(CBS News) QUAKERTOWN, Penn. - Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney's "Every Town Counts" bus tour made a slight detour from its planned route through eastern Pennsylvania after over 100 protestors affiliated with the Obama campaign and MoveOn.org showed up at a gas station where he was scheduled to stop.
Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and an Obama supporter, also showed up at the scheduled stop - a Wawa gas station in Quakertown. The Romney campaign had sent advance staff to the location, but as the number of protestors grew, they decided to find a quieter location.
They chose another Wawa gas station nearby. Romney arrived with GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and shook hands with people in a small crowd that gathered. "How'd you find Quakertown on the map?" one local man asked after approaching Romney to shake his hand.
Romney laughed and replied, "We just followed, we smelled some hoagies." Wawa is known throughout Pennsylvania for their sub sandwiches.
After ordering meatball sandwich inside the gas station, Romney joked with reporters that the campaign decided to switch locations because he already had a surrogate at the other stop - Rendell. "I understand I had a surrogate over there already, so we decided to pick a different place," he said.
Willard want's to continue the republicon's failed policies... 30 years of trickle down economics that have utterly ruined America.
Can you imagine how these far Leftist types like the Soros-funded Moveon.org would howl if Tea Party types tried to do something similar to an event for Oblahma--oops--Obama?
Truth of the matter is that their Leader and Anointed One is failing badly, and all his Obama zombies who are clinging bitterly to their outmoded political correctness and sites like Moveon, are getting panicky and desperate.
Really sad and pathetic how liberals and the Left has totally lost their way, completely abdicating exactly the respect, tolerance, openness, acceptance of others' views etc. etc, which they would claim are foundational principles for them!
Loved it!
A replay of the McCain campaign..this is NOT going to be!
I am getting a REAL good feeling about the election this year!
Can't wait to see Obama kicked out on his butt after this November!
Loved it!
A replay of the McCain campaign..this is NOT going to be!
I am getting REAL goos feeling about the lection this year!
Can't wait to see Obama kicked out on his butt after this November!
It is ironic how Mitt Romney lies on all topics and then twists the facts to his liking and blames President Obama on every issue.
1. Mittens says the President is to blame for the Great Recession.
Answer: George W. Bush 2000-2007 bad economic principles in deregulating the housing industry, deregulating Wall Street, removing funds for FEMA, removing National Security funding and opening the doors to a mucked up environment leading to 9/11.
2. Mittens says it is President Obama's fault for having a lack of money every year.
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers
For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.
The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html
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The U.S. Economy's Lost Decade
We interrupt the George Bush reputation rehabilitation tour for this brief reminder:
"For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.
The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth.
It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers. The decade began in a moment of triumphalism -- there was a current of thought among economists in 1999 that recessions were a thing of the past. By the end, there were two, bookends to a debt-driven expansion that was neither robust nor sustainable."
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/07/the-u-s-economys-lost-decade/
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A Lost Decade for Jobs
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/06/a_lost_decade_f.html
michaelm07: "Bush has been gone a long time".
YAWN......while technically bush is not running, he and cheney have certainly not be gone long enough, since their moronic policies like "supply side economic insanity" and quadrupling the military-industrial complex are still in place, driving our economic growth into the toilet and keeping us from creating enough jobs to replace the 9+ million jobs we lost during the bush/cheney Great Recession!
What economic policy does mannequin mitt describe in his 59-point policy he's afraid to talk about on the campaign trail, but the bush/cheney economic policies that drove our economy into the ditch -- ONLY MUCH WORSE being on steroids!
Our lost decade of the 2000s gave us a net-zero job creation rate and the 3.4% GDP rate of the post-depression era dropped in half to a mere 1.7% GDP -- all attributable to the bush/cheney economic policies!
Instead of spewing your republican political rhetoric and rah-rah chanting for mannequin mitt, try explaining how mitt will do anything but explode our deficits and debt with MORE OF THE SAME failed GOP policies we saw under the busheviks.......go ahead, I dare you!