Obama: “Ask Osama bin Laden if I engage in appeasement”
At the Republican Jewish Coalition GOP presidential candidates forum this week, Mitt Romney claimed President Obama is ‘appeasing’ America’s enemies.
“Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy,” Mitt Romney said.
Newt Gingrich accused the Obama State Department of “appeasing our opponents.”
A reporter asked the President about the GOP attack line today during a White House press conference.
President Obama’s answer: “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 other out of 30 top al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement, or, whoever is left out there.”
Mitt Romney takes a swipe at serial adulterer Newt Gingrich
And by the way – when exactly did President Obama say “I apologize for the United States of America?”
Never.
Trump calls the clown car to his tent
From Chris Matthews at Hardball
Romney staff spent over $100K to erase and remove files
Reuters is reporting that Mitt Romney’s staff spent over $100,000 to erase and replace computers as he left the office of Governor in Massachusetts before launching an unsuccessful bid for GOP presidential nominee in 2007.
While legal, it has been found to be highly unusual.
When Romney left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor’s staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney’s administration wiped from state servers, state officials say.
Those actions erased much of the internal documentation of Romney’s four-year tenure as governor, which ended in January 2007. Precisely what information was erased is unclear.
Republican and Democratic opponents of Romney say the scrubbing of emails – and a claim by Romney that paper records of his governorship are not subject to public disclosure – hinder efforts to assess his performance as a politician and elected official.
State officials acknowledge that Romney asked permission to destroy certain paper records.
Only the questions Mitt likes
The DNC has released a new video addressing what looks like Mitt Romney’s frustrations when asked questions he doesn’t like.
This comes after he apparently was not happy with the degree of questions he was asked earlier this week in a FOX News interview with Bret Baier.
Mitt Romney vs Mitt Romney
You know, when you flip flop as much as he has in front of cameras, this is what you get.
What do people think about Romney’s ad taking President Obama out of context?
Mitt Romney recently released an ad that he and his campaign admit takes President Obama out of context. As a matter of fact, they seem pretty proud of themselves.
But voters and pundits don’t seem to agree. The ad doesn’t seem to help him, and in many quarters seems to have hurt his credibility in that he feels the need to twist things to make a point.
Things that make you go “hmmm…”
Romney says “Let Us Just Raise Your Taxes Some More”
* accurate according to the Romney standard of accuracy
From ThinkProgress: Yesterday, Mitt Romney released his first campaign ad, which quotes President Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
But those weren’t Obama’s words; he was quoting a strategist for Sen. John McCain in 2008.
In response, the Romney campaign has defended this blatantly dishonest campaign tactic as “not out of bounds.”
Thus, ThinkProgress has created this completely in-bounds “advertisement” quoting Romney, in his own words.
Kinda funny, isn’t it? Now – how do you think Mitt Romney feels knowing some people may hear him quoting others out of context, and think these are his thoughts?
Things that make you “hmmm…”
But remember – Mitt Romney’s team says this is “not out of bounds.”
Mitt Romney on former staffers buying/erasing hard drives
I’m sorry, but the genial chuckle before he spoke and then the tepid “they all followed the law exactly as it’s written” seems a bit disingenuous.
If there’s no problem, why bring up “the law”?
Hmmm… something doesn’t pass the smell test here.
Just my opinion.