Romney on 9/11: "Lighten Up"
Submitted by Jerid on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:27am.
UPDATE: I'm available for comment on my experience with Romney at Jerid@buckeyestateblog.com
I got up late; it was a Tuesday in Cleveland and I only had early morning swim practice MWF's. Showering, I heard Steve, another guy on the third floor of the "Tyler" dorm yell from his room, "holy shit!" From the pitch in his voice I could tell it was serious. In a blink of eye I threw my clothes on as I stumbled into Steve's room still fumbling with my flip flops. I remember their faces - Chris, Steve, Nate - jaws all agape as the four of us watched the first tower smolder. And right then I had that "sinking" feeling that still I get to this day; at the time it was the strongest it'd ever been, thousands of times worse than a few months previous when I'd broken up with my high school sweetheart - an event that I sheepishly admit still haunts me even in adulthood. The rest of the day I recall drunkenly; the haze that I walked through at the time permeates my memory. The clearest thing I feel now, six years later, are those tears that violently rolled off my face into my pillow the night of September 11th.
I don't understand how someone can compare any American to Osama Bin Laden, but pundits are still willing to prey on the emotions that everyone that lived through 9/11 feel, invoking images of the most hate man in America to describe the political opposition. It's a cheap, divisive, whorish move to make. It represents the worst of the politics of hate. It's a move that I expect presidential candidates of all parties to be above. But Mitt Romney is not.
So I asked him about it on Sunday at a townhall meeting in Exeter, NH. In the video, I'm angry. I still am right now. Please, watch this video.
Lighten up francis
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:00am.
McJoan Posted this on daily Kos at 2 am last night - well before this post - and has included an update to this very post this morning.
Jerid did a grat job and we all need to keep speaking truth to power. We are all on the same side here and why some people feel the need to nitpick and critisize our own at every opportunity I will never know.
Keep up the good work Jerid.
kos gave credit
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:41am.
The kos story credited Jeff and linked the blog.
That's how I found it.
Osama/Obama
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 12:15pm.
I only wish you had asked, "Mitt, I understand. You get photographed with lots of signs, and you can't be responsible for what each and every one might say. But once you WERE made aware of what this sign said, why didn't you distance yourself from it?""Is that because you are actually OK with its message?"
OR
"Mitt, once you are President, will you also not look ahead of time at any sign you are asked to be photographed with?"
Kos did give him credit
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 12:50pm.
...check the front page post on this at Daily Kos again.
MORONIC!
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:23pm.
Romney's a fool. You don't pose for things that you don't approve of. Whether he wants to admit it or not, holding the sign and posing with the illiterate woman (unable to spell) was an endorsement. Another example of how the GOP will play any Osama, 9/11 or fear card to categorize their opponents. I pray for a democratic landslide next year. The utter incompetence of the GOP certainly has earned that.
Why get angry?
Submitted by JeanLR on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 9:49am.
The guy's a dope and the lady that made the sign is clearly a nitwit. I'm FAR more disgusted by how he treats his family dog! There are so many things wrong about this guy...
I would like to humbly caution about setting up the words "Osama" or 9-11 as a concept as taboo subjects that have to be uttered in solemn whisper lest someone have a "flashback"~ I don't think that it is useful to continue the mythical characterization of the killings and destruction of 9-11.
We shouldn't invest such emotion in the event because that is how people are able to get away with their demagoguery.
If we can separate our emotion from our objective reality when we talk about these things, then we will be less vulnerable to these manipulations, and can better help others resist the rally cry of the War Party.
Just my 2 cents~
ITS ON MY SCREEN SAVERS SO
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 9:31pm.
ITS ON MY SCREEN SAVERS SO ALL MY PATIENTS CAN SEE IT IT. I LOVE IT. SO TRUE !!!!!
HA HA
I WANT A BUMPER STICKER!!
good question, lousy answer
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 10:52am.
thanks for doing this!
i hope Mitt gets hammered until he's on his knees. as a mormon, he's vulnerable to exactly the same kind of mindless hate tactic as his supporter was directing at the dems. anyone who wants to be president of this country should remember, s/he is going to be president of all the people. and they SHOULD BE responsible for the signs that THEY choose to hold up.
by endorsing that sign, Mitt shows himself to be unfit for the presidency. by waffling in his response to this issue, he shows himself to be a lightweight. and someone who lacks savvy advisors.
Will this moron take a picture if sign says, 'Dubya loves Osama'
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:23am.
Since this jerk claims that he is not responsible for holding a sign we should ask him whether he will hold a sign that says, 'Dubya loves Osama and let him escape in ToraBora'?
Does this Romney guy have any shame? After strapping his family dog to roof of his car for a 12 HOUR ride from Boston to Ontario this shameless moron has guts to make a sick comment about PETA. The Boston Globe article mentions how the dog crapped on car during the ride and how the flipflopper-in-chief Romney handled it cooly as emotion-free crisis management. I will say that he is conscience-free and morals-free too. No wonder Romney loves torture and wants double Gitmo.
This guy just does not believe in life.. not even of his own family dog and he still calls himself pro-life. What a fake!
Will this moron hold a sign that says, 'Dubya loves Osama'?
Submitted by ohio_observer on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:24am.
Since this jerk claims that he is not responsible for holding a sign we should ask him whether he will hold a sign that says, 'Dubya loves Osama and let him escape in ToraBora'?
Does this Romney guy have any shame? After strapping his family dog to roof of his car for a 12 HOUR ride from Boston to Ontario this shameless moron has guts to make a sick comment about PETA. The Boston Globe article mentions how the dog crapped on car during the ride and how the flipflopper-in-chief Romney handled it cooly as emotion-free crisis management. I will say that he is conscience-free and morals-free too. No wonder Romney loves torture and wants double Gitmo.
This guy just does not believe in life.. not even of his own family dog and he still calls himself pro-life. What a fake!
Romney "Lighten Up"
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:25am.
Romney was clearly caught with his pants down on this one. As any Republican will do in this situation, he put it back on the questioner and other concerned audience members. THEY have the problem. THEY are overreacting. He pandered and was held accountable and just like George, he danced, dodged and hid behind the loyalists. We are in deep trouble if this type of leadership continues to be elected in this country. It is a generation of irresponsible, self-centered, power mongering men with world domination as a goal. They are not concerned if this counrty falls...there is no America in the "New World Order". Just Banks and Corporations and their front men. When you stop buying the notion that the United States Government is still the "power" and get hip to the real forces represented by Bush/CheneyCO, then we can begin to have an honest dialogue about where the world is headed if we let them take this country down.
Romney "Lighten Up"
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:27am.
Romney was clearly caught with his pants down on this one. As any Republican will do in this situation, he put it back on the questioner and other concerned audience members. THEY have the problem. THEY are overreacting. He pandered and was held accountable and just like George, he danced, dodged and hid behind the loyalists. We are in deep trouble if this type of leadership continues to be elected in this country. It is a generation of irresponsible, self-centered, power mongering men with world domination as a goal. They are not concerned if this counrty falls...there is no America in the "New World Order". Just Banks and Corporations and their front men. When you stop buying the notion that the United States Government is still the "power" and get hip to the real forces represented by Bush/CheneyCO, then we can begin to have an honest dialogue about where the world is headed if we let them take this country down.
Jerid, kudos to you for asking the question, please ask him..
Submitted by ohio_observer on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:29am.
next time about:
In April 2007 Romney had told AP in an interview, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person" when asked about whether its important to catch Osama Bin Laden.
Its clear that Romney does not care about the death of 3000 innocents on 9/11 as long as it does not benefit him politically. So, please ask him about it next time.
Romney is not only a flipflopper, a political opportunist, an intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics but also a fake, conscience-free, morals-free, torture loving politician.
We don't need another psycopathic president for sure.
Good Job!
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:49am.
Hey Mitt, how about a simple apology for lack of judgement and, or, taste?
Yeah, "lighten up" is a great response. Shithead.
I was in front of my TV, too.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 12:13pm.
Jerid.
I remember 9/11. I was listening to NPR, and the announcer was saying "smoke is coming from one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center." I dashed to my TV room. And as I was gathering what was happening, light plane, explosion, airliner... Matt Lauer said, "wha- wha- what's that ahh..." and another plane hit the second tower.
I looked at the screen and said to myself. We are screwed. We are screwed, and we are screwed. At that moment, I realized that the nut in the White House would milk this for all it was worth.
And I was right. LOOK HOW SCREWED WE ARE NOW.
Oh, this sickens me. You did a good thing. Daylight is cleansing.
Not even close
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 1:18pm.
The sign is not even close to 9-11.
I think Ted Kennedy coined the Osama Obama when trying to say Obama's name.
I agree,you need to lighten up!
Ted Kennedy's malapropism "Osama Obama" bites back
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:17pm.
The faux outrage is amusing.
When one of the besotted Democratic leaders (Teddy "Is this the turnoff to Chappaquiddick?" Kennedy blurts out a slovenly renaming of Barak H. Obama as "Osama Obama", and then a political opponent wryly puts this joke on a rhyming sign, suddenly all of the "Bushitler" hysterical hyperbole (from the Dem's side) is forgotten, and we are treated to a squeezed-out-like-toothpaste blip of manufactured affront.
An atrophied sense of humor is the first sign of the incipient crank.
Keep cranking it out.
"The clearest thing I feel
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:26pm.
"The clearest thing I feel now, six years later, are those tears that violently rolled off my face into my pillow the night of September 11th."
Jerid, you are a disingenuous little creep. And a girly man, too.
Comparing Osama to Americans?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:35pm.
It's obvious that you're pissed off. It's understandable that you're upset that Romney would dare to compare any American to Osama. I mean, Lord knows that you liberals worship Osama and hate America, so it's absolutely outrageous that anyone would dare insult Osama like that!
It's possible that he just thought it would be okay, being that you all do so well at comparing Americans to Hitler and seem to enjoy calling the U.S. a terrorist state.
Oh wait. I'm sorry. I said "Lord" in that comment. Hope I didn't offend any of you.
lets find out who worships Bin Laden
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:26pm.
Bush let escape Bin Laden from Tora Bora mountains in 2002.
Then multiple-choice Mitt tells AP in April 2007 that, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person" when asked about whether its important to catch Osama Bin Laden.
So, figure out who likes Bin Laden!
That's odd
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:37pm.
I don't seem to remember any anger about terrorist in chief. Or Bush as Osama. The hypocrisy is stunning!
which democratic candidate was holding
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:31pm.
a sign that had this thing written on it?
The days of rethug spin are over. The American people are smart enough to know the difference between Mitt's hate-mongering and your spin.
Huh?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:39pm.
You're trying to make an issue out of a sign that someone brought to a photo-op? With all that is going on right now, THAT is what you're outraged about?
I find it interesting how
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:40pm.
I find it interesting how one side can say Bush is Hitler and Cheney is the devil. But when the right does the same thing your group gets so indignant. How about some consistancy first. Then you might be taken seriously. I don't think it is helpful by any side to compare a candidate to any person in history or current events that clearly do not reflect American Ideals. It takes away from what the real debate should be about.
And to deny the emotions that happened after the ATTACK on 9/11 is to put your head in the sand and deny the threat terrorist are to America.
Outrage
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:40pm.
Lighten up Nancy. Faux indignation isn't becoming.
Are you angry at Durbin for calling our soldiers Nazis? Murtha for calling them murderers? Are you angry at every leftist in the US who calls Bush Hitler? Rosie says we are a nation of terrorists. I'm sure you plan to confront her.
Perhaps you should be made aware of Ted Kennedy's buffoonery. The sign is a reference to a blunder of his. It's not a comparison of BO and OBL.
Please explain
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:49pm.
Let me get this straight. Because the 2 names appear on the same piece of cardboard, this constitutes a "comparison"? Ridiculous. Replace the word "Osama" with "illegal immigration". Would that then mean that Obama and Hillary were being compared/likened to illegal immigrants? Saying "no" to any or all of the above doesn't necessarily mean that you consider them all to be similar, just that you don't approve of them.
please ask plastic Mitt to
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:41pm.
hold more hate filled signs like this. I forgot that "the base" loves this and one solid reason to Mitt the nomination.
Oh, really, who cares?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:49pm.
At least Osama is up front about his desire to bring about America's destruction, so, if anything, the comparison is probably flattering to Hillary.
He's right you should lighten up.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:52pm.
Romney was right. You should lighten up. That clearly wasn't the intent of the sign. You can say negatives about multiple subjects, and it doesn't mean you are equating those objects to each other. That's logic. You clearly didn't like Romney to start, and thought you had a clever little angle to get worked up about.
yes, multiple-choice Mitt is always right
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:44pm.
how can he be wrong when henever flip-flops?
"Vote Democrat! You're life
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 2:57pm.
"Vote Democrat! You're life depends on it!"
This message brought to you by:
Al-Quaeda
Hamas
Fatah
Hezbolla
The Saudi Royal Family
And the nation states of:
Iran
Syria
Lebanon
Oh please
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:01pm.
This coming from group of people who have no reservations calling Bush Hitler and Terrorist in Chief. Just more liberal hypocrisy.
no democratic presidential candidate has called Bush that
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:47pm.
or posed with a sign in their hand saying that sort of thing. Your usual rethug spin will not work anymore.
Romney
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:03pm.
Wants to win his party nomination, and I really hope he does. Hillary, Obama, et al will have this twit for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
There is just such a creep factor to this guy. actually they are all freakish!
Run Romney Run! Run Fred RUN! Run Jullieannie Run! Run Mccain RUN!
What a bunch of out of touch losers!
Please post this outrage
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:17pm.
Please post this outrage when someone hold up a sign with Bush = "Hitler". Show some consistency.
Teddy
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:20pm.
Ted Kennedy would get a real kick out of this. Go Mitt!!
Osama, Obama, etc.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:22pm.
The hypocrisy of the left knows no limits. For the authors of "Chimpy McHalliBusHitler" to whine because Mitt Romney stood next to a nut with a sign for a campaign picture is just the latest example of your disorientation.
Get a grip.
Osama, Obama & Chelsea's Mama
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:36pm.
Sort of has a ring to it, dontcha know? The sign does not compare the three, it just states that the woman is against the three. Not quite the same as comparing Bush to Hitler now, is it? You liberal weenies are so intellectually dishonest, it's nauseating.
So let me educate you. Osama is a bad guy. Obama and Shrillary are doing everything they can to hand the bad guy a victory over Bush, our troops and, ultimately, the American people. (Is that you or just me and the right-minded conservatives in this great land?) Ergo, the comparison that you pea-brains made in your small-mindedness is actually valid. How would the democRat leadership act differently if they admitted that they ARE against the troops and for the terrorists?
Answer: The would behave in the manner that they are currently behaving. Traitorous...does that sting? Good.
did you get your meds today?
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:49pm.
You can lend some from Rush if you have run out of it.
Will I see you at Ron Paul events.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:42pm.
I'm just wondering do you show up at Ron Paul events and ask him why he courts "Bush did 911" moonbats?
Does that "really upset you?
I don't see what the problem
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:50pm.
I don't see what the problem was. Who was being compared to Osama? The sign was meant to be a cute rhyme talking about the things republicans are against. Romney took the picture in the heat of the moment without thinking much of it. It is annoying that Romney sort of ignored the question, but he's trying to keep his hands clean.
What's the bid deal?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:50pm.
I don't see what the problem was. Who was being compared to Osama? The sign was meant to be a cute rhyme talking about the things republicans are against. Romney took the picture in the heat of the moment without thinking much of it. It is annoying that Romney sort of ignored the question, but he's trying to keep his hands clean.
You area truly famous, Jerid.
Submitted by Muffet on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 3:59pm.
You made it onto TMZ.com.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/23/romney-on-osama-sign-lighten-up/
Oh please.....
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:00pm.
Osama Obama originated from Ted Kennedy. Some of you people have no sense of humor.
.
Jerid crybaby
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:06pm.
As Romney said, "lighten up". Do you get this upset with all of the kill Bush, kill Cheney, Bush=Hitler, Bush is Taliban, etc. material? Do you still wet the bed and suck your thumb?
Oh please......the righteous indignation of it all.
Submitted by Walldog on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:25pm.
You realize that "Obama Osama" originated from Ted Kennedy. If Obama were a Republican and Jesse Jackson had held that sign, you wouldn't have said a peep would you.
Quit your whining and grab a mop before someone slips on that spilt milk. That "Bushitler" t-shirt ain't gonna do the job.
.
Let Romney run on the 'hate' platform
Submitted by ohio_observer on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:35pm.
Not surprised to see that the morally bankrupt republican sycophants defend the "hate" speech.
Hahahahaha
Submitted by Walldog on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:42pm.
Hate speech? Gasp! Quick, someone warn Teddy. Child, you don't even know what hate speech is. Are Democrats normally that thin-skinned or is self-righteous indignation just part of their genetic make-up?
Brilliant
Submitted by modernesquire on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:38pm.
You, sir, must true be one of the most enlightened conservatives on the Internet. Please, wise one, do illuminate for us when Senator Kennedy intentionally equated Senator Obama with the world's most notorious terrorist and number #1 enemy of the United States. The accidential verbal slip of the tongue doesn't count because that's not what Romney's supporter did.
By the way, learn grammar and punctuation, genius. Always love the idocacy of the straw man argument by assuming, with absolutely no evidence at all, that the poster owns a t-shirt comparing Bush to Hitler and thereby attacking his credibility on account of the hypocracy that is completely an invention of your own imagination.
Be sure to come back when your brain comes in. Why do all conservatives, in every post, feel the compelled need to bring up Jesse Jackson and Ted Kennedy, really?
Oh my.
Submitted by Walldog on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:51pm.
If I were you, I'd be more concerned about the inability to spell. Genius.
As for bringing up Ted & Jesse, can ya blame us? They don't embarrass you, do they?
On Edit: Just in case you were wondering, there is no "a" and only one "c" in "idiocy". You might consider developing a sense of humor while you're looking for the dictionary, too.
You lose.
Submitted by modernesquire on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:05pm.
Called your bluff, and you're full of shit. Figures.
No, they don't embarrass us. But the conservative fixation on them is obsessive, and frankly cliche. It's like, say, comparing your opponent to the most vile representation of a human being to ever exist (like, say, Hitler, or OBL?)
I can't believe any conservative in his right mind would defend Mitt Romney. You should know that he'll be pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-universal health care just as soon as the Republican primary is over, right?
Of course, since Mitt Romney said that capturing OBL shouldn't be a national security priority, why's he even mentioning OBL? Why give him that much free press?
The great thing about Mitt Romney is that if you don't like his positions, he'll change it almost as often as he does his makeup.
And, yes, because there is absolutely nothing funnier than reading the dictionary...
Oh....and by the way.....
Submitted by Walldog on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:31pm.
Ted Kennedy on January 12, 2005......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx2YJ-_jos
Seriously, you really need to lighten up.
Can you say hypocrite?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:47pm.
So you're upset becuase someone "compared" Obama to Osama.
Hmmmm..
Are you equally as upset when someone compares Bush to Hitler or republican to Nazis.
It's called a mirror, look into one sometime to see what a hypocrite really looks like.
JUST SAY NO TO OBAMA, OSAMA, AND CHELEA'S MOMMA!
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 4:52pm.
FUNNIEST F*CKING SIGN I'VE SEE ALL YEAR. MOVE TO FRANCE YOU SPINELESS HALFWIT.
You guys are reaching
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:01pm.
The sign made no comparison of Obama to Osama. It merely listed things that the person opposed. Can you get that through your thick head?
Thank you for proving one of my points.
Submitted by Walldog on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:22pm.
Yep. You Democrats really do have thin skin and a thicker head. You're proof.
So far, you've shown that the Republican Party's "Big Tent" is bigger than yours. I don't give a flip about Romney's social stances. I just enjoy reading Democrat hypocrisy and watching you boys get your panties in a twist when someone points it out.
Why give Romney so much free press, you ask? I dunno. Why did you?
I don't know why you're so upset. After reading your comments, sounds to me like he'd make a great Democrat.
Classic
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 5:48pm.
Just how does that sign compare Obama to Osama? It merely lists three knucklheads that we should say 'no' too.
And don't make me dredge up the scads of lefty rhetoric comparing Bush to Hitler and Americans as little Eichmanns.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Big Tent? BHAHAHAHA!
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 6:02pm.
Good one walldog! The Republican Party has a "bigger tent" than the Democrats! You can choose from White Guy A, White Guy B, or White Guy C! Oh yeah, there's White Guys D through G as well! That's a BIG tent you got there! It really appeals to the whole of America, if it were made up of old crusty white guys! LOL!
Speaking of thin skin, I notice you have posted on this obscure blog an aweful lot today. Afraid people are making nasty comments about you? Thin skin indeed.
So, which one should Mitt be saying "Yes" to?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 6:04pm.
After all, as a GOP candidate for President, should he be supportive of either Clinton or Obama? Or are you offended that someone would dare to oppose that poor misunderstood Mr. Bin Laden?
Lighten up -- and tell your friends on the Left to quit calling Bus a Nazi and comparing him to Hitler, Stalin, and the other villains of history.
Sorry
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:01pm.
I fail to see a comparison.
You seem to be suffering from some kind of logical disconnect. Expressing dislike for some people does not mean that those people are comparable.
All that it means is that they are disliked.
You know how to pick them..
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:12pm.
Lets see; a plagiarist, an unindicted coconspirator and closeted lesbian, a failed mayor who almost drove his city into bankruptcy and thinks he was abducted by aliens, a coke head social worker who has never had a real job but owns a million dollar home, a drunk who got Teddy Kennedy's sloppy seconds, a senile old guy from Alaska who doesn't know what planet he is on half the time and John Edwards(that's all the description he needs). Yep, these are your leaders, your heroes. Liberals really are sad and pathetic.
On the other side of the coin...
Submitted by modernesquire on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 8:34am.
You have the Republican field where not even registered Republicans want to see any of these guys become President.
Way to go, Jerid
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:20pm.
You hit the bigtime! Countdown on Olbermann with comments from Alter. Boy, you make us all proud!
I don't understand how
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:23pm.
I don't understand how someone can compare any American to Osama Bin Laden
Particularly when Hitler is so much more in vogue and associated with the president...who last time I checked was an American.
The video made Countdown
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:27pm.
The video made Countdown (with an attribution to BSB). I'll be putting video up of the whole story at Plunderbund.
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 7:31pm.
Why don't you attck the idiots on the DailyKos web site? They are wishing the death of the VP and are thrilled about the White House spokesman's cancer returning. Where is the outrage there? Hillary "Flipflop" Clinton, need I say more? You Lefties are killing this country! Oh, and before you accused me of being a "Rightie" don't, Independent all the way!
Hypocrites
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 8:07pm.
Sorry but you on the left have no problem comparing Bush to Hitler. Effing hypocrites.
Oh, for the sake of Pete.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 8:08pm.
The sign expresses three separate ideas:
We're against [Barak] Obama — because he's potentially the Dem nominee. And we're Republicans, so we're agin' him.
We're against Osama [bin Laden] — because he's a terrorist and head of al Qaeda. Assuming he's still alive, that is.
We're against Chelsea's Momma [H. Clinton] — because she's potentially the Dem nominee. And we're Republicans, so we're agin' her.
And "Obama," "Osama," and "Momma" rhyme. That's why they're on the same poster. But if you are going to insist that the poster is saying that candidates for the presidency are morally equivalent to Osama bin Laden, go right ahead, but it only shows your lack of logic skills. Spacial proximity isn't an equals sign.
But I guess you Spoke Truth To Power. Don't forget to put that on your resume.
We're against [Barak] Obama — because he's potentially the Dem nominee. And we're Republicans, so we're agin' him.
We're against Osama [bin Laden] — because he's a terrorist and head of al Qaeda. Assuming he's still alive, that is.
We're against Chelsea's Momma [H. Clinton] — because she's potentially the Dem nominee. And we're Republicans, so we're agin' her.
And "Obama," "Osama," and "Momma" rhyme. That's why they're on the same poster. But if you are going to insist that the poster is saying that candidates for the presidency are morally equivalent to Osama bin Laden, go right ahead, but it only shows your lack of logic skills. Spacial proximity isn't an equals sign.
But I guess you Spoke Truth To Power. Don't forget to put that on your resume.
The republican "family values" at work!
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:55pm.
The republican "family values" at work!
No to Obama - he's a
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 8:42pm.
No to Obama - he's a dhimmicrat. Makes sense.
No to Osama - He's a terrorist. Makes sense.
No to Chelsa's mama (Hillary) - She's a dhimmicrat. Makes sense.
What were you whining about again?
No to Romney - he's a hate-mongerer who does not want
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:58pm.
to catch Bin Laden.
What's the fuss about??
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 8:44pm.
No to Obama - he's a dhimmicrat. Makes sense.
No to Osama - He's a terrorist. Makes sense.
No to Chelsea's mama (Hillary) - She's a dhimmicrat. Makes sense.
What were you whining about again?
Walldog, do you understand the difference...
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 9:40pm.
When Senator Kennedy made his remark it was an (unfortuante) slip of the tongue. The lady's sign was, of course, an intentional comparison. Do you really not understand the difference?
Walldog, do you understand the difference between.......
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 9:45pm.
Kennedy's comment involved an unfortunate slip of the tongue. The lady's sign represented, of course, an intentional comparison between Senator Obama and Osama. Learn the difference, walldog.
You have got to be kidding me
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 9:54pm.
This from the loony left who compares Hitler to Bush and movies made about killing the President as "art".
Is this all you have on Romney? No wonder no body takes the left seriously.
Romney on Obama
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 10:13pm.
Hey Idiot!! If you are so offended that Romney was next to a sign calling Obama Osama, and you "DON'T APPRECIATE ANY AMERICAN BEING COMPARED TO OSAMA" Why don't you have the guts to talk to Ted Kennedy about that!! He calls Obama Osama on a regular basis. You're nothing but a whiny crying little liberal and you're pathetic!!
Mitt>you
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:11pm.
To the dimwit in the video who rudely interrupts Mr. Romney after he gave you a reasonable explanation concerning the sign issue, after you tried to gain sympathy by recalling the day of 9/11:
Where are your protests over the President of the United States being called Hilter? There have been none because your false-outrage over comparing people to mass murderers is only evident when it serves your political purposes. The way you showed absolutely no respect for Mr. Romney in the video, a man who is so, so, so far beyond you in absolutely every way, is evidence that you are an immature, uninformed, disingenuous, and unimportant demagogue. I'm sorry that I couldn't have been there at the debate with you, for I would've asked you to shut your mouth, or shut it for you.
oh yea,
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:03pm.
every sycophant should go on his/her knees before the 'dear leader mulitiple-choice Mitt'.
Jerid, how dare you ask question to Mitt! You are only supposed to say 'yes sir' like cult followers.
Mitt>you
Submitted by MrRight on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:16pm.
To the dimwit in the video who rudely interrupts Mr. Romney after he gave you a reasonable explanation concerning the sign issue, after you tried to gain sympathy by recalling the day of 9/11:
Where are your protests over the President of the United States being called Hilter? There have been none because your false-outrage over comparing people to mass murderers is only evident when it serves your political purposes. The way you showed absolutely no respect for Mr. Romney in the video, a man who is so, so, so far beyond you in absolutely every way, is evidence that you are an immature, uninformed, disingenuous, and unimportant demagogue. I'm sorry that I couldn't have been there at the debate with you, for I would've asked you to shut your mouth, or shut it for you.
Hilarious
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:28pm.
The false indignation thing really isn't working, but thanks for the laugh.
Democrats--Al Qaeda--Partners
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 11:32pm.
You protest a little too loudly.
Two groups benefit from an immediate withdrawal from Iraq (actually more than two groups)--al Qaeda and the Democrats. To oppose the Crats is to oppose bin Laden and vice versa.
By all means try to make a case that this isn't so.
republican mind at work again!
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:09pm.
Don't try to think too hard, your brain may explode. Instead go and volunteer for your pretty boy Mitt who wears $300 makeup.
Mitt's right
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:33am.
No to obama, guy couldnt run a corner grocery store because he's too indecisive, No to osama for obvious reasons, no to chelsea's momma because shes a frickin Marxist!!!! The sign says it all. I dont like romney for president but hey he's got the right idea and the narcissistic little college puke just made himself out to look like a moron. Mitt handled it well.
Ted Kennedy
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:34am.
BTW... why werent you pissed at Ted Kennedy for confusing Obama with Osama? LOL god bless you moonbats. Barak Hussein Obama will make a great President..... of the newspaper delivery boy club... not America.
republicans are getting super desparate!
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:17pm.
no one is surprised!
Bahahahahahah!!
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:57am.
Obama Osama was what Ted "the swimmer" kennedy called Obama. So the sign is to be read as...
no to Obama and Hillary.
Jerid, you sir, are a fool. You had your shot at your 15 minutes of fame and you used it to prove that you are stupid.
Thank you for having more guts than most people
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:56am.
You are what I consider to be a true American. Thank God we have at least a few people left who are willing to stand up and discuss real values and honesty even though they might get shot down and ridiculed. When someone stands up and talks very sincerely with raw truth like you did, it makes deceivers tremble with rage and self-righteousness. I can't tell you how hopeful it is to see that there are still real honest to goodness heroes like you left in America.
Original Joke
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 2:31am.
The original joke went like this: Chelsea Clinton went to Iraq and asked a brave Marine whether he was afraid of anything. He replied: "Osama, Obama and your Moma."
Here's another joke for the humorless:
Ted Kennedy's Car has killed more people than Dick Cheney's Gun
I think Romney's correct,
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 7:04am.
I think Romney's correct, you big pussy...lighten up. You'd think that with reedy, high-pitched whine like yours, you'd be aware that that much invective, at that velocity over a tiny issue makes you sound like a bigger panty-waist than perhaps you are.
I mean, for goodness sake, you almost sounded like you were going to cry! I like the way that Mormon Romney, with his vast experience in dealing with lil' crumb snatchers, got you to hold onto your undies and eventually shut up.
You rump ranger!
How can anybody compare Obama to Osama?
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 8:38am.
Simple, really... Jerid, you're comparable to Osama too, as are most left-wing hacks. You people have far more in common with Osama than you might wish to admit. After all, you agree with Osama: We should pull out of Iraq. We should get out of the middle east. We should respect muslim culture and so on.
Meanwhile, on domestic policy, you're little different from the Taliban, except for the particulars of their program. You enjoy imposing your morality on others. You enjoy creating 'justice' in whatever image you desire. Osama, Obama, and Chelsea's Momma all agree. For all of you statists, (and Osama's just one more brand--using his conception of Allah as his excuse,) it's all about wresting control from your fellow man, by force of arms when they will not agree. You don't believe in freedom. The same holds for Osama, Obama, and Chelsea's Momma.
Want evidence? You've provided it. You're a great lover of 'free speech', yet here you go after somebody who has merely offered an idea(and I mean the sign-carrying Romney supporter.) You claim not to believe in guilt by association, but by going after Romney for the sign his supporter is carrying, you are guilty of that same sin.
Truth be told, I'm associating you with Osama, not because you stood in a picture with him, but because you share idea(l)s with him. So does Obama, and Hillary's Momma.
Get over it.
John Galt
perspective
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 8:47am.
@ Jerid and all others who tie themselves in a knot for naught;
After the initial joinders in hypocritical outrage, more sensible heads have prevailed.
-comparisons weren't made
-hypocracy abound on the left as nazi bush comparison provokes no outrage
-i like romney's down to the earth response
Jared, can you say hypocrisy?
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 9:15am.
Why is it lots of left wing liberal moonbats can hold up signs comparing Bush to Hitler, and Jared doesn't demand Hillary, Obama and the rest of their ilk to apologize?? Typical Liberal hipocrisy! This is just another example of the hipocrisy of the so called "tolerent, inclusive" left in this country. They tolerate until you disagree with them, then they show their true colors as the hateful, angry, psuedo-intellectuals that they really are!!!
You still have much to learn.
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 10:32am.
Simply tell the truth and some opinions are better kept to oneself. Jerid, you are guilty of doing all of these things. How would you feel if I said your mother failed you - however, I'm not saying that, I was just thinking out loud via email!!! Romney NEVER compared any Americans to Osama Bin Laden. Your 15 minutes of fame have failed you miserably. If you had any class, you would have simply asked him if he was aware of what the sign read. What his thoughts were and will he be more attentive when posing for a picture involving a sign. You would have then appeared intelligent and sympathetic. You still have much to learn.
I really am late to reading all these comments.
Submitted by Muffet on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 10:49am.
Seriously, is there something wrong with Anonymous/Mr. Right? Seems like maybe he needs to get back on his meds.
he/she is just following orders from
Submitted by ohio_observer on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 1:21pm.
his/her dear leader, multiple-choice Mitt. Thats all. When leader starts the hate-speech how can his sycophants not follow him?
What fun
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 12:01pm.
I wonder if Jerid is starting to feel just a little bit stupid over the fact that he made an @ss out of himself over a sign that references something Teddy said. Come on Jerid, get a sub and chill out. Can't you think of bigger fish to fry?
Anonymous/Mr. Right sounds like.....
Submitted by No Vested Interest on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 2:25pm.
A junior high name-caller at recess. His comments are not the comments of a mature person. I'm too old to spend much time reading this. I believe he/she ought to go back to his/her studies for a few more years and then perhaps he/she will be ready to engage in reasoned dialogue. This is the unfortunate underside of blogging.
kos managed to get it