After vowing to do away with "Obamacare" and other "non-essential, expensive programs" if elected president, Mitt Romney is met with boos from the crowd at the NAACP convention in Houston, Texas.
Mitt Romney was greeted with boos today at the NAACP's annual meeting in Houston when he pledged to repeal Obamacare and again when criticized President Barack Obama.
"I'm going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare, and I'm going to work to reform and save -- " Romney said, being interrupted by boos. He stood motionless for about 15 seconds.
The GOP presumptive presidential nominee did receive polite applause at several points (and even got a brief standing ovation at the end). But he was interrupted again when he criticized Obama's record on the economy.
"I know the president has said he will do those things. But he has not. He cannot. He will not. And his last four years in the White House prove it definitively," Romney said as the crowd's murmurs turned to loud jeers.
"If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him," Romney shot back. You take a look."
It could've been much worse. For example, Romney didn't even mention voter ID laws he supports that could disenfranchise about 25% of African-American voters. And he didn't mention his "let Detroit go bankrupt" opposition to the auto rescue.
Romney is not likely to win much of the black vote. Some 95 percent of black voters backed Obama in 2008.
"You've got to get credit for showing up -- for being willing to go -- no question," Karen Finney, a Democratic consultant who worked in the Clinton White House, told the Associated Press. "It's more about your actions than it is about what you say."
Ed will have more reaction to the Romney's speech tonight on The Ed Show at 8pET on MSNBC with Hilary Shelton, the NAACP's Washington bureau director and its senior vice president for policy and advocacy, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D).
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we need a whole bunch more people booing romney the robot, dems and repubs on his wanting to get rid of obamacare, he has no plane and so many can now get insurance
Ha Haaa robME === What a PUNK !!!!!!!
one thing he had the guts to speak @ the NAACP
That's because he's clueless. He doesn't understand how other people live or feel.
Proper context is always important in any civilized discussion.
Romney practically said the N word in front of a room full of African Americans when he insulted the president.
Crazy is the word that I think of when I see stuff like that..
WOW dude put down the coolaid!!!!!!!
@b113,
I can imagine Romney would be the kind of person that would walk into a Hells Angels bar, sit next to the snakiest woman in the place, and get his a$$ beat after offering to buy her a ginger ale.
Dude. Like. That's not coolaid. Romney has brain damage (click here).
Why don't you put down the tea? You're drowning in it.
In Romney's case, a running mate is one that's running the hell away from him.
That was not guts, that was arrogance. The people knew exactly what he was doing. He deserved the boos and the words that were spoken also.
I LOVED it when they booed him, but I sure wouldn't have given him a standing ovation when he was through. But maybe it wasn't really a standing ovation, maybe they just couldn't get out of there fast enough!!
And obama draws boos from the American people over the economy and over 8% unemployment
Only the racist tea bagged republicans who still try their hardest to make the US forget that in 2010 they ran on jobs jobs jobs then after being elected they didd nothing but vote for more vacation time as well as starting a war on women and their health care needs..
oh and cow this ones for you................booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The economy is in the tank.
41 months in a row of over 8% unemployment.
Over 1100 days of no buget.
$78 billion spent on food stamps. Bush years $17 billion.
Make no mistake about it, in 2013 all taxes go up. Even on the poor.
How Republicans Collapsed The Economy (click here).
Includes references. Lots of them.
Don't forget the 28 months of job growth.
The economy crashed due to the fact people bought house's they could not afford the payments on.
Ever hear of the "Sub-Prime-Loan"?
Now take a look, in 1978 carter signs a law allowing banks to sell stocks & bonds & insurance.
Then in 1999 clinton signs the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
And fed kept lowering the discount rate.
Money was cheap, and the sub-prime market came to be.
28 months of job growth and 41 months of over 8% unemployment.
Real hard to see the "Job Growth".
@ho-lee-poop,
Why, now that you mention it, yes I have.
Most spectacular G.O.P. disaster of all time second only to the Great Depression.
You failed to read the stuff at the link I posted again, didn't you?
Newsvine became a wholly-owned subsidiary of MSNBC Interactive News (msnbc.com) on
October 5, 2007.
Yay!
Crack it wasn't he didn't read his own site he just assumed no one else would because he wouldn't, that is what is called projection, assuming others will act the way you do.
b113-
When did you become a wholly owned subsidiary of the tea party?
OMG Chris ! You are on a roll !!!
Thank you. I'm here all week.
Hehehehehe ! I'll take a front row seat please !
WWW said Bla bla bla....bla bla...Bla bla bla..Bla bla..Obamacare!? Bla bla bla.
Here's an homage to the "job creators" in America, every person, according to the republican party, who makes over $250,000 per year--people like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise. Oh, wait! Just how many jobs have those folks created? Not many. Well, what about others who make up the wealthiest among us? Let's see
John Boehner is worth $1.7 million. How many jobs has he created? None.
Eric Cantor is worth $2.97 million. He has created no jobs.
Paul Ryan is worth $3 million. He has created no jobs.
Mitch McConnell has a net worth of $9.8 million, and his fortune has increased 30% since 2010. How many jobs has he created? None.
Michelle Bachman is worth $2.8 million, hates "big government", and wants to cut federal spending. However, each year American farmer Michelle Bachman receives over $200,000 in federal farm subsidies. Her husband, also a millionaire, gladly accepts several hundred thousand dollars in Medicaid payments for his "health care" business which specializes in "pray away the gay" therapies. While her husband has hired staff for his business, Michelle has created NO jobs.
Karl Rove, worth $6.6 million, creates no jobs himself. However, he uses the tens of millions invested by billionaires and corporations to overthrow President Obama's administration to hire a few PR people who make those dishonest, anti-government attack ads.
Sarah Palin has a net worth of a mere $12 million, despite the fact that she's been pimping out her family to "reality" TV for years. Palin might be considered a "job creator" since her daughter Bristol requires a TV camera operator and a body guard or two to follow her as she leaves her illigitimate child home while she goes bar hopping to earn more money on "reality" TV.
Mike Huckabee is worth $5 million, and earns about $500,000 per year. How many jobs has he created? Zero.
One of my all-time favorite republicans is Darrell Issa, the new Joe McCarthy, who has a personal fortune of more than $250 million. Issa did start and run a successful business that manufactured car alarm systems, so he has hired and employed people. However, after making his personal fortune, he entered politics, and, in the last decade, has created NO jobs. Issa believes the federal government spends too much money on education, and favors down-sizing the Department of Education as well as raising the interest rates on college student loans. Issa, being a true republican hypocrite, eagerly accepted federal funds to finance his entire college education--funds which he never had to repay. Issa took full advantage of a federal government ROTC scholarship.
Are any of the aforementioned really "creating" jobs? Of course not. But they still think they deserve more tax breaks. It's time for Americans to wake up and smell the coffee. What we're witnessing here is pure, unadulturated self-interest and greed.
And they all have arsenals full of weapons.
Funny you don't list all Democrat millionaires & billionaires.
One sided views never see anything.
Stop projecting your traits onto others all you seem to do is accuse others of having your nasty habits and it gets boring when you refuse to take your blinders off.
Did I mention some of them have machine guns, tanks, and armored personnel carriers?
I might have left that one out.
Well thats ok he left out that the democrats want to raise their own taxes, it just boggles his mind that their are rich people smart enough to have their taxes raised.
How much is Nancy Pelosi WORTH
How many jobs did she create?
How much is Harry Reid WORTH
How many jobs did he Create?
Just- I am sure you can find what you want to be known as the truth at NOT NEWS, have a seat on the curvy couch in la la land while enjoyed fresh squeezed right wing tea baggin' Kool Aid, cotton candy and if you hurry they are giving rides on real unicorns too!
The difference, clown, is they're not the ones saying they need tax breaks because they're JOB CREATORS.
Mitt Romney is living proof that white supremacists mate with space aliens from planet Kolob.
What color of bat$hit crazy do you have to be to stand in front of the NAACP and criticize an African American?
But you do have to admit he has ba11s. No brains whatsoever. Just ba11s.
Newsvine became a wholly-owned subsidiary of MSNBC Interactive News (msnbc.com) on
October 5, 2007.
A other left wing news outlet.....
Yay!
Again!
I always feel like I need to take a shower after blogging on fox.
A looooong shower.
And Brillo pads hurt, Crack cause that is the only way to get the filth off after visiting wing nut sites.
Fux Noise ! Equal Opportunity Liars !
Fux Noise ! The Faux Spin Zone !
Fux Noise ! Mouth Piece for Radical Republicans and Tea Potty Wackos !
Fux Noise ! The Network that churns out totally insane Presidential Candidates !
NOT NEWS-
I always feel like I need to take a shower after blogging on fox.
A looooong shower.
why you don't just "Pray the NOT NEWS AWAY" with Michelle Bachman's half hubbie? BBWWAAHHHHHH hahahahahahaha
I applaud Romney for saying he wants to repeal the ACA. He had the balls to not say he wanted to replace it with anything.
Finally, the truth from a Republican!
I loved the look on his face when they started boooing, priceless.
14.4% Unemployment
They vote
They deserve what they get
Romney doesn't even get it when people Boo him. That is one out of touch dude....
Romney is not out of touch.
He is brain damaged (click here).
There is a subtle but significant difference between "out of touch" and "brain damage".
Indeed C.A. brain damage after years does affect a persons mind. Scare tissue doesn't go away. And over time can lead to the kinds of devastating things we are finding out about football players. I think we must demand he have tests to see what the damage from his injuries have had on him. We don't need another president with brain problems. (Reagan GWB)
Though they do give the comedy writers a break.
LOL.
Five Blue Mongrels need a leash! Or maybe just put down!
The five Democrats voting for repeal are hailed from red or purple states and included Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Reps. Mike McIntyre and Larry Kissell of North Carolina, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/house-obamacare-repeal-thirty-third-times-the-charm/
I say tar and feather them and vote them out of town ! Phoney ass Right-Wing Wanna beees. I wonder how much it took from the Kochroach Brothers pockets to pay them off ?
Mike McIntyre and Larry Kissell of North Carolina
Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas
Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah
Thanks for the info XO !
My pleasure!
Mitt Romney is a bloviating ignoramus, clueless about how the middle class has shrunk, has been decimated by his GOP compadres' misguided policies, that go against all that is decent and humane, and is clearly out of touch about how much the middle class, the poor, seniors, the ill, blacks, Hispanics and women are still suffering from the Bush era economic illiterates that caused the second great depression! The GOP nor Romney can spin their way out of the web of deception and lies about president Obama that they continue to try and conjure up!
Is America ready for the second coming of (this time on steroids), George W. Bush,?
Romney has embraced the Paul Ryan budget calling it, "marvelous"!
You name calling bunch of lefties. You call what we are now good? And it is Obama's fault. You make fun of Romney. Your man Obama didn't even show up. Didn't show up in Wisconsin. Didn't show up in the NAACP.
You guys all are a joke. Get out of the way. We are going to take our country back from the left lunatic fringe...Obama...Van Jones...all of you.
And we hope you don't like it Johnny !
Your welcome hatred it's a sign post on the rioad of doing the right thing for the country
The Republican record
two wars, lower taxes(check)
deregulation alloying economic collapse through too big to fail(check)
resist all regulation to stop that from happening the same way again(check)
resist all democratic economic initiatives(check)
provide no alternative plans(check)
get nation's credit rating lowered to blame on obama(check)
hold economy hostage(check)
wait till the last minute to do important measures to add to economic insecurity(check)
secretly love the enitre gw plan and legacy(check)
If any group was to do the same thing to Obama, all the lefties on this board would be whining about how disrespectful and racist the crowd has to be....more Democrat hypocrisy...
just saying...
No capt don't let your Texas sized racism get in the way of your stupidity, that you can't seem to understand what racism is just lets everyone know just how racist you are.
Romney knew he was going to anger the NAACP when he called the Affordable Act Care Obamacare. It was done on purpose and it was a snub in the the face of African Americans by saying in between the lines in his slavery massah tone "let me tell these N***** how it is going to be. The only thing missing was a whip and then we would have really seen a show of me massah and you slave.
Gladys, you are out of whatever little mind you have. Saying that on this blog. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You would not even vote for Obama is he were not black.
Plus, tell me this Gladys, WHERE WAS OBAMA AT THIS MEETING??????
Come on Gladys. Left lunatic.
I think he did it to show Republicans that he was willing to shove it in the faces of African-Americans.
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WWW looked like a 500 pounder on thin ice.
Johnny-3188986, you are suspended for a day for violating rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
Why in the hell can't so many see the Teapublicans keep pecking away at the working middle class, and just keep giving more to the top 2%? Its just a ploy to make people to think that trickle down economics work! And they don't! DON'T WORK NO JOBS FROM IT!
You lefties are a joke. You make fun of Mitt Romney going to the NAACP to give a speech. He gets booed when he says he is going to repeal Obamacare. He got good applaus on other statements.
HEY....at least Mitt Romney had the guts to show up there. He made a great speech.
WHERE WAS OBAMA???? You nutty lefties don't have an answer for that? All you can do is call people names.
I am sick and tired of you people doing nothing but calling people names and downing and slandering them....just because you don't believe what they do.
You can say nothing about Obama positive because there isn't anything to say. You even got dems on TV saying what we are in right now is positive. You guys are nuts.
WHERE WAS OBAMA AT THE NAACP?????????
What are governor romney's accomplishments?
Did he kill bin laden?
Did he help get rid of Kaddafi?
Perhaps he saved the auto industry?
Did he create over 4 million private sector jobs?
Did he end the Iraq war?
Did he actually challenge China on anything when he was a governor?
Did he support the repeal of that worthless DADT policy?
Did he deport more illegals in three years than GW did in eight?
Name me one accomplishment governor Romney has. It's you who can't do that because then you'd have to talk about his actual record of failed congressional campaigns, Bain Capitol wealth not jobs like he claimed creation record, Massachusetts. That's why the governor has not released any non negative ad. He only won the primary by dumpinh millions of dollars in purely negative ads on his laughable incompetent competition.
Romney is coward. The tea party is a band of idiouts with no solutions. The GOP has no leadership from the nominee, its Chairman or the Speaker of the Hosuse. Your leaders are Joe Walsh, Sarah Palin and Allen West.
Great points Cynical !! Here are some really funny and not so funny things about Romney !
http://www.realchange.org/romney.htm
Mitt Romney's Skeleton Closet: Scandals, Quotes, and Character :
Other politicians look at this guy and say, "Wow, that dude is a phony, two-faced, flip-flopping weasel." And that's really saying something.
But there was a prophecy, the White Horse Prophecy spoken by Joseph Smith himself on May 6,1843 in the presence of Edwin Rushton and Theodore Turley. It holds: "A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government. And every species of wickedness will run rampant."
Anyway, Mormons (the White Horse) will get rich with gold and minerals, the heathen Chinese will invade a land beyond the Rockies, banks in every nation except England and Utah will fail, and only the White Horse will remain to save the day. (We'll let you guess who the "Red Horse" and "Black Horse" represent.)
This prophecy was discussed when Mitt's dad, George, ran for president, and again when Orrin Hatch ran, and Glenn Beck dogwhistled it after Obama was elected. (No one brought it up with with John Huntsman, though.) The Mormon Church does not endorse it formally, perhaps because of the part about how "the doings of the "Black" Horse will he terrible" because "they will have fear of becoming slaves again." But Mitt Romney and his father admit discussing it during George's presidential run.
Is now the time for Mitt Romney to ride to America's rescue? For "when the Constitution of the United States hangs, as it were, upon a thread as fine as a single silk fiber, they will have to call for the 'Mormon' Elders to save it from utter destruction; and they will step forth and do it."
Quotes
"Buenos dias!" -- Mitt Romney's regular greeting to the illegal Guatemalan immigrants who work on his lawn
"Aw, geez." -- Romney to a reporter who asked him about the lawn workers. He then walked away.
"I get speakers fees from time to time but not very much." -- Mitt Romney. ("Not very much" was over $500,000 in 2010.)
"I'm not a big-game hunter. I've made that very clear. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter.
Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times." -- Mitt Romney, failing.
"Corporations are people, too, my friend." -- Romney
"Maybe I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." -- Romney, forgetting his $500,000 a year in speaking fees.
"He grabbed my shoulder, and I was like 'boom get off of me.' The man assaulted me. I was protecting myself." -- Rapper Sky Blu of LMFAO, describing a tussle with Romney in the first class section of an airplane.
"I have always felt that [the White Horse Prophecy] meant that sometime the question of whether we are going to proceed on the basis of the Constitution would arise and at this point government leaders who were Mormons would be involved in answering that question." -- George Romney
"I haven't heard my name associated with it [the White Horse Prophecy] or anything of that nature. That's not official church doctrine. There are a lot of things that are speculation and discussion by church members and even church leaders that aren't official church doctrine. I don't put that at the heart of my religious belief." - Romney, not really denying anything
"[I don't follow NASCAR] as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners." - Romney
"I was a severely conservative Republican governor. I fought against long odds in a deep blue state." -- Romney, protesting too much.
"He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics." - Barney Frank, former congressman from Massaschusetts
"I'm a normal person.I have emotions." -- Mitt Romney, protesting too much.
""I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he [L. Ron Hubbard] wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book." - Romney
Romney brought in his own applause team!
Hey, what about Sinunu handing it to Andrea Mitchell. This leftie reporter talking about Romney outsourcing jobs after he left Bain.....Sinunu reminding here about all of the jobs Obama has outsourced.
Google it. You lefties will love it. She was stuttering and stammering and Sinunu just laughed. It was hilarious.
You guys are the pot calling the kettle black.
The left.......what a proud bunch of name callers. Nothing to run on. Have to slander the opponent.
Bye Bye.
Give up already WWW is a perennial loser!
Andrea Mitchell, knew John Sununu was lying.
Where's Obama? Trying more money to kee up with governor romney's billionaire investors.
More importantly if Obama showed up he'd be an anti-white people like his own mother hating racist, and lets be honest does he really need to swing up support in the black community or the latino community for that matter? It's Romney who needs to make serious efforts there.
Where's Obama with the black electorate...he's already there!
Seriously, xxx. Asking why Obama wasn't there doesn't make any kind of sense. This was a Romney meeting, not a Presidential debate. But then again, if Obama had shown up and had gotten a standing ovation, what would people be saying then?? Sometimes all you can do is shake your head.
I can't freakin' wait for the debates. Romney makes an ass of himself when it's just him talking. It'll be incredible when there's a moderator and Obama to take him to task for it.
That comment needs alot of explaining, it just didn't make sense!
The president is losing the money war with governor romney because there isn't anyone on the left who wants buy this entire election and the presidency. So he needs to keep up with him there thus he needs to prioritize.
A speaking with a group who will already support him would be an inefficient use of time. Obama doesn't need to make gains with the black or latino community. Romney does otherwise he's screwed come November.
Mitt isn't going to give a speech to the mormon community to get them to support him....they already will.
You anytime Obama speaks to a black audience the right will play up to the white nationalists sympathizers and claim he's making secret radical black supremacist plans against white people. If he knocks it out of the park they will say the audience is black and will clap for him no matter what so he deserves no credit.
Neither can I, Chris. I'm sure Faux News is going to stay business making excuses and saying "What I'm sure he meant was......"
What on earth are we paying these right wing congressmen for? Bringing up a bill for the 33rd time. Mr.Boehner looks awfully tan and I am sure he didn't get it in the halls of congress. These so called "job creators" are getting well paid for sitting on their hands & doing the work of Grover and this is a democracy. I would think the people that voted for those tea party congressmen are angry knowing that they sold their votes to Grover.
I think he has a tanning bed in his office. :)
The middle class are the job creators, you are exactly correct & this must be stressed daily to the American people.
I'm still waiting to hear specific's from Romney on how he'll resolve our economic woe's? What is his agenda? I want to hear specificity from Romney. I can NOT trust anyone who will NOT provide answers to direct direct questions in, restoring our financial and economic woe's and, it affects global economic yet, Romney doesn't have a foreign policy which, Europe don't care for his idiotic nature.
Yet millions of idiots would prefer to vote Romney into office ... we must have a lot of stupid people following him which tells me they, deserve to have some form of health care for their idiot and manipulative tactic in coercing voters of electing this "A-hole" into office.
Truthfully, deny all political members from FREE medical and health care so, they'd vote to mandate what benefits the American people including themselves should, they be paying health care out of their own pockets. Think about it!
Health care fact sheet .... just waiting for a more definitive explanation of the new health care reform which is by the way "Constitutional" so the conservative party should get over it. The full definition should be out prior to the end of summer.
news/factsheets/2010/12/increasing-transparency.html
Affordable care know the facts.
resources/reports/mlr-rebates06212012a.html
Health insurance companies must provide 80% of premiums on medical care anything, less is a rebate.
There's over 200k working Americans without health care than can now utilize health care for their families, the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions without the high rising cost yet, its affordable. Go figure, its about frigging time!
We all know of at least 5 people of whom died in the last 2 years without health care due to the pre-existing condition and high rising cost of affordable health care. Think about it ... this helps the millions in need.
Job creators aren't small businesses, they hire based on the annual and future sales and has nothing to do with either party, same as corporations but the government is based on annual financial budgets which is what these morons are referring to has nothing to do with private industry.
I think a lot of the rhetoric is more of a joke than what they should be working towards that is, fix what's broken and not be too concerned about forcing the failure of our President Barack Obama .. these morons are truly A-holes ... Karma will prove their failure!
Kealli,Job creators aren't small business,what are you smoking? But then you believe in karma. Typical liberal, I guess you think the tooth fairy is going to pay for obamacare.Romney treated the attendees as independent thinkers,if he didn't want to draw boos he should have promised them all food stamps.
Small businesses aren't job creators well I'm sure that will be news to Romney and the republicans because that's what they have indeed been claiming.
If the right wants to win black voters they should start putting away the blatant racist accusation that coloreds only ever want handout from the government. That's racist ideology!
Another republican exposes their white nationalist sympathies! Palin Factor!