Did President Obama Just Smack Mitt Romney Right Out Of The 2016 Presidential Race?
At Thursday’s House Democratic Issues Conference, the supposedly lame duck even bragged about the influence he’s having on the party that allegedly lame-duckified him, and on one Republican in particular:
“We’ve got a former presidential candidate on the other side who suddenly is just deeply concerned about poverty. (Laughter.) That’s great! Let’s go! Come on! Let’s do something about it!”
Romney took to Twitter several hours later to respond to the jab:
Mr. Obama, wonder why my concern about poverty? The record number of poor in your term, and your record of failure to remedy.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) January 30, 2015
That’s President Obama, Mitt. Racist much?
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
51 responses to Did President Obama Just Smack Mitt Romney Right Out Of The 2016 Presidential Race?
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Mike January 30th, 2015 at 13:11
RMoney was such a graceful loser too (knot)…I guess he doesn’t want to go down in history as the first man to lose to a woman…(Hill or Lizzie could beat this clown) so now Silverado Savings Jeb will be the first to be b!tched slaped back to TBillyville…
Jack E Raynbeau January 30th, 2015 at 21:58
Wasn’t that Neil?
Mike January 30th, 2015 at 14:11
RMoney was such a graceful loser too (knot)…I guess he doesn’t want to go down in history as the first man to lose to a woman…(Hill or Lizzie could beat this clown) so now Silverado Savings Jeb will be the first to be b!tched slaped back to TBillyville…
Jack E Raynbeau January 30th, 2015 at 22:58
Wasn’t that Neil?
fancypants January 30th, 2015 at 13:29
to suggest Romney created more jobs then he took could suggest Julius Cesar was a world wide faith healer
fancypants January 30th, 2015 at 14:29
to suggest Romney created more jobs then he took could possibly mean Julius Cesar was a world wide faith healer
William January 30th, 2015 at 13:36
“Mr. Obama, wonder why my concern about poverty? The record number of poor in your term, and your record of failure to remedy.”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
allison1050 January 30th, 2015 at 14:30
Snap!
Spirit of America January 31st, 2015 at 08:01
What is the mean income and hours given of the jobs?
William January 31st, 2015 at 09:56
Oh you want to cherry pick how much people make, and how long they work?
I suggest you do a google search. When and IF you discover a great conflict in the economic progress of this nation, and what’s being reported please post it, send an E-mail to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. Until then continue to click your heels together, clench your eyes shut and repeat “I hope he fails, I hope he fails”.
GreatLakeSailor February 1st, 2015 at 23:38
A view from the left by gjohnsit over at dkos.
Let-s-talk-about-the-economy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/05/1342232/-Let-s-talk-about-the-economy
William February 2nd, 2015 at 08:58
You can post all the “opinions” you want. As for me, I’m going to celebrate actual numbers.
Better luck next time. Guess it’s time for you Limbaugh lickers to start rattling the Benghazi keys again huh?
William January 30th, 2015 at 14:36
“Mr. Obama, wonder why my concern about poverty? The record number of poor in your term, and your record of failure to remedy.”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
allison1050 January 30th, 2015 at 15:30
Snap!
Spirit of America January 31st, 2015 at 09:01
What is the mean income and hours given of the jobs?
William January 31st, 2015 at 10:56
Oh you want to cherry pick how much people make, and how long they work?
I suggest you do a google search. When and IF you discover a great conflict in the economic progress of this nation, and what’s being reported please post it, send an E-mail to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. Until then continue to click your heels together, clench your eyes shut and repeat “I hope he fails, I hope he fails”.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 00:38
A view from the left by gjohnsit over at dkos.
Let-s-talk-about-the-economy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/05/1342232/-Let-s-talk-about-the-economy
William February 2nd, 2015 at 09:58
You can post all the “opinions” you want. As for me, I’m going to celebrate actual numbers.
Better luck next time. Guess it’s time for you Limbaugh lickers to start rattling the Benghazi keys again huh?
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 12:10
It’s funny you knee-jerking with Right Wing tags – you might want to check your compass heading there Corrigan.
While it is generally true, all righties disparage The President on all things, the converse is not: not all criticisms of The President come from the right (see also: The Nation, The Progressive, The Real News Network, DissidentVoice, FireDogLake, etc., etc.). Or if I want to get down to your level: why do you hate Senator Warren, Senator Sanders, Union Members and working people?
You didn’t read the post at DKos, did you? Calling the poster, gjohnsit, a rightie is…well…how to put this politely…ignorant. Had you read it, you would have noticed that it is backed by numbers (charts too!). What it does not do is take a couple of top-line metrics that show well and declare economic victory for all.
Have you seen the Thomas Frank piece at Salon?
It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street
Center-left pundits have carried water for the president for six years. Their predictable excuses all ring hollow | Thomas Frank
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/11/its_not_just_fox_news_how_liberal_apologists_torpedoed_change_helped_make_the_democrats_safe_for_wall_street/
Frank points out four types of Obamapologist. Which one are you?
PS: SpiritofAmerica is a right wing turd tosser to be sure, but that does not mean that all criticisms are unfounded. Pretending the economy is working well for most people by posting memes trumpeting topline metrics does not make it so for the 60%+ of Americans still suffering from the Obama-indemnified Wall Street Gamblers.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 13:43
“While it is generally true, all righties disparage The President on all things”
and that’s all I really need to know.
Lefties celebrate progress and finally coming out of the hole 8 years of frat boy politics drove us into.
Righties snarl, whine and curse the same progress.
They hate the president more than they love their country.
“Obama-indemnified Wall Street Gamblers.”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 14:17
Ignorance is bliss only to the ignorant.
By your comment, I assume you consider yourself a Lefty. Sticking strictly with economics, not social issues, do you consider The President a Lefty? I sure don’t. Summers, Geuthner, Lew, Berneke, Pritzker, Weiss. TPP, TAFTA, TISA, shilling for the CitiBank Gambling Indemnification w/Dimon, foot dragging on the meager reforms of Dodd-Frank, pathetically ineffective SEC & Regulators (remember Warren calling out the spineless regulators in one of those viral videos? Those “Regulators” serve at the pleasure of The President.). O is a Right Wing Democrat, an Economic Royalist and Robert Rubin’s lap dog.
I’ll take Stiglitz, Warren & Sanders, Piketty, Krugman, Keynes, Sawant, Shenker-Osorio. No thanks to the whole “Boardroom Liberal” Supply-Siders.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 16:20
I assume you consider yourself a Lefty. ……and of course you’d be wrong. I am an independent. It’s a Maine thing (you wouldn’t understand, see Angus King).
“Sticking strictly with economics”
Oh SUDDENLY you don’t think it’s so much of an issue anymore?
Is it because the ACA didn’t bankrupt the nation as the right predicted?
Or…
is it because we have enjoyed an unprecedented job growth under a *gasp*. liberal President?
No matter how hard you try to explain it away the facts are clear.
This President is not a Socialist, Kenyan Muslim. There are no death panels, or FEMA camps. You can still get sprinkles on doughnuts and filament light bulbs. Gas isn’t 5 dollars a gallon, and we’re not dying of Ebola.
The Benghazi and IRS investigation revealed absolutely no culpability on the part of the white house. There is no Sharia law in the USA.
Suddenly you want to label the President as a “Right Wing Democrat”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
So how’s that Sue Obama thingy going for you guys?
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 17:50
You’re funny, clinging to the painfully erroneous notion that because I criticize Obama for his Wall Street pandering and protection, that I must, MUST!, be a teabagger. It’s outside your Overton window; it can not be that a progressive would not call a record stock market & unprecedented corporate profits a “win” for Main Street, ain’t it?
Just because Bush was the worst thing to happen to the US in pretty near forever, does not, by default, make Obama good for Main Street.
O proposed cutting Social Security – Right Wing Dem
O is championing TPP, TAFTA & TISA – Right Wing Dem
O shilled for CitiBank – Right Wing Dem
O (through Arnie Duncan) shilling for Public Education Privatization and beating on Teachers’ Unions – Right Wing Dem
William February 2nd, 2015 at 17:55
Please point out the part where I called you a tea-bagger.
I’ll wait.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 18:09
repeated attempts to associate me with the litany of teabagger (feverdream) issues.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 19:12
I’m pretty sure I didn’t even use the term teabagger in any of my posts to you. Try again Skippy.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 19:59
Maybe reread – I didn’t claim you used the word.
For someone who is now pretending that you have not been blowing the TeaBagger DogWhistle, you sure have been busy, well, blowing the TeaBagger DogWhistle
TeaBagger Meme: the ACA didn’t bankrupt the nation as the right predicted?
TeaBagger Meme: This President is not a Socialist, Kenyan Muslim
TeaBagger Meme: There are no death panels
TeaBagger Meme: FEMA camps
TeaBagger Meme: You can still get sprinkles on doughnuts
TeaBagger Meme: filament light bulbs
TeaBagger Meme: Gas isn’t 5 dollars a gallon
TeaBagger Meme: we’re not dying of Ebola
TeaBagger Meme: Benghazi
TeaBagger Meme: IRS investigation
TeaBagger Meme: Sharia law in the USA
BoilerPlate Attack on a TeaBagger: it’s time for you Limbaugh lickers to start rattling the Benghazi keys again huh?
So if you want to parse your words
well, go ahead and play-out that middle school logic. I’m sure your peers are impressed.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 22:03
Again, I didn’t type the term teabagger even once in this thread…..but…I seem to have hit a nerve. Please continue.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 22:29
So the Cliff Notes version of your rebuttal: A dozen references to TeaBaggerism, but dammit, I never actually used the term TeaBagger!!!1!!! So There!!!
OK, I give: You never spun TeaBagger crazy into the thread. Roger, WillCo. Over and Out.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 22:11
“repeated attempts to associate me with the litany of teabagger”
” I didn’t claim you used the word”
You’re all over the road there Skippy try to pick something relevant to be pissed about huh?
whatthe46 January 30th, 2015 at 13:58
i haven’t figured out for the life of me, why anyone running for political office would use twitter to show their asses. don’t get it.
rg9rts January 31st, 2015 at 14:24
Maybe because they are??
whatthe46 January 30th, 2015 at 14:58
i haven’t figured out for the life of me, why anyone running for political office would use twitter to show their asses. don’t get it.
rg9rts January 31st, 2015 at 15:24
Maybe because they are??
Tim Coolio January 30th, 2015 at 22:16
Mitt could have won Ohio and Florida and the GOP still would have lost in 2012
Tim Coolio January 30th, 2015 at 23:16
Mitt could have won Ohio and Florida and the GOP still would have lost in 2012😃
Boehner-Monkey January 31st, 2015 at 00:16
To Mitt’s credit though, poverty on The Planet Kolob decreased three percent in the in fiscal year 13328 (Post Gornack.)
Boehner Monkey January 31st, 2015 at 01:16
To Mitt’s credit though, poverty on The Planet Kolob decreased three percent in fiscal year 13328 (Post Gornak.)
rg9rts January 31st, 2015 at 14:23
You want to know why mittwitt dropped out??? Follow the money …it is going to Bush…No money???No campaign…He is a proven loser and even the gopee sees that
rg9rts January 31st, 2015 at 15:23
You want to know why mittwitt dropped out??? Follow the money …it is going to Bush…No money???No campaign…He is a proven loser and even the gopee sees that
William February 2nd, 2015 at 12:43
“While it is generally true, all righties disparage The President on all things”
and that’s all I really need to know.
Lefties celebrate progress and finally coming out of the hole 8 years of frat boy politics drove us into.
Righties snarl, whine and curse the same progress.
They hate the president more than they love their country.
“Obama-indemnified Wall Street Gamblers.”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 13:17
Ignorance is bliss only to the ignorant.
By your comment, I assume you consider yourself a Lefty. Sticking strictly with economics, not social issues, do you consider The President a Lefty? I sure don’t. Summers, Geuthner, Lew, Berneke, Pritzker, Weiss. TPP, TAFTA, TISA, shilling for the CitiBank Gambling Indemnification w/Dimon, foot dragging on the meager reforms of Dodd-Frank, pathetically ineffective SEC & Regulators (remember Warren calling out the spineless regulators in one of those viral videos? Those “Regulators” serve at the pleasure of The President.). O is a Right Wing Democrat, an Economic Royalist and Robert Rubin’s lap dog.
I’ll take Stiglitz, Warren & Sanders, Piketty, Krugman, Keynes, Sawant, Shenker-Osorio. No thanks to the whole “Boardroom Liberal” Supply-Siders.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 15:20
I assume you consider yourself a Lefty. ……and of course you’d be wrong. I am an independent. It’s a Maine thing (you wouldn’t understand, see Angus King).
“Sticking strictly with economics”
Oh SUDDENLY you don’t think it’s so much of an issue anymore?
Is it because the ACA didn’t bankrupt the nation as the right predicted?
Or…
is it because we have enjoyed an unprecedented job growth under a *gasp*. liberal President?
No matter how hard you try to explain it away the facts are clear.
This President is not a Socialist, Kenyan Muslim. There are no death panels, or FEMA camps. You can still get sprinkles on doughnuts and filament light bulbs. Gas isn’t 5 dollars a gallon, and we’re not dying of Ebola.
The Benghazi and IRS investigation revealed absolutely no culpability on the part of the white house. There is no Sharia law in the USA.
Suddenly you want to label the President as a “Right Wing Democrat”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
So how’s that Sue Obama thingy going for you guys?
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 16:50
You’re funny, clinging to the painfully erroneous notion that because I criticize Obama for his Wall Street pandering and protection, that I must, MUST!, be a teabagger. It’s outside your Overton window; it can not be that a progressive would not call a record stock market & unprecedented corporate profits a “win” for Main Street, ain’t it?
Just because Bush was the worst thing to happen to the US in pretty near forever, does not, by default, make Obama good for Main Street.
O proposed cutting Social Security – Right Wing Dem
O is championing TPP, TAFTA & TISA – Right Wing Dem
O shilled for CitiBank – Right Wing Dem
O (through Arnie Duncan) shilling for Public Education Privatization and beating on Teachers’ Unions – Right Wing Dem
William February 2nd, 2015 at 16:55
Please point out the part where I called you a tea-bagger.
I’ll wait.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 17:09
repeated attempts to associate me with the litany of teabagger (feverdream) issues.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 18:12
I’m pretty sure I didn’t even use the term teabagger in any of my posts to you. Try again Skippy.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 18:59
Maybe reread – I didn’t claim you used the word.
For someone who is now pretending that you have not been blowing the TeaBagger DogWhistle, you sure have been busy, well, blowing the TeaBagger DogWhistle
TeaBagger Meme: the ACA didn’t bankrupt the nation as the right predicted?
TeaBagger Meme: This President is not a Socialist, Kenyan Muslim
TeaBagger Meme: There are no death panels
TeaBagger Meme: FEMA camps
TeaBagger Meme: You can still get sprinkles on doughnuts
TeaBagger Meme: filament light bulbs
TeaBagger Meme: Gas isn’t 5 dollars a gallon
TeaBagger Meme: we’re not dying of Ebola
TeaBagger Meme: Benghazi
TeaBagger Meme: IRS investigation
TeaBagger Meme: Sharia law in the USA
BoilerPlate Attack on a TeaBagger: it’s time for you Limbaugh lickers to start rattling the Benghazi keys again huh?
So if you want to parse your words
well, go ahead and play-out that middle school logic. I’m sure your peers are impressed.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 21:03
Again, I didn’t type the term teabagger even once in this thread…..but…I seem to have hit a nerve. Please continue.
GreatLakeSailor February 2nd, 2015 at 21:29
So the Cliff Notes version of your rebuttal: A dozen references to TeaBaggerism, but dammit, I never actually used the term TeaBagger!!!1!!! So There!!!
OK, I give: You never spun TeaBagger crazy into the thread. Roger, WillCo. Over and Out.
William February 2nd, 2015 at 21:11
“repeated attempts to associate me with the litany of teabagger”
” I didn’t claim you used the word”
You’re all over the road there Skippy try to pick something relevant to be pissed about huh?