Rep. Emanuel Cleaver on Romney NAACP speech: "His advisors are not serving him well"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Questioned wisdom of standing in front of an NAACP audience and criticizing Obama and "Obamacare." Just interviewed a moment ago on Thomas Roberts' MSNBC show.

[malaise]

1. Well he should know now

http://www.google.com.jm/search?q=romney%20booed%20at%20NAaCp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Wow, that got out there FAST.

Poor Willard.

[malaise]

3. They'll have to dig hard for anything else to top that today

[RagAss]

5. LOL !!!!

This is "piss my pants" funny !

[Voice for Peace]

8. I've heard his spokespeople are spinning this to say that the audience

was booing Obamacare.

(sorry I don't have a link.)

[malaise]

10. Send them this pics

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002931360

[Drale]

4. The fact that he's giving a speech to the NAACP at all

shows this.

[Jamaal510]

9. Not necessarily.

With Mitt Rob-me attending today's NAACP convention, he could paint the picture that he's at least brave enough to speak to a group of voters who aren't exactly his allies. I think he already knows that he'll be lucky to even make it into double-digits among Black voters. Plus, it could help him convince his base that he is conservative enough by going in front of that audience and suggesting the repeal of ACA.

[karynnj]

13. Agree completely - and CNN covered the entire speech live

= something they didn't do for Kerry in 2004.

I am certain the real audiance was the tv public sho as you said will be impressed he came and that he repeated his plan as he always did - ie consistency and no pandering. That he could afford to do this because he will not get those votes will be ignored. It also was - in parts - a well crafted speech, better than he usually is.

[cindyperry2010]

6. i didn't watch it directly

because i would rather set my hair on fire but i wonder when they booed did he have a deer in the headlights look on his face

[turtlerescue1]

15. One can sure hope eh?

[regnaD kciN]

7. You're making the incorrect assumption...

...that the NAACP was Rmoney's "audience" today. In fact, his audience is all the white television viewers who will be outraged that "those people" treated a respectable white man disrespectfully for criticizing "their boy in the White House.". In other words, Rmoney's very own "Sister Souljah moment." Viewed that way, Mittens's advisors are crazy...like a fox.

[malaise]

11. Well fuck them

If those people can't see why people defend Obamacare - tough shit.

[kentuck]

12. Yep. +1

Sister Souljah moment.

[karynnj]

16. No - sister Soulja moment is calling out the extreme of your own side

In other words, had Romney used any of the outrageous comments of Rush, Hannity or even some lesser known RW commenter - that would be one.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. So then they can't complain when we call them out

on the very thing they hate to be called out on. Racism.

They can pull out their white hoods, place them firmly on their heads, and holler to the gap-toothed punks and Brooks-brothers-clad yahoos next to them - "Les' RIDE boys".