How can you not just bust out laughing at Mitt Romney when you see stuff like this? I mean, it’s hysterical. He’s literally got nothing.
“Welcome to Ohio,” Mitt Romney told President Obama with more than a dash of sarcasm in an open letter on the eve of Obama’s rally Saturday in Columbus. “I have a simple question for you: Where are the jobs?”
Romney got an answer to that question last week from Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Campaigning for Romney outside the capital, the Republican governor could hardly have strayed further off message as he painted a bright picture of economic recovery in Ohio just as Romney was trying to do the opposite.
“We have a website called Ohio Means Jobs and there’s probably about 80,000 jobs listed on there where there are openings,” Kasich told college students meeting with him and Romney.
“Really?” a student asked in astonishment.
In scanning the website, Kasich said, “you’re going to find a lot of real exciting opportunities.”
Kasich is not the only Republican governor whose off-key boasts of a local jobs recovery have undercut the party’s presumptive presidential nominee right before a Romney speech portraying the economy under Obama as dismal.
Virginia Gov. Bob McConnell offered the latest variation on Thursday as he introduced Romney at a rally in Portsmouth, Va.
“Welcome to the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the Southeast,” McConnell said.
As the audience cheered, Romney paused, then smiled and clapped his hands four times.
“That’s good news,” he muttered, ignoring the head wind that any good news on jobs creates for his campaign in a crucial swing state like Virginia.
The president is about to take the stage in Columbus, Ohio in front of a crowd that is many times bigger than anything Romney has produced during his whole campaign. Today is the formal kickoff of his reelection campaign. New slogan: Forward.
Let’s see how this marketing campaign goes. It’s looking pretty slick so far.
their livefeed burned out right before kickoff. Probably too much traffic.
The states seem much more in sync on the Dem side. Why, just yesterday WA State Democratic Party chair Dwight Pelz, head of the party whose governor and legislature legalized gay marriage only last month, withdrew his support for a marriage equality plank in the party platform because he didn’t want to “embarrass the President,” adding that he felt marriage equality advocates had “sandbagged” him by pushing for the plank’s inclusion.
So, yeah, I’m glad they’ve got their messaging coordinated. Pity that takes precedence over civil rights and human rights and stuff, but it’s the horse race that really matters.
And we wonder why so many people hate politics.
that is pretty stupid bullcrap.
So, check out the synergy of the Obama team while their doing this event. They are going to identify every damn voter that’s reachable in this election and get them registered. It’s going to make 2008 look like the Flintstones.
Every time I’ve met Dwight I’ve come away with the thought, hey man catch up will ya!
I hear ya. In my experience he’s a man perpetually fighting the previous decade’s battles.
Pity that takes precedence over civil rights and human rights and stuff, but it’s the horse race that really matters.
Where “human rights and stuff” is being defined as “nonbinding language in a platform statement,” yeah, “the horse race” – that is, the question of who the next President is going to be – is what really matters.
It’s difficult to imagine anything in politics that matters less than the platform committee, and I’m including St. Patrick’s Day roasts and Washington Post Style section pieces.
Booman Tribune ~ Obama Kicks Off Campaign
kinda says it all, huh. we’re blowing up balloons, hanging flags and sprinkling confetti, but don’t worry the wonks are in the basement working on the plan of how to actually govern.
politics as spectacle indeed.
You think the party platforms are “the plan of how to actually govern?”
Have you ever seen one?
The platform committee is a balloon drop for people who verbiage more than balloons.
The platform committee is Model UN for grownups.
Michelle Obama is fired up and ready to go and her dress matches the color of the FORWARD signs.
the president is looking very casual. Going with Bono as theme music.
You have to be kidding Booman.
Oh.
You’re not!!!???
Nevermind.
I feel like I’m skimming TMZ or some other vile celebrity-fucker site.
You write:
And in a later comment:
Oh SHIT!!!
“Get them registered,” eh?
As in?
Oh.
Not yet.
Not this year, anyway.
But soon? The implanted dog tags’ll tell the story.
I was never much of a fan of the Flintstones. In fact, I thought the whole Hanna-Barbera thing was a denatured crock of cartoon shit. But this is enough to make me long for the old days.
“Slick?”
Ain’t “slick” a pejorative?
Used to be…
Now?
It’s what for dinner.
Political dinner.
Now I’m getting your reason for referencing Ron Paul as “flaky.”
Like flaky skin.
Not oily enough.
Obama?
The Bryllcreem of candidates.
Slick Willie ain’t got nuthin’ on Bryllcreem Barry.
Nossir.
He kin slip ‘n slide through anything!!!
Disgusting.
AG
AG
Lighten up, Francis.
Heavy up, Booman.
This shit is for keeps, y’know.
AG
Any questions?
Uh oh! Better trim that second picture from the top. Looks a bit too much like a Sieg Heil. Gotta be careful of those wingnut sensitivities, BooMan. You know it doesn’t take much to send them in spasms. 😉
At least it doesn’t look like the Hindenburg.
OUCH! Bazinga!!!
All image, all the time.
Media Booman.
Bit of a nutter, aren’t we? Yeesh. And here I thought fruitcake was out of season. Thanks for the laugh!
Springsteen!
That was an awesome speech.
The level of age, gender and racial diversity and enthusiam at Obama’s rally stands in stark contrast to Robmey’s doesn’t it.
The idea that Ann Romney could possibley connect to voters the way Michelle Obama should be ludicrous to anyone after today. Michelle Obama is a force in her own right.
I love how Obama still kept the speech inspriation and optimistic (unlike R-Money’s usual doom and gloom) but did NOT shy away from sticking it to Mittens (“Corporation AREN’T people, PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE”…Boom) and he threw in a little for Paul Ryan too (PBO: “I will never allow Medicare to be turned into a voucher that would end the program as we know it”…)
It was also definitely geared towards newscast with enought soundbites to kill a normal speech.
Also too: Dick Halperins has a sad:
“Halperin’s Take
There are a lot of variables that will go towards determining who wins in November. If candidate skills, spouse skills, a clear message, and emotion matter — and they do — some of the Democrats’ biggest advantages were on display Saturday. Team Romney has some major catching up to do.”
Roger Simon at politico: “Obama announcement speech 4 years ago was sweeping, elegant and grand. Today’s was fiery, dramatic and determined”
Wonder how Robmey camp feeling about their whole “braketing” strategy today?
why you gotta make me laugh like that.
I was at the rally in Columbus today. Here are some thoughts:
http://libertystreet.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/obama-rally-columbus-ohio/
cool. It seemed pretty high-energy on the teevee.
Good photos too ~ thanks.
The slogan “Forward” makes me think of the Kodos vs. Kang episodes of the Simpsons.
We must go forward, not back. Up, not down. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!