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John McCain says President Obama bankrupting USA

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Today, while endorsing Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, John McCain – failed GOP presidential candidate in 2008 – accused President Obama of many things including ruining the US economy.

I think Sen. McCain may be confused.  Check out the graph above. The red shows the job loss month by month before President Obama took office.  It shows the country losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month.

Now notice the navy bars.  Month by month after President Obama took office shows marked improvement.  The job losses slow down and then reverse into clearly position territory with private sector jobs being created.  The US has now had 21 months of improved employment growth.

Sen. McCain may want to check again on “who” exactly destroyed the US economy.  In fact, it wasn’t President Obama.  It was eight years of President Bush and his policies.

For anyone who says the US is heading in the wrong direction, look again at the graph.  Would you like to go with the red bars or the navy?

Hmm…

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Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns – why?

In an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Mitt Romney was pressed on his stated refusal to release his tax returns. Romney said if he becomes president he’ll “consider that.”

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Mitchell: But, if you were president, it’s not that hard to make a commitment that if you’re elected President of the United States, that you would release the tax returns, every president does.

Romney: You know, if I become president, then I’ll consider that. It’s a little premature for me to be talking about that at this stage.

Mitchell: Is there some secret? People know you’re wealthy.

Romney: Yeah, I understand.

Mitchell: There’s nothing to hide?

Romney: No, I agree. (Pause) There’s nothing to hide.

(via talkingpointsmemo.com)

UPDATE: In a related story, Mitt Romney’s son, Matt Romney, suggested on Thursday that President Obama should release his birth certificate and grades before his father releases his tax returns.

“He’s certainly not afraid of anything, he’s not hiding anything,” he said of his father in a video recorded by a Patch reporter in New Hampshire. “But I heard someone suggest the other day that as soon as President Obama releases his grades and birth certificate and sort of a long list of things, that maybe he’d do that.”

Again with this? Back to the Birther conspiracy thing? Sad.

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Mitt Romney: “Cutting welfare won’t hurt the poor”

Mitt Romney, multi-multi-millionaire, knows what will and won’t hurt poor people.

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Fox host Chris Wallace pressed Romney on his support for the Ryan budget, suggesting that Ryan’s plans to eliminate $700 billion in aid to states, including $127 billion in food stamps, would make Romney vulnerable to Democratic attacks in the general election. Romney said that he would help the poor by growing the economy, and suggested that cutting government benefits for the poor wouldn’t cause problems.

“Cutting welfare spending dramatically, I don’t think will hurt the poor,” Romney said.

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Des Moines Register endorses Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has received the Des Moines Register’s endorsement for the Iowa Caucus.

While enumerating the qualities the editorial board felt made Romney deserving of their support they said, in part:

Mitt Romney is making his second bid for Iowans’ support after an unsuccessful run in 2008. We did not endorse him then, but this is a different field, and he has matured as a candidate. Rebuilding the economy is the nation’s top priority, and Romney makes the best case among the Republicans that he could do that.

Romney is accused of being a “flip-flopper.” He has evolved from one-time independent to moderate Republican in liberal Massachusetts to proud conservative today. He does not deny changing his position on some issues, but he will say he has made mistakes and has learned from them. Though Romney has tended to adapt some positions to different times and places, he is hardly unique. It should be possible for a politician to say, “I was wrong, and I have changed my mind.”

His record of ignoring partisan labels to pass important legislation when he was governor of Massachusetts suggests he is capable to making that happen.

For those reasons, Mitt Romney deserves the support of his party in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. If he is the GOP nominee, the nation would have a clear choice in November 2012.

In considering the other current candidates, the editors wrote:

Michele Bachmann: An impressive fireball who can absorb and regurgitate tons of information, even if some of it turns out to be inaccurate.

Newt Gingrich: Between the books he’s read and the books he’s written, Gingrich juggles endless ideas, but he has yet to make the case he could focus his attention on the important ones.

Ron Paul: A well-schooled contrarian who shouldn’t be written off as a nut, even if some of his ideas are nutty.

Rick Perry: After some debate stumbles, he asks voters to take a second look, but it may take more than that.

Rick Santorum: He’d use the presidential bully pulpit to be the nation’s minister-in-chief.

We’ll see on January 3, 2012, if Iowa agrees with the Des Moines Register.

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Mitt Romney: Gays currently married can stay married, but would bar future marriage equality

Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Boston Herald, said he would support a constitutional amendment that could create a complex three-tier system of marriage — maintaining marriage rights for straight couples, allowing gays who have already married to remain married, but barring future same-sex marriages.

“I think it would keep intact those marriages which had occurred under the law but maintain future plans based on marriage being between a man and a woman,” Romney said.

Well, how nice.  He would let those of us who are married to the person we love stay married.  Generous of him.  Then there’s the part where he would deny future nuptials for gays and lesbians.

Perhaps he’s trying to look a bit less hateful after his recent disastrous “meeting” on the campaign trail with gay Vietnam vet, Bob Garon.  I don’t think it’s working.

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New Hampshire veteran will not be voting for Mitt Romney

New Hampshire resident Bob Garon, speaking to reporters about his encounter with Mitt Romney. Garon added that he finds Romney to be untrustworthy. “You can see it in his eyes.”

“I was undecided. But I’m totally convinced today that he’s not going to be my president, at least in my book. At least Obama will entertain the idea. This man is ‘no way, Jose.’ Well, take that ‘no way, Jose’ back to Massachusetts. Because I’m gay, alright? And I happen to love a man just like you probably love your wife. Alright? And I think that he or she or whatever are entitled to the same rights that I have.

“I fought for my country, I did my thing, and I think that my spouse should be entitled to the same entitlements as if I was married to a woman. What the hell is the difference? I was definitely offended. He doesn’t even open the door to a conversation. It’s just a boom! But I did ask him ‘yes or no,’ so I got what I asked for.”

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Mitt Romney and a gay Vietnam Veteran discuss equality

Mitt Romney, at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, saw a man who was wearing a Vietnam veteran hat. Thinking he was in safe waters, he sat down to chat. It turns out the man was Bob Garon – a gay man who was sitting with his husband Bob LeMire.

Garon questioned Romney on his views of marriage equality, and Romney stated he supported repealing marriage equality in New Hampshire.

After several back and forths, it became clear the former governor was not going to get Mr. Garon’s vote.

The exchange was enough to make up Garon’s mind on how he felt about Romney.

“I was undecided,” Garon said. But now “I’m totally convinced today that he’s not going to be my president — at least in my book. At least Obama will entertain the idea. This man is ‘no way, Jose.’ Well, take that ‘no way, Jose’ back to Massachusetts.”

“The guy ain’t going to make it,” he told reporters later. “You can’t trust him. I can see it in his eyes.”

Garon said that he had married his husband in June, “in New Hampshire, where it’s legal. Unless Mitt Romney gets elected.”