Romney opens ad offensive against Obama
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s first television commercial attacking Barack Obama’s record hits the airwaves in New Hampshire on Tuesday — just in time to welcome the president on a visit to the early primary state.
A discussion of jobs was on the agenda for Obama’s quick trip to a high school in Manchester. But Romney didn’t wait for the president’s arrival.
The former Massachusetts governor previewed his new ad Monday night on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show.
The 60-second spot opens with a shot of Obama delivering a campaign speech in New Hampshire — in Oct. 2008. About a third of the way in, the ad shifts focus to Romney.
“The contrast between what he said and what he did is so stark, people will recognize we really do need to have someone new lead this country,” Romney said, describing what he’s trying to convey in the TV spot. “And then I, of course, described why I’m the right person for that responsibility.”
And the reviews from the Obama campaign are in. “… Romney launches a deceitful and dishonest attack rather than outline his own record or plans for the future.” — Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
Here’s the Romney spot posted on YouTube:
Obama says biggest task left for him is to fix U.S. politics
President Barack Obama has lots of reasons he wants to hold on to the White House in 2012.
There’s energy policy, for example, which he would like to revamp. There’s immigration reform, which he hopes to “implement.”
But at a fundraiser on Monday night, the president said the real challenge he had left to handle was “fixing” the political atmosphere in Washington.
“The challenge we have now is fixing our politics,” Obama said at fundraiser held at a private home in Washington.
“That is probably the biggest piece of business that remains unfinished. That’s probably the area where we’ve been most stymied over the last three years.”
In 2008 one of Obama’s campaign promises was to bring a greater spirit of bipartisanship to the capital. Both Republicans and Democrats would likely agree that that has not happened.
Whether a second Obama term would change that is hard to say. But the president is raising money to help advance his cause.
We sure as hell can’t afford any of the GOP’s fixes. Everything they want to enact raises the deficit, increases unemployment, and shrinks the economy.
Huntsman in the ‘middle’ in 2012 Republican field
Jon Huntsman is counting on right-of-center politics to give him an advantage in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, despite polls showing him trailing far behind the favorites in a crowded field.
He says Democrat Barack Obama is too far to the left and the president’s other Republican opponents are too far to the right.
“This country is crying out for a sensible middle ground. This is a center-right country; I am a center-right candidate,” the former Utah governor said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour.”
“We’ve found ourselves at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, and people are crying out for us to get back to some level of sensibility,” said Huntsman, Obama’s former ambassador to China.
Huntsman said “sideshows,” “finger pointing and name-calling” distract from what candidates should be talking about — their ideas for fixing the economy and creating jobs.
Republican rivals Texas Governor Rick Perry and Minnesota congressman Michele Bachmann — both strongly outspoken fiscal and religious conservatives — stir up excitement among the party’s base.
But attracting the independent voters a Republican candidate will need to win the general election could prove difficult for the two party favorites.
Huntsman is the only person acting like an adult in the race at this time. Paul is too old, let’s just face it. He would be 77 when sworn in. The WH belongs to a new generation. It’s just a fact, look at the demographics of who voted for Obama in the last race. This is the post-WW II generation, wacky though it may be. Hopefully enough moderates will come out and bring things back to the middle, where it belongs. I agree with you Seattlesh, better anyone than me. Wait until Palin jumps in the race here in a few weeks. The circus atmosphere will truly take on a life of its own at that point.
Lastly, I agree with sooku. McBride, you might take a look at the Constitution for guidance on religious matters. Harry Reid doesn’t insinuate his religion into his politics. He’s an ineffective leader. Generally harmless, regardless of religion, in other words.
Senator Dodd undone – tweeted and deleted
The hazards of the Twitter age became quite apparent for one senator today.
“U love torturing me w this shit” was tweeted on Senator Christopher Dodd’s Twitter account @SenChrisDodd.
Then came the tweet ”From Dodd Staff – Apologies to Dodd’s followers, last tweet was not from Chris Dodd.”
The first tweet has vanished into twitterair with a little help from the delete button, but some followers who were on their toes took screenshots.
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee who did not run for re-election will be leaving Congress after year-end.
But looks like that tweet gained him some followers. Dodd now has 12,780 compared with 12,690 when the tweet went out.
Photo credit: Reuters/Richard Clement (Dodd at a Senate hearing Sept. 30)
Aide to rival calls California’s Whitman a ‘whore’
California’s personal and unpleasant governor’s race just took another step toward the bottom as a tape emerged in which an aide to Democrat Jerry Brown calls Republican Meg Whitman a “whore” for her attempts to get endorsements from law enforcement.
The Los Angeles Times was given the tape of an answering machine message from Brown to a law enforcement group. Brown apparently didn’t hang up, and so a private conversation was captured on tape. The Times’ blog is here, with the audio tape is at the bottom or here.
The governor’s race is nearly tied — Brown’s taken a small lead recently — and it is nasty, thanks to a fight over Whitman’s hiring of an illegal immigrant housekeeper. Brown, the maverick and former governor running for another try at the top job, says she’s not taking the type of responsibility that she should, given her position that employers should be held accountable for hiring illegal workers. She calls that a lie and says she didn’t know her housekeeper was in the United States illegally until the woman confessed — and Whitman says she’s willing to take a lie detector test.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found Californians watching the drama but not basing their votes on the housekeeper scandal. We’ll see what happens with the Brown tape.
The Brown call is a pitch for an endorsement from a law enforcement group. After he thinks he’s hung up, Brown complains that Whitman has bought the support of police by carving out an exception for them in her pension reform plan. ”They know Whitman will give ‘em, will cut them a deal, but I won’t,” Brown says.
“She’s a whore,” another person says.
Brown’s camp confirmed the authenticity of the tape to the LA Times and said it was looking into who the other speaker was. A spokesman later called the language ‘salty’ and apologized to Whitman, the Sacramento Bee reported. Whitman spokesman Sarah Pompei called the term an appalling smear that “at the very least Mr. Brown tacitly approved”. “The use of the term ‘whore’ is an insult to both Meg Whitman and to the women of California,” she continued in an email.
Arizona law galvanizes U.S. Latinos
The swastika made of refried beans smeared onto the glass doors of the Arizona State Capitol this week captured the anger of Hispanics at the law authorizing local police to question anyone reasonably suspected of being in the United States illegally. The controvesial law, which critics say is a mandate for racial profiling, has galvanized the country’s largest minority that is expected to turn out in large numbers at planned rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities.
Hispanics were disappointed that President Barack Obama failed to deliver on his campaign promise to overhaul the immigration system in his first year in office. The Pew Research Center says 76 percent of the estimated 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the United States are Hispanics. The Latino community sees the undocumented immigrants as contributing with their labor to the growth of the U.S. economy and deserve the right to be legal residents.
The Arizona measure was criticized by other minorities. “This law is un-American as it unjustly targets communities of color, in particular immigrant communities, which have been critical to the economic growth of our country throughout its history,” said Michael Honda, chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Republican backers of the law say it is needed to curb crime in Arizona, a desert state that is a major corridor for drug and migrant smugglers from Mexico. Democrats, particularly those with shaky re-election prospects in mid-terms in November, are worried about losing Latino votes. The outcry has injected new life into efforts to move immigration reform through Congress. Democratic leaders in the Senate unveiled an outline of how to overhaul the system on Thursday.
One day after he said Congress may not have “the appetite now” to tackle immigration reform, President Barack Obama welcomed the reform proposal saying it had “become increasingly clear” the country can longer wait to fix the “broken immigration system.”
Photo credits: Reuters/Joshua Lott (Protest of Arizona immigration legislation) Reuters/Mario Anzuoni (protest sign for immigration rally in Lost Angeles)
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from Summit Notebook:
Eliot Spitzer loved politics, so will he run again?
This much is clear -- Eliot Spitzer loved politics, he loved being New York governor, he loved being New York attorney general.
So will he run for public office again?
Well here it gets a little bit like watching a tennis ball going back and forth over the net.
Asked at the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit whether he was considering running for office again, Spitzer replied "No."
But had he ruled it out? The answer from the Democrat was not quite as precise.
"I'm not yet ready to throw in the towel," he said, joking (we think) that it's like the goal of winning Wimbledon.
"You never quite give up on anything and rule things off the map. And so have I said I'm never running for office again? No. Have I said am I thinking about it at this moment? No. Did I love politics? Yes. Did I grow up at the age of 2 saying it's the only thing I want to do with my life? No."
If he’s going to make good on his promises to the citizenry then he needs to remove the enemy of the citizenry which is the fake non human corporate constituency. They lobby congress to make conditions more favorable for them to profit even if it is at the expense of the citizenry.
They have no business lobbying congress. The government belongs to the citizenry. Corporations are not human beings and not individual people. Abolish corporate citizenship.
Clinton open to coffee with Palin
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is open to having coffee with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose new book about the 2008 presidential campaign is stirring controversy.
“I absolutely would look forward to having coffee,” Clinton said from Singapore Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Clinton told ABC’s “This Week” that she would look forward to having a chance to actually get to meet Palin.
Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, gives a nod to Clinton in her book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Clinton lost the race for the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama.
Palin, a popular conservative firebrand who has been communicating mostly via Facebook since quitting as governor, opens a campaign-style book tour on Tuesday that will hit a dozen states.
Is she laying the groundwork for a 2012 presidential campaign, or simply selling her book, which currently sits atop the Amazon.com Top 100 Books list?
“I don’t want a religious nut making hard decisions”
Yeah. Me too. The IslamoMarxist that is currently residing in the White House really makes me angry!
“I would move if ..”
I hear that Hugo Chavez’s country is just lovely this time of year. It sounds, M. Anderson, that he is your kind of leader. Have a nice one-way trip and be sure to take a couple of illegals with you.
No lie! Poll shows Joe Wilson trailing in reelection bid
Congressman Joe Wilson might be tempted to yell “You lie!” again – this time at a poll that shows the presidential heckler trailing in his reelection bid.
The survey by Public Policy Polling found Democratic challenger Rob Miller leading the five-term Republican lawmaker by 44 percent to 43 percent. The numbers had Democrats cheering, and at least one pollster offering a new view of the contest in the heavily Republican South Carolina district.
It is all part of the fallout of Wilson yelling “You lie!” at President Barack Obama during his address to Congress on Wednesday night on healthcare reform.
“In a matter of seconds Joe Wilson turned himself from a safe incumbent into one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country for 2010,” said Dean Debnam of Public Policy Polling, which conducted the survey of 747 voters in the congressman’s district.
But Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races, downplayed the importance of the poll and predicted Wilson would rebound against his liberal challenger in the conservative district.
“This is just a snapshot in time. The bad news for Rob Miller is that the election is 14 months away,” Wasserman said, noting a lot is certain to happen between now and then.
Last year, Wilson defeated Miller, a former Marine turned small businessman, by 54 percent to 46 percent.
Congress did boo bush at state of the union address. I would have to so what the difference.
I big O is better then lit bush but taking on the same path.
I am not a white boy or black. I know more black racist then white. I ask blacks do they like whites most men will only say they like only white women. Black women will say NO all together.
If I ask most whites they would say they like all people.
There are whites who don’t like black or anyone but just small percent.They die off more and more every day
Pulling the race card out every time because you can’t defend yourself any other way; shows education has replaced your common since.
Us native’s we don’t even like ourselves
Looks like Mr. Romney can’t fight using the truth, so instead he resorts to lies in his advertising. Doesn’t bode well for this lying Mormon to be elected POTUS.