Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign

[ariesgem]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jul/21/spokesman_romney_not_equating_or_comparing_anyone_when_holding_obama_osama_sign



By Eric Kleefeld
As you may have seen today, TMZ.com has obtained two photos of Mitt Romney posing with a supporter in South Carolina. The supporter was holding a sign with the homemade writing, "NO TO OBAMA OSAMA AND CHELSEA'S MOMA" (sic). In the second photo, Romney is himself holding up the sign with the supporter.

This obviously invited the question: Was it appropriate for Mitt Romney to hold up a sign likening Barack Obama to the leader of an international terrorist network, responsible for bloody attacks upon the United States, apparently all based on his name? After all, what would the media reaction be if Barack Obama posed with a supporter who had a sign comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler? The press would go nuts over it, surely, and rightly so.

Election Central contacted Romney spokesman Kevin Madden for comment, asking if it was appropriate for the candidate to hold the sign up with the woman. "The governor stopped briefly for a picture with a supporter who just happened to be holding their own sign with an alliterative play on words," Madden said, via e-mail. "I don’t think it was equating or comparing anyone."

[EFerrari]

1. And the hits keep coming.

lol

[JI7]

2. he should be forced to end his campaign, this shit is NOT acceptable

for major party candidates.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. And while were at, I'm not comparing Romney to bigamist

child molesting inbred mormons either.

[mcg]

43. Rommel Romney. I'm not comparing him to Nazi General Rommel

of course not, I'm not implying that Romney is a FASCIST. It's just by chance that I happened to type those two names together.

[blogslut]

4. So, Romney is simply a fan of cardboard prose?

Is he a collector of some kind?

What a non-denial-denial.

[Guaranteed]

46. LOL nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Chelsea's Moma?

Chelsea's Museum of Modern Art?

[Hissyspit]

6. Yes, it was equating and comparing. You are lying.

Enjoy your campaign.

[stevedeshazer]

7. Riiiiiight!

Naw, pausing to be photographed with a bimbo and holding up her sign comparing Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and 'Chelsea's Moma' is simply an "alliterative play on words".

God, how I hope Larry Flynt has the dope on this phony.

[Kool Kitty]

8. Hmmmmmm......

this just may be Mitten's "Macaca" moment. Oh please oh please oh please......

[pepperbear]

9. Yeah, Mitt, but you ARE associating yourself with people who can't spell Momma correctly. n/t

[Bluebear]

11. He's trying to bring back "Your MOMA" jokes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1395616&mesg_id=1396997

[ariesgem]

16. From Kos

:rofl:

[illinoisprogressive]

10. Romeny needs to stop worrying about Obama and worry about his own party

[CoffeeCat]

12. I don't get it...

Why "Obama Osama"...what's that supposed to mean? Does she mean that
Obama is similar to the guy who killed thousands of innocent Americans?

WTF is this dumb box talking about?

Someone really needs to ask her what she means.

[Bluebear]

14. 'this dumb box'

:spray:

[CoffeeCat]

17. You know...

...I usually don't talk like that, but I just can't help it these
days.

I'm a bit on edge these days...each day brings new stories of
corruption, mayhem and potential disaster.

Life in a BushCo world.

[Marr]

13. Amazing how low the bar is set for Republicans.

And how easily the big media accepts their lame excuses. I doubt anything will be made of this in the corporate media, but can you imagine what would happen if, say, John Edwards did something similar?

[ariesgem]

25. You'd think that CNN would cover it

since they own TMZ.com, the website that broke the story.

[iamthebandfanman]

15. while i hate to say it

the lack of comma's makes it more horrible than it really is.

nothing suprises me anymore tho.
especially from the mindless void that is the republican base.

[badgerpup]

27. don't you mean the lack of "COMA?"

Sorry.
couldn't help myself.
:spank:

[bleever]

18. It was alliterative, incidental, adventitious, and otherwise unrelated except for

the picture.


(ed: that's gonna hurt.)

[Harper_is_Bush]

19. The response from the spokesman is pure Orwell. If Mitt didn't know what he was holding....

then he's obiously not fit to be President. That's like signing your name without reading the paper.

Idiot.

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. that is indeed crass

[Harper_is_Bush]

21. RECOMMEND!!

[bling bling]

22. The misspelling of momma is horrifying.

Oh my god. I just got a sick feeling in my stomach thinking about the frigging IDIOTS we're going to have to continue to put up with if a Republican wins again.

If you can't spell momma, then you probably don't have the ability to process the complexities involved to understand political situations. This lady is just one of the many simplistic-minded yahoos typical of Bush's 28% base. They don't even *try* to understand the complex details of policy and don't have a clue what's actually going on in Washington, yet they show up at Republican rallies to cheerlead and hold up signs that stick it to the "libruls." Fucking dumbasses.

[brettdale]

23. kick

kick

[BlueStater]

24. What an asshole

And not just an asshole but a stupid one as well. Did he actually think that, in this day and age of the internet, he could get away with something like this?!?

[K8-EEE]

26. Bush starts with a "B" and Hitler with an "H"

Therefore you can't compare them, there's no ALLITERATIVE PLAY....

Morans....

[mcg]

44. Hitler Mittler. Oh no, I'm not comparing him to Hitler,

'Mitt' just happened to end up between 'Hitler' and 'ler', that's all.

[xchrom]

28. romney can't spell!

:rofl:

[Skidmore]

29. Obama needs to call him on this and demand an apology.

AND someone needs to take him to task on the racial overtones.

[Lerkfish]

31. Mormons are whiter than white

Having lived amond them, in Nevada, I can honestly say I've never met a whiter group of white people. And the things they'd say to me, another white person, thinking I"d agree with their racist crap, was astounding.

[ariesgem]

33. Hopefully if the press picks it up (which I doubt) it'll be his macaca moment

and he'll drop out of the race.

[AspenRose]

34. Maybe a little help from Olbermann and Jon Stewart will put it in the

public eye. *fingers crossed*

This is just too much of a gift for them to pass up.....

[Virginia Dare]

41. No, Obama needs to just ignore this scum bag...

apparently Mittsy has it hard for Obama, I guess he must make Mittsy feel totally inadequate or something. If I were Obama, I wouldn't even give him the dignity of acknowledging his existence.

[C_U_L8R]

30. oh what's a little harmless wordplay

right mitt the shit ?
or is it now mister mittler hitler ?

oh and your people can't spell either.

[Summer93]

32. Don't let him get away with it

He is making a statement by holding that sign. He states that he agrees with it.

[Rosemary2205]

35. Translation - Mitt is too stupid to know what he is doing.

that's all we need, another bonehead.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

47. Yeah, that sign just happened out of nowhere

Maybe a billion chimps wrote a billion signs and something coherent finally resulted, which just coincidentally happened to read like it referred to something specific to a campaign.

[KamaAina]

36. Rarely is the question asked, "Is our Ken Doll supporters learning?"

Once again we see bigotry juxtaposed with ignorance. (For you FReeper/Ken Doll supporter lurkers, "juxtaposed" means "put right next to". :-) )

[Neshanic]

37. Romney, "I can't read, and those are not my hands."

[Hubert Flottz]

38. The dems need a sign that says "Mitt Is A Piece neoCon Of Shit!"

And then say they don't mean nothing either.

[ms liberty]

39. What's a MOMA? Is that like a Mama or a Momma?

I've never seen anyone spell Momma with only one M....it figures the first time would be some freeperish type.

[Virginia Dare]

40. Mitt Romney is a disgusting liar and a big sack of shit...n/t

[mcg]

45. Shitty Mitty, Mitt the shit. Just playing around, don't mean nothing. nt

[krispos42]

42. Why do people keep comparing Osama to that nice Brock O'Bama?

He seems like a decent Irish gentleman to me...




:hide:

[Octafish]

48. Macaca Moment for a Moron

Jebthro'll be the guy's veep.

[Bolo Boffin]

49. Two words: Bah. Loney.

The smiley picture is bad enough, but any intelligent politician should have understood that the sign itself shouldn't have been touched by the candidate.

Let's try out Mitt Roehmney as a moniker for this fella and see how he likes it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

[mcg]

50. Willard. Willard Mitt Romney. I'm not comparing ...

to Willard Mitt Romney