Romney earns respect from conservatives for speech given to a hostile @NAACP
I’ve gotta admit – Mitt Romney won me over, just a little, with his speech yesterday (transcript) in front of the NAACP Convention.
Romney speaks to the NAACP
Am unable to watch or hear the speech Romney is giving the NAACP right now but I’m keeping up a bit via Seesmic on my phone. He is getting mostly boos, of course, and a few applause here and there. From the live tweets I’m seeing of it, it doesn’t sound like he’s pandering – which of course is a good thing – and did say he was going to repeal Obamacare, which brought about “sustained boos” from the crowd.
James Earl Jones: The Tea Party is “racist” & I “can’t get enough” of #MSDNC
Sigh. Yet another actor whose body of work I admire saying something completely ignorant about modern day politics that I sure as heck wish he kept to himself:
QOTD: Rep. Wasserman Schultz “pretty happy” about “private sector growth”
Not sure what’s worse here – the fact that she had the audacity to say it in the first place or the fact that she actually believes private sector job growth has been strong under President Obama: