Sununu Unleashed: Obama Needs To ‘Learn How To Be An American’
Source: TPM
A top Mitt Romney supporter went on a rampage against President Obama Tuesday morning, bringing up his teenage drug use and urging him to learn how to be an American.
John Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and a leading Romney surrogate, told reporters that Obamas recent defense of public infrastructure shows he doesnt understand how America works.
I wish this president would learn how to be an American, Sununu said later.
Sununu tamped that suggestion down later in the call, without taking back his previous line, clarifying that his broader point was that the president has to learn what the American formula for creating business and jobs in America is.
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Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/sununu-unleashed-obama-needs-to-learn-how-to-be-an-american.php
And the Obama campaign's response, from spokeswoman Lis Smith:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-spokeswoman-romney-campaign-off-deep-end
12:29 PM EDT, Tuesday July 17, 2012
Obama Spokeswoman: Romney Campaign Off The Deep End
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The Romney campaign has officially gone off the deep end, Smith said in a statement. The question is what else theyll pull to avoid answering serious questions about Romneys tenure at Bain Capital and investments in foreign tax havens and offshore accounts. This meltdown and over-the-top rhetoric wont make things better- it only calls attention to how desperate they are to change the conversation.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)what a creep he is! and always has been. It's genetic.
coldbeer
(306 posts)Now they are the 1 %.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and show us how he made his money.
Mitt Romney has only demonstrated he knows how to create A job for himself, and make money off the misery of other people.
The louder blowhards like Sununu scream, the more they try to change the subject, the more obvious it is that the tax returns are hiding dire secrets about Romney and his "character".
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Where's his Birth Certificate???
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)That as Bush 41's Chief of Staff used a government plane to fly to New York City every week to get a haircut? Is this the model Sununu uses for "the American formula for creating business and jobs in America. Or is this skill reserved only for white people in Sununu's mind. It is hard to understand what point Sununu is attempting to make because there is no context provided.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)one type of attitude when he says that obama " has to learn what the American formula for creating business and jobs in America is. but he does not describe how good americans view their civic responsibilities.
just because the rich want to privatize all public investments does not make it the model for the american way of doing things.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)On edit, this was supposed to be a reply to post 6. John Sununu was nailed for using taxpayer funds to fly his ass all over the place, including to get a haricut.
Jessy169
(602 posts)If anyone read the transcript of Rush Limbaugh's rant yesterday, he was jumping up and down and flailing his arms to make the same lame point -- that Obama is "un-American". I can only guess why this theme resonates so well with the Republican herd. My guess is that the theme reaches deep in the human primordial psyche and plucks one of the major emotions that humans developed -- the US versus THEM emotion, the "our survival depends on destroying THEM" emotion. That's the sort of emotion that Republicans want to hammer on, not because they are looking to attract independent voters to their cause, but because they calculate that all they need to win is their current herd of Republican-bots animated to the maximum possible capacity of hatred and anger. That, and a few voting machines that somehow didn't get "calibrated" correctly.
elleng
(131,290 posts)'Us vs Them,' and they just can't get beyond it.
Welcome.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)To explain how unamerican the republican congress is in blocking all the job creation bills the president has tried to put forward instead focusing on repealing health care.
I get that the bain thing is hurting romney but we need to change congress as well if anything is going to get done besides re electing Obama.
beac
(9,992 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)a mean, brash prick.
I guess I was right.
thucythucy
(8,109 posts)At the White House Sununu had a reputation for kissing up and pissing down. He was hell on his staff, prone to verbal abuse.
There's a famous story (famous in the disability rights movement, anyway) about Sununu meeting with Congressional sponsors of the ADA--among them Senator Kennedy, and Congressional staff. This was a meeting at the White House to discuss the final details of the bill. Sununu kept raising these bullshit objections that had been hashed out long before -- like, the ADA will force every ski lift in New Hampshire to become wheelchair accessible, and crap like that. One of Kennedy's staffers, Bobby Silverstein (great unsung American hero, by the way) kept knocking down Sununu's pathetic arguments, until Sununu erupted and began screaming abuse at Silverstein. At which point Kennedy stood up, slammed his hand on the table in front of Sununu, got face to face with him about two inches apart, and said, "You don't yell at my staff! You want to yell at someone, yell at me!" People in the room actually thought the two were going to get physical, there in the White House conference room. Instead, Sununu backed down, and didn't say another word for the rest of the meeting.
Probably, he went back to his office to yell at people who couldn't answer back, or maybe kick his dog or something.
People in DC during Bush I actually made a verb out of his name. To go on a rant against a staffer or someone lower in the political pecking order than you were was to "Sununu them." As in, "I just met with the Congressman and got royally Sununu'ed.'
Wonderful man, and a great Republican too.
surrealAmerican
(11,367 posts)... he actually thinks having public infrastructure is somehow "un-american" and bad for business? That's insane!
benld74
(9,911 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)would you care to detail how many public dollars went to beefing up Salt Lake City's and Utah's infrastructures when Mittens single-handedly "saved" the SLC Olympics?
You remember....back when he was on leave of absence from/ retroactively retired/part-time employed/sole shareholder/Chairman of Board/CEO/President/not involved with/earning $100K+/leading several companies of Bain?
In order to avoid conflict of interest with Olympics while maintaining Mass residency for gov run and continuing to rake in maximum dough before establishing no ties with Bain before filing to run for President?
Please. Inquiring minds want to know...
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Subway sandwich. And then he flew back across it to get a haircut. And then he flew to Europe to get a cup of coffee. And then he flew to Canada to do some grocery shopping, before finally flying home for the evening, after a brief detour to Mexico for a bottled water.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)smoking pot as a teenager WAS part of being american.
Sununu can go Cheney himself
samsingh
(17,602 posts)however its very repug in its essence. they can say whatever they want, and they cry when we fight back.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)obviously a racist/birther.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Say something outrageous to get people talking that
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Waaaa!!!! Waaaaaa!!!!
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)a Republican flips out and starts screaming like a frustrated toddler, which does happen very often.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the last time i was in a walmart a 10yr old was riding a display bike around the store...
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)That takes some talent!
patrice
(47,992 posts)drying up?
titanicdave
(429 posts)that Sununu is the ultra right wing nut job we knew he was for the past several years......I wonder what this idiot charges to haunt a house..
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Wanting to fix the infrastructure is un-American? What is this guy hopped up on?!
indie_voter
(1,999 posts)The right wing noise machine would be screaming treason.
This is disgusting. The attacks on this President on this level has been unprecedented at least in my memory and I'm 48 years old. I don't remember anybody implying the President of the United States wasn't American enough.
underpants
(182,988 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)needs to learn how to be a human being instead of a heartless bastard.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)For Bush's failures.