Romney on Obama: ‘He wants Americans to be ashamed of success’

[Peach]

This is the kind of stupidity that Romney keeps coming out with that entertains the people who are already going to vote for him, but doesn't help him a bit with normal people in the center.

He is terrified of the GOP base for some reason.

Yes this may turn off the many undecideds. He has the republicans, why doesn't he branch out to moderates?

 

[Avatar4321]

Let me see if I understand this correctly:

1) Romney quoting Obama and pointing out how he is a wrong = a lie

2) Obama and his minions consistantly lying about Romney and Bain despite countless fact checks and news papers proving them wrong = Perfectly acceptable.

Do you guys realize you are literally calling evil good and good evil, right?

 

[Moonglow]

So I'm guessing that you believe everything Obama does is good. You don't understand that it's up to us the people to question our government. The president's powers are quite limited, but only us can keep him within those limits.

Also I just disagree with Obama's agenda. I believe it is a balance between left and right that makes for the best nation. Too far left then one class gets it all and to far right in another class get its all. (marx had a point) Of course the people that produce it within my mind deserve it more.

but NEVER question the Conglomerate.

although I mostly agree with your last paragraph....all except perhaps the last sentence. Do you mean the people who ACTUALLY. produce, or the guy that runs the show? because in my eyes, They BOTH. deserve it. The guy that runs the show deserves to be rich...the guy who actually produces should be fairly compensated according to the cost and standard of living.

the reason? there are a HELL of a lot more producers than there are owners. those producers' ability to have buying power is what makes this country run.

That's fine, I agree with much of what you say here. But one thing needs to stop is this crap that the people who have the vision, front the money, work the long hours, take the risks and deals with the stress is somehow evil when they become wealthy.

It's got to stop, and the left has to stop cheering for people like Obama when they make foolish statements like Obama has here.

it was not foolish to let you know that other people influenced your decision making capabilities and the govt. help business also. It's true. No man is an island.

 

[Moonglow]

Let me see if I understand this correctly:

1) Romney quoting Obama and pointing out how he is a wrong = a lie

2) Obama and his minions consistantly lying about Romney and Bain despite countless fact checks and news papers proving them wrong = Perfectly acceptable.

Do you guys realize you are literally calling evil good and good evil, right?

Considering it's an election year, it's all in good clean fun. The candidates all come away smiling and shaking hands, it is the common folk that get out of hand over elections.

 

[Avatar4321]

This is the kind of stupidity that Romney keeps coming out with that entertains the people who are already going to vote for him, but doesn't help him a bit with normal people in the center.

He is terrified of the GOP base for some reason.

Yes this may turn off the many undecideds. He has the republicans, why doesn't he branch out to moderates?

Exactly what about having respect and acknowledging the accomplishments of individuals who sacrifice and take risk to serve the American people by giving them the goods and services they need do you think is going to turn off undecideds and moderates?

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is the kind of stupidity that Romney keeps coming out with that entertains the people who are already going to vote for him, but doesn't help him a bit with normal people in the center.

He is terrified of the GOP base for some reason.

Yes this may turn off the many undecideds. He has the republicans, why doesn't he branch out to moderates?

The beliefs of the moderates these days appears to be that of the left of 20 years ago. Romney would have to speak of his true beliefs and lose much of the right if he did that.

Romney outside of some economic and resource idea's is very much left of Clinton. I don't believe he's going to put conservatives on the courts either. If you believe that I have an island to sell you...Look at his record as governor.

I hate to see the center in 20 years. I hope we do better than what many in the past have tried and failed of such got themselves into.

 

[Steelplate]

So I'm guessing that you believe everything Obama does is good. You don't understand that it's up to us the people to question our government. The president's powers are quite limited, but only us can keep him within those limits.

Also I just disagree with Obama's agenda. I believe it is a balance between left and right that makes for the best nation. Too far left then one class gets it all and to far right in another class get its all. (marx had a point) Of course the people that produce it within my mind deserve it more.

but NEVER question the Conglomerate.

although I mostly agree with your last paragraph....all except perhaps the last sentence. Do you mean the people who ACTUALLY. produce, or the guy that runs the show? because in my eyes, They BOTH. deserve it. The guy that runs the show deserves to be rich...the guy who actually produces should be fairly compensated according to the cost and standard of living.

the reason? there are a HELL of a lot more producers than there are owners. those producers' ability to have buying power is what makes this country run.

That's fine, I agree with much of what you say here. But one thing needs to stop is this crap that the people who have the vision, front the money, work the long hours, take the risks and deals with the stress is somehow evil when they become wealthy.

It's got to stop, and the left has to stop cheering for people like Obama when they make foolish statements like Obama has here.

I've said it many times on here....I have no problem with profits or people becoming rich. What I have a problem with is profits and wealth to the point where it's not only hurting the country, but is helping it to sit on the precipice of a cliff while they sit and scream about a 4% increase in taxes when they've seen income increases of some 600% since the dawn of trickle down economics, and the general workforce's have stagnated.

if you consider those facts the equivalent of calling them "evil", then so be it. I think "evil" is too strong of a word. Greedy and entitled? Absolutely....but Evil? No. Evil is for the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Jeffery Dahmer, and most recently? Jerry Sandusky.

Edit: Let me also say that paying a real wage and benefits package would not cause the wealthy to not be rich. Just not as rich as fast...in other words, it might take them longer to become obscenely rich.

 

[LoneLaugher]

I love success.

 

[RoadVirus]

Romney has to go after the divider-in-chief on this issue very hard !

Romney gets aggressive against Obama: ‘He wants Americans to be ashamed of success’

IRWIN, Pa.—Mitt Romney unveiled an aggressive new stump speech Tuesday, accusing President Barack Obama of being too cozy with political donors and suggesting the president wants Americans to be "ashamed of success."

Speaking to several hundred supporters at a wireless services company outside Pittsburgh, Romney took aim at Obama's comments at a campaign event in Virginia last Friday in which he emphasized the role government played in building private enterprise.

"Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive," Obama said Friday, citing the teachers and people who build "roads and bridges." He continued: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Romney seized on Obama's comment, calling it "foolishness" and "insulting to every entrepreneur and every innovator in America." He said it exposed what Obama "really thinks" about the country and argued it was more proof that the president's administration is hostile towards business.

"President Obama attacks success. And, therefore, under President Obama, we have less success," Romney said. "I will change that."

Romney gets aggressive against Obama:

I don't know what Obama was thinking (or if he was thinking at all), but he opened himself up to attacks there.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Read it as though you understand English.

He was talking about THE ROADS AND BRIDGES when he referred to "that".

Imbeciles.

 

[Plasmaball]

This is the kind of stupidity that Romney keeps coming out with that entertains the people who are already going to vote for him, but doesn't help him a bit with normal people in the center.

He is terrified of the GOP base for some reason.

Yes this may turn off the many undecideds. He has the republicans, why doesn't he branch out to moderates?

Because he would loose the hard right.

 

[Avatar4321]

Why exactly do you guys think moderates don't like small businesses or acknowledging individual success in business?

 

[Moonglow]

I owe my success to myself for doing a good job. The infastructure is there to allow me to make money more efficeintly.

 

[HUGGY]

I owe my success to myself for doing a good job. The infastructure is there to allow me to make money more efficeintly.

You are an idiot! The infrastructure is in place only to get Mitten's drassage horse around and for the tanks in case there is a revolt. You needs are WWWAAAAYYYY down on the list Bucko! If the rich had no need for freeways or the Army to get into the major cities people like you would still be using ox carts.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

No, Obama is rather laying the groundwork for future claims that the Government itself is responsible for whatever success you have and you, yourself bear no responsibility and therefore deserve no credit for that achievement. The Government then, is the be all and the end all of every creative achievement, therefore it has the right to demand everything back from you that you gained from your so called achievement, even including your life, if the Government sees fit. There are, or were, two governmental systems that had the same view of human achievement under their systems of Government. Only one survives to this day, Communism, the other was Naziism. Both treated the individual's rights and liberties as if they were dirt under the Government's feet. A minimum of fifty million people died as a result of Nazziism, an equal amount, perhaps a whole lot more, died under Communism's auspices.
The gospel of Obama is, and would have been, anathema to the founders. If Obama should gain a second term, it would have been far better for human liberty if the Thirteen Colonies had sworn fealty to George V instead, for tyranny will have prevailed, whether the final state be Communism or Naziism, or a hybrid of both systems. Barack Obama presents a threat to the legacy of every freedom loving immigrant who landed on these shores responding to Liberty's siren call "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" who came to this country in the hope of leaving a better life for their children. Barack Obama intends to take it all for the Government so He alone can do what he thinks is best with it.

 

[Old Rocks]

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.

Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)

He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.

He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

 

[Old Rocks]

This is the kind of stupidity that Romney keeps coming out with that entertains the people who are already going to vote for him, but doesn't help him a bit with normal people in the center.

He is terrified of the GOP base for some reason.

Yes this may turn off the many undecideds. He has the republicans, why doesn't he branch out to moderates?

The beliefs of the moderates these days appears to be that of the left of 20 years ago. Romney would have to speak of his true beliefs and lose much of the right if he did that.

Romney outside of some economic and resource idea's is very much left of Clinton. I don't believe he's going to put conservatives on the courts either. If you believe that I have an island to sell you...Look at his record as governor.

I hate to see the center in 20 years. I hope we do better than what many in the past have tried and failed of such got themselves into.

Mathew, in politics it's called owe me's, and Governor Romney has accumulated far too many of them on the wing nut side of the GOP.

 

[Moonglow]

No, Obama is rather laying the groundwork for future claims that the Government itself is responsible for whatever success you have and you, yourself bear no responsibility and therefore deserve no credit for that achievement. The Government then, is the be all and the end all of every creative achievement, therefore it has the right to demand everything back from you that you gained from your so called achievement, even including your life, if the Government sees fit. There are, or were, two governmental systems that had the same view of human achievement under their systems of Government. Only one survives to this day, Communism, the other was Naziism. Both treated the individual's rights and liberties as if they were dirt under the Government's feet. A minimum of fifty million people died as a result of Nazziism, an equal amount, perhaps a whole lot more, died under Communism's auspices.
The gospel of Obama is, and would have been, anathema to the founders. If Obama should gain a second term, it would have been far better for human liberty if the Thirteen Colonies had sworn fealty to George V instead, for tyranny will have prevailed, whether the final state be Communism or Naziism, or a hybrid of both systems. Barack Obama presents a threat to the legacy of every freedom loving immigrant who landed on these shores responding to Liberty's siren call "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" who came to this country in the hope of leaving a better life for their children. Barack Obama intends to take it all for the Government so He alone can do what he thinks is best with it.

according to repubs, Obama was building detention camps for republicans when he announced his dictatorship?
Now he is going to take away your assets, next he will close down all the McDonalds, and turn off the power to all the ice cream shops so their products will be ruined.
Then he will send for the space alien invaders to enslave us under cosmic socialism/marxism/communism/kenyanism type of government.
and we will all be chained together to produce thigh masters.

 

[auditor0007]

Romney has to go after the divider-in-chief on this issue very hard !

Romney gets aggressive against Obama: ‘He wants Americans to be ashamed of success’

IRWIN, Pa.—Mitt Romney unveiled an aggressive new stump speech Tuesday, accusing President Barack Obama of being too cozy with political donors and suggesting the president wants Americans to be "ashamed of success."

Speaking to several hundred supporters at a wireless services company outside Pittsburgh, Romney took aim at Obama's comments at a campaign event in Virginia last Friday in which he emphasized the role government played in building private enterprise.

"Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive," Obama said Friday, citing the teachers and people who build "roads and bridges." He continued: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Romney seized on Obama's comment, calling it "foolishness" and "insulting to every entrepreneur and every innovator in America." He said it exposed what Obama "really thinks" about the country and argued it was more proof that the president's administration is hostile towards business.

"President Obama attacks success. And, therefore, under President Obama, we have less success," Romney said. "I will change that."

Romney gets aggressive against Obama:

Of course Obama hates success. He wants America to fail. He wants all Americans to fail. It gives him personal pleasure in seeing people out of work and struggling. It makes him feel powerful. Keep spewing the bullshit Mitt; people are going to see how desperate you are becoming.

 

[Chris]

Being a teacher is success.

Being a fireman is success.

Being a policeman is success.

Stealing money and jobs from American businesses is not success.