The amoral scumbuckets who run the Obama campaign and Completely Unaffiliated Priorities USA Super PAC have really done it this time: they mock Mitt Romney’s history of saving the Olympics, a lil’ sidegig of his from back when he was still Bain Capital CEO, president, chairman, and sole stockowner. Have you ever saved an Olympics, Obama? HMMM. Let’s all thank the YouTube company for taking this ad down. It was just too mean to Mitt Romney.
The Romney campaign responded to this ad by saying that Barack Obama voted present in his state senate and so on:
“When Mitt Romney was working to turn around the Olympics, Barack Obama was voting ‘present’ in the Illinois State Senate. President Obama does not have a record to run on, so his liberal allies are resorting to false attacks in an effort to distract voters. President Obama’s record of broken promises and failed policies can’t match Mitt Romney’s record of creating jobs and rescuing troubled enterprises.”
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Mitt Romney accepted a billion and a half dollars in Federal and state subsidies for the SLOC
By contrast, the Atlanta organizers only took $600 million.
Romney: Socialist
Since the USOC is a privately held not for profit company there is no where one can go to find out how that money was spent,.
Ah, except Mitt promised to be the most transparent OC in history, with full disclosure
Until the records were destroyed after he left the SLOC to run for governor.
It's alright cause the records were written in the language of the angels and you needed mitt's special seeing glass to read them anyway.
Ummim and thummim FTW!
The right wing will never figure out that the Olympics was a major socialist enterprise and that it's leader was a major community organizer.
With so much to bring up, Obama would be remiss in not pointing out Mitt's bullshit. I do understand that republicans have an aversion to facts. As Dick Cheney said they create their own reality.
At least Obama was in attendance to vote present unlike Mitt who just had them forward his check to the Cayman Islands for three no-show years.
Mittens retroactively voted present.
Mitt will say anything to distract attention from his Taxes.Which are written on magical golden tablets,and the Obama team can't find the seer stones to decode them.
"Obama does not have a record to run on"
Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive.
That's enough for me!
Obamer is the Bane of Mitten's existence.
They're seriously going back to the 'present' votes in the Illinois State Senate?
And there was that time sophomore year when he got a fake note from his mom to get out of gym class!!!!
That whitey tape will surface any day now!
I'm so looking forward to the return of Chief Korir. I miss the bastard.
Wasn't someone even bringing up Larry "I failed two lie detector tests on my Obama = gay crack ho story" Sinclair recently?
Next thing you know they will be saying he is a foreigner or a Muslin Iman.
Why won't Barry release his high school grades?
Per the librul media, this is "swiftboating". Except the part where these "attacks" are, y'know, true.
The fact that it's true makes it even more of a lie, because, um, Mitt's a job cremator!
No, no, I meant creator! Job creator! And anyone who quotes what I said is lying!
I've seen it being referred to as "swift yachting."
Romney should just be thankful that the PAC didn't say anything about the child sex ring. Although if you read between the lines…
October surprise!
…he didn't deny it, again!
The cheek of this negro fellow!
The Obama campaign is effectively 'defining' Romney now, when October arrives and large numbers of the voting block start to realized "Romney Who?" is a Republican Presidential Candidate the 'defining' done now will appear to many as restatement of known facts. I am predicting a brutal polling period starting around October 1.
From your lips to Nate Silver's ears.
No, that didn't sound gay. : )
No thanks, Nate always appears to me as one of those guys who schedules his showers on a calendar – a monthly calendar.
They also have been fucking OWNING the news cycle every fucking day, there is just nothing but gaffes and missteps and feet-in-the-mouth episodes from Mitt, every day, thats The Story.
Getting home and surveying the news on line from London; as opposed to the Real News @ Wonkette, I don’t believe how bad this is going.When he gets to Israel will he wanders down to breakfast at the King David and ask for sausage with his eggs?
"Ann was looking for some lampshades for the new house! Any ideas?"
and what's up with Mittens destroying records on his way out of every job? That's strange behavior the American people might want to know about.
My employer is in the process of closing down and I'll be somewhat stuck until the end what with the legal and IT stuff. But when they first decided to do so I tried to tell them they have to create a 'records retention policy'. Didn't listen and now the whole process is extended a few years as different companies are filtered through different entities/states so that they can walk away and just forget decades of records.
In this instance 'records retention policy' means a policy by which you can destroy old records without liability if some one comes along and says ….
This is also the bane (pun intended) of creating a structure like Romney's domains. Being able to hide your tracks with impunity.
Make them buy a cloud account.
Ich bin nicht optimistisch.
Ich bin vorsichtig
Shouldn’t we start a Wonkette Supper PAC I’m sure You-Tube would be thrilled to have our video productions.
Full of teh buttsechs and skullfucking!
Well yes but also creative and heartwarming in a neo-patriotic kind of way
Oh, it would be a very positive ad for buttechs and skullfucking! We won't go negative, like some SooperPACs (looking at you, Gawker)
I can do heartwarming!
As long as we don't piss off the Olympic Committee, we should be fine. So no gold medals for buttsechs and skullfucking.
More like RedTube
Mitt Romney, one-sixth the man his father was.
If only money=character, instead of merely votes…
Personally, I like how all the "we built that" reductionist 'tards are turning out to have accepted loads of low-interest loans and government contracts. Truth is a bitch.
In the world of Christians who can't stand Obama, there's no dissonance like cognitive dissonance. Enter Kerby Anderson, and his commentary from yesterday that says "outsourcing ain't so bad."
Mitt's sure to get gold in the offshore drilling decathlon.
It was really going to be a biathlon, but Mitt was uncomfortable with the buttsechs event
Great gramps Miles P. was a top competitor in this event drilling his string of five at his Mexican seraglio/hacienda.
Given his week in England, its the offshore digging competition. He just can't stop.
Now, THAT"S the Chicago Way!!
Good Morning, Worrytron!
My coffee hasn't kicked in yet. I can name only 4 more men, who are alive, who have more of a record: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Carter. Did I leave one out, lol?
Nixon's frozen head.
(He was scheduled for reattachment to run in 2016, but that's up in the air because of the whole EPA thing.)
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
~Richard Nixon
Or when he thaws out.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is just getting started when she quits.
While Obama was in kindergarten, Mitt Romney was fighting in Vietnam! I mean Paris.
Wasn't Mittens fighting long-haired possibly effeminate fellow students at that time?
Enough ads using Olympics metaphors. What other events taking place between now and the election can we use?
Well, there's the Vuelta a Espana…
The end of the Mayan calender?
12/12/2012 almost a month and a half after.
The season premier of Dr. Who. Dr.Who and River Song get trapped in the Dade County Court House during the Brooks Brothers Riot and have to shoot their way out. As a consequence time changes and global warming is halted, the ozone hole closes, full employment occurs, starvation ends and Al Gore as President provides everyone fiber optic internet service for free.
Also, the PT Cruiser is never designed and built.
9/11. (announcer): "Mitt Romney was governor
of Massachusetts in 2003. Why didn't Mitt
retroactively prevent the 9/11 hijackers from
boarding those planes in BOS?"
Most asked question in England this week, "Who's this Mitten chap they keep showing on the telly"?
Probably reminds them of mutton. Crap, now I'm hungry.
There's a penguin on the telly.
Mittens don't molt.
Mitt Romney established the new sport of Olympic Queefing!
South Park did it first!
I am feeling a little disoriented from all the effective anti-Mitt ads. Kind of like the little kid after the dentist, "Is this real life?" In a good way.
It's a shame that this Obama fellow – who I used to think was basically an alright chap – is making it so inconvenient for Mitt to take over this President whatchamacallit thing.
Oooh, present. I love presents.
There … all better now.
This is amazing – Romney is BASHING the London Olympics!! What about the "special relationship" – Is Romney in love with Poland now????
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
(CNN) – Security shortfalls and a now-cancelled strike from border guards make for a "disconcerting" start to the London Olympic Games, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said in an interview Wednesday.
Speaking with NBC News, Romney said it was too early to tell if the London organizers were ready for the start of the Games.
CNN's Piers Morgan sits down with Mitt and Ann Romney Thursday in London. Watch "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9 p.m. ET for their interview.
Yes, in '36 the "organizer" of the Olympics could not wait to go to Poland either.
Bam!! Radio, you are on a roll this AM!
Thank Godwin.
Sounds like someone doesn't understand our common Anglo-Saxon heritage with his host nation.
"disconcerting"
At least Mitt has kinda sorta of a stance on something.
It's my understanding that 94% of flip-flops are manufactured in China.
"President Obama does not have a record to run on"
Are you fucking kidding me? The Romney team is just phoning it in at this point.
By Labor Day, the Romney people are just going to say, Fuck it, and launch a new campaign theme, "The President is near!"
Two things: WTF got into the Democrats' butts, running two great commercials actually slamming Willard?
And this is not the time to be politicizing politics.
I think it was hilarious how the Daily Crawler guy complained that the ad was "xenophobic" and "fearmongering" because it mentioned outsourcing and offshore bank accounts.
But meanwhile, you're a delusional lunatic if you think it might have been racist when Romney said he was going to bring whiteness back to the White House.
Obviously not enough Anglo-Saxon in it for his tastes.
Well they needed to use those big words somehow. Definitions be damned!
Doesn't Ann Romney have a horse in the Olympic Horse Standing Still competition?
Pony Dressup?
Does Mitt carry a tube o' Preparation H for chapped lips with his Pander Bear suit?
Question: once you debunk the "Mitt saved the Olympics" and "Mitt created jobs at Bain," myths, WTF is "Governor" Romney going to run on?
His record as Governor of Massachusetts. Where the only significant thing he did is pass universal health care.
And spend 3/4 of the year out of Massachusetts, running for president, based on being the Governor of Massachusetts.
He'll run on his "anglo-saxon heritage".
I especially like the mockery of Romney's supercilious tone.
And in related news…. Mitt Romney Registered as a Lobbyist
Mitt, you got some 'splainin to do.
Gotta have a plan B. You can run as a failed presidential candidate forever. It's good to have something lined up after prison time.
Wasn't Romney just a glorified, very well subsidized community organizer?
I am Bill Ayers and I approve this message.
Well-sodomized? One would hope!
Oh. Really need to check my glasses prescription.
Doktor, heal thyself.
The Obama campaign is stooping to broad personal attacks and character assassination, tactics right out of the Karl Rove playbook.
And it's about fucking time.
I think these PAC people should ask about Mittens destroying records on his way out of every job. That's strange behavior the American people might want to know about. Could it be because that's what Mormons do? Is it a hold over from his family's days as Mexican citizens? The days they spent there with their twelve wives? It sure is strange.
From London, Mutt is driving a rented car to Peking so he can show us all the jobs he created.
A caged Piers Morgan will be interviewing Mr. Romney from the roof of the car.
What a scurrilous bunch of lies — next the Democrats are gonna say that Mitt didn't earn that Purple Heart he got in Vietnam.
"Rescuing troubled enterprises" is it? Was that by gutting the company, firing the employees until it goes bankrupt, while raking in tens of millions in fees? Would that be the rescuing you are referring to, Mittens? Remind me not to let you rescue me next time I fall through the ice. You'll mortgage me house, car and girlfriend.
Country First.
That Obama Super PAC is so uppity.
This ad is why it is so important that we have copyright/trademark laws with teeth in this country.
The whole Olympic thing has been put into context by David Cameron's pointed remark about Mitt's games, being in the middle of nowhere…which is somewhere south and east of the golden spike. Well as the crow or buzzard travels on the updrafts around the Wasatch anyway.
Obama has no record to run on…Why when Mitt was busy learning about business and getting his MBA, Obama was in middle school!
He's gone from "turning an Olympics around" to saving the Olympics, period. No one this dipshit is such a popular figure around the world that only the Israelis like him, and that's only because they haven't met him.
I do hope he explains to the Poles how labor unions can't do anything good for anyone. That should go over big with Solidarity. Maybe he'll stop by Brazil on the way back to the most noble, best, most heroic, never-made-a-mistake USA. Former Pres. Lula could use some schooling on the badness of the labor movement, as well.
Spurting arterial blood from a severed arm, Mittens is standing fast, sword in hand, screaming – "It's just a flesh wound, come back here, you coward!".
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