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2012 President Obama Accuses Romney of Shooting First, Aiming Later
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:57 PM
When the president answers a question about Romney's competency with "I'll let the American people judge that," you know Romney's screwed. Also noteworthy is this comment:
Steve Schmidt, senior campaign strategist to Sen. John McCain in McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, told CBS News Wednesday that Romney's "comments were a big mistake, and the decision to double down on them was an even bigger mistake."
"There are legitimate criticisms to be made but you foreclose on your ability to make them when you try to score easy political points," he said. "And the American people, when the country is attacked, whether they're a Republican or Democrat or independent, want to see leaders who have measured responses, not leaders whose first instinct is to try to score political points."
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I think it's more that Obama can't take the swing that he wants. Whereas the Republicans are running an anti-Obama campaign, Obama is running on fixing the problems through bipartisan cooperation.
The media would blow any swing he takes way out of proportion. No matter how well deserved the flogging is.
The media would blow any swing he takes way out of proportion. No matter how well deserved the flogging is.
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Obama wasn't asked about Romney's competence; he was asked if Romney's statement was irresponsible.
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Has it really been 24 years since the GOP nominated someone actually presidential to be president?
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Hilarious that anyone takes Steve Schmidt seriously, given that he was the braintrust behind the unleashing of Sarah Palin.
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Gotta love Steve Schmidt. He calls 'em like he sees 'em. I'm glad MSNBC hired him--and Michael Steele--as their in-house Republican talking heads. Neither of them is a shill. Both of them are sincere moderate conservatives. They're the sorts of guys I'm OK with respectfully disagreeing with.
Other pluses for Schmidt:
A. That Philly accent of his.
B. The simple fact that Woody Harrelson played him in the "Game Change" HBO movie. Once Woody Harrelson plays you in a movie, you have arrived in cultural nirvana (provided you're not a sociopathic killer).
Other pluses for Schmidt:
A. That Philly accent of his.
B. The simple fact that Woody Harrelson played him in the "Game Change" HBO movie. Once Woody Harrelson plays you in a movie, you have arrived in cultural nirvana (provided you're not a sociopathic killer).
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Ooooh, that's harsh. That's as close as we'll get to see Obama gloating. In his head, you know he was thinking, "I picked up the fumble and ran it back for a touchdown."
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Wow.
You girls are totally missing the story of the day....
On the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist successfully attacked US soil and murdered an American Ambassador.
Ant all Obama can do is twitter about Mitt?
Sad........
You girls are totally missing the story of the day....
On the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist successfully attacked US soil and murdered an American Ambassador.
Ant all Obama can do is twitter about Mitt?
Sad........
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Hello troll: Did you see where this started because one of your fellow unhinged wingnuts made an offensive video that insulted Islam?
More to the point - you fucksticks own this.
Whaddaya say, troll?
More to the point - you fucksticks own this.
Whaddaya say, troll?
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Romney had a point, but in a convoluted way. You don't go trashing an embassy just because you got some bad exposure in the media; it's not anyone's fault that YouTube carries everything. It would well have been a Simpsons episode or an Op Ed cartoon. Enough is enough with these deliberately thin-skinned Arab mobsters. It was Sept 11th and the were itching for violence.
In the final analysis, Mitt had it right. But the job of our diplomats are to appease the ruffled feathers of our adversaries, no matter how misguided they are. So, in that sense Obama was right, Mitt shot off before aiming.
In the final analysis, Mitt had it right. But the job of our diplomats are to appease the ruffled feathers of our adversaries, no matter how misguided they are. So, in that sense Obama was right, Mitt shot off before aiming.
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wow doc, you must have missed the news.
the attack was a preplanned assault carried out by terrorists.
the protests were used as cover, or, more likely, staged to cover the assault.
(and even if the protests were related to the video we believe in freedom of speech.
don't you?)
wow doc, you must have missed the news.
the attack was a preplanned assault carried out by terrorists.
the protests were used as cover, or, more likely, staged to cover the assault.
(and even if the protests were related to the video we believe in freedom of speech.
don't you?)
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@11 - Do you think Mitt "had it right" when he accused the diplomats (who were later killed) of apologizing, even though they made the statement he was so outraged by BEFORE the actual attacks began, just to try to calm things down?
In Mitt's world, diplomacy = apology. He is not qualified to be POTUS.
In Mitt's world, diplomacy = apology. He is not qualified to be POTUS.
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@11 by "convoluted" you mean misrepresenting the facts, and shooting his mouth off while the violence was going on. Spin all you want Romney blew this one and looks like a total ass.
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Hey, Troll: Remember way back when, when some people flew some airplanes into some buildings, and they did it because the other people wouldn't stop fucking around in their countries? Remember that?
Pay attention here, troll, this part's important:
Remember when the people in charge that lived where the buildings were didn't learn a fucking thing, and continued fucking around in the other people's countries? And that really made those other people mad?
Do you get it now, troll? 'Cause I could bust out the hand puppets, if I thought you'd be more likely to understand it if I acted it out with hand puppets.
Oh, and I am very amused that you respond when people say "Hey, Troll!" That part is very, very amusing.
Pay attention here, troll, this part's important:
Remember when the people in charge that lived where the buildings were didn't learn a fucking thing, and continued fucking around in the other people's countries? And that really made those other people mad?
Do you get it now, troll? 'Cause I could bust out the hand puppets, if I thought you'd be more likely to understand it if I acted it out with hand puppets.
Oh, and I am very amused that you respond when people say "Hey, Troll!" That part is very, very amusing.
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I bet you're just like Romney and have never served in the military have you? It's always someone else's kids that go die, isn't it?
I bet you're just like Romney and have never served in the military have you? It's always someone else's kids that go die, isn't it?
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Of course, once Romney mentions the attack politically, we're free to jump all over him and score political points on him cause he started it, right?
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So you don't think Obama's war in Afghanistan is a "War of Necessity™"?
And you think it is bad that Obama blasts hundreds of men, women and children from the sky in Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan? You think that is bad?
But at least he closed Gitmo. Right?
So you don't think Obama's war in Afghanistan is a "War of Necessity™"?
And you think it is bad that Obama blasts hundreds of men, women and children from the sky in Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan? You think that is bad?
But at least he closed Gitmo. Right?
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