Wednesday, October 10, 2012

How Does Obama Expose Romney's Lies? blistering than Bill Clinton today comes Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Shows the Path


How do you take down a flip flopping liar like Mitt Romney?   In my view, the way to do it is to challenge them on their current lies/story line and contrast it with their previous statements which are utterly in consistent with whatever self-serving bullshit they are peddling at the moment.  Sadly, last week Barack Obama failed to take down Romney.   Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (shown in the video clip above) demonstrated how it is done when she engaged in brutal take-down of a conservative political opponent.  How did she do it?  She simply compared the supposed current position of the opposition leader with direct quotes from his past statements.  Would that Obama had done the same last week when Romney lied 27 times in 38 minutes.  Here's Andrew Sullivan explains what Obama could learn from Gillard:  

Obama has trained his whole life not to be angry, so as to deflect and foil the raw racism of Hannity et al. But Gillard keeps her cool in tone while the rhetoric is brutal. Biden and Obama need to calmly but relentlessly tear into the inconsistencies, lies and cynicism behind Romney-Ryan. Expose the abortion reversal; expose the Medicare reversal; expose the pre-existing conditions lie; demand to see the math behind Romney's ludicrous budgetary plan, and if he won't provide it (because it's impossible), call him out as the principle-free, chameleon salesman he is.

Obama let Romney shape-shift without rebuttal. Never again. The idea that the same policies that brought this country to its knees by 2009 should be put on steroids for the next four years should provoke outrage, not gentle disagreement. The fact that we cannot even know if Romney would actually do any of it because he is such a shameless liar and shape-shifter should also provoke amazement and incredulity, not good manners. Bill Clinton exposed the empty center of Romney with a wide knowing grin. But however he decides to do it, Obama needs to Gillard Romney in the next debate. To his face.
 As I have noted a number of times: Mitt Romney is amoral and will say and do anything to further his personal goals.  Truth and honesty are nowhere on Romney's radar screen.  Chimperator George Bush and Emperor Palpatine Chaney took the nation to war in Iraq based on lies.  Sadly, Romney makes Bush and Cheney look like the height of honesty.  When the Hell are American voters going to wake up?

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