Obama aides say president now has personal 'genuine disdain' for Romney

The Daily Caller ^ | 8/6/12 | Alex Pappas

[Nachum]

For President Barack Obama, it’s 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 governor’s 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 “Obama’s Last Stand.”

Thrush — a reporter for Politico, which published book excerpts Sunday – writes that Obama’s 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, didn’t 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, he’d say.”

[Gene Eric]

Petulance.

[Beowulf9]

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.

[Tex-Con-Man]

This is surprising because he's been really good at hiding his disdain for rich white people until now.

[albionin]

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.

[Fledermaus]

The feeling is mutual Obama, you American hating Commie loving socialist moron.

[PA Engineer]

he began campaign preparations feeling neutral about Romney

Yeah. Sure.

[Hotlanta Mike]

“A white man’s greed runs the world in need”. To quote an infamous Obama mentor.

[pallis]

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.

[Armaggedon]

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.

[jyro]

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.

[JaguarXKE]

Including the country he purports to lead.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

[Conservative4Ever]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

Like I believe anything coming out of the white house. He hates everyone not on his side.

[ex91B10]

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.

[Slings and Arrows]

In what way is Mr. Obama a war hero?

Haven't you heard? He single-handedly killed Osama bin Laden. Just ask him.

[beenaround]

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.

[Iron Munro]

Romney is everything Barack loathes:

- White

- Successful

- White

- Capitalist

- White

- Independent

- White

- Earned his wealth

- White

- American

- White

[beenaround]

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.

[Sooth2222]

....add “sober”, too. Whatever you can say about Romney, he’s not a drunk.