Romney closes out the primaries by attacking Obama’s unfairness
The news from last night was not that Mitt Romney easily swept the five states that held primaries; that was assured once Rick Santorum left the race, if not before. Nor was it the prospect, which is being confirmed this morning, that Newt Gingrich would also drop out of the race as a result.
No, the news is that Romney finally gave the speech some of us have been waiting for him to give. (Click here to see a video of the speech, which lasted about 13 minutes, or here to read the prepared remarks; he didn’t stray too far from them.)
The heart of it was the contrast he drew between himself and President Obama. First, what he said about the president:
Government is at the center of his vision. It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it can’t take, consumes a greater and greater share of the economy. You know, with Obamacare fully installed, government would have control of almost half of the economy, and we would have effectively ceased to be a free enterprise society.
This President is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars. He’s asking us to accept that Washington knows best — and can provide all.
We’ve already seen where that path leads. It erodes freedom. It deadens the entrepreneurial spirit. And it hurts the very people it’s supposed to help. Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty around. Other nations have chosen that path. It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages.
And then there’s his counteroffer:
I have a very different vision for America, and for our future. It’s an America driven by freedom, where free people, pursuing happiness in their own unique ways, create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans. And because there are so many enterprises that are succeeding, the competition for hard-working, educated, skilled employees is intense, so wages and salaries rise.
I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising standards of living. I see children even more successful than their parents — some successful even beyond their wildest dreams — and others congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
The repeated mentions of free enterprise, and the good line about congratulating people on their success rather than attacking them for it, are welcome. But here’s where Romney signaled an important theme leading to November:
This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends’ businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the very taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.
When an opponent — as Romney correctly said Obama would do — wants to run not on his record but on distractions and distortions and fuzzy notions of “fairness,” you hit back at what other people might consider unfair. And there is a great deal of unfairness to be found in Obama’s conventional liberal positions, some of which Romney catalogued.
This is a promising start to turning Obama’s raw populism on its ear.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Lil' Barry Bailout (Bookman Got Tired of Losing Arguments With Me, Too!)
April 28th, 2012
5:40 am
Trying to Shed Student Debt
[Democrat] Lawmakers Rethink Bankruptcy-Law Ban on Walking Away From Education Loans
The growth of student debt is stirring debate about whether the government should step in to ease the burden by rewriting the bankruptcy laws—again.
In 2005, Congress prohibited student debt from being discharged through bankruptcy, except in rare cases, because of concerns that many young graduates—who often have no major assets such as a house or a car—would be tempted to walk away from loan obligations.
Some lawmakers now want to temper that position, pointing to concerns that a significant number of Americans could be buried under education loans for decades. Their efforts, however, would apply only to private loans.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577364120264435092.html?mod=WSJ_GoogleNews&mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1
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Democrats try to “shed” debt.
Republicans just pay it off.
Democrats: Parasites.
Road Scholar
April 28th, 2012
5:59 am
“Bin Laden is DEAD”
Also would have happened regardless of who was in the White House.
Not if his name is George Bush!
Lil' Barry Bailout (Bookman Got Tired of Losing Arguments With Me, Too!)
April 28th, 2012
6:04 am
Truther alert ^^^
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
8:42 am
Road, do you REALLY want to play the “I wish President (fill in the blank) had done this” game?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 28th, 2012
8:58 am
Let’s sum up the obozo grand strategy-
Romney would have never sent a man to the moon! blah! Romney would have lost World War One! ew! Romney would have never invented the light bulb! Eck! Romney would have killed a 150 million unborn babies, er, scratch that one! Heh Romney hates you! phbbbt, phbbbt, phbbbt!
He’s trying not to go over the heads of his voters, just sayin…
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April 28th, 2012
9:33 am
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the threat to his state’s future that is posed by mounting pension and retiree health-care bills for government workers. Unless Illinois enacts reform quickly, he said, the costs of these programs will force taxes so high that, “You won’t recruit a business, you won’t recruit a family to live here.”
When did Rahm become a conservative?
When he called leftists “F-ing RETARDED”.
He was right about leftists and he’s right about government taxing its citizens out of an opportunity for future growth.
Had Obama listened to Rahm, he (Obama) wouldn’t be saddled with Obamacare.
Giddyup, Rahm!!!
schnirt
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
9:33 am
File this in the “I’m not shocked one bit” drawer :
“Obama addressed the coeds at the Universities of North Carolina, Colorado, and Iowa at a sixth grade reading level, according to Flesch-Kincaid reading comprehension difficulty tests conducted by the Washington Free Beacon.”
http://freebeacon.com/dumb-and-dumber/
Every day on this blog, his supporters prove that they are incapable of articulating basic intellectual thoughts, let alone complex ones. How else is he going to get these dumb-masses to vote for him?
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April 28th, 2012
9:44 am
Wasn’t it Nixon, who had a hit list?
The President Has a List—Barack Obama attempts to intimidate contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign.
The Obama campaign has justified any action on the grounds that it has a right to “hold the eventual Republican nominee accountable,” but this is a dodge. Politics is rough, but a president has obligations that transcend those of a candidate. He swore an oath to protect and defend a Constitution that gives every American the right to partake in democracy, free of fear of government intimidation or disfavored treatment. If Mr. Obama isn’t going to act like a president, he bolsters the argument that he doesn’t deserve to be one.
Paranoia?
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
10:03 am
Sad, @@. This was a man who wanted to elevate the level of discourse in Washington, yet he’s proven to be nothing more than a typical Chicago hood.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
11:22 am
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
10:03 am
Sad, @@. This was a man who wanted to elevate the level of discourse in Washington, yet he’s proven to be nothing more than a typical Chicago hood.
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Pot calling kettle black?
And “YOU” and the “CONS” have proven to be nothing more than typical HATERS
WITH HIDDEN hoods.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
11:29 am
Trashman, why do you defend a President who lies to the American people about Mitt Romney?
And yes, I do mean lie, because his campaign KNOWS that Romney was speaking about not invading Pakistan when he was using the quote about not intervening militarily in that country, and had nothing to do with any covert action to get Bin Laden.
Why do you defend that lying sack of excrement known as President Obama?
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
11:34 am
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
9:33 am
Every day on this blog, his supporters prove that they are incapable of articulating basic intellectual thoughts, let alone complex ones. How else is he going to get these dumb-masses to vote for him?
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IS your only purpose for hanging out on this blog is to rate the intellectual capacity of bloggers
who disagree with your idiosyncrasy ideals?
I HOPE you are GETTING PAID FOR IT.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
11:37 am
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
11:29 am
Trashman, why do you defend a President who lies to the American people about Mitt Romney?
Why do you defend that lying sack of excrement known as President Obama?
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The same REASON you defend that LIAR’S LIAR sack of @#@##$$$$ known as MITT ROB-ME.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
11:48 am
Articulate ONE lie Mitt Romney has made, and make the case that it was a lie, Trashman.
Otherwise, STFU.
Your President lied and all you can say is “the other guy did it, too, deflecting from the issue that your Messiah was the one who sated he wanted to change the tone in Washington, yet rather than do what he said he was going to do, he becomes one of them.
Great set of principles for your guy, Trashman.
Awaiting your proof that Mitt Romney has lied.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:00 pm
Principled? STFU?. Lying sack of excrement?
Elevated discourse there indeed, tough guy.
Mitt Romney Lie: ‘I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.’
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:05 pm
Real Athens, I’m not the one who stated he wanted to elevate the discourse IN WASHINGTON.
Get that through your thick head, son. Stop trying to DEFLECT from your Messiah’s failures.
And please provide the citation and a link to try to show Romney in a lie. I don’t do fiction, especially yours.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:07 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
11:48 am
Articulate ONE lie Mitt Romney has made, and make the case that it was a lie, Trashman.
Otherwise, STFU.
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HERE ARE 11 LIES MITT WITT HAS MADE.
1) On Immigration – For A Path To Citizenship, Then Against
2) On George W. Bush’s Tax-Cuts
3) Anti-Reagan then, now Pro-Reagan
4) On The National Rifle Association And Gun Laws
5) On Whether He Even Owns A Gun (This story changed within just a few days)
6) Is the planet warming? Mitt probably agreed with at one time or another.
7) Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? Don’t Ask Mitt Romney
9) His Own Health-Care Initiative. He’s Not Sure About That Either
10) Tax Pledges are beneath Romney, until the presidency was in front of him
11) NOW THE BIG ONE: During his 1994 Senate Run, Mitt Romney argued that he was more pro-choice than Ted Kennedy
heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:13 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
9:33 am
Every day on this blog, his supporters prove that they are incapable of articulating basic intellectual thoughts, let alone complex ones. How else is he going to get these dumb-masses to vote for him?
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SO THE COMMENT BELOW IS ARTICULATING BASIC INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT?
Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
11:48 am
Articulate ONE lie Mitt Romney has made, and make the case that it was a lie, Trashman.
Otherwise, STFU.
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OK GENIUS
heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:16 pm
Thanks for not articulating a single lie, Trashman.
Here is how providing proof works, loser. You provide a statement that you believe that Mitt Romney made that was demonstrably untrue AT THE TIME HE MADE IT. You then provide proof that Mitt Romney knew that statement was untrue AT THE TIME HE MADE IT. You then provide links to your proof.
What you have provided are disagreements with, and your opinion about, some of Romney’s policies and/or beliefs, but you have failed once again to provide any proof that Mitt Romney has lied.
Try again, and this time try to stay away from DNC talking points, Trashman.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:18 pm
“SO THE COMMENT BELOW IS ARTICULATING BASIC INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT?”
Deflection, Trashman.
YOU only get what you give, and more so what you deserve. Provide one iota of intellectual thought, and you’ll receive same in return.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:18 pm
Lie:
President Barack Obama is “ending Medicare as we know it.”
Mitt Romney on Monday, March 12th, 2012 in a campaign memo
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:21 pm
Again. “STFU?” “Lying sack of excrement” Real, elevated intellect there, bub
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:22 pm
Fail again, Real Athens.
Once again, you describe an OPINION.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:25 pm
Deflection, Real Athens.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:31 pm
An opinion can’t be untrue? Look in the mirror man.
Romney wrote it in a memo and it is not true. It is a lie. What’s the matter with you?
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/statements/byruling/pants-fire/
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:32 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:16 pm
Thanks for not articulating a single lie, Trashman.
Here is how providing proof works, loser. You provide a statement that you believe that Mitt Romney made that was demonstrably untrue AT THE TIME HE MADE IT. You then provide proof that Mitt Romney knew that statement was untrue AT THE TIME HE MADE IT. You then provide links to your proof.
What you have provided are disagreements with, and your opinion about, some of Romney’s policies and/or beliefs, but you have failed once again to provide any proof that Mitt Romney has lied.
Try again, and this time try to stay away from DNC talking points, Trashman.
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It ain’t a lie IF “YOU” believe it.
heeheeheeheeheehee
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:34 pm
Deflection?
I’ll put this as simply as possible. How is telling someone to “STFU” or calling someone “a lying sack of excrement providing “an iota of intellectual thought”?
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:38 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:18 pm
“SO THE COMMENT BELOW IS ARTICULATING BASIC INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT?”
Deflection, Trashman.
YOU only get what you give, and more so what you deserve. Provide one iota of intellectual thought, and you’ll receive same in return.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
heeheeheeheeheeheeheee
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:42 pm
I’ll put it to you as simply as you might be able to understand it, Real Athens.
I am discussing President Obama’s lying about Mitt Romney’s Pakistan statement in a campaign ad, and about Obama claiming to want to change the tone in Washington, while listing campaign donors of Romney’s on his website and denouncing them.
Your trying to DEFLECT from that issue, in trying to make this discussion about me, is childish and stupid.
Got it?
Stick to an issue, if you can.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:43 pm
Still waiting for one lie Mitt Romney has said, children.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:50 pm
@@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:18 pm
“SO THE COMMENT BELOW IS ARTICULATING BASIC INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT?”
Deflection, Trashman.
YOU only get what you give, and more so what you deserve. Provide one iota of intellectual thought, and you’ll receive same in return.
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There are ONLY two classes.
FIRST class
NO class
“YOU” exhibit the latter.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:52 pm
Tibby:
Read your posts on this page. I think you forgot what you’re discussing. Here are several more lies other than the ones I have posted that you have ignored after asking for them. Really, who is behaving like a child?
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/statements/byruling/pants-fire/
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:53 pm
And waiting . . .
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
12:54 pm
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/21/romney_never_saw_father_on_king_march/
getalife
April 28th, 2012
12:55 pm
“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.”
Time to man up and admit this fact and disband the gop radical party.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
12:56 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:43 pm
Still waiting for one lie Mitt Romney has said, children.
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WAIT NO LONGER:
1. Speaking to the NRA, Romney said, “The Obama administration has decided that it has the power to mandate what Catholic charities, schools, and hospitals must cover in their insurance plans…. Here we are, just getting started with Obamacare, and the federal government is already dictating to religious groups on matters of doctrine and conscience.”
In Massachusetts’ governor for one term, Romney took the same position Obama has adopted. He somehow forgot to mention this.
2. Romney also told the NRA audience, “We need a president who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. President Obama has not, I will.”
The grammar in this sentence makes it hard to understand, but the implication seems to be that Obama has created new restrictions on gun laws. That’s a lie.
3. Romney also claims to be a “lifetime” member of the NRA.
In reality, Romney used to oppose the NRA, but became a “lifetime” member fairly recently by buying the honor from the group.
heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:59 pm
I’ve read you link, Real Athens. EACH AND EVERY one of them either take wordsmithing to a new and unattainable level, or are simply disagreements in policy, NOT making untrue statements at the time he made them, and knowing they were untrue when he made them.
Nice try. Next time do your own research and stop relying on Soros-funded websites.
getalife
April 28th, 2012
1:02 pm
Man up kyle and call out your radical party and leaders like the gop think tanks.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
1:04 pm
“In Massachusetts’ governor for one term, Romney took the same position Obama has adopted.”
No, he did not. I suggest you read the actual event in question, and not rely on DNC talking points which are incorrect. Fail.
“The grammar in this sentence makes it hard to understand, but the implication seems to be that Obama has created new restrictions on gun laws.”
Or, you simply like to project meaning into someone else’s words, rather than rely on the words themselves. Fail again.
“In reality, Romney used to oppose the NRA, but became a “lifetime” member fairly recently by buying the honor from the group.”
Doesn’t matter how he got it (and you can, too, if you wish), the statement is true. Epic fail on your part again.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
1:09 pm
“Man up kyle and call out your radical party and leaders like the gop think tanks.”
As opposed to, say, the Center for American Progress, or the Progressive Policy Institute, or the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, getaclue?
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
1:21 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
1:04 pm
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
1:24 pm
@@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:43 pm
Still waiting for one lie Mitt Romney has said, children.
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
hreeheeheeheeheeheeheee
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
1:28 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
12:43 pm
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The American people are tired of liars like MITT ROMNEY who pretend to be something they’re not.
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April 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
HERE ARE 11 LIES MITT WITT HAS MADE.
Immigration…blah…blah…blah.
Anyhoo, I’m always amused by how liberals…when GWB was president…wanted nothing more than for him to admit to his mistakes. Seemed VERY important to them. NOW?????
Romney’s not even ALLOWED to make mistakes. When he changes his position, he’s ridiculed for doing so. Maybe it’s the apologies that mean so much to liberals. They’re needy that way.
Four more rows of butter beans to go and I’m done in the garden. Piecemeal is what it’s been this year. Being married to a weekend landlord and working longer hours has certainly slowed progress.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
1:09 pm
“Man up kyle and call out your radical party and leaders like the gop think tanks.”
As opposed to, say, the Center for American Progress, or the Progressive Policy Institute, or the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, getaclue?
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KYLE????????????????
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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April 28th, 2012
1:33 pm
It would be less labor intensive to grow vegetables like the ones who voted for Obama.
schnirt
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April 28th, 2012
1:34 pm
More expensive but less labor intensive.
Double schnirt.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 28th, 2012
1:38 pm
Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather.
Wait a minute, I thought Romney was the Mormon?
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
1:40 pm
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April 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
HERE ARE 11 LIES MITT WITT HAS MADE.
Immigration…blah…blah…blah.
Romney’s not even ALLOWED to make mistakes. When he changes his position, he’s ridiculed for doing so. Maybe it’s the apologies that mean so much to liberals. They’re needy that way.
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OBAMA’S not even ALLOWED to make mistakes?
When he changes his position, he’s ridiculed for doing so.
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
IF it is good for ROMNEY it is good for OBAMA
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
2:01 pm
Tibby@12:59
Really? You can’t be serious. You’re pulling my leg.
I had no idea that George Soros owned the Tampa Tribune. I guess you’re going to tell me he owns the Pulitzer Prize too. Man, what doesn’t that guy own?
Wow. After all the chest thumping and bullying that’s all you have? A boogeyman? Soros?
FAIL. LOL