Romney can't go any lower than this: Obama's 'base' is welfare recipients

[Vox Moi]

Unbelievable.

From the Huffington Post:

<snip>
And so they said, you must be preparing for work, looking for work or actually working to qualify for this section. And the president has decided, through a statement to the states, we’re going to waive that anyway, despite the language of the bill. That opens the door to removing the serious work requirement that was in the bill. I disagree with that approach. There's no question in mind that the president’s action in this regard was calculated to build support for him among people he wants to have excited about his reelection, just as so many of the things he’s done were designed to try to shore up his base.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/mitt-romney-welfare-waivers_n_1832871.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Can I ask Romney to send me a check?

Since I consider myself part of Obama's base and I currently am not on welfare, I think Mittens owes me some money.

[Blue Owl]

2. You mean the welfare recipients created when Republicans were in office?

Excuse me but go FUCK OFF now, Mitt.

[azureblue]

29. of course

Romney has no idea at all that the majority of welfare recipients are white. He's just using the usual "them lazy black people are getting all the welfare" scare tactic. Racist, through and through.

[AlbertCat]

49. Romney has no idea at all that the majority of welfare recipients are white.

He also seems to have no idea what Obama's "statement to the state" says.

"There's no question in mind that the president’s action in this regard was calculated to build support for him ...."

And there is no question in my mind that you know the states themselves ASKED for flexibility and you know it, but are just playing the race card again.


How long are they gonna tell this lie?

[central scrutinizer]

3. code word alert

more racism pure and simple

[pampango]

4. And all we know what group conservative whites are referring to by (wink, wink) "welfare recipients"

Romney wants to "turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor."

...if Romney gets 61 percent of the white vote, he wins.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/race-takes-over-race/56223/

[JHB]

5. Same thing they always have

The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a law by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man

Digital ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a41094 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a41094
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-40764 (b&w film copy neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Title: The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a law by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man
Date Created/Published: 1866.
Medium: 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 45.5 x 58.1 cm. (image)
Summary: One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a black man lounges idly in the foreground as one white man ploughs his field and another chops wood. Accompanying labels are: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread," and "The white man must work to keep his children and pay his taxes." The black man wonders, "Whar is de use for me to work as long as dey make dese appropriations." Above in a cloud is an image of the "Freedman's Bureau! Negro Estimate of Freedom!" The bureau is pictured as a large domed building resembling the U.S. Capitol and is inscribed "Freedom and No Work." Its columns and walls are labeled, "Candy," "Rum, Gin, Whiskey," "Sugar Plums," "Indolence," "White Women," "Apathy," "White Sugar," "Idleness," "Fish Balls," "Clams," "Stews," and "Pies." At right is a table giving figures for the funds appropriated by Congress to support the bureau and information on the inequity of the bounties received by black and white veterans of the Civil War.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-40764 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: Broadside Collection, portfolio 159, no. 9a c-Rare Bk Coll
Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:

Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1866-6.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a41094/

[hobbit709]

14. Perfect. fits right in with the rest of their 19th century thinking.

[CabCurious]

34. We're right back into this nativist & social darwinist mud

[steve2470]

38. undisguised racism

today, thinly disguised.

Ugh.

[steve2470]

44. one more related one:

[goclark]

6. There are no words for these Monsters

They are lower than low.

[Vox Moi]

10. How about ...

Bigoted
Racist
Divisive
Hate-mongering
Anti-American
Sociopathic
Subversive
Toxic
This could be a very long list

[Cha]

47. VICIOUS VAPID

VAMPIRES.

[Sherman A1]

53. A great start

I have some also, but I suspect they should not be printed.

[NightWatcher]

7. And Romney's base is muliti millionaire old white racist guys who were born into their money

and never had to work an honest day in their whole life. Good thing there's more of us on government assistance than there are old rich white fucks. Poont! We Win in November.

[lapislzi]

8. Never assume.

Their well of putrescence is deep, my friend. Between now and November, I suspect that this set of comments will appear tame compared to what is still to come.

[gollygee]

9. Oh please. I thought we were latte sipping Volvo drivers

intellectual elitists and all that

[former-republican]

11. Maybe he's talking about Banksters

Both parties are in bed with them.
Some just more than others.

kind of a joke but I had a real big problem with CEO's receiving million dollar bonuses on tax payer dollars.

That happened with Bush and President Obama

[Ikonoklast]

12. All that jackass needs is a monocle and a top hat.

He is the very caricature of an out-of-touch billionaire fuckwit.

[Skittles]

19. what do you have against Mr. Peanut?

I WILL KICK YOUR PEANUT-HATING ASS!

[Ikonoklast]

33. And spats, I forgot the fucking spats!

And just to set thye record straight, I am not officially anti-peanut, just anti-peanut brained 1%'er shitweasels.

[Skittles]

36. I HAD TO GOOGLE SPATS

I WILL KICK YOUR SPATS-FORGETTING ASS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spats_%28footwear%29

[Bertha Venation]

41. hahahahahahaha

[Skittles]

45. HAAAAAAAAAAAY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHASSUP KIM??? WOOT!!!

[Bertha Venation]

46. Been a long time since I had my ass kicked, Skittles.

[Skittles]

50. ALWAYS WILLING TO KICK BERTHA VENATION ASS!!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BEG!!!

[steve2470]

58. you always make me smile lol

Do you have a fan club website somewhere ?

(yes I'm joking totally)

[Skittles]

60. awww I like you too

glad to see you back!

I most certainly do have a fan club (mostly of the STOP SCREAMING OR I'LL STOP!!! variety - always begging me to kick their ass) but it is informal

[rocktivity]

66. Rachel Maddow just opened her 9/18 show brandishing a moncle and top hat!

I think you've got yourself a plagiarism suit!


rocktivity

[rocktivity]

67. UPDATE: Steve Colbert brandished a top hat too

Since he wears glasses, I guess he couldn't work the monocle...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021376147


rockitivity

[StopTheNeoCons]

13. I am a white male from Texas and I am part of Pres. Obama's base

I am anti-right wing, I am a leftist, President Obama gets my vote as does any Democrat or Independent who leans left.

[nc4bo]

15. Good article about blacks and welfare in this article.

http://www.theroot.com/views/food-stamp-fallacy


More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html

There are data links throughout theroot's articles.

Republicans LIE and I'm damned fed up with the people who allow them to continue to do so unchallenged.

[Skittles]

16. as he gets more desperate, Romney's dog whistle is turning into a blow horn

and here's a tip for you, Vox Moi - no matter HOW LOW repukes go, they can - and DO - ALWAYS GO LOWER

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. wow

[LynneSin]

18. I grew up in a county that to this day is 98.54% white and trust me....

There was a ton of welfare recipients in our county. And this county in PA has voted very solidly republican the last millennium.

There are alot of people out there who are white and collect welfare and a large portion of these people live in rural parts of the state where the republican instills the 'Three Gs' into them - that democrats will take away God, take away their guns and make them all turn gay if they vote for democrats.'

This is utter bullshit that people assume all welfare recipients are minorities that vote democrats.

[hootinholler]

26. Westmoreland? n.t.

[LynneSin]

39. Perry - outside of Harrisburg

I think it was pretty close to 100% when I was living there. I know the KKK would have rallies at Little Buffalo State Park on a yearly basis.

[Ian_rd]

20. Rude Pundit has it right. Rmoney knows he's got no black votes, so he needs to whip up the morons ..

as much as possible. Even though many of those morons are on the government tab as well.

[NotThisTime]

21. But I thought we were the liberal elites???

[Drunken Irishman]

23. Ha! You & I posted at the exact same time with the same thought.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. We are both

and to right-wingers both are true (when it needs to be). They must have a HIGH tolerance when it comes to cognitive dissonance.

[Drunken Irishman]

22. I thought Obama's base was the elitist college educated?

I'm confused!

[clydefrand]

24. Liar, liar pants on fire

I hope his butt is on fire too.

[Plucketeer]

25. And we ain't EVEN

close to the bottom yet. The GOP makes the Marianas Trench look like a puddle.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. Romney ought to be sweating over this IMHO

He won't be able to shoot back if and when President Obama attacks Romney over this in the debates because it is all a lie and he has no leg(s) to stand on.

[notadmblnd]

28. Well I consider myself part of his base and I've never gotten a dime of State aid.

[rocktivity]

31. Obama should say, "YOUR base is welfare recipients, too!"

"Only they're too rich to NEED the money!"




rocktivity

[CabCurious]

32. It's dispicable, but let's not support the stereotype, either. Most welfare recips are non-black.

[valerief]

35. Is tax dodging welfare for 1%ers? nt

[BrainGlutton23]

37. They're not numerous enough to be ANYBODY'S base.

Why would anybody think they are?!

[Myrina]

40. ... and so is Mitt's ... CORPORATE WELFARE Recipients ....

So he needs to SFTU.

[cstanleytech]

42. Oh, I am willing to bet if anyone can find a way to go lower its going to be Mitt. nt

[barbtries]

43. lying sack of shit.

i still say his religion somehow has made him perfectly able to lie without a twinge of conscience. ends justify the means.

but i'll bet you one thing. he can, and will, go even lower. there is no low too low for someone who only wants the office. nothing else matters.

[O-Town Blue]

48. Mitt is now running the campaign they wished McCain had run in 2008.

Although I will never forgive the man for unleashing Palin upon us, I will forever give him credit for being man enough to not go here with his campaign.

[Nevernose]

63. It worked for them in 1980

I guess they figure "Why not give it another shot?"

[absyntheminded]

64. McCain wasn't chained to the sociopathic Teabillies and tossed into the lake..

Even though he was shotgun wedded to one during the campaign.

There were still a handful of REAL old school republicans around in 2008, not anymore. Yes, he wishes he had the McCain campaign at this point.

[sulphurdunn]

51. Right now, Romney is so low

he could walk under the belly of a snake on stilts and not bump his head. Don't be surprised when he gets shorter stilts.

[Peaceful Protester]

52. In 2005, Governor Romney supported the exact same proposal.

That year, 29 governors, including Romney, signed a letter from the Republican Governors Association asking Congress for broader welfare waivers. Romney's dog whistle welfare attack is emblematic of his entire campaign.

[Rex]

54. Well then RMoneys base are a pack of soulless assholes

high on money and power, that will get an express ticket to hell one day.

[Peaceful Protester]

55. Supporting documentation

[link:http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf|
Letter from the Republicans Governors Association to Congress (PDF)]

[erpowers]

56. Prime Time Press Conference

President Obama needs to hold a prime time press conference to discuss the facts regarding the welfare waivers and the $700 billion in Medicare savings. At the press conference President Obama should read the entire Health and Human Services (HHS) memo. After reading the memo he should explain how the $700 billion taken from Medicare does not affect benefits, but results from savings to Medicare through decreasing the increase in costs associated with Medicare.

Some on the right would not believe President Obama. However, independents probably would like explanations of each issue. They would probably also be willing to believe President Obama.

[steve2470]

57. good idea nt

[Wednesdays]

59. Canine Toot

An almost textbook example, at that.

[sakabatou]

61. No, he can go lower

So now he's calling us all poor? What a schmuck.

[Dannyteague]

62. They are playing the race card.

From the bottom of the deck.

[Raine]

65. IMO he'll go lower, types like him always can find a new low to sink to. nt