Top Romney surrogate calls Obama a socialist stoner who needs to 'learn how to be an American'

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Top Romney surrogate calls Obama a socialist stoner who needs to 'learn how to be an American'

by Jed Lewison

How desperate is Romneyland to not talk about Bain? So desperate that they trotted out former George H. W. Bush chief of staff John Sununu to attack the president as a pothead foreigner who doesn't have a clue about creating jobs and needs to "learn how to be an American."

According to Sununu, Obama "spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something" before moving to Indonesia before finally "he came to the U.S." to be "a community organizer, which is a socialized structure." And to make it even worse: he did it in a Chicago, home of the thugs.

Watch it here:

SUNUNU: This guy doesn’t understand how to create jobs. So there is no surprise — there should be because of that statement no surprise on why he failed so miserably over the last four years, in terms of job creation. He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago.

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...Classic nopology from Sununu:

Sununu clarifies: "The president has to learn the American formula for creating business...if I didn't give all that detail, I apologize."

— @mpoindc via Seesmic twhirl

Even if he actually meant that, which I doubt, it still doesn't explain why he thinks Hawaii isn't part of the United States.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110848/-Top-Romney-surrogate-calls-Obama-a-socialist-stoner-who-needs-to-learn-how-to-be-an-American

What the hell is that smell?

Ah, desperation.

[atreides1]

1. Sununu is the one smoking something

Besides, that name, Sununu doesn't sound like an American name to me!

[Bluerthanblue]

10. Sununu is a jerk-

He is the embodiment of everything there is to dislike about the Republican party and an embarrassment to NH.

He's never gotten over the fact that David Souter turned out to be a pretty liberal SCJ and that he was asked to resign as chief of staff for GHWB.

A pugnacious, arrogant and ugly man. Inside and out.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Whatever he's smoking, it isn't the good stuff.

[progressivebydesign]

2. Really? So THIS is the talking point this week? that the President is "unamerican?" 2008 deja vu.

Wow.. guess they're going with the Palin playbook of 2008, paint your opponent as unamerican, and rile up the unstable ranks in your party. You know that when you hear Rush saying the same thing yesterday, and now Sununu, that it's a faxed talking point, attack.

Fuck these people. I mean.. seriously fuck these people.

Just like with McCain/Palin, they got nothing, so they stoop to the most disgusting attacks of all. I would laugh at them, but this is the type of rhetoric that brings out the truly deranged.

PS- HE FUCKING CREATED JOBS!!! Unlike his predecessor, and unlike the do-nothings Republicans in DC who refuse to pass his Jobs bills. I hate that lie being told over and over like that, unchallenged. I also hate the 1%er "journalists" that allow this shit unchallenged.

[RedStateLiberal]

6. They are desperate

which means we're winning!

[WCGreen]

8. They have to take this direction so they can remind the hard core

Conservatives relevant to the Romney camp. So a little less than 5 months left and they are having to talk to their base while president Obama is out make inroads with independents.

It doesn't bod well for Romney

[Renew Deal]

3. What country is Hawaii in?

[BeyondGeography]

4. In this case, condescension comes straight from the top

This is the whole tone of Romney's "critique" of Obama; he's out of his depth, doesn't have a clue, etc. Only makes it more enjoyable to watch his campaign exploit daily all the openings created by Romney's ineptitude.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Wow. This is completely out of character for the old guy

Like Hatch, the teabagger thugs have forced the establisment rethugs into awkwardly using junior high school-level name-calling and crazy talk rather than debate the policies. My have the mighty fallen.

[Bluerthanblue]

12. it comes naturally to Sununu

he doesn't have to be forced into it. Nothing mighty about him.

The man is an arrogant jerk.

His son, is not as bad, but this guy is just terrible.

He was governor here for 3 awful terms.

[rustydog]

7. Learn how to be an American? How? Become deeply bigoted like Sheriff Arpaio?

Become a tool like "Volcano Monitoring" Jindal? Become a media whore like Palin? Michele Bachmann???
Be like the "smart" Bush? Emulate Rushbo and Beckkk? Become a warrior against women's rights and kicking the poor off welfare and food stamps because you can?

I refuse to become the type of "American" these Republican fucks believe they can dictate us to be. Fuck you, fuck your family, fuck your candidate, fuck your horrible, racist, misogynistic outlook, your class warfare, your tough-talk but personally cowardly behavior.

You and your type is what is wrong for America and Americans.

Fuck YOU.

[Scuba]

16. Thanks Rusty, great post.

[maryellen99]

30. I totally agree with you

Unlike Teabggers/republicans, I can think for myself. I don't need emails, Fox news, and churches telling me what to believe, how to think, and tell me who to vote for.

[backscatter712]

9. Rmoney, I wouldn't talk about patriotism if I were you...

Mr. Tax Haven and Mr. Outsourcer...

[Arkana]

11. Who the hell is John Sununu?

[Bluerthanblue]

17. an asshole-

who was gov of NH for 6yrs, then chief of staff for GHWB- who was asked to resign.

The only positive thing he did was to push for David Souter as SCJ. He didn't realize the kind of justice Souter would become.

He is also still pissed that his son lost re-election to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen which was an upset-

[Arkana]

23. I know who he is--I was being sarcastic.

It doesn't translate well over an internet board

[Bluerthanblue]

26. sorry-

there aren't many people I have such a visceral dislike for, but John Sununu is one of them.

I did wonder if you knew who he was, because it reminded me of the "Who the Hell is William Loeb" from years back.

I also tend to be pretty slow to pick up on sarcasm.

[Lex]

13. Good Lord, THIS is what they have in their arsenal to hit back with?

OMFG.

[Johnyawl]

14. This inflammatory rhetoric is juvenile, and will get worse...

...Obama has hit them hard, and made romney whine like a little girl. The republicans have been demanding apologies, and getting laughed at. That makes them look weak and ineffective. So they're sending people out to talk trash, waiting for the Obama campaign to start demanding apologies, that they can then ignore.

I don't think the President is going to give them that satisfaction.

It'll be interesting to see how low the republicans will sink in their search for that one slur that will have the Dems howling for an apology.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Hands up: who gives a high-flying fuck about CNBC guest and Joe Kernen buddy John Sununununu?

I thought so.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. Obama and his campaign cannot say this, so I will:

What the fuck kind of name is 'Sununu' anyway? Isn't he from some terrorist Ay-rab country?

I hope I don't get alerted on for this, as I'm merely responding in McCarthyite fashion to the slander that douche Sununu is propounding.

There are so many tempting targets this year, but I really wish the Obama campaign would fashion an ad exposing this neo-McCarthyism and shaming it a la a "Joseph Welch moment.'

Still, thanks for posting this. I'm K&R-ing for additional exposure.

[broiles]

20. And they claim we engage in gutter politics.

[Tippy]

21. It sounds to me like they are running out of ideas...

I don't think there is a single ass hole amoung them with brains enough to realize one day their own children will study history and learn what utter foolstheir parents/ republicans have become. God help those kids, the shame they will face....

[Comrade_McKenzie]

22. A socialist stoner that isn't considered American?

Hell, show me which lever to pull for that candidate.

[Octafish]

24. Sununu was Chief of Staff to a drunken coke whore.

Know your BFEE: George W Bush did "community service" at Project P.U.L.L.

[kestrel91316]

25. Obama was a stoner in Hawaii BEFORE he moved to Indonesia at about age 7????

I don't think Obama is the stoner in this picture.

[struggle4progress]

27. Isn't Sununu one reason King Bush I lost the 1992 election?

His habit of taking personal trips at federal expense obviously wasn't going over well

[Ruby the Liberal]

28. The smell of panic has taken over my computer.

I shouldn't have watched the video. Do they make Febreeze for electronics?

[KansDem]

29. Typical right-wing "attack" strategy when all else fails.

Question the opponent's patriotism...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Sununu is so lovely, so physically attractive, I can't get that face out of my mind