September 12, 2012
Mitt Romney will never be president
Joan Walsh in Salon:
Mitt Romney, flushed and shifty-eyed, stepped to a podium Wednesday morning with a chance to disavow the despicable late-night attack his campaign launched on President Obama. Instead he intensified it, and that’s why he’ll never be president.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other State Department employees murdered in Benghazi last night. It’s tragic that those deaths have become occasion for cheap political grandstanding by Romney. As everyone now knows, the Romney campaign blasted President Obama for allegedly sympathizing with Stevens’ killers in a ridiculous statement late on the evening of Sept. 11:
I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.
That lie was apparently based on a message released by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo before the attack, which was designed to reduce tensions inflamed by the hate-speech of Terry Jones and his Muslim-hating supporters, who are promoting a despicably anti-Islam film via YouTube.
More here.
Posted by S. Abbas Raza at 04:50 PM | Permalink
Comments
Then, let's abolish the office of the so-called president altogether.
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos50/presidencia-como-organismo/presidencia-como-organismo.shtml
Posted by: Félix E. F. Larocca, MD | Sep 12, 2012 8:26:10 PM
Here are a few articles which Editor. Abbas Raza did not post. He wouldn’t be engaged in one sided propaganda would he? Isn’t he allowing his obvious personal prejudice for Mr. Obama get in the way of facts and enlightenment?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/papers-run-porn-kings-ad-reject-anti-obama-filmmaker/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/rush-obama-policy-full-fledged-disaster/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/claim-obama-hid-gay-life-to-become-president/?cat_orig=politics
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/israeli-science-website-obama-birth-certificate-forged/?cat_orig=politics
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/savage-islamic-takeover-hatched-in-obamas-ivory-tower/?cat_orig=us
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/video-obama-called-kenya-his-home/
Posted by: w.j.abbe | Sep 13, 2012 5:49:51 AM
Rather than publishing the above worthless propaganda article about Romney, here is a very significant article about charity fraud which Editor Abbas Raza did not publish:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-12/charities-deceive-donors-unaware-money-goes-to-a-telemarketer.html
Charities Deceive Donors Unaware Money Goes to a Telemarketer by David Evans,
Bloomberg, Sept. 12, 2012.
One brief quote from this outstanding investigative report:
“And it gets worse. Many of the biggest-name charities in the U.S. have signed similarly one-sided contracts with telemarketers during the past decade. The American Cancer Society, the largest health charity in the U.S., enlisted InfoCision from 1999 to 2011 to raise money.
In fiscal 2010, InfoCision gathered $5.3 million for the society. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers took part, but none of that money -- not one penny -- went to fund cancer research or help patients, according to the society’s filing with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the state of Maine. “
If any private individual defrauded others in this manner, they would be promptly prosecuted and placed in jail. But observe none of the criminals of the American Cancer Society have even been charged, let alone convicted by the corrupt U.S. Attorney.
Do not donate a single dime or second of your time to the corrupt cesspool the American Cancer Society.
And thank you Abbas Raza for your dismal failure to post this vital public information disclosing and proving how the American Cancer Society continues to fool duped cancer victims and their loved ones. By the way, if they will fool you about their finances, don't you think they will also fool you and me about their worthless cancer research and mistreatments which mostly kill cancer patients to the tune of about 1500 per day in the U.S.?
Posted by: w.j.abbe | Sep 13, 2012 6:30:25 AM
Dr. Abbe, I did a search to find out about you and was amazed at how prolific you have been. You clearly have an easy command of the keyboard as well as Internet navigation. Your grammar and syntax are flawless. And you have a multitude of interests. You, like Socrates, are an indefatigable gadfly.
Here's a thought, from another old guy, blogging happily in my retirement. What you need, sir, is your own blog, a place to assemble and publish all your argumentative non sequiturs in one place rather than have them scattered all over the Internet, mired in endless mostly unrelated comments threads, sinking forever into archival quicksand, never to be read again.
Posted by: John Ballard | Sep 13, 2012 9:56:35 AM
It was his "gotcha" smirk at the end of his speech that was the death-knell of his ambitions. Shades of W's uncomfortable butt-head laugh of someone way over his head.
Posted by: Sam | Sep 13, 2012 11:18:49 AM
His fans will love him for it as long as he's against women, homosexuals, mexicans, and blacks. The more he hates and acts like a douchebag, the more they love him. His role model is Rush Limbaugh. Everyone else, however, think he's a hardcore jerk. As usual, we're not really voting FOR someone as much as we are voting AGAINST someone else.
Posted by: Ray Butlers | Sep 13, 2012 11:42:37 AM
BTW: All Dangerous Minds should thank God for World Net Daily. JW Abbe would never be as well informed otherwise.
Posted by: Ray Butlers | Sep 13, 2012 2:22:55 PM
I seem to remember politicians calling out the then President in 2008 in much stronger terms than Romney has done to Obama recently. I am trying to figure out how this is not a double standard, but am coming up short. Maybe the philosophiles here can illuminate this for me.
Posted by: steve3 | Sep 13, 2012 5:58:51 PM
steve3:
I seem to remember politicians calling out the then President in 2008 in much stronger terms than Romney has done to Obama recently.
It's not about the strength of the criticism, it's about whether the criticisms have any basis in reality. Do you think it's fair to criticize Obama for some statements from the people at the embassy (made before the attack, in part to protect themselves from violence) which Obama had nothing to do with? If not, can you point to some examples of equally unfair criticisms of Bush by figures as prominent as Romney that weren't called out by the media?
Posted by: Jesse M. | Sep 13, 2012 6:09:28 PM
Jesse M:
"it's about whether the criticisms have any basis in reality."
Thank you for clarifying, one side had its attacks based in reality, one did not. I knew it was easy.
Posted by: steve3 | Sep 14, 2012 8:46:33 AM
steve3:
Thank you for clarifying, one side had its attacks based in reality, one did not. I knew it was easy.
I didn't actually claim to be sure this was generally true of Democratic attacks on Bush, I was just talking about how Romney's attack clearly is not based in any sort of reality and that's why he's being criticized, and off the top of my head I couldn't recall Democratic attacks on Bush that were equally deluded. But I invited you to offer any examples if you thought there was a double standard at play; I take it from your non-response that you can't think of any (or perhaps that you don't actually agree Romney's attack on Obama was divorced from reality?)
Posted by: Jesse M. | Sep 14, 2012 11:38:23 AM
Jesse:
"how Romney's attack clearly is not based in any sort of reality"
Romney was responding to a statement put out by the embassy, ostensibly with Obama's approval. What caused me to write a response on the internet was that a place so level-headed as 3quarks can be so partisan about its political posting. I honestly don't see the difference between what Romney said about the embassy and what was said a la 2008 about the then president. I guess I don't understand how really smart people think that this is so egregious, but what was said in 2008 was somehow different.
Posted by: steve3 | Sep 14, 2012 8:07:12 PM
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