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Secret Audio: Mitt and Ann Romney Bash President Obama at Private Fundraiser
The secretly recorded tapes from a Mitt Romney fundraiser, released earlier this year, exposed his feelings about 47 percent of Americans whom he believed were "dependent" on government.
Now, new audio recordings from a different fundraiser, published by Mother Jones, reveal the contempt that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney have for President Obama.
This audio was recorded at a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser in Irvine, California, at the home of Michelle and David Horowitz. There were about 400 people in attendance.
After being introduced, Romney said that he had been pushed into his second campaign for president by his wife, which contradicts Ann Romney's famous story that she made a video for her husband 2008 telling him she didn't want him to run again.
Mitt Romney said: "David, you mentioned Ann, and the fact that she insisted that I get in this race. That is the truth. I wanted to talk it over with her. And every time I'd say, "Let's talk about the pros and cons," she'd say, "Talk to the hand, talk to the hand. We're just doing this. We've got to do it." And so she absolutely insisted that I get in this because she was convinced that I was the only one that had the capacity to beat President Obama."
Ann Romney then explained how she pushed her husband to run because she did not consider Obama to be a "grown-up."
Ann Romney said: "You know, the ship's going over the waterfall, it's almost there. And we look what's happening in Greece, and we look what's happening around the world, we look what's happening internationally. This is a frightening world, and we need a grown-up, and we need someone that understands the economy. So I'm glad…Mitt is grown up to you all."
Mitt Romney then accused President Obama waging a "war on business and economic freedom," even though some corporations such as Exxon are setting record profits under President Obama, and the stock market has tripled under his presidency.
Mitt Romney said: "I'm convinced that if this president is reelected, the war on business and economic freedom will continue. I don't think the president likes you very much. If you're in business, I think he looks at you as a necessary evil—and maybe not so necessary. I love you, all right? I love, I love business. I love people who employ other people, who have dreams and ideas, and are willing to start enterprises, and put people to work—all good things grow from successful enterprises. Businesses—good jobs come from good businesses."
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my buddy's aunt got paid
my buddy's aunt got paid $20223 last week. she been working on the computer and moved in a $397500 house. All she did was get blessed and put to use the information written on this web page Ace32.com
Well, a little gal in Brazil
Well, a little gal in Brazil auctioned off her virginity, and sold it to some Japanese magnate for $780,000. All she did was sit back and watch the bidding go up, up, up. Oh, yeah, it seems they're going to have their sex on an airplane to avoid violating prostitution laws. It's in the news.
jaysea
If Nate Silver is as right
If Nate Silver is as right about this election as he was about the last 4 & baseball, this will be an historic blow to political journalists & media pundits. It will hopefully change the way candidates run for office. I would love to see it prove that negative campaigning, lying, flip-flopping and dirty politics can NO LONGER sway the majority of voters. Inciting voters into hate-filled frenzies is degrading to our election process & American citizens. Nate Silver can only benefits if his statistics are accurate. How he plans to vote personally has nothing to do with the stats he has collected, his method & the results he publishes. I am happy to read that his statistics show Obama will be the undisputed winner, but if Silver's Method for crunching numbers proves correct IT could be more important to the USA than which candidate sits in the White House till 2016. http://m.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/people-who-cant-do-math-are-so-mad-nate-silver/58460/
I distrust Romney's
I distrust Romney's ideological conviction. I distrust Republican theory altogether, as it has a poor track record of success. On the other hand, although the economy is still struggling, and it seems we need instant results in order to be satisfied, there is an improvement trend, which to me says Obama's methods are working. They aren't working fast enough for most of us, but I think they are at least reversed from when Obama took over from Bush. I also blame an obstructionist Congress, which I see as sacrificing the good of the country for unproven ideas like Norquist's no tax pledge, trickle down, and tax breaks for the supposed "job creators" who have had since 2003 to prove these tax breaks actually create jobs, but have done everything but.
Romney is out of touch. A corporate CEO should not be President, they are two entirely different jobs. Your grandmother and your baby, for instance, are not profitable. There is no place for most people in a corporation, because the 47% that Romney has contempt for are really losses, not gains. According to the Romney Principle, most of us, especially most of the people supporting him, would be fired.
I guess you've gone to the
I guess you've gone to the Communist side of the page.
What I find interesting is
What I find interesting is that people on the Secret audio Mitt and Ann Romney blog, who attacked Obama and his administration, are predictably not here. Where are Racefish, surfer dude, EO9835, Stranger and Nick Barton??? It's clear that when republicans act like asses, republicans who talk tough on these blogs, go run and high. When I read all of their posts on the other thread, not one of them was telling the truth. One said that only 800K were created. LIE. Another said, that basically everyone in the business community is upset. WHY? Because they're making record profits and sitting on over $2 trillion!!!!!!!!! One even had the audacity to forward readers to a FAR RIGHT, extraordinarily!! radical ultra-conservative rag in the American Thinker. As a republican, I challenged the owner and webmaster of that site, and he backed down because he couldn't take the heat that the far racist, radical, unpatriotic right is setting themselves up to be the permanent minority party by all the hate they spew. Republicans, left and right are leaving the party. Mike Smerconish. Olympia Snowe are just two but as republicansforobama.org illustrates, there are republicans out here that don't buy into the racist, over the top, two-faced, hypocritical, bullshit, that the party is slinging. "Obama has been a disaster" - Stranger....
LOL! I gotta laugh at that pathetic shit. He's ended the war in Iraq. Killed bin Laden (Bush didn't or couldn't do). Created 5.2 million PRIVATE sector jobs. Brought the american car industry back, where Romney is on tape saying he wanted it to go bankrupt. Romney has not released all of his taxes and he destroyed all of his documents as Massachusetts governor. But you won't hear any of other assholes say this. Worse still, Romney is neck deep in the mexican drug cartels, funneling money through Panama! And who is his partner in crime: George H.W. Bush! But neither the conservative or liberal press will tell you that. Racefish, talks about race and Obama. Suitable name, don't you think. Bush, threw out more Blacks onto unemployment than Obama. Bush also started the two wars.
Racefish, surfer dude, EO9835, Stranger and Nick Barton: Where are the WMD?????????????????????????????
We've had 31 straight months of growth!!!! But Racefish, surfer dude, EO9835, Stranger and Nick Barton ignore that completely, as if it just doesn't exist.
Not one of these guys talks about how the GOP started shipping jobs overseas WAY before Obama was a US Senator. I know because I wrote my thesis on it in grad school. Proof? Why won't American companies release the number of jobs overseas??? They won't. They been asked and it's almost gotten to the point of having to use a court order to get it. However, we know. As of 2010, American corporations have sent more 3 million jobs oversea. If any other these were in the military and lived abroad: THEY'D KNOW THAT!!!!!!!
Why won't Racefish, surfer dude, EO9835, Stranger and Nick Barton talk about Solyndra and Fast & Furious scandals???? AH!! You don't say: BOTH scandals were started under George W. Bush!!!
When **some** republicans don't do their homework, they make themselves look bad, as well as the entire party. Every 3.5 years, 3% of republican white males die. Couple that with the fact that the party is aggressively and decisively purifying itself from the likes of Snowe, Collins, McCain, and Chafee. In effect, they are turning themselves into the permanent minority party. But alienating minority groups, and constantly using race as a divisive issue, the Democratic Party, as created an big tent for everyone. Please do not bother with "It's the Democrats who are racist!" Spare me jerkwads. We all know that the party uses race to unify the base and I'm sick of it. Let's face it: The GOP is racist and ALL republicans know it. Build a fuckin' bridge and get over it. If the GOP was so grand, Paul Weyrick, would not have said " "We have to stop the movement of all our manufacturing to China and other foreign countries. If that requires tariffs, starting with tariffs to protect industries of strategic importance, so be it."[40] "If we want to stop or at least reduce outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, we should tax outsourcing. In my view, that would be a good new tax."
And the most damning thing he said was this:
"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
To this end, he is admitting that the GOP should do whatever it needs to do suppress voters. THAT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. But let someone go NEAR the 2nd Amendment, and some republicans are up in arms. Pathetic. Republicans want their cake and eat it too......
This is the behavior of a 3 yr old child; In need of a severe asswhipping.
All the glory that BO is
All the glory that BO is surfing on getting Bin Laden was based on intelligence gleaned during the Bush Administration. The job numbers are misleading since they don't include the number of people "not" actively looking for work. If you want to see what Obama is really capable of, see what he does with Sandy. I don't think the people of New York, New Jersey, or any area, affected are too pleased at this point. The telling moment was when the volunteer electrical workers from out-state were run off by union members, calling them scabs, etc. I guess they are only interested in their own welfare and not that of their customers. So much for unions.
Hey Mr. "I wrote my Thesis"
Hey Mr. "I wrote my Thesis" on this where is your reply to the fact that there is no evidence that Romney sent jobs overseas; yet we do know that companies that support Obama have many sent many jobs overseas. GE, GM has 65% of there company outside of the USA.
Stop trying to sound intelligent.
Well apparently you aren't up
Well apparently you aren't up on the current events since 2003 American Troops have found chemical weapons that Hussein had in his arsenal during his reign and those weapons were used against troops. While you act like the President and place the blame on Bush instead of taking responsibility for actions (not very Marine like at all) you go on a rant about racism and how that is the driving force for wanting Obama out of office instead of failed policies and lack of leadership in crisis situations. Benghazi proves the point that he has no clue on how lead or make positive decisions, when going to campaign takes precedence over a National emergency situation.
Fast and Furious was not started under Bush the program started under Bush was called Operation Wide Receiver and actually was a gun tracing rather than a gun walking program. It also never caused the deaths of any Border Patrol Agents or Mexican citizens and 300 guns compared to 2000 is quite the difference and the fact that when the ATF realized after losing contact with a few guns that it wasn't effective they closed the program down. These are simple facts to look up if you were so inclined instead of listening to your Liberal handlers.
Solyndra was never approved by Bush before leaving office.
In other words, 125,000 jobs have been created, in total, during Obama's first term, compared with a prior estimate of a loss of 261,000. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/data-job-growth-obama_n_1919533.html http://www.bls.gov/ces/ceseesummary.htm
Quoting someone who has been dead for 4 years is quite ridiculous as is your racist rant.
As for your Republicans leaving in droves a PEW research notes "In more than 13,000 interviews conducted so far in 2012, 35% of registered voters identify with the Democratic Party, 28% with the Republican Party and 33% as independents. The share of Democrats has fallen three points since 2008, while the proportion of Republicans has remained steady." http://www.people-press.org/2012/08/23/a-closer-look-at-the-parties-in-2012/
Obama ended a war on the same time table set up by Bush in 2008 it was accepted by NATO under Obama.
Here is the Small Business Administration report on how the Obama Administrations regulations are hurting small businesses. The Small Business Administration estimates that total regulatory costs on businesses amount to $1.75 trillion annually. http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Regulatory%20Costs%20on%20Small%20Firms%20(Summary).pdf
http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs371tot.pdf
General Motors did go bankrupt in case you didn't know, the American People just gave them the capital to remain up and running and have lost money on the deal no matter how you look at it or what the Administration states. You are obviously too ignorant to understand what bankruptcy and restructuring is for the business world and have bought into the same rhetoric as everyone else in believing that Obama and the Administration are the saviors of America as they target the 1st Amendment in their own Party Platform; which you likely did not read.
Obama takes money from the same banks that he bailed out, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Citigroup, UBS AG, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, and others shows that while he states one thing to the masses who support him in reform he has his hand out to those same entities in terms of campaign funds and support.
As a republican, and a US
As a republican, and a US Marine, I am voting for Obama. As are about 30% of other republicans. RepublicansforObama.org.
My question is why are there
My question is why are there so many secret recordings being done at Romney's political fundraisers? I guess the Obama campaign and news programs cannot find any really find any really dirt on Romney so they have to embellish most of it through secret recordings.
I'm as liberal/progressive
I'm as liberal/progressive (at least on most stuff) as one gets. I worked and voted for Obama in 2008, and I'm doing the same in 2012. When Obama was elected in 2008, I literally wept with joy. If Romney is elected in 2012, I will weep in sadness. I wanted to make that all clear to give what I write next some perspective.
I, personally, didn't hear anything in those recordings that I find indicative of the Romneys' contempt, per se, for President Obama. Romney, in fact, even called him "President Obama," and not just "Obama." Every word from Romney's mouth, and that of his wife's, in those recordings is expected rhetoric from a political candidate and his wife at a fundraiser in a room full of supporters. In fact, I can see the Romneys saying those things publicly without too much of a problem... or at least not much surprise.
I may not AGREE with what they said, but that they said it is to be expected; and nothing about what they said surprised at least me. I'm having trouble, then, figuring out what is the problem. Maybe I'm missing something.
After pausing in my writing of this posting, here, and hunting-down the original Mother Jones article by David Corn...
http://bit.ly/WWbAfr
...I guess I can now at least a LITTLE better understand what is all uproar over what the Romneys said; but, even then, such rhetoric is common during campaigns, and I just don't think it's that big a deal. Yes, of course I wish they hadn't said it, but thankgod we live in a country where they can, right? I mean, count our blessings, right? C'mon.
I'll tell you another reason why I'm glad I went and dug-up that article, though, and that's so I could see that the David Horowitz at whose home the fundraiser was held was not the ultra-conservative, lying, uber-Zionist dirtbag who publishes the virulent "FrontPage Magazine" and all its muslim-hating offshoots. The David Horowitz at whose home this fundraiser was held is a different guy. Whew!
Man... if the Romneys had a connection with the muslim-hating, FrontPage-Magazine-publishing Horowitz, then David Corn really WOULD have something to write about!
Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com
Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.
Veritas nimium altercando amittitur.
It should be kept in mind
It should be kept in mind that "Mother Jones" is a George Soros funded entity, dedicated to Soros' brand of Socialism. A brand that billions hoped was dead in 1945, Fascism. Releasing audio purported to be of the Romney's at this juncture is something right out of 1932's Germany.
However, given the enormous damage Obama's "economic policy" has done to the United States, any businessman would be a bit perturbed. After all, a typical middle income family's purchasing power is at 1992 levels, headed for 1983. Headed in January, when that $80 a week, $4,000 a year ObamaTax kicks in.
More than eight million jobs have been destroyed by Obama's "economics" while only 800,000 have been created. Most of the "created" jobs are government jobs that produce nothing but an additional load on the economy. In the meantime, almost 3,000 Americans a day either retire on disability or take early retirement.
Despite that, our economy is still dropping jobs. So much so that Thursday's jobs report will reportedly not be released until after the election. But figuring out the reason is hardly rocket science.
Look at the black unemployment rate, which is above 50% for black youths in northeast corridor cities. And look at the rate job creators are fleeing to places that allow them to keep some of the money they earn. Mexico's gain is our pain. As is China's, Indonesia's, the Philippines, and a host of other countries.
Those countries make money making the things we once made. While our young people are supposed to take jobs flipping burgers for the crew of the Burger King across the street, and then returning the favor at their lunch times - to keep everyone in business. And business just does not work like that.
Bottom line, Obama has been a disaster. Four more years would be a catastrophe.
Stranger
Stranger
Stranger = More odd. "Bottom
Stranger = More odd.
"Bottom line, Obama has been a disaster. Four more years would be a catastrophe." Well, the CEO of Starbuck's and the mayor of New York City announced their endorsement of Obama today. Guess they disagree with you, huh?
jaysea
Oh I forgot to AD~~Go to the
Oh I forgot to AD~~Go to the AMERICAN THINKER,its NEWS that the Major Networks wont talk About,the White House had A LIVE Feed of the Terrorist-Antics and American Murders in Libya!! They knew and SAW what was Going On for HOURS!!!! yet NO AVAILABLE MILITARY HELP was Authorized>????? Is this the Way a COMMANDER-in-CHIEF operates be He Democrat,Republican or in between? Offering up American Lives just to evade Potential Political Problems During an ELECTION?
You know,I am just a Surfer
You know,I am just a Surfer Dude in So Cali.However,I find it Interesting that when its the other Side Talking Is BASHING,though when its Your Side its the Truth<>?? lol To me it DOES NOT Matter,both Sides are Exercising the RIGHT of FREE SPEECH!!! Period~~~~thank you Founding Fathers!!
Big deal...much of America
Big deal...much of America has contempt for the way we've been treated by this narcissistic community organizer. Romney was a millionaire many times over while Obama was still stapling agitprop to utility poles in Chicago.
The war on the rich is getting old. We need rich people and for those that don't think so please call some poor folks and ask them to step up and do their share by starting to do some hiring.
I think everyone is starting
I think everyone is starting to realize the present administration is a failure. We're still in a miserable semi-recession, the highest unemployed group are young black men, and BO is still relying on black people to support him. Strange, since he's thrown them under the bus along with everyone who pays the bills.
That's a crock of dung. There
That's a crock of dung. There was - and to some still is - an economic crisis unequalled since the '30s, and you ought to know it, unless you're one of the one-percenters. The best minds available in the nation among bankers, economists, and other financial gurus were tapped to try to find the best means of recovering from the disaster. You ought to know that too, if you have any interest in knowing what a struggle it has been for the government - politics be damned. Go to other struggling nations around the world and find that the present governments weren't responsible for the conditions, their predecessors were. The same holds true here. And who in those nations are doing the greatest suffering? The middle to lower classes are. The same is going to happen here too, regardless of the elected official.
jaysea
Well said so in that case the
Well said so in that case the Democrats should hold the blame for the economic conditions since they were in charge of the purse strings the final years of Bush.
More pro-Obama tripe. The
More pro-Obama tripe. The numbers don't add up for Obama -- our economy is still all messed up. If you take away 10, then add 2, that isn't much -- same with Obama's high-fallutin numbers-shell-game.
The only tripe is what spills
The only tripe is what spills from the soulless,shape-shifter Willard's mouth every time he opens it. Speaking of numbers not adding up,please do share the secret plan that you are privy to that he hasn't shared with the rest of the country. 30 straight months of job growth, doubled stock market,and people paying lowest tax rate in decades under President Obama. Learn the facts before you jump in the discussion.
Wow, you are really ignorant
Wow, you are really ignorant about the economic stuff -- really! ...And btw what the stock markert does or doesn't do...says little about the economy. lol.
my friend's sister got paid
my friend's sister got paid $13675 the previous month. she is getting paid on the computer and bought a $523600 condo. All she did was get fortunate and put to work the advice leaked on this web page Ace32.com
And a little Brazillian
And a little Brazillian auctioned off her virginity for $780,000 which went to some Japanese magnate, so???
jaysea