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Obama Says Romney’s Campaign Messsage Would Fit ‘On A Tweet’

At a fundraiser in Maryland today, President Barack Obama criticized the core message of Mitt Romney’s campaign as simplistic.

“Because folks are still hurting right now, the other side feels that its enough for them to just sit back and say, ‘Things aren’t as good as they should be and it’s Obama’s fault,’” the president said. “You can pretty much put their campaign on, on a tweet and have some characters to spare.”

read the rest here:
http://politicker.com/2012/06/obama-says-romneys-campaign-messsage-would-fit-on-a-tweet/

miranda – - – -NO! Seeeeeee- – - – - -HE’S – - -SO! – –STOOPID!! — -

– –Romney Bashes Stimulus, Then Fundraises In Home Of Stimulus Recipient – -

– - – –Mitt Romney spent this morning in Florida trashing the stimulus, saying the Obama administration “borrowed almost a trillion dollars but used it to protect government.”

Romney will spend Tuesday night at a $10,000-a-head fundraiser at the house of Orrin H Ingram II, Chairman of the Ingram Barge Company — which received $130,000 in federal stimulus money. Ingram Barge Company is a private company, not a government entity.

– —Just like he INSULTED his HOST’S —COOKIES!! — -

— -Just like he couldn’t NAME the DONUTS -in his HOST’S HOME.

—STRIKE #3- – — INSULT the STIMULUS $$ that his HOST RECEIVED!!- –

- — -He CAN’T B NAY MORE – –STOOPID!! – - –THEN AGAIN – - — -WE haven’t REACHED NOVEMBER!! – - – ***shakin’ my head*** —

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

White House Reporters Survive Marine One Maelstrom

Reporting from the White House press pool doesn’t generally come with the dangers of covering breaking news or foreign affairs, but a group of journalists in the presidential press posse found themselves facing fluke gusts of hurricane-force winds as Marine One landed on the South Lawn of the White House this morning.

“It was a quiet, gentle rain falling on the group of us on the South Lawn–until Marine One arrived,” Huffington Post reporter Jennifer Bendery told The Politicker. “People initially just huddled closer together as the wind picked up, but then, as the chopper touched down, the breeze turned into gales and everyone was just blown apart. Most people’s umbrellas were instantly flipped inside out and some appeared
broken.”

The harrowing ordeal elicited several different reactions from the assembled journalists.

“One reporter was laughing maniacally while getting drenched (ok that was me), mostly amazed by the boldness of Bloomberg reporter Kate Andersen, who remained firm in her position by the helicopter as the wind whipped up her hair, her umbrella and her overcoat,” said Ms. Bendery. “At one point, she was reduced to being just a jacket sandwiched between one battered umbrella blowing in the air and another smashed umbrella underneath her heels.”

MORE: http://politicker.com/2012/06/white-house-reporters-survive-marine-one-maelstrom/

I just went to blackamericaweb.com and saw this pic of Ciara. Now she know she trying to hard to look like Beyonce!

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/sites/default/files/ciara-headshot-640-retna.jpg

miranda – - -Waitaminute!!! – — -WHEN did he – - -INVERT the —ETCH-A-SKETCH!???? – orr – - -FLIP – -da FLOP???- – — – - -LOL.

– —-Romney Reverses Course, Claims It’s ‘Completely Absurd’ To Say He Doesn’t Want To Hire More Teachers – - -

- — -Mitt Romney slammed President Obama last week for wanting to hire “more firemen, more policemen, and more teachers,” making a clear assertion that those workers belong among the 700,000 public sector workers who have lost their jobs in the last three years.

Watch it:
THERE IS MORE – –

– —-HE –IS – - – -WITHOUT ANY- – - -SOCIALLY – - -REDEEMING – - -QUALITIES!!- – -HYPOCRITE! – — RACIST! – — -LIAR!! – –

mranda – — –Awwww- – -BEYOND SWEET!♥- – - – —

- – - -Michelle Obama gets daughters’ approval on new book – —

—–Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs-up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book.

“As a black girl, I’m just like … she’s so beautiful and wonderful and she represents our country so well,” said Lewis, 24, of Alexandria, Va. “She’s trying to do so much to help America and I appreciate her doing what she does.” Lewis said she was excited to try the book’s recipes.
THERE IS MORE. :>)

- – -B BLESSED- – –FIRST LADY – YOUNG LADIES!♥- — -

Gingrich: Romney admin will lead to ‘fewer teachers’
By Steve Benen – Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:11 PM EDT.

Mitt Romney argued this morning that it’s “completely absurd” for Democrats to argue that, if elected, he’ll allow more layoffs of school teachers, police officers, and firefighters, just because he said on Friday he opposes President Obama’s plan to prevent layoffs of teachers, cops, and firefighters. Oddly enough, as Igor Volsky noted, Newt Gingrich, a high-profile Romney supporter, thinks Democrats are right.

Asked about Romney’s opposition to using federal resources to protect teachers and first responders, Gingrich said Americans have to “come to grips” with the policies a Romney administration would pursue: “Does that mean there will be fewer teachers? The honest answer is yes.”

This is consistent, by the way, with the Romney campaign’s stated position: if Romney’s elected, he intends to slash education spending, leading to fewer teachers.

It crystalizes the 2012 race in a straightforward, unambiguous way: President Obama believes the country will benefit if we hire more teachers; Mitt Romney believes the country will benefit if more teachers are laid off. There’s not much in the way of gray area — Romney tried to obscure his position this morning, but both he and his surrogates are making the candidate’s position plain. Will be fewer school teachers if Romney has his way? “The honest answer is yes.”

Greg Sargent added a good take on the larger political salience: “This underscores again why Romney’s original cops/firefighters quote was so problematic and revealing. He singlehandedly reframed this debate as one over whether we should spend federal money specifically on protecting the jobs of cops, firefighters and teachers in order to help alleviate the unemployment crisis. Romney and Republicans need this debate to be about spending on generic Big Bad Government and parasitic bureaucrats, not culturally sympathetic figures that Americans widely identify with and rely upon daily for their safety and the education of their children.”
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/12/12188451-gingrich-romney-admin-will-lead-to-fewer-teachers?lite

Oh yeah, congrats POU!!!

We Fly High (Ballin’)

Tue Jun 12, 2012 at 08:04 AM PDT.

When he talks about education, Mitt Romney leaves out the most important word in his plan

Mitt Romney’s real education goal is described by the New York Times’ Trip Gabriel as “overhauling the federal government’s largest programs for kindergarten through 12th grade into a voucherlike system.” Yet on his website’s education page and in his recent speech describing his education plans, Romney never used the word “voucher.”
Romney’s pro-voucher position is so extreme that Margaret Spellings, a Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, has stepped back from his campaign:

“I have long supported and defended and believe in a muscular federal role on school accountability,” Ms. Spellings said. “Vouchers and choice as the drivers of accountability — obviously that’s untried and untested.”

Untried and untested at improving schools, maybe, but that’s not what vouchers are about. This is an effort to privatize public education, not to improve it. In 1955, Milton Friedman wrote that “Vouchers are not an end in themselves; they are a means to make a transition from a government to a free-market system.” In 1997, the president of the Heartland Institute said that “Like most other conservatives and libertarians, we see vouchers as a major step toward the complete privatization of schooling.” These aren’t fringe voices in the voucher movement; they are what Mitt Romney is moving toward, forcefully in his policy if euphemistically in his language. He has to be euphemistic because when he actually says directly what he means, such as that we should have fewer teachers, firefighters, and police officers, it tends not to go over so well.
Diane Ravitch sums up the American education system Romney is proposing:

In the vision presented by Mitt Romney, public dollars would flow to schools that teach creationism. Anyone could teach, without passing any test of their knowledge and skills and without any professional preparation. Teachers could be fired for any reason, without any protection of their freedom to teach. In some states and regions, teachers will be fearful of teaching evolution or global warming or any controversial issues. Nor will they dare to teach books considered offensive to anyone in their community, like Huckleberry Finn.
To Romney, every single one of those things is a feature, not a bug, of the “choice” he would introduce to education.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/12/1099369/-When-he-talks-about-education-Mitt-Romney-leaves-out-the-most-important-word-in-his-plan

Congratulations POU fam!!

The Wind Cries Koch Brothers
By Steve Benen – Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:36 PM EDT

.Karl Rove, of all people, voiced support for federal tax credits in support of wind energy last week. “We’ve got a growing economy that’s increasing energy consumption and wind energy should be part of the solution,” he argued.

Any chance this might represent a larger shift in conservative opposition to alternative energy? Perhaps not — Dave Roberts notes today that the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity is organizing protests in New Jersey against wind energy. AFP posted this message online:

Would you believe that this Friday is “Global Wind Day”?

Now, it’s up to you and me to combat their global wind nonsense! AFP will be going toe to toe with the environmental extremists to combat their radical agenda and tell the truth about the costs of offshore wind!

This does not appear to be a parody.

Americans for Prosperity is comfortable with tax subsidies for oil companies, but is nevertheless organizing protests against “environmental extremists” who support public investment in a growing clean-energy industry.

Whether AFP includes Karl Rove among the “environmental extremists” who support “global wind nonsense” is unclear.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/12/12189492-the-wind-cries-koch-brothers?lite

Congratulations, POU!

Best site on the web, LOVE this community you all have created here. I read everyday and I’m really grateful that you have a mobile site now because I’m on my phone a lot, lol.

Y’all know I have nothing but love for POU! Congrats!

New Accusation of Cover-Up of Gay Affairs Leveled Against Charlie Crist

miranda – - -YA KNOW – — --teh WILLARD — – - -is teh – –STOOPID!!-

– - – -NOTE TO ROMNEY: The Federal Government Does Fund Teachers, Firefighters, And Police – - -

— – -Mitt Romney dismissed criticisms that he does not want to hire more teachers, firefighters, and police officers as “absurd” on Tuesday morning, telling Fox News Channel that if elected president, he would not have the ability to control the hiring decisions of local governments:

Improving Teacher Quality State Grants: about $2.5 billion given in 2012 to increasing the number of highly qualified teachers and administrators in schools
THERE IS MORE

- —- HIS —-UTTER STOOPIDITY- — -TRULY DISQUALIFIES HIM!! – –

– - – - – -LUVIN” this – — -VETTING!! LOL – —