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23 Jul 2012, 8:52 am

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romn ... 49252.html

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Mitt Romney offered rare praise for President Barack Obama Sunday, telling supporters at a San Francisco fundraiser that his opponent did "the right thing" by traveling to Colorado to meet with family members of those killed in Friday's shooting.

"I know the president is in Colorado today before he'll be here in San Francisco. He's visiting with families of the victims, which is the right thing for the president to be doing on this day, and we appreciate that," Romney said.


That is really, really odd. I wonder if Mr. Romney is ill today? His normal reaction is to be hypercritical of anything the president does.



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23 Jul 2012, 9:11 am

There's a saying that goes something like, "There's no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole."
Same thing with responding to a national tragedy. The president is expected to show up, say comforting things, pose for pictures with victims, etc. If Romney criticized Obama for doing exactly what any other president would do, it would reflect VERY poorly on him.



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23 Jul 2012, 9:34 am

They are probably both in leaugue with the bildersburg group and the corrupt Federal Researve Bank. No one talk about peek oil or wether US can pay of its dept. They both
fill a pothole by dept. If US was a household, it would not be paying its mortgage.

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23 Jul 2012, 10:28 am

The question now is -- how can we make the national debt as tragic as a movie theatre shooting so that the two parties will work together ?



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23 Jul 2012, 10:33 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-obama-did-thing-going-colorado-053649252.html

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Mitt Romney offered rare praise for President Barack Obama Sunday, telling supporters at a San Francisco fundraiser that his opponent did "the right thing" by traveling to Colorado to meet with family members of those killed in Friday's shooting.

"I know the president is in Colorado today before he'll be here in San Francisco. He's visiting with families of the victims, which is the right thing for the president to be doing on this day, and we appreciate that," Romney said.


That is really, really odd. I wonder if Mr. Romney is ill today? His normal reaction is to be hypercritical of anything the president does.


It would be nice if it didn't take a tragedy to get politicians to talk about kindness and compassion. It's also frustrating that human suffering is only noticed in these kinds of high profile events. Otherwise it's back to the dehumanizing blame games. Death, hardship, and suffering that goes on under the radar is pretty much ignored. Like the son of a friend of my mother's who, after running out of gas in the middle of nowhere, had a psychotic break and ended up dead on the side of the road, due to the stress of being unemployed and having no money.



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23 Jul 2012, 10:56 am

Oldout wrote:
The question now is -- how can we make the national debt as tragic as a movie theatre shooting so that the two parties will work together ?


Have bankers commit mass suicide, but not before writing off dozens of politicians bank accounts.



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23 Jul 2012, 11:16 am

They both want Colorado. If one does something nice for Colorado, the other must approve. lol.

And it was Obama's advantage as President. Romney has to find a way to inject himself into the story.



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23 Jul 2012, 11:27 am

simon_says wrote:
They both want Colorado. If one does something nice for Colorado, the other must approve. lol.

And it was Obama's advantage as President. Romney has to find a way to inject himself into the story.


Quite frankly neither of them care about the tragedy, and the same can be said about many posting here. It's tragic it goes on, but those people didn't connect to us in any way. We just feel we have to feel sorry about it and try and appease our brethren by saying nonsense to make us sound like good people. This is all the president and Romney are doing, and it's part of their job. After all, do you really want a president that brushes off massacres on domestic soil?



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23 Jul 2012, 12:49 pm

They may both care. But there is also a political angle. Colorado is one of 10 states that will decide the election. The other states don't really matter.



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23 Jul 2012, 2:27 pm

In that case, Mr. Romney should be blaming the massacre on Obama's failed policies, warning the public that this event was orchestrated by the Obama administration as a sinister ploy to take away people's guns, congratulating the shooter on his well-done application of his Second Amendment rites, and telling the people of Colorado that President Obama has cooties.

He is really off of his game.

Hopefully Fox Noise and Hate Radio will be stepping up the attacks for Mitt.



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23 Jul 2012, 9:04 pm

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25 Jul 2012, 9:32 pm

YippySkippy wrote:
There's a saying that goes something like, "There's no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole."
Same thing with responding to a national tragedy. The president is expected to show up, say comforting things, pose for pictures with victims, etc. If Romney criticized Obama for doing exactly what any other president would do, it would reflect VERY poorly on him.



Correct. Candidates just tell people what they want to hear. If his staff or party told him it would be a good idea to criticize the President, he probably would have. He is just a puppet on a string.



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28 Jul 2012, 2:17 pm

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I couldn't stand to listen to more than just a few minutes of the "mouth that roared."
And for all of Limbaugh's moaning about how that lunatic had been reported to have had a possible tea party tie by the allegedly liberal mainstream media, it's also a fact that Breitbart's rag (yes, it lives on without him) had reported Holmes as a registered Democrat. He is not.

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