{"id":9346,"date":"2012-11-04T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2012-11-04T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:37:31","slug":"revenge-you-betcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/revenge-you-betcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge? You Betcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">At a campaign event yesterday, Barack Obama said that, if your mad at Republicans, the best way to take revenge is to vote, not to boo.&#160; Needless to say, Lord Willard has no authentic campaign issues to raise, so he got his panties in a bunch and did some major sniveling over Obama\u2019s statement.&#160; So is revenge a valid reason to vote?&#160; You betcha!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"GOPOnly\" alt=\"GOPOnly\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GOPOnly.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"323\" \/>GOP nominee Mitt Romney began his final weekend campaign blitz in New Hampshire Saturday morning, ripping President Obama for telling supporters that &quot;voting is the best revenge.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Vote for revenge? Let me tell you: Vote for love of country,&quot; Romney said to cheers. <\/p>\n<p>Obama made the remark at a Friday rally after supporters booed Romney. \u201cNo, no, no. Don&#8217;t boo. Vote,\u201d Obama told a crowd in Springfield, Ohio. \u201cVoting is the best revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GOP nominee jumped on the comment later that day, and his campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/265719-romney-rips-obama-on-voting-is-the-best-revenge-remark-in-new-ad\">released an ad<\/a> attacking the president for it Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama campaign said Saturday that the president&#8217;s comment was made in the context of Romney&#8217;s \u201cscare tactics.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/265727-romney-rips-obama-on-voting-is-the-best-revenge-remark\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are lots of reasons to want revenge against the Republican Party, but first, <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Martin Bashir discussed Willard&#8217;s last minute desperation with a panel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc3316d6\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49677435^0^670737&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc3316d6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=49677435^0^670737&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font>    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OK.&#160; To all the people, whose right to vote Republicans are trying to take away, get back at them for trying to deprive you of your rights.&#160; Vote!&#160; To all women, whose health care rights Republicans are trying to take away, get back at them for inserting themselves between your legs.&#160; Vote!&#160; To Black, Latino and Muslim Americans, who have been a continuous target of Republican racism, get back at them for coming out of hiding to don their sheets and hoods.&#160; Vote!&#160; To all Americans, whose Social Security and and Medicare have been paid for through years of work and Republicans are trying to destroy, get back at them.&#160; Vote!&#160; To LGBT Americans whose right Republicans want to deny, get back at them.&#160; Vote!&#160; For years, Republicans have been lying faster than I can debunk the lies.&#160; I got back at them.&#160; I voted!&#160; I could go on and on pointing to the people that Republicans have harmed through their hate, greed, lies, and lust to abuse power.&#160; Get back at them\u2026.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Vote_Check-mark\" alt=\"Vote_Check-mark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote_Check-mark4.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a campaign event yesterday, Barack Obama said that, if your mad at Republicans, the best way to take revenge is to vote, not to boo.&#160; Needless to say, Lord Willard has no authentic campaign issues to raise, so he got his panties in a bunch and did some major sniveling over Obama\u2019s statement.&#160; So <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/revenge-you-betcha\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}