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Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Renaissance High School, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, in Detroit.
The Republican National Convention has barely ended, and the Democratic convention has not yet begun, but already Democrats are lobbing an aggressive counterattack against Mitt Romney and his party.
For example, on the Saturday following the Republican convention, President Barack Obama offered his low opinion of the event. "It was a rerun," he said. "We'd seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV."
A day later, David Plouffe—a senior White House adviser and the campaign manager for Obama's 2008 campaign—took an even harsher line. On ABC's This Week, he said the Romney campaign is "built on a tripod of lies." "A welfare attack that is just absolutely untrue," he said. "The suggestion we’re raiding Medicare—absolutely untrue. And then this whole 'we can build it' nonsense."
In the final two days leading up to the convention, Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went on the attack as well. Their criticisms of the Romney campaign revolved around Medicare, which has become a major theme in the campaign.
"We are for Medicare; they are for Vouchercare," Biden said at a campaign stop, alluding to the Paul Ryan's proposal that single payer Medicare be replaced with a private voucher system. Pelosi echoed Biden's remarks on Labor Day, just one day before the convention, telling the audience at a pre-convention breakfast, "To vote for Medicare, vote Democratic."
The Democrats appear to be using such withering language in an attempt to undercut whatever PR advantage Romney may have gained from Republican National Convention coverage. If so, it's working: According to a recent Gallup poll, the Republican candidate received little to no post-convention boost.
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All I can say is that the GOP, with its bizarre reliance on outright lies, deserves a very sharp retort and rebuke.
More like ObamaCare to VultureCare!
obumma is going to lose by a landslide, he might want to go out with fewer lies.
go stroke your puppy...penny. You want to go back to an America the way it was under Bush? That's what we'll get if Romney gets in..He'll crash our economy even worse than GW did...I for one want to keep Medicare the way it is, as I will start using it in 10 years. No @!$%#ing vouchers for me!
Penny you can't tell me one lie Obama has said. that is why you and your kind have to make up lies.
Wanna bet? I won the last time some loudmouth Republican thought the same thing in 2008. They lost $2,000. How much do you want to lose?
Read this truth about Romney and Bain Capital then tell me how you can vote for him
Read this truth about Romney and Bain Capital then tell me how you can vote for him
The Tea bagging base does not care one iota that Romney & Ryan lie repeatedly, anything is fair game in their attempt to remove the Black man from the White House. Oh dear they whine, we are not racist. Right, then where were you when bush was plundering America? Only when Obama was elected did they become concerned about the debt & began prancing around in white wigs & tri-cornered hats looking the fool.
I really don't know how anyone voting for Romney can bypass the off shore accounts and the fact the he refuses to release more tax returns. I live in Mass and the fact he is running away from his healthcare program really bothers me. Along with his stance on abortion. Its like He will say anything to be president. Huckabe or Jeb Bush would have been better candidates. At least they are consistent.
I would suggest to all Dems/Libs/Progressives that we stop preaching to the choir - ourselves - and find the few out there who tend to sit out elections, and to young people who don't know how important this election is - and make sure these people hear the facts we have on our side. If each of us can convert one person likely to sit this election out to vote, that should help. What else is left? GOP supporters have been railing for years about WMD, Obamacare, socialism, Muslim Brotherhoods, Sharia law, God, gays and guns, liberal spending and all their other moronic, FACT-FREE, slogans. We only have a few weeks and truth on our side to find those few converts and motivate them to vote. As a retired newsman I can tell you that cancelling a newspaper subscription or calling an editor to tell them to do their damned jobs and report the truth, does in fact have some effect. The disgraceful mainstream media has been skating by for years now with its "balanced reporting", which is nothing more than chicken-@!$%# journalism. The RNC convention finally, IMHO, has jolted a few of these frauds into reporting some facts for a change.
Watching MSNBC pundits amongst actual Democrats in the real world this week will be very interesting.
It's about time that the Democrats and the media call them out on their pathological lying and deceit, and keep asking Mitt what he's hiding in his tax returns.
Karen Finney on the Convention floor is brilliant. It seems to make sense. A real Democrat among real Democrats seems to be a harmonious arrangement, musically speaking. Karen Finney sings a Democratic song.
There is also a new candidate for the house named Tulsi Gabbard. She has served in Afghanistan and is getting a lot of support here in Hawaii. So much so that she will give a speech on opening day tomorrow. She hasn't been elected yet, but Hawaii is a very blue state.
To Mr. Biden ( and those who bash Romney for not thanking our troops during his RNC speech): We have ALL thanked the troops - for years. Every American, Republican and/or Democrat, is well aware of the service our troops volunteered for and performed, as well as the sacrifices they have made. And not just in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars either. Enough. We get it. They get it. By the way, the service personnel I have spoken to, who have been in Afghanistan and Iraq, don't want Obama back in! What does that tell you? Think exodus. The country this administration has created is NOT the country they went to war for. They went to fight for freedom. Obama has been chipping away at such freedom for 3 1/2 years. All Americans are heroes for the sacrifices we have made. We may not have suffered physical death or loss of limbs, but we have reaped the damage caused by this mismanaged and over zealous administration. Our "battle scars" are well apparent. We have been subject to the destruction of our economy and have witnessed the attempts to bring a slow death to our democracy. Mr. Biden; Why don't you and BHO thank ALL of the American people? Those who have lost their homes, those who are now homeless, those who do not know where their next meal will come from, single mom's working two or more jobs or who can't find work at all, the long term unemployed who internalize it as their own failure ( even though it is NOT their fault), those who were forced to use up all of their retirement , those who were forced into bankruptcy ( some who may never recover), those over 50 who are now working part time for minimum wage ( if at all ) and who have kids in college, the college kids who have been lied to and can't find work but are strapped with massive student loan debt, the numerous small business owners who have gone under, the remaining small business owners who face daily fear and uncertainty about the future of their business but who show up every day. They/we are heroes, too. Gas prices remain high, food prices are more and more astronomical - the list goes go on and on. This administrations policies and deceptions have cut off our economical limbs. Everyday American's are enduring health problems, both psychological and physical, related to the stress that has been assaultive and unrelenting. By all accounts, it may seem that BHO's initial and ultimate plan is working; that he is bringing America and its people to its knees. Think again. He has only tested our strength. Soon, but not soon enough, he will be out of office. He won't be sitting in that chair. We will see the back of his head walking away from OUR White House and getting on the helicopter one last time. And to that, America and all we stand for, will say, "Thank you." We may experience some temporary economic PTSD, but we WILL recover. We WILL stand up. We WILL survive. We ARE a resilient people. We ARE a strong nation. "We CAN do this. We WILL do this!" Romney/Ryan 2012!!!
Obama is going down. Too many voters who supported him in 08 are switching over to Romney. There are only seven voters who voted for McCain, going to switch to Obama. Do the math. Romney wins by 11 pm on Nov 6. Be sure and watch msnbc while Chris gets a big thrill down his leg.