Rolling Stone is planning on new cover story entitled “Obama and the Road Ahead: The Rolling Stone Interview,” by Douglas Brinkley. Part of the interview showed up on Politico today: “We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.”’” So Obama has now stopped rhetorically dancing around and finally said what he (and I would guess millions of other people) think: Romney is a bullshitter. Now, I’m not making a judgment on how much or how little …
The video above records Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraiser earlier this year. In it, he states the following: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what … These are people who pay no income tax. 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect… my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care …
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