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Barack Obama is a Murderer

Using Priorities USA's Ridiculous Logic Leads to No Other Conclusion

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 8th, 2012 at 04:46 AM  | 

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The Obama supporting Super PAC Priorities USA yesterday introduced us to Joe Soptic. Mitt Romney killed his wife. Except it is complete and utter crap.

Mitt Romney and Bain Capital bought GST Steel at some point. Romney left day to day operations of Bain in 1999. Thereafter, Bain offered Joe Soptic a buy out and he refused. Eventually the steel plant went out of business and Joe went on the unemployment line. That happened in 2001.

In 2002 or 2003, Mrs. Soptic injured her rotator cuff and left her job. She lost her insurance. In 2006, she was diagnosed with cancer and died a few days later. It is a terrible tragedy that Mitt Romney had nothing to do with.

It seems Mr. Soptic chose poorly on the buy out offer, lost his job, and would prefer to blame Mitt Romney than anyone else. Priorities USA has set a new standard — Mitt Romney killed a woman, despite being removed from both time of death and decision making.

We need far less than the convoluted logic of Priorities USA to conclude that Barack Obama is a murderer.

He is covered in Brian Terry’s blood.

Brian Terry was a border patrol agent.

Barack Obama’s Administration — while Obama was serving as President — started Operation Fast and Furious. An American fire arms dealer, working with the Obama Administration, sold a fire arm to a Mexican gun runner who took the gun into Mexico to use in the ongoing drug/civil war.

That gun came back across the border in the hands of someone who used it to kill Brian Terry.

There is a much more direct link between Barack Obama and Brian Terry’s murder than between Mitt Romney and Ilyona Soptic’s death from cancer.

If we are playing by Priorities USA’s rules, from here on out we can refer to Barack Obama as a murderer, considering his administration made the decisions that led to Brian Terry’s murder at a time period when Barack Obama was still on the job.

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  • rickey5825

    Not only is Obama a murderer but a liar too!He has covered up the operation,denied it happened,pointed fingers at Bush,and now asserted executive privilege!He and his cronies are a cancer that we can not excise soon enough!

  • From ME to You

    However “contortional and convolutional argumentation” is a specialty!

  • momtothreebeagles

    Jaime Zapata’s as well. Lest we forget.

  • clamdigger53

    Well played priorities USA,another shell game morning where the RED media blocks a shot at our FAILURE & CHIEF !

  • noveldog9

    The Democrat Party is very good at certain things. One is lying, another is buying votes, yet another is raising taxes and spending. This last one is even greater. They are highly skilled at casting the blame for their failures on someone else. Obama sounds like their jackass mascot braying, “It he fault, he fault, he fault.”

    Obama keeps the poor that way on purpose,. He now says they need not look for a job in order to draw welfare money. If they vote, then they will surely vote for him and his cronies. He approved homosexually marriage defying God and all that is moral. He condones abortion and has convinced the murders of the world that it is alright to do so.

    If he is not the anti -Christ he sure could be his stand in until he comes. The bottom line is he is evil clear through and the Liberal News Media knows this, but condones his conduct. It is little wonder that our country is in debt. He has driven us deeper in debt than all the former presidents put together.

    Unless we send him packing this country will soon be a has been and no longer a great power. You are witnessing the fall of a nation aided by the destructive hands of Barack Hussein Obama our worse enemy! There have been none greater!

  • trutexan

    I would bet the steel company went out of business because Democrat Union operatives had employee financial demands that were unsustainable, the liberal Environmental Wackos regulated the plant out of business, and the business tax rate put in place by Democrats made keeping a profitable business model a far-fetched dream. Bain didn’t step in because the company was in good shape to start with.

  • emptybucket

    absolutely nothing.

    I was unaware that Mrs. Soptic died so quickly after her cancer was found. Hope some medical people comment. What would insurance have done at that point? What would the medical field have been able to do?

    The lying and story telling going on will left out any specific details as then the Truth of the matter will show.

    Biden last week, now someone leaking a whispered Obama remark, blame Bush, blame Romney….does the Left ever plan on campaigning on Obama’s accomplishments?? Ha

  • remnov

    For putting on the front page exactly what I was screaming at the TV and my poor husband when I saw this ad.

    Waiting for a Brian Terry was murdered by this administration ad from Crossroads. Looking at you Rove…

    And this is not even Chicago style slander. It’s the truth.

    God bless Brian Terry and his family.

  • veritaseequitas

    by the left? I wonder if the American people are realizing they are being duped by the left?
    I find it interesting that Mrs. Joe was the one with the insurance after Joe got laid off. She was the one who left her job and subsequently lost her insurance. Not him.
    Why didn’t she have surgery for her rotator cuff problem so she could remain employed? We have FMLA that would have protected her job while she was on leave and recovering from the surgery. Did she injure rotator cuff on the job? We have Worker’s Compensation benefits that would have covered her treatment and paid a portion of her wages until she was fully recovered. If she didn’t fully recover, there is a remedy in terms of her being provided with another comparable position. COBRA would have been available to her once she left her job so she could have retained her health care coverage for 18 months.
    These ads are specifically designed to hit people in their emotional gut. If the knee jerk portion of America would stop and think things through, they would have a better chance of not being hoodwinked by Comrade Obama and his posse.

  • babykaboomer

    should be met forcefully with the demand for the release of all the incriminating Fast and Furious documents hidden from the public by executive privilege. A few images of Brian Terry, AK-47s and blood-stained sand would get the message across. Maybe a photo of a grinning Obama in blood-drenched clothes, as well. Why not? Go bare-knuckles, Mitt!

  • renny

    before and after the factm for conspiracy, and for obstruction of justice in Fast and Furious (Murdergate).

  • http://www.ajharaldson.com lakeworthcane

    Are these people completely beyond any sense of shame?

    I have to wonder if at some point Obama’s voting consituency will forget about “winning at all costs” and look at their candidate and where he’s leading them; if, at some point, even leftist voters will simply become sickened by the volume and stench of the sheer filth Obama’s re-election team is pumping out.

    When will the American political left step up and chastise Obama and Axelrod for sullying the landscape of public discourse with every and any kind of slimy, unethical mistruth and dirty trick their low-class, characterless minds can conjure?

    These people point their moral fingers incessantly. Are they even capable of looking at themselves and admitting that they’re the ones who’ve removed morality, dignity and humanity from the political landscape; are they capable of admitting that their candidate hasn’t the moral fortitude befitting the presidency? Are they capable of admitting that if they only way they can compete is by delving into the slimiest, most immoral of tactics and techniques–that if they cannot compete based on solid accomplishments and values–that they should back out of the competition and rethink themselves?

    I admire Romney for refusing to engage Obama in his crap-slinging, and I can only hope, for the country’s sake, that Obama’s voters come around and reject the man: wake up and realize that he’s simply too low class to represent this nation; he’s simply not the kind of person we want as our president.

    The more he campaigns, the more Obama exposes himself as a man completely and utterly without morals, class or dignity: a man who will do anything, who is capable of anything, no matter how dehumanizing, unethical or immoral, to achieve his ends.

    Ultimately, it’s Obama’s own constituents who will have to draw the line; who will have to say to him, “No! You’ve gone too far,” and abandon him.

    It’s the same way with a drug addict or a drunk. The more others try to stop them from their destructive habits, the more slimy and underhanded they become to continue. They have to “hit bottom” and realize, on their own, that they’ve gone too far; that they’ve spun out of control and are destroying themselves and everyone in their lives.

    I hope the American political left “hits bottom” soon and realizes that they’re candidate is going too far with his desire for control, and he’s destroying the moral fabric of our nation just to control it.

  • http://www.ajharaldson.com lakeworthcane

    “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the tastes of the American public.”

    Obama is proof of that.

  • amr

    I suggest that the failure of Mr. Obama to remedy the failed Army MEDEVAC policy has caused numerous deaths of soldiers. While the Army refuses to arm MEDEVAC helicopters, as has the Marines, Air Force and the Brits, rescues of soldiers require an armed escort helicopter, which pulls the escort from ground forces support missions and delays the MEDEVAC missions. And the policy will not allow Army wounded to be MEDEVACed by other services. Congressional members, Michael Yon, a photo journalist who broke this story, and veterans like me have went ballistic over this policy, but Mr. Obama has not changed the policy and soldiers continue to die because of it. Of course the MSM has ignored it and evn FNC.

  • funwithknives

    Card-Carrying American Progressives are beyond any sense of shame.
    The Proof is in what/who they choose as so-called “Leaders” :
    *Princess Nancy, The First
    *Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Queen of the Woeful Countenance.
    *Joe {Bazinga} Biden, Court Jester, and Comic Relief Appointee
    * and lastly, Barry/Barack H D S Obama, King of Empty Vessels, and Shape Shifter Extrordinaire.

    …and as far as trying to get Morals and Progressives in the same paragraph, you’re just toying with us , aren’t-cha?

  • wlcjr

    that it was progressive tax policies which resulted in companies offering health insurance benefits as opposed to higher pay to begin with. Losing insurance coverage when you lose your job is an unintended consequence of progressive taxation policies. Which candidate wants to increase the progressiveness of the tax laws?

  • streiff

    AFAIK no one but Michael Yon believes that to be the case,. And stop the threadjack. Now.

  • spinoneone

    I want to see Barry Soetoro’s college grades and his attendance records. Oh, and who paid for his time at Occidental, Colombia, and Harvard? Did he go as a foreign exchange student? Did he use his Indonesian passport as a passport to higher education? Were all of his grades “gentleman’s A?” What is so threatening about his college days that he issued an Executive Order on January 21, 2009, making them a national security secret??? I suspect that Mitt could instantly erase all the talk about the Romney income tax issues with a forceful ad demanding the Soetoro/Obama college transcripts and admission records.

  • skorrent1

    Who lost his job in 2001 and still had no new job (with family coverage) in 2006!! (Remember the mid-2000′s, with unemployment around 4-5%?) And this is Romney’s fault?? Mrs Joe quit work in 2003. If she were completely disabled, she could have been on SS disability in 6 months and covered by Medicare by the end of 2004,when COBRA ran out. She had no insurance in 2006, and that was Romney’s fault?

    The Obama campaign thought they had a “twofer” with this ad: “Bain fired this man and his wife died for lack of Obamacare.” They flunk on both counts.

  • Tbone

    They have been slowing killing us for years and now, as the Party has been totally usurped by hardcore, leftwing socialists/Marxists, it is killing us at an increasing rate.

  • westcoastpatriette

    from practicing law. Just what did they do to lose their law licenses?

  • rrpjr

    When does Romney fight back? Or does he ever? Does it matter?

    This could have and should have been seen coming miles away. It’s the Left. And it’s only going to get worse. When do RINOs figure this out? Or can they even? Is recognition of the Left simply too traumatic for RINOs as it would force them into regions of thought and action — to the realm of the bogeyman — confined to conservatives? Romney’s first instinct was to destroy — annihilate without mercy — every conservative in the primaries. But now he doesn’t know how to react against the existential terrorism of the Left. Part of me is laughing. Time to grow up, Mitt. This is your reckoning. Face it or lose it.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    as did Stephanie Guttertrash on CNN. Neither were successful, you know you have gone over the line when ultra liberals like Sam Stein and Mark Halperin can’t find it in their guts to spin it for you.

  • darl444

    Texan for U.S. Senate

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Mexican-American – you family member who got shot or terrorized by the Mexican Drug Cartels – it’s Barack Obama’s fault…

  • irishgirl

    if you listen to his phone interview with CNN, this guy is simply a bitter man because he lost a good job after 30 years and then probably went through some harsh financial times with his wife’s illness (through some of their own bad choices). He makes it pretty clear he’s envious that Romney is a rich man and he’s not.
    Those are some excellent points you make.

  • msctex

    If something bad is coming your way, blame the other guy of something worse, so it will seem as though he is attacking in response, as opposed to attacking from a position of true strength.

    Purely pragmatic, utterly amoral thinking. And also quite possibly a sign they know something re F&F is about to break. But we would be remiss not to note this particular example is almost indescribably pathetic. Makes LBJ seem positively thoughtful. Hard to believe we have a few more months for them to get even more. . .creative.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Anyone blaming an employer from 5 years prior for lack of medical care is nuts. These guys havent thought it through – if you can blame people who take actions that lead to you losing your job, doesnt that make Obama on the hook for the 26 million long-term unemployed, and all their aches and pains and sufferings and lost homes etc.?

    All the character assassination attacks are based on the same “whatever-it-takes” mentality from the Obama campaign. Obama is desperate and is not a nice person at all. His thuggish campaign will roll on.

    Romney will have to take the gloves off and point out what a thug and not-nice person Obama is.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    I’ts not F&F … it’s the UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Note they are blaming Romney for a LAYOFF.

    Since we have more long-term unemployed under Obama than in an entire generation, we could see millions of these ads – over 20 million. Obama is indifferent to the suffering of millions of americans – ” he is to blame for my wife’s medical troubles because the stress of my layoff under Obama made things worse without a job, and Obama doesnt care” … you can write that ad a million times.

    … MAYBE ITS TIME WE RAN A FEW LIKE THAT.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Over at The Hill:
    http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/242701-obama-should-demand-priorities-usa-pull-its-ad-suggesting-romney-and-bain-killed-a-woman

  • spolson

    like democrats and liberals think of what they would like to be said about someone and make up the story to fit it. Their so called truth squads make up the truths as they need them.

    The problem is people tend to believe what they hear. It worked for Hitler, Stalin, and countless despots. It should be completely obvious to anyone with limited intelligence that Obama and his cronies are a complete failure. Know nothing about this country, care nothing about this country, and know nothing about the world. Obama has a third world mentality and thinks America is evil and the reason why things go wrong. He is hands down the worst president in recent memory, an embarrassment to Black people and a bold faced liar. He says we should be thanking him. Well He owes us an apology.

  • teaforme2012

    By the time this woman died, Mitt had already retroactively retired from Bain. He had nothing to do with the plight of this family. This guy Joe Soptic says he doubts Mitt cared. Why should he? It was years later. He’d already sold the company. What’s he supposed to do, use his profits from the sale to pay all the employees who didn’t accept buyouts?

    There are winners and losers in this game. The Obama campaign is going to drag every loser in front of the camera to talk about how big bad Bain drove these companies into bankruptcy and collected millions in fees. That’s called brains, Mr. Soptic. Had you worked as hard as Mitt Romney, maybe you could attend a school like Harvard and figured out how to legally profit in capitalism. Instead, you probably attended some third rate college, if any college at all, and you weren’t happy with your lot in “working for the man.”

    Lesson: Be the man in your next life, work a little harder, and quit blaming capitalism for your wife’s death. And Obama should be ashamed for this ad.

  • bbfmail

    FROM: BlackAgendaReports.com….

    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

    ?Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared like ghoulish despots at a Roman Coliseum, reveling in their Libyan gladiators? butchery.?

    Last week the whole world saw, and every decent soul recoiled, at the true face of NATO?s answer to the Arab Spring. An elderly, helpless prisoner struggled to maintain his dignity in a screaming swirl of savages, one of whom thrusts a knife [4] up his rectum. These are Europe and America?s jihadis in the flesh. In a few minutes of joyously recorded bestiality, the rabid pack undid every carefully packaged image of NATO?s ?humanitarian? project in North Africa ? a horror and revelation indelibly imprinted on the global consciousness by the brutes? own cell phones.

    Nearly eight months of incessant bombing by the air forces of nations that account for 70 percent of the world?s weapons spending, all culminating in the gang-bang slaughter of Moammar Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and his military chief of staff, outside Sirte. The NATO-armed bands then displayed the battered corpses for days in Misurata ? the city that had earlier made good on its vow to ?purge Black skin? through the massacre and dispersal of 30,000 darker residents of nearby Tawurgha ? before disposing of the bodies in an unknown location.

  • Joshua Persons

    I’ve never heard that claim. I’d be very interested to see more information on this.

  • CrabCakes

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp

  • rightlane1111

    Listened to Levin last night. He made the point that if Obama was going to make this ridiculous statement that Romney killed a woman after he had already left the company, than he would apply the same standard to Obama. He then went on to state that Obama’s cafe standards have killed many people, the EPA had killed many people…and on he went with various committees within the Obama Administration.

    Obama is getting desperate and will throw anything at the wall and hopes that it will stick.

    While some on this board may not agree with Palin…I will say this, it seems that Obama’s mathematical equations administered through Sebelius (sp)…will have many people 75 and older wondering if someone has issued their death warrant with Obamacare. The government will allow procedures to take place according to a person’s age. No procedure..well, I guess you could call that murder..or at the very least…”playing God”.

    Oh…and let’s not forget this…Obama promotes abortion…even post birth abortion…and that is murder. So..as far as I am concerned…this was NOT THE SUBJECT for Obama to accuse Romney of…because his hands…and Holder’s are too dirty.

  • cwfoster

    nasn’t the guts to BE President if he doesn’t run a counter ad giving the refutation, and pointing out the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is GUILTY of ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT of CAPITOL MUDER! They put the weapons in the hands of those who murdered Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata! I for one hope that the day Air Force One takes Obama on his last ride to Chicago, it’s met at the gate by Law Enforcement Agents from Arizona with extradition paperwork to get him to go answer to a Grand Jury for Brian Terry’s murder!

  • duncer

    Obama is not just responsible for Terry’s death but is an accessory before and after the fact in about 200 murders in Mexico.

  • http://www.periodictablet.com superamerican

    While Brian Terry might be an unproven stretch, President Obama has confessed to murder. He carefully selects innocent (until proven guilty by a court of law or collaterially-damaged/killed non-combatants) human beings for his drones to kill. He proudly announced these actions (as a way to prove his man-hood, I suppose.)

    (Why there isn’t a huge uproar about this innocent killings I can’t comprehend. Especially after he and his ilk denounced President Bush for the relative benign waterboarding and threatened his administration with lawsuits and jail.)

    President Obama is a murderer.

    (The fact that he is a hypocrite is beside the point.)

  • PowerToThePeople

    are not entitled to a trial and in way there will always be “innocent civilians” killed.

    But thanks for playing.

    I do not like Obama, but the drones are a justified part of war. We do not hug in a war, we kill. You raise arms against us, you die. Simple as that.

  • http://www.redstate.com/wp-admin/user/profile.php docfreeman

    You remember the deal with Truth In Advertising? Well I think we need the Truth in Campaign Ads that if found untrue or has stretched the truth so badly out of shape that whoever made the ad, approved the ad, and any station that plays the ad should be expected to pay a fine of $1 Million Dollars every time it is shown. I think this would stop all this nonsense.

  • Bill S

    Nice town.

    ;-)

  • PowerToThePeople

    Used to go there every winter to visit my granduncle after visiting my grandfather in Cerro Gordo and aunt in Chicago. Loved every place I visited,

    Trips stopped to Champaign after my granduncle walked into the woods in his backyard and ate a bullet.

    Small world!

  • redley

    This article reminds me of the old Dallas show, where everyone is gossipping about everyone else in town. What a drag!

    Obama has sown himself into a corner and the only way he can see how to climb back ontop of the crap pile is to distort Romney’s character.

    Obama has “NO” character. One thing I can say about him is that he is a True Democrat. Democrats are not able to connect the times with the truth, but they are good at distorting and spinning real facts.

    This blundering, witherheaded, Marxist, Communist, Socialist pig of a person president needs to go. Now would not be too soon!

    I pray we can look back on Obama’s term in office as a very big mistake and that We The People will never make this mistake again by allowing a person to come into the office of President when he/she has not been vetted.

    How did Obama get in, anyway? How could a person like him slip right by our noses. Nobody took the time to check him out. NOT every the GOP. They were too busy to care. Too busy to do their jobs, but they sure like getting paid for what they don’t do.

    I can tell you that my head won’t be under the sand pile again. WE have to watch our members in office, because if we don’t, they will take advantage of us. Sorry it has to be that way. We would have thought we could T T T T T Trust the elected people we placed in office.

    Many Republicans have used their time in office to gain prosperity for themselves. They went into office without much but a record and along the way they got rich. SICK!

  • texasref

    With guys like these running things in Washington, we really need to win the presidency and the senate!

  • Viet71

    Obama is a killer?

    I care about the last 3.5 years.

  • blueprint88

    People I hope team Romney has a plan. Look everyone in the establishment right was scared to death that the crazy conservatives of the primaries were going to turn of Independamts. Well they are either spot on or dead wrong.

    If this Obama slash and burn campaign does not turn off the Indies then I don’t know what could. Do some research on the nasty campaigns of the distant past and you will see this stuff was done before and it didn’t work.

    Alexrod thinks this will work because he pulled it off in the pastin IL. Well there are a few problems with it workin now.

    1. Obama has a record he is running from when always before he was a nobody with no record.

    2. This ain’t Kansas (IL) Dorthy and IL is used to dirty tricks and corrupt democrats always winning. It won’t work on a nationwide scale.

    3. His previous opponents didn’t have the money to wage a true campaign and fight back.

    4. I agree with previous poster in that the voting left must rebuke this behavior and I predict they will. This claptrap is not energizing anyone and in the end I predict it will suppress democratic turnout more than anything else.

    If team Romney is worth their salt they are just letting this play out and wear out. Many voters aren’t even engaged. It’s already reached this level of absurdity so it will only get worse. I see it as laying a trap or even giving Obama enough rope to hang himself. Expect team Romney to energies the base at the convention and then come out after with the clear economic advantage and start firing away. I hope to god they are just holding there fire….Obamad wad will be spent and our salvo will be aggressively fired in Sept and October when it matters. Look at Mitts primary strategy. He let his opponents define themselves and then started pouncing in FL and ran away with it. Does this sound plausible to anyone but me here?

  • 6eorge Jetson

    The tens of thousands Obama has effected with his economic policies is a statistic.

  • trutexan

    Thanks!