Conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh is giving out advice to the Romney campaign on how to go after President Obama. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains why in the Rewrite.
Limbaugh tries to rewrite Romney's past
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Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:44 AM EDT
Conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh is giving out advice to the Romney campaign on how to go after President Obama. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains why in the Rewrite.
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O'Donnell expertly dispatched Limbaugh this evening, and Blow was on fire. Limbaugh is a self loather. His always present anger and hostility is a sign of self anger and loathing, said O'Donnell. O'Donnell simply spoke the truth, and what a refreshing breeze it is. The closer Pundits stick to the truth totem, the better they are. The more flabbergast and flibberdy-gibbit, the less better they are. Limbaugh is the face of corporate America in all it's vicious glory and egotism and narcissism and sociopathy and delusion and psychopathological tendencies. Corporate America sees people as objects for exploitation. corporate America wants to exploit everyone they can, any way they can, any time, under any and all circumstances, for the purpose of pure corporo-centric, sociopathological greed and power lust. Corporate America is a too often a beast devoid of humility or ethical comportment or empathy or compassion. . Beasts don't think about their victims. They're beasts. They just exploit. Even this blog sight is corporate. It exploits. It doesn't care. It's a beast. So is Limbaugh.
It's probably time for a new blogsite. The new NBCU just wants to exploit it's bloggers, and that's too bad. It is what is embodied by corporate America and is the heart of the pestilence and corporate depravity sweeping America, but then again it is also perfectly suited for some MSNBC hosts.
I am not rying to be funny. I just do not know for sure and would like to know. At least does it seem that way to you. Is Romney mentally ill?
O'dickhead do you think the American people are that stupid that Rommey has ANYTHING
to do with bain Capitol any more.... wow you that stupid....
Vote NObama 2012!!
Of course, the real issue is not whether or not he's still connected to Bain today, but whether he was or wasn't connected to Bain between 1999 and 2003. Given your confusion about this, I doubt that you really have anything useful or cogent to offer.
And clean up your language or else people might suspect you're a Limbaugh sycophant.
Well said, Mr. Clements.
b113, sonny, you should educate yourself. The sole stockholder of Bain was...Mitt Romney. No matter who was "in charge", everyone at Bain was an employee of Romney, required to do his bidding.
Earlier than 1999 Mitt had taken a vacation from bain, and while he was gone the co. almost went bankrupt. He didn't make that mistake again: he kept tight control of Bain even while he was titular head of Olympics.
BTW, if he is still receiving $43 million from bain in two years he is still the sole owner (i.e., though he had partners in individual deals, he retained ownership, he did not share ownership profits of the entire co)
The real issues of this election are not Bain Capital or the transition period of 1999 to 2002 when the franchise value that Mitt Romney had built as the founder and CEO of this largest and most successful private equity investment firm in the US was being negotiated by his co-founders and partners before his official retirement, the true issues are this piss poor economy qnd the disasterous course of policy that the Obama Administration has followed and is still promising to follow if given another 4 years. The business community has written Obama off...now the Amerivan people have to take a sober look at his failures and decide if change is necessary.
And gringo...you don't know your ass from your elbow on the topic of who is managing Bain Capital...investment income is not the same as managing income.
@ Keith Longey...either candidate who won in 2008 was going to be facing the worst economy since the great depression with growth of -7%. I have not seen any of the "disastrous policies" you mention: unemployment and debt are lagging indicators. The bail out of the automobile industry seems to have fueled that recovering sector. The "business community" has lower taxes now than they did during Clinton's administration and it really looks like the only industry that has "written off" Obama is the banking industry...the great train wreck industry of the U.S. that fueled the sub prime mortgage debacle and took all the Tarp funds and appears to be investing them in derivatives rather than fueling lower housing costs through refinancing. And wait for the Libor scandal to hit the U.S.
Oh and if you are wondering, I am a radical Centrist and would vote for a strong Republican who was not beholden to the tea Party, against women's reproductive rights and the rights for ALL Americans to marry and was not beholden to the golden idol of Grover Norquist. Look at what austerity has done during an economic downturn in Europe and apply that to the U.S. where our tax rates are lower than at any time since the Great Depression and our armed forces are "protecting" places most of us only heard of when playing the game of "Risk" growing up (I know, we have pulled out of Kamchatka) and disastrous won't begin to describe what becomes of our middle class (you know the group that generally is the bellwether of a strong economy)...our economy will look a lot like Mexico's-which at least should stem the tide of illegal immigrants looking for a better life...
@Bill Clements- the countries going down the toilet, and your caught up in whether Romney was associated with Bain over ten years ago? Are you that facking stupid?? Oh here is one for you. One of Obama's big bundlers was also associated with Bain back when all these layoffs and outsourcings took place. Guess you missed that memo? Get you head out of your arse and pay attention. Obama is sinking this country, and guess what? You dont have a life vest.
@ Longey.. of course, as a Republican/conservative, it's understandable that you don't want to look too closely at your own candidate, but seriously, it actually does matter whether or not someone running for President of the United States is an inverterate liar or not, as Mr. Romney appears to be. Bad enough that he appears to change his position on issues at the drop of a hat all, apparently, because of some perceived political advantage to be capitalized on in any given moment. But it may go deeper than that: those who think he comes off more as a robot than a human being worry that he's missing a core, that he doesn't really know what he believes because he's still a complete mystery to himself?
As for the economy Bush & Co. handed over to Obama (probably gleefully), the worst since the Great Depression, no one, Republican or Democrat, would have been capable of turning it all around in 3 1/2 years. And if we add a do-nothing, obstructionist Republican Congress to the mix, it's surprising that he's gotten as much done as he has. Of course Republicans don't give him any credit for what he's accomplished because their entire strategy has been focused solely on his defeat in 2012.
Personally, I wish he had focused more on Main Street from the beginning and instituted a WPA-type program. That would have made far more sense than the austerity measures a Republican president would have almost certainly imposed on the country. But, hey, Obama, it turns out, is more of a moderate than candidate Obama appeared to be.
@kirok... hard to have a conversation with someone as worked up as you are. Not to mention your potty mouth. Please see my comment to Longey as to why Bain matters. From my perspective, Bush and Co. utterly destroyed the economy and handed the mess over to Obama. That in itself may have been part of their strategy. Republicans, I believe, knew that if they stayed united (do-nothing, obstructionist Republican Congress) in opposing Obama every inch of the way, they would increase their chances of winning back the WH in 2012. So, when you talk about "sinking the country," I'd have to say that prior to Obama's election and during Obama's tenure, Republicans are far more culpable than Obama. Republicans seem to be primarily interested in greed and power, in absolute loyalty to corporations and the super rich. The rest of us, the 99%, not so much.
From where I sit, Romney's "business experience" as a predatory capitalist, doesn't exactly make him an ideal candidate for running the country as president.
Ken: The housing bubble colapse (an equal opportunity as to partisan promotion, as both major Parties goosed that baloon with their policies) magnified by insane leverage and derivatives that Republican and Democrat Party congressional reps were investigating for possible regulation legislation before Clinton's man at the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan (who helped to fuel his dot.com and financial asset bubble with his loose money policies) moved quickly to squelch that beginning movement to control the growing like topsy unregulated market in the time bomb stuff.
And the Tarp program put into place by Bush's Treasury Secretary Paulson did more to get us and the World out of the financial crisis than anything Obama did...including the misspent total of $1.6 trillion of stimulus spending of mostly borrowed dollars. As to the Auto Sector, the good uptick of purchases of new autos and light trucks has more to do with the high prices of gasoline experience by consumers, who had gone too long without replacing their older, less fuel efficient models. And the over $80 billion of TARP fund that Obama "invested" into GM seemed initially to goose their overseas operations, as of the 220,000 employees that international corportation has, only 50,000 are working in the US. Of direct new jobs due to the moderate resurgence of the auto sector, only 1,800 have been added in Ohio, for example...although the Pres seems to think that is hunky dory, and touts it at every opportunity.
And if you are wondering, I am a registered Independant with Ron Paul type of candidates leanings. But I appreciate the skill that Mitt Romney brings as a disciplined, business and finance managerial talant with the knack to develop turnaround policies, as he showed at Bain Capital with numerous successful businesses that were previously failing in troubled industries, and with the Winter Olympics rescue operation and the State of Massachusetts as Governor, both of the later jobs he took on without drawing a salary.
To quote kirok:
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I have to tell you that Mr. Blow's passionate explanation tonight of why the right hates Obama as much as they do was the most articulate, lucid, and powerfully moving explanation I've heard to date. It was electric!
And Ms. Reid's comments were also quite moving as she touched on her own background, on her father's conservative leanings, and on how, by contrast, the conservatives of today have simply become unhinged.
Personally, I think those running Obama's campaign should address this "otherness" box Republicans continue to stuff the president into. They should make it a part of the narrative leading up to November. What does it say about Republicans and conservatives that they not only don't recognize Obama as an American, but that they hate him for what makes him different from them?
Mr. Blow is appropriately named. He is a clown and a blowhard one at that. To think that he has anything of importance to say is like thinking Richard Pryor with his jokes about setting himself on fire had anything important to say. And I notice that Blow has no eyebrows or hair, so maybe he suffered the same fate?
Wow, Longey, you seem to live in the same universe that Rush Limbaugh inhabits! Congratulations! I guess it's simply hard for you to recognize the truth even when it's presented as clearly as Mr. Blow presented it, huh? But then again, anger and hate has that effect on people. As does a daily dose of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc. You just sort of lose touch with reality....kinda like someone on drugs.
Bill... I listened to Mr Blows expose last night.. it was definitely passionate... and from my perspective... it seemed he really got into it. So much that I feel he contrived and fabricated this response to embellish his feelings. Bill, Apparently you and I come from different life experiences, back grounds, and perspectives. And what really makes me wonder.. is how can two people such as you and I... for whatever reason can come up with a different interpretation. I am not saying this to be critical of your view... but more to be critical of how two people such as you and I .. are representative of being on different sides of the fence. Mr Blow I felt went way too far just as Lawrence O did. I think there was way to much of " propaganda" and spin for me to believe much of what the three were saying. I do listen to MSNBC to get a different perspective.. but they are preaching to "their" choir. I tend to think they must have a group consensus to come across in the same mocking manner, same exact view and same exact spin. This losses credability for me.
@Bill Clements- Billy boy, did you get that tingling feeling down your leg with Blows speech like Chris Mathews did about Obama's speech that time? You guys are so in Wonderland with this stuff. It's no wonder this country is heading into the abyss. With people like you, who needs to worry about any outside threat to America. We'll just simply implode.
@Mike.... Mr. Blow, for me personally, absolutely nailed why the right hates Obama. His passionate response did not in any way feel "contrived" or "fabricated" but simply had the ring of truth about it. As for going "way too far," that seems more apropos to what Rush Limbaugh or Fox News does every day. MSNBC seems pretty tame by comparison. And they no doubt have a left-leaning bias, but again, nothing like the bias that Fox News presents which epitomizes the very essence of propaganda and spin.
As to having different interpretations of the same event, that speaks to world view, which is a complex subject. A lot has been written about how our world view comes into being and what factors shape it, but I personally like George Lakoff's Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. He analyzes the unconscious world views of conservatives and liberals and I agree with him that much of it comes down to morality and family.
The world of politics, like religion, incites passion and emotion, much of it extreme. That's just a given. Hard to have clarity, to speak with clarity, in such an atmosphere, no? But it can be done, and especially when you have some understanding of how the mind works, how emotion works, etc.
@kirok... have you thought about medication? I believe you, you sound like you might implode!
Clements: try getting your news and opinions from CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg News and Fox as well as MSNBC for a balanced viewpoint. Your sucking at the poisionous pap this ultra liberal (in name only) network provides is killing your few brain cells you were lucky to be born with.
As to Charles Blow's and Little Lying Larry's stock in trade issues of crying racism whenever someone takes Obama...or his political hack of an Attorney General Eric Holder to task for their conduct, that is part and parcel of this network (and their parent NBC's) race baiting to try to cement the black and hispanic voters that are disaffected by Obama's not fullfilling promises to their economic well being, and his etch a sketch politically expedient moment on support of Gay Marriage. Obama is lucky if he gets close to a 60% turn out of the polled 98% of supporting black registered voters in November, while he desperately needs 65%. The voting population of the 3.2% of the population that consider themselves LBGT in sexual persuasion that would want to be able to marry someone of their own gender is infintisimal compared to the disaffected black and hispanic voters over this one issue!
But, you can rest assure from MSNBC we will see the race card raised at every opportunity, and you will see more of the asinine nobody, Charles Blow undoubtedly. However, it seems he is preaching to a very small choir! LOL!
How presumptuous of you to think that MSNBC is the only source for my news. And I certainly don't consider it "ultra liberal." LOL.
It's always the same with those in the GOTP when it comes to the charge of racism: utterly deny it and throw it back as "race baiting." As for Charles Blow, I welcome his return and perhaps with repeated exposure, that "small choir" will grow exponentially.
Of course, Obama's concern about voter I.D. laws being passed by Republican governors across the country (poll tax is more accurate) which are designed to disenfranchise mostly Democratic voters, his recent policy shift on immigration, and his support of gay marriage, are simply cynical attempts by him to win votes, nothing more. Typical and predictable.
Clearly you're a great prognosticator and have already sewn up the election it seems for your empty-suited, robotic candidate, Willard. It's far more likely going to come down to how much money Republicans throw at the election. Thanks to Citizens United (and an activist SCOTUS), Republican billionaires can now ostensibly buy the presidency, or for that matter the country. Great to be an American, isn't it?
This is every Republican's wet dream: a country where democracy is replaced by an oligarchy run by plutocrats. And Republicans have the temerity to call Democrats "unpatriotic." Once again, they've got the finger pointing in the wrong direction.
I see you failed to list any of your other sources of news and opinions other than MSNBC. Saying a politician or bureaucrat failed in his job is hardly racist...Obama and Holder would like to play that card, but that is a tired game, Clements.
As to your obnoxious comments on the voter registration roles cleanup in states of the non citizens, felons, and dead people ongoing months before the national election, that is certainly not racist if that was your intended point. And to date, the Federal Courts have ruled in favor of the states on the issue of the Obama Administration trying to deny the states access to the Homeland Security Department's non citizen list. Boo Hoo for you!
Obama set the mark for fundraising and spending in 2008 with $750 million spent. Now, even with all the perks of being the incubant President, he is madly raising another huge war chest and outspending the Romney campaign on a negative campaign of lying baseless mud slinging attacks on Romneys life and business and government careers. That is why I can forecast he is playing a losing hand, along with my knowledge of the direction the economy is headed right up to the election.
6 months of campaigning and incessant fund raising for Obama, with over 100 fund raising trips and events. And scores of rounds of golf. But not a single meeting with hos ballhooded Business and Jobs Council in that six months, and in the year only two meetings with the bipartisan bi camerel (that's both houses of Congress if you didn't know) leaders to deal with the problems our country faces. And that is because Obama and the people he has surrounded himself with are clueless as to what the job of the Presidency is all about. Obama is just simply not up to the job!
Here Bill, I'll give some other sources, not that Grandpa will buy them; from his syntax, he's getting an early start on the Nyquil... Look at that misspelling of "bicameral."
He did get me thinking with that Richard Pryor reference... You know that scene from Jo Jo Dancer where he finally identities Jo Jo's "problem," saying most people lead with their chins, but old Jo Jo led with with his n**s... Definitely a resemblance to Fuzzie there...
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156935624/study-many-could-face-obstacles-in-voter-id-laws
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-penn-voter-id-20120718,0,1039470.story
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718164608.htm
That last one is noteworthy...
A new National Agenda Opinion Poll by the University of Delaware's Center for Political Communication reveals support for voter identification laws is strongest among Americans who harbor negative sentiments toward African Americans.
Dadburned race-baiting ivory-tower academics, anyway...
C'mon now, Mitt Romney is a successful governor & businessman, let's give him a try. If he fails on his 1st term, then we boot him out..... it's just that simple.
And the Democrats can pick up the pieces and try to put the country back together again. Although 4 years of Bush polices on steroids as Pres. Clinton put it, the country just may be too broken to fix.
Bob, we gave Obama a try. He was suppose to undo what Bush did but instead he made something BAD to WORST, unfortunately he failed. We just have to keep looking until we find that right person whether it's a Democrat, an Independent or Republican to get us back to prosperity & hopefully that's Mitt Romney.
In what way did he make something "BAD to Worst"? I see only better. Not completely good yet, but was it ever?
And if times are not what you think they should be, don't you think that part if that is a congress that vowed to oppose every one of his proposals...to the point that they are opposing their own ideas?
Cindy is upset that there are so many Chevies on the road; it makes it hard for her to find a parking place for her Lexus... And garsh, if that's in being serviced, it's awful trying to navigate the Hummer...
As for "successful governor and businessman," see Bush, George W.... Who isn't talking much these days except to note he is grateful to have "escaped the swamp of politicis." His attitude says a lot about why his was a failed presidency (historians will rank it among the five "worsts" for certain) and why he abdicated his executive duties in kowtowing to Dick Cheney.
Well Cindy, I believe your premise is wrong about Romney: he was neither a successful governor nor a successful businessman, unless you believe that being a predatory capitalist where one makes obscene amounts of money at the expense of ordinary, hard-working Americans counts as "successful?
Personally, given where the world economy is these days, I don't really think we have the luxury of giving Romney four years to "give him a try."
I am still looking to see my first Chevy Volt...and I live in Connecticut which should be fertile ground to sell those things as we have some of the highest gasoline and diesel prices in the country with a gauging State government tax structure layered on the federal tax. Ford has done just about the best in volume sales, and they opted out of the Obama and Ratner screw the Bond Holders and middle management and dealer francises in favor of the unions. Chrysler paid off their loans pretty quick, but GM acknowledges that $24 billion of the $80 billion of TARP fiunds (never voted on by Congress to be used for other than the financial system and home mortgage stabilization) is not going to be going back to the Federal Governemt, lost forever. And Bush and Paulson's TARP funds have pretty much been and will be fully repaid, and the government has even shown a profit on that program of recapitalizing the banks.
The nonsense stated that austerity caused the problems in Europe's economy is simply ridiculous...what the issues are in Europe and the struggling Euro alliance and currency have to do with the insolvency of the most profligate soverign governments as to their levels of debt spending that racked up huge deficits and drew funds out of the private sector investments that are the life blood of succesful capitalism, the very program that Obama has touted as the way out, and that he promises he will continue, our Credit rating be damned. And the business comminity has noted that, and is sitting on their few dollars of profits, and not reinvesting them in expansion or hiring, as they nervously eye his calls for more taxes to try to pay for the further spending plans he has if given another chance.
Obama: in the face of months of slumping employment and continued high unemployment rates said: "The private sector is doing fine...its the public sector that needs assistance" and on the stump in federal government spending rich Virginia, Obama added the most recent insight to his utter lack of comprehension on what our economy is based on with: "If you have a business...you didn't build that...somone else did that!" making his case for more government jobs financied with more taxes and more immediate borrowing and spending. What an economic illiterate!
I want Obama to release his College and University transcripts and the ways his "progressive" education was financed. I understand he will payoff his contributors and supporters with patronage and government loans and grants...just as he has in his first term if reelected again. That kind of blend of Nationalist Socialist and Crony Capitalism is something that will drive us into bankruptcy, as well as spur the growth of our competitors overseas as they seek to right their sinking ships due to the profligate spending of their weaker nations thru austerity.
@Longey, love how you simply repeat Romney's deliberate distortion of Obama's remarks. Of course, he was referring to the bridges and the roads, but Willard, seeing yet another opportunity to lie about his opponent, grabbed at the chance. This so epitomizes Romney who cfliups and flops at a moment's notice on any given issue, and has no real plan to offer the country. His entire endeavor consists of attacking his opponent.
Your whole rant is full of GOP and Tea Party talking points. I didn't realize I wasr conversing with a parrot.
I haven't seen Obama come forward to try to persuade the media that his words meant anything other than they sounded like. I watched him make the comment as MSNBC that so dotes on his campaign appearances was carrying it live, and that was the immediate impression I got from that look into his economic philosophy, Clements.
One would think that someone who wanted to be President, or hold any office in his native land, would have enough faith in it to keep his money at home, pay taxes to benefit his homeland, and support his own government--literally putting his money where his mouth is. And then, do what every other candidate did, and show it. That would not mean I would vote for this candidate, but I would certainly respect him a lot more for his honesty. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else, possibly Dr. Paul, ended up as a surprise nominee. Perhaps what he's doing is altogether legal--I'm sure it is. But being legal isn't necessarily being true to one's higher self. That is something Gov. Romney has to decide about his own behavior, and each potential voter has to decide when thinking about whether or not he is the person to lead a city, a state, or a country. Or even to be dogcatcher.
Well spoken, DemoKat.
Demokat, What a wonderful post. I do not want a president for this country like Romney. His values are not mine. He chose to take his money out of this country and to me that's wrong. I do care how he made his billions off the backs of those who lost everything. He is the symbol of greed and distrust! He could possibly be the worst man to ever walk in the oval office.
b113, sonny, you should educate yourself. The sole stockholder of Bain was...Mitt Romney. No matter who was "in charge", everyone at Bain was an employee of Romney, required to do his bidding.
Earlier than 1999 Mitt had taken a vacation from bain, and while he was gone the co. almost went bankrupt. He didn't make that mistake again: he kept tight control of Bain even while he was titular head of Olympics.
BTW, if he is still receiving $43 million from bain in two years he is still the sole owner (i.e., though he had partners in individual deals, he retained ownership, he did not share ownership profits of the entire co)
it was quite an interesting diatribe last night... about Lawrence explaining the self hate and anger of Lush Limbaugh. I watch MSNBC for the entertainment value as well as to check my political views to see if I can figure out if I could be be criticical of my conservative views. I come away after watching such shows and wonder if I could ever look at the political situation from the viewpoint "leaned forward" by such people as Lawrence O'donnell. Not sure what to say.. other than I think I see a core of MSNBC contributors that seem to be clones of each other with a reptitiious viewpoint as if they are trying to" indoctrinate" and keep in line thier many of thier viewers in what also appears to be an intense hatred of the same type that LO is promoting. I honestly try to look at it from the left viewpoint.. for these appear to be intelligent people that their life's experinces have brought them to believe what they believe. But right now I see an intense " orientation" process meant to change the American way of government.
Rather than engaging in seeking reinforcement for some possibly misguided thought processes, compare the factual basis behind the Fox Noise hysteria and the reporting NBC engages in. There's a huge difference as the hyperbole surrounding the "Fast and Furious" non-scandal shows. That'll help breakup your "perceptual logjam." Note the mainstream media is again essentially ignoring F&F; two hypothesis suggest themselves, one that there's a huge "conspiracy" afoot to suppress this stuff and protect the guilty, and the other is that a couple of "crazies" hollered fire when there was none... Occam's razor points to the latter...
A couple of books by Al Franken might help as well... It'll be uncomfortable for you for a while (look how crazy it's made Fuzzy), but it'll get you past that "Everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer" mentality.
Cindy. NO! It's THAT imple
"imple"...did you mean pimple? As having another four years of Obama would be a massive pimple on the ass of progress in this country's economy, fiscal situation, energy policy, and defense?
Mr. O'Donnell, your "take" on Rush Tuesday night was absolutely amazing....the very best EVER...I only hope he was listening. I've never heard ANYONE describe him more honestly. Thanks for making my day...
You can say that again.
Mr. O'Donnell, your "take" on Rush L. on Tusday night was absolutely amazing. The best EVER....Don't think I've EVER heard a more honest description. Thanks for making my day...I only hope he was listening.
I didn't mean that litterally, stupid!
Hey if I was Rush Limbaugh I would hate Rush Limbaugh.
I doubt that the Republicans will nominate Romney as more and more evidence is revealed about his taxes and business operation. The key tax return is the 2009 Romney Tax return. Did he pay any tax at all that year? The pressure from Republicans to release his tax returns will continue. As more informatin is revealed more Republicans will consider nominating someone else. However, nominating someone else will decrease the chance of Obama winning the eledtion. Obama will win for sure in November if the Republicans do not nomiante someone else. All Democrats should hope that Romney is nominated no matter what information is revealed.
Poor Romney, up Mittcreek without an Etch-a-Sketch... I just lifted this one from Keith Olbermann's Twitter tweets...
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/07/17/romney-campaign-in-2002-opponent-cant-claim-to-be-disclosing-anything-until-she-discloses-the-returns-of-her-husband/
But in 2002, during his first run for Governor Romney attacked his opponent Shannon O’Brien for not releasing her husband’s tax returns.
The Romney campaign accused O’Brien, who released her tax returns every year since 1998, of being disingenuous by releasing her but not her husband’s returns, a former lobbyist who had worked with Enron.
Uhhh...Cab Driver. You seem to forget that it was the release of both Mitt's and Ann's Blind Trust amounts and holdings that the Obama oppositional researchers back in Chicago focused on that "high interest" Bermudan fund that had been transferred into Anns Trust with no funds currently invested in it.
By the way, if you research some common mutual funds open to common citizens like myself and yourself and favorites of IRA and 401K funds such as Fidelity's award winning and highly respected Contrafund or Balanced Fund you will see small percentages of holdings in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. You will also note a conservative portfolio of the Permanent Fund of San Antonio, Tx...a $1,000 buy in, has holdings in Swiss Franks as part of their alternative approach that also includes precious metals miners and gold bullion of various nation's mintage in addition to their US and International Growth and Income Stocks and US Bonds.
This bru ha ha over Romney's finances is ridiculous anti wealth building by capitalism that our country was built on by socialists and their minions in the "progressive" (NOT) media running amok who don't want the issues of the slumping of our economy due to threats of taxes and deficit spending now tying up the discretionary dollars of the business community, the investor capitalists, and our consumers (70% of the economy that have now gone on strike in the last 3 months).
And there goes Fuzzie after accusing me of stalking him... Hmmm, here's an idea...
Uh Grandpa, maybe I'm giving you a bit too much credit, but would you care to explain to me your usage of "Cab Driver" with the initial capital letters? I don't think you intend it as some sort of symbolic "gesture of respect." Surely, as an alleged former English teacher, you know that "cabdriver" as a single word is perfectly apropos. And the credit I'm going to give you is even you could come up with a more pejorative insult than that one... There wouldn't be something more going on, would there? Like maybe a search engine targeted to that particular construct that is designed to put a few extra shekels in that retirement fund you keep bragging about?
Reason I ask is a couple of Internet buddies of mine with more experience mentioned the existence of "paid trolls" (the term they use was "Koch suckers"), and this was a technique they identified. I once watched one repeatedly misspell an easy word every chance he could, and that was when these friends alerted me to the practice.
How about I give you permission to use something a bit stronger than "Cab Driver"? I mean you've demonstrated you have no compunctions about slamming me with imaginary references to possible bouts of active alcoholism (honest, if I were drinking I'd be in a bar somewhere, and hanging out on the Internet would be the last thing I would do) or calling me a loser because of a couple of career choices I made before learning about the secret handshakes Mitt Romney believes will get him into heaven...
Go ahead, I dare you to get creative. Otherwise it looks to me like you might've had some embarrassing losses on the ponies that needed covering... In short, what I'm saying is it's more likely you're slimy than stupid.
Anyway, moving on, Romney's Richard III ambitions have a horse alright (at least his wife does), but his campaign is in sore need of a time travel app for his Etch-a-Sketch...
Here we see him dismissing the idea of a blind trust when Ted Kennedy brought the subject to the table...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0QCdkYJwI
Romney: "The blind trust is an age-old ruse."
Those silly straw man arguments you're using are equally lame, claiming that attacks on Romney's finances amount to "anti wealth building" tactics aimed at distracting the electorate. I note that President Obama was quite wealthy himself when he entered the political fray, and nobody was hollering about the money he or his wife earned...
DOW was up a hundred points today, BTW...
Obama got his millions writing "fictious" autobiographies about himself, mostly his childhood and high school and college years., and Michele added a few shekels only from her political patronage $300,000 a year job as a "Hospital Administrator" the duties of which used to be accomplished a utilization nurse with a $38,000 a year salary, Cab Driver.
And it sounds like you are experiencing a dry drunk moment of paronia as to my intentions in addressing you with a noun and descriptive adjective that brings to mind such strange characters as Mel Gipson's Cab Driver character in "Conspiracy", or Robert DeNiro's degenerating character in "Taxi Driver".
By the way, three millionaires in Obama's White House have filed financial disclosures listing "international investments"; would you like to guess who they are? And you do recall the bru ha ha the media made of several highly paid White House staffers with back taxes owed, as well as the tax problems of his choice for U. S Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner? Perhaps having those individuals so close to home Obama is just naturally suspicious, so he would like to see all of the Romneys' tax returns to feel secure he will be leaving the office in good hands when (not if) he gets his due ass whipping at the polls in November.
As a published writer and former teacher, I promise you that "fictitious autobiography" claim is utter manure, Fuzzbrain and on par with the Birther claims from your colleagues in the teabagged crowd. What happened to the party line that Robert Ayers wrote it? You guys need to get the voices in your heads to get their stories straight...
Quite simply, authentic writing has a voice and tone that is unmistakable, which is why I spotted you as a loudmouthed phony from the get go. And nothing's changed.
The only one writing fiction is you, fraud... And you proved it by having to refer to me as "Cab Driver" instead of coming up with something new...
So you are saying that you and your fellow so called Journalists haven't even attempted to rewrite Obama because you never told the world anything about him in the first place. So lets just hide behind what you think Rush is trying to rewrite because the truth is that there is a known history to rewrite.
Huh? Since you only post every 3 years, you might at least post something we can understand well enough to disagree with.
There's a note for you over in the society section, Adam...
Let's start using the name "Rash" Limbaugh. Both meanings of "rash" fit him perfectly: (1) lack of judgment before leaping to conclusions (2) disgusting, irritating condition that gets under our skin.
Keep going - "Rash" "Limp Augh". Do a search for Augh - take your pick - Pygmy treasure looter from the lost city of Tol'vir, or "a noise of disgust".
http://www.wowpedia.org/Augh
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AUGH
Hey Susan, ever consider a relationship with a cabbie? We could put yours and mine together...
What do you think of "Rash Humbaugh®"?
Works for me; I hope it works for you...
Careful, Susan.This cab driver is diseased.
Jeez, Fuzzie, you've got a dirty mind...
I was just suggesting some possible collaboration on some literary undertakings... She shows real promise...
Casino manager wants to see you...
Can't we fast forward to Thanksgiving, won't it all be over by then. I feel that we have a chance of gaining the House, once again, and maybe some civility along with it.
I think we have a very good chance of gaining the house and cvility along with it.
Romney's problems will incread as we get closer to November.
No - I don't think it will be over by Turkey Day -
Sharron Angle "Second Amendment remedies"
Joyce Kaufman 'And if ballots don’t work, bullets will."
OK - if they lose - they may shoot me. What happens if they win - will they still shoot me?
I'm not seeing the civility or feelin' the love.
You reap what you sow, Adam. You know that. The deluge of attack adds on the real, not imagined, failings of this President will be forthcoming after the Convention in Tampa.
Keith,
I welcome the conversation on the real failings of President Obama rather than the pseudo failings of his "Blackness", "Muslim'ness", "Anti-American'ness", "Anti-Business'ness".
Perhaps you live a more sheltered life than I do - the rhetoric of Christian conservatives I am in contact with on a regular basis is, frankly, pretty ugly. ("Why do you associate with them Adam?", you ask. Because they are my friends. Loyalty can sometime lead to complexities.)
Adam_Selene
Amazing how people here(fox trolls???) can not seem to stay on topic lol.. But to the Rush Limbaugh segment...Lawrence if Rush ever commits suicide I fear your name may be in the suicide note...you murdered him on this piece...and well deserved btw :) good job!! Also to those saying trash about Mr Blow... it must be sad to be exactly like Rush in your hate for someone that is successful.. Just as Lawrence spoke of the self-loathing of himself and his shortcomings and jealousy of the president so are you of Mr. Blow and his success at the Times and a contributor on NBC...oh how you wish you could be him but can't because of your ignorance and lack of education...so you lash out...but keep trying as we are laughing at you..really we are lol :)