5 Things Joe Biden Said To Elementary School Children in Las Vegas Today
1. “Oh no, I can’t move. I’ve got someone stuck to my hip.”
2. “Thanks for letting me come to the playground.”
3. “I wish I could play basketball.”
4. ”I wish my constituents liked me as much. God love it!”
5. “I can’t pick you all up. I can’t pick you all up.”
Joe Biden and small children. via: team-joebama
I must have missed the memo. Apparently “serving your country” now means both military service (where you risk your life) and pedaling around Paris on a bicycle, trying to sell Moroni and the planet Kolob to to unsuspecting people in Paris who answer their doors.
Raw Story reports on an exchange between Whoopi Goldberg and Lady Ann Romney when she appeared on The View yesterday. “The wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said that her husband and sons had not joined the U.S. military but had found “different ways of serving” by going on religious missions in France, England, Australia and Chile as part of their obligation to the Mormon church.”
Whoopie Goldberg: “When I read about your husband, what I had read — and maybe you can correct this — is that the reason he didn’t serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion.”
Ann Romney: “That’s not correct. He was serving his mission, and my five sons have also served missions. None served in the military, but I do have one son that feels that he’s giving back to his country in a significant way where he is now a doctor and he is taking care of veterans. So, you know, we find different ways of serving. And my husband and my five boys did serve missions, did not serve in the military.”
Goldberg: “So, when you’re facing these mothers whose children have not come back, how will you explain to them that your sons haven’t gone? Will you talk about the missions they’ve gone on?”
Romney: “I would say it’s probably the hardest thing that a president and a first lady probably do is to comfort those that have lost a love one and have gone in harm’s way. It is an amazing country, we have the most extraordinary fighting men and women, and we have to be so grateful for them. Of course, it’s hard, and I don’t think that any of us can understand the sacrifice [sic] that are being made by families.”
Oh, you people and your amazing sacrifices… got that, patriots? There’s absolutely no need to volunteer for military service — especially for that new Iran war that Romney and his neocon advisers are so excited about — just to say you served your country. Just sell Kolob door to door. It’s the same thing, it’s just a different way of “serving.”
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Romney received a draft exemption – a deferment from the Vietnam draft — based upon his status as a “minister of religion” – basically, an exemption for having been a Mormon missionary. He received numerous deferments after that for educational reasons. Romney portrays his mission in Paris as a time of humbling poverty, but The Daily Telegraph has a different story…
Mitt Romney, August 8 2007 in Iowa: “The good news is that we have a volunteer Army and that’s the way we’re going to keep it. My sons are all adults and they’ve made decisions about their careers and they’ve chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard. One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president.”
The Daily Mail: “A newly-unearthed photograph showing Mitt Romney demonstrating in favour of the Vietnam War draft might leave the presidential candidate feeling somewhat embarrassed. The veteran Republican, then 19, can be seen picketing an anti-war sit-in at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1966.”
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“The election is in three weeks and a key emerging demographic this time around are a group, and I hope I’m pronouncing this right… woman. Women?”
“Now it’s a war on women; tomorrow it’s going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.” — Paul Ryan, last night in Florida, mocking women who are worried about the GOP’s ever-increasing schemes to dismantle women’s rights.
I can totally see why women would want to vote for this ticket. There’s a lot of untreated mental illness in this country.
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He got got.
Buzzfeed: “Asked why the issue was absent from Romney’s public remarks, senior adviser Kevin Madden told BuzzFeed the campaign decided to focus their post-debate Virginia swing on exposing Obama’s lack of specific proposals, and challenge him on gas prices and the economy.”
First Read: “This also caught our eye yesterday: Romney didn’t mention Libya — or the exchange on the topic from Tuesday’s debate — during two campaign stops in Virginia yesterday. Instead, Romney focused on the economy and what he said was Obama’s failure to lay out a vision for a second term.”
“Declaring something an act of terror does not necessarily mean you are declaring it a terror attack.” — Megyn Kelly of Fox “news,” now disputing the meaning of words, proper syntax, and grammar in addition to everything else.
Other reasons?
– quoted by TPM
“The real problem here is … we’re not well yet from this horrible thing that happened to us. You know it and I know it. There’s still too many people that haven’t gotten a pay raise in a decade. There’s still too many people who have been out of work too long. There’s still too many people that aren’t sure they fit in any scenario of the future. [...] I’m just telling you, it couldn’t be fixed in four years. And I believe the president has done a way better job than he has gotten credit for. I’m telling you we’re coming out of this. It’s going to get better. You will feel it.”
— Bill Clinton In Ohio, arguing that President Obama needs more time
The President last night:
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Raw Story: Conservative economist Ben Stein on Thursday seemed to know that he had wandered off message when he joked that the hosts of Fox & Friends might murder him for saying that it was not possible to balance the budget without raising taxes:
Ben Stein: “I hate to say this on Fox — and I hope I’ll be allowed to leave here alive — but I don’t think there is anyway we can cut spending enough to make a meaningful difference. We going to have to raise taxes on very rich people, people with incomes of like say, 2, 3 million a year and up, and then slowly move it down.”
Steve Doocy: “You do not think Washington just has a spending problem?
Stein: “I do not think they just have a spending problem. I think they also have a too-low taxes problem. And while all due respect to Fox, whom I love like brothers and sisters, the taxes are too low.”
The economist noted that even more revenue could have been brought in during President George W. Bush’s presidency if taxes had not been cut.
Stein: “The evidence is that there is no connection between the level of taxation and the level of economic activity. The biggest growth we’ve ever had in this country was roughly 1941 to roughly 1973, that was the best years we ever had and those were years of much, much higher taxes than we have now, during war time and during peace time. So, the economy can grow very fast, even with much higher taxes. And we’re going to have to do something.”
Doocy: “Taxes were like 70, 80 percent!”
Stein: “I know. And yet, we were very prosperous, we were extremely prosperous. I mean, the highest rate was in the 90s during parts of the 50s and, yet, we were very prosperous.”
When conservative jackwagons like Stein wander off-message and/or are uncharacteristically honest, it turns out that President Obama is correct and Mitt Romney is wrong.
But, ultimately, this will be Good News for Romney. Right, Gallup?
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Appearing on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, Ann Romney said that should he lose, this campaign would be her husband’s last. “Absolutely, he will not run again,” she told the hosts when asked whether losing to President Obama this fall would end Mitt Romney’s political career. “Nor will I.” …After his defeat in the 2008 primary, Romney did not want to run again. “We had to convince him hard to run, my mom and I,” son Tagg Romney said. “I know some people don’t believe us.”
— Ann Romney: If Mitt loses, we’re done with politics
Haha. Ann and Tagg “convinced” the lifetime, permanent, won’t-go-away Robopolitician to run yet again — the guy who talks over everyone in the room, the guy who wants to lower his taxes even more by hiring himself as CEO of U.S. tax law, the guy who feels entitled to the presidency by whatever means necessary… you’re telling us THAT guy had to be convinced, Tagg? You’re right… people won’t believe that.
YES WE CAN make this happen!
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