tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post2303926957813708292..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: The Obama Tapes - Oh My! (updated)Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-69805211171133264612012-09-21T03:06:29.047-05:002012-09-21T03:06:29.047-05:00Can we say Mitt Romney has be consistent. Today Ro...Can we say Mitt Romney has be consistent. Today Romney is still flip flopping. In that Mother Jones video Romney shows his disdain for that 47% of free loaders irresponsible no paying taxes Americans. Now all of a sudden he cares for that 47%, he cares for 100% of Americans. If he cared for all Americans he should have told that 50,000 dollar crowd he was speaking before. People said this election was about the economy, I keep saying that is true,but it is also about trust. Can anyone honestly say they "TRUST" Mitt Romney?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-35617092867673259532012-09-21T00:41:53.296-05:002012-09-21T00:41:53.296-05:00Hmmm. Why does the phrase "desperate douche b...Hmmm. Why does the phrase "desperate douche bags" keep ringing in my head?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480037856345727073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-34655221610627786112012-09-20T12:31:50.613-05:002012-09-20T12:31:50.613-05:00This proves the GOP doesn't have anything. Th...This proves the GOP doesn't have anything. That commie scare doesn't make sense to the 300 million plus that don't watch Fox News. I put this up there with them ranting about social justice.<br /><br />Vic78Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-55909712405991904542012-09-20T11:54:27.982-05:002012-09-20T11:54:27.982-05:00What's amusing to me is that the GOP equates t...What's amusing to me is that the GOP equates these videos to secret video taken w/o the candidate's knowledge. They were always going to release these videos out-of-context. The release of the Willard vid just gave them the excuse they needed. They are desperate to find something the President said at some point that is as damaging and insulting to the American people as the Willard vid. Trouble is, President Obama doesn't hate Americans, so he's never going to say anything even remotely as hateful as Willard.Tien Lenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-82477823072038563352012-09-20T11:18:23.328-05:002012-09-20T11:18:23.328-05:00One thing that has always stood out to me is Obama...One thing that has always stood out to me is Obama's consistency. It is actually rather startling for someone in this day and age. Leftists who think he abandoned them have just not paid attention. <br /><br />I think he studied both himself and the historical record for a long time and came to some pretty solid conclusions. His trajectory from when he left community organizing to go to Harvard has been one long journey of putting those conclusions into action. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-2223487772905291422012-09-20T10:57:29.046-05:002012-09-20T10:57:29.046-05:00Well, we need to see the ultimate tally in the ele...Well, we need to see the ultimate tally in the election, but that anyone would imagine that these videos are electoral poison for Obama is nuts. First, I'm actually surprised at how consistent he is. He is not saying anything substantively different today.<br /><br />The fact is that if you read this from a *certain* left-wing position, you might come away with the conclusion that in fact, Obama is "not one of us." He uses the word "redistribution" but only to suggest the limits of it he would support. He rejects a reading of US history that sees the US as capitalist concentration in toto. Bob Avakian and his crew are not down with this talk.<br /><br />It's not my observation--even Peggy Noonan made the point the other day, though overestimating Reagan in the process--that an approach that takes as its goal the integration of everyone into the group ("big tent") is going to end up outnumbering an approach that is based on the idea of us against them. You don't get everyone into the big tent, but you end up with more, and more is what counts in an election. The reason Obama is successful in this sense is because, obviously, he really believes it. He clearly really wants to be able to connect with that right-winger on the one or two things they agree on and get something done. I almost imagine that most people work in this way, because it's practical. But it's not the GOP line.Billhttp://freeandeasywandering.com/noreply@blogger.com