Ha, ha.... ha.
"Obama makes pitch to women voters" August 09, 2012
DENVER— Mitt Romney took a potshot at California when he compared it to financially troubled Greece....
Romney told Iowans that Americans must show investors worldwide that they are serious about reining in spending and debt....
‘‘Entrepreneurs and business people around the world and here at home think that at some point America is going to become like Greece or like Spain or Italy, or like California — just kidding about that one, in some ways,’’ Romney said, laughing along with audience members in Iowa.
We are just about there already, Mitt. The only difference is the Fed can print money. Otherwise we would be further up shit's creek.
The remark ruffled egos in a liberal state that is wrestling with the prospect of tax increases and painful budget cuts. But Romney may have little to lose in California. Polls show Obama comfortably ahead there.
A spokesman for Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, disputed Romney’s assessment. Gil Duran said California’s credit outlook has improved under Brown and that borrowing costs, a major issue facing Italy and other financially struggling European nations, have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars.
‘‘This is just a paper-thin Republican talking point that doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny’’ Duran said. He said Romney ‘‘should get some better speechwriters who actually know what they’re talking about.’’
See: California Bankruptcies
Romney and his Republican allies also denounced Obama as too far left to be reelected, and did so by holding up an unlikely presidential role model: Democrat Bill Clinton.
Obama is ‘‘the anti-Clinton,’’ declared former House speaker Newt Gingrich, bolstering a line of attack taken up by Romney in speeches and a TV ad as part of a hard sell to working-class voters.
In Iowa, Romney repeated his charge that Obama is stripping work requirements from welfare and instituting changes to ‘‘make America more of a nation of government dependency.’’
When are you going to wean the banks and Israel?
The effort to cleave Obama from a popular policy of Clinton’s presidency comes weeks before the former president is to be a marquee speaker at the Democratic National Convention....
After the Des Moines appearance, Romney flew to New Jersey to raise money for his campaign. On his way to the airport, the former Massachusetts governor stopped at a corn field to talk with a farmer about the severe drought gripping much of the nation....
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Related: Birth certificate reference in jest, Romney insists
Maybe someone should check Mitt's certificate.
Also see: God Has Spoken
And he wasn't laughing.
