Posted on 11/03/2012 3:25:40 PM PDT by randita
GOP nominee Mitt Romney began his final weekend campaign blitz in New Hampshire Saturday morning, ripping President Obama for telling supporters that "voting is the best revenge."
"Vote for revenge? Let me tell you: Vote for love of country," Romney said to cheers.
Obama made the remark at a Friday rally after supporters booed Romney. “No, no, no. Don't boo. Vote,” Obama told a crowd in Springfield, Ohio. “Voting is the best revenge.”
The GOP nominee jumped on the comment later that day, and his campaign released an ad attacking the president for it Saturday morning.
The Obama campaign said Saturday that the president's comment was made in the context of Romney's “scare tactics.”
Spokeswoman Psaki said a Romney TV ad running in the state that suggests Chrysler was moving production of Jeep models to China was an attempt at “frightening workers in Ohio into thinking, falsely, that they’re not going to have a job.”
“And the message he was sending is if you don’t like the policies, if you don’t like the plan that Gov. Romney is putting forward, if you think that’s a bad deal for the middle class, then you can go to the voting booth and cast your ballot,” Psaki said. “It’s nothing more complicated than that.”
At his first rally Saturday in Mentor, Ohio, Obama again used his "don't boo, vote" line, but he did repeat the revenge comment.
The president did, however, attack Romney on the Jeep ads.
“Changing the facts when they’re inconvenient to your campaign, that’s definitely not change,” Obama said at the rally in Mentor, Ohio. “But that’s what Gov. Romney’s been doing these last few weeks right here in Ohio.”
Team Obama continued to get questions about the “revenge” remark on a conference call with reporters late Saturday afternoon.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt did not repeat Psaki’s explanation that Obama was referring to the Jeep ads. Instead he said Obama’s revenge comment was just replacing his common “don’t’ boo, vote” refrain.
“If you disagree that we should return to the same policies that crashed the economy and devastated the middle class in the first place, the place to make your voice heard is at the polls, and that’s exactly what the president addressed last night,” LaBolt said.
LaBolt also took a shot at the Romney campaign for focusing on the comment.
“It’s interesting that that’s the closing argument that the Romney campaign is making. I think that it seems very small,” LaBolt said.
While Romney and Obama are deadlocked in most national polls, the president has held the lead in most swing-state polls, including those in every state Romney is visiting this weekend. While Romney's momentum following the first presidential debate seemed to be dissipating by the end of the week, to some observers it seems that Hurricane Sandy further stalled it — and gave President Obama a boost.
“If you hadn’t had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the Romney campaign to talk about the deficit, the debt, the economy. There was a stutter in the campaign. When you have attention drawn away to somewhere else, to something else, it is not to [Romney's] advantage,” top Republican strategist Karl Rove told The Washington Post Friday night.
The president visited Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters early Saturday before leaving for appearances in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Virginia. After a briefing and conference call on Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts, Obama said that his team was putting “120 percent” into making sure communities have the resources they need, adding that “there's nothing more important than us getting this right.”
Obama’s inner pothead his coming out. His choomster years altered his brain for good.
At this point, I am guessing that there will be at least a 50/50 chance of some rioting in the usual hotspots, like South Central L.A., Chicago, Boston, and maybe one or two others.
However, that being said, I think that nationwide, local LEOs are in a really bad mood about such things right now, and unless local political leaders tell them to stand down and let the rioters riot, they are going to savage the rioters. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Ordinary citizens, for there part, are going to be even less temperate if rioters try to attack their neighborhoods. The public is armed to the teeth, and nervous, and are under far fewer constraints than are the police.
For exposing him for who he really is, remember it was always about him.
Do you mind if I share your set of link? Great info and all in one nice set!
No, I don’t mind. Absolutely not! I am always glad when someone finds my posts useful and hope they share them out on as many networks as they can. Thanks for the compliment.
Obama is Hitler in the bunker. He is surrounded and has no defense as the screws are tightened.
If you've got to explain it.......
Why would my President want to take revenge on another American. Isnt he the President of everyone?
Thanks, I pulled out a couple of the links that were not working and added a news article instead for one of them and will send this out to a few people...
BTTT
Have to give credit to the Romney campaign for jumping on this right away, McCain would have apologized for Obama.
Obama is sounding like a street thug. He doesn’t sound very Presidential at all.
NEW book. Exposure of the Fraud.
New Movie “Revenge of the Obama Zombees.”
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