At a campaign rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. on Friday President Barack Obama accused his opponent Mitt Romney of “side-stepping” and “forgetting” his position on a wide range of issues affecting women, saying the GOP presidential candidate had developed a condition known as “Romnesia.”
“Mr. ‘Severely Conservative’ wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year,” the President claimed.
Obama said he isn’t a doctor, but wanted to tell the crowd the symptoms of Romnesia “to make sure nobody else catches it.”
“If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care, you might have a case of Romnesia. If you say you’ll protect a woman’s right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that you’d be delighted to sign a law outlying – outlawing that right to choose in all cases – man, you’ve definitely got Romnesia,” the President said, bursting into laughter.
As the President described the signs of Romnesia, he grew more and more animated, feeding off the energy of the crowd, which was eating up his “diagnosis.” By the time he got to the climax of his Romneisa joke, the President was not only laughing but also shouting as he announced the “good news” about Romnesia.
“And if you come down with a case of Romnesia, and you can’t seem to remember the policies that are still on your website or the promises you’ve made over the six years you’ve been running for President, here’s the good news: Obamacare covers preexisting conditions,” Obama yelled.
“We can fix you up!
“We’ve got a cure!
“We can make you well, Virginia!
“This is a curable disease!” the President continued.
Obama, who has made women the focus of his campaign since Romney’s “binders full of women” comment from Tuesday debate, was introduced at the rally by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. Earlier in the speech Obama hit Romney for saying he would defund Planned Parenthood and claimed that Romney is trying to offer women a “sketchy deal.”
Romney has never said or suggested that he wants to stop women from having access to contraception, but that didn’t stop Obama from repeatedly insinuating that’s exactly what the Republican candidate for President would do if elected.
“Gov. Romney wants to take us back to policies more suited for the 1950s. Even his own running mate said he’s ‘kind of a throwback to the ‘50s’,” Obama claimed. “He may not have noticed we’re in the 21st century.”
According to a Rasmussen poll released Friday, the former Massachusetts Governor now leads the President 50 percent to 47 percent in the Old Dominion with only two percent of voters remaining undecided. And for the first time in the race, news and polling website Real Clear Politics also has Romney beating Obama in electoral votes 206 – 201 with 131 electoral votes listed as toss-ups.
Watch OFA’s video of Obama’s Romnesia remarks below.
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The whole Republican Party has Romnesia.
Like when they cried about that healthcare mandate?
That evil, evil individual mandate. From where could such a terrible, senseless idea arise? Deep breath. The Heritage Foundation. Yes, a conservative think-tank. And who would ever adopt such a terrible principle in practice? Deeper breath. Mitt Romney.
Please…the Republicans of today are the biggest fakes the world has ever known. Republicans don’t really care about spending. Republicans only care about money that we spend on education and healthcare (things that actually improve society)…..but spending three trillion dollars we borrow from China on unnecessary war in Iraq…..Halliburton, Karl Rove and Marx approved!!
4500 dead Americans and 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians’ deaths later and now Republicans care about “life”? I think not…..
They might be able to rouse the bigots and some religious zealots telling others who they can’t marry but the Republican policies of lowering taxes and deregulating have unequivocally failed all but maybe 5% of Americans.
Republicans don’t actually stand for anything, and funny thing is, no one asks them to. Especially their hacks in the payola media; the people who should be asking the hard questions but don’t because they want those Republican election dollars!
OK all you Mormons and other self proclaimed profits. Your days of lies and deceit, your days for dividing people are dwindling. What are you going to rejoice about when you get old? That you stopped the gays from getting married or serving with honor in our military for a few years?
Well than; Mission Accomplished.
If only backpedaling was an Olympic sport, then Romney might actually win something he deserved.
Well said Daniel!
Romnesia symptom: you look like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four but your only power is to stretch the truth
When you exaggerate your marathon time, you don’t have Romnesia, but your running mate does
When you insult the host country of the Olympics during a visit, you shouldn’t be traveling! You have Romnesia !
When you keep repeating, “Have you looked at your pension?” like a car alarm, you definitely have Romnesia
When you think putting a dog on the roof of a speeding car for 12 hours isn’t cruelty, you’ve got Romnesia
Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan to be his vice presidential
candidate. Mr. Ryan is new to the national scene, with
out-of-step views from a bygone era.
He’s known as the author of the extreme GOP budget; one that many say hurts the middle class, turns Medicare into a voucher system and cuts Pell Grants for college students by 170 billion—and cut off a million students over the next decade.
Even as it makes these dramatic cuts—it cuts taxes for the nation’s millionaires and billionaires.
What perhaps is the most important for the American public to understand are Paul Ryan’s views towards women. Paul Ryan voted at least four times to defund Planned Parenthood and helped sponsor anti-abortion legislation that used the term “forcible rape.”