Romney’s firm a target, but why doesn’t Obama talk about his taxpayer ‘investments’?

Gov. Mitt Romney, shown here at a Jacksonville fundraiser, has been a target for Obama. The president isn't talking about his own investments. (Photo: Kay B. Day/The US Report)The major talking point for President Barack Obama and Democrats revolves around former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s work with a private equity firm. However, Obama and his team have made sizable investments. How have those worked out?

Romney’s firm attracted money from different types of investors—individuals, pension funds, endowments.

Our president, however, made investments with taxpayer dollars, and we didn’t have much of a say in how that money is directed or managed. Basically, we’ve been forced to ante up capital. If Dems get the tax increase they want, we’ll ante up even more.

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Covering Col. West in Jacksonville and hit job on Romney in 'Post'

The US Report is covering events with U.S. congressman Col. Allen West in Jacksonville today. West is running for reelection in the 18th congressional district. He'll be busy in the First Coast City from morning 'til evening, and we'll have some content up about that as the day progesses.

Meanwhile, we'll also be posting thoughts on the hit job The Washington Post did on Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) about an incident that happened almost half a century ago. The takeaway, other than the piece is a hit job, is that the Post appears to be stereotyping haircuts.

Considering some sordid events in the newspaper's recent and distant past, I thought it might be useful to provide a bit of WaPo history to put the hit job on Romney in the context of the times.

What was the Post doing almost 50 years ago?

(Commentary by Kay B. Day/May 11, 2012)

Main St. News Briefs, May 7, 2012

Vol. I, No. 3

─Yes, Democrats, Rubio really is hispanic*
─Identity theft and misery
─The state of Romney vs. Obama
─Mr. Jefferson (finally) goes to prison

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Romney’s 2007 debate response savvier than current administration on bin Laden

President Barack Obama recently implied former Gov. Mitt Romney wouldn’t have taken bin Laden down. However, as the video from Romney’s 2008 campaign suggests, that’s not the case. Furthermore, Romney’s approach is actually savvier than that of our current administration. Consider this:

ROMNEY: We move everything to get him. But I don’t want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person, Osama Bin Laden, because after we get him, there’s gonna be another and another. This is about Shia and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a worldwide jihadist effort to try to cause the collapse of all moderate Islamic governments and replace them with a caliphate. They ultimately want to bring down the United States of America. This is a global effort we’re going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It’s more than Osama Bin Laden, but he is gonna pay, and he will die.—Romney/GOP debate, 2007

In late April a senior State Dept. official told National Journal this:

“’The war on terror is over,’ one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. ‘Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.’"

For some, it’s hard to wrap the brain around the concept of “legitimate Islamism.” We're still waiting for an explanation of that from our president.

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Romney, 2007: Track bin Laden anywhere, kill him (Breitbart)

Dual standards in promoting Obama on NBC... (The US Report)

(Filed by Kay B. Day/May 1, 2012)

Romney sweeps 5 states; select media fail to acknowledge

Photo: Mitt Romney campaignOn Tuesday evening in Manchester (N.H.) former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spoke to supporters. His theme, “A better America begins tonight”, capped wins in five states. The slogan is catchy, appropriate and inspiring. Some high profile media appeared to miss it all.

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Do you hear a love song for Obama in AP 'guns and butter' article?

Just as ObamaCare costs have been underestimated, in the opinion of many conservatives, Medicare costs were grossly underestimated by big spender LBJ who promised Medicare would cost about $500 million. To date, there's a $74 TRILLION unfunded liability for Medicare. All caps intentional on that figure. (Photo: US Library of Congress, 1950-1960)The Associated Press featured a story titled ‘Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter.’ In my opinion, the story amounts to a love song for President Barack Obama.

The AP said that if presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s budget plan comes to fruition, less funding would go to the “poor and disabled” and to services like “food inspection, border security and education.”

Obama, on the other hand, would make only small cuts to Medicare and Medicaid “while socking wealthier people with tax increases.”

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Polls clash on Obama-Romney, but top pollster has Romney ahead

Rasmussen currently has Gov. Mitt Romney ahead of President Barack Obama by 3 points. (Photo: Mitt Romney campaign) In 2008 there’s no doubt polls were used to help boost Democrats’ chances in the General Election. Are Dems and allied media pimping polls ahead of November, 2012?

Some of those 2008 polls were questionable.

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