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Obama aides say president now has personal 'genuine disdain' for Romney
The Daily Caller ^
| 8/6/12
| Alex Pappas
Posted on 08/06/2012 8:48:47 PM PDT by Nachum
For President Barack Obama, its now personal.
A new book cites Obama aides saying the president has a genuine disdain for Mitt Romney.
One factor made the 2012 grind bearable and at times even fun for Obama: he began campaign preparations feeling neutral about Romney, but like the former governors GOP opponents in 2008 and 2012, he quickly developed a genuine disdain for the man, author Glenn Thrush writes in the soon-to-be released e-book Obamas Last Stand.
Thrush a reporter for Politico, which published book excerpts Sunday writes that Obamas feelings for Romney are different from how he personally felt about other Republican opponents on the Hill, and about other campaign rivals in the past.
Obama, a person close to him told me, didnt even feel this strongly about conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most, Thrush writes. At least Cantor stood for something, hed say.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aides; bho2012; bookreview; disdain; obama; obamaslaststand; president
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posted on
08/06/2012 8:48:53 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
08/06/2012 8:50:02 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
Did little Bammy’s feeling get hurt because Mitt has decided to go after him? Poor baby.
To: Nachum
Almost everyone I know has a “personal disdain” for this creepy figure occupying a once honorable address!
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posted on
08/06/2012 8:53:07 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
To: Nachum
“A new book cites Obama aides saying the president has a genuine disdain for Mitt Romney.”
Of course he does, Romney is a rich cracker.
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posted on
08/06/2012 8:55:47 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Nachum
No surprise there. Romney actually earned his success.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:01:16 PM PDT
by
Optimus Prime
(Do liberals even qualify as sentient beings?)
To: Nachum
A new book cites Obama aides saying the president has a genuine disdain for Mitt Romney. Doubtful at best.
There is nothing whatsoever "genuine" about Obama.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:05:19 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Nachum
"Its why he played to winand why so many of his top staffers were former high school and college jocks, guysand they were, after all this time, mostly menwhod start a fifteen-hour day with a ninety-minute run. Hes the single most competitive man Ive ever met, Robert Gibbs, his first press secretary, told me, adding: Whats the one thing Barack Obama hates more than losing? Losing twice."A 90 minute run? The only thing that Gibbs runs for is the dinner bell, and it's obviously not for 90 minutes. When I saw Gibbs was on CNN with Candy Crowley this weekend, my first thought was, "Did the studio floor collapse?"
Are these people all drunk or high? Or just living in some alternate universe?
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:05:27 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: Nachum
No surprise. Obama has genuine disdain for everyone.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:14:58 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
To: Nachum
This is a well planed campaign strategy by Obama. As reported elsewhere, they have done internal polling showing that the person who has the best “like-ability” always get elected. So there is a media/Democrat campaign trying to show the Obama is loved and Romney is an awful person from a personal like-ability standpoint.
To: Nachum
” That doesnt hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned war hero.
I don’t think I believe any of this.
But it really is the kind of small-minded, cross-wired, hypocritical nonsense I’d expect from that worthless bag of used bed pans.
He’s so good at it, Obama has almost single-handedly brought Jackassery to the level of being a Fine Art.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:19:39 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: Nachum
Is “disdain” the commie lib word for HATE!
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:30:01 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
To: GSWarrior
Agreed. Part and parcel of narcissism.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:33:38 PM PDT
by
John W
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Nachum
'
genuine disdain'
That could mean that whenever former pResident Obama's in Kennebunkport, Romney may not be invited.
To: Nachum
“genuine disdain”= nothing’s sticking
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:35:44 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: JimSEA
Rich cracker, aye.
Add handsome, drug-free, rich cracker...
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:36:49 PM PDT
by
nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
To: Parley Baer
Did little Bammys feeling get hurt because Mitt has decided to go after him? Poor baby. In Obama's case it's called narcissistic rage.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:40:55 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Nachum
genuine disdain
******************
I’m sure those are the words he used to describe how he feels about Romney kicking his keester...lol
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:41:22 PM PDT
by
Ms Mable
To: Nachum
Personal GRIND of a campaign.
The man hardly works at all! He never has more than two meetings a day on the white house schedule, they NEVER start before 10AM.
He travels around the country on Air Force 1. He doesn't have to schedule his own travel, go through airport security, sit in Coach with no food a cup the size of a thimble for water, a wait at the rental counter for a crap car that costs a fortune to rent and a need to drive himself in traffic between the airport and his speech only to reverse course and do the same all over again to get back home.
He lives better than a king. and he calls it a grind!
FUBO!
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:00:53 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Nachum
Let the attempts to de-humanize Romney begin!
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:03:07 PM PDT
by
usacon
(United we stand divided we fall.)
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:05:09 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: Nachum
Or does he just have genuine disdain for an election in which somebody else might win?
He prefers dictatorship, you just stay and stay and stay...incompetance notwithstanding.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:10:07 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Nachum
This is surprising because he's been really good at hiding his disdain for rich white people until now.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:11:25 PM PDT
by
Tex-Con-Man
(T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
To: Nachum
He has such a thin skin. I can’t wait till the debates. I think he will come off as a petulant little child. That is if Romney can push his buttons. Lord knows “Jug handle ears” has enough of them.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:13:03 PM PDT
by
albionin
(A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
To: Nachum
The feeling is mutual Obama, you American hating Commie loving socialist moron.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:16:25 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
To: Nachum
he began campaign preparations feeling neutral about Romney
Yeah. Sure.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:20:55 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
To: nolongerademocrat
“A white man’s greed runs the world in need”. To quote an infamous Obama mentor.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:21:31 PM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
To: Nachum
Imagine what that disdain will turn into by the time Obama is taking his final walk on the White House lawn, and Romney sends in the fumigators, this coming January.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:27:49 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: Nachum
Obama the Islamo-Marxist-Chicago Gangster spreads the unholy trinity spirits of hate, lies and death. Obama hates Romney. Obama lies about Romney and Obama wants to destroy Romney without an election. Elections are a nuisance for Lord Obamalamadingdong. He tries to get rid of opponents before the election.
To: Nachum
it’s past time that he loses. He can’t stand anyone that won’t agree with him.
That’s why he’s being lied to about the polls.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:32:34 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: GSWarrior
Including the country he purports to lead.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:42:11 PM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
(If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
To: Psycho_Bunny
In what way is Mr. Obama a war hero? He’s never worn any uniform that I’m aware of, not even the Boy Scouts or Civil Air Patrol. He didn’t know the first thing about the military during his 2007-2008 campaign, and it showed. Anyone watching the events in Iowa, for instance, could see that at least Hillary was briefed in on foreign affairs and the military, Barack hadn’t a clue.
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:51:14 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Jim from C-Town
Cause more than 2 meeting a day would cut in his golf games. Geez but I have genuine distain for that loser of a president.
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posted on
08/07/2012 12:03:51 AM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
To: Nachum
Like I believe anything coming out of the white house. He hates everyone not on his side.
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posted on
08/07/2012 12:14:22 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: albionin
the Kenyan will not debate Rommey. He'll be too busy "working" at some "crisis" or something.
Mitt, for all his faults, isn't McJuan; Mitt will be pulverize the Kenyan.

The Kenyan must go.
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posted on
08/07/2012 12:14:29 AM PDT
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In what way is Mr. Obama a war hero? Haven't you heard? He single-handedly killed Osama bin Laden. Just ask him.
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posted on
08/07/2012 1:55:47 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
None of what Obama is doing could work if this nations citizens had an education equivilent to what people left High School with up through the mid 1960’s.
To: Nachum
Romney is everything Barack loathes:
- White
- Successful
- White
- Capitalist
- White
- Independent
- White
- Earned his wealth
- White
- American
- White
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posted on
08/07/2012 2:21:10 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
To: albionin
It will be most interesting to watch Obama extemporaneously speak in the coming debates. I can only wonder what the degree of complicity between Obama’s campaign and the networks producing the debates will be. Will he have a list of the topics and the actual questions being asked? Given the extent of the medias water carrying so far it is I think perfectly reasonable to expect something of the sort.
Romneys plan should be to answer any slanted or “gotcha” questions with something totally relevant to today's problems and ignore the actual question entirely. Romney is a good speaker and has no problems speaking without the crutch of a teleprompter, the same thing cannot be said of Obumbler, as we have so often witnessed.
To: Iron Munro
....add “sober”, too. Whatever you can say about Romney, he’s not a drunk.
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posted on
08/07/2012 2:55:43 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: beenaround
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posted on
08/07/2012 2:59:54 AM PDT
by
John W
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Nachum
Well Romey now joins all hard working US citizens how he is viewed by Obama.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:01:35 AM PDT
by
rod1
(CTLY)
To: Nachum
Well Romey now joins all hard working US citizens how he is viewed by Obama.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:01:49 AM PDT
by
rod1
(CTLY)
To: Sooth2222
....add sober, too. Whatever you can say about Romney, hes not a drunk. Nor was he a "Choomer":

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posted on
08/07/2012 3:19:52 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
To: Nachum
Obama will sue the USA for discrimination if he looses.
And will fight to stay in his current Government housing.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:40:44 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
To: Nachum
Obamas feelings for Romney are different from how he personally felt about other Republican opponents on the Hill, and about other campaign rivals in the past. BS. Obama hates any one who opposes him. He doesn't like to be challenged or have his feelings hurt.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:54:34 AM PDT
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: Nachum
Obama is a prick. He displays such behavior more than any other president in my lifetime.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:14:36 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more relevant executive experience than Barack Obama)
RACIST!
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posted on
08/07/2012 5:08:57 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
To: Caipirabob
“Personal, genuine distain?”
Does he not see how the manjority of American people DISTAIN him? What an ass hat.
The only real thing I now have doubts about is what Obummer will do when he is defeated in November. He will have a few months to create even more devistation to this once great nation and people. He needs to be removed IMMEDIATELY, be it before or after the election.
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posted on
08/07/2012 6:31:09 AM PDT
by
Progov
To: Nachum
This is actually good. He'll let his emotions get the better of him and he'll make it personal. This will bring a potential meltdown. Buy popcorn.
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posted on
08/07/2012 6:39:37 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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