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Romney's smirk isn't working

Not becoming of a president

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Romney's smirk isn't working

POSTED: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 3:13 PM

Unlike Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan put patriotism ahead of party.

In 1980, when the Carter adminstration's attempted rescue of the Iranian hostages ended in disaster and death, candidate Reagan said: "This is a difficult day for all of us Americans...It is time for us...to stand united. It is a day for quiet reflection...when words should be few and confined to our prayers."

Contrast Reagan's class act with Romney's crass one: "It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn the attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."

The Republican challenger's ill-informed, ill-timed rush to politicize the deaths of fellow citizens looked even worse because it came with a smirk.

The man who falsely labels the president an apologist for America should apologize to America.

Kevin Riordan @ 3:13 PM Permalink | 15 comments

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Comments (15)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:53 PM, 09/13/2012

You're running behind, this was yesterdays news feed from your bosses at the DNC.

— jimmymack

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:26 PM, 09/13/2012

Romney is talking to his "base" - the only idiots still listening to this vapid, clueless mannequin. This plastic-headed dolt doesn't have a single self-firing brain cell in that plasticine pot of his. Luckily for him, he is heading a "party" that revels in it's ignorance, that celebrates it's stupidity, so things like facts and truth are conveniently optional for these morons.

— CiceroSpuriousDeodatus

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:34 PM, 09/13/2012

Mitt the "Twit". He is a total disgrace.

— woody56

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:34 PM, 09/13/2012

Keep drinking the cool-ade Riordan! Do you really think that empty suit in the Whitehouse knows what to do? They have been issuing and retracking statements for the past couple days. Dipolmacy will never work with a terroristic islamic group stuck in the 9th Century. Do you think those murders in the Middle-East have seen this so-called offensive movie?

— junethe4th

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:12 AM, 09/14/2012

Let's got to war with Lybia and let's throw Iran in there while you're at it. I think, though that we would reinstitute the draft that way EVERYONE's son gets to go fight. What do you think?

— LisaHussein

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:34 PM, 09/13/2012

Mitt the "Twit". He is a total disgrace.

— woody56

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:32 PM, 09/13/2012

If you want news, read Drudge.

— tr88

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:48 PM, 09/13/2012

"Romney is talking to his "base" - the only idiots still listening to this vapid, clueless mannequin. This plastic-headed dolt doesn't have a single self-firing brain cell in that plasticine pot of his. Luckily for him, he is heading a "party" that revels in it's ignorance, that celebrates it's stupidity, so things like facts and truth are conveniently optional for these morons".

LOL!!!...this Lib must be looking in the mirror!! The Libs listen and support a President who accuses others of MURDER and being a FELON (obvious lies), who has nothing but failures: Green Energy, Shovel-Ready, Infrastructure, Auto Bail out...$6 Trillion debt in 3 years with 700K net job loses, who has a VP that is a racist idiot, who keeps programs from a previous administration he bashed (drones, GITMO, etc.) while he promised to do away with all of them but now are really the only things that are successful for him, who goes around the world bashing his own country and ignoring those in the one country that supports him over there, etc., etc.
All these Libs ever do is attack on a personal level and never give examples or facts and when they attack their side always has something worst they have done....Lying at a Convention for all to see on a Platform issue about "GOD"....come on IDIOTS!!! "WHERE ARE YOUR FACTS AND TRUTH",nowhere in the above post...talk about a moron!!! These Libs obviously have empty heads that froze up a long time ago!!!! LOL!!!

— sarah89

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:37 PM, 09/13/2012

All these Libs ever do is attack on a personal level and never give examples or facts

....come on IDIOTS!!!

Pot calls kettle black. Gee, I wonder why you don't get more meaningful debates from people.

— TmBd

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:22 AM, 09/14/2012

I know that I'm wasting my time but let me at least try. When this president took office my 401K had lost 30% of it's value, it is now up 50% since then. When this president took office we were loosing 750k jobs per month now we are adding 100-200k per month. When this president took office Osama bin Laden was alive... now - well you know the answer to that. When this president took office the financial industry was sliding down the tubes along witht he auto industry. Both are now doing well. The financial industry a little too well. When this president took office my son could not be on my employee-based insurance. and that Insurance company dictated which medicines my asthmatic son could have and not have. Now he can stay on my insurance and he can have the medicines that work.

Ryan signed TWO Bush stimulus bills but would not sign 1 of Obama's which contained basically the same stuff as Bush's. Why is that? If the GOP knows how to govern so well then why is that the states with the highest unemployment, the highest illiteracy, the highest rates of violent crime, the most poverty are states that have been run by Republicans for the bast few decades? Why is that?
FACT checkers POLITIAfACT and all the others have said that the RNC's speeches were so full of lies they would made Pinocchio look like an honest puppet. Why is it that GOP led states are trying to block people from voting? In FL the former head of the state GOP party said that they had meetings on "how to stop blacks from voting". Why would they want to do that. Why did officials in PA say that no that they had passed voter ID laws there, they can now deliver the state to Romney? Why do they have to cheat to win?

— LisaHussein

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:51 PM, 09/13/2012

I'll believe Mitt Romney's tough guy act when I see him or any of his five sons put themselves in harm's way like these embassy personnel were. I think you would see some magic underwear turn brown.

— abendteuer

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:02 PM, 09/13/2012

@Sarah89 - I've seen you post on this site numerous times and every post is less intelligent than the last. Please, do us all a favor and go back to school (if you ever went to begin with). I was going to debate your post with actual facts but it'd be a waste of both our time. It's like you pulled all the republican talking points but only understood part of them so you just jumbled them all together into an incoherent mess of rambling babble. That's it. I've wasted too much time addressing you already.

— WriteIt37

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:23 AM, 09/14/2012

Interesting to note that the illiterate and insulting film was produced by Coptic Christian extremists who apparently had been converted "American-style" extreme fundamentalism and were working with American associates like Steve Klein, an extremist Christian who trains militiamen in California churches and harasses abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques, and distribution was aided by that lunatic Reverend in Florida who burned Korans and was the cause of a few young American soldiers losing their lives when demonstrations erupted in Kabul. Considering their anti-Mormon beliefs, you would think that Romney wouldn't be so anxious to hug the religious right wing zealots in this country. Of course, the film producers bravely hid behind their made-up story that 100 Jewish donors funded the film and a Jew produced it, thereby deliberately putting Jewish populations around the World at extreme risk of reprisal,
And now, with facts available thanks largely to the AP's investigation, an already nervous Coptic Christian community in Egypt has much more to fear as well thanks to our American Taliban for Christ. But there's Mitt, right in the middle of a tragedy caused by hate and ignorance putting his golden foot in his smirking mouth and adding his own two cents worth of bigotry, lies and ignorance. Unfortunately, if the World notices obscure hate films on the Internet they also take note of ignorant, lying and inflammatory politicians running for the office of President.

— wbramh

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:02 AM, 09/14/2012

The smirk is painted on.

— orange rhino

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:41 PM, 09/14/2012

But Obama singing Al Green and hanging with Jay Z (confessed crack dealer) as unemployment sits stagnant at 9 percent and the economy continues to fester is just fine.

— Lttim76(2)