Romney accuses Obama of casting shame on success

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By STEVE PEOPLES and JIM KUHNHENN

IRWIN, Pa. (AP) - A fiery Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of believing the government is more vital to a thriving economy than the nation's workers and dreamers, scrambling to get back on message by declaring of Obama, "I'm convinced he wants Americans to be ashamed of success."

The new Romney approach came as Democrats pressed for the release of more of Romney's tax returns and hounded the Republican candidate over discrepancies in when he left his private equity firm. The conservative magazine National Review urged Romney to release more of his tax records.

Obama has been trying to keep Romney focused on matters other than the sluggish economy, even releasing a single-shot TV ad Tuesday that suggests Romney gamed the system so well that he may not have paid any taxes at all for years.

As the campaign's tenor grew combative, Romney seized on comments Obama uttered while campaigning in Virginia last week. The president, making a point about the supportive role government plays in building the nation, said in part: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign event at Horizontal Wireline Services on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 in Irwin, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[onehandle]

1. Crookery ain't success. nt

[SunSeeker]

22. Put another way, you SHOULD be ashamed of being a successful crook.

By the way, I'm loving the Romney is a crook meme. Thank you MoveOn.org! It really is just stating the obvious, though.

[polichick]

2. Nice try, but it's about casting shame on corruption and greed.

[alp227]

3. good on the AP for providing the full context.

this afternoon I peeked at "The Savage Nation" and Michael Savage was going off hysterically about Obama's business comment and even went to the depths of absurd by scrutinizing whether Obama ever held odd jobs as a teenager or college student. Essentially to make the point that Obama is clueless about how business works. And this "Obama's war on success" meme has been going on for the past 2 years including a whole BOOK about such: "The War on Success" by Tommy Newberry, a Christian motivational speaker and founder of an aptly named entrepreneurial firm, "The 1% Club" (founded in 1991, 20 years before the Occupy movement).

i don't know whether you can ever convince someone who's subscribed to the Ayn Rand narcissistic cult ideology about the importance of infrastructure or public works, ever.

[Enrique]

4. dont be ashamed, Mitt

admit you were the one who outsourced those jobs. I like to fire people and Im proud of it.

[Historic NY]

5. Its actually a shadow Mitt, a shadow.

[Iliyah]

6. Goppers can't run on nothing since they have no accomplishments

Mittens even had the nerve to read from Pres O's speech and distorted O's words. Lie, cheat, steal, distort, make up shit, and a hell of a lot of money to try and buy elections.

Success, yeah right - cheaters

[JHB]

7. Romney: No Shame For Fat Vultures

[Flatpicker]

8. Nope

Not ashamed Mitt, but it's time that you accept the fact that your kind have broken the social contract that this country ran on.

Business make money by using public roads, government subsidized infrastructure, public law enforcement and fire fighting services, etc etc.

Then once you get big enough you decide that you no longer have to put into the system that you have used to become what you are. You break the social contract because you continue to use the systems in place, but no longer want to pay for them. Then you criticize us for holding you to a social standard.

I'm not ashamed of success, I'm ashamed of you and your followers Mitt.

[FirstLight]

14. +1000!!!

I think the Social Contract angle should be used more, personally. Corruption of the social contract is the reason these pigs think the poor are at fault for being so...rather than looking at the system they play like a casino...

[randr]

9. Romney spells success with a capital

$uccess.
Shame on him!

[bluesbassman]

10. If Romney's so proud of his "success", why doesn't he disclose how he did it?

Wiilard .... Willard ... anyone?

Yeah, that's what I figured.

[KansDem]

31. Good idea!

It will be an educational experience for the rest of us! See how Mitt did it so we can do it too!

C'mon, Mitt! Educate us! I want to be rich and successful, too!!!

[Punkingal]

11. He is soooooooooo full of shit.

I wonder if this increasingly crazy talk isn't going to backfire on him with undecided voters. Right wing idiots will believe him, but what about independents?

[krispos42]

12. Government is the system that allows people to succeed.

With no system, you have Somalia.

Plenty of excellent businessmen in Somalia. But without the institutions of government, no matter how well the "successful" people are doing (the warlords) the vast majority of people are in deep poverty and unable to advance their situation.

[progressivebydesign]

13. and the reason I LOVE the Obama Campaign?? They're already on this meme!

You KNOW that they'll be responding by tomorrow with THEIR definition of success, which does not mean destroying American companies for profit, then sending the jobs to China and India.

I have never seen such a well-run campaign.

[elzenmahn]

18. I agree...

...they know what's at stake, and they can't afford to be anything except perfect (or damned close to it), considering the veritable Fort Knox of cash R-Money has at his disposal.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Romney, the federal government bailed you out for the Olympics

Thank the government with all your heart

[treestar]

16. Like there was ever a chance Rmoney could fail

And just why does failure have to be punished with starvation? And whose failure is it? If Rmoney had been born into the lower middle class, he'd be an auto mechanic right now. No, come to think of it, he'd be in jail for assault.

[elzenmahn]

17. Spoken like a man...

...who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.

Anyone looking forward to the Repub convention? Imagine a whole heapin' helpin' of the Rombot - and that's assuming no drama at the convention, which I would not put past the attendees if his numbers continue to slip.

And the debates? Oh, man, bring the Orville Redenbacher and your best beer. Obama's going to have a field day with him...

[jmowreader]

19. You SHOULD be ashamed of Romney's version of success

The only thing that guy was ever successful at was making so much money for himself he has to keep it in a Spandex billfold.

[Kablooie]

20. Good lord. He's shaming himself by hiding his taxes.

Once again a Republican criticises others for his own failings.

[SunSeeker]

21. Romney really looks tired in that picture.

I guess lying is hard work. When did he get those bags under his eyes?

[Frank Cannon]

23. He's been looking awful lately.

He's going to be a chain-smoking drunk by the time November rolls around, if he even makes it that long.

[bemildred]

28. He looks like a loser. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Shame is yours, Mitt

I'm ashamed of you, Mitt. You're the sorriest excuse for a presidential
candidate this country has ever seen. Release your taxes, if you've got
something to hide explain it, not the other way around.

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. Obama has never made anybody feel ashamed of success. Who writes this shit for romney?

[get the red out]

26. Romney does that

He gives rich guys a very bad name.

[patrice]

27. success = using others & taking advantage of the vulnerable, for GREED. Is that what Republicans

want to say?

[sarcasmo]

29. Hiding money in off shore accounts equals R monies idea of success.

[patrice]

30. Success = letting young adults DIE, because PROFITS are more important than care:

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/dark_side_of_a_bain_success/

Clockwise from top left: Brendan Blum, Sergey Blashchishen, Matthew Meyer and Lindsey Poteet. Aspen Education already faced a wrongful death lawsuit over Meyer when Bain and CRC Health Group bought the company in 2006. Six deaths since the takeover, including Blum, Blashchishen and Poteet, have generated either lawsuits or complaints of neglect.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=968267

[patrice]

32. Horizontal Wireline Services is a FRACKING service. What do you want to bet that they are

being followed around by PRIVATE, cable-tv-pricing-model, access to water that is not poison, built on VERY SPECIFIC click-trail qualified/identified customers?

True Story.


http://www.horizontalwireline.com/

[zellie]

33. Rmoney is an annying jerkface.

he will be an old joke after the november election.....hopefully.

[cstanleytech]

34. No shame for success if honestly aquired like Obama did.

Plenty of shame if you do it in a way that hurts people and destroys families and ruins peoples lives and you know it does it but you keep on doing it.