Obama mocks Romney...

[kentuck]

<snip>
WASHINGTON -- Thought the 2012 presidential campaign was over? Think again.

President Barack Obama didn't have much to say about Mitt Romney's rekindled aspirations for the White House when he delivered a flat, "No comment," earlier this month. But apparently he couldn't resist much longer, following reports that the former GOP candidate was weighing entering the ring in 2016 on a platform focused on lifting up the middle class and eliminating poverty.

Addressing House Democrats at their annual retreat in Philadelphia on Thursday night, Obama referred to one “former presidential candidate” who was "suddenly deeply concerned about poverty."

"That's great. Lets do something about it," Obama said, according to a White House pool report.

Romney fired back on Twitter, by noting poverty levels under the Obama administration.

"Mr. Obama, wonder why my concern about poverty? The record number of poor in your term, and your record of failure to remedy," Romney said.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/barack-obama-mitt-romney-poverty_n_6576406.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Sez the guy who got a boner dreaming about Chinese slave labor profits

and never met a living wage law he didn't want to kill.

Fuck all lying, phony Republicans.

[Scuba]

2. +1,000

[trotsky]

3. Who is also the guy who amassed his incredible fortune by taking jobs away from people...

and PUTTING them in poverty. What a fucking asshole. Sad thing is, this rebranding the Repukes are trying (blaming the poverty their policies caused on Obama) is probably going to resonate with voters. Partly because so many Dems have run away from the populism that forms the roots of our party!

[KingCharlemagne]

6. Excellent observations. Truth is, Social Security has been one of the most successful

anti-poverty programs in the history of the West. (Anyone who cares should check out what life was like for many of the elderly before 1933 - NOT PRETTY!).

What we need to do is take the success of Social Security and build it out, maybe at the other end of the age spectrum.

I'm not a policy wonk, but I have long argued that a Guaranteed Annual Income (or 'negative income tax') would be a way to battle poverty and produce meaningful results. Were Social Security made a universal program, rather than merely a program for the elderly, who knows what heights we might still scale as a society?

[trotsky]

8. Agreed.

For an economy based on consumer spending, it makes no sense whatsoever to have people in poverty. If only Republicans were ideologically consistent.

[BeyondGeography]

7. I agree...American credulity

It's a plague.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Rmoney thinks the poor are contemptible AND stupid.

[world wide wally]

5. People barely able to pay their trailer park fees all over the country will believe him

and vote for him.