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09-06-2012, 09:23 AM
BC lays out the difference between the two parties.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Clinton only mentioned Republican Mitt Romney a handful times, but laid out a framework that he said defines this election. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“If you want a winner-take-all, you’re-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket,” Clinton said. “But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility -– a we're-all-in-this-together society -- you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”</span>
Clinton, whose mastery of the stage left him several possible ways to attack Romney, notably did not skewer the Republican's record at Bain Capital, or his other weaknesses, instead focusing his argument in general against the GOP philosophy. (Clinton worked a stint for the consulting and private equity firm Teneo Capital. Co-founder Doug Band is a close Clinton adviser. Clinton listed his income from Teneo on a recent disclosure form as greater than $1,000, though it gives no upper limit.)
Holding fire on Bain left the speech absent a zinger to sum up Romney. Instead, Clinton saved the zinger for tax cuts for the rich, warning that<span style='font-size: 14pt'> Romney will "double down on trickle-down."</span>
He paraphrased Ronald Reagan: "As another president once said, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>'There they go again."</span>
In reframing last week's GOP message, he employed equal parts mockery, wonkery and plainspeak.
In short, he said, the Republicans came to Tampa to deliver a simple message about Obama:<span style='font-size: 17pt'> "We left him a total mess, but he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in."</span>
Clinton hit Paul Ryan in the same style. The GOP vice presidential candidate had attacked Obama for cutting $716 billion from Medicare, <u>when his own budget proposal included those same cuts.</u>
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"You gotta give him one thing. It takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did,"</span> Clinton said.
He also slashed at Romney's charge that the president had undermined the work requirement in welfare reform. "Their campaign pollster said, <span style='font-size: 20pt'>'<u>We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,</u>'" Clinton said. "Now, finally I can say that is true. I couldn't have said it better myself –- I just hope you remember that every time you see those ads."</span> </div></div>
link (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/bill-clinton-speech_n_1850526.html?utm_hp_ref=politics)
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Post-Truth Campaign: <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Mitt Romney Tells 530 Lies in 30 Weeks</span>
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By Blue Texan
Credit: Mario Piperni
Steve Benen has truly done yeoman's work this campaign season in documenting the astonishing onslaught of Romney's lies, and Fred Clark helpfully compiled them.
Click those links. Read the lists. List after list of lie after lie. Hundreds of them —<span style='font-size: 14pt'> 533, to be exact,</span> although Benen does not make any claim to providing a comprehensive chronicle.
This is unprecedented. “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” Romney’s pollster, Neil Newhouse, said </div></div>
link (http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/post-truth-campaign-mitt-romney-tells-5)
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Clinton only mentioned Republican Mitt Romney a handful times, but laid out a framework that he said defines this election. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“If you want a winner-take-all, you’re-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket,” Clinton said. “But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility -– a we're-all-in-this-together society -- you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”</span>
Clinton, whose mastery of the stage left him several possible ways to attack Romney, notably did not skewer the Republican's record at Bain Capital, or his other weaknesses, instead focusing his argument in general against the GOP philosophy. (Clinton worked a stint for the consulting and private equity firm Teneo Capital. Co-founder Doug Band is a close Clinton adviser. Clinton listed his income from Teneo on a recent disclosure form as greater than $1,000, though it gives no upper limit.)
Holding fire on Bain left the speech absent a zinger to sum up Romney. Instead, Clinton saved the zinger for tax cuts for the rich, warning that<span style='font-size: 14pt'> Romney will "double down on trickle-down."</span>
He paraphrased Ronald Reagan: "As another president once said, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>'There they go again."</span>
In reframing last week's GOP message, he employed equal parts mockery, wonkery and plainspeak.
In short, he said, the Republicans came to Tampa to deliver a simple message about Obama:<span style='font-size: 17pt'> "We left him a total mess, but he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in."</span>
Clinton hit Paul Ryan in the same style. The GOP vice presidential candidate had attacked Obama for cutting $716 billion from Medicare, <u>when his own budget proposal included those same cuts.</u>
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"You gotta give him one thing. It takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did,"</span> Clinton said.
He also slashed at Romney's charge that the president had undermined the work requirement in welfare reform. "Their campaign pollster said, <span style='font-size: 20pt'>'<u>We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,</u>'" Clinton said. "Now, finally I can say that is true. I couldn't have said it better myself –- I just hope you remember that every time you see those ads."</span> </div></div>
link (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/bill-clinton-speech_n_1850526.html?utm_hp_ref=politics)
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Post-Truth Campaign: <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Mitt Romney Tells 530 Lies in 30 Weeks</span>
10 comments
By Blue Texan
Credit: Mario Piperni
Steve Benen has truly done yeoman's work this campaign season in documenting the astonishing onslaught of Romney's lies, and Fred Clark helpfully compiled them.
Click those links. Read the lists. List after list of lie after lie. Hundreds of them —<span style='font-size: 14pt'> 533, to be exact,</span> although Benen does not make any claim to providing a comprehensive chronicle.
This is unprecedented. “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” Romney’s pollster, Neil Newhouse, said </div></div>
link (http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/post-truth-campaign-mitt-romney-tells-5)
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