Your morning jolt: James Earl Carter IV and the ‘poetic justice’ behind the Romney video
Updated at 5:30 p.m. with link to WABE (90.1FM) interview:
One of the most ironic notes of the 2012 presidential campaign was sounded last night when a video surfaced — courtesy of liberal magazine Mother Jones – in which Republican nominee Mitt Romney told a group of California fundraisers that he considered nearly half of all Americans to be unreachable moochers who can’t be weaned away from President Barack Obama.
The fellow who dug that video up was James Earl Carter IV of Dunwoody, 35-year-old son of Chip and grandson of the former president. “There are some people on Twitter and other places who are saying it was poetic justice that it was a Carter that found this, because of the way the Romney campaign has treated my grandfather,” Carter IV said. “I completely agree with that sentiment.”
Carter IV, who is currently unemployed and trying to break into the political research business, said he conducts daily searches on YouTube and other sites, looking for ground-breaking video. “At the end of August, I came across a video of Romney at a fund-raising event, talking about a factory he visited in China,” he said. Much of it had been blurred out, but it looked promising.
The video was posted – falsely – under the name of Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC host, but then disappeared after Maddow’s people filed an objection with YouTube. Shortly afterwards, the video popped up again – this time under the name of Anne Onymous.
Carter IV sent messages to the originator of the video through YouTube, then Tumblr. He soon had a new Tumblr follower named Anne Onymous. Direct contact quickly followed.
The video that had been posted so far had not included the portion in which Romney declared:
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.”
Carter IV didn’t know where or when the recording was made. “The first thing I asked was can you tell me where this was filmed,” Carter said. “They wouldn’t tell me this, but they did respond to me.” (The video was made May 17 at the Boca Raton, Fla., home of financier Marc Leder, as part of a $50,000-a-person fund-raiser.)
As it turned out, the shooter of the video was associated with Global-Tech, a Hong Kong-based firm that a Bain Capital affiliate had acquired. Several weeks earlier, Carter IV had worked with Mother Jones writer David Corn on an article on the acquisition. Thus Carter IV was able to establish his bone fides with the source.
“They wanted to get the story out and they wanted to assure their jobs,” Carter said. And they wanted to make sure they weren’t running afoul of any privacy laws. So on Aug. 30, the last day of the Republican National Convention, Carter IV handed off the video contact to Corn of Mother Jones, who eventually obtained the whole of the video.
“Once I realized there was a lot more involved in this than I could personally deal with, my goal became to get the story out,” said Carter IV, who met Corn for the first time at the Democratic National Convention this month.
“I thought it would be a little bit of a story, but it has gotten a lot bigger than I would have ever thought,” said Carter IV, who picked up 1,500 Twitter followers overnight. He’s still looking for work, but things are looking up. “I’ve had some offers now. I haven’t accepted any of them yet, but that’s not a concern anymore, I guess,” he said.
Catch the Associated Press follow-up on the story here.
Denis O’Hayer of WABE (90.1FM) has posted a 14-minute interview with James Carter here. It’s worth checking out. O’Hayer asked him if revenge was a factor in his research. Said the president’s grandson:
“It wasn’t a part of the motivation, but it was definitely a part of the satisfaction.”
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Walter Jones of Morris News Service says Republican Lee Anderson of Grovetown has declined yet another opportunity to debate U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Augusta:
A spokesman for Republican challenger Lee Anderson told the nation’s second-largest press club that he is declining an invitation to debate the man he wants to unseat, Democratic Congressman John Barrow.
The Atlanta Press Club’s Oct. 21 debate would be televised throughout the whole district on Georgia Public Broadcasting, unlike local media outlets that only reach voters in various parts of the 12th District. Anderson participated in the club’s debate during the primary.
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Meanwhile, the AJC’s Politifact Georgia today takes a look at Republican charges that U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Augusta, “left taxpayers on the hook for $950k study on genetic makeup of ants.”
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And Lori Geary of Channel 2 Action News looks at complaints that the preamble to the proposed charter school amendment on the November ballot has been tweaked to encourage approval:
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honested
September 18th, 2012
3:30 pm
In what parallel universe does ‘not making enough money to pay substantial income tax’ equal ‘moocher’?
Does the 1% think the majority of Americans exist just to provide them income?
Richard
September 18th, 2012
3:33 pm
“Carter IV, who is currently unemployed”. Enough said.
No Longer Republican
September 18th, 2012
3:33 pm
You crazy people on this right are just hilarious! You want to get all excited about people getting welfare or food stamps because they may have made some bad choices or been dealt a hard blow in life. But you totally ignore the BILLIONS in corporate welfare to companies such as Exxon/Mobil, GE, etc that not only receive government subsidies, but also pay next to nothing if anything in taxes. You also don’t have a problem with billionaires such as Mittens hiding millions of dollars in off short accounts to avoid paying taxes. And you don’t have an issue with American corporations shifting to jobs to other countries to avoid taxes and pay lower wages. But then those people who cannot find a job and need some help…well they are just evil! All of this from the side that claims to be “christian.” That $200 Aunt Sally got last month for food stamps is going to break this country…but that $5 billion Exxon/Mobil got to spend on exploration in Africa is no big deal. You people are the ones who are the danger to this country!
honested
September 18th, 2012
3:35 pm
Since we tax INCOME as a primary revenue source in the United States, if we want to see those in the bottom taking a greater role in financing Government operation the answer is simple……
Give them a raise!
td
September 18th, 2012
3:40 pm
A little late to the discussion today but someone has to go out and work so that all you entitled feeling folks (Moocher parasites) can continue to live off the money I send to the government.
Romney was dead on in the tape. I only wish he would have said it in a major speech.
They Live
September 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
You mess with the Bull…You get the horns!!!
td
September 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
honested
September 18th, 2012
3:35 pm
Since we tax INCOME as a primary revenue source in the United States, if we want to see those in the bottom taking a greater role in financing Government operation the answer is simple……
Give them a raise!
Once they develop a skill set that the market has determined deserves more money then I am sure they will receive more money. When your only skill set is making babies, partying or saying “would like like fries with that order” then you will not be receiving any more then minimum wage.
AnotherSoldier
September 18th, 2012
3:45 pm
@ConcernedAmerican – here’s the Romney comment on $200K being middle class:
Romney: ‘Middle-income’ is $200K to $250K and less
Romney’s comments came an interview broadcast Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“No one can say my plan is going to raise taxes on middle-income people, because principle number one is (to) keep the burden down on middle-income taxpayers,” Romney told host George Stephanopoulos.
“Is $100,000 middle income?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less,” Romney responded.
His campaign later clarified that Romney was referencing household income, not individual income.
The Census Bureau reported this week that the median household income – the midpoint for the nation – is just over $50,000.
http://www.abc6.com/story/19544498/romney-says-middle-income-250k-and-below
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
3:47 pm
SMH, one thing that you stated that sticks out like a sore thumb. “Taken their job.” Where I work at is not my job. Where you work at is not your job. It is the employer’s job. They place a value on what they are willing to pay someone to perfomr this job. You have an option to either agreee to the value and do the work, or not agree with the value and go somewhere else. I have left several jobs because of disagreement in pay. You should always get paid what you think your services are worth.
Brad Webb
September 18th, 2012
3:48 pm
What Mitt Romney said was the truth. The moochers will never vote for Romney and therefore there is no reason to cort them. The Atlanta Journal and the Mainstream media are blowing this way out of proportion. He said that in connection with the campaign, he is not concerned with the 47%. He didn’t say that as President of the country he would not be concerned with the 47%. What he said was totally correct.
Carol
September 18th, 2012
3:53 pm
td
Once they develop a skill set that the market has determined deserves more money then I am sure they will receive more money. When your only skill set is making babies, partying or saying “would like like fries with that order” then you will not be receiving any more then minimum wage.
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Ahh you Repubs are funny people. Let’s see Newt touted how clever he was to REFORM WELFARE, even added a have to work piece. Plus the amount of time you can be on is limted. So how then, are people able to claim they are victims and live off of the government? Is it possible that Newt really has nothing to brag about? That his plan isn’t working?
Or maybe it’s this, Newt also said that the President has put more people on food stamps than in history. Are these the people that Mitt is talking about? The people who have lost jobs at different interval over the past four years. Many of whom are still looking. And several on the Federal gov’t dole because the States kicked them off. Are those the people Mitt is talking about? Yeah, they are just lazy and don’t want to work.
Rich
September 18th, 2012
3:53 pm
Bernie, Your comment proves that Romney is right about people who rely on the Government to make a living.
Paul W. Williams
September 18th, 2012
3:57 pm
Seeing the actual comments as compared to the uproar that the MSM is trying to create is remains me once again of the bias in play. WHAT ROMNEY SAYS IS 100% TRUE!!
Additionally, Gallaway- SHAME ON YOU! You used intentionally inflammatory words to skew Romney’s comments- he did not use those words; they were used to make him look arrogant and heartless.
Romney will NEVER convince those who are taking a free ride that they should vote against a party promising to maintain that free ride.
Several years ago I managed a Middle Georgtia City Council campaign for a friend. Our ward was split almost 50/50 between black and white voters. The black voters had voted over 95% for several election cycles for the black candidate when opposed by a white candidate; we could have poured 75% of our resources into the black precincts and MAYBE we could have reduced that number to 92/93%. Their bias, not mine, made their support unattainable.
However, when the black candidate saw fewer signs and efforts in the black precincts, we became, despite the fact that she spent NOTHING pursuing white votes, RACISTS!
This is NOT to imply that the “moochers” are all black, because they are not. But Romney would be a fool to expect these people to look beyond their own gravy train and support policies that better the entire economy!
Those who pay nothing will continue until they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs- the actual taxpayers.
PS- Again, SHAME ON GALLAWAY! I thought you had more integrity that this- I was clearly wrong.
James
September 18th, 2012
4:01 pm
“Anything I can do to help people forget the incompetence of my grandfather . . .”
Just Sayin'
September 18th, 2012
4:05 pm
8 of the 10 states that have the highest proportion of folks not owing any income tax (i.e. part of the 47% that Romney doesn’t give a rip about) are red states.
Including Georgia.
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
4:09 pm
Thank you @AnotherSoldier. Also, thank you very much for your service. My friend, we all owe you (and all the other service men and women) a debt that we could never repay. Thanks for clearing it up. I almost got excited. From reading Michele statement, I thought that Mitt had foolishly stated that the middle class was BETWEEN $150k – $250k and not $200k – $250k AND LESS.
Paul
September 18th, 2012
4:22 pm
Columbus: You are a Pharisees, you would have stone the woman at the well to death. Jesus told the Pharisees and those looking on “he that has not sinned cast the first stone, woman go, you have no accurses”. Columbus, you don’t have a Heaven or Hell to put anyone in. Jesus will separate the chaff from the wheat. Pray and ask for guidance dude. Concern yourself with issues that your vote can control. Issues like better schools, health care, and the elderly. Homosexuality, adultery, and lies have been going on since the beginning of time and no political leader will ever change that. Ask the Pious Catholic Church. I’ll leave you with this; God used Rehab who was clearly a sinner, an unclean person, a harlot for years. I’m sure she was a person that YOU and Mitt would not want to be associated with. God can use anyone he chooses – Don’t forget how he used Paul. It’s more than same sex marriage that is going to send “this country to Hell” (I think that what you meant when you said “us”). It’s called Sin and that comes in many forms. Let God do the separating and you show some Love and respect to all mankind until He comes back for you. STOP CONDEMING FOLSKS TO HELL. I know that you are saved, but you are not the only one that knows God. We are all perplexed about God and what the Bible says. Stop pretending that you understand it all.
And for the rest of you folks, I pray that you never have to deal with a situation where you are a very close family member is facing illness and you/they can’t afford to pay for the services, or you lose your job after working 25 years and you can’t find a job and you have to deplete your savings and all that you have worked for is gone. It’s not about the people that are working it’s about those who may be in a bind and need some assistance until they can get it together. All of our lives can change instantly and spiral out of control pull us down in ways we can’t imaging. Think about it…..
Hide-n-seek
September 18th, 2012
4:31 pm
Mitt probably picked up some votes with this video. Personally, I am sick of you all twisting the truth. Tell it like it is or shut the front door!
yuzeyurbrane
September 18th, 2012
4:36 pm
td–you are being hypocritical. You and your wife are on the govt. tit but you seem to distinguish that from your wife’s clients at DFACS. Based on your prior posts, she has drawn her salary for 20 years working to help people both you and her despise, And you are on the mostly govt. paid for health insurance she carries. I worked in the poverty program and saw people like your wife in welfare depts. in another state. They are burnt out, which I understand and sympathize with. But rather than trying to help their clients, they try to shame them. She should do the honorable thing and change jobs. You should do the honorable thing and reconsider your hypocrisy re people who through no fault of their own lawfully receive benefits which our just and humane society has determined through legislation are proper. And stop posting your hate filled comments on this subject.
honested
September 18th, 2012
4:37 pm
td,
Sorry I didn’t get to insult you back earlier, but I’m short handed today and doing two people’s jobs.
Here’s a question for you, what value does any part of the health insurance industry add to America?
They certainly suck money out of the economy, but they don’t increase the value of the premiums paid in (and they shave a hefty chunk off the top for adding no value).
Doesn’t that make them (the whole damned industry) moochers?
AnotherSoldier
September 18th, 2012
4:38 pm
Another point, I have three guys who served with me in Iraq who haven’t been able to find decent jobs since they got back, and guess what, they are all on welfare. Another friend has been trying to get treatment at the VA for a horrible case of PTSD. His wife is going batty dealing with him, and trying to raise their kids. He CAN’T work, and they are on food stamps.
It absolutely galls me that you right wingers seem to think that people like these four soldiers are somehow living large off of your tax dollars. If any of you had an ounce of patriotism, you’d be fighting to make damn well sure they got payback for their service to the country. Instead you call them fat, lazy, shiftless and not worthy of your respect.
You make me wonder why we bothered going to war for you. You clearly don’t appreciate any of the lives that were ruined on your behalf.
Gail
September 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
As the saying goes, “The truth hurts.” All he was saying is that there is no sense spending time trying to convince people of certain mindset to vote for him. Just like there is no way President Obama could convince me to vote for him. We see the role of the government completely opposite so there is no way I would vote for him. He did not call them moochers although many of them probably are.
honested
September 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
And for those confusing American Citizens on welfare with those not earning enough to end up owing Federal Income Tax at the end of the year, PAY ATTENTION.
There are about 2 million American Citizens on the direct aid program generically known as ‘welfare’ (or previously AFDC). That leaves about 139,000,000 of ‘those people’ that robme is talking about who are either working hard every day, retired, or with some other special reason.
If you are one of those 139 million, you have been dissed.
Remember in November!
One Striking Rattler
September 18th, 2012
4:46 pm
HEY COLUMBUS
I’m not trying to start anything with you, but you need to calm down. As a person of God, you well know the ninth of the Ten Commandments. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. I am afraid that you have made statements that you simply cannot know, without a doubt, to be true. You simply cannot know that every member of the Democratic Party or every person who votes for a Democrat wants God out of society. Unless God, Himself, has revealed this to you, You simply cannot know what you have publicly stated to be true.
That puts you in jeopardy of violating the 9th commandment. President Obama has worked as a lawyer for a law firm and has also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law school. Your assertion that all he has ever done is live off our goverment is false witness. You have beared false witness against him. So now what will you do? I assume a person of your great conviction will have no choice but to do your research, then come back and admit your wrongs.
God teaches us not to worry about anything, particularly our rulers. The bible clearly teaches, the king’s heart is in God’s hand. HE turns it the way HE chooses. Not the way YOU choose. So stop all your ranting. Stop exhibiting a spirit of fear, which God has said He has not given us. The fear that you are expressing did not come from God, so you might want to try to figure out who you allowed to plant it in your heart.
Instead of writing angry, fearful rants you might feel better spending an additional 15 minutes with God. Become familiar with Christian conduct. See what the Bible says about anger, fear and judgment. Try to focus on getting yourself better everyday.
Get out and enjoy life. Enjoy your family. God Bless you, my friend. Let’s talk again.
obamaSinLaden
September 18th, 2012
4:47 pm
jec4=sniveling brat.
TB
September 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
So why so offended by fact? I guess the truth hurts
yuzeyurbrane
September 18th, 2012
4:57 pm
Initially overlooked part of article about preamble to proposed charter school amendment which will be on state ballot. While Senator Nan Orrick is absolutely correct about distorted words used in preamble describing what Georgian’s are being asked to vote upon, she should not be shocked. Didn’t they do same with T-Splost preamble? And isn’t this campaign being run by same folks who brought us T-Splost? For the same general reason of generating pork for the governing class? The fact that they are resorting to a dishonest description on the ballot simply illustrates that they cannot win if they tell the truth. I hope voters are again wise enough to see through this premeditated distortion as they did re T-Splost.
td
September 18th, 2012
4:58 pm
uzeyurbrane
September 18th, 2012
4:36 pm
” working to help people both you and her despise,”
There is were you are totally wrong. Neither of us despise the poor. We both despise a system (socialism) that was set up to enable the people she serves to continue their dependency on the government. If the system did not exist then people would be forced to make responsible decisions
yuzeyurbrane
September 18th, 2012
4:59 pm
p.s.–also shows supporters patronizing disdain for intelligence of average Georgia voter. Again, no surprise.
Kris
September 18th, 2012
5:36 pm
Say whay you will smitty has no use for the other 99% he can call them what he wants, as I see it its People guided by greed (GOP scum) that has put this country in the shape its in.
I have worked and paid taxes for 40 some odd years…
Real Athens
September 18th, 2012
5:43 pm
td:
The system you despise was nonexistent before the 1930’s. It was called the “gilded age” and was really anything but (except for a small percent of the population).
However, in the years following WWII, our federal government (under the direction of Democrat and Republican administrations) looked out at the greatest generation and said to its citizens ‘you served your country well. In response, your country is going to invest in human capital through the GI Bill, in hard capital through the FHA to provide for you and your family moderately priced homes in good communities and neighborhoods where you can send your children to reasonable public schools. And by the way, we’ll build high quality interstates between your homes and these new suburban communities and into the cities where you will be able to actually come in and work and then return to your homes.’Those types of policies of human capital, transportation, and hard capital in the form of housing were very real government based investments into a population and overnight, one generation – 20 years – you have a middle class that did not previously exist.
I am a proud product of these policies. So are you, even if you disdainfully refuse to admit it.
Read The Grapes of Wrath (if you never have) and tell me about the responsible decisions and choices of the protagonists and what they could have done differently.
honested
September 18th, 2012
5:52 pm
Why do the 1% have such disregard for the rest of us?
Are they still angry about lacking ‘landed gentry’ status and (for those around here) about losing their ‘unwilling servants’?
Allan Richardson
September 18th, 2012
5:52 pm
The attitude of the wealthiest one percent reminds me of a bar joke: A middle class worker, a CEO, and an unemployed man walk into a bar, where there are 12 packets of peanuts on a plate. A sign says “Just one please, this is all we have until tomorrow.” The CEO grabs 11 packets, then says to the middle class worker, “Watch out for that unemployed moocher, he’s after your nuts!”
The people who resent the rich not paying enough are NOT the ones who pay nothing (the small minority of poor who pay “nothing” except sales taxes would not CARE if the rich pay or not), but the ones who are paying MORE as a percentage of their income than wealthy people like Rawmoney, and in some cases MORE IN TOTAL, but find their jobs eliminated AS PART OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE WEALTHY GET WEALTHIER.
For centuries, the victimizing rulers have diverted the anger of their victims to OTHER victims. Blame the elderly retired, the mentally or physically disabled, the students trying to get an education in the hope of making more, the abused women who left everything behind to escape a dangerous relationship, for not being “smart” enough and “hard-working” enough to have a large bank account and avoid public assistance.
Big Hat
September 18th, 2012
5:58 pm
I feel so much better when I know that others suffer.
grambo
September 18th, 2012
6:46 pm
The Dems have been telling all of us that the POOR are victims for YEARS! Now you are upset when Romney points out that success? Get a clue! Most producers do not want to suport the takers.
Serious Robuck
September 18th, 2012
7:01 pm
Bravo, young Carter. I think Jimmy Carter was the only President we’ve ever had who was willing to tell the truth. America then, and America now, didn’t want to hear it. Jimmy Carter also has empathy for the little guy in this country. Mittens only has disdain. Mark Halperin’s likening Romney to Thurston Howell, III was spot on.
ld
September 18th, 2012
7:04 pm
The ACTUAL purpose of religious charter schools (which will be most of the new charter schools) is to reinforce Sunday morning religious indoctronation, lead to science idiocy w/regard to theory of evolution, and support the GOP’s greatest propaganda weapon –religion — all at the expense of public school funding — to the substantial detriment of the the children involved..
OH MY
September 18th, 2012
7:13 pm
Food Stamps for a Carter!
Jimmy and Roslyn had a garden when they grew up.
Obama’s change has really hit home, since he is part of the 47%.
No one ever talks about fair share here. Is it a total disconnect?
Stuff really does happen.
Galloway, comment here if you have the “fair share” to do so.
Late legislator use to tell me ” No Santa Claus for Grown folks”.
I really want your tax rate to be the real fair share, so you can cover all those in need? All toll, we are at about 55% inclusive. How much more to you WANT?
Share your thoughts, with the masses. Your tax situation is a very good starting point. Share the wealth of your common knowledge, and give the president an edge. Others will wish they had done the same……..
Fan
September 18th, 2012
7:15 pm
@honested – Still blaming the “last administration”, how original!
Fan
September 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
It’s so sad. The same people, even after a disastrous 4 years. All you have to ask is or we better off than we were 4 years ago? Very few if any, can say yes. Wake up!
Charles Douglas Edwards
September 18th, 2012
7:34 pm
The President of the United States of America should look out for 100% of Americans !!!
To pick and choose which segment of the population to help is wrong and not befitting of the HIGHEST office in the land.
President Barack Obama has proven that he cares for 100% of Americans.
We pray and HOPE for the re-election of President Barack Obama !!!
hiram
September 18th, 2012
7:41 pm
Today’s Republican party can only exist through deception – like state lotteries, they prey on the least sophisticated segment of society, who have great difficulty with processing information. Show them an actor portraying the lucky winner, on his yacht, or in his Rolls, and they will piss away half of their paycheck buying lottery tickets. Tell them that anything that prevents the wealthy from making more money, like pesky regulatons, is really bad, because some of that money (in Swiss banks) will trickle down to them, and that sounds very reasonable to them. Tell them that the elderly, poor and infirm are freeloaders, and they(the wealthy), shouldn’t have to contribute to their upkeep, because it will decrease the amount of money trickling down from the Cayman Islands, and that sounds very reasonable.
S
September 18th, 2012
7:41 pm
And who are the biggest Moochers of all…The Willard Mitt Romney’s, and corporations. 21 billion spent on Welfare programs, and 800 billion spent on tax cuts and corporate subsides..who’s the biggest Moochers in this country, its obvious to me. We don’t even know if the Mittster is paying any taxes at all, because he won’t show us his tax returns, wonder why that is..
buzzy
September 18th, 2012
7:52 pm
According to Romney, 47% of the American people are deadbeats. I guess if Obama’s support grows to 55%, then Romney will say that 55% of Americans are deadbeats.
I think the Republicans have picked another dud.
Democratic Plantation Dweller
September 18th, 2012
7:56 pm
Why should I work…the government has an obligation to supply all of my needs and wants.
Attack Dog
September 18th, 2012
7:59 pm
You may want to rethink being a Dixiecrat or bash Jimmy Carter, Jr. if you are a woman, minority, college graduate, college student, on social security, unemployed, veteran, in the military, not an evangelical, or earn less than $250,000 annually. Liberals didn’t say this, Willard did.
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:01 pm
8 years of Bush and Cheney removed 12.8 trillion dollars from our economy, and Republican obstructionists who have blocked Obama’s every effort to address the crisis, have convinced the simpletons that the Democrats are responsible for it all, and the Honey Boo Boos believe it…
Kris
September 18th, 2012
8:02 pm
@ S…I agree, still smitty has not shout his mouth off about the fed spending 40 BILLION an month where is the money going…
TO THE RICH..
I will have to say that mitten was properly bashed for the scum he is , good riddance to smitt and rhinny.
Mean while back home and speaking of scum check tis out out Lori Geary of Channel 2 Action News looks at complaints that the preamble to the proposed charter school amendment on the November ballot has been tweaked to encourage approval:
The charter school DEAL…scam boondoggle brought by sonny barns jr…
Check out the video and write Senator ORROCK!
Good afternoon senator Orrock,
Please stop Governor Deal’s underhanded attempt to trick the voters into voting for this boondoggle charter school scam to undermine the States public school system. What is needed is more funding, less administrative costs.
Let’s fix the school System We Have.
Thank you
Kris
Just my 2 cents worth…
Tax Money wasted on new covered stadium should be spent on Public school system.
Impeach DEAL
re-elect President Obama
Joe Logan
September 18th, 2012
8:03 pm
I wonder if Romney’s “moochers”, in the 47% includes the employees of companies like Walmart who are also receiving benefits because their pay is so low? I’ve travelled from Australia to the USA a couple of times and intend returning next year. I always enjoy visiting as it is a beautiful country and very lucky with its natural advantages. What I can never understand is how the middle class is so reduced, to the advantage of the wealthiest few and Romney’s wealth seems largely to have come from disadvantaging employees. Mind you, we are not perfect – we have the wealthiest woman in the world here and she recently suggested that Australians are overpaid and compared the situation with African miners who she said “are prepared to work for $2 a day”.
I certainly hope that President Obama is re-elected but I think we are all heading in the wrong direction. There is too much self-centredness and greed and working citizens of the wealthiest country in the world should not be reduced to receiving charity to feed their families.
Attack Dog
September 18th, 2012
8:04 pm
If a Dixiecrat understood Maslow’s Theory, then government’s (the people) obligation to supply the people’s “needs’” not their wants become clear.