Romney campaign chairman John Sununu has been a little unhinged in his attacks on President Obama -- and sometimes, more than a little -- and in the wake of last night's debate, the Republican was in rare form with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell this afternoon.
Note Sununu's particular choice of words: he isn't just condemning the president in a rather classless way, he's using words like "lazy," "incompetent," and "disengaged." Asked if he wanted to take the words back, Sununu used the identical words again.
Sununu also said today, "When you're not that bright you can't get better prepared."
There was a point, not too terribly long ago, when Mitt Romney claimed to be outraged by sleazy, personal attacks, dragging the presidential campaign into the gutter. Given this, should we assume Romney will accept Sununu's resignation today?
Also, putting every other consideration aside, it's hard not to be offended by the casual and baseless smear of the president's intelligence. For years, Sununu and many of those who share his contempt for Obama have tried to make the opposite case: the president is too professorial and bookish, more comfortable at Harvard's faculty lounge than the "real world." Now we're apparently supposed to believe the opposite smear: that the scholarly, Ivy League, law professor president just isn't "bright" enough for the often-buffoonish Sununu's standards.
It's ugly and unnecessary, and given Sununu's routine difficulties with the basics of current events, rather ironic.
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Hey Sununu, What time are you planning to start the lynching.
Sununu-u r a fat lazy mooron. You are a racist.
We also need a younger and more aggressive moderator (referee is more accurate) for these things.
I respect the venerable Jim Lehrer very much. Jim, along with Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, are the closest we are ever going to get to Walter Cronkite. Moreover, the PBS version of the nightly news is the best straight-down-the-middle news available, minus the "lead stories" on CBS, NDC, ABC that always include Lindsey Lohan's latest arrest or the latest standings of Dancing With The Stars. Why does the media cater to hillbillies? I know. Ratings. Appeal to the lowest common denominator. Appparently it makes money.
However, while Obama was respectful to Lehrer at his own expense, Romney bullied an 80s something icon for his own gain. More evidence of what kinfd of cowardly, biff-and-muffy POS Romney is.
If this piece of garbage gets elected I'm moving to Canada.
Romney will create 12 million jobs ,someone will need to build all the weapons we will need to fight the wars he will start.
do you seriously think they would be american jobs?
it's cheaper to buy your weapons from your enemies. isn't it?
The question is: why does the network keep having this guy on!!
The man has been down right nasty to all interviewers, except FOX. Let these right wing nuts and their racism stay on FOX.
Oh I forgot, all the netowrks are FOX
Because the cowardly, racist, self-promoting Sununu *gets ratings*.
As much as the CNBC hosts says how much they revile him, they chase him to be a guest on their shows. Ka Ching.
MSNBC host's had a nervous breakdown over PBO performance last night. They ignored all substance of the debate, ignored the blatant lies of Romney. At the end these "analysts" annoited Romney the "winner" of the debate.
Lying and cheating voids all "wins." Romney didn't win anything.
Today a Romney hack known to throw out racists remarks, at will, stated more racist bs.
MSM will be silent like they have about all the racism being trotted out by GOP. It is disgusting.
Those who claim they want PBO to fight like a damn fool for them, will not say a damn thing about that racist slug Sununu or any other GOP racism.
MSM all of them are scum.
I agree and said so earlier. I wouldn't say all MSM hosts, but I had to turn off the commentary. Matthews and Schultz were way over the top. I usually like Ed, but that was unwatchable.
Sununu was a disgusting racist pig on Andrea Mitchell's show.
This man is bitter and he's going to turn into gall when Obama return to the white house
Beware of shining objects. For a whole year we all have the opportunity to get to know Mr. Romney and his "so called" policies very well. All of the sudden last night, another person shows up contradicting everything he ever said before. Well, it may have sounded great from afar, but where is this guy integrity. Does he is really willing to say whatever to earn the presidency? Is that the type of man we want representing us in the World. Do we really are to think that by armoring ourselves to the teeth that we are going to be able to steamroll all over the world? We cannot even have Cuba do what we want and that is an island the size of NY. Somehow there are people here in the US that think that we can go around the world with big guns and impose our wills in people. History tells us that is the total opposite. Vietnam, Korea, Angola, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iraq, all small countries that we couldn't impose our wills on even when we try and did bombed the heck out of some of them. What the heck, we cannot even efficiently fight the drug lords in Columbia or Mexico. The best expression of america exceptional-ism is when we mind our own businesses and stop meddling with other countries internal affairs.
Economically speaking, well, one word, ARITHMETIC. Yeah, sure, Romney is firing Big Bird, but birds eat very little. PBS is mostly supported by the general contributions of the public, the government part is just a very little fraction that comes mainly from the education budget. But Mr. Romney said that he is 100% for education? Sesame Street is one of our most valuable educational tools for preschoolers, It has been for decades. For many people Romney hit a home run in the debate, but for me he just showed me how good of a car salesman he could be and I learned from very early in my life not to trust car salesman, especially when they are all over the place with their speeches. One day you are going to tell me that we have too much regulation and then the next day that you love regulation? One day you are going to quote a study from an organization to point your point and then you are going to demonize the same organization when it proves your point wrong? Mr. Romney still did not explain which loopholes he is going to close to balance his 20% all across tax cut. He is completely married to the idea that vouchers is the future of medicare and that medicaid should be eliminated at federal level and given to states as block grants. He also said that instead of a centralized healthcare system that we should have a state-based decentralized model. Ask the Veteran Administration office about decentralized medical care. After 30 years of disparate systems and failures the VA have come to the realization that a more organized centralized approach is the cheaper more efficient way to go. As far as Mr. Romney, his answer of having a decentralized ObamaCare rather than a centralized one, was just an attempt to show us that he does have an actual plan. I have been following Romney for over a year now and the last time that the affordable healthcare question was asked to him his answer was "emergency rooms". I do hope that my fellow republican american come to their senses and realize that this man is just a well trained salesman not a statesman. If you want a reasonable well-balanced war-free approach to long time recovery, Mr. Obama has the right proven formula. If you just want a temporary thrill ride with an artificial recovery that it will be over as soon as it starts added to more potential long-term wars in the middle east, then the car salesman is your man. I hope that you all use common sense.Do not get bogged down with the passionless way that the president presented his policies ideas. Look closely at what each of these men are offering. History has shown us that the Clinton economics work so well that we end up with surpluses. Reaganomics or trickle-down economic never has show surplus and have shown to be just temporary fixes. When Clinton took over Bush (the first) the trickle down economic was taking us to a very bad recession after just 8 years. Then Clinton implemented his "middle-class stupid" economic policies and within 4 years we were in surplus and then some. Then Bush (the second) came back with the republican trickle down trick again and we ended up in the worst recession since the depression. Obama needed to right the ship before he could even start to implement the Clintonomic agenda. For the first two years of his presidency Obama has to spend his time fixing two major problems we were facing, recession and the decadence of our healthcare system. Romney called our healthcare system before Obamacare the best of the world when we all know that even Cuba health system has been touted better than ours. Then in 2010 the tea party obstructionist group came in with a single agenda.. to make the president a one term president. Even with an obstructive House of Rep. the president has been able to start the economy turning in the right direction. My argument is that four more years (and even more) of Clintonomic is what we really need, going back to start again with the reaganomic is just going to give us temporary satisfaction and then we will be back to where we started in 2008. Is is just reality. History has a chance to repeat itself again. It is up to us as of how.
Excellent!!
I fact checked while watching the debate. I lost track at about 27 complete lies. From coal to teachers, he lied. I believe the President had a great strategy. Let Mitt Romney talk, change his stances again and again, lie blatantly, all the while knowing, the outcome would be horrible press for Mitt. Everyone I know, both Republican and Democrat, cannot get over how he flipped and flopped on everything he's been saying for the past 2 years!! Did he honestly think we wouldn't notice? And, FYI, two of my friends who were leaning toward Romney, have now voted early, in Ohio for President Obama!!
I have made it my mission to post the following every time I read something about John Sununu.
He was fired by Bush 41 after he was caught using a military helicopter for transportation to a golf game, a family vacation, and a coin (or maybe it was a stamp) auction. He is a nasty, rascist, and not very bright person and just the type of surrogate Romney deserves.
I have completely stopped watching Andrea Mitchell recently. She really has become even More of a Neo-Con apologist than before, and Her ability to "overlook" most of the "dog-whistle" comments from Idiots like Sununu have forced Me to banish Her from My TV watch list.
Sununu is a bitter old coot who is best known for stealing money from the government when he worked for George H Bush. Now Sununu spends his time blowing his racially tinged dog whistle
Sununu is often buffoonish but he is very sure that he is very smart. The man was still bragging about his SAT scores in 1989 or so some time after taking the test. If I recall correctly, they were 790 verbal 800 math (which weren't so easy to get back when he took the test which was before the ETS rescaled).
Yes I claim to remember John Sununu's SAT scores after reading what they were once roughly 23 years ago. Yes I too am often buffoonish.
But at least I have noticed that Barack Obama is extremely hard working and very very smart.
Oh I think that Richard Darman was also bragging at the same time about the exact same SAT scores. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Darman (I admit I mis remembered him as poppy Bush's domestic policy advisor when, in fact, he was Bush sr's OMB director).
Sununu is a subhuman troll. The only reason the campaign keeps him around is to make Romney look better by compaison. While I'm sorry the rest of the country has to put up with him, I'm really glad he doesn't infest us here in NH anymore!
Was Sununu A Cunumunu
“When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared”
Andrea Mitchell from MSNBC interviewed him on these words aired
She double checked him at one stage to have him take back
Some of the condemning, classless labeling he made on Barack
Unhinged before but he’s taken things too far
Now he uses words meant to pierce like a sword and to scar
Using utterances at the wake of the first Presidential Debate
Nefarious affronts to the President by this Romney surrogate
Unbelievable terms like “disengaged,” “incompetent,” and “lazy”
All harsh words to others but to the president of your country
Contemptuous, disdainful, I think should be treasonous
Unbelievable villainy that you should take to be serious
No one should be allowed to represent
United States political parties or government
Mitt Romney’s Campaign Chairman should be fired for this
Unfounded assault on the one holding the highest Office
No one should disrespect our president as did John Sunumu
Ugly words used with destructive intent, Was Sunumu A Cunumunu
http://bit.ly/ForBarack
Sununu is a disgusting racist who never misses an opportunity to smear Obama. Funny too that he always goes on about how "un-american" Obama is, and that he supposedly doesn't understand America.
Sununu is of Arab descent and was born in Cuba. Obama was born in the US. Why do interviewers let him get away with this crap anyway?
Because the Kings in America find dogs "conveinent" and love to sic them on us "commoners"! So they throw scraps of table meat to Limpballs , Hannity and Snuf U to sell out their fellow Citizens, which they do without batting an eye!
These are the lowest traitors our Society has!
Say anything for a buck!
But its our fault, we should never repeat what they say, or have them on any legitimate News show!
Their not News people, their Propagandists! They lie for a living!
and Sununu is fat ugly and stupid! Two of those things he can't recover from.
Disgusting does not even begin to describe this creep!
Wow, after reading some of these posts, Romney must have won by way more than I thought.
Good Luck you all, please don't do anything stupid tonight when you are home alone in the Trailer. I would like to read more tomorrow
Why did MSNBC let Republican operative, Steve Shcmidt frame the debate?
John Sununu is a big chickenhawk. He went to military school during the Vietnam war and was offered a commission at West Point but he turned it down to be a chickenhawk like cheney et al.
"Give him an enema and you could bury him in a matchbox"!
Thanks to Christopher Hitchens.
Did Denver's altitude play in this? Athletes always get there a few days early to get the slowness out of their breathing and general circulation.
Was Romney on speed to counter act this?
He was on something. He reminded me of a drunk or an addict a trip. Obnoxious, arrogant, so hyped he couldn't even consider shutting his lying mouth, unaware that his lies weren't believable, disrespectful of not only the moderator (?), but as well the President and the American people.
The only truth I saw last night from Romney was his total contempt for our country, our 99% of the country and the true facts of his intentions. Just like the Republican "trickle down economics" he continued to urinate on the country.
Sinunu is running for Limpballs job. He'd even like a small percentage of the silver coins to sell his Country down the drain for the Kings!
Hate, Hate, hate, school boy name calling! He couldn't fight a 8th grader in my school !
If he said that around me, I'd smash his teeth down his throat! Except that my Mom would have already done it with a wooden spoon!
Pure rodent vomiting disease!
Can we export him somewhere? He is the most disgusting example of GOBP EVER! The right should be SOOOO proud of him! When will Romney stand up to these idiots that alienate everybody but the wing nuts.
When will the media quit giving him a microphone? I've seen enough of his disgusting ugly POS!
What's so hard to understand about Obama losing a debate. The issue isn't how much you hate Romney, the president preformed poorly. The smartest man in the room wasn't the president at the time of the debate. I'm sure he'll do better next time but it's the presidents fault he lost.