words of love and despair

November 6th, 2012

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it… These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect… And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Remember this. This happened. No matter how it was spun, it may very well have been Mitt Romney at his most honest, his most unguarded. It may very well be how he intends to govern as president.

Remember this.

October 23rd, 2012

barackobama:

Sums it up.

Mitt Romney has nothing really coherent or substantive to say about domestic policy, but at least he can sound energetic and confident about it. On foreign policy, the subject of Monday night’s final presidential debate, he had little coherent to say and often sounded completely lost. That’s because he has no original ideas of substance on most world issues, including Syria, Iran and Afghanistan.

The New York Times on the final presidential debate (via barackobama)

October 19th, 2012

Gov. Gary Johnson Files Complaint In Federal Court Against Commission On Presidential Debates

cognitivedissonance:

govgaryjohnson:

October 19, 2012, Washington, DC – Citing survey data showing former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has in fact achieved the narrow criteria required for inclusion in the Monday debate, earning more than 40 percent of the vote in “head-to-head” polls against President Barack Obama, the Libertarian Party nominee’s campaign today filed a complaint in Federal Court in the District of Columbia maintaining that Johnson has, in fact, met the Commission on Presidential Debates’ criteria for inclusion. The complaint asks the Court to compel the CPD to include Johnson.

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Why not let him and Jill Stein debate? God forbid we hear more than two people.

barackobama:

In which President Obama diagnoses Mitt Romney with Romnesia.

motherjones:

The ex-general who lost Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora, then bungled planning for war in Iraq, is endorsing Mitt Romney and would like to complain to you about Obama’s four “years of feckless foreign policy.” For serious.

Also, in his retirement, this general runs his own Leadership Institute and Museum out of a Hobart, Oklahoma, storefront. And he would like to sell you some “high performing mother cows” from his ranch, online at 4StarRanch.net. So you know he’s good.

October 17th, 2012

Cuéntame

Cutting taxes for those already wealthy is like washing dishes that are already clean.(via Wall Photos)

October 16th, 2012

(via cognitivedissonance)

Dear Mitt Romney:

cognitivedissonance:

I’m confused. I thought my place was in the kitchen, not a binder.

Sincerely,
A puzzled uterused-American with a lady vote

October 11th, 2012

You go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital. We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.

Mitt Romney, getting everything wrong on health care. (via think-progress)

(via think-progress)