Posted on 09/18/2012 1:50:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Reacting to Mitt Romney’s secretely taped comments in which he said 47 percent of voters believe “they are victims” and would cast their ballots for President Obama “no matter what,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today said, ”When you’re president of the United States, you are president of all the people, not just the people who voted for you.”
“The president certainly doesn’t think that men and women on Social Security are irresponsible or victims, that students aren’t responsible or are victims. He certainly doesn’t think that middle-class families are paying too little in taxes,” Carney told reporters of the president’s reaction. “The broader point that you always hear him make is that … we need to come together as a country. We need to work together for what’s best for the country and best for especially the middle- class, which is the backbone of this nation.”
The White House downplayed comparisons between Romney’s remarks and the president’s comments in 2008 that rural voters “get bitter, they cling to their guns or religion.”
“Then-Sen. Obama never said that he did not worry about or would not worry about 47 percent of the population,” Carney said...
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I've never considered 0bama to be "President", but as long as he is masquerading, I want to go on record - HE HAS NEVER REPRESENTED ME OR ANYTHING I BELIEVE OR STAND FOR!
Obama hates Republicans..lets see, he accuses us of wanting to throw the elderly over cliffs, says we want dirty air and water..etc etc etc..yet he says he wants to represent ALL of us..he is a lying schmuck..if Obama had his way we would be the first ones in the oven
“The president certainly doesn’t think that men and women on Social Security are irresponsible or victims”
Nobody said *anything* about SS.
Retired SS receivers pay taxes on it.
It was my impression that welfare leeches were the “47%”.
So Obeyme throws in a non sequitur trigger phrase to scare the old folks.
If I recall there was no help from Obama when the floods and fires swept Red States.
or for the people across the middle of the country, into KY and WVa, during an ice storm....something about putrid peanut butter.
Never visited Branson.....
Does not represent me.
This pot-smoking, coke-sniffing, limp wristed communist muslim anti-American scumbag does NOT represent me.
Obama says we are the enemy. He’s the one who isn’t representing everyone.
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