Romney calls Obama's rhetoric "devisive" while he descends into playing the Race Card

[Bill USA]

Romney is accusing Obama's campaign of being devisive (I guess pointing out the fact that the middle class has been getting screwed six ways from Sunday by Republican Trickle Down policies is being 'devisive'). Meanwhile he says nobody has asked for his birth certificate, and when called on it, he responds by laughing 'oh HA-HA, I was just jokin around!' and launches a Big Lie that Obama has taken the work requirement out of welfare (in responding to two Republican Governors request to streamline - for their states only - paper work requirements of the welfare law - so as to get people hooked up with jobs more quickly) which has been exposed as a damn lie by factcheckers.

The purpose of this big lie is to stoke notions among the ignorant that welfare is really just a 'gift' those (black) people.




http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/making-the-election-about-race/


[font size="+1"]Making the Election About Race[/font]

By THOMAS B. EDSALL


The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor.

Ads that accuse President Obama of gutting the work requirements enacted in the 1996 welfare reform legislation present the first theme. Ads alleging that Obama has taken $716 billion from Medicare — a program serving an overwhelmingly white constituency — in order to provide health coverage to the heavily black and Hispanic poor deliver the second. The ads are meant to work together, to mutually reinforce each other’s claims.

The announcer in one of the Romney campaign’s TV ads focusing on welfare tells viewers:

In 1996, President Clinton and a bipartisan Congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare. But on July 12, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping the work requirement. Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you a welfare check. And welfare-to-work goes back to being plain old welfare. Mitt Romney will restore the work requirement because it works.

The ad includes the following text and photograph:

Mitt Romney for President

Web sites devoted to examining the veracity of political commercials have sharply criticized the ad.
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[JaneQPublic]

1. "Accuse the Opponent of Your Own Vices and Weaknesses"

That's the game Romney has been playing from Day One.

Whatever his vice or weakness is, he blasts Obama for something similar, even if he has to make shit up to do it.

Perfect example is his claim that Obama is destroying Medicare (i.e., the $700+ Billion taken out of Medicare for Obamacare), when it is actually the Ryan budget that would do the program real harm.

The end result is that the average voter doesn't know who is telling the truth or just assumes everyone is lying.

[Bill USA]

2. If Rmoney didn't have the concept of the Big Lie to rely on, he wouldn't have a campaign!!

[oldsarge54]

3. Anyone Figure out the Difference?

Has anyone figured out the difference between race card and class warfare? Given that the Republican world view is that all people receiving entitlements are black or illegals. Given they seem to believe the entire middle class is white? What say you?