OBAMA To ROMNEY: "This is not an entitlement, being President of the United States."

[kpete]

THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I'm not sure all those characterizations that you laid out there were accurate. For example, nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon.
. . .

Now, if you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign and the ads that I've approved and are produced by my campaign, you'll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates, but we don't go out of bounds. And when it comes to releasing taxes, that's a precedent that was set decades ago, including by Governor Romney's father. And for us to say that it makes sense to release your tax returns, as I did, as John McCain did, as Bill Clinton did, as the two President Bushes did, I don't think is in any way out of bounds.

I think that is what the American people would rightly expect -- is a sense that, particularly when we're going to be having a huge debate about how we reform our tax code and how we pay for the government that we need, I think people want to know that everybody has been playing by the same rules, including people who are seeking the highest office in the land. This is not an entitlement, being President of the United States. This is a privilege. And we've got to put ourselves before the American people to make our case.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/20/remarks-president-white-house-press-corps

[JoePhilly]

1. SMACK, you entitled jerk!!!

[Tom Ripley]

6. I also love "For example, nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon"

nicely done, Mr President

[Voice for Peace]

20. and this one, which also lingers...

Q:
Should he drop out of the race?

THE PRESIDENT:
He was nominated by the Republicans in Missouri.
I’ll let them sort that out.

[speedoo]

28. SPLAT!!!

That is a perfect response.

Obama is brilliant in this way.

[MADem]

31. Or an individual who enjoys congress with barnyard animals of the porcine variety, as LBJ

once did to one of his opponents!

He just wanted to hear him try to deny it!

RMoney should count his lucky stars!

[DCKit]

34. LOVE the parsing - he can't be a felon until being convicted of a felony...

but, if he's committed a felony and never been charged, he's still committed a felony.

Kkkarl Rove could never have come with a phrasing so subtle, yet so pointy.

[Ikonoklast]

38. You never feel the sharpest stiletto going in.

But it leaves you just as dead.

[grantcart]

40. I also have never accused Romney of being a felon.

[DaveJ]

49. Doesn't the POTUS have access to all the info Romney's hiding?

Obviously the IRS has the information, and I'd think President Obama would have perfectly legal clearance to all this information. I wonder how he's able to handle keeping all that under wraps.

[Tom Ripley]

53. I don't think that is legal; if I recall correctly, using the IRS against political enemies was...

one of Nixon's many crimes.
It's best to only have one felon in this race.

[DaveJ]

54. It was ok to use the IRS against Al Capone

I guess politicians have more immunity from law than the rest of us.

At any rate, I know, it wouldn't look good, unfair advantage and all that.

[Tom Ripley]

55. Filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger insists that the Reagan administration utilized the IRS...

against him due to some unflattering remarks made about dear Nancy in "Hollywood Babylon II"

However, as you said, "I guess politicians have more immunity from law than the rest of us"

[sarcasmo]

2. One of the many verbal beat downs headed your way R money.

[Cha]

3. Tell IT, President Obama!

Freak Twit can't seem to get it through his dull head that he's applying for a JOB. Not buying & Bullying his way into the white house with koch money and romney lies. Psychopath.

[nc4bo]

4. !

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[Cha]

8. Yeah,

[Lebam in LA]

5. Well Done

Very well done

[Matariki]

7. Very nicely said.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. Now that's what I call framing an argument.

I'll never cease to feel humbled, and awed, by how well he does in that area.

Well done, again, Mr. President.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. Goddamn!! That's my president!!!

[moondust]

11. Mitt knew all about the tax release expectations before he chose to run.

After all, his own father was a champion of full disclosure and transparency on taxes.

Nevertheless, Mitt chose to go ahead and run assuming he'd be allowed to play by his own rules like he always does. The entitlement mindset is strong in this one.

[maddiemom]

24. For Sure!

This whole tax thing speaks volumes about Mitt's character. A complete lack of ordinary common sense. He's been aiming for the presidency for years: right down to getting into one major elective office to give him the gravitas. Wealthy as he is, there's no reason for him not to have had his ducks in a row, regarding taxes.

[speedoo]

12. I cannot wait for the debates.

POTUS will take Romney apart.

And the VP will expose Ryan as a complete phony.

[Merlot]

17. I just realized how PERFECT Joe Biden is to debate pryan

The subject is medicare. pryan wants to turn it into vouchers. Biden is old enough to have medicare, pryan is a youngster who won't feel the effects of not having it.

The intended audience will identify with Biden. Age, experience and wisdom.

Yea, that one's gonna be popcorn worthy!

[maddiemom]

26. You go Joe!

The media's insistence on making him a gaffe prone dunce should work in his favor. This is a seriously smart and experienced man.

[FirstLight]

13. damn skippy!

the gloves are off, you little twit, and no amount of whining can help you now!

there was a recent atticle that pointed out our Pres doesn't even have the slightest bit of respect for Rmoney that he had for Mccain...in fact that he really dislikes mitty-twitty...

The debates are gonna be

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DARY!

[maddiemom]

29. No one likes Mitt, including his own party.

I've been doing some calling for the Obama campaign. All Mitt's supporters are simply anti-Obama. They neither know nor care much about Romney. They'd vote for the real Darth Vader before President Obama. Mitt is a virtual void to them, just "the other guy."

[jade3000]

14. Nice use of the word "entitlement"

I like seeing words turned around like that.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Obama has a sense of history...

...teabaggers have no sense at all....

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. Oh SNAP!

You eat your vegetables, you over-privileged git!

[Diclotican]

18. kpete

kpete

Your president have style, your president have a swung and bite when he have to.. It took him long enough to stop being nice to the Republicans - but now I hope he will bite and beat them, when he need to be - and give the republicans - and Romney/Ryan what they deserve... A real long beat down. Something it is a long time since the republicans have been worried about...

Diclotican

[nolabear]

19. That's MY president! I voted for him!

Smack! Smackety smack smacko smack smack!!

[calimary]

21. Great one, Mr. President!

May we all have four more years of your excellent service to this country with no clouding, cheapening, or perverting of that duty by any sense of entitlement on your part!

[Voice for Peace]

36. ++++++ four more years

[Tx4obama]

22. Bravo Mr. President :) n/t

[morningfog]

23. BAD ASS! This just gets better.

[DallasNE]

25. This Is Subtle But Effective

It reminds us of the earlier interview Ann Romney had where she proclaimed that it is "our turn" and that smacks of an entitlement attitude. It is also something that needed to be said.

[PragmaticLiberal]

35. Can you imagine what would have happened if Mrs. Obama had said it's "our turn"?

[harun]

27. Welcome to the Big Leagues Mitt

[fadedrose]

30. What a smartass . . . nt

[SunSeeker]

32. Love it. More please. nt

[Care Acutely]

33. Thank yo for posting this! I missed that little bit.

Well done Mr. President!

[Quantess]

37. My thoughts exactly!

Now there is a president who is in touch with Americans (as opposed to being out of touch).

[TahitiNut]

39. It sounds like Obama didn't get invited to the Initiation Ceremony for the Ruling Class.

The MittWit, Willard the Mendacious, is the God-chosen Inheritor of the Ruling Class, entitled to be the President. The (s)election is a mere formality and the servants of the Ruling Class are making all preparations (voter disenfranchisement, limited and faulty polling place resources, software 'tweaks', etc.) needed to overcome the nuisance of the election.

[CanonRay]

41. The perfect smack to the side of Romney's coiffed head

I wonder if it mussed his hair?

[Uncle Joe]

42. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[riverbendviewgal]

43. Hit him hard....This is the Super Bowl..

Get out all the tacklers on all the issues. Everything, Taxes, jobs, women's rights, medicare. security,etc. and don't stop tackling those creepy republicans. ...Don't let them get up. keep getting them down....Get them so black and blue and their heads spinning.

They can't take the truth.

[av8rdave]

44. Do we not have the most awesome President?

[Autumn]

45. Well said Sir, well said.

[Dont call me Shirley]

46. "But it's our turn to have the wh" states the whiney entitled Ann.

[JNelson6563]

47. Awesome, well done Mr. President!

[zappaman]

48. That's a damn fine line!

Poor Mitt.
He's not used to not getting his way, is he?

[avebury]

50. K&R nt

[ailsagirl]

51. As always, he "tells it like it is"-- no hysterics, no lies

Just pure class. That's why it's so amazing/amusing to hear the repukes say the President is "hate-mongering." Is telling the truth "hate mongering?" Are the repukes aware, even to the tiniest degree, that they're deliberately exaggerating, lying, and vilifying the President? That the President has done and is doing a damn fine job?? If they believe their lies are the truth, they're nuts. And if they know that Obama is doing a good job, then they're nuts. Do they know they're racist? Either way you slice it... THEY'RE NUTS!!! And so are their followers.

[BrainMann1]

52. Right on