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And there's another irony here that I find impossible to ignore.
Since 2007, Barack Obama's rivals have treated him almost like a monster of myth who could be defeated with the right tool. Since the apocryphal "whitey tape," an odd, false rumor about a tape purportedly showing the president's wife using a racial slur to refer to white people, conservatives have sought the holy grail that would end Obama's career, convinced that a pliant media has simply refused to unearth it—or worse, were deliberately hiding it to protect their hero. From the absurd conspiracy theories of Obama's birth and religion to the late Andrew Breitbart's website exposing the terrible truth that Obama once hugged an old man who spent much of his life fighting racial apartheid, conservatives have sought not only to obstruct Obama's agenda, but to expose him as the greatest hoax ever—American history's most terrible fraud.
The GOP has finally seen that silver bullet. Only it's not aimed at the guy they were trying to take out.
The Obama of conservative nightmare is not merely a bad president or one who pursues policies they disagree with, but a committed radical, a racist who hates white people so much that he would deliberately drive America to ruin and submit the nation to foreign—even Islamist—domination. Those on the right knew their worst assumptions about the president were true; they felt this in their souls. And nothing—from Obama's hawkish foreign policy to his embrace of a nationalized version of Romney's own universal health care plan in Massachussetts—would persuade them otherwise. One day, they would prove it: a college thesis, video of a speech, an unguarded utterance that would reveal, for all the world to see, the True Barack Obama.
Now fate finds Republicans, in the waning days of the 2012 campaign, faced with video of one candidate expressing his total contempt, his unfettered disdain for half of the country. Only it's not the guy they've been trying to take out. It's the guy they nominated.
There's something poetic about that. Particularly since the Mitt Romney in the video, sincere or otherwise, is nothing if not the exact candidate conservatives wanted, a being of their own creation. They built that.
There are are two shadows that I find hanging over Mr. Romney's Presidential hopes that do bear some relevance on his candidacy and potential future as POTUS.
Many of the people Romney has dismissed as moochers are part of his own base.
Originally posted by bjax9er
romney paid how many millions of dollars last year in taxes?
how many millions did you pay?
the percentage argument is just stupid.
Originally posted by bjax9er
the percentage argument is just stupid.
Awesome thread, brilliant presentation and an astute observation. I very much like your posts, although i have to admit, i was slightly disappointed with the arguments you've put forward about Romneys past, in your debate with Druid42.
The man didn't care if his empire, the work of his life he's so proud of, was partially funded and build up with blood money. And apparently his work ethics, business practices, his philosophies haven't changed ever since.
When trying to find a prime example what kind of leader he would be, one doesn't need to look any further.
I love Irony too, but she seems to be a double-faced deity. The Obama Presidency should actually be a 'wet dream' for all the real conservatives, because it has become a nightmare too, for all those who believed in his message of Hope and Change four years ago.
The one who was supposed to unite the Nation, end the war and build bridges between all creeds and cultures, has left the world divided once more. The Nobel Peace Prize Winner who's drone-striking innocent civilians.
When basing the decision of who should win the race for the White House and become the next President of the USA, the leader of the free world, on who has more moral integrity, honesty and principle, then all i can say is ... two out.
So, who's left to save the country from endless decline and mutually assured destruction...
hint: ... it could be the one reading this right now.
Good Morning America
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by bjax9er
the percentage argument is just stupid.
No, the percentage argument is quite germane to the conversation. At the very least!
What is this remarkable propensity of the Right to enable the people that are happily screwing them?