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Omaha Steve

(99,676 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 07:48 PM Jun 2012

Clinton: Romney would be 'calamitous' for US

Source: AP-Excite

By ANNE GEARAN

NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton warned Monday that a Mitt Romney presidency would be "calamitous" for the nation and the world, going further than even President Barack Obama in depicting the consequences of a return to Republican rule of the White House.

With Obama standing thoughtfully to one side, Clinton slammed Romney by name, an apparent rebuttal to his own comments last week that were widely seen as flattering to Romney's background in business.

Clinton said Obama had earned a second term because of his steering of the economy through a "miserable situation" and "the alternative would be, in my opinion, calamitous for our country and the world."

Clinton's take came as he helped raise at least $3.6 million for Obama at three New York fundraisers. The two have patched over a personal rift from the 2008 campaign when Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in a bitter Democratic primary. But Clinton caused some heartburn in Obama's campaign last week by remarking that Romney had a "sterling" business record - an assertion that undercut Democrats' criticism of Romney's decisions at the private equity firm Bain Capital.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20120604/D9V6K9V82.html




President Barack Obama shakes hands to a group people at JFK International Airport in New York, Monday, June, 4, 2012, on his way to a visit in New York City. (AP Photo/David Karp)

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Clinton: Romney would be 'calamitous' for US (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2012 OP
K and R goclark Jun 2012 #1
I think Mr. Clinton can do better than that Life Long Dem Jun 2012 #2
I still think he did a great deal of damage. The Corporate Media is still creaming their pants over Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2012 #3
I'm sure someone has already said this, but the two comments aren't OKNancy Jun 2012 #4
Romney has the same level of business "acumen" as "Chainsaw Al" Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #7
Bluebeard had a sterling career as a successful poisoner of wives aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #9
NOW he tells us. razorman Jun 2012 #5
Allow me to translate this passage DonCoquixote Jun 2012 #6
Barry, really? sarcasmo Jun 2012 #8
YES Jerry Frey Jun 2012 #10
three words sums it up... amerciti001 Jun 2012 #11
The Sad Part DallasNE Jun 2012 #12
 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
3. I still think he did a great deal of damage. The Corporate Media is still creaming their pants over
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:22 PM
Jun 2012

last week's faux paus.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
4. I'm sure someone has already said this, but the two comments aren't
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:23 PM
Jun 2012

mutually exclusive. One could be a good business person and still be terrible at governing.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
9. Bluebeard had a sterling career as a successful poisoner of wives
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 11:05 PM
Jun 2012

but no one would want him to marry their sister.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
6. Allow me to translate this passage
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 08:34 PM
Jun 2012

From the original Clintonese (aka ass covering)

"Ok, I realize I shot Barry in the foot when I told him to stop slamming Bain. Even Maureen Dowd saw that I really want him out of the way so that my wife could win in 2016, giving me my third term in office. Since the independents, aka Republicans too ashamed to admit they are Republican, listen to me, I better slam Romney hard. After all, If Mitt wins, Dick Cheney will take over the country again, and Hillary and I won't live to see the next Olympics."

We do not need Bill to tell us Romney would be a disaster, but since the Reagan Democrats are stupid, let's use him to get OUR point across to them.

 

Jerry Frey

(32 posts)
10. YES
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 04:41 AM
Jun 2012

Mitt W. Romney, vulture capitalist, memory challenged individual, and flip-flopper, wants to be president so bad he can taste it. His sole selling point for his ambition is the putative ability to fix the economy — jobs, jobs, jobs — because as a former venture capitalist, he knows how the eonomy works. His counterattack against the incumbent portrays President Obama as comparatively clueless concerning the economy.

http://napoleonlive.info/politics/opinion-about-romney/

amerciti001

(158 posts)
11. three words sums it up...
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 07:51 AM
Jun 2012

Under a Romney Presidency, this Country will experience something out of a novel that'll be titled "Plus De Miserable"
More misery for the poor, more for the middle class, just more misery for those of us that was not born to the well off and wealthy.
Just ask Willard if he got everything he wanted and asked for at Christmas as a child?

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
12. The Sad Part
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:29 AM
Jun 2012

Is that not many people are paying attention. Should a President Romney attempt to implement the Ryan/Romney plan it would indeed be calamitous. Even Romney has said that he wouldn't implement the cuts his first year because of the weakness in the economy but he would implement the tax cuts for the stimulus effect. Time out. What stimulus effect. For that you have to look at the velocity of money and tax cuts for the very wealthy create very little velocity. Plus a calamitous pile of debt would result. You just can't get from here to there with what Romney proposes. Rather than stablize the economic ship Romney would run it into an iceberg and send it down next to the Titanic. The people need to wake up and not be fooled by the sound bites. This is serious business with serious consequences. Romney has shown no compassion so his election would indeed be calamitous.

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