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This ad from Priorities USA is devastating. Romney made $100 million when Bain purchased then shuttered this profitable paper mill which was running three shifts a day prior to the Romney take over.
This ad from Priorities USA is devastating. Romney made $100 million when Bain purchased then shuttered this profitable paper mill which was running three shifts a day prior to the Romney take over.
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What’s the opposite of a “job creator?”
Mitt Romney
*rimshot*
Its not that team obama is so good
Its that Romney is soooooo bad
What a target rich enviornment! This is what the grand ole party could come up wth
Mitt fucking romney? No one better? We can thank the tea baggers for 4 more years
……… of Obama!
Team Romney is so spastic and in full blown freak out mode that they are sending around this clip of a wildly out of context, cropped quote playing on a loop.
Insane.
If you want to know what the real reason we are kicking Obama out is, see video below.
It is not because he smokes, It is not because he may or may not be born in Hawaii, It is not because he has slickered us a couple of times, or told a few fibs, or promised us much that did not happen, It is not because he is black, It is not even because he is a Democrat. The reason we are firing Barack Obama is because he honestly believes what he says in the video below. That is why we are getting rid of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YKjPI6no5ng#!
Obama speaks a great American truth in that video. We can’t afford another president who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. And I think we know enough now about how Romney used Bain and corporate raiding tactics to get rich(er), that we now understand that kind of parasitic business does not represent “success” in the traditional American meaning of success. The Romneys of the world are takers, not builders.
I wonder how old dils is going to be able to live with the Obama win. He’ll no doubt chalk it up to cheating. In addition to not being bright, conservatives are very sore losers. It is a lousy combination of traits.
As far as Romney, he knows that the line he is going with now “Obama thinks you didn’t build your business.” is a whopper of a lie. I wonder when and how team Obama is going to make him answer for that lie.
Puck, in the game of baseball, no one ever starts on third base. You have to do something to get there. Obama is inferring that the government has to help you or you cant be succesful on your own. Thats like saying joe dimaggio would not have been grear unless the government helped him. Great, successful people will be great with or without government intervention. That opportunity, dream, and ability is what this country is all about. Obama does not believe this way, so we are firing him
Joe DiMaggio would have looked pretty pathetic standing out on the field by himself
I get the feeling that dils is typing between episodes of rocking back and forth in the corner while whimpering, “…we are firing him…we are firing him…” to himself.
@puck – you so just NAILED that!! THANK YOU!
Yep, think puck just put that conversation away, forever.
I always love it when conservatives use unionized, anti-trust-exempt, government-regulated baseball as an economic example.
baseball stars a DEFINETLY NOT dependant on anyone…. not scholarships, not coaches, not paying fans, not teamates… NOPE. They do everything all on their own.
Think of Joe DiMaggio’s fans who bought the tickets: Bus drivers, sanitation workers, cops, blue-collar union factory workers, Wall Street clerks, businessmen. And this was before the era of television deals, so all the revenue came from ticket sales.
Joe DiMaggio’s Yankees were financially successful during what was probably New York City’s greatest era of public spending on expanding public infrastructure. Which is why Yankee fans could afford tickets to go see Joe DiMaggio. And they arrived at Yankee Stadium on publicly-owned subways, or walked across publicly-funded bridges.
Indeed, whether it’s pumped-up iron-women from East Germany or achievers from the Henlopen Conference, athletes thrive on public support.
Newark Parks and Rec, Baynard Stadium, Hicks Anderson Center, the new Kent County athletic complex, lowly-paid coaches in 20 sports at 50 high schools, running trails at hilly state parks, community swimming pools, the Central YMCA, JCC, People’s Settlement – all leading to taxpayer-subsidized college sports and minor league ballparks.
As Delino DeShields said when he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame, “It took a village to raise this child.”
No one is claiming people don’t get help along the way. What I am saying is that great people would be great with, or without government help. Obama is inferring that they need the government to be great. And I am saying that Joe Dimaggio did not need the government to be great. He was great all by himself. John Wayne did not need the government to be great. I certainly hope you guys are not raising your kids and grand kids telling them that the only way they can be successful in life is if they seek out and obtain help from the government. That is not America. And if you are leading them in that direction you are harming them, and doing them a terrible diservice.
“No one is claiming people don’t get help along the way.” You claimed exactly that. So did Romney. =
Unless you think everyone should be using dirt roads to get their produce to market, you are lying about the content of Obama’s speech.
Bottom line: You are a liar, and are no gentleman. I say good day to you Sir. I have need for discourse with liars.
Without government support, there would be no Internet and no highways. And how many great people would be complete unknowns without the Internet?
I can’t think of any business that doesn’t owe its existence to the matrix of public services and infrastructure. Perhaps prostitution qualifies.
“Perhaps prostitution qualifies.”
Nope, you need street corners.
Love it when a conservative foghorn, who wouldn’t know Swen Nater from Pedro Swann [either one], lectures us on athletics.
Last month some DC keyboard wrote how Bryce Harper was the foundation for the rebirth of conservative hegemony. Six years another doof wrote how Brian Wilson was sounding a fundamentalist’s cry on Pet Sounds.
“Perhaps prostitution qualifies. … Nope, you need street corners.”
Not in Delaware you don’t. Well, that’s what I heard.
Romney didn’t get to where he is on his own either.
He attended public school and was born in a public hospital. And I am pretty sure Bain capital made money managing public sector pension portfolios. And I am pretty sure the bus tour drove on public roads and Romneys private jet lands on publicly subsidized air strips.
Cashing in your stock options given to you by your CEO father to pay for college expenses IS being born on 3rd base and acting like you scored a triple.
Romney’s Bain Capital couldn’t have made the kind of money they did without much of the tax code that privileges the kind of debt they loaded on to the companies they busted out.
His horse going to the Olympic Horse Prom gets a $78K tax break.
He got to spend the Vietnam War in Paris while kids not so fortunately born died. For freedom, right?
Here is a great article on how Bain got to socialize its losses.