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kpete

(72,012 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:26 PM Feb 2015

'In other words-black people' Obama said, paraphrasing Romney"-That's what he thinks THIS was about"

Obama shocked, 'slightly irritated' by Mitt Romney's 2012 concession call: David Axelrod

The president claimed his GOP opponent insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by the presidential campaign strategist.




President Obama was shocked and irritated by Mitt Romney's concession call in the 2012 presidential election—and claimed Romney insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod.

Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," Axelrod writes.

The president hung up and said Romney admitted he was surprised at his own loss, Axelrod wrote.

"'You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people,'" Obama said, paraphrasing Romney. "That's what he thinks this was all about."




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'In other words-black people' Obama said, paraphrasing Romney"-That's what he thinks THIS was about" (Original Post) kpete Feb 2015 OP
We all knew Mitt was a racist fuck. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #1
Romney just articulates what the slyer Rethugs COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #2
He probably thinks their votes still count for 2/3d's lame54 Feb 2015 #3
3/5ths love_me_some_pickles Feb 2015 #4
thanks - that's still too high for Mitt lame54 Feb 2015 #5
He would love to limit the vote to white male property owners. love_me_some_pickles Feb 2015 #6
a vote for every property one owns lame54 Feb 2015 #7
So he is also a sore loser. Sad and pathetic. Vattel Feb 2015 #8
Romney and people like him olddots Feb 2015 #9

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
2. Romney just articulates what the slyer Rethugs
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:34 PM
Feb 2015

are thinking - "if it weren't for that $#*(**!! black vote" Obama wouldn't be President. That's what's behind all their suppress the vote schemes.

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