Romney aide: Obama's student loan slow jam was "off key"
Source: CBS News
(CBS News) Will we ever see presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney follow in President Obama's footsteps and slow jam the news?
Maybe, Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said on Saturday, but not at the risk of making light of the struggles of youth voters - a bloc with which the Romney campaign is trying to make inroads.
Mr. Obama amused some and irked others when he appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday night and talked about keeping student loan rates low, over a beat laid down by The Roots.
The Romney campaign didn't seem to find it funny.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57423687-503544/romney-aide-obama-slow-jam-was-off-key/
Nothing rMoney says in this "top ten" on David Letterman is in the slightest way Presidential. He comes across as a total joke.
On the other hand, everything Obama says in the "slow jam" is very Presidential and very serious.
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)About the only thing that seems to come natural to him is awkward moments and firing people....
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)This is one battle I'll give him. He wins the battle of can't-carry-a-tune-in-a-bucket
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Did you see the end of that clip. I dunno what that woman is, but she is vile for sure. She was implying that liking Al Green wasn't very patriotic. That somehow Al Green and American is less American than America the Beautiful. Is she for f'n real?
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Probably someone they found walking down the street and a producer grabbed her as "close enough for national TV".
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)He used the "spoonful of sugar" method, and he got his message DIRECTLY to the demo for which it was meant.
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)These people never accuse anyone of something they do not do as a matter of course themselves.
Daveparts3
(49 posts)doesn't have much to laugh at, outside of themselves.
yardwork
(61,671 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)War on Woman...
War on the Poor..
War on Students...
and now Ladies & Gentleman the war on COOL.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)... that Obama should "keep his day job"?
I thought he did quite well.
0rganism
(23,959 posts)Hell, there isn't even a key involved most of the time.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)you ask any college kid they know what it meant. Mittens will never get it. Sorry to say. The president went where the votes are and I think it was wonderful. We had 2 really cool presidents. Clinton and Obama. Republicans know they are cool. They don't have to cheat to get their votes unlike what the republicans are doing accross this country by disenfrenchising students and others.
goclark
(30,404 posts)walking out on the stage.
He was one stuck up boring man --- please America don't get this fool anywhere near the White House.
Don't even let him in for the Everyday Tour
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)future. Pass it around.
goclark
(30,404 posts)I was watching Malisa Perry on MSNBC a few minutes ago.
She was highlighting the importance of the youth vote.
One of the guests mentioned how well President Obama relates and how excited she is to "Get Out The Vote."
What I worry about is the Rethugs Voting Laws making so many not able to vote that will be blocked out of the voting process by the evil Republicans.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)JI7
(89,254 posts)and it was worse than i imagined.
he is the presumed nominee of a major party and he gets some weak applause.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)when Romney gets creative we hear that "trees are the right height".
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)People DO NOT WANT the policies they propose - so they try to find other ways to make the issues about another politician rather than their own worthless policy positions.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)The last and best weapon they have is projecting their own liabilities onto the other candidate.
That got it close enough for them to steal in 2004, but it won't work at all now because the President has the option to steer the debate whenever he wishes.
However, the drones will still be among us here, desperately trying to sell the threadbare lies of "there is no difference between parties," "this guy is as bad as we were," and "we should consider candidates based upon their individual qualities, not their party allegiance."
But as I have said innumerable times before, catapulting lies only works until the public has been bitten in the ass by the truth, and every one of us bears Republican scars.
They're done. It's going to take at least two election cycles, including this one, to completely de-fang them, but it seems inevitable to me that by 2014 the GOP will be a pale shadow of the evil force of nature it once was. There is simply nothing left to steal, and that's all they can do.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)in your view of how to change these things.
the problem that I see in this nation is that so many people in this nation are reactionary. sometimes on both ends of the political spectrum - but the side that continues to force right wing positions into policy doesn't care that they are so far outside of the desires of the majority of the people here when it comes to laws that govern our interactions.
I think the Democratic party could do a lot better - push more for the issues that matter - because, unlike the Republicans and their positions, the majority of Americans favor a nation with greater wealth equality, opportunity for all, an expanded middle class, healthcare no matter one's station in life... it does no good to find a middle ground with extremists - that's no longer middle ground.
I certainly do not agree with every action taken by this president or any other one that I know of throughout history - that's not how political life works, tho.
goclark
(30,404 posts)Mi$$ was stiff as ice with a smile.
What a zero.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)he is so uninteresting that the only way anyone pays attention to him is when he shades the truth.
deacon
(5,967 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)Haters gon' hate! ROFL!
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)by the osmond brothers isn't doing the job.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Guerrilla23
(18 posts)We won't be fooled again.
And that Who is us.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)Ignoring the adviser's point - which was pretty strange itself - that it made light of the student's plight, the President can sing and too many of us remember that his opponent was pretty off key when he sang. (I still can't believe how much he sang - as he missed notes and lost the tune - just to prove I guess that he knew the words.)