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Obamas election strategy? How

Resistance — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:55:24 +0000

In reply to Ann Romney: 'You (little) People' can Just Shut-Up

Obamas election strategy?

How do you keep the ignorant electorate in suspense?

Neither capitalist candidate, has a solution.

They're winging it, until the next crisis comes along and it distracts a stupid electorate.

An electorate that doesn't know, what side of the class war they should be on.

BTW..... With this new famine crisis on the horizon, will the capitalists, screw the American public to make a buck?

Have we stopped exporting American grain, or are we compelled by law to cut our own throats, so a capitalist doesn't suffer?

That sums it up pretty well.

Elusive Trope — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:39:57 +0000

In reply to Whether it's the right thing

That sums it up pretty well.

I totally agree with you NCD,

Bruce Levine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:07:00 +0000

In reply to It may be politics, but

I totally agree with you NCD, and I certainly don't mean to defend Romney the person. I think there is quite a bit of stuff in Romney's tax returns that he doesn't want the voters to see. And I also believe that sending out Ann to defend their family is just that much nonsense.

It may be politics, but

NCD — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:01:14 +0000

In reply to Ocean-Kat, Nice to see you

It may be politics, but Krugman thinks Romney's reaction on the issue is very enlightening:

Fitzgerald again, about the very rich: “They think, deep down, that they are better than we are.”

O.K., let’s take a deep breath. The truth is that many, and probably most, of the very rich don’t fit Fitzgerald’s description. There are plenty of very rich Americans who have a sense of perspective, who take pride in their achievements without believing that their success entitles them to live by different rules.

But Mitt Romney, it seems, isn’t one of those people. And that discovery may be an even bigger issue than whatever is hidden in those tax returns he won’t release.

The Church of Jesus Christ of

Peter Schwartz — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:45:26 +0000

In reply to Ann Romney: 'You (little) People' can Just Shut-Up

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2. Brigham Young University: $525,000
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4. Right to Play: $111,500
5. The George W. Bush Library: $100,000
6. Operation Kids: $85,000
7. Center For Treatment of Pediatric MS: $75,000
8. Harvard Business School: $70,000
9. City Year: $65,000
10. Deseret International: $50,000
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Ocean-Kat, Nice to see you

Bruce Levine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:19:49 +0000

In reply to Romney should release his tax

Ocean-Kat,

Nice to see you again. I totally agree with you that the people have the right to know.

But I also believe that this isn't about whether Romney is a good guy in person or more or less honest than Obama. I believe they are both politicians, and I believe that the demand for Romney to release his taxes on the one hand and the shock that he is being asked to release his taxes on the other is just politics and nothing more.

And I don't believe that the two political parties that are driving this campaign give a hoot about what the rights of the people are in the midst of a presidential campaign.

This is politics, pure and simple, and nothing more. And if Romney doesn't release his taxes, he's an idiot, pure and simple. And as much as I've been pushing for the re-election of President Obama (and while you were gone I almost started a riot around these parts for questioning how progressives could possibly do otherwise), I don't believe for a second that the demand for Romney to release his taxes is motivated by anything other than politics. It's all about defining Romney before the Republicans begin to outspend the Democrats 2 to 1 once Romney is formally nominated.

Whether it's the right thing

acanuck — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:22:47 +0000

In reply to Romney should release his tax

Whether it's the right thing to do or not, it's an unwritten rule: all presidential nominees release their tax returns. Years of them. Did Romney enter the Republican race thinking, "If I'm nominated, I'll refuse to discuss my taxes?" If so, he's an idiot -- and demonstrably unfit to run the country. End of story.

Romney should release his tax

ocean-kat — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:59:04 +0000

In reply to Wow it is time to buckle up

Romney should release his tax returns because its the right thing to do. The people have the right to know. Poll seem to suggest its not a political quagmire for him which just blows me away. We'll see if that holds true.

Whether the dems are hypocrites to push this issue given their own members tax failings, whether its all political games, whether they are lying about what might be in the tax returns wrong as that may be doesn't change the basic reason. The people have the right to know.

Wow it is time to buckle up

Bruce Levine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:25:32 +0000

In reply to Ann Romney: 'You (little) People' can Just Shut-Up

Wow it is time to buckle up already and Labor Day still ain't just around the corner. I get that Obama is a hypocrite, I get that he was full of baloney back in 2008 and he's not the dude who is going to change the way things are done in Washington. I get it, and then some. But this notion that it's shocking, just shocking that the Democrats are playing politics is beyond my comprehension. This is the way it's done--the Democrats have found a vulnerability and they're pounding on it. And they're doing it and ducking the dismal economic conditions of our brothers and sisters when the rules are that the buck stops with the president and he deserves to be slammed on things that are his fault and on things that aren't his fault.

But so what? Romney should release his taxes because it's a political quagmire for him. And he should focus on the economy and whether he should or not, he will focus on all of the other stuff that will be oh so friggin' unfair.

And if some progressives want to elect him and his crew because Obama is a douchebag, then so be it.

So who are the good guys around here? Am I missing something?

I watched the clip. They

synchronicity — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:44:41 +0000

In reply to Ann Romney: 'You (little) People' can Just Shut-Up

I watched the clip. They haven't even released one 'full' year of tax returns yet.

I did think it was insulting and demeaning to the American public and might hurt her favorability a little bit.

However if the goal was to lull their base after so many republicans called on them to release their tax returns... it probalby helped.