THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate.
How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers — the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.
How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr. Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking ideological shifts?
The same presumption of gullibility has infused his misleading commercials (see: Jeep jobs to China) and his refusal to lay out an agenda.
Within limits, all candidates say and do what they have to say and do to win. Mr. Obama also has dodged serious interviews and news conferences. He has offered few specifics for a second-term agenda. He, too, aired commercials that distorted his opponent’s statements.
Mr. Romney, by contrast, seems to be betting that voters have no memories, poor arithmetic skills and a general inability to look behind the curtain. We hope the results Tuesday prove him wrong.
I'm even more proud that the distinguished news organizations, the auto industry, the Toledo Blade, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, are all calling RMoney on his lies, his flip-flops and his hiding of his tax-returns. (You didn't really think the tax-return issue was going to go away just because he refused to talk about it anymore, did you?) You didn't think re-running the ads that lie about "Obama is removing the work-requirements for welfare", when they've been rated as lies by every non-partisan source, were going to work?
And you guys keep trying to fan the flames of Benghazi, while the CIA blows all of the FauxNews/Hannity/Limburger theories to hell...
I'm proud that the mainstream seems to have finally gotten the message that RMoney says whatever he thinks the audience he's standing in front of wants to hear, and that the man has no core--other than profits. I'm proud that when he tried to stick his finger in the wind to see what the focus-groups and poll-testers said the public wanted to hear, that during the auto-bailout he was stupid enough to write an article saying "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt", thinking that was where the sentiment was...at the moment. I'm proud that he's been hoisted on his own petard, and for once, trying to twist, spin, weasel out of it is coming back to haunt him in Ohio.
I'm also proud that Sherrod Brown is both endorsed, and leading by a comfortable margin in Ohio, and the people are smart enough to see through the millions that have been poured into the state by Rove/Koch/Addelson/ad nauseum, and that Democracy apparently appears to be NOT for sale.
Yeah, I'd say I'm proud. I think I'm about to see this angry, white guy, prep-school out-of-touch vulture capitalist go bye-bye...hopefully for the last time.
Democracy4Sale wrote: I'm even more proud that the distinguished news organizations, the auto industry, the Toledo Blade, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, are all calling RMoney on his lies, ...........
It's not a lie if you can't tell the difference. rofllol rofllol This is funny, I don't care who you are.
Democracy4Sale wrote: I'm even more proud that the distinguished news organizations, the auto industry, the Toledo Blade, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, are all calling RMoney on his lies, ...........
It's not a lie if you can't tell the difference. rofllol rofllol This is funny, I don't care who you are.
Four years ago, the Daily News endorsed Obama, seeing a historic figure whose intelligence, political skills and empathy with common folk positioned him to build on the small practical experience he would bring to the world’s toughest job. We valued Obama’s pledge to govern with bold pragmatism and bipartisanship.
The hopes of those days went unfulfilled.
Achingly slow job creation has left the U.S. with 4.3 million fewer positions than provided incomes to Americans in 2007. Half the new jobs have been part-time, lower-wage slots, a trend that has ruinously sped a hollowing of the middle class.
The official unemployment rate stands at 7.9%, marking only the second month below 8% after 43 months above that level. Worse, add people who are working part-time because they have no better choice and the rate leaps to almost 15%. Still worse, add 8 million people who have given up looking for employment and the number who are out of jobs or who are cobbling together hours to scrape by hits some 23 million people.
I agree...
