Originally Posted By skinnerbox Romney's hypocrisy is stellar. Watch this video from a press conference Governor Romney gave in June 2006 justifying why it took him a few years to turn around Massachusetts' economy: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArRj-dQXX3Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...j-dQXX3Y</a> Here's the Reader's Digest version: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=drRRKR-5SeM&NR=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...SeM&NR=1</a> So Romney expected Obama to perform miracles with the national economy when Obama took office. But turning around the state economy as Governor of Massachusetts? Not so much. Seriously, Romney supporters... this is unconscionable. I still don't understand how you can effn defend this guy!!
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Transcript of the second video link, where Romney explains in 2006 about the slow recovery in Massachusetts when he took office in 2003: "I came in and the jobs had been just falling like off a cliff. And I came in and they kept falling for 11 months. And then we turned around and we're coming back and that's progress. And if you're going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected somehow jobs should immediately turn around? Why that would be silly. It takes a while to get things turned around." So... it's OK for Romney to take time in getting jobs back in Massachusetts... but Obama is supposed to work faster than that? Romney keeps slamming Obama for not getting our national economy out of the recession faster. How can anyone actually defend this hypocrisy?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 If the Obama camp doesn't use that in an ad, they should be slapped silly.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< If the Obama camp doesn't use that in an ad, they should be slapped silly. >>> They'll have to if word is to get out - the noise machine certainly won't be "fact checking" anything Romney says.
Originally Posted By utahjosh <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRgFjyDxm0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...youtu.be</a> Pres. Obama should never have said this. It might hurt him pretty bad.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer It's not going to hurt him at all. Most voters realize where the roadblock was - the GOP, who was more interested in making Obama a one-term president than in worrying about the effects of their obstruction on American's lives.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>the GOP, who was more interested in making Obama a one-term president than in worrying about the effects of their obstruction on American's lives.<< And this just isn't empty rhetoric. It comes directly from Republicans who have confirmed that House and Senate leadership told their caucuses not to work with Obama on anything. Had nothing at all to do with, you know, whether or not legislation might actually be a good idea.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Of course not. They even voted against things they were previously FOR once Obama was for them too.
