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Scare Tactic? Obama Says Romney Holds ‘Extreme Positions’ of House GOP That He Would Push Through if Elected

President Barack Obama charged Republican rival Mitt Romney with holding the “extreme positions” of the House GOP that he would push through if elected, regardless of whether he believes them or not.

In an interview with the Associated Press published Saturday, Obama cited economic and social issues, and also suggested Romney wasn’t ready to “own up” to the responsibilities of what it takes to be president by refusing to release additional tax returns.

“[Romney] has signed up for positions, extreme positions, that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken,” Obama told the AP. “And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he’s talked about.”

Among those positions, he said, are Romney’s call for tax cuts across the board — a plan Obama said would help the rich at the expense of everyone else, something he’s repeated often on the campaign trail.

Obama also hinted at the issue of abortion, something that was pushed to the forefront this week following Republican Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comment that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant. According to the AP, Obama predicted Romney would not “stand in the way” of a congressional bill to take away women’s control over their reproductive health care.

The Obama campaign has previously sought to tie Romney to the “war on women” theme, including with an ad that declared that “it’s a scary time to be a woman.” Romney has stated unequivocally he supports a woman’s right to have an abortion in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.

Obama also noted Romney’s refusal to release additional years of tax returns, calling it a “lack of willingness to take responsibility for what this job entails.”

With the economy the No. 1 issue of the 2012 election, Obama acknowledged, “We aren’t where we need to be.”

“Everybody agrees with that,” he told the AP. “But Governor Romney’s policies would make things worse for middle-class families and offer no prospect for long-term opportunity for those striving to get into the middle class.”

Comments (224)

  • ThankBabyJesus
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:23pm

    Good. TEA

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:34pm

      He must be talking 2 his moron voters.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:01pm

      Who’s more extreme than the Frank Marshal Davis protege? Obama’s election was a quiet communist revolution.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:43pm

      Another minute just went by and we borrowed another 1.5 million dollars and we haven’t passed a budget in 4 years. Obozo has gotten Ozero votes for his stupid non starter budget’s. Fiscal Sanity = Extreme

      Throwing trillions into the giant toilet bowl = Obozo mainstream

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    • db321
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:23pm

      Obama must be trying to transform the word Extreme. Can Obama please use his definition of extreme in a sentence please – I’m not sure we are talking about the same definition.

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    • Shady
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:42pm

      If you have not read “The Little Blue Book” by George Lakoff, you need to do so…this bopok explains why King Bozo Osmocote says what he says the way he does….It is a fantastic key into the “mind” of the Demoncrats…

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:02pm

      extreme positions? you mean like people should GET A JOB instead of being parasites on the tax payers! The horror of it!!!

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    • Treaty
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:03pm

      If that’s not “the pot calling the kettle black” I don’t know what is…

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    • GaryInTheMiddle
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:48pm

      You mean like socializing with Bill Ayers and Jerry Wright? That extrteme? Huh Obutthead?

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:57pm

      Lead somebody to this website the next time they accuse the GOP of misogyny,

      http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/tales-from-the-war-on-women-t8608.html

      very funny

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 7:00pm

      Show us your school records fist; I‘ll bet they show you went to college as a ’foreign student‘ and got all kinds of ’free stuff’……………just like ‘Pheaux-Hontis’ Warren….

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:59pm

      HERE‘S WHAT WE’VE LEARNED the past 3.5 years: WHATEVER OBAMA says is up is down and vice versa. IF he says Romney is dangerous, we jolly well know that it’s OBAMA who is Dangerous. Whatever he says, we’ve learned the opposite of it is true.
      I’ve never seen anyone (besides that pathetic person Wasserman/Schultz, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod or Moochelle) who could lie with a straight face better ‘n Obama.

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    • Female
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:38pm

      Conservatives just need to keep mentioning how much they think Romney is a RINO and a moderate, with tremendous disappointment. He can‘t be extreme if the extreme says he isn’t, right? Romneycare…right? Put him squarely in the middle until election day, then vote right which begins with “R” not “O”!

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:13pm

      ThankBabyJesus, So you are TEA? The GOP has voted to give dictator style power to Romney at the convention. I have tried to link the story but The Blaze apparently does not want anyone here to be informed of the truth. Their reasoning is to keep Tea Party initiatives at bay. If you want the real truth on this, check it out at The Daily Paul. The Truth Lives Here? What a Cro ck.I believe The Blaze takes these type of stories, that are not in the best of light for Romney, and puts them in their moderator program to block them. I may be able to get this in as there is no link, but this post may not stay.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:21pm

      We the Conservative, God Loving Americans want a Conservative President who will uphold the Constitution, Love of our Country and all it was founded on. Why would obama think this is odd?

      Perhaps because he isn’t in touch with the American values and ways, think? He is so far LEFT, he doesn‘t and can’t think about what’s RIGHT for America and WITH America. He’s a born again LIAR.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:51pm

      OneShiner, You are for Ron Paul, good choice. You cannot be for Romney as he is not for those things.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:47am

      “Obama also noted Romney’s refusal to release additional years of tax returns, calling it a “lack of willingness to take responsibility for what this job entails.”
      ———————————————————————————————————————-

      That has got to be the funniest quote of the year!!!

      Remember Obama saying: “The buck stops with YOU”?

      Hahaha!!

      This guy has no idea what responsibility even means!! He can’t even quote a quote about responsibility correctly!!

      He has been told his whole life that any misfortune is not HIS fault, it‘s the racist America that’s to blame.

      He tells women It’s not their fault they got pregnant.

      He tells homeowners it’s not their fault they took out too big a loan, or paid too much for a house.

      He even tells businessmen that their successful business isn’t their fault!!

      He knows NOTHING about responsibility!

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:55am

      BritherEd, There is good reason that Romney has not followed his fathers footsteps and request that all who run for President should release 12 years of tax returns, because if he did, we would find that he is a tax dodger. Swiss and Cayman and Panama bank accounts hidden away from the eyes of the IRS. I have been trying to post links to shw this but The Blaze will not allow. It is getting harder for me to get anything that shows anything that damages Romney. There is a link I was able to get through on another story which they are not allowing me to post to you here. Go to election fraud remedy dot com in order to see what is coming Romney’s way. This will discredit the GOP more than it has been already. Wake Up People.

      Report Post » West Coast Patriot  
    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:25am

      Ron Paul tells ABC there is no way he could fully endorse Mitt Romney.

      “Mr. Paul, in an interview, said convention planners had offered him an opportunity to speak under two conditions: that he deliver remarks vetted by the Romney campaign, and that he give a full-fledged endorsement of Mr. Romney. He declined.”

      “It wouldn’t be my speech,” Dr. Paul said. “That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.”

      You see, Ron Paul is not speaking in Tampa, not because the RNC did not invite him, but because they wanted him to lie, and Ron Paul cannot do that, he is not like Mitt Romney.

      Reince Priebus said the party was now unified and the Paul supporters were now behind Mitt Romney, LIE. If you want to know where we are standing, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWeG30xyZXc&feature=youtu.be

      Romney is going to lose. There are scandalous things that are coming out in time for the general election that are going to damage Romney and there is no escape from it. The media will not tell you, until it is too late, The Blaze will not let me tell you, they are blocking, but it is coming. We are going to campaign against Romney in all states during the general and the RNC and Romney campaign are to blame for this. Sorry, just stating facts as “The Truth is supposed to Live Here.”

      Report Post » West Coast Patriot  
    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:28am

      Watch this video from Richard Gilbert (Lawyers for Ron Paul): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cxaBqnRosdo

      I wonder if he will get a visit from the Gestapo?

      Report Post » West Coast Patriot  
    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:33am

      All of you that believe we should continue fighting in countries that do not want us there, watch this video and then you tell me how it makes you feel!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5XBFChpIJ0&feature=youtu.be

      Report Post » West Coast Patriot  
    • Silversmith
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:23am

      In general, Obama is right. If I were an America hating communist, I would think Romney’s positions were extreme also.

      Silversmith

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    • Revere2
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:35am

      Tea

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    • Msgt Ret
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 11:09am

      At least his Union thug leaders are honest about wanting to turn the US into a communist country.

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    • majasdad
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:21pm

      @DESERTSPEAKS
      That’s a lie, and you know it.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:29pm

      Yes, and the 1st one would be to KICK OBAMA’S BUTT OUT OF THE WH.

      The 2nd would be to REPEAL OBAMACARE.

      The 3rd would be to (hopefully) oust the progressive liberals from the Senate.

      And last, but not least, SHOW SOME REAL CLASS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

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    • Quixotic-911
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:39pm

      O will be the first president in history to enter and leave office without ever having passed a budget.

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  • eaglesview
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:23pm

    If his mouth is moving, excrement is sure to follow.

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:28pm

      It’s the old “Boogy man be under the bed routine” get real, adults know better.

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    • justangry
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:35pm

      That’s absolutely true. I don‘t believe a word out of Obama’s mouth. I‘d really like to ask him what policies of Romney’s or the GOP‘s he’s referring to. To me it’s the stuff they agree on, which is a lot, is the stuff we should be the issues we’re talking about changing this election. The stuff they disagree on is just window dressing.

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    • rawmilker
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:48pm

      So by not releasing more than 2 yrs of tax returns means Romney would have a hard time being president?? Thats the stupidist thing I ever heard.

      lets see…. Obama’s tried to consolidate Big Bank, Auto, Energy, and Health Care and Education under one central government control, while gutting small business and free enterprise.
      He’s demeaned the Supreme Court and virtually ignored due process in …imposing his will on a SPINELESS GOP!
      He supports the overthrow of Middle East dictators friendly to the US, while remaining silent on the Iranian revolt. He’s embraced every anti-American agitator from Ayers to Wright, and has stewarded the most nefarious, clandestine White House in history. He has a Soros-funded, liaison in Media Matters, while the remaining outlets of his COLLUSION MEDIA dutifully propagate his lies.

      So Barry Soetoro, is this the way one runs a US presidency?

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 7:02pm

      Tell us what you got in store if you are re-elected!! Just more socialist ‘utopian’ “extreamest” terrorism to extract and make amoerica “pay for suposed sins’ against the oppressed minoities…

      BHO’s defficit reduction plan: 1. Tax the rich; 2 keep spending’

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:44pm

      Thank you Jesus for Mitt Romney’s views. There’s nothing wrong with making people responsible for their own lives (for a change) I love Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. They make me happy to be a conservative. Thank God for them.
      When I was a stupid young person, I just assumed we were all democrats until I grew up and learned that being a democrat was comparable to being a low life loser who wanted the government to take care of all my personal needs. NOPE. I take care of myself and make my own choices and appreciate those who will let me do what I know is best for me, and to hell with you liberals telling me how I have to spend my money on losers who won’t lift a finger to help themselves.
      I was raised believing we help people who need help, not the losers who don’t want to work.

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  • AngryDwarf
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:19pm

    Doncha’ recall a few months ago, Axlerod, DWS, Schumer, etc. all using the word “extreme” to describe anything GOP? They chilled for a few months because they were overusing it and it was perceived to be losing it’s impact. Now it’s being ressurected and I suspect will be the description once again for anything GOP.
    After the convention, I want R&R to get mideval on their candy @sses.

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:39pm

      There are a lot of us radicals these days…maybe to the point that we have become the norm rather than the random blip…which of course means that we aren’t radical anymore.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:16pm

    The very first thing that comes to mind is just how much more of an extreme position could 0bama himself take? Just sing “Projecting” to the tune of Eric Clapner’s “Pretending”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPeFvNmARnQ

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:13pm

    The Narcissist, racist commie bastard will do all he can to distory the USA if re-elected

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  • BeckIgnoresConstitution
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:13pm

    Obama is only offering a path forward? Yeah – over the cliff.

    “Obama is ineligible for multiple reasons:
    1. Not a ‘natural born citizen’ as required by Article 2, Section 1.
    2. Born a British citizen pursuant to British Nationality Act of 1948.
    3. Law enforcement has concluded his birth certificate is fraudulent.”[1]

    “If you voted for Obama to prove you’re not a racist,
    you‘ll have to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot.” – unknown.

    1. http://www.ObamaBirthCertificate.net

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  • truthseekerusa
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:13pm

    Counterbalance Obama. Spread the word about 2016 and send links to information about it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:11pm

      Even better .. offer to treat someone to a night at the movies .. I have .. hoping after Isaac they take me up on it.

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  • noland
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:12pm

    Ibelieve him to be speaking of Himself, only taking his name out and putting in soon to be President Romney”s name! Is”nt that HIS rules 4 radicals AGENDA? Oh and maybe its Yahoo”s too!

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  • kimosd1
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:07pm

    What middle class ? Oh… public sector workers I forgot. Retire at 50-55, the pubic paid for 75 to 100% retirement, full health care. A generational welfare class that gets free medical, housing, food stamps. Stay single, get pregnant, get a check…you’ve arrived ! That’s where the middle class went.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:15pm

      Sorry YOU were so poorly educated and made bad career decisions.
      Your statement is all about jealousy.
      Ahd the Scott Walker’s and Christies, play you like a fiddle.

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    • pissantno.10
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:40pm

      voice of treason your so funny gotta say your getting so really good drugs the poster was spot on

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Not all of us can have a sweet deal like our politicians do Verce….

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    • kimosd1
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:29pm

      Hey Verce… my education ?… at least I can spell.

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  • klatoo
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

    So 0bama’s plan is to use the army to install corrupt governments in foreign lands. Nothing extreme there the US was doing it under Bush.
    I heard a soldier caller on talk radio saying how he joined to defend the shores of America from foriegn enemies. Now he is seeing the enemy is in this country and the invasion has been here ever since the first progressive launched the attack.
    klatoo says the fight for liberty isn’t 10,000 miles away. It is right here in America. We need to win this war.

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  • Z
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:59pm

    Pfffft!

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:03pm

      Sorry AP, I saw “2016” so you can’t scare me with that puff piece about Mitt Romney being an extremist ….. more PROJECTION from obama.

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:54pm

    The Preisdent wants to teach what he has been unable to do himself. I hope he doesn’t want to teach Romney how to get further in debt, pay other countries what we could be doing ourselves like drilling for oil, building etc.

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:52pm

    Nothing, Nada, Zip to run on positively!!!!! Let’s see how stupid the American people are. right Barry?

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  • woodyee
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:48pm

    Gaybama has his extreme positions, too…

    Just ask Larry Sinclair…

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    • vic138
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:58pm

      Head back and pants around the ankles position?

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  • ComeNovember2012
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:45pm

    I could give a rat’s patooty what this clown car administration says after November 6th….oh wait…Michelle said November 2nd…sorry.

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  • momrules
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:44pm

    I won’t watch the video, just reading the words out of this lying hypocrites mouth is enough to spoil a good mood.
    Every time he whines about Romney * hiding * his tax returns and the dumb, scared or in the bag for Obama interviewer lets it slide without reminding him that he has sealed ( hidden his entire past ) from the American public I want to scream.

    I am not a Romney fan, he was low on my who I want for President list, but I hope he wipes the floor with Obama. Absolutely no one needs it more that that lying fraud of a __________!!!!

    UNSEAL YOUR RECORDS Obama.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:58am

      @MOMRULES

      Hahaha!!

      I can’t stand to listen to him either!

      He make my ears bleed!!

      If there is no transcript, I’ll skip it. I figure whatever he says is either unimportant, decisive, or just an out an out hustle.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:09am

      *devisive

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:44pm

    More scare tactics from the left – typical.

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    • grimmster
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Snow, its all they have,and like their stupidity, they will never run out of it……

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  • lel2007
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:43pm

    And if obama’s re-elected the gates of Hell will be flung wide open.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:43pm

    I wonder if Obama has ever been issued a personal credit card? If he had, he would know that spending more than you can pay back is considered an ‘extreme position’ by the people who issue the card. Barry, WE are YOUR bank pal.

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    • MiCurmudgeon
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Excellent point!!!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:30pm

      GONZO, Excellent point, but 0bama never has to worry about that since he has Rezko and others to drop more coin in his piggy bank.

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  • justasurvivor
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Romney better. That‘s what we’re electing him to do.

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  • HPC172ERTAV
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:42pm

    If by extreme he (Obama) means NORMAL, RATIONAL, and it GD works then yes Romney is extreme

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    • rawmilker
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:29pm

      yes, to libs and commies like gayboybama, good is bad, bad is good and the right way to run our nations and ensure we prosper is extreme to this jackwagon idiot foreigner.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:52pm

      I hope Obama‘s right cause I’m ready for some of that ‘extremism’ coming from the House GOP. The progressivism from the demonrats has just about destroyed our country.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:38pm

    There is nothing more extreme and radical than having a racist, marxist as president. He has no room calling anyone elsle ‘extreme’.

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    • moomaw10
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Get used to all the Lib’s crap….It will only get worse until election in Nov……

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    • justasurvivor
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:51pm

      Moom – you mean it’s going to be worse than it was “then”?
      heehee

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:06pm

      Talk about the black calling the kettle pot…

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  • thegoldman
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:32pm

    Elizabeth warren is saying the same thing in Mass. against Scott Brown…

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  • michael48
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:32pm

    that’s rich..oppps didn’t mean to po the comrade crowd…much…guess I should’ve used “that’s real white of you”..oppps that doesn’t work either…how about “dem-wits are too stupid to breathe”…ahhh yes , that’s more Utopian , indeed…

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:25pm

    Holy Cow!!! They have absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. Holy Cow!!!

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    • maxedout
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:42pm

      Ain’t THAT the truth!

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:12pm

      The BIrther in Chief”
      How does that statement help the economy or tell you anything about Romney’s plans?
      You posters are A riot.

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    • michael48
      Posted on August 25, 2012 at 7:49pm

      dam verse…they change your formula??…lemming-aid was bad enough, he!! the bath-salts leaves you mindless…or just on the wrong channel???? have a “hoax and chains” week-end , comrade…

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