President Obama, Democrats, Advertise Trump Endorsement of Romney
EmailOn his campaign Twitter account Thursday afternoon, President Obama tweeted out a video of real estate magnate/reality TV star Donald Trump endorsing Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney.
“@BarackObama: In case you missed it: http://OFA.BO/FTvUmj,“ the tweet reads, with a link to Associated Press video from the endorsement announcement.
“We wanted to ensure that no one missed what the Romney campaign believes is a critical moment in the campaign for them,” a top Obama campaign official tells ABC News.
(The Obama campaign points out that technically only tweets signed “-BO” can be officially considered personally from President Obama, even if the official twitter account is from “@BarackObama.”)
Just minutes before, Teddy Goff, the digital director of Obama for America, had started re-tweeting previous Trump messages, such as “When will @BarackObama release his transcripts? What is he hiding?”
As ABC News political director Amy Walter reminds us according to a Fox News poll taken last month, Americans were nearly three times as likely to say they’d be less apt rather than more apt to vote for a candidate Trump endorsed, 27 percent to 10 percent. Two-thirds said it would make no difference.
Democrats also feel Romney appearing with Trump at the event demeans him.
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Posted by: sameagain | February 2, 2012, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
well now it will be Romney & Newt & President Obama and Saul Alinsky – who will win.
Posted by: joe | February 2, 2012, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Obama’s Jesus tax didn’t stay a headline very long.
Posted by: newcountryman | February 2, 2012, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
Are these really adults tweeting snarkey remarks?
Posted by: david | February 2, 2012, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
The Obama Camp is worried about Romney. Make no mistake they will play dirty politics big time and they have a billion $ war chest to get started. Hypocrisy is not the sole purview of the extreme left or right. The problem is voters who overlook it. I am voting for Romney. I trust his integrity and economic ability. He is rich, but earned it himself and knows how to help encourage business growth and prosperity. I hear attacks on his integrity, with no fact to back it up. He has lived a pretty clean life and I have been watching for many years. I would trust a rich man,who understands the economy and how to fix the mess we are in. I notice that a lot of people who blog would never hire a rich person, they prefer an inexperienced person who has never even run a lemonade stand to fix this huge economy. That person has a lot of audacity to even run. According to the stats, we are now over 15 trillion in dept and borrowing over 10 million a day. Don’t they understand that when the well runs dry there will be no one to bail us out. Greece is just a small microcosm of what is in store for us.
Posted by: Connie Davis | February 2, 2012, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
According to the stats, we are now over 15 trillion in dept and borrowing over 10 million a day.
Posted by: Connie Davis | February 2, 2012, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Over $1.25 TRILLION of the current debt falsely ‘attributed’ to Obama has resulted from interest on the debt George W. Bush left. That’s just the interest on the debt Bush left, never mind the war commitments, the destroyed revenues due to the economic collapse on his watch, the unpaid for seniors drug plan, huge deficits from his tax cuts, and on and on.
$10.5 TRILLION of that debt was on the books and growing rapidly before Obama even walked through the doors of the White House.
The $15 trillion dollar debt has far less to do with Obama’s policies than what was left to him by a Republican Bush administration that chose to borrow the country into debt from China, rather than pay it’s bills, and then presided over the largest economic crash since the Great Depression.
And now Romney (another rich man’s businessman son, just like Bush) promises exactly the same thing Bush and the Republicans promised during their campaign – a more “business” approach cutting the deficits and eliminating the debt. And we saw where that got us.
I pray Americans are not stupid enough to fall for Republican deception again, it’s disastrous.
Posted by: Steve | February 2, 2012, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm
Obama and company must be getting a little worried……..getting into the fray so early.
Posted by: newcountryman | February 2, 2012, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Wow! When Donald Trump endorses a presidential candidate, it really means a whole lot to the world! LOL! I can understand why Mitt Romney is not concerned about the poor. He is really concerned about his rich friends and what they can do for him! LOL! President Obama is not worried. Why should he be? Mitt’s secrets will soon be out in the open for the world to see how he really feels about the Middle Class Americans as well. LOL!
Posted by: Justice | February 2, 2012, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
According to the stats, we are now over 15 trillion in dept and borrowing over 10 million a day.
Don’t they understand that when the well runs dry there will be no one to bail us out. Greece is
just a small microcosm of what is in store for us.POSTED BY: CONNIE DAVIS.
***************************************Sorry for the delusions, but If you thing Willard the wiz is going
to pass his magic wand and make it like was in the late 1990′s when the government had a
surplus, you absolutely wrong. The country drained a large portion of its assets fighting endless
incoherent wars against an ideology that we still don’t understand, and probably never will.
Posted by: michael | February 2, 2012, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
Famous Romney quotes that will come back to haunt him this summer. “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” “I like being able to fire people,” “There were a couple times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip,” “I’m also, unemployed,” refering to the auto industry, “Let Detroit go bankrupt,” and in regards to thousands of Americans losing their homes to foreclosure, “Don’t try to stop the foreclosure precess, let it run its course and hit bottom.” Is this guy out of touch? Not with the 1% !
Posted by: malibujim | February 3, 2012, 12:44 am 12:44 am