Bob Schieffer asks, "Why did Barack Obama start his campaign off so negatively..?"

[kentuck]

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He asked the question of David Axelrod, adviser to the President, on Face the Nation on CBS.

But buried in the question was the insinuation that the Romney campaign was not "negative" against Obama but that only the President was negative.

This President has withstood almost 4 years of negative assaults against him. The Republicans have attacked him since day one. Should he simply ignore those attacks?

Or should he stand and fight back? Should he try and put them on the defensive with attacks of his own? Only a fool would not fight back against this Republican mob of negative campaigners.

Bob Schieffer and others must sleep six days a week and only wake up on Sunday mornings, just before their talk shows?

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[savalez]

1. What was David Axelrod's reply?

[kentuck]

2. It was something along the line...

...that they had spent several million dollars on ads and the Bain ad was the only so-called "negative" ad they made...

[spanone]

3. shieffer wants Obama to respond like kerry did to the swiftboaters..

piss off bob.

[LibGranny]

4. Shieffer is in a coma!

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Isn't Shieffer

a longtime BFF of the Bush family? That would tend to discolor one's perspective...

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Like peas in a big ol' Texas pod.

[BootinUp]

6. Shieffer thinks 4 years with a Black President is more than enough.

time to make a change.

[mfcorey1]

7. Republicans can start with all kinds of vitriol and never a question is asked.

[CJCRANE]

8. The Obama campaign was landing some blows

on Romney's record so of course the MSM had to do a switcheroo and make the narrative about "negativity" instead of the actual issues.

[SlimJimmy]

12. Let's be honest here, comments by Booker, Ford, Rattner, and President Clinton didn't help much.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. I wonder if Bush's surrogates got asked this as well?

I tend to doubt it.

[Tennessee Gal]

10. Did he ever ask the Bush advisers why they swiftboated Kerry?

edit for spelling

[stevedeshazer]

11. Scheiffer!

Jeez.



If y'all are gonna bitch about him, at least he deserves to have his name spelled right at least once in this thread.

[kentuck]

13. From CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/face-the-nation/

[KansDem]

15. When I took German in college...

...we were told, "When two vowels go walking, the second one does the talking."

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I'm gonna keep calling it like it is

It's RACISM. Pure and simple. The Congress, the media, and many across this country. I don't care what some goddamn DUers may think but from day one, it has been about the Black President and they just can't deal with it. Every single bit of fiber of their sorry existence is having a world-wide temper tantrum, full of spittle-filled fury and hatred, whether public, private, or in their subconscious, as they connive to bring down the world economy over this ONE man.

It's disgusting.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

25. A-FUCKING-MEN!!!!!

[lpbk2713]

16. Obama has been holding back too much IMO

He should make it understood by the general public that we are in the mess we are in because of BushCo and the greedy obstructionist rethuglicans in Congresss who have made it clear they want Obama to be a one term President even if it means driving the country further into the ditch.

[The Magistrate]

18. He Kicked Off His Campaign, Sir, By Positively Kicking R-Money Where It Hirts

In his record of mulcting company assets into hsi own pockets while putting working men and women out on the street without a dime. Which is just what he will do if the country is unfortunate enough to see him in the Oval Office. He is only running for the job to try and strip the biggest pension fund in the country, Social Security....

[DallasNE]

19. Schieffer Always Sees The Glass As Half Empty

When it comes to the Democrats and half full when it comes to the Republicans. He is part of MSM after all.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. the same Bob who lets Romney surrogate Donald Trump spew unchallenged

Yeah, the GOP is just a ray of sunshine these days.

The beltway media has their talking points ("obama's negative," "Bain attacks are failing," etc). Meanwhile, Mittens gets a pass on everything and is treated as if he's 100% positive (Never mind that he blatantly lied in his first negative ad out of the box)

[sendero]

21. Obama should have been handing out vitriol..

... starting his first day in office. I would have answered, "he waited 4 years what do you want"?

[Blue_Tires]

22. it's only negative when WE fight back...

[Dawson Leery]

23. Why does the media allow Mitt Romney to campaign with a race baiter(Birther Trump)

and allow this show to go unchallenged?

[applegrove]

24. Because anger works. It is what the GOP has been using for years. When you are angry you don't cede

territory or you go out and get more territory. In other words you vote and agitate those around you to vote.