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CHRIS MATTHEWS AND HOWARD FINEMAN CHALLENGE GOP FALSE ATTACK ON OBAMA WELFARE RULES
HARDBALL, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews discusses GOP playing the race card to stir up old racial resentments among white voters with former GOP chairman MIchael Steele and analyst Howard Fineman.
Feisty debate on accuracy of Romney ads claiming Obama has weakened "work requirement" for welfare. Matthews asks--why bring up welfare in this campaign? And why focus on a claim about the Obama administration that is patently false?
In a high profile interview in USA Today, Mitt Romney accused President Obama of gutting the welfare work requirements to “shore up his base.”
The Romney campaign’s attacks on Obama’s welfare policy have come under attack because they are false and seen by some a coded racial appeal. The New York Times’ Tom Edsall writes that “the Romney campaign is clearly determined ‘to make this about’ race, in the tradition of the notorious 1988 Republican Willie Horton ad.”
Romney’s inaccurate claims about Obama’s welfare policy have been on heavy rotation in campaign ads.
Romney’s most recent comments intensify his strategy by explicitly claiming Obama’s core supporters are on public assistance and lazy. Last week, Romney “joked” about Obama’s birth certificate. The New York Times reported that Romney has decided to adopt a “more combative” strategy designed “to appeal to white, working-class voters.”
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney “supported the same waiver program he is now criticizing.”
Feisty debate on accuracy of Romney ads claiming Obama has weakened "work requirement" for welfare. Matthews asks--why bring up welfare in this campaign? And why focus on a claim about the Obama administration that is patently false?
In a high profile interview in USA Today, Mitt Romney accused President Obama of gutting the welfare work requirements to “shore up his base.”
The Romney campaign’s attacks on Obama’s welfare policy have come under attack because they are false and seen by some a coded racial appeal. The New York Times’ Tom Edsall writes that “the Romney campaign is clearly determined ‘to make this about’ race, in the tradition of the notorious 1988 Republican Willie Horton ad.”
Romney’s inaccurate claims about Obama’s welfare policy have been on heavy rotation in campaign ads.
Romney’s most recent comments intensify his strategy by explicitly claiming Obama’s core supporters are on public assistance and lazy. Last week, Romney “joked” about Obama’s birth certificate. The New York Times reported that Romney has decided to adopt a “more combative” strategy designed “to appeal to white, working-class voters.”
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney “supported the same waiver program he is now criticizing.”
THANK YOU sweetIrma, YOU BACK...........i am INSPIRED..............
i am not a fan of liberals fighting the battles that 'others' need to do for SELF
chris is a nice guy, and he knows his 'people'; his 'family'
--- what he needs to do is fight mormonism and give the true history of this slaverAmericana paganThought that WAS born ---- to justify Slavery, DeHumanization of non'Whites' and the paganChristian American Ideas of 1800 USA................
-- EVERY american already knows---'black/welfare/buck/lazy/urban/angry/notAmerican/willie/bubba' are synonyms..............
thats The Job of those that received the "CHANGE that we were looking for"
we already know that President Baraka Hussein Obama was given the job --- like most of us have finally been given jobs we were qualified for --- when the 'white' Americans had made a mess and want to blame it on the 'black' guy or the 'mexican' guy.....
chris do NOT upset the suburban white woman, UPSET your BROTHER...............!