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by Jed Lewison
How desperate is Romneyland to not talk about Bain? So desperate that they trotted out former George H. W. Bush chief of staff John Sununu to attack the president as a pothead foreigner who doesn't have a clue about creating jobs and needs to "learn how to be an American."
According to Sununu, Obama "spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something" before moving to Indonesia before finally "he came to the U.S." to be "a community organizer, which is a socialized structure." And to make it even worse: he did it in a Chicago, home of the thugs.
Watch it here:
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...Classic nopology from Sununu:
@mpoindc via Seesmic twhirl
Even if he actually meant that, which I doubt, it still doesn't explain why he thinks Hawaii isn't part of the United States.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110848/-Top-Romney-surrogate-calls-Obama-a-socialist-stoner-who-needs-to-learn-how-to-be-an-American
What the hell is that smell?
Ah, desperation.
atreides1
(16,094 posts)Besides, that name, Sununu doesn't sound like an American name to me!
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)He is the embodiment of everything there is to dislike about the Republican party and an embarrassment to NH.
He's never gotten over the fact that David Souter turned out to be a pretty liberal SCJ and that he was asked to resign as chief of staff for GHWB.
A pugnacious, arrogant and ugly man. Inside and out.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Wow.. guess they're going with the Palin playbook of 2008, paint your opponent as unamerican, and rile up the unstable ranks in your party. You know that when you hear Rush saying the same thing yesterday, and now Sununu, that it's a faxed talking point, attack.
Fuck these people. I mean.. seriously fuck these people.
Just like with McCain/Palin, they got nothing, so they stoop to the most disgusting attacks of all. I would laugh at them, but this is the type of rhetoric that brings out the truly deranged.
PS- HE FUCKING CREATED JOBS!!! Unlike his predecessor, and unlike the do-nothings Republicans in DC who refuse to pass his Jobs bills. I hate that lie being told over and over like that, unchallenged. I also hate the 1%er "journalists" that allow this shit unchallenged.
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)which means we're winning!
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Conservatives relevant to the Romney camp. So a little less than 5 months left and they are having to talk to their base while president Obama is out make inroads with independents.
It doesn't bod well for Romney
Renew Deal
(81,883 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)This is the whole tone of Romney's "critique" of Obama; he's out of his depth, doesn't have a clue, etc. Only makes it more enjoyable to watch his campaign exploit daily all the openings created by Romney's ineptitude.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Like Hatch, the teabagger thugs have forced the establisment rethugs into awkwardly using junior high school-level name-calling and crazy talk rather than debate the policies. My have the mighty fallen.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)he doesn't have to be forced into it. Nothing mighty about him.
The man is an arrogant jerk.
His son, is not as bad, but this guy is just terrible.
He was governor here for 3 awful terms.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)Become a tool like "Volcano Monitoring" Jindal? Become a media whore like Palin? Michele Bachmann???
Be like the "smart" Bush? Emulate Rushbo and Beckkk? Become a warrior against women's rights and kicking the poor off welfare and food stamps because you can?
I refuse to become the type of "American" these Republican fucks believe they can dictate us to be. Fuck you, fuck your family, fuck your candidate, fuck your horrible, racist, misogynistic outlook, your class warfare, your tough-talk but personally cowardly behavior.
You and your type is what is wrong for America and Americans.
Fuck YOU.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)maryellen99
(3,790 posts)Unlike Teabggers/republicans, I can think for myself. I don't need emails, Fox news, and churches telling me what to believe, how to think, and tell me who to vote for.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Mr. Tax Haven and Mr. Outsourcer...
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)who was gov of NH for 6yrs, then chief of staff for GHWB- who was asked to resign.
The only positive thing he did was to push for David Souter as SCJ. He didn't realize the kind of justice Souter would become.
He is also still pissed that his son lost re-election to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen which was an upset-
Arkana
(24,347 posts)It doesn't translate well over an internet board
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)there aren't many people I have such a visceral dislike for, but John Sununu is one of them.
I did wonder if you knew who he was, because it reminded me of the "Who the Hell is William Loeb" from years back.
I also tend to be pretty slow to pick up on sarcasm.
Lex
(34,108 posts)OMFG.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...Obama has hit them hard, and made romney whine like a little girl. The republicans have been demanding apologies, and getting laughed at. That makes them look weak and ineffective. So they're sending people out to talk trash, waiting for the Obama campaign to start demanding apologies, that they can then ignore.
I don't think the President is going to give them that satisfaction.
It'll be interesting to see how low the republicans will sink in their search for that one slur that will have the Dems howling for an apology.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I thought so.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)What the fuck kind of name is 'Sununu' anyway? Isn't he from some terrorist Ay-rab country?
I hope I don't get alerted on for this, as I'm merely responding in McCarthyite fashion to the slander that douche Sununu is propounding.
There are so many tempting targets this year, but I really wish the Obama campaign would fashion an ad exposing this neo-McCarthyism and shaming it a la a "Joseph Welch moment.'
Still, thanks for posting this. I'm K&R-ing for additional exposure.
broiles
(1,370 posts)Tippy
(4,610 posts)I don't think there is a single ass hole amoung them with brains enough to realize one day their own children will study history and learn what utter foolstheir parents/ republicans have become. God help those kids, the shame they will face....
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Hell, show me which lever to pull for that candidate.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I don't think Obama is the stoner in this picture.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)His habit of taking personal trips at federal expense obviously wasn't going over well
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I shouldn't have watched the video. Do they make Febreeze for electronics?
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Question the opponent's patriotism...