Mitt Romney’s brief address was a direct assault on a remark Obama made during a campaign event in Virginia last Friday. “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that,” the president said. “Somebody else made that happen.”
Obama’s message echoed that of Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — under consideration by the Obama campaign as a possible keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention — who said last summer that “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
In context, Democrats argue, Obama and Warren were simply noting that successful Americans have benefited from public investments — the roads that make delivery of goods possible, the schools that educate workers, the police and fire services that keep plants safe....
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"PACs bolster cash-strapped Romney campaign; Allied groups spend $80m on ads since May 1" Brian C. Mooney | Globe Staff, July 21, 2012
In the face of a blistering series of negative ads in key states by President Obama’s campaign, challenger Mitt Romney’s cash-strapped campaign has been boosted by heavy advertisement purchases of attack ads by conservative groups. It more than offsets the Obama spending edge.
From May 1 through this week, the Obama campaign had spent about $86 million on ads compared to $32.3 million for the Romney campaign, according to data compiled for one of the groups involved in the ad battle. Among outside groups, however, those allied with Romney had outspent those backing Obama by about $80 million to $13 million, the report shows, tilting the overall spending edge to the Republican side....
This is the new reality of campaign finance, in which outside groups, which can raise unlimited sums from individuals, corporations, and labor unions, have emerged as major purveyors of attack ads....
The Globe reported earlier this month that Republican-friendly outside groups were outraising their Democratic counterparts by better than 3 to 1 in this election cycle.
It’s an important phase of the campaign because Obama and his Democratic allies are trying to tarnish Romney with attacks on his record as head of Bain Capital, the private equity firm that made him wealthy, and his insistence on producing only his two most recent years of tax returns. They come at a time when the Romney campaign has cash-flow problems because in winning a prolonged battle for the GOP nomination, it expended most of the money available before he receives the party’s formal nomination at the end of next month in Tampa....
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Related:
Republicans push Romney to get it over with, release tax returns
"Budget office says Obama’s health plan will ease deficit because the law will cover fewer uninsured people."
"In tight race, Obama jabs hard at Romney; Campaign plays rough in an effort to avoid passivity" by Jeff Zeleny | New York Times, July 29, 2012
CHICAGO — With 100 days remaining before Election Day, there is an air of apprehension around the Obama campaign headquarters here. Yet there are few regrets about the tone of the race, only a conviction that the circumstances — a frail economy, intense Republican opposition, and a well-financed negative campaign from Romney and his allies — left Obama no option but to fight back even if it sullies his image as a candidate of hope and change....
That was sullied long ago, about three weeks into his term when he decided to let the Bush war criminals off and has gotten greater with each backtrack and broken promise.
Romney and his allies are giving as good as they get, lacerating Obama as hapless in promoting job creation, feckless with allies like Israel, and determined to expand government until the United States resembles Sweden....
We could use to do a bit more like Sweden. Way less military, universal health care....
But both the opportunities and the risks in the definition wars are greater for Obama. Romney is less well known to the public, giving Democrats a chance to shape perceptions of him just as more voters are starting to tune in to the race.
I'm sorry, readers; however, I am sick of the s*** political fooleys and war terminology slop. I'm really finding it tough to read these days.
The president’s prospects for reelection now rest in part on one of the biggest gambles of his career: that the benefits of trying to eviscerate Romney outweigh the costs to his own image and reputation.
What, they made him give back the Peace Prize?
With a political climate ripe for unseating an incumbent, the president’s campaign team signaled long ago that it had no intention of trying to replicate the 2008 race and made it clear last year that if Romney won the Republican nomination, they would rush to aggressively define him.
You can see it now, another AmeriKan first with the Mormon Romney winning president showing AmeriKa is not a prejudiced nation -- and the Zionist Jews of Israel get the guy they want in the White House.
Obama, whose competitive and confident streaks seem to have been rekindled by the strong challenge from Romney, has shown no inclination to hold back in trying to portray his rival as a secretive Bush-era throwback whose wealth puts him out of touch with the middle class....
Well, he has surrounded himself with their former advisers and has the endorsement of the entire crime family.
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So what would you rather have, America?
The harsh neo-con corporatism of Repuglican rule or the loving embrace of neo-liberal Democratic demagoguery?
Also see: Obama, Romney return to acid tone of campaign
Revealed! Obama’s secret agenda
Take the guns away?
Hand-to-hand combat for control of US House
The AmeriKan media really has internalized that war lingo, 'eh?
Partisan bickering over tax cut continues
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Which is weird because it goes entirely somewhere else.
Which doesn't really matter because I'm sick of the political messaging and politicking.
"A political victory on a measure that is fated to go no further. Wednesday’s Senate vote also highlighted how both parties see the tax issue as a winning one: Democrats because they think it makes the GOP look like defenders of the rich, Republicans because they think it shows Democrats do not care about businesses."
And there it is again.
Related: Why Is Big Business Unhappy With Obama?
Greed.
Big Business' New BFF
So much for that.
So what do the polls say?
"Obama, Romney in dead heat, polls suggest" by Callum Borchers | Globe Correspondent, July 19, 2012
President Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a virtual dead heat nationally and in swing states, according to the latest round of polling.
A new NPR survey shows the president leading his Republican challenger, 47 percent to 45 percent....
The results from NPR are consistent with those of a CBS News/New York Times poll published late Wednesday that showed Romney with a 1-point edge over the president....
Last week’s Washington Post/ABC News poll that showed the candidates tied at 47 percent apiece.
A poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University showed Romney and Obama even in the swing state of Virginia....
A Gallup poll published Wednesday showed 69 percent of Americans are “dissatisfied with the way things are going.”
Goodbye, Obama.
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"President Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 6 percentage points, but both men face growing unfavorable ratings in the midst of a largely negative campaign, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll."
"Obama has found it hard to gain traction in Florida, according to recent polls"
Put Florida in red.
"If Mitt Romney wins Pennsylvania, then President Obama will lose the national election."
Put Pennsylvania in red.
Also see:
Obama camp rallies base in red states
Voter ID laws will burden 500,000 people, study says
Homeland Security chief defends shift on immigration
Vice president speculation marks the latest stage of Kelly Ayotte’s swift ascent
What a nothing article. the former governor of Massachusetts is not going to pick a senator from New Hampshire to balance his ticket -- unless he wants to lose the election.
UPDATES: Dick Cheney talks of picks for vice president spot
$1.2 trillion deficit projected for this year
In Obama era, consensus lacking over race relations
Also see: Few Republican challengers in races for Massachusetts Legislature
Massachusetts ballot to include marijuana, end-of-life questions
