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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LMAO
September 18th, 2012
10:03 am
Can we call him “Chipper”? Great find and good luck with the job search. CNN needs some help. That John Berman guy apparently lacks a certain part of the male anatomy and is afraid to ask tough questions of people of the GOP persuasion. He will talk all over a Democrat though. Maybe you’ll you’ll talk all over both which is the way it should work
MadMax
September 18th, 2012
10:14 am
Taken in context, the ado is much about nothing. All he said was that this group is not going to vote for him and that his target for campaigning is not this group. It is getting distorted by the left and the general media when all he spaid was common sense.
Bernie
September 18th, 2012
10:15 am
An American Woman’s thought for Today, “I didn’t think I could loathe Romney any more, but now he’s shown himself to be a contemptible, unfeeling, and heartless human being. He’s just lost the election with the release of this “candid” insight into his thinking. Keep giving Us more Mitt, Keep reminding ALL of US as to why would even considering VOTING for YOU or YOUR PARTY!”
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:21 am
Jim Galloway:
I must be missing something here. Exactly where did Romney refer to the “nearly half” of the citizens as “moochers”? Please point this out for me! Thanks . . .
“he considered nearly half of all Americans to be unreachable moochers who can’t be weaned away from President Barack Obama.”
MadMax
September 18th, 2012
10:21 am
Thanks Bernie for proving Mitt right – another example of someone who can’t read and discern the difference between soundbites and fact. This is someone who would never vote for him or the party because they find truth frightening.
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:24 am
Bernie@10:15 am:
I’m sure that Governor Romney lay awake at night worried about whether YOU were going to vote for him.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
10:26 am
Truth (mostly) hurts, doesn’t it. Like Mr. Carter, I am currently unemployed and have applied for benefits. It’s been a very humbling experience, and one that has instigated a great deal of soul searching. But, as I sit amongst my fellow unemployed at the center, I am struck by the number of applicants who I see using iPhones, displaying great nail manicures, high end shoes and clothing, etc. You know, stuff that I can’t afford. And these are the folks actually looking for work. My friend who is a pharmacist for a large, discount retail chain constant fills scripts for people coming in with medicare.state aid cards, sees them buying alcohol, smoking cigarettes, wacky nail jobs, jewelry all over, and the list goes on. Romney is, unfortunately, 100% truthful that there is a sizable segment of the population that thinks they are owed a living, abuse the system, won’t work, etc. Don’t know if it’s 47% or not, and would like to actually see some demographics. And those folks will never, ever vote for Romney or anyone who preaches self-responsibility because they have been generationally institutionalized to depend on the gov’t for everything, and have had any semblance of initiative and the old American “Can-Do” spirit bred out of them.
Bradley
September 18th, 2012
10:28 am
Jim – he never said “unreachable moochers”. The wording in your articel was irresponsible and very biased.
Unfortunately, what Mitt said was pretty accurate.
Bernie
September 18th, 2012
10:28 am
MadMax @ 10:21 am – No My Friend…..I find Mitt…….FRIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!
sheepdawg
September 18th, 2012
10:29 am
the debates will be hilarious, when mittens talks, funny things happen
Bernie
September 18th, 2012
10:29 am
correction: plus
MadMax @ 10:21 am – No My Friend…..I find Mitt…….Very FRIGHTENING!!!!!!!!!!
Get Real
September 18th, 2012
10:32 am
Most of the democratic base are “victims” in their minds…what is the news flash here???
Jman
September 18th, 2012
10:33 am
Objectively, the biggest ‘misstatement’ is the part where Romney says the at the 47% of the Population [that supports Obama)……are victims.’ I think everything else after that is debatable depending on your political bent, but the victims ‘bit’ is over the top IMO. Just sayin…..
KC
September 18th, 2012
10:34 am
Jim Galloway = Biased opinion based on what he thinks and not what really happened. Romney did not say moochers, I will – most of America on food stamps & welfare are M O O C H E R S !!!
A dad
September 18th, 2012
10:34 am
Also, this guy is Jimmy Carter’s grandson. Y’all remember good ole Jimmy. The absolute worst president in the history of the country. Kind of ironic the grandson can’t find a job with that kind of lineage, but my recommendation to him is to work hard, sacrifice, and keep at it. Take whatever is offered as a starting point and build from there.
Pat P
September 18th, 2012
10:36 am
What about the corporations including right here in Georgia that don’t pay taxes. Let’s not exclude them from the conversation or the 1% that don’t pay their fair share. The foreign corporations in Georgia from middle Georgia don’t pay and they are billion dollar corporations. They mine kaolin from seven counties and some of the poorest counties in Georgia.
MoFaux
September 18th, 2012
10:37 am
cc: It’s called the English language. If you listen or read it, he says it quite clearly. Jim’s paraphrase is dead on. Spin it how you like though.
Me
September 18th, 2012
10:39 am
He was right on target! Democratic party has all the freeloaders in it.
og
September 18th, 2012
10:40 am
@ A dad,
Tell your kids that as you give them a suv and a trust fund to do whatever they want, ie: tour with Phish, while you raise taxes on those who do actually work hard and sacrifice. Now maybe that’s not you in particular but you can bet your ass that is what is happening to more than you can count.
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:40 am
A dad@10:26 am:
“And those folks will never, ever vote for Romney or anyone who preaches self-responsibility because they have been generationally institutionalized to depend on the gov’t for everything, and have had any semblance of initiative and the old American “Can-Do” spirit bred out of them.”
That is a very well thought out and absolutely accurate statement, but just another way of saying they will “stay on the democrat plantation and serve the ‘Massa’ with their vote!
Laurie
September 18th, 2012
10:42 am
Christmas came early this year. Thank you Mit. Do I have any more presents coming?
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:48 am
MoFaux@10:37 am:
“cc: It’s called the English language. If you listen or read it, he says it quite clearly. Jim’s paraphrase is dead on. Spin it how you like though.”
The ‘spin’ was done by Galloway. It’s called the English language, and I have not heard or read that Romney used the word, ‘moochers’. The ‘spin’ was entirely Galloway’s and the liberal, so-called mainstream ‘news media’.
I can recommend a very good remedial course for you should you choose to accurately use the “English language”.
Carl
September 18th, 2012
10:48 am
I see the fruit and nut does not fall far from the tree.
Right
September 18th, 2012
10:49 am
Food is a necessity, not an entitlement. We’ve never sent tons of food to struggling countries because they’re “entitled”. We do it because it saves lives. Mitt is a very calloused man who is unfit to lead.
Tyrone from East Point
September 18th, 2012
10:51 am
What a shock…Jimmy Carter’s grandson can’t find a job.
Imagine my surprise.
Right
September 18th, 2012
10:52 am
Please forgive me of anything I post because I am a few bricks short of a load.
DJ Sniper
September 18th, 2012
10:55 am
The sad part is that you have people who are on government assistance who will still vote for this clown.
GATiger
September 18th, 2012
10:56 am
The truth hurts. As a Georgian, it pains me to admit Carter was the worst President in my lifetime, and an even worse former President. I wouldn’t expect young Mr. Carter to come to terms with that, blood being thicker…and all that.
MoFaux
September 18th, 2012
10:56 am
@ A dad: Perhaps they bought these things when they had a job? I-phones (older models) are cheap or free. Not everyone is like that anyway, you are picking a small sample size. I have a co-worker that doesn’t even have a car, let alone an I-phone, due to her low salary…and she is nearing retirement age. I really don’t think it’s possible to be living the high life on the tax payers’ dime, unless your standard for such is quite low.
cattledawgs
September 18th, 2012
10:56 am
What would happen if we all just quit working and joined the moochers? I have family members that get checks. Ive hired people that get checks. All there concerned with is not losing that check. They will work just hard enough to not lose their check. They never strive to get past the point of drawing a check.
Democratic Plantation Dweller
September 18th, 2012
10:57 am
The government owes me housing, food, health care, education and contraceptives.
Why should I work?
Mary Elizabeth
September 18th, 2012
10:57 am
I heard more real passion and conviction in Romney’s voice than I have ever previously heard. This is what he believes in his heart and in his gut. The problem with what he believes is that it is full of stereotypical thinking that reflects little in shades of gray, or nuance. Moreover, it reflects a man with a coldness of heart, imo.
Heaven help this nation – and this globe – if this man becomes President of the United States. What is sad is that Gov. Romney divides people into categories, instead of seeing the humanity – within all people – that connects all people. And, he not only divides, he sees with a hierarchial, smallness of vision that some are better than others based on their wealth, which evidently in his thinking, equates to virtue and hard work. Little does he understand that there are millions of people in this nation who work very hard, all of their lives, without making high incomes. What a sad, little person of shallow vision Romney has turned out to be – that that video revealed.
When the consciousness of a people centers on “tit for tat,” instead of simply understanding, those people have been diminished in their thinking, and in their souls. And, people who think in those ways are diminished people, no matter what the status of their wealth is.
I appeal to the American people, and to Southerners, not to elect Mitt Romney as our President. We deserve better
Wilbur
September 18th, 2012
11:00 am
I’m with Willard. Let’s crank up the death panels. These old geezers are sucking the govt. teet dry.
Bernie
September 18th, 2012
11:00 am
poor Mitt …he is such a smart and capable businessman. Yet at every opportunity Mitt goes out of his way and proves to the American People that he is a very “INEPT” politician.
Mitt if you are trying to garner Votes, The normal way most Candidates Smile & Lie To The Voters Faces.
Whereas you SNARL, then verbally degrade 47% and call them Lazy and government Ticks. Why make such comments when you have have already alienated and angered Women,Hispanics & Latinos, African Americans, Students, Young adults 18-34, Gay community, Unions, Liberals,Democrats, Moderate Independents.
Its Not like You are winning by a wide margin or ahead in the Polls.
Is there any group ,You Have not offended?
Oh yes! I remember…… The shrinking supporter, getting smaller by the day.
My Guess is they are just as unhappy in You….. as We are!
Benito
September 18th, 2012
11:02 am
Awesome. an unemployed man finds a video of a presidential nominee calling out Americans that are overly dependent on government assistance. There is your real poetic justice.
MadMax
September 18th, 2012
11:02 am
Right – Most necessities are not “rights”. You have the right to go out, find a job or start a business and earn a living so that you may purchase necessities as well as luxuries.
Shar
September 18th, 2012
11:03 am
Another biased preamble brought to you by a state government that will do absolutely anything to pry open taxpayer wallets on behalf of their corporate donors, 96% of whom are from out of state and will not have their own children exposed to the schools that result from incompetent legislators meddling in educational matters they are entirely ignorant of. The fact that the Secretary of State owns the ballot language does not entitle him and his handlers to misrepresent truth and use the ballot as advocacy space.
The fact is that charter schools as a whole demonstrate no discernable improvement in student outcomes versus traditional public schools unless part of their charter is the right to sieve through their student population. The ballot language stating otherwise is a lie, and Brian Kemp’s second attempt to push through an initiative based on misrepresentation. Let’s all hope that this effort is no more successful than his twisting of the T-SPLOST preamble was.
Scrivener
September 18th, 2012
11:04 am
Jim got caught slanting the video by trying to give the impression that Romney called people “moochers.” Shame on you! You’re not better than Bookman in trying to deceive people to advance your candidate.
And MoFaux – “@ A dad: Perhaps they bought these things when they had a job? I-phones (older models) are cheap or free.”
The phone may have been cheap or free, but the monthly service sure isn’t. But you already know that, I’m sure, and are trying to pretend A Dad was making a weak point. He was right on target.
Doug
September 18th, 2012
11:05 am
Just another stupid Carter. If I were him I would never tell anyone my grandfather was Jimmy Carter! I would be to ashamed…although, it is good Obama came along because Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst president ever!
cc
September 18th, 2012
11:06 am
Jim Galloway:
I’m calling you on your use of the word ‘moocher’ in this column. I understand that you are a columnist, and that you have the right (and obligation) to express your opinion. Many of your readers may mistake this as a direct quote, and in that light you have misled at least some of your readers. In my opinion, this ‘crosses the line’. You have done a disservice to both Governor Romney and at least some of your faithful.
Do you not think an apology and clarification is in order here?
I await your response . . . either way?
BIGFOOT
September 18th, 2012
11:07 am
The one thing that Democrats are upset about is Romney told the TRUTH something to which they are not accustomed.
Tag
September 18th, 2012
11:09 am
Why vote for Romney if he isn’t going to keep giving us welfare like Obama?
I’d be crazy to vote for someone who will reduce taxes on the rich when I don’t pay taxes; it’s just less for me.
I don’t like working very hard and two years of unemployment has been a sweet vacation.
Obama keep the food stamps coming! My subsidized housing is warm and comfy. Why should I pay the actual cost of a Marta ride when the rich all have cars?
The most important thing the government can do is get the standard of living of the poor up to the middle class; so tax the rich and increase welfare.
Cut military, education and most other government spending (other than entitlement). You don’t need an education to get government aid.
Whatever
September 18th, 2012
11:12 am
@A dad 10:26AM. I empathize with your current situation, but your attitude makes me sick. You see the unemployed moochers with *gasp* smart phones, good hygiene, and polished shoes?
You must have worn clothes made of old potato sacks and sandals made of discarded cardboard while pulling up your imaginary boot straps as you stood in line to get YOUR very well deserved benefits, no?
News flash folks, there are people who vote Democrat who work very hard, care for family and community, love our country, and do not believe you hide away the least amongst us in favor of only feting those with the most.
cc
September 18th, 2012
11:13 am
Bernie@11:00 am:
With your attribution of words never spoken, maybe Galloway can get you a job filling in for him when he has to be away. In that way, even YOU too can be gainfully employed . . .
cc
September 18th, 2012
11:13 am
Bernie@11:00 am:
With your attribution of words never spoken, maybe Galloway can get you a job filling in for him when he has to be away. In that way, even YOU too can be gainfully employed . . .
Steve
September 18th, 2012
11:13 am
Really Jim? Moochers? I didn’t hear that in the video.
And frankly, I like a guy who can tell the TRUTH!!
Ben
September 18th, 2012
11:14 am
Romney is simply agreeing with Obama’s own Story of Julia, where Obama listed out all the ways Julia was dependent on government for everything, and Obama wants more of that. Romney wants less. Nothing really all that special or surprising here.
I’d love to get sneaks at Obama’s private conversations, not that it would matter. He made a widely reported very sexist comment about a female analyst the other day and no one cared. Had Romney made a similar comment, he would be called a misogynist on the front page of every paper in the country.
Ben
September 18th, 2012
11:16 am
Oh, saw a good point. Is this like when Obama bashed people clinging to their guns and religion? When Obama disses half the country, it’s cheered, when Romney says the simple truth, that 47% pay no income tax, he gets bashed.
As far as the income tax, if you’ve got no skin in the game, why would you care about how efficiently it’s played? It’s not your money, you don’t pay income tax, it’s just some rich peoples’.
Columbus
September 18th, 2012
11:17 am
You mean poetic justice like Obama telling Putin that he will give them what the Russians want AFTER he is elected because if he did it before them the American people would not elect him and the MIC BEING ON?!
Like Obama meeting with Anti-Israel groups 35 times in the White House..and not meeting ONCE with Pro-Israel groups after they have REPEATEDLY tried to get one? You mean letting Russia and China UN VOTES decide our course of action when THE REST OF THE WORLD VOTED CONTRARY.
RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL NEVER GO ALONG WITH THE REST THE WORLD AND OBAMA LETS HEIR VOTE MAKE US SIT ON OUR HANDS AND NOT LEAD BUT FOLLOW?! We ARE the NEW Israel and we DEDICATED TO GOD AND TO DO HIS WILL AROUND THE WORLD AND LETTING OUR ADVERSARIES MINORITY VOTES LEAD US IS A PATHETIC DISGRACE. WE DO NOT DO WHAT MUSLIMS LIKE, WE DO WHAT IS NEEDED WHETHER ITS MUSLIM POPULAR OR NOT!
Let me tell all of you something else that is VITAL. Democrats wants God OUT of society, public and govt, they want abortions, they want gay marriage, etc and Republicans foght against ALL that. A vote for a DEMOCRAT IS A VOTE AGAINST GOD ALIMIGHTY. Listen to the Secular world and their opinions and feelings BUT WE BETTER BE LISTENING TO EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD! IF WE REPENT AND TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS HE WILL HEAL OUR LANDS AND GIVE US MORE TIME! IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED, WE DONT HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT WITH OUR $180 MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR INTERST ONLY PAYMENT TO CHINA! AND OBAMA REFUSING TO STOP SPENDING AT ALL, MUCH LESS DRASTICALLY S IS NEEDED! NO BUDGET, SPENT MORE MONEY THAN ALL PRESIDENTS COMBINED IN A RECESSION AND EVEN WITH A HUGE STIMULUS, UNEMPLOYMENT IS MUCH HIGHER THAN HE PROMISED AND EACH JOB CREATED COST OVER $700,000 IN STIMULUS MONEY! HES GIVING CONTRACTS TO ALL HIS DONORS FULL OF OUR TAXPAYER MONEY….HES PUSHING GOD OUT, STILL GOT HIS MUSLIM NAME WHEN HE SAYS HE ISNT ONE…HE DOESNT SHARE OUR PATRIOTISM CAUSE HE GREW UP A MUSLIM IN THE NATION WITH THE HIGHEST MUSLIM POPULATION IN THE WORLD….
IM NOT WORRIED ABOUT GEORGIA, WE DIDNT VOTE FOR OBMA LAST TIME AND WONT THIS TIME EITHER BECAUSE WE ARE STILL A GOD-FEARING STATE AND ARE WISE…AND NO IM NOT RACISTS BECAUSE REALLY LIKED HERMAN CAIN AND WOULD VOTE FOR HIM OVER OBAMA ANY DAY…CAIN IS SENSIBLE AND SUCCESSFUL AND ALL OBAMA EVER DONE IS LIVE OFF OUR GOVT AND NEVER MANAGED A LEMONADE STAND ND HERE HE IS MANAGING THIS ECONOMY?!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICA KILLING LIBERALS? YOU OBVIOUSLY BELEIVE THE FALSE TRUTHS THEY BRAIN-WASHED YOU WITH IN PUBLIC SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AND DIDNT LEARN THE REAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BUT JUST WHAT YOU LEARN IN THE LIBERAL MEDIA AND SPOON-FED BY THE PROGRESSIVE/LIBERAL MACHINE….YOU ARE IGNORANT AND NEED TO SEEK THE REAL TRUTH OF THE FORMING AND IDEALS AND DIRECTION AND FOUNDATION OF AMERICA AND WHY WE BECAME SO GREAT SO QUICK WHILE OTHER NATIONS WERE ON THIS EARTH FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS LONGER! BOTTOMLINE:A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE AGAINST GOD AND AMERICA…..NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO SPIN AND JUSTIFY IT, YOU ARE WRONG AND VOTING AGAINST GOD AND AMERICA. YOUR FEELINGS DONT MATTER, YOUR OPINION DONT MATTER, TRUTH IS WHAT MATTERS AND YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA YOU EITHER DONT KNOW IT OR YOU DONT CARE ABOUT GOD OR TRUTH OR YOUR CHILDREN OR THIS NATION…..AND YOU BELEIVE WHAT YOU WANT AND FELL NOT WHAT GOD SAYS….I WILL CHOOSE GOD OVER ANY MAN AND YOU….YOUR CONSCIENCE WILL CONVICT YOU IF YOU LISTEN….BUT YOU THINK YOU ARE SMARTER THAN GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HUH? THAT SAYS IS ALL…
CHOOSE YOUR SIDE AND CHOOSE IT NOW. GOOD OR EVIL. GOD OR SATAN. RIGHT OR WRONG. YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE….
A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR EVIL IN THE BIG PICTURE AND IF YOU DONT AGREE THEN YOU ARE IGNORANT OF GODS WISHES AND TRUTH AND WORD AND LAWS OR YOU DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT GOD OR RIGHT AND WRONG…
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
11:20 am
I think that we will see some very interesting statistics as this election draws nearer and nearer. You will see spins from both sides of the aile. As far as this article is concerned, well, I have always respected this journalist. However, with what he has written here, there is nothing objective in his journalism. At the very least I find his choice of words misleading (”Moocher”) and boarderline irresponsible. So much for tansparency in journalism. But then again, the AJC has never prided themselves for there objectiveness. What I find scary is that we have over 45% on voter rolls that is considered a wash with their federal taxes. Seems to be a conflict of interest. I mean if I owed no federal taxes I am sure I would want the same administration pandering to me that is currently pandering to this 45%.
Buckhead Boy
September 18th, 2012
11:20 am
I suppose that I rank among those who would never consider voting for Mr. Romney but, if there is anything that I may feel entitled, I guess that would be another invitation to an Obama Inauguration.
Sadly this fool is related to me
September 18th, 2012
11:23 am
Jimmy Carter’s Dad which is James Earl Carter Sr. is my great great great grandfather not that is any meaning being this far down because the Carter’s have greatly distanced themselves from most family members. I tried contacting them saying I would like to meet the former president because of his dad since it is my heritage and right to know who my great grandfathers were. Unfortunately all I got was a hang up. If this was Jason that discovered this I am not surprised. Jason is about Jason, and they are certainly tried and true blooded democrats. I am republican and do not like what the democratic party platform has become. Believe it or not James Earl Carter was on Succession Hill in Abbeville SC when SC succeded from the Union. That’s a little bit of a tidbit fact that the Democrats wont tell you.
www
September 18th, 2012
11:24 am
Your grandfather is and always has been a complete IDIOT!!!!!!!
Columbus
September 18th, 2012
11:27 am
A vote for Obama is a vote against America. Obama wants to make us like the rest of the world. They have done well the last few thousand years huh? We are what we are because we are different than the world and God was the CENTER. How DARE he be pushed out. Dems push Him out. Republicans fight for Him….thats the big picture. The foundation OF AMERICA…Dems are crumbling it, especially Liberal and Progressive Democrats….
WAKE UP AMERICANS AND GET BACK TO YOUR ROOTS THAT MADE US THE GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND IN RECORD TIME!
Im not worried about the vote in Nov because Georgia as a majority LOVES AND RESPECTS AND TRUSTS GOD AND NOT MAN. I am worried about the people in MY state that will teach their children incorrectly and so on and I am worried about the rest of the non God-fearing people in this nation….they are lost and most dont even know it becuase the Liberals and Progressives have been doing all they can to keep them from knowing it for 5 decades in public schools and state colleges! They ahve succeeded when we have a PRESIDENT WHO SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE IN AMERICA! WHO WONT STRONGLY SUPPORT ISRAEL! WHO WILL LET US FOLLOW THE WISHES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA INSTEAD OF THE REST OF THE WORLD AND AMERICANS! WHO MAKES DEALS WITH OUR ENEMIES, WHO APOLOGIZES TO POOR MUSLIMS FOR THEIR BROTHERS ACTIONS, WHO DIDNT GROW UP AN AMERICAN BUT A MUSLIN IN INDONESIA IN HIS FORMATIVE YEARS, WHO KEPT HIS MUSLIM NAME. WHOSE PASTOR IS AMERICA-HATIN JEREMIAH WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS, WHO SPENDS DURING THE WORST RECESSION EVER MORE THAN ALL PRESIDENTS COMBINED ND GOT NO RESULTS FROM IT EXCEPT TO DOUBLE THE DEBT HE PROMISED TO CUT IN HALF!
dood here.
September 18th, 2012
11:27 am
nice spin, Jim. I watched the video and nowhere did I see or hear him say “unreachable moochers”- which I just copied directly from your news piece.
AJC= liberal rag of ill refute. Try being more middle of the road. Of course, I haven’t been to Fox news to see how they spin it either. Good luck America in getting any facts anywhere.
double
September 18th, 2012
11:28 am
CC,TD and many other AKA’s.When you apoligize for Moochele,then you could ask for an apology from others.After that apoligize to the President.
atlien052
September 18th, 2012
11:28 am
Candidates give their true opinion all the time at these type events. Does anyone remember then-candidate Obama saying to a group of high-dollar donors in San Francisco that he is not surprised that people in Pennsylvania and the Midwest “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” (April 2008). If I remember correctly, Obama was being secretly recorded too. These two stories are strikingly similar.
Candidate Obama was pointing out to his supporters that he was likely not going to win those people over. Romney is doing the same thing here. He is being candid that he won’t likely win the vote of 47% of citizens because they don’t pay taxes and are on some form of government assistance.
Obama wasn’t being overly critical, just trying to explain why he was not going to win those votes. Romney is doing the same. The only difference is that the media will point out the fact that Romney says things like this but won’t call President Obama on the carpet for the same thing. This is much ado about nothing, but the media is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
dood here.
September 18th, 2012
11:28 am
one more thing, Jim. You look like a creep with that comb-over. Just shave your empty head.
kabulate
September 18th, 2012
11:29 am
@MadMax: Actually what he said is that the half of the country that will not vote for him believe themselves to be “victims” and that his message doesn’t matter to them because “they pay no taxes.” To add insult to injury he goes on to say that he is not concerned about this half of America because there is nothing that he can say to them that will “make them take responsibility for themselves.” If you don’t think this guy is out of touch then you’re in a very small minority. Read David Brooks column today and you’ll get it straight from a Republican about how incredibly off-base and offensive those remarks are.
When will be show us his tax returns?
yuzeyurbrane
September 18th, 2012
11:30 am
The Carter aspect of the story is a minor ironic twist. Otherwise, the video really does speak for itself and reveals more about Romney than he has ever honestly revealed himself to the great unwashed middle class. The phrase out of touch does not even begin to convey how out of touch this guy is.
double
September 18th, 2012
11:33 am
I suppose Russia & China don’t make up much of the rest of the world.
Kevin
September 18th, 2012
11:33 am
The young Mr. Carter comes from a long line of delusional losers.
I can’t imagine that he’s unemployed. He seems like such an upstanding person.
Karma can be a real bitch, Mr. Carter.
Woman Voter
September 18th, 2012
11:35 am
Romney has not made Jimmy Carter look bad. Jimmy Carter did that all by himself. Obama is actually making Jimmy Carter look good in that he is exceeding all the bad policies and decisions that Jimmy Carter did. If Mr. Chipper would release the entire video it would show Romney speaking about the moochers in this country who are going to destroy it because those of us who do pay taxes are not going to be able to carry them forever. Poor Chipper.
DJ Sniper
September 18th, 2012
11:35 am
Way to recite those right wing talking points Columbus. Your TV must stay glued to Fox News.
double
September 18th, 2012
11:38 am
Last time Romney ran for President he come across as a much sharper,bright person.Now the way he talks,and flipflops,makes you wonder if he has some health issues.
buzzkill
September 18th, 2012
11:39 am
Gatiger:”As a Georgian, it pains me to admit Carter was the worst President in my lifetime, and an even worse former President.”
You’re not a Georgian, you’re a Hater.
Mark
September 18th, 2012
11:39 am
I used to babysit this little twirp – you’re not going to find a job son doing political research on the web and trying to find dirt on Republicans. Your grand daddy was good at that, but not a very good Pres – just like the current guy. The fact is, Obama got elected by folks that expected a free ride and their fear is the free ride will end with Romney – how sad.
Michael
September 18th, 2012
11:41 am
He said moocher. It’s right there, between the lines. Just ask Boortz.
Wallis the dog
September 18th, 2012
11:45 am
Galloway you old capon,
Both the Romney comments and Obama’s infamous “clinging to guns and religion” comment were, I recall, recorded at private events and later came to light on a broader scale. Both are candid comments that are in keeping with the point of view of each of these men. Your view as to which is the most accurate statement will drive your vote in November.
As for me, I hope we have a Republican administration and get the economy going so that Carter kid can find a job and get off the public dole.
buzzkill
September 18th, 2012
11:48 am
Columbus: Haha, you made me laugh. I taught teenagers like you. It’s the same unhinged tantrums seen in two year olds, but without the verbal ability to express it.
Don't Tread
September 18th, 2012
11:48 am
I’m sure the 0bama team will be hiring Carter soon.
Carol
September 18th, 2012
11:48 am
It always amazes me that people don’t consider deep tax cuts to corporations as “welfare”. or even another phrase, redistribution of wealth. Yet just a couple of days ago we saw the report where companies right here in GA are sitting on billions of dollars in profits. An economist was told that the corporations are sitting on their money waiting until after the elections.
So while we the people continue to subsidize corporations and call it a good thing, the Repubs want to castigate the citzenry who are on public assistance. Many of them current because of the break we’re giving to corporations who won’t hire anyone. I’ll never forget the hours of debate in our Georgia legislation just last year about giving Delta another $20 billion tax break. You would have thought they supplied Georgians with the air we breath.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
11:48 am
og @ 10:40. You know absolutely nothing about my situation, my family, etc., but you automatically blithe on with the same old tired talking points. Just to educate you a bit (a frivolous effort cause you’re mind is set, but nonetheless), I served my country honorably for well over a decade. When I got out, couldn’t find a job, no “experience”, no college degree. So, worked full time, went back to school full time (simultaneously), got the degree, found a better job, then went back to school to get a professional degree while still working full time AND beginning to raise a family. So if I want to give my kids a suv and a trust fun, I sure as he!! have EARNED that right! But, based on how I was raised (hard work, sacrifice, dedication to family, you know, those tired old American values a lot of liberals sneer at these days), my oldest’s first car will be my current one, which has almost 250,000 miles on it. Yeah, she wants the snazzy one, but I want her to know how to start at the bottom and work her way up from there. That way, she’s knows the satisfaction of working to get ahead. In fact, she’s already setting things up to work her way through college and I know if she does her best, she will make it in this world.
Now, go ahead and compare that to the institutionalized generational entitlement recipient (and no, I’m not talking about the disabled, the elderly who don’t have investment income, etc. Just those who grew up on the gov’t dole and refuse to try and leave it). Can’t wait for your most stimulating analysis. I’ll check back in a few. I shiver with anticipation…..
Michael
September 18th, 2012
11:50 am
@ A dad: Remember that you could be having a conversation with a 14 year old.
Rhett Butler
September 18th, 2012
11:53 am
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
DJ Sniper
September 18th, 2012
11:54 am
I see we have the same usual suspects here with the “Obama is the worst president ever” comments. I guess ya’ll just forgot about the fact that the Repubs have done everything in their power to obstruct anything positive Obama has tried to do. Their priority is not to help this country. All they want to make Obama a 1 term president, and they are willing to take the country down to do it.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
11:55 am
Also, after seeing Bill Clinton’s commercial imploring us to let Obama “stick to his plan” about job growth, I usually consider myself at least somewhat discerning, but other than borrow money out the wazoo from China and give it to those businesses OBH deems worthy enough (yeah yeah, the auto industry bailout. Hmmm,autoworkers. Union ain’t they?), just exactly what is his plan (and please, no standard talking points. Surely someone who supports the POTUS can provide a detail such as cutting taxes in domestic investments, decreasing regulations on mom and pop small businesses so as to free up money for them to invest, expand, etc.) You know, real details. I’ll be waiting.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
11:57 am
Michael – nah. I think a 14-year old would be rational….
Carol
September 18th, 2012
11:58 am
DJ Sniper
The sad part is that you have people who are on government assistance who will still vote for this clown.
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The sad part is you obviously think like the candidate, which is why this is such a huge issue.
Government assistance comes in MANY forms and for many reasons. I realize that generally speaking Repubs think anyone who received assistance for their daily NEEDS is a slacker. But anyone who continues to thrive in business due to the continuation of their no-bid government contracts are just smart business people. Repubs don’t like business until it gives them something.
Carol
September 18th, 2012
12:00 pm
Mary Elizabeth
Heaven help this nation – and this globe – if this man becomes President of the United States. What is sad is that Gov. Romney divides people into categories, instead of seeing the humanity – within all people – that connects all people
++++++++
Very well stated post.
Obama is Winning
September 18th, 2012
12:05 pm
[...] is shaking up his campaign to try and stop it. Romney continues to make mistakes. The latest is a video in which the wealthy and entitled Romney says that the 47 percent of those who plan to vote for Obama don’t pay income taxes and think they deserve a handout. [...]
old man
September 18th, 2012
12:06 pm
Romney’s donors (and Bain Capital) make a living firing people, laying off people, opposing collective bargaining, opposing any increase in minimum wage (even though it is the lowest ever as a percent median/average income), all so big business and the wealthy can have more money to stash in the Caymans and Zurich.
And then they point fingers at the same people because they don’t make enough to pay income tax, and call them moochers and cheats because they are making less money and paying less (or no) income tax.
Just because you are a fat cat donor does not make all of your nonsense true. Or any of it, for that matter.
Romney is imploding, just like McCain.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
12:09 pm
Carol – BOTH sides divide us, or have you forgotten all that “evil rich,” “evil 1%”, or people making more than 250k a year need to pay more. It’s what I see as pandering to the respective “bases” of each political party. As for me, I think what will be best for this country is for everyone who really wants a job, who wants to open a small business (intelligently and is prepared to do so), etc., has the opportunity to do so, and nothing I see from the Obama administration appears to be geared towards that goal. Obama is a classic Keynesian economist, and at no point in history has an economy based on Keynes’ ever succeeded. Will agree 100% this is perhaps the most pivotal election of our time, and our children’s future will be largely shaped by who gets voted in come November.
cc
September 18th, 2012
12:09 pm
Sadly this fool is related to me@11:23 am:
Always remember: you can pick your friends but you have NO choice about your family! I believe you will do just fine in your life’s journey . . .
Wilbur
September 18th, 2012
12:10 pm
Class warfare at its finest.
gsueagle
September 18th, 2012
12:11 pm
everybody knows that people who are living off the taxpayers are not going to support someone who might cut their check. sad when people think the government owes them a living.
Weetamoe
September 18th, 2012
12:12 pm
I’m sure Jimmy is proud of his 35 year old unemployed grandson trying to sell gossip for a living.
double
September 18th, 2012
12:13 pm
Cutting taxes,fighting wars,supplementing drug plans cost.All on credit.A responsibility for the debt forced upon the citizen taxpayer,and the next gov.administration.Then you say Jimmy Carter worst former President.
old man
September 18th, 2012
12:13 pm
Romney promises “fast job growth” if he’s president. Unfortunately, most of it will be in “fast food,” and other similar employment. Then he will tell you what a bum you are for not making enough to pay income tax.
Listen to the video–he does not merely say 47% don’t pay one particular kind of tax (income tax), which is true–he goes on to say, with obvious enthusiasm, that they are also bums.
Real jobs, with real income, for people who want to support a family and pay income tax, will take a little longer. The damage from the Bush era was deep, severe, and structural. Romney wants to rip off the bandage, and cut open the healing wound with a butter knife. So his fat cats can continue to extract their pound of flesh from all of the “victims” with entitlement mentality.
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:15 pm
Was this really a $50k a plate fundraiser or an initial shareholders meeting for robme’s new
Bain oriented company ‘Soylent Green’.
cc
September 18th, 2012
12:16 pm
double@11:28 am:
“CC,TD and many other AKA’s”
I will no longer respond to posts addressed as the above. I am not td, nor do I post under any other name than cc. I’m fairly sure that td is tired of this, too. If you cannot compare the writing styles and see the difference, you truly are a simpleton unworthy of any response.
Carol
September 18th, 2012
12:17 pm
Ben
Oh, saw a good point. Is this like when Obama bashed people clinging to their guns and religion? When Obama disses half the country, it’s cheered, when Romney says the simple truth, that 47% pay no income tax, he gets bashed.
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So glad you brought this up. Have to sales of guns NOT gone through the roof since the President took office. Hmmm. he must have been right. Is the whole women’s reproductive issue not Biblically based? Right again Mr. President.
Mr. Romney and most Repubs make statements about those receiving government assistance without supporting documentation, unless one of the questions asked on the application is what is your political affiliation. Oh, and more whites are on welfare than blacks. So he’s really saying that more whites will vote for the President and he has to ignore attempting to get their vote. I love it.
A dad
September 18th, 2012
12:17 pm
old man – your posts reveal you are making statements based only upon what you’ve read in the media. Yeah, I’m certain all Bain did was lay people off and ship jobs overseas. Guess you missed the part about being involved with companies such as Staples. At least Romeny actually HAS business experience. Obama? Hmmm, Harvard law to community organizer to 1st-term senator to president. Oh yeah, he’s really wise in economics. And so representative of the average Joe too!
old man
September 18th, 2012
12:18 pm
How does not owing income tax mean that these people think the government owes them food and housing. They are paying for their food and they are paying their rent. And their state tax, and Medicare tax, and Social Security tax, and property tax, etc., etc.
If you are poor, you don’t pay income tax. And, it’s a sad commentary that 47% of Americans are probably poor, regardless of what the poverty level is. And don’t blame Obama for that. The impoverishment of the middle class has been going on for decades. Obama is trying to slow it down. Romney wants to accelerate it.
Fan
September 18th, 2012
12:19 pm
It’s in the Carter Family’s best interest. If Obama stays in office, he will become the worst president this nation has ever had replacing Carter at the bottom.
fed up
September 18th, 2012
12:19 pm
It is still the truth and your grandfather along with this moron in the white house are still terrible presidents
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:19 pm
Now can we have some video of robme pandering to the MIC shareholders?
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:23 pm
Poor Governor robme.
Blaming the system and at the same time blaming those who are loyal to the system.
What a shame that those who pay taxes BASED ON THEIR INCOME don’t go to the trouble to set up exotic vehicles to avoid paying those taxes BASED ON THEIR INCOME.
Only in wrong wing America has a reasonable INCOME become a reason to hide!
Virginia
September 18th, 2012
12:24 pm
Way to stir the pot, cc.!! Jim doesn’t owe an apology for anything, so whine, whine away! And take your alter ego, Columbus TYPES-IN-ALL-CAPS with you! Congrats, Romney, another day not talking about the economy. Love it!!!
A dad
September 18th, 2012
12:28 pm
Old man – yawn! Sorry you can’t see the conflict in your last post. If people aren’t working, what do you think they are relying upon to buy food (food stamps), pay the rent (Section 8), and so on. Believe it or not, we conservatives aren’t against everyone who gets gov’t entitlements, doesn’t pay taxes because they don’t earn enough, and so on. But there is a sizable segment of the population that is on the gov’t dole, is capable of working, but relying on the gov’t to give them everything is their way of life, and has been for generations. Kind of reminds me about Romney’s safety net comment back during the nominations. While he didn’t say it clearly, he meant those people who were receiving certain entitlements were not his main concern because they were provided for. But I will take a wild stab and guess you rely mainly on entitlements, or are you buying the lie Romeny want’s to gut social security/Medicare?
cc
September 18th, 2012
12:29 pm
Jim Galloway:
Are you not going to show the courtesy of responding to my posts at 10:23 AM and 11:06 AM?
DJ Sniper
September 18th, 2012
12:30 pm
Carol, the clown I was referring to is Romney.
R. Chequer
September 18th, 2012
12:31 pm
“At the end of August, I came across a video of Romney at a fund-raising event, talking about a factory he visited in **charter**,” Um, China perhaps?
Carol
September 18th, 2012
12:34 pm
I guess when something stings you have to pick at it. So instead of owning up to what your candidate said, Repubs just want to pick on Carter and Jim.
Are you seriously going to argue that Romney doesn’t use the term moochers yet very candidly says that this is what people are doing? Now I know exactly where some of the posters here get their “buzz words” and phrases. It must be in the Repub handbook. Romney who won’t show us his returns, but tells us he has not paid less than 13% in income taxes isn’t interested in those who don’t pay any.
Uh, they don’t pay any because just like you only pay what you “legally” have to so do they. Romney admits that he has taken advantage of every possible loophole there is to pay a low percentage and he has offshore accounts in other countries. But wants to discount people who make so little money that they don’t have to pay income taxes as if they not American citizens, merely parasites.
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
12:36 pm
CC sez: “nor do I post under any other name than cc.”
CC, I’m glad to see you’ve sworn off posting under other people’s screen names, like you did with me a couple of weeks ago… remember, when you were trying to deflect the irrefutable charges of plagiarism by trying to make it look like I was also ripping off other people’s writing without attributing it? And I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the only time you posted as someone other than CC. Your credibility is ZERO and that makes you a great representative of the morally bankrupt, hypocritical republican party.
jgalloway
September 18th, 2012
12:39 pm
Thanks for the edit, R. Chequer. It’s fixed.
Kris
September 18th, 2012
12:39 pm
Wow I woke up this morning feeling god I was in the 99%, then it goes down hill from there now I’m in the 47% of moochers…I’m proud as hell. I have worked at a taxable job since I was 14 now at 60, I’m called a moocher..
@ Laurie 10:42 am
“Christmas came early this year. Thank you Mit. Do I have any more presents coming? ”
Better his true colors (nothing new here) come out now.
God forbid should it and his slimy pet win, there will no money for Social security, Medicaid or welfare…It will be spent on WORLD WAR III….
Re-elect President OBAMA
Carol
September 18th, 2012
12:40 pm
DJ
Carol, the clown I was referring to is Romney.
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I apologize. I got caught up in the moment and thought you were switching sides LOL. I read it too fast. Should have known from previous posts where you stood.
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
12:40 pm
CC: “Jim Galloway:Are you not going to show the courtesy of responding to my posts at 10:23 AM and 11:06 AM?”
Reminds me of an old Arabic proverb: “The barking of dogs does not affect the clouds.”
What In the World???
September 18th, 2012
12:40 pm
@Columbus,
I’m sure in your “white-washed” world, God is on old white man with a long white beard. And Jesus has long blond hair with blue eyes….right??? News flash, dude. YOU need to WAKE UP! And don’t get me started with your claims that the Liberal media has distorted history. What is the TRUE history of this country??? Well let me start here: It was founded by a bunch of European, sun-worshipping rejects, who were NOT Christian. It was funded by enslaving people and the total massacre of the Natives and….okay enough said….you get my point. Please don’t get self-righteous with all of this “Good ol’ American” mumbo jumbo bull $hit. This country was founded by a Godless people and is still run, for the most part, by Godless people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum. And if you think, for one minute, that Romney is “good”, then we are in a world of trouble.
Dude…really???
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:43 pm
I guess it is proof some people have too much money when this is the best they can do in terms of ‘buying’ a Presidential Candidate.
Pay attention and you may not be embarrassed (but you will probably still lose).
jake's mom
September 18th, 2012
12:43 pm
phew! Someone needs to tell Columbus’ shrink that the meds aren’t working.
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:44 pm
Why is it that the 1% think the legitimate function of the 99% is to enhance THEIR profits?
legalady
September 18th, 2012
12:46 pm
Give the man enough rope and he’ll hang himself…Romney himself may prove to be the Dem’s best weapon!
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:47 pm
If nothing else, the video seems to prove the proverb of ‘a fool and his money’ (at least 50k of it).
Fan
September 18th, 2012
12:48 pm
@honested – It’s sad that people think that depending on the government is that way it is suppose to be. Go to russia or china and live if you want. America is a free country based on it’s citizens contributing to it’s success. Government dependency is damaging and will destroy the country. obama has done NOTHING to help this country. Are you people blind? His policy’s are what has driven unemployment so high, companies to fold, gas prices to go up,etc.
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:48 pm
With the Presidential election settled, time to roll back the House mistakes of 2010!
cc
September 18th, 2012
12:49 pm
Virginia@12:24 pm:
Of course, Galloway does not HAVE to apologize for anything. I merely asked the question, “Do you not think an apology and clarification is in order here?” and am awaiting his response. Why not allow him to either answer or not answer the question? Thank you for repeating what I said in an earlier post, “I understand that you are a columnist, and that you have the right (and obligation) to express your opinion.”
I have no “alter ego”, either. Is there a possibility that you are Galloway’s alter ego?
Bless you, my child . . .
Jon Lester
September 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
Columbus, you’re a perfect example of why we don’t need Romney’s neocon advisers directing this nation’s foreign policy. We do more than we should for Israel as it is, because we shouldn’t favor one apartheid theocratic state over another, and the government is constitutionally prohibited from applying your idea of what’s right by God.
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
You know, it’s funny, when I heard that Mitt was talking about “victims” I assumed that he was referring to those on the Right (e.g. the Tea Party) who loudly protest the intrusions of “big government,” “socialism,” “multiculturalism,” “affirmative action,” “secular humanism,” “burdensome regulations,” and on and on. Even though it is committed to defending the privileges of the rich and powerful, the political right in this country has tried its best to assume the mantle of victimhood.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
As usual the wingnuts read and hear what they want to. Their brains have a block to reality due to too much Rushbo and Faux News. Thank you Jason Carter for doing the Nation a great service and practically ensuring the re-election of Barack Obama!
A dad
September 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
Umm, I categorically deny Romney used the word “moochers.” But then again, I ACTUALLY LISTENED to the video Galloway posted rather than basing everything on what others said.
Fan
September 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
For all that voted for OBAMA in ‘08. You may have voted for Hope and Change then but if you vote for him again in ‘12, considering he has done NOTHING! It will show how sad and pathetic and how blind you really are.
North resident
September 18th, 2012
12:53 pm
The government owes me housing, food, health care, education and contraceptives.
Why should I work?
You forgot free phones, internet, energy assistance, school lunches, pell grants, earned income tax credits…. and probably a host of other benefits
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:54 pm
fan,
Do you pay attention or do you just like to make stuff up?
The unfunded wars and domestic policy disasters of the shrub administration ‘drove employment up’.
Unemployment had been climbing steadily from 2002-2009. Pay attention!
Where do you get any detail that I support ‘depending on the government’? I want to see the money that has been wasted on offshore military adventurism turned back into at home infrastructure development, putting our people to work on our soil.
I really think you people can look at a light bulb and think it signals darkness.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
12:57 pm
And now Romney wants the US to be Netenyahu’s Bitch. Yeah that is real strength.
Audrey V.
September 18th, 2012
12:57 pm
It is very sad to admit that Romney is correct.
I am getting sick and tired of standing in line at the grocery store with my bananas, peanut butter, apples and cheese and having the person in front of me in line buying shrimp with an EBT card. It is also sickening to see that same person with hair weaves, fancy nails, dripping with gold jewlery….all of the things I cannot afford because I am not getting a government check.
It is also sad to see that we have become a society where a person can be 100 lbs overweight and expect others to buy their food.
Well, there is one thing that I do have, that is integrity. The moochers out there gave theirs away.
honested
September 18th, 2012
12:57 pm
fan,
What about those of us who will vote for the President twice and have maxxed out our contributions for both elections?
Doesn’t that suggest that good sense and determination are more at play than imaginary ‘dependency’?
gadem
September 18th, 2012
12:59 pm
Some people act like the government is giving out Millions of dollars…try being supported by the government and see how horrible it is. The problem is that a certain segment of society has a narrative already established about what the freeloaders look like (Democrats) however there are just as many freeloaders that are (Republicans). However the Republican freeloaders are ok because they vote against their own best interest. If you get SS, Medicare, Medicaid, or any other government subsidy, you are in essence a free loader.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:02 pm
Who cares. He’s not the one in charge whose destroying our country. Besides, if he says most Obama supporters want a free handout and would vote for him no what he’s right.
honested
September 18th, 2012
1:03 pm
‘Government Dependency’
Amazing how much life the lie as stated by ronald ray-gun has.
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
1:05 pm
I an so tired of this whole “Poor people have it SO good” fantasy that gets repeated again and again here. If you really believe that people who receive government assistance are living it up on the public dime, why don’t you quit your job and join the party? The answer is that you probably know deep down that, despite a few superficial trappings of middle-class success like nail jobs, poor people in our society have an unenviable lot, and few of us who know the realities of their existence would trade places with them. It is often difficult to obtain help from the government in the first place, and when it is provided, it is usually the bare minimum required for survival. If you think poor kids should go hungry because their parents “made bad decisions,” why don’t you just come out and say that, instead of trotting out these tired and unsupported “welfare queen” stereotypes?
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:09 pm
Kids are poor because their parents made poor decisions such as having them when they were 16 years old.
Mary T.
September 18th, 2012
1:09 pm
@ gadem…..are you kidding me?…..freeloader?…..the last time i looked at my paystub, and all previous ones, it stated that i was PAYING into ss and medicare…..when i finally get old enough to draw ss,,,,I hope that there is some of MY MONEY left in it….ss is money i have paid to the american government, without my consent i might add, for the last 40 years, so when i draw a ss check,,,,it will be MY MONEY they are re-imbursing me, without interest i will also add, that they have used for those last 40 years…..
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Kids are poor because their parents made poor decisions such as having them when they were 16 years old.”
And the idea of that children deserve to suffer the consequences without any intervention from society or government went out in the 19th century. Seriously, is that your answer, “tough luck for them?”
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:15 pm
Amen Mary T. But is ok for the Oil companies to get Corporate Welfare while raking in BILLIONS!!
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:16 pm
Romney said that 47% of Obama supporters were not going to vote for him no matter what because they get a government check and believe with Obama they will keep getting it. What he says is true so where is the big gaffe?
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
1:16 pm
Simple question that everyone should ask when deciding to re-elect someone. What have they done while in office. I, as sincerely as I can, ask “What has Obama done while in office to warrant being re-elected?”
honested
September 18th, 2012
1:16 pm
kerryb,
Funny that you picked an example that the OnePartyState wants to make forcible and permanent.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:17 pm
I guess James Earl Carter IV wants Obama to stay President so his grandfather won’t be considered the worst President in American history any longer.
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
1:17 pm
Leftinthesiouth, what is this corporate welfare you are speaking of that the oil companies get?
Carol
September 18th, 2012
1:20 pm
kerryb
Besides, if he says most Obama supporters want a free handout and would vote for him no what he’s right
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Where exactly is your proof? Do they ask for political affiliation when you receive money from the government? Are you saying that ALL of the people who are now receiving food stamps are Democrats? Again, please provide proof.
I’m real tired of the generalities that are spewed around here as truth.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:20 pm
I don’t get this supposed welfare for the oil companies. That sounds like a leftist puppet talking point. The only company that I know of that got corporate welfare was GM motors and their Unions who now own 27%of it. That’s okay for the leftist because that was Obama’s idea.
honested
September 18th, 2012
1:22 pm
Concerned American,
Free security for petroleum imported from the middle east.
Royalty payments that are decades behind appropriate cost for extracted minerals.
Exemptions from emission laws because of the cost of compliance.
Substantial tax exemptions due to vestiges of the ‘depletion allowance’ system.
Shall I go on?
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:23 pm
GM motors now wants the government to sell what we own of it with our tax dollars so they can get real owners and the supreme leader says “no”.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:23 pm
Concerned American! He got Osama Bin Laden, he got rid of pre existing conditions, he made it possible for college age students to remain on their parents insurance, he has killed more Al Qaeda top leadership in one term than Bush was able to in 2 terms, he has not started another war (no matter how hard Netenyahu tries) that we cannot afford.
Just a few reasons.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:26 pm
Thanks honested!
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
1:28 pm
Jan. 26, 2011: ‘The New York Times reported last July that oil industry subsidies “average about $4 billion a year according to various government reports,” adding that “oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process.”‘
“The federal government also grants oil companies tens of billions of additional dollars in tax breaks on capital investments not offered to other industries, the Times found.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1gCLE)
KID
September 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
Obama all the way back in 2012!
A dad
September 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
Leftie – I got some news for you. Obama did not get bin Laden. SEAL Team 6 did, and Obama had nothing to do with the gathering and analysis of the intelligence that placed him in that compound, or the military forces that went and got him. Now, if he personally took part in the raid I would be impressed, but to say that “Obama got in Laden” is a complete fabrication.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
kerryb, GM wants to buy back the gov’s share for less than the taxpayers paid. That is why he is saying no. He will not lose taxpayers money like the 8 billion that disappeared in Iraq under Bush, Paul Bremer,and Dan Senor.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
1:31 pm
Leftinthesouth, you are living in that delusional leftist world. The real story is that the Seals got Osama Bin Laden and according to one of them he killed himself. Why should someone that’s 25-26 years old stay on his parents insurance? He should have a job of his own (oh, I forgot, he can’t find a job because of the Obama economy). You apparently made that up about the top Al Qaeda leaders or got that from a pro Democrat site that’s prone to lying like all Democrats do. He also is going to sit on his hands until Iran has a nuclear missile and they are crazy enough to use it. The reason right now that the Muslim world is going crazy is because of him and Biden bragging about killing Bin Laden during their convention. They couldn’t quit reminding everyone of that. The protesters climbing the wall in Egypt were chanting “we are all Osama, Obama” Why would they be saying that about a movie like this amateur administration keeps telling us.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
A dad, in 2006 Bush said that getting Bin Laden was not one of his priorities or concerns! Obama made the call to get him whether you like it or not! I will not stoop to your level and call you names!
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:36 pm
kerryb, Google it!
A dad
September 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
Leftie – as far as name calling, all I said was claiming Obama “got” bin Laden was a complete fabrication. One of the most basic tactics for trying to avoid discourse when one knows they have no support is to impose a oral high ground and divert. Nice try, but you beat yourself.
Carol
September 18th, 2012
1:39 pm
kerryb
Why should someone that’s 25-26 years old stay on his parents insurance? He should have a job of his own (oh, I forgot, he can’t find a job because of the Obama economy).
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Oh or maybe he’s continuing his education and hasn’t started looking for a job yet.
If it walks like a duck........
September 18th, 2012
1:40 pm
Sometimes the truth isn’t “elegantly stated”. This country is weak and dumbed down. Looks like it will be more so in 4 more years. We don’t have what it takes to get out of this mess. It’s always someone elses fault. But that’s what society has been telling us for decades. Rome is burning…………..
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:43 pm
A dad, So calling me Leftie is a term of endearment?
Wilbur
September 18th, 2012
1:46 pm
Romney walks like he has a wedgie. His magic underpants must ride high.
Lane
September 18th, 2012
1:49 pm
Most of these 47% are seniors who vote GOP and don’t pay taxes because they are on Social Security and are retired. Thanks for trashing talking your last reliable voting block, Mitt. How’s that working out for you?
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
1:52 pm
KerryB, good words. Very succinct. I beleive that someone that is 26 should not be on their parents insurance. Get a damn job. Maybe if I didnt have the drive or the skills, I would stay on my parents insurace as well. Wrong, I have pride. I like to make my own way. Work for it. Unfortunately many people rely too much on other than providing for themselves. Get a job. Make your own way. Quit leaching.
Also, it is a complete discgrace to the men and women to say that Obama got Bin Laden. I have never in my life seen a president risk his life (democrat or republican) to complete a military mission. Yet, Obama continues to take credit for getting obama. Last I say his presidential butt was around a conference table several thousand miles away. Yet he continues to dishonor the men and women in the armed forces by saying that He got Obama. What a joke of a president.
Brian
September 18th, 2012
1:55 pm
LOL, I love ready all of the liberal messages. It’s clear anyone who votes for Obama doesn’t have a clue what they are doing. Like the bumper sticker says, “stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to vote”. I will vote for Romney and I will sleep very well for doing so. But just remember, if Obama wins this election, in four years, you all will be the one’s with the “what the hell happened” look on your face and those of us who voted to make America better will be saying……..say it with me, you can do it…….We told you so!!!
Obama said he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Hmmm, mission accomplished? NO, he has added at least $5 trillion to it and it’s still climbing. And before you spout off blindly and try to blame the Republicans, let’s not forget that we have a D E M O C R A T I C Senate. Ooops, can’t blame the Republicans, oh darn. Yeah, and about that GM bailout, well zI would like to say you had a hand in that but most of you don’t pay taxes so you can’t take credit for the GM bailout, that falls to us who work for a paycheck. I can assure you we didn’t get our money’s worth out of that loan and will never see a dime of it back either. From a company that can’t even sell “green” cars? Oh yeah, didn’t know about the $50,000 per car subsidy that we are footing for THAT mistake……google it. Educate yourself before you blindly spew things you know nothing about. And some brainiac stated that Romney wants to gut Medicare. LOLOLOL, seriously? Why don’t you ask YOUR President why he has ALREADY gutted Medicare to the tune of $719 BILLION dollars. Yeah, the Obama that YOU voted for and declare you will vote for again, good job, well done. Will you feel good when he guts it even more and tries once again to blame Bush or ATM’s or Las Vegas? Has he taken credit for anything? Hmmm, oh yeah HE killed Bin Laden, forgot about that. Ouch, sorry about that but Romney can’t gut Medicare because Obama already did. What Romney said in that video is true, too many people want hand outs and aren’t willing to work for it. Those people will vote for Obama. Those of us who work hard for what we have, and are proud to proclaim “I did that”, “no one helped me” will proudly vote for Romney/Ryan. God Bless the small business owners of this country, the people that keep this great country going, God bless them, because a vote for Obama is a vote for them to close their doors.
Wilbur
September 18th, 2012
1:58 pm
somewhere in texas, probably crawford, a sad lil’ x-prez name gw is clearing brush and mumbling Obama got Osama.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
1:59 pm
ConcernedAmerican, dis honoring the armed forces is sending them to war without the appropriate armor and weapons to do the job. Dis honoring the armed forces is flying in jet fighter on A battleship and traipsing out in pilots uniform under a banner reading “mission accomplished” (which was a utter lie)!
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
2:07 pm
Wow, even after four years Bush still gets to you. Last I checked, Bush is not running for President. Secondly, I believe that Bush was very, very qualified to fly in that jet; I mean given that he was a PILOT. But, again, this is about the shortcomings of Obama. But I cant really blame you for brining in other former presidents since our current one really is indefensible.
Who Cares?
September 18th, 2012
2:08 pm
Oh crap. You mean there are more “Carters” that we’ll have to deal with. One idiot was enough. Please…….. Billy was the only one with any sense.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
2:10 pm
But is ok for you guys to bring up Jimmy Carter 32 years later! Ooh burn…….NOT!!!
Food day everyone. This Moocher has to go to work.
Leftinthesouth
September 18th, 2012
2:11 pm
Good day!
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
2:12 pm
No, carter has a way of bringing his own self up. But was good talking to you. Have a good day at work.
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
2:15 pm
Who cares, I couldnt agree with you more. That was until the libyan fiasco….LOL
luangtom
September 18th, 2012
2:15 pm
Truth does hurt, Galloway. These are the people that would not have voted for Romney anyhow. When the Dems speak of “entitlements”, it is not Social Security or Medicare that comes to mind. It is the freebies for those that pay little or no taxes and expect even more from those of us that do pay taxes. This sector of people feel they are “entitled” to government hand-outs. I am just happy to see and hear the truth for a change. Good on young Carter for bringing the truth to light.
S
September 18th, 2012
2:21 pm
A Romney/Ryan ticket, is disaster waiting to happen. Isn’t it ironic most of those Romney dissed live in the South where he gets the most votes. I wonder, since most of them watch Faux and listen to loud mouth right wing talk show hosts, if they know Romney just threw them under the bus…Romney thinks were all Moochers y’all..doesn’t that make you feel just swell..
RGB
September 18th, 2012
2:22 pm
Jimmy Carter is an anti-Semitic loser who plunged America into intractable recession and a multiplicity of foreign policy horrors we’ve not seen (until Jimmy 2.0 appeared in 2008).
And, JEC IV, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The best thing you can do to help you and your family is to never remind us that any of you ever existed.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
2:24 pm
luangtom
September 18th, 2012
2:15 pm
Truth does hurt, Galloway. These are the people that would not have voted for Romney anyhow. When the Dems speak of “entitlements”, it is not Social Security or Medicare that comes to mind. It is the freebies for those that pay little or no taxes and expect even more from those of us that do pay taxes. This sector of people feel they are “entitled” to government hand-outs. I am just happy to see and hear the truth for a change. Good on young Carter for bringing the truth to light.
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You are exactly right. Romney’s not scared of his statement. He said let’s show the whole thing and the question that was asked so you can get the real context instead of just snippets. The Democrats love to just show edited versions of a statement so they can influence their cattle to the mind set that they want.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
2:24 pm
S
September 18th, 2012
2:21 pm
A Romney/Ryan ticket, is disaster waiting to happen. Isn’t it ironic most of those Romney dissed live in the South where he gets the most votes. I wonder, since most of them watch Faux and listen to loud mouth right wing talk show hosts, if they know Romney just threw them under the bus…Romney thinks were all Moochers y’all..doesn’t that make you feel just swell..
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The disaster is what we have now.
kerryb
September 18th, 2012
2:27 pm
I just heard that they contact 10,000 people to get their reaction to what Romney said and 75% agreed with him
cc
September 18th, 2012
2:43 pm
Baron DeKalb@12:36 pm:
I didn’t have to “swear off” doing anything, Baron. Someone posted several cute little tidbits under my name, though. Perhaps you would know who the guilty party is?
Buckhead Boy
September 18th, 2012
2:44 pm
I thought that Mr. Santorum showed himself to be much more astute when he said earlier this week that it is the “elite smart people” who will never support the GOP.
JBT
September 18th, 2012
2:47 pm
Romney is right..alot of BS coming from democrats as always.
JBT
September 18th, 2012
2:50 pm
kerryb did your mother drop u on your head when u was a baby?
cc
September 18th, 2012
2:51 pm
JBT@2:47 pm:
If you expect anything other than BS to come from a dimocrap, you’ll be waiting a very long time for it!
JBT
September 18th, 2012
2:51 pm
sorry KERRYB I typed wrong name..you are right!!! Sorry Man.
The Truth Hurts~
September 18th, 2012
2:51 pm
Everything he stated is the truth, and nowhere in his statements did I hear the word MOOCHERS! Get the facts streight or don’t report it. Too many lies already to add any more!
JBT
September 18th, 2012
2:52 pm
agree cc
Baron DeKalb
September 18th, 2012
2:54 pm
CC, you claim you never posted anything under another person’s name. You can deny that ’til the cows come home (just like you denied that you plagiarized when the proof was irrefutable), I couldn’t care less whether you are willing or able to be honest with yourself and with the readers of this blog. Impersonation and plagiarism are for uncreative and ideologically impoverished losers, those are not in the Baron’s playbook.
Michele
September 18th, 2012
2:58 pm
Romney is unqualified for the position of President of the United States. These comments he made to a group of his rich business friends clearly shows how out of touch he is for the top position in America. The President of the United States has to represent everyone in the nation. He cannot block out close to half of the nation as unreachable. This comment also steadfastly establishes his other comment this week that middle class means having a family income of $150K to $250K per year. I guess I just thought I was middle class. Why am I paying any taxes at all? For Mr. Romney’s ignorant mind, I wish to tell him I never made over $65K in all my careers in the Unites States Military and as a teacher. For the idiot’s fact checkers, I have paid taxes every year since I was 16 years old, and that is now over 58 years of honest tax payments to the government. Whatever I get from the government in my older ages, I DESERVE. I paid my dues. I can guarantee that Mr. Romney has not paid fair taxes his entire life. Get over yourself, fool, and go back to the silver spoon life you came from.
AnotherSoldier
September 18th, 2012
3:01 pm
Too funny to see all the RWNJs trying to parse the meaning of the word “moocher” rather than the substance of what Mitt said – he “doesn’t work for 47%” of the country because they don’t pay taxes.
You know when I got away with not paying taxes? When I served in Iraq. Mitt has once again crapped on the military. He might know that, but heck, he couldn’t be bothered to thank the troops during the GOP convention, either.
The next time I go to Home Depot, I will go to the tool section. I fully expect to see Romney in the display case.
ideas
September 18th, 2012
3:02 pm
The world is full of MOOCHERS. When I turned 64 I went to sign up for Social Security since I had retired from my job. I could not find a parking place and the line was out the door. Not one of those persons was 62 or over. I did not understand that. So I called the office in Birmingham. The lady told me on the phone “Oh those were people trying to disability from Social Security. I was flabbergasted. What, I said. They were running from their cars, standing around talking, joking, etc. None of them was disabled. Some were super fat because they were on food stamps, but none were disabled. I have always wondered why some newscasters refer to Social Security as an entitlement. It is NOT. I have paid into that fund now for 51 years. I still work at 71 on a part time job and pay into the SS fund. It was and is a paid in pension plan. Not much money out of it but it was paid for. I paid for mine. No way any of those lazy jerks paid anything. So the only entitlement is from those trying to draw as disability and never working and paying into the program. THOSE MY FRIENDS ARE THE MOOCHERS ALONG WITH A LOT OF GOVT EMPLOYEES.
GaBlue
September 18th, 2012
3:05 pm
Michele,
Thank you for your service in our military AND as a teacher! Well-stated at 2:58.
Music City Dawg
September 18th, 2012
3:06 pm
Any one who was alive when Jimmy Carter was president will understand the comments Romney made about Carer’s presidency to be true. Carter was a LOUSY president. The economy was in the tank (double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, etc,) . Further, Carter’s foreign policy was abysmal especially his handling of events in Iran which led to the imprisonment of a number of Americans by Iran. Jimmy Carter clearly displayed his lack of understanding mid-eastern culture, politics and religious interests and should have never left his peanut farm!!! In my opinion, of all of our former presidents, he was the worst one yet!!!
The Truth
September 18th, 2012
3:10 pm
As if the Carter family had not done enought damage to the USA already. I think 35 years old and unemployed says it all.
The Truth
September 18th, 2012
3:10 pm
As if the Carter family had not done enought damage to the USA already. I think 35 years old and unemployed says it all.
The Truth
September 18th, 2012
3:10 pm
As if the Carter family had not done enought damage to the USA already. I think 35 years old and unemployed says it all.
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
3:13 pm
@ Michele – 2:58. Where / When did Romney state that middle class was making $150k to $250k / year? I have not found that. I would love to read that.
Scott Fresno
September 18th, 2012
3:19 pm
Moocher means “a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return” or “to get or take without paying or at another’s expense; sponge: He always mooches cigarettes.”
Romney: “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.”
Sounds to me like he is calling them moochers.
RAMZAD
September 18th, 2012
3:21 pm
Romney is a particularly rabid kind of industrial slime. 47% of Americans who served in the military, worked in coal mines, who were cops on the beat, who were poisoned in nuclear power plants- now must stay home and collect some kind of benefit to survive are being characterized as government dependent economic scabs. I hope the 10% in the middle sees what kind of low life Romney is and
keep him locked in the latrine this November.
ConcernedAmerican
September 18th, 2012
3:23 pm
Scott, sounds like you are calling a mooch a mooch.
honested
September 18th, 2012
3:26 pm
I have learned something today.
In wingnutland, the Commander in Chief isn’t responsible for actions he orders the military to undertake……..unless those actions are to sacrifice 4,000 people seeking imaginary WMD’s.
That people who don’t make enough money on their 1, 2 or 3 jobs to pay a substantial amount of Federal Income Tax are somehow receiving an ‘entitlement’. If we change the tax system to a consumption tax and tax EVERYTHING consumed, will the robme supporters complain because the taxes paid on their mansions far exceed the taxes the majority of us pay to buy the hovels where we have the audacity to reside?
Republicans must suffer from self-enforced madness.
SMH
September 18th, 2012
3:27 pm
@Columbus …you like many others on here missed the memo that the Republicans are no longer aligned with the moral majority. Actually never were, just wanted the vote. They have moved on to a new group, the tea partiers, but don’t agree with them either, just want their votes. To believe that people who vote for a Democratic candidate don’t believe in God is insane. Jesus charged us with looking after the poor. I guess what amazes me most of all is your misguided take on poor or struggling individuals. There is a large class of us called the working poor. We go to work everyday, but never get ahead. Where I work, they cut out the custodial staff that was making very little money, but did receive sick and vacation pay and could pay for their health insurance. Now, they have hired an out of state private company who hired half of the former staff, pay them $8.00/hour, they are not allowed to work more than 6 hours a day, no sick leave, no vacation, and their health insurance premiums would take more than they make. Now you are left with hald the staff not hired and eligible for unemployment while hoping to find another job in a state lagging behind most others in the recovery effort, and workers employed by this out of state company now qualify for food stamps and medicaid becasue their wages are so low. So you have taken a group of self sufficient people who had taken responsibility for themselves, paying their own way and taken their job and replaced it with a job that no one could be self supporting in. $240 a week before taxes doesn’t leave enough for food and shelter..And read my lips, we are paying taxes, federal, state, local, and sales. If like so many of you believe that just being Republican magically makes everything better, why is Georgia in such bas shape? Republicans have been in charge for 10 years, it should be the land of milk and honey. Oops, not so fast. That’s just if you are in the inner circle, not just regular folk. I’ve been working at the same job for 23 years, had no raise in 5 years, salary cut the last four years, given an additional job when another employee left 3 years ago, gas and milk are $4.00 a gallon, I’m probably going to lose my home because I can’t afford the payments anymore and I can’t sell it for what I paid for it but the tax assessment I received raised the assessment $112,000.00 ($130,000.00 more than I paid for it).It is disheartening to work 2 jobs everyday and keep losing ground. As hard as it is, I would never turn my back on another human being in need. Like my Pop always said, “There but for the grace of God go I.”
Thurston Howell Romney
September 18th, 2012
3:27 pm
Wow-all this Carter basing, when he inherited a GOP wrecked economy and turned around our offshore oil addiction like no other President ever. President Cater also didn’t start needless wars, like bust the Lesser’s three trillion fiasco–that has sure made a lot of government dependents for Romney to dispose, and profit from.
Good luck, GOP- Tea Party zealots, in sidetracking Amercan’s who have lost their jobs, retirements, standard of living, and seen their children’s futures put up for privatization or off-shoring. You can blame Obama, or CLinton, or Carter, but too many of us who aren’t dumb and weren’t born as elites know how the system works. We won’t be voting for your job killing, invest-against-Americans Mormon country club boy.
Can’t wait for the debates…RunMoney’s bets will be over $10,000 this time…
‘Thurston Howell Romney’ is conservative columnist’s David Brooks column today… next those GOP-TP Mormon money grubbers will be discounting ROmney’s book–with the arrogant title of No Apology.
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.
Mary Elizabeth
September 18th, 2012
8:13 pm
I received an e-mail today from my friend of 45 years from NYC, who asked and answered this question: “Who are the 45% really?” I asked her if I could post that on blogs in Atlanta. She said she would be pleased for me to do so. Here it is:
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Who are the 45% really?
The disabled veterans who come home brain damaged or missing limbs? Or damaged by Agent Orange from the VietNam war?
The elderly who depend on Social Security, to which they have contributed all their lives?
The disabled, struck down by injury or illness through no fault of their own?
How about ordinary citizens struck down by bullets from assault weapons carried by psychos who obtained them easily thanks to the efforts of the NRA?
Members of the middle class who worked all their lives with the agreement that part of their job agreement would be a pension which would enable them to live comfortably into their retirement? Many of these pensions were cut by a third, or in half, or outright disappeared by top execs who either grossly mismanaged, or who stole the money to fatten their own pensions and golden parachutes?
Those members of the middle class and working people bankrupted by an unexpected illness, who because of it lose their jobs, health insurance, and then all their money and their homes as they struggle to pay for uninsured care?
Those screwed by insurance companies who claim they had a prior condition? (Romney wants to undo Obamacare)
In Romney’s dog-eat-dog every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost world, no one cares for anyone else. People get fired because it is convenient to ship their jobs to a cheaper venue. And what happens in the countries where labor unions are attacked or destroyed, and where their governments don’t regulate corporations? The recent terrible fire in a Pakistani textile factory, where 300 people were either burned to death, died from smoke inhalation, or dashed to death on the pavement because they jumped out of windows—is what can happen when there aren’t strong unions, strong government regulation of the workplace, and a community that seriously cares about its members.
Romney revealed what he really is. Fortunately.”
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:14 pm
Obama was supposed to dig himself out of this in three years, having to fight every inch of the way?
http://bettermarkets.com/reform-news/cost-crisis-caused-wall-street-no-less-128-trillion-dollars
tell the truth
September 18th, 2012
8:15 pm
But he just didn’t state it elegantly right??? This guy is the biggest joke since Sara Palin. He has no idea how to care about the entire country. So everyone on social security and medicare considers themselves to be victims? THey want more cash from the government? I wouldn’t vote for this guy if you put a gun to my head!!!!
Buckhead Boy
September 18th, 2012
8:19 pm
If there are any victims, it is those who would defend a fool who suggests specific conclusions from a general statistic embracing 129,000,000 people.
tell the truth
September 18th, 2012
8:24 pm
Mary Elizabeth Good post- thanks for sharing- Don’t waste your time however trying to share this one with your conservative friends- they have believed the lies of talk radio that the 45-47 % are all moochers- are all useless people who are either communists or socialists. I blame Neal Boouutz and his right wing talk radio cronies more than anyone or anything else for the total inability in DC to get things done through compromise.
td
September 18th, 2012
8:29 pm
Do you libs really think this is going to effect the election? Romney was right. There is a % of this population that will not vote for Romney or any Republican for any reason because they are dependent on government for their day to day existence. There is also a group that will never vote for a Democrat, the religious right. This election is about the 4 or 5% independents and turning out you base to vote.
If you listened to Rush or Sean or Neal today then you would realize that the base is now excited about Romney for the first time. They are not just against Obama but want Romney to win.
tell the truth
September 18th, 2012
8:29 pm
Fan You must be so proud of your Mitt- he only guy I know whose mouth is big enough both for his foot and his silver spoon.
tell the truth
September 18th, 2012
8:31 pm
td Only people like you listen to Faux news and neal buttz.
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:37 pm
td/cc said:
“If you listened to Rush or Sean or Neal today then you would realize that the base is now excited about Romney for the first time. They are not just against Obama but want Romney to win.”
If I listened to Rush or Sean or Neal today, my wife would have me in the psych ward – she would know that I’ve either suffered a serious head injury or had a stroke…
td
September 18th, 2012
8:43 pm
“At an October 19, 1998 conference at Loyola University, Barack Obama spoke against “propaganda” that said government doesn’t work and the need to “pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3aGJfDSg4
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:45 pm
One theory about Mitten, is that his arrogance is religious based – the crazy cult he belongs to has convinced him that there’s only a limited number of people who will fit on the space ship, and the infidels left behind are doomed anyway.
td
September 18th, 2012
8:45 pm
tell the truth
September 18th, 2012
8:31 pm
td Only people like you listen to Faux news and neal buttz.
3 million per day watch Fox and 100,000 watch PMSNBC.
Kris
September 18th, 2012
8:50 pm
@ tell the truth
fan “You must be so proud of your Mitt- he only guy I know whose mouth is big enough both for his foot and his silver spoon.:
Humm I thought the spoon (which he did not build) went in the other end…
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:51 pm
Has anyone ever clicked on one of td/cc’s links?
hiram
September 18th, 2012
8:53 pm
td/cc,
… and, most of them live in Georgia, the land of honey boo boo, and td/cc.
SMH
September 18th, 2012
8:59 pm
@concerned american…they had 2 choices. Take what was offered or not work at all. There are no other positions for these people in our county.
Michael
September 18th, 2012
9:01 pm
Just confirms what we already knew about Mitt, and the video wont change rigid minds. First rule of being in a hole Mitt is to stop digging.
Clinton - I lied too so what?
September 18th, 2012
9:07 pm
Any of the unemployed freeloaders backing Obama and his marxist cohorts should seek work as extras in some of the zombie movies. They would be well qualified since they are already brain dead. Obama was elected by black racists and ignorant whites and if he is reelected it will be by black racists and stupid whites. To vote for or against a person because of his color makes you a racist. To vote for someone whose intent is to destroy this country and make it another socialist loser country is a stupid person. I can see maybe a couple thousand Dumacrat simpletons voting for Obama but for anyone else to vote for this country wrecker is mind boggling. Just look in the mirror and if you still plan to vote against your country you should look for the zombie movie producers and ask for a part because you are BRAIN DEAD.
SMH
September 18th, 2012
9:12 pm
@Clinton–I lied…what is the difference between ignorant white and stupid white?
Somebody needs to point out the fact that the people blogging in support of Romney’s statement would not attend a $50,000.00 a plate dinner. Just so you know, even though he didn’t say it out loud, he doesn’t care about you either.
honested
September 18th, 2012
9:23 pm
td,
Well your numbers for Faux and MSNBC explain the uninformed dolts.
I’m glad the rest of us have PBS to gain FACTS unfiltered by bias.
And ‘fan’ as to your question I was unable to answer while I was working, Yes, I’m much better off than I was in the depths of the ‘Bush Depression’.
td
September 18th, 2012
9:24 pm
“We believe in free people and free enterprise, not redistribution. The right course for America is to create growth, create wealth, not to redistribute wealth.” Mitt Romney
honested
September 18th, 2012
9:25 pm
Clinton, whatever…
Was there a contest to get as many wrong-wing-nut buzzwords and false premises into one post as possible?
Did you get a free gallon of gas at Sams?
honested
September 18th, 2012
9:27 pm
td,
So why have mitt’s cohorts (they certainly are not mine nor yours even though you gladly attach yourself to them) been asleep at the switch and not ‘creating wealth’?
Could it be that our current anemic Tax and Regulatory system does not require them to get off their privileged behinds and put in a good days work?
td
September 18th, 2012
10:00 pm
honested
September 18th, 2012
9:27 pm
There has been plenty of wealth created and only 4% unemployment rate for people with a degree. It is the bottom 47%, the uneducated, the no skill set the Obama supporters that can not find a job.
ATL Guy
September 18th, 2012
10:06 pm
Not sure why Republicans feel they should type in ALL CAPS AS IF IT PROVES THEIR POINT OR MAKES THEM SOUND SMARTER. It’s about time you guys realize that Romney is a lost cause. Paul Ryan needs to come out tomorrow morning and say I made a mistake, I thought this guy was serious about being President and I didn’t know he was this stupid. But to try to justify what this idiot of a man is saying is in itself idiotic.
hiram
September 18th, 2012
10:30 pm
Apparently td/cc’s imaginary news sources, “the three tontos”, didn’t breakdown the components of the 47%, like the real news channels…
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:50 pm
td:
I see that ‘all the usual suspects’ are present tonight and that you are outnumbered. Continue to fight the good fight even though it is in vain. You are unable to either give sight to the blind or improve substandard IQ’s. I do admire you for the efforts, though.
For the feeble minded: td probably grows weary of having himself identified as me, and I’m addressing YOU, HIRAM.
Hang in there, td. I’m off to bigger and better things!
Kris
September 18th, 2012
10:56 pm
Any one for a peanut butter sandwich,all this b*&#Hing makes me Hungary. speaking of food the movie Hunger games depicts a society where there 47% of have nots and 47% have all and the others have too much and pay no TAXES. How do we know this its smitt math. Most people use both hands and toes to do math, but smitty has only 15 the other 5 are back there with his silver spoon (he did not make).
Have a Plains. GA PBJ…the mighty s mitt done in by the grandson of a PEANUT FARMER…
Re-elect President OBAMA
td
September 18th, 2012
11:00 pm
cc
September 18th, 2012
10:50 pm
I understand completely. Jim is down to so few readers now and the ones he does have are lamer by the day.. I have been spending time on Kyle’s blog and then even Jay’s has much more intelligent libs then over hear. I will hand for a while longer, at least long enough to rub it in the day after the election.
honested
September 18th, 2012
11:19 pm
td,
What does your mormon messiah have to say for the folks at the Briggs & Stratton plant?
Oh that’s right, if they had degrees from Bob Jones or Liberty they would be like ralph reed and wouldn’t have to work for a living.
honested
September 18th, 2012
11:21 pm
td,
No need to hang out until the election.
I think that one is settled today.
Of course razmunchken still has a Quixotic take that, as always, is opposite to every other legitimate polling organization.
td
September 18th, 2012
11:29 pm
honested
September 18th, 2012
11:21 pm
td,
No need to hang out until the election.
I think that one is settled today.
Of course razmunchken still has a Quixotic take that, as always, is opposite to every other legitimate polling organization.
And Gallop was what today? 1 point Obama lean with at least a 5% Democratic over sampling and Real Clear has it at 1.8% lead with serious over sampling of Dems in some of their polls they average.
Kris
September 18th, 2012
11:30 pm
@ td/cc…cc/td have a safe trip to Kyle’s blog. May the fax be with you
Anyway back on the farm….
In 5 4 3 2 ?????? The flop next comes the flip “” “I disagree,” said Romney on the issue of redistribution. “I think a society based upon a government centered nation where government plays a larger role”””
Mittens has been undone by his own unspeakable arrogance, and the grandson of a peanut farmer
Re-elect President OBAMA
Mary Elizabeth
September 18th, 2012
11:43 pm
tell the truth, 8:24 pm
Thank you. And, I agree with you about rightwing talk show hosts. Many have helped to deeply polarize the citizens of our nation, while they have made much money in the process of doing so. Having wealth, however, has never guaranteed having character, or class.
honested
September 18th, 2012
11:47 pm
td,
Just accept defeat gracefully (lets not have a replay of the War Between the States as that one has cost us for over 150 years.
Smile and speak it out proud OBAMA 2012!!
Anyway, word has it that anne robme has been on the satellite phone all night attempting to hail the ‘Kolob Express’.
td
September 18th, 2012
11:55 pm
honested
September 18th, 2012
11:47 pm
Your prediction power is not the highest quality. If I am not mistaken you were one of the ones predicting that Barnes would defeat Deal in Georgia. LOL
Edmund Ruffin
September 19th, 2012
7:25 am
I guess that forever and ever the descendents of James Earl Carter will be bitter because of his defeat at the hands of my lifetime’s best President, The Gipper.
RCB
September 19th, 2012
10:32 am
How do some of you have so much time to post repeatedly? Are you all retired? I try to read all the AJC blogs, but no way do I have enough time in my day to respond 10 or 20 times to each post. BTW, I won’t be reading Galloway’s blogs anymore. He’s just not truthful in his headlines.
pb
September 19th, 2012
11:44 am
Yes, RCB, same ones on here repeatedly… Gets very old and repetitive, doesn’t it? I try to keep reading Jim’s blog, but find it increasingly difficult. Too bad. Now watch the “regulars” tell me I should go away and no one will miss me…
Carol
September 19th, 2012
12:37 pm
I’m cracking up at the replies from the wrong-wingers towards the end of the day. They went from saying Romney was correct to, it’s not going to change the election. Keep telling yourself that. You already have people like Bill Crystal and other writers who probably want to slap the crap out of Romney or Carter for exposing it.
I love to watch Romney try to back pedal out of this like a car stuck in the mud.
Jocie
September 19th, 2012
1:18 pm
@ Columbus ….As a person from GA (Columbus) you make me ashamed at some of your comments….should he change his given name bc it has Islamic etiology…speaking of the real history of the US…hmmm is all Im gonna say about that….apparently we have read and learned from different versions…Herman Cain huh…why is it that he is not among the contenders again…if you were as astute as you claim and as spiritually discerning your sentiments would have a totally different spin….the only thing that I agree with you saying is II Chronicles 7:14…that is true BUT the MY PPL God was referring to was the body and not those of unbelievers….it amazes me as to how ppl can blame POTUS for everything…this madness with the banks and all came from the Reagan Era and the allowance of an anything goes theme along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all else…not failing to mention the get tough on crime…which created another whole population of ppl…where we you and persons such as yourself when Ms Murray single handed took prayer out of our schools…why were you all not crying out then…ppl are out of jobs bc they were sent over seas…and quiet as it is kept…they did not all just get shipped over in the past 4 yrs….speaking of government…I truly dont think that you have a jist either bc it is supposed to work for all of us in this melting pot that we call America…Muslim, Jew,Christian, Atheist, Blk, White, Red, Yellow or Brown….whatever…all of us….BECAUSE God loves us all…maybe not our actions but us in general…until we can truly get on one accord and stop all this divisiveness things are continue downward….Oan FYI…we have been in hock to China and Japan long before ‘08…Media as always serves its purpose…it causes strife bc it never tell the truth…and persons such as yourself are wuick to judge…since youre a scholar and well versed in the word….you should know that we are commanded to pray for our leaders and not judge but extend that same grace that the Lord has extended us when we were off kilter….you guys act as it God has changed His mind just bc someone wrote something into law…He hasnt and Im smart enough to realize that He is still in control and all things are gonna come to a head soon…you cant stop prophecy dear one…God bless