November 14, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old playbook” of wooing specific interest groups — “especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people,” Mr. Romney explained — with targeted gifts and initiatives.
Where’s my damn pony, by gawd?
Thanks to Dawn for the heads up.
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I’m with ya JJ, and I really do want a pony!
(well OK, a horse, but that’s just hairsplitting)
Love sweet potato fries,
1LongRider
ahem, that should read:
Love *and* sweet potato fries.
🙂
LR
2The only gift I am aware of is NOT having Mitt as President, and he delivered that.
3And ain’t we thankful. Oh boy am I thankful. Today I was gracious and beneficent and told a good ol’ boy I met that I felt sorry for Romney. I said I sure was glad he didn’t win but he looked so pathetic that i really did feel sorry for him. And pass them sweet tater fries and remember that you men cain’t help yourselves no way , whether it’s fries or cutie pies of any variety. Bless your hearts.
4Huh? Gifts? Let me see… Nope no gifts.
See, Mitt, here’s the way a gift works: you don’t ask for the gift nor do you earn the gift. Asking and earning are completely different actions. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, Workman’s compensation, nutrition programs, Women’s Health Care, state and federal retirement programs, farm subsidies, and many other assistance programs are entities I’ve helped pay for. Should I apply for assistance or compensation from any of those programs and receive that assistance, it’s because I paid into the program not because Santa was feeling the love. If you’d like to give me a gift, I’d sure appreciate it if you’d forgo those tax write offs and help me pay the nation’s bills. That’s a patriotic gift I’d be all about.
5Getting rid of some awful men in Congress, not to mention Mitt and Ann Romney, while getting Elizabeth Warren are gifts enough for me.
6I got MY gift…….Romney and Queen Ann left.
7I dunno, The President promised he would do his damnedest if we gave him four more years. That’s a good enough gift for me. Also having the man who seemed to get a lot of laurels for not winning wars in either Iraq or Afghanistan out of the CIA seems like a nice present too.
8Don’t have anything against Gen. Patraeus, just doesn’t look like we won to me.
Please Mitt, just go away. But, I’m thinkin your ilk never do.
9Yep, having Obama in the WH instead of Romney is a gift.
As in this cartoon: http://farleftside.com/2012/11-14-12-the-afterglow.html
Good lefty cartoons MWF on http://farleftside.com , with more info as well– plenty of anti-Romney ammo was posted there.
10Texas can have a benevolent king! Petition here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appoint-me-king-texas/HphkG2J3
11Unlike the targeted tax cuts for the rich and the elimination of regulations for Big Corp?
12The biggest gift for me…..I haven’t see Reince Preibus for at least 8 days!
13We should send the Republicans a gift of apples or pears from Harry & David. Maybe then they’d quit with the sour grapes already.
14Romney’s comments were just a test, folks. He just completed his successful tryout for becoming an ongoing commentator for FOX News. He’s not gone from the scene. We can expect to hear form him again … and again … and again …
15My gift has been watching the Rethugs still in office continue to dig that hole they’ve gotten themselves into. Our President is patiently carving McCain and Miss Lindsey a new one.
The best gift of all is finding out that Mittens’ 47% was actually 53%.
Oops.
16Rick, they’ve been making those sour grapes into whine.
17Vermin with bank accounts in the Caymans and Switzerland and millions of dollars in income taxed at half of the rate the rest of us pay had best not raise the subject of “gifts”.
18Some of us voted for Obama because a lot of Republicans are religious nutcases. If you want to call less religion in my life and Talibaptists not running my life a gift, go ahead.
And why don’t people ever call the religious right as a special interest? Why isn’t Wall Street ever called a special interest?
BTW: I am a straight white male, and I am 41. So I am not young, black or Hispanic. I don’t fit into Mitt’s preconceived notions of reality, and I am under no obligation to do so.
19Way to win over “the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people,” GOP. But you forgot to include women in your list of moochers.
20The president had followed the “old playbook” while Romney followed the “new playbook” that calls for insulting half the electorate and being mean to the other half. Like the Grinch, Romney tried to steal all the “gifts and initiatives” under the tree. But he couldn’t find the doorman to hold the door open for him.
It just bothers me that I am not in any of the approved demographic groups. Oh wait, I have a safe, secure retirement with medical care that won’t bankrupt me. That’s one gift that the Grinch couldn’t steal from under my tree.
Thank You President Obama!
21Gifts – did you say gifts. Woohoo
I ran out into the front yard checked the mailbox – nuthin. Checked the yard (they could have thrown it like the sunday paper) – nuthin – except all the little gifts from my dogs. Checked the driveway and the side yard – nuthin – except a bunch more gifts from my dogs.
I will wait patiently – I sure could use tickets to the new James Bond movie.
22Oh, how I do love the beauty salon. Just had an argument with my husband about this very topic. I love the man; he is one of the kindest people I know. Critical thinking is not one of his long suits, though: I’ve watched him go out of his way to help a young man caught in the “Dream Act” category and then turn around and criticize the law itself. Meanwhile, the lifelong Democrat and one-time English teacher in me jumps all over misuse of words and we are off again. Well, at least his inconsistency falls on the good side of the line.
23And speaking of words: “forgiveness” of loans is a specific legal concept carrying serious tax consequences.
Keeping interest rates on student loans level–especially when interest rates generally are extremely low–and eliminating expensive middlemen does not constitute a gift.
Gifts?? Gifts?? I don’t have to show you my stinkin’ gift! Ok, ok it’s a stinkin’ GOP Deodorizer!
24And Mitt’s gift to his billion bucks donors would have
25been? Nothing much… just control of the U.S. government.
Mitt receives the biggest “gifts” from the government, such as very low tax rates on his income, and he whines about what little gifts some other people receive. He should just disappear and take him family with him.
26I’m getting a little tired of hearing what a mooch I am. I’m educated and employed, I pay taxes at a rate that would make Mitt’s eyes bubble, I don’t double-park, I’ve never taken a DIME of government money beyond the usual things like roads and libraries. And incidentally, I’m white and middle-aged. Is Romney really that dim?
Sorry. My rant for the day.
27You’ll have to be happy with that little stuffed donkey you got at the Convention.
28Me too, Sharon! Damn near broke a leg getting to the mailbox.
29I don’t have a dog, so I didn’t find any doggie droppings- fact is, all I found was a MickeyD drink cup and a couple of Burger King wrappers.
Does the President still owe me some burgers and a soda?
I got what I wanted – a decent President with a more Democratic Congress. Was ther supposed to be $$$ too?
30To Ann: Thanks — absolutely perfect. Wish I could have said it so eloquently!
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