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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'In other words-black people' Obama said, paraphrasing Romney"-That's what he thinks THIS was about"
Obama shocked, 'slightly irritated' by Mitt Romney's 2012 concession call: David AxelrodThe president claimed his GOP opponent insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by the presidential campaign strategist.
President Obama was shocked and irritated by Mitt Romney's concession call in the 2012 presidential electionand claimed Romney insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod.
Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," Axelrod writes.
The president hung up and said Romney admitted he was surprised at his own loss, Axelrod wrote.
"'You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people,'" Obama said, paraphrasing Romney. "That's what he thinks this was all about."
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'In other words-black people' Obama said, paraphrasing Romney"-That's what he thinks THIS was about" (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2015
OP
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)1. We all knew Mitt was a racist fuck.
He proved it to President Obama in that call.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Romney just articulates what the slyer Rethugs
are thinking - "if it weren't for that $#*(**!! black vote" Obama wouldn't be President. That's what's behind all their suppress the vote schemes.
lame54
(35,321 posts)3. He probably thinks their votes still count for 2/3d's
love_me_some_pickles
(35 posts)4. 3/5ths
lame54
(35,321 posts)5. thanks - that's still too high for Mitt
love_me_some_pickles
(35 posts)6. He would love to limit the vote to white male property owners.
lame54
(35,321 posts)7. a vote for every property one owns
Vattel
(9,289 posts)8. So he is also a sore loser. Sad and pathetic.
olddots
(10,237 posts)9. Romney and people like him
are too dumb to know how stupid they are.