Romney Slipped?? What a complete lying shitbag!!!

[Breeze54]

Now Romney is flat out lying, I mean he's not even trying to be coy

but flat out asshat lying!!! What a fucking sleezebag!!!

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Romney Slip: Another Osama-Obama Mix-Up :eyes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/23/ap/politics/main3398055.shtml?source=search_story

(AP) In a slip of the tongue, Republican Mitt Romney accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of urging terrorists to congregate in Iraq.

In the midst of criticizing Obama and other Democrats on foreign and economic policy Tuesday, the GOP presidential hopeful said:

"Actually, just look at what Osam _ Barack Obama _ said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. ... It's almost as if the Democratic contenders for president are living in fantasyland. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat. And in my view, both efforts are wrongheaded."

Romney apparently was referring to an audiotape aired Monday in which a speaker believed to be terrorist Osama bin Laden called for insurgents in Iraq to unite and avoid divisions. The authenticity of the tape aired on Al-Jazeera television could not be immediately confirmed.

Romney was addressing a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Spokesman Kevin Madden said: "He misspoke. He was referring to the audiotape of Osama bin Laden and misspoke. It was just a mix-up."

Romney's campaign refused to make him available later at either of his final two stops to discuss the matter.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "Apparently, Mitt Romney can switch names just as casually as he switches positions, but what's wrongheaded is continuing a misguided war in Iraq that has left America less safe."

Could he be more obvious?? :wtf:

LMAO! Good line from Obama spokesman!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Who were the mental midgets in the audience and did he really think they'd fall for that line of BS?

[SmokingJacket]

1. He actually started to say "Osama" first.

What a clown. For the record, he has no chance of becoming president.

[yellowcanine]

5. Yes, and then he substituted Obama but continued to talk about the audiotape as if

Obama had made the tape and not Osama. Either he is living in total confusion or he has no scruples whatsoever about saying anything in order to trash a political opponent. How in the heck are they going to explain this one? Hopefully the MSM keeps holding their feet to the fire until they do. At the least, Romney should have to offer an abject apology and put it down to campaign stress and lack of sleep - can't use alcohol as an excuse, can he?

[Breeze54]

7. "He has no scruples whatsoever" , You got it!!

He is a lowlife narcissist, plain and simple.

[yellowcanine]

26. What's going on here is the right wing is conducting a gossip campaign aimed at

tying Obama to Osama in the minds of enough voters to make the difference in a close election in case Obama is on the ticket. Limbaugh has been doing it, other RW commentators have been doing it. Romney has apparently been doing it in private with his campaign staff, etc. I do believe he "slipped up", but only in the sense that he briefly forgot where he was and that there were reporters present. The amazing thing is that he seems to be trying to tough it out hoping it will just "go away." It won't - this truly is Romney's "Macacaa" moment I believe. Eventually he will have to apologize to Obama. The longer he waits, the more damage he does not only with swing voters, but also with Republican die hards, because it calls into question his viability as a national candidate. You just can't make "gaffes" like this and be taken seriously as a candidate for POTUS. At best, it feeds into the "empty suit" perception which is already there. At worst, it feeds into the "Mitt will say anything to get elected." perception which is also already there. It is doubly bad for Mitt because he is doing it now, when Republicans still have other choices. If he were doing it after getting the nomination, more Republicans would sluff it off because they would not see an alternative. Mitt is toast, imo.

[Breeze54]

8. Isn't he , oh, so clever?

I agree with you. He's a clown! I know he has no chance but he's must really
think American Voters are brain dead to try to pull this stunt off and think
he can get away with it! What an ass.

[WinkyDink]

31. Yes, then he realized it was OBAMA HE MEANT. "Barack" gave his game away.

[Botany]

2. Demand that he apologize

Drag his ass in front of cameras.

[Virginia Dare]

14. Make him cry too...n/t

[Horse with no Name]

16. They never apologize and they never back down

the most you will get out of them is that they "misspoke".

[yellowcanine]

29. Oh he will apologize. Bank on it. But the longer it goes without an apology, the

less "effective" the apology will be. He should have apologized at the next stop - surely he had viewed the videotape by then - this is a professional operation, you know they have video of everything. No he is going to try to tough it out for a while. Big mistake. The longer it goes, the less confidence he inspires even with people inclined to support him. When you are a presidential candidate and you publicly mix up a United States Senator with an international terrorist, you have got to apologize publicly sooner rather than later - no matter who else may have done the same thing.

[C_U_L8R]

3. just what we need.. another mixed-up president

geesh

[Virginia Dare]

15. Yeah, let's see how many world leaders Romney can piss off...

chimpie has done a heck uv a job at that..:eyes:

[Old and In the Way]

4. Maybe Barrack ought to return the favor....

Mitt Bundy has flip-flopped his entire life.....

[MrModerate]

6. Romney may indeed be a shitbag . . .

But his "slip" may have been just that -- a slip of the tongue or some sort of bizarre conflation of two ideas from his stump speech that dribbled out of his mouth by accident. The guy is not exactly a philosopher, after all.

However, here's the up side -- and it's way up. Whenever I listen to the stump speeches of the Dem slate, they're always talking about possibilities, opportunity, improvements, how America can do better, how people matter. And whenever I listen to the stump speeches of the 'Lican slate they're talking gloom and doom, and smiting the wicked, and shrilly chanting "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary."

The 'Licans are so fucked for 2008. The politics of hate and divisiveness are a serious downer. And hate is really all the 'Licans have got to talk about. No one who makes under a zillion dollars a year believes them on the economy; anyone who breathes the air or looks at the sky knows they've been environmental catastrophes; and anyone with a bee in their bonnet about limited government has had to trash their cell phone and stop using the Internet. Bummer.

And for a people who consider "American Idol" to be the ne plus ultra of human expression, being a serious downer means being a loser. (Full disclosure -- I watch "American Idol" myself.)

At least as of this moment, the Dems have a firm grasp on the politics of hope and the 'Licans are leaking pus. There are worse positions to be in at this point in the electoral cycle.

[tanyev]

9. I would be more inclined to buy that if Romney hadn't used the full name--"Barack Obama".

Twice.

[Breeze54]

10. It was not a 'slip'. I watched the video.

He purposefully substituted Obama's name. This was deliberate.
This was not a slip of the tongue nor a "misspoke". Romney is deliberatly using this 'mistake'!
He had to think about doing that and you can see him thinking about, it for that split second.

Read here...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/23/not-again-romney-calls-o_n_69566.html

[MrModerate]

17. I only read the transcript, which is damning enough . . .

Not to mention being gibberish that even his greatest fans couldn't possible parse. But it's distinctly possible he just tripped over his own talking points -- it's not like he actually believes a word that comes out of his mouth, and it must be tough to keep track of each thread of drivel he's supposed to spout.

But if it was a deliberate attempt to suggest that Obama had issued a call for jihadists to congregate in Iraq so America could then run away from them (or something to that effect) then he's playing to the no-opposable-thumb crowd and that is a dead-loser strategy this time around.

The 'Licans are in a real bind. To win the primary -- appealing to "party activists" -- their candidates have to gibber like deranged animals and smear the walls of their cages with their own shit; to win the general, they have to appear to be rational (even superior) human beings. Making the transition between the two is going to be tough for their ultimate nominee. In my opinion, impossible.

Dem activists may be hugely unsatisfied with the caution and probity our slate is demonstrating (when we really want to see them advocating Bush and Cheney being shipped to the Hague in chains -- following tarring and feathering, if possible), but those same activists know the seriousness of 2008 and the fact that we simply have to wrest the White House from 'Lican control, no matter what. Luckily any of the top 4 or 5 Dems would make perfectly adequate presidents, even in these parlous times, so "going to the polls while holding your nose" is going to be a 'Lican problem much more than a Dem problem.

[Breeze54]

19. IT WAS DELIBERATE!!!! -- WATCH THE VIDEO!!!

"But it's distinctly possible he just tripped over his own talking points..."

NO, IT"S NOT!!! HE LIED!!! HE DID IT ON PURPOSE!!!

WATCH THE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrModerate]

24. I'm on a throttled connection here. I'll look later.

But if you're right, so much the better. Every time Romney hammers home the fact that 1) he'll do anything to get the nomination and 2) the things he chooses to do are often dumb as dirt, that's a win for us -- especially if he gets the 'Lican nod.

[The Stranger]

11. Shitbag? No, try a bigoted, hateful racist.

[Breeze54]

12. Use that in your thread!

:P

Elistist, snobbish, bigoted, hateful, racist, lying shitbag!!

[Virginia Dare]

13. Of course he is, but this is not news to most people here..

he's a racist asshole too.

[Breeze54]

20. This incident IS news.

:eyes:

[Virginia Dare]

22. I wasn't suggesting otherwise...n/t

[TwilightGardener]

18. OK, it may have been a slip--after all, Obama said 10,000 people died

in a tornado when he obviously meant to say 10. But I doubt it--Mittens held up the Osama-Obama sign last summer. He obviously likes the way those names rhyme, a little too much.

[Breeze54]

21. It was deliberate. -- Watch the video.

It was not a mistake but very calculated.

[TwilightGardener]

23. I'm sorry, but I cannot watch Mittens. I get hives, and I'm out of Benadryl.

[ellacott]

27. A lot of people do slip up with this

Romney probably did it on purpose but I've seen so many people slip up.

Thom Hartmann talked about this yesterday and played the clip. He was very critical of Romney but Hartmann did the same thing at the beginning of his show. He was talking about the latest OBL tape and said Obama tape. He stumbled and stuttered but never corrected himself. I've seen Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer slip up as well.

[yellowcanine]

28. If you watch the clip it wasn't just a simple slip up. He started to talk about Osama, corrected

himself and substituted BARACK OBAMA and proceeded to talk about Osama's audio tape. A very curious way to "slip up". Either he really doesn't listen to his own words or he does this as a "joke" with his campaign staff and just forgot where he was for a moment. Either way, not very reassuring for a POTUS candidate. It truly looks like a "Macacaa" moment, right down to letting his spokesperson "explain" it (not apologize) for him rather that doing the manly thing and issuing a public apology himself.

[ellacott]

30. I don't dispute what you say

Romney doesn't get the benefit of the doubt from me.

I was just pointing out how often others actually do slip.

[WinkyDink]

32. It's impossible to "slip" by including "Barack". IM-POSSIBLE.

[rurallib]

25. Willard just admitting he's pants-pissing scared of Obama

maybe because Obama is a Neeeegro and was raised as a islamo-fascist hate monger. Mommy, Mittens scared hisself.
Maybe I had better add a :sarcasm: logo