Sheeesh,
stands for decibels
October 25th, 2012
10:38 am
When a movie’s so bad that you can’t sell it on pay-per-view, it really must suck.
I predicted when it came out that it wouldn’t manage one tenth the gross of Fahrenheit 9/11 within three months of the films’ respective releases.
Maybe I oughta look it up to see if I was right…?
nah. More trouble than it’s worth.
headin’ upstairs.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 25th, 2012
10:38 am
THE GOP HAS BEEN HIJACKED AND WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE MEMEBERS..
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 25th, 2012
10:38 am
MEMBERS
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:38 am
“The no-holds-barred effort to elect Obama by the biased mainstream media”
There Jay! This is what you should be talking about. You can not always have your way.
Fred ™
October 25th, 2012
10:39 am
ragnar danneskjold
October 25th, 2012
10:28 am
After his now-known-to-be-knowingly-deceptive YouTube comments to the United Nations, seemingly Chauncey will say anything to be re-elected.
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And here we have Ragsie again with his delusional posts about a fictional character from a movie. Next thing you know he’ll name himself from a character in a fictional book……. oh wait he’s already done that.
I guess Ragsy thinks that Chauncey is running against John Galt, bless his heart………..
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 25th, 2012
10:39 am
RB from Gwinnett
October 25th, 2012
10:17 am
Hey, now I have some even better suggestions from a reputable source for how to commit voter fraud. I don’t even have to steal your power bill, I can just create one on my PC with your name on it!!! That’s a GREAT idea and I wish I’d thought of it!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/24/rep-morans-son-caught-on-tape-quits-staff/
Ya’ll keep making excuses for those voter ID laws, libs, ’cause nobody would actually do any of this stuff, right?….
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lol
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The crickets are deafening from Bookman.
Expect a big name change ………………….soon.
Mick
October 25th, 2012
10:40 am
**A vote for Romney is a vote for a brighter future.**
Definitely not considered to be a factual statement…
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
“Common Sense: Do you really want me to break out the fact checking on Obama 2016 or do you just not care to look up this information on your own?”
Well if “is” is “is” the facts check out!
Recon 0311 2533
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
Obama 2016 is reportedly the second highest grossing documentary ranked behind one produced and directed by Michael Moore. It was well researched and presented creditable facts about Obama’s upbringing and associations including his fathers views regarding the United States and the Western world. D’Souza left it up to the viewer to formulate their own conclusions. It’s hard to say what effect if any this documentary may have had on the electorate at large but in my own opinion anyone with an open mind who watched it could only come away wondering how Obama could not have been greatly influenced by those known associations and in particular his father along with others during his formative years.
markie mark
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
“Mitt Romney’s infamous little speech about the despised 47 percent”
“Despised’ is your twist, Mr Bookman, not Romneys words
Mighty Righty
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
TBone
The funniest line that Obama uses is he doesn’t want to go back to the policeis of the past. The past policies produced the richest country in the history of the world with the richest people, the best health care system, the strongest military in the world and the freeiest people of all races in the world. Obama wants to “change” a system that works to a system that has a history of failure.. The man is a fool.
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
“**A vote for Romney is a vote for a brighter future.**
Definitely not considered to be a factual statement…”
You have comprehension problems do you?
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 25th, 2012
10:42 am
•Those who push “voter-fraud-fraud” owe us (and that other Republican dude) ……….an apology ”
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lol
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:44 am
Georgia: 1)
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:44 am
alex: BOOM, Adam, Boom, really?- how creative, now just where in the world did YOU come up with that, Sheeesh,
Stole it from the Thulsa god who I worship and can’t get enough of
lol: lol: lol: lol:
Fred ™
October 25th, 2012
10:44 am
Recon 0311 2533
October 25th, 2012
10:41 am
Obama 2016 is reportedly the second highest grossing documentary ranked behind one produced and directed by Michael Moore.
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Actually no, it’s 19th, ranked appropriately enough behind all three Jack Ass movies…….
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=documentary&sort=boxoffice_gross_us,desc
Welcome to the Occupation
October 25th, 2012
10:44 am
Donovan, buddy, serious.
“Well isn’t it too bad that there are some who take a different view of this radical community organizer that the left elected for president.”
The “left” elected the president? C’mon, man, get you head out of the sand.
Regnad Kcin
October 25th, 2012
10:45 am
Thomas – when you go to vote with that utility bill – your signature will match the one on the voter-registration card, right?
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:46 am
markie mark: “Mitt Romney’s infamous little speech about the despised 47 percent”
“Despised’ is your twist, Mr Bookman, not Romneys words
de·spise transitive verb \di-ˈspīz\
1: to look down on with contempt or aversion
Hmm, sounds like an accurate description of his sentiments to me.
Adam
October 25th, 2012
10:46 am
Fred: Actually no, it’s 19th, ranked appropriately enough behind all three Jack Ass movies…….
LOLOLOL
You just made my day.
Skip
October 25th, 2012
10:47 am
Obama takes us from a 500,000 lost jobs a month oh in excess of 100,000 gained and the Cons don’t like it. Why do they hate anyone who works?
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:49 am
Obama is the great communicator? Well, he will, after the election, give a soothing consoling speech to all the progressive/communists groups that supported him in his failed attempt to take over the country. He will make you feel goooood about yourself. So do not let the anxiety over power you and turn you into hopelessness.
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:50 am
Skip
October 25th, 2012
10:47 am
“Obama takes us from a 500,000 lost jobs a month oh in excess of 100,000 gained and the Cons don’t like it. Why do they hate anyone who works?”
That is not meant to be a factual statement.
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 25th, 2012
10:51 am
ADAM,
Regarding tranparency…how is this not another broken promise of BO’s?
Also, no one can successfully explain why the Pres doesn’t simply have a press conference and simply go thru the timeline and address the concerns out there? Since he has nothing to hide, I think we all need to know what they knew when… LIBS obviously want to sweep this under that carpet and dismiss all out…kinda like GOP did with WMD’s..
Rickster
October 25th, 2012
10:51 am
What about the “No Holds Barred” effort to defeat George W Bush in 2004? Or the “No Holds Barred” effort to defeat Clinton in 1996?
If Romney wins, there will be a “No Holds Barred” effort to defeat him in 2016.
It’s the game, folks. It’s the game.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
October 25th, 2012
10:52 am
Jay
THANK YOU
after all these months trying to educate others about the anti-colonial views of Obama and encouraging people to watch 2016……….. i appreciate your endorsement of it.
Obama is not the stereotypical liberal…………… this movie shows that his world views come from another place that most Americans do not even understand…….. even liberals………
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 25th, 2012
10:52 am
ADAM,
Look up the words moonbat and wingnut:-)
stevie ray...clowns and jokers
October 25th, 2012
10:54 am
FRED,
I vote for the Jack Ass movies….no political movie is worth watching because the spin renders any such production of no value except as a pep rally for lunatic fringe..
Williebkind
October 25th, 2012
10:54 am
Brosephus™
October 25th, 2012
10:14 am
Leadership is getting the willing obedience from the followers. Obama has failed miserably!