Romney will take shot at Michelle Obama tonight - Obama Camp calls attack 'disgusting'

[sabra]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/romney-will-take-shot-at-michelle-obama-2008-09-03.html

ST. PAUL -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is planning to take a glancing shot at would-be first lady Michelle Obama when he addresses the convention Wednesday night.

In excerpts from his prepared remarks, Romney appears to be targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's wife for a time when Michelle Obama said that for the first time in a long time she was proud of her country.

"Just like you, there has never been a day when I was not proud to be an American," Romney will say in his address to the delegates. "We inherited the greatest nation in the history of the Earth."

...

"Liberals would replace opportunity with dependency on government largesse (sic)," Romney's prepared remarks state. "They would grow government and raise taxes to put more people on Medicaid, to work requirements out of welfare, and to grow the ranks of those who pay no taxes at all. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency to fight it like the poison it is! It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother."

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-camp-blasts-romneys-disgusting-attack-on-michelle-obama-2008-09-03.html

Obama camp: Romney attack 'disgusting'

ST. PAUL -- Barack Obama's campaign said Wednesday afternoon that John McCain's "hand-picked attack dog," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is going too far in criticizing Obama's wife Michelle when Romney addresses the Republican convention Wednesday night.

Romney, according to excerpts from his prepared remarks, is set to say that "there has never been a day when I have not been proud to be an American," a clear reference to a Michelle Obama statement earlier this year that she is proud of her country for the first time ina long time.

Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn blasted Romney for involving Obama's wife in his convention speech, spreading the blame to McCain.

“Barack Obama has said that families are ‘off-limits’, and we thought that John McCain agreed," Dunn said in a statement. "But tonight, John McCain’s handpicked attack dog, Mitt Romney, exposed the fake outrage that the Republicans have been peddling all week as the blatant hypocrisy that it is. The McCain team’s disgusting attack on Barack Obama's wife shows they would rather generate false outrage to distract from their own problems than talk about the issues facing the American people. Mitt Romney’s attack on a candidate’s wife is as pathetic as his failed presidential campaign."

[TwilightGardener]

1. Will Romney remark on the fact that McLoon said he "didn't really love America"

until he was deprived of her company?

[loveable liberal]

2. Many Corporations dont pay taxes, is that what Romney means?

I thought for sure he'd appreciate that.

[Cha]

3. Let little mitt the shit be nationally known as Dissing our

First Lady to be. That's what he'll forever be known as.. Some little tiny man who can't talk about issues but can't sling greedy oily perverted slime at a candidate's wife.

Go mitt..tiny prick.

[Meshuga]

4. "Mitt Romney’s attack on a candidate’s wife is as pathetic as his failed presidential campaign."

Ouch!

[ljm2002]

23. Yep, that was a great line all right! Zzziiinnnggg! n/t

[jackstraw45]

27. GREAT - nice to see a Dem campaign defend itself properly...nt

nt

[FVZA_Colonel]

34. I wonder what it's like being the punchline to a national joke?

[BlueStateGirl]

5. Screw him. Bring it on asshole. n/t

[ErinBerin84]

6. oh my god

"pathetic as his failed presidential campaign."

[graywarrior]

7. He's gonna hit a girl?

What a coward.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. Will the last one to leave the Excel Center please cut off the light.

eom

[RamboLiberal]

9. Fun part is Sarah may be about to go down on charge

that she was cheating on Todd and he is not Trig's daddy. McCain camp says they are suing National Enquirer on story about to break.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6905645

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

22. Third parties have no standing to initiate libel suits.

Furthermore, the Enquirer probably has the best team of libel lawyers in the country, If it is being printed, the legal team has gone over this story with CAT scanners and an electron microscope. Twice.

This is the meltdown to end all meltdowns.

[vaberella]

35. Wow!! Just WOW!!

wow...

[michaz]

10. He better be able to take what he gives cause I have a feeling the hit

back at him is not going to be pretty!

[damndude]

11. they're gonna try to give obama the finget to get him pissed and make

him retallitate. maybe to change the headlines from the plain morass.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. So the media is spinning the shit..

and Romney is going to take it out on Michelle? Last I checked, was NOT RUNNING FOR ANY OFFICE!

[No Elephants]

13. Let me get this straught. When they twist the meaning of the wife of a candidate, that's fine. But

when we question the qualifications of the candidate herself, that's sexist. Okay, got it. Next nutty rule, please.

[Thrill]

14. What do you expect from an who spent 40 mill of his own money

in a presidential primary he didn't win

[blondeatlast]

15. OH NOES!!! To the cheers of 1,337 fired up, drunken old white men...

Bring it on. :boring:

[Geek_Girl]

16. The Repukes have a Secessionist on their ticket

I think that takes the teeth out of any "Love of Country" statement/speech any Republican can make.

[AllentownJake]

17. Romney is opening up the AIP thing for the Obama campaign

He's actually doing us a favor. His glancing shot at Michelle has been taken a thousand times before. The AIP thing is new.

Revenge for the VP thing if you ask me.

[Cha]

20. And he's gonna get blowback because this is

going to take the ENERGY OF OUR VOTERS OFF THE CHARTS.:bounce: :kick: :party: :bounce:

[Bobbie Jo]

18. Good Lord...are they still gnawing on that bone.

pathetic.

[progressivebydesign]

19. Yeah Romney - you got passed over for Palin.. Bummer!!! lol!! n/t

[JVS]

21. I'm not so sure.

Willard might have better things to do than carry water for McCain and his Fundy Pal.

[Quixote1818]

24. At least she doesn't want Ilionis to break away from the Union. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. What a refined slug.

[jillan]

26. What?? I thought the gopers said families were off the table.

Oh, I get it. Only their families.

asswipes!

[smoogatz]

28. Romney to Repukes: just like you, there has never been a day

when I was not a rich, white dude.

[npk]

29. Of course Romney has never been not proud of his country

I guess he was proud to be an American when millions of African Americans were treated as second class citizens by this very country. When peoples civil rights were violated, and when our society believed in segregation. Yes I am sure he has always been proud to be an American. I love this country, but there have been many times when I have not been proud of how my country acted.

[nichomachus]

30. And just because Michelle refused to become one of Mitt's sister wives

[glitch]

31. Good Lord how pathetic. Why are they highlighting their own weakness?

That is not the same as attacking your opponents on their strengths, Mittens.

[starroute]

32. Mitt's remark about taxes is even more mind-numbing

"They would grow government and raise taxes ... to grow the ranks of those who pay no taxes at all. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity."

So Romney thinks that it's a *good* thing for the working poor to have to pay taxes they can't afford -- even if it means taking food out of the mouths of their children -- because to relieve them of having to pay those taxes would deprive them of the precious rights of "risk-taking and opportunity."

He also seems to think that over-taxing the poor is a good thing because it gives them an "initiative" to become rich -- whereas taxing the rich is not a good thing, presumably because they're already just overflowing with initiative.

In other words, the purpose of the tax code is to punish the poor for being poor and reward the rich for being rich -- thereby assuring that in the sweet by-and-by everyone will make the choice to be rich, just like him. Sure makes sense to me.

:banghead:

[JimDandy]

33. So he's

never had ONE single day where he's been REALLY proud to be an American. Michelle did!

[kwolf68]

36. Shocker

They are dusting off their speeches from 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.

The big government, evil Librul mantra doesn't play anymore...except to your base. See Mittens, your people have run this nation (badly) and the last two times we gave your side control (Raygun/Bush, Chimp/Darth) you drove our nation into financial ruin. You cut taxes on the rich, empowered the powerful, and placed a load of debt onto my children that is immoral.

Your side is dead man walking Mitt. It's over bro. Your party will have to decide...fly with the flat earth society or just go hell for broke and become a states rights party. Your corporate oligarch party is tired and used up. Your ideas are old, your 'rising stars' are fanatics, your mainstream players won't show their faces, and your 5 minutes are up.