Mitt Romney: Barack Obama may lie in debates

[apples and oranges]

Mitt Romney says in an interview that his campaign will “come into focus” with the debates and that he’s preparing for President Barack Obama to “say things that aren’t true” during the three upcoming faceoffs next month.
“This is a campaign which I think will come into focus as the debates occur,” Romney said, according to a transcript released by ABC of Romney’s sitdown with Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos. “The president got a bit of a bump after his convention. I got a bit of a bump after ours. It’s going to go back and forth.”

The debates, including the vice presidential debate, he said, could “well be a decisive point in the campaign,” and he added that while he wouldn’t try to predict the outcome, he thought they would be “revealing one way or another.”
Romney also suggested that Obama might be untruthful during the debates.


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This guy is unbelievable. Truly.

"If you are caught stealing, you grab the guy who caught you and yell THIEF!" - Willard's philosophy

[jsr]

1. And the Mormon bishop never lies.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He's so amateurish that he overtly gives away his own strategy

Can we get this clown off the stage?

[apples and oranges]

5. I keep thinking, Nov 6 can't come soon enough

but still, I'm alarmed by the possibility that he might somehow be declared the winner!

[ananda]

3. Classic projection!

nt

[Avalux]

4. "accuse your opponent of doing what you do"

That's the GOP/Rove guiding principle, and knowing that, this stupid ass comment by Romney isn't a surprise at all. I think Romney's going to find out quickly though, he's going to have a very tough time convincing enough people it's true to help him.

[33Greeper]

6. The Mormon Way

Lyin for Jeebus!

[C_U_L8R]

7. Mitt perjures up another one

I bet Mitt his ill-gained fortune that
he cannot prove one single "not true"
thing President Obama has ever said.

What a truly awful deceitful person Mitt is.

[closeupready]

25. OMG! That made me LOL -

[gollygee]

8. In other news, Mitt Romney WILL lie in debates

as that seems to be all he does in this campaign.

[SalviaBlue]

9. Projection much, Mitt?

[porphyrian]

10. Why should anyone believe anything Romney says?

Hey, asshole, where are your tax returns?!

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Yes, Mitt. You and the President both got a bump after your conventions.

President Obama has kept his. Yours, not so much.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. Actually ...

President Obama (and down tick Democrats) got a bump; romney got a light tap on the back.

[nobodyspecial]

12. Can't wait to see the factcheck analysis after the debate

I predict Romney will be the one telling the most lies.

[1StrongBlackMan]

29. Two thoughts ...

1) the romney supporters will do what they always do ... ignore the fact-checkers because ... well ... they're checking facts!

2) the media will do the "they both do it" thing again. So expect the media to declare a President Obama statement of: "A canine is a dog" as false and then equate it to the romney statement, "A cat is a canine."

And failing that, I expect the media to parse President Obama's statements in order to make false a point that President Obama wasn't making. (See: CNN's fact-check of President Obama's 4.5 million jobs created statement).

[JHB]

13. For Mitt, however, there's no "may" in there. He's made lies the centerpiece of his campaign.

His entire "you built that" theme is based on the surgical extraction of one sentence from it's (very obvious) context. You can't include any of the words before or after and still maintain what Romney claims.

And, of course, that's just one lie to confirm another lie: that the President is "anticapitalist" in any way.

[hollysmom]

14. personally, I am still shaking my head at middle class is between 200K and 250K

what planet is this man from, he has no clue.

[PowerToThePeople]

18. i think this is true

to be middle class today would take that kind of income.

[hollysmom]

23. I looked up the charts - nothing middle about 250K

2010 census data -
180K and up is the top 5%. that has nothing to do with the middle

Let's say you just want to see the middle 2/5 to 4/5 that would be from 20K to 105 K

oddly enough Obama thinks up to 250K is middle class.

I have a lot of friends and relatives who think they are middle class and don't earn near that, they think that is pretty damn rich.

[renate]

28. What planet is he from? Kolob

It would explain a lot, actually.

[uponit7771]

32. +1!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Sounds like he's already making excuses for why Obama

will clean Mitt's clock in the debates.

[MADem]

34. Aaaaaaaaaand....boom goes the dynamite! That's it, exactly. nt

[onethatcares]

16. uh, mitt

where are the tax returns?

[reflection]

17. Out of the four candidates who will be debating,

I think we can assume Ryan will be the one telling the biggest fish stories. He is a remarkably good liar.

[beac]

19. I agree. At some point in the debates, Obama will likely say something along the lines of

"I respect Governor Romney." That will be a white LIE.

Our president will be enough of a diplomat not to share his real opinion of Mittens.

[marlakay]

20. Once again blaming the other guy for things you plan to do

he thinks no one knows this....

[Lex]

22. "The president got a bit of a bump after his convention. I got a bit of a bump after ours."

This statement is a lie. He got practically no bump and Obama got a discernible one.

He lies while saying our President might be untruthful during the debates.

[Kalidurga]

37. Romney got a thud after his convention.

Personally I don't even think it was a light tap in the polls. I think it was just one of the daily anomalies that happen from time to time. I think if we graph the last couple of months we won't really find even a tap for those days. Even if Romney did get a slight bump, he is implying that Obama only got a slight bump as well even though it is apparent that Obama's bump wasn't a daily anomaly at all and is still holding.

[closeupready]

24. Willard knows all about lying and cheating - on taxes,

on facts, on just about everything.

[lpbk2713]

26. That reminds me so much of a joke about RWers.

A CEO, a tea party member, and a union worker are all sitting at a table when a plate with a dozen cookies arrives. Before anyone else can make a move, the CEO reaches out to rake in eleven of the cookies. When the other two look at him in surprise, the CEO locks eyes with the tea party member. “You better watch him,” the executive says with a nod toward the union worker. “He wants a piece of your cookie.”


Point your fingers much Mittens?

[Politicalboi]

36. Your joke doesn't work if

Those are 7-11 bakery cookies.

[kestrel91316]

30. Rmoney lies as easily as he breathes. But he's lying for the lord, so that's ok.

[Curtland1015]

31. Lucy: Charlie Brown may try to pull the football out of the way before I can kick it.

Screw you Mitt.

[mick063]

35. I'm curious

How can you prove a "lie" without fact checkers?

Another blunder by Mitt. The last thing he wants is to provoke fact checks.

What a mish mash of messages he delivers.

[gulliver]

38. He's trying to pre-blind his remaining rube supporters.

It's like the con man talking to the sweet old lady. "Give me another check and I'll invest it for you. And remember, don't believe what your family says about me. They say things that aren't true."