Romney on 9/11: "Lighten Up"
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
kos gave credit
Osama/Obama
Kos did give him credit
MORONIC!
Why get angry?
ITS ON MY SCREEN SAVERS SO
good question, lousy answer
Will this moron take a picture if sign says, 'Dubya loves Osama'
Will this moron hold a sign that says, 'Dubya loves Osama'?
Romney "Lighten Up"
Romney "Lighten Up"
Jerid, kudos to you for asking the question, please ask him..
Good Job!
I was in front of my TV, too.
Not even close
Ted Kennedy's malapropism "Osama Obama" bites back
"The clearest thing I feel
Comparing Osama to Americans?
lets find out who worships Bin Laden
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
which democratic candidate was holding
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?
I find it interesting how
Outrage
Please explain
please ask plastic Mitt to
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?
He's right you should lighten up.
yes, multiple-choice Mitt is always right
"Vote Democrat! You're life
Oh please
no democratic presidential candidate has called Bush that
Romney
Please post this outrage
Teddy
Osama, Obama, etc.
Osama, Obama & Chelsea's Mama
did you get your meds today?
Will I see you at Ron Paul events.
I don't see what the problem
What's the bid deal?
You area truly famous, Jerid.
Oh please.....
Jerid crybaby
Oh please......the righteous indignation of it all.
Let Romney run on the 'hate' platform
Hahahahaha
Brilliant
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.
You lose.
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.....
Can you say hypocrite?
JUST SAY NO TO OBAMA, OSAMA, AND CHELEA'S MOMMA!
You guys are reaching
Thank you for proving one of my points.
Classic
Big Tent? BHAHAHAHA!
So, which one should Mitt be saying "Yes" to?
Sorry
You know how to pick them..
On the other side of the coin...
Way to go, Jerid
I don't understand how
The video made Countdown
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Hypocrites
Oh, for the sake of Pete.
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!
No to Obama - he's a
No to Romney - he's a hate-mongerer who does not want
What's the fuss about??
Walldog, do you understand the difference...
Walldog, do you understand the difference between.......
You have got to be kidding me
Romney on Obama
Mitt>you
oh yea,
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.





kos managed to get it