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Orange Blooded [4095]
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Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 8:03 PM
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He did a nice job with the Winter Olympics (Olympic Sports)
He is very well connected
He is a GREAT Fundraiser
He is good with a buck
He is a great negotiator
He is a good looking man (no, I am not ghey)
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He'll probably lose.
Aug 9, 2012, 8:10 PM
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Americans love free stuff.
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He didn't build it
Aug 9, 2012, 8:27 PM
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Mitt Romney said he would have been unable to host the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, had it not been for the "enormous spending and services of the federal government."
The words, uttered by Romney in 2002, are in direct contrast to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's relentless attacks on President Barack Obama over his "you didn't build that" comments.
Romney and Republicans have spent the last month knocking Obama as government-obsessed and for crediting Washington with the success of small businesses. But by the former Massachusetts governor's own admission, it was only with the government's support that he was able to pull off the Olympics he so often heralds as one of his career's greatest accomplishments.
"Without question, we simply could not host Games in Salt Lake if it were not for the enormous spending and services of the federal government," Romney had said in a 2001 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing around cooperation between federal, state, local and private agencies for the Salt Lake City Olympics.
"When I came to the Games two years ago, following the revelations of bid impropriety, there was nothing which caused greater anxiety than whether or not we could count on this critical federal support," he said, before thanking both the Clinton and Bush administrations for being involved with his committee's planning efforts "every step of the way."
According to Romney at the time, former President George W. Bush specifically included Olympic items in the budget he submitted to Congress.
The testimony doesn't just contradict Romney's current position on the role of federal spending -- it also underscores the outside help he received in orchestrating the 2002 Olympics. Throughout Romney's candidacy, his campaign and affiliates have used the event to tout Romney as an "Olympics Savior." Pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future placed a $7.2 million ad buy centered on his Olympics success, featuring Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi in one of its ads reflecting on how Romney brought her "a sense of hope."
Missing from the ad, and Romney's own telling of the story, is how that hope for the 2002 Olympics was also restored through $342 million in direct federal funding and an additional $1.1 billion in indirect financing from Washington.
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Orange Blooded [3422]
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Re: He didn't build it
Aug 9, 2012, 9:15 PM
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Very well said.
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110%er [6911]
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MSNBC talking points?
Aug 10, 2012, 7:05 AM
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or was that cut and pasted from the Huffington Post?
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Who cares? Is it factual?***
Aug 10, 2012, 7:58 AM
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Re: Who cares? Is it factual?***
Aug 10, 2012, 10:35 AM
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If it came from those two sources I would say no
They just ran a story and backed up a claim that Mitt Romney murdered a guy's wife. It is a COMPLETE lie and factually incorrect. There are tapes to disprove the whole thing, yet MSNBC defends it....So if the story came from there, I highly doubt it is fact.
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Orange Blooded [4095]
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Yes, MSNBC is the "Fox News" of the liberals
Aug 10, 2012, 11:42 AM
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But I have to say that that Rachel Maddow lady seems to be pretty much with it... agree or disagree she always backs up her claims with facts and proof, caught the Republicans with thier pants down more then a few times.
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So . . . let me get this straight
Aug 10, 2012, 9:54 AM
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You are saying that because Romney gave credit where credit was due for the federal government helping out with the olympics, he cannot hold the position that our hope as a COUNTRY cannot rely on ever-increasing government spending and involvement in our lives? Give me a break. Although very expensive to us normal folks, the budget of hosting an olympic games has nothing to do with bettering an economy based on free enterprise and thriving small businesses. This is the most ridiculous argument against Romney I've seen. It really speaks to the lack of understanding of what's at stake here.
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This is a bad argument
Aug 10, 2012, 11:20 AM
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If you are going to use that as your sole reason for bashing him, you should have given the context that EVERY Olympic games that has been hosted in the US has received massive federal subsidies.
It is not possible to put on the type of games the nation and world expect us to do without that help.
Romney is typically against earmarks, but he has stood by his stance that Olympic hosts in the US should receive federal aid.
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Indeed
Aug 10, 2012, 11:44 AM
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Holds no water, whatsoever.
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Re: Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 8:32 PM
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After 60 years of IPTAY, count me OUT if Romney has anything to do with Clemson.
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He will outsource our whole coaching staff to India***
Aug 9, 2012, 9:00 PM
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Kumar Rakhasan would be our new head coach***
Aug 10, 2012, 4:54 AM
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He'll gut the entire program
Aug 9, 2012, 9:01 PM
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and leave everyone to die.
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If he loses, you mean when he loses...***
Aug 9, 2012, 9:02 PM
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Athletic Dir [875]
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DRESSAGE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 9, 2012, 9:08 PM
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National Championship here we come.
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Re: Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 9:15 PM
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If he does we wont need a AD
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Re: Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 9:33 PM
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If he loses then football will be the last thing on peoples mind. Food stamps, unemployment, inflation, and increased taxes will be on the forefront.
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Re: Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 9:58 PM
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Yea, if Obama is actually elected president it'll be the apocalypse...oh wait, didn't people already say this in 2008?
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Orange Blooded [4095]
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Verge Of Financial Collapse And Ruin, Country Hemorrhaging
Aug 9, 2012, 11:42 PM
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Jobs? That was Obama's fault.
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If he wins, unemployment will sky rocket, we will borrow...
Aug 10, 2012, 4:57 AM
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more money from china. More jobs will be outsourced to India and China. And outsourcing within the USA with Indian and Chinese H1 visa holders would take all the good paying middle class jobs away from American citizens. And he would be the first President in the history of the USA to believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers.
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Re: Mitt Romney For AD IF, He Loses The Election....
Aug 9, 2012, 9:41 PM
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we do not need an idiot for AD or president....so Romney is out
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All-TigerNet [14090]
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The Utah winter olympics had major negative issues…..
Aug 10, 2012, 4:51 AM
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Romney would out source all of the jobs at Clemson to Chinese and Indian H1 visa holders. Oh by the way take the politics to the lounge.
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All-TigerNet [14090]
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So you want an AD that believes that Jesus and Satan are...
Aug 10, 2012, 4:52 AM
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brothers?
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110%er [8244]
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Re: So you want an AD that believes that Jesus and Satan are...
Aug 10, 2012, 7:26 AM
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You have any information or proof they are not
If you believe the bible you and I are related, history confirms with the apple & boat
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If Obama wins, our economy will be
Aug 10, 2012, 6:14 AM
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So devastated, it won't matter who runs the show. We will all be screwed. Obama is a communist and is trying to siphon America's wealth and power out to the rest of the world. Go see the movie 2016 this weekend.
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Orange Blooded [4095]
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So I guess people DO NOT thinkRomney would make a good AD...
Aug 10, 2012, 1:05 PM
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How about Ralph Friedgen?
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A guy who appreciates ALL sports and is an advocate for ALL
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