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Mr. President, Stop the Personal Attacks
Dear President Obama,
I thank you for your service to our nation and applaud your passion on many issues including health care, gay marriage and a compassionate approach to immigration reform. You are an admirable politician and a level-headed president.
But I ask you to consider how your campaign strategists, in an understandable desire to win, diminish you in their efforts to demean your opponent, Mitt Romney.
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Putting aside the unauthorized comments, like from Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen who said, "Anne Romney never worked a day in her life," consider these other malicious attacks:
The attacks on Bain. You and your allies have continued to spend millions on ads attacking Mitt Romney with half-truths and allegations about Bain, often for things that never occurred or did not occur while he was there. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker, a Democrat, found the attack "nauseating." Steve Rattner, formerly President Obama's car czar, called it "unfair." Former President Bill Clinton agreed that Romney was a successful businessman and qualified to be president. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, also a Democrat, called the attack "disappointing." Mitt Romney created and ran a successful company. The Bain smear campaign is beneath you. And you should apologize and fire your campaign official who said Romney committed a "felony."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/mr-president-stop-the-per_b_1695698.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012
Dear Gary Shapiro, you're an ass!
Forbes: 35 Questions Mitt Romney Must Answer About Bain Capital Before The Issue Can Go Away
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjwalker/2012/07/14/35-questions-mitt-romney-must-answer-about-bain-capital-before-the-issue-can-go-away/
Obama campaign memo: Unanswered Questions About Mitt Romneys Retroactive Retirement
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002956292
Yes, Romney Perjured Himself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002960206
Romney loses WaPo fact checker Glenn Kessler
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002980717
Mother Jones finds two more major Romney outsourcing investments
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002990305
Mitt Romney losing the Bain battle, ctd.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002985084
Keep Bain alive!
Updated to add this since Shapiro mentions Clinton:
Former President Bill Clinton said scrutinizing Mitt Romneys offshore investments is fair game in this election. Speaking to NBCs Today, Clinton said he is perplexed that Romney only released a years worth of tax returns. That struck me as a little odd, he said.
Watch the interview:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/bill-clinton-little-odd-romney-only-released-tax
Release the tax returns.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)What a nimrod! What a ultra-maroon!
"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"President and CEO, the Consumer Electronics Association"
Still, is this a joke or was he drunk when he wrote it (or did Romney pay him)?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)Well played, Sir - Hitch-Hiker's insults need a wider audience.
He's the head of an electronic manufacturer's trade group. So he won't want nasty things said about companies that do a lot of heavy outsourcing, like the 2 electronics firms in the Bain Capital cover-up.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)Me? I'm LMAO here.
[big] "WAAAH!! No fair!! Stop telling the TRUTH !!" [/big]
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Guess Shapiro is another delicate, precious, frail flower.
Defending Bain? Really?
If this lunatic hack had any conscience, he'd be defending all the Americans Bain screwed out of an honest living.
But poor, poor Rmoney needs the love more, I suppose. Rmoney doesn't have enough $$$$$$$ yet...
My message to Obama: Keep attacking Rmoney. The American people need to hear the truth for a change.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)so all may see and spread far and wide.
Oops!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and AOL stands for Absence Of Liberals.
Just more Right Wing garbage.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Getting total message control for the zombie armies. They are enemies of all living beings that don't obey these odious ones.
Mitt = Bain = Clear Channel = Rush = Beck = Hannity = Savage
And AOL = Absence Of Liberals. I'll remember that one. Don't forget that Breitbart helped set up Huffpo with Arianna.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)LOL!
onenote
(42,782 posts)the "most anti-business administration" in Shapiro's lifetime. Which was a rather impolitic thing to say for the head of a trade association that has to deal with members of both parties (and an FCC headed by an Obama appointee).
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Willard is a strange man
Initech
(100,108 posts)Keep Bain alive!!
spanone
(135,900 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)The "attacks" aren't working, but we demand that you stop them, now!
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)qualified to be president." So end the damn attacks! Not gonna happen.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/125159252
Sorry, but we know your game. Obama has even asked for a philosophical discussion about how to bring the country back to full prosperity and all you've had is lies and hysterical screams of 'socialist' through your many paid shills:
So, screw you and the robot you rode in on!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)That's what Rove would do were the Democrat the one with the Bain ties.
When they stop attacking working people and putting people out of work, we'll talk about lowering the rhetoric.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Someone haz an owie!