Presidential candidates reduce a 4-year-old to tears
Here’s the background on the tears from 9News in Colorado:
A 4-year-old Fort Collins girl expressed her frustration over the seemingly never-ending presidential campaign.
9NEWS viewer Elizabeth Evans said she and her daughter, Abigael, were listening to NPR on a trip to the grocery store Tuesday when she started tearing up.
The mother asked Abigael why she was crying and she responded, “I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.”
NPR has apologized.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Marlboro Man
October 31st, 2012
4:28 pm
Oh yea, if you want to give someone else a “shot”, the 4 year old would be better than Romney, sorry the facts.
Bronco
October 31st, 2012
4:28 pm
I think she must be sick of having to listen to NPR. What mom makes her kid listen to NPR? Someone should call child services.
Hulk
October 31st, 2012
4:29 pm
Actually let me correct myself…half black. SO I guess repubs are labeled as racist then they are hating on white and black people….FOOD FOR THOUGH for close minded indviduals!
g
October 31st, 2012
4:39 pm
Hey @masters degree, you don’t have to be rich to be a republican. You just need to learn to think for yourself. Just because you saw it on CNBC or CNN does not make it the truth. Only a moron would fall for the same old liberal crap…..Romney’s War on Women…..Only a racist would vote for Romney…these are meant for the dumb masses. Guess what, you fell for it. Mitt Romney won’t have time for any of this because fixing the Jobs mess in this country will take up most of his time.
Danny
October 31st, 2012
4:39 pm
Well maybe what should happen is that all Republicans in Jersey/NY/CT shouldn’t get any government help during the Sandy destruction as they say they want to be accountable so they should do it on their own.
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
4:39 pm
@HULK so why are REPUBs trying to take over the creation of CHARTER SCHOOLS if yall are for smaller government?
sounds like socialism to me!
how about facts.. what fact have you failed to realized?
Our economy is better <— thanks obama
auto is saved <– thanks obama
more jobs creation <– thanks obama!
more refinancing <– thanks obama!
@HULK no such thing as half!!!! and that is at the root of your hatred… your fear.
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
4:44 pm
@g <— where are the FACTS!!! call me a bleeding liberal but I am a conservative… and the GOP has not been conservative…..
if I am just spewing talking points come to me with facts!!! we are doing better and it is under the Obama admin… I trust Obama….
Mitt has changed views like the weather… he is an opportunist and I am not rolling the dice when it comes to the President… DO NOT MAKE A MITT-STAKE
hulk???
October 31st, 2012
4:47 pm
So Hulk, have you been asleep the last 4 years or do you only watch Faux news?
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
4:47 pm
@g have you listened to what your candidate says!! apparently not… you say he is going to be concerned with fixing the job mess.. out of his mouth “the federal government does not create jobs”
who is being the critical thinker… He is losing in his own state he was running!!! that should tell you something…
he said “the federal government does not create jobs” what about that you do not understand?
hulk???
October 31st, 2012
4:50 pm
amen brother…. only the facts. Not GOP propaganda.
Tell me why has there been no polls on FoxNews about who has won the last 2 presidential debates? Could it be because Romney lost the debates?
hulk???
October 31st, 2012
4:53 pm
I am actually an independent. The BS that the GOP propaganda machine sends out has pushed me into the Obama camp.
g
October 31st, 2012
4:54 pm
@masters degree. First, don’t try that one, you are not a republican or a conservative. We all know what you are, so don’t be ashamed. But since you are the expert, why don’t you spew some supposed facts. Doing better…really…your definition of that must vary from mine. 8% unemployment is just great.
Danny
October 31st, 2012
4:57 pm
Hey Hulk, how many racist displays have been made against Obama? Bush destroyed this country and he hasn’t had nearly that type of backlash.
Our country is doing great, jobs are coming back, economy is recovering, markets are back up, and best of I am doing extremely well.
But hey I guess Republicans are avid supporters of lies, flip flops, deception and rhetoric. That’s one thing I have learned from them. It is totally okay to lies, cheat and steal!!!
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
4:57 pm
@hulk??? i call myself independent also… you have so called REPUBLICANS trying to take over CHARTER school creation in georgia…. I want my PARTY back!
SMALLER GOVERNMENT!
I just need the Government to step in with disaster relief and to keep building WMD’s
Tag
October 31st, 2012
4:58 pm
Everyone wants to cry over the state of American politics !!
g
October 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
@masters degree. Now I understand. Your definition of creating jobs is government jobs. A president that has actual job experience and real world business experience understands (unlike you) that a president can ever create enough government jobs. He can cut taxes on small business and cut the red tape so small business can create more jobs. That is the problem with Obama, he thinks the answer to everything is GOVERNMENT.
Fan
October 31st, 2012
5:04 pm
That’s the parents fault not the ads, that the 4 year old is in tears. i choose what my kids can listen to and watch so they don’t hear and see those kind of things. Wake up momma!
Tag
October 31st, 2012
5:04 pm
How does anyone make a raciest comment about this article?
Well they started it first, just doesn’t cut it.
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
October 31st, 2012
5:10 pm
I am a registered Republican for all my adult life. I am punching straight democratic ticket. The GOP has gone gone to far to right and the I am so over the bile and hatred they spew. There is no room for moderates like myself. So if the elephants do not want me, my vote will go to a party that welcomes all people.
Buckhead Boy
October 31st, 2012
5:15 pm
g, what “Jobs mess”? There are 3.2 million jobs going begging. Even in the manufacturing sector the number of jobs available has risen to 230,000 today from 98,000 in 2009, the “Financial Times” reports. By the same token, a recent study by the employment agency Manpower found that 52 percent of American companies said they are experiencing difficulty finding employees qualified enough to fill mission-critical positions, We have an education/training problem, just like the President says. Regrettably, 80 percent of the unemployed lack college, and this is the 21st Century.
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
5:16 pm
@g what you have is a flawed Premise… read the ART of Logical reasoning… you are trying to argue from a position that is not true… (I see why you like MITT)
No I do not believe the definition of creating jobs is government jobs.. that simply is not true…
And you are prescribing something to MITT that he did not say! He said that it is NOT the role of the Federal Government to create jobs.. meaning he does not understand the role of the Federal government…
which i agree with you is to create the environment to make businesses flourish… President Obama not only has experience he has success at turning our country around.. I am moving FORWARD
Liberal Pariah
October 31st, 2012
5:19 pm
You must be blind to think the Democratic party is any way, shape or form Moderate. From being pro-death to gay marriage to curtailing religios freedoms to wasting our tax money, etc, etc. You were probably never a Conservative at all.
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
5:21 pm
@BUCKHEAD BOY! amen!!!!! we do not have a job problem we have a skills problem… name one rocket sceintist, doctor, engineer who is struggling or struggling to get a job.
FACT for every non STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) job you have 4 applicants..
for ever STEM job you have 0.5 workers…
You can have your own opinions but not your own facts.
Jay Gordon Coogler
October 31st, 2012
5:23 pm
I also cry when I listen to NPR. Hopefully Mittens first act as POTUS will be to cancel all funding for NPR, PBS, and the National Endowment for Trash. Remember the 2016 campaign begins next Tuesday night. My money is on Lieawatha Warren from Taxatuches. What a sex pot.
dave
October 31st, 2012
5:24 pm
I understand where this little girl is coming from. Regardless of what party/person you vote for, can’t wait til it’s over next week. Then we can move on to more important things like football and the holidays. ha
Liberal Pariah
October 31st, 2012
5:25 pm
This little girl must have seen her future under Obamacare
masters degree
October 31st, 2012
5:36 pm
she is crying because the big bad REPUBLICANs are trying to take the power of CHARTER school creation out of the hands of elected people…..
I cry about large government all the time..
In the same boat.
October 31st, 2012
5:42 pm
“and a child shall lead them….” Amen, brothers and sisters. Amen. Perhaps there is hope that our leaders of the next generation will return some sanity into an insane world. God bless you, Abigael.
Sandra Moore
October 31st, 2012
5:47 pm
I think everyone should pray for this country. No one wants socialized medicine and wait 3 months for an x-ray as you do in Canada or a hospital room. No one wants another recession
or to looose their house and their job and much more. You are totally off the wall if you vote for Bama. Obama is ANTI-AMERICAN. VERY MUCH. HE IS STILL A MUSLIM. WATCH THE MOVIE 2016. You will see.
Don't Tread
October 31st, 2012
5:48 pm
“she and her daughter, Abigael, were listening to NPR on a trip to the grocery store Tuesday”
I think I found the problem. The poor kid was overdosed. Even 4-year-olds know when NPR is trying to brainwash them. Too bad the adult didn’t.
double
October 31st, 2012
5:51 pm
Yeah big boys do cry.”Boehner”
Macon professor says...
October 31st, 2012
5:58 pm
Repugnicans, rethuglicans.
Ms. Kim
October 31st, 2012
6:00 pm
Top School, you nailed it… The child is tired of the constant rhetoric her mother is subjected her too… Mom, this is not funny – you are to blame – not the NPR, not President Obama and not Mitt Romney… Stop torturing her!!!
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
6:02 pm
What Would Jesus Do?…… when he hears all the lies coming from
Mitt Romney?
He’d CRY too.
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
6:07 pm
@Sandra Moore
October 31st, 2012
5:47 pm
I think everyone should pray for this country. No one wants socialized medicine and wait 3 months for an x-ray as you do in Canada or a hospital room. No one wants another recession
or to looose their house and their job and much more. You are totally off the wall if you vote for Bama. Obama is ANTI-AMERICAN. VERY MUCH. HE IS STILL A MUSLIM. WATCH THE MOVIE 2016. You will see.
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Romney supporters like YOU are lying LOW INFORMATION voters.
Translation: Uneducated
If people WANT a LYING president vote for ROMNEY.
If he will lie to Democrats HE WILL SURELY lie to
CONS LIKE YOU.
Liars DON’T DISCRIMINATE.
the honey badger
October 31st, 2012
6:12 pm
just listen to the Bone or a cd.no politics.we all know we are going to get screwed for the next 4 years by a middle aged man, we just don’t know which
Drew
October 31st, 2012
6:15 pm
Join the club kid!!!
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
6:16 pm
@Sandra Moore
October 31st, 2012
5:47 pm
Obama is ANTI-AMERICAN. VERY MUCH. HE IS STILL A MUSLIM. WATCH THE MOVIE 2016. You will see.
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Watch the Movie 2016???????
WHY?
(CNN) – Conservative writer and activist Dinesh D’Souza, who attracted wide attention with his recent anti-Obama film “2016: Obama’s America,” resigned as president of a Christian college in New York after questions were raised about his marriage.
His departure appeared to be set in motion by an article on the website of the evangelical magazine World that accused D’Souza, who is married, of sharing a hotel room with a woman whom he allegedly referred to as his “fiancé” at a Christian conference.
WHY WOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THIS MOVIE?
The filmmaker is a LYING HYPOCRITE just like YOU AND ROMNEY.
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
6:22 pm
@Sandra Moore
October 31st, 2012
5:47 pm
I think everyone should pray for this country. No one wants socialized medicine and wait 3 months for an x-ray as you do in Canada or a hospital room. No one wants another recession
or to looose their house and their job and much more
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Did you loose your house?
Did you loose your job?
YOU must not be too bright if you did.
I am doing fine.
I have not missed a beat.
I still shop, I still eat and I still do everything I did before.
BTW, I am retired and living well.
Sorry you are not.
Convinced
October 31st, 2012
6:22 pm
I am convinced that some Americans support Mitt Romney because he appeals to their ego and ignorance…Similar to the election of our governor Nathan Deal, who has a long track record of mismanagement and corruption-we as a state elected him anyway. He’s still doing the same thing in office as he did prior to being our gorvernor, and people in this state are simply happy that a Republican is in place. If Americans choose to vote Mittens into office we will get exactly what we deserve. All I can say is God Bless America and I hope for the best.
Jack
October 31st, 2012
6:27 pm
out of the mouths of babes lol, I think we’re all tired of the election. She would probably cry even more if she knew how much debt she was already in thanks to Obama.
EdinFayetteville
October 31st, 2012
6:28 pm
Elizabeth, the election will be here before you know it. Maybe all of us will have a few months before the next campaign begins. Sorry. Didn’t mean to make you cry again.
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
7:00 pm
@Jack
October 31st, 2012
6:27 pm
out of the mouths of babes lol, I think we’re all tired of the election. She would probably cry even more if she knew how much debt she was already in thanks to Obama.
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Well don’t tell her about HOW MUCH DEBT the WAR cost us.
The poor child would have a STROKE if she knew.
gm
October 31st, 2012
8:04 pm
3 days in Florida and it did my heart good to see whites with Obama stickers supporting this great President, to bad Georgia with its bigots will never change and this is why they will always be a non factor in anthing.
Latinos and blacks were standing in line for hours to vote, what happend to fox misinformed news about Obama supportors not being excited? real Americans are going to trounce poor, middle class white males in the south and their mental rep women voters and all the Nazis and skin heads in the Romney party.
Stumpy
October 31st, 2012
8:30 pm
….Born and raised in Ga. I grew up in an era when Republican was a dirty word…….but the Demos sold out to big govt and social programs 50 yrs ago, not to mention org labor which has the D- party in their back pocket. Now Ga and most other southern states are Red states. I’m an Independent, but have voted Repub for quite a while now and probably will continue that trend for the foreseeable future…..The reason; I deplore an ever increasing big govt meddling in my life.
Morality?
October 31st, 2012
8:35 pm
Truth O Meter? What a joke. Politicians are paid to lie and both, having law degrees, have had the best training that money can buy. If Obama’s mouth is moving he’s lying. They both know that if they told you the truth you wouldn’t vote for them. So after the election when economic hell breaks loose you can blame yourself for voting for what you want to hear instead of the truth. LOL
Morality?
October 31st, 2012
8:37 pm
gm – play the RACE CARD much? Give it a rest. This election is about the ECONOMY STUPID!
Sickened
October 31st, 2012
8:44 pm
She should cry. She, her kids and grandkids will still be paying for obama and the democrats spending. Anyone who actually believes things are better after the last four years of mr blame everyone but himself, they are part of the problem.
Mitt Romney Would Reduce Satan To Tears With His Lying Cheap Shots
October 31st, 2012
8:45 pm
@Stumpy
October 31st, 2012
8:30 pm
….Born and raised in Ga. I grew up in an era when Republican was a dirty word…….but the Demos sold out to big govt and social programs 50 yrs ago, not to mention org labor which has the D- party in their back pocket. Now Ga and most other southern states are Red states. I’m an Independent, but have voted Repub for quite a while now and probably will continue that trend for the foreseeable future…..The reason; I deplore an ever increasing big govt meddling in my life.
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YOU deplore big GOVERNMENT?
STUMPY WHO CARES WHAT YOU DEPLORE.
If a storm comes through Georgia TRAILERS
GET BLOWN AWAY FIRST…..your stupid self
WILL BE BEGGING FOR BIG GOVERNMENT.
Chris Chiste and the people in New Jersey LOVES BIG GOVERNMENT.
gm
October 31st, 2012
8:47 pm
Morality?
If it was about the economy he Obama would win in a landslide, this about the black guy who is still cleaning up the last white guy mess, but just not fast enough for the southern conservative gomers.