Taken at the digging of Jimmy Hoffa.
Posted on 10/01/2012 1:03:47 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 1, 2012
In its latest effort to slap Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comment, the Obama campaign on Monday tapped a young woman with Down syndrome to pull at the heartstrings of undecided voters.
The Obama-Biden campaign's web page featured a "letter of the week" from a 25-year-old woman who wrote that "I am one of the 47% of Americans who fall under Mitt Romney's definition of 'entitled' and 'unable to take responsibility for my life.' I have Down syndrome."
The letter comes on the heel of the campaign's TV ad playing in battleground states that uses the audio of Romney dismissing efforts to win over 47 percent of voters dedicated to Obama because they receive some kind of government assistance. While the Romney campaign said the context is about the election and not how he will approach the nation as president, the Obama campaign has made the case that Romney won't look out for those who need help.
Enter "Brittany" and her letter. In it, she said that she is a registered Democrat, and on assistance, which she said makes her part of Obama's 47 percent.
"My mother applied for Social Security's Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) for me when I was 19. I really want to make lots of money and have a hot tub someday, but SSI subtracts my paychecks from my SSI benefits, so I don't have much to put into a savings account," she wrote.
"I am now working for a store, folding clothes and doing returns. I like my job a lot! I make $4.98 an hour and I am allowed to work 25-30 hours a week (I have paid $542.72 in federal, FICA, state, and city taxes this year as of August 31st)," she added in a knock at Romney's other comment that many of Obama's supporters don't pay taxes.
It's full of very cute lines. "I just got my own apartment and share it with another girl like me. I get to pay rent now ($325 a month) and pay for my telephone and cable because I like the Disney Channel. I was not allowed to take my dog with me, but I can hang all of my Hannah Montana posters on my bedroom wall," she wrote.
And, she added, "I have also included my picture, not just because I'm cute, but because I wanted to give you a face of one of the 47% to share with Mr. Romney."
Blogger Jeryl Bier noticed the letter first, calling it an "exploitive cheap shot."
So she’s voting for the guy who thinks she should have never been born.
“Sarah Palin,,please pick up the white courtesy phone”
You can take a corrupt politician way out of Chicago but you can’t take the Chicago Way out of that corrupt politician.
Everyone knows who Romney meant, and she isn’t one of them. Everyone knows that he was talking about the able-bodied and healthy people who reside in the ‘safety net’ as though it was a hammock. Nobody is buying Obozo’s shameful spiels..........
After what these b@stards did to Sarah Palin, this takes the cake.
“(I have paid $542.72 in federal, FICA, state, and city taxes this year as of August 31st)”
Not really, since she is going to get all of that back with her tax refund. That includes city and state taxes also, just to muddy the waters with stuff that nobody is talking about.
“I have also included my picture, not just because I’m cute, but because I wanted to give you a face of one of the 47% to share with Mr. Romney.”
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I don’t see a problem with it. The woman wrote with expectations of her story being used. I don’t see all who have Down’s Syndrome as completely helpless and unthinking. I disagree with the young woman’s politics but I am proud of her for making an effort to be involved. Many gifted with more, don’t.
From the same guy who made the “Special Olympics” bowling joke.
This, coming from the administration that espouses the extraction of nonperfect fetuses.
Nice.
From the same guy who made the “Special Olympics” bowling joke.
GREAT retort; the Romney/Ryan campaign should use this!
GREAT retort; the Romney/Ryan campaign should use this!
The first thing that came to my mind was Obama’s comments about his bowling score and the Special Olympics.
Too bad Obama ignored the hideous slurs directed at little toddler Trig Palin, especially from his major donor, Bill Maher while the 2008 campaign was on.
I guess Obama only counts the disabled when it is politically expedient.
Taken at the digging of Jimmy Hoffa.
P.S. My mom and her friend helped me write this.
David Axelrod?
Not just never been born but actively murdered in her mother’s womb and if she happened to survive that, abandoned to die.
From Jeryl Bier, the blogger who is the original source of this news article:
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“Is the Obama campaign just publishing this letter because it is an inspiring story of someone doing the best they can? No. I left out the title of the blog post (Brittany: “A face of one of the 47%”) and one line from the first paragraph of the letter: “ I am one of the 47% of Americans who fall under Mitt Romney’s definition of ‘entitled’ and ‘unable to take responsibility for my life.’”
Leave aside that this woman’s story is the antithesis of what Mitt Romney was trying to get at in his remarks that were admittedly open to distortion. Leave aside that Romney and his family have personally helped many individuals who needed help like Brittany in quiet ways over the years. Leave aside that the Romneys give millions to charity. Later in Brittany’s letter, she writes the following [emphasis mine]: “I have paid $542.72 in federal, FICA, state, and city taxes this year as of August 31st.” So even under the literal interpretation of Romney’s comments being about those not paying taxes, Brittany does not qualify.
The Obama campaign has taken what could have been, with sensitive editing, a feel-good letter from someone who is doing her best under difficult circumstances and wishes to support Barack Obama into a dishonest, exploitive cheap shot at his opponent. The president and his campaign should be ashamed.”
http://speakwithauthority-jsm.blogspot.com/2012/10/campaign-exploitation.html
IOW one of the 47% that were NEVER voting for Romney
not going to vote for romney.
one of the 47% who use the government so need the 53% to support them.
it proves Romney’s point.
Obama is a total douche.
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