Ooh! An all-caps “breaking” alert from the Associated Press. Why? Because President Obama said opponent Mitt Romney has “extreme positions.” AP chief White House correspondent Ben Feller tweeted this snippet from his interview with the president.
In interview, Obama tells me Romney has signed up for 'extreme positions' whether he 'actually believes' in them or not.
— Ben Feller (@BenFellerNY) August 25, 2012
Sure thing. The People’s Republic of Massachusetts elected a Republican extremist. That’s completely plausible.
Obama's blathering about Mitt being extreme has got to be a messaging dud. No one looks at Mitt and thinks "that guy's extreme".
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) August 25, 2012
Calling someone extreme without anything to back it up is what we like to call “pulling a Meggie Mac.” Conservative Twitterers think the president doth project too much.
Aww, Obama's projecting again MT @BretBaier: RT @AP Obama tells AP Romney holds extreme positions, will follow through on them if he wins
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) August 25, 2012
It takes audacios amounts of hutzpah for one as radical as "fudamentally transform America" Obama to to say Romney takes extreme postions.
— Dan Spencer (@cayankee) August 25, 2012
Somehow — somehow — the right side of the Twitterverse managed to come up with examples of Obama’s “extreme positions.”
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Hey @BarackObama, your party thinks minorities are too stupid to acquire a photo ID to vote. Tell me more about Romney's extremism
— Demetrius Minor (@dminor85) August 25, 2012
Ayers Khalidi MT @sunnyright: Pres Barack "20 Years n Church of Jeremiah Wright" Obama says Mitt Romney holds extreme views Film at 11 #tcot
— BarbaraMcMahon((?)) (@southsalem) August 25, 2012
#ObamaExtremism picking Sandra Fluke to appeal to women voters
— Demetrius Minor (@dminor85) August 25, 2012
Appointing as his "green jobs czar" Van Jones, an admitted communist and 9/11 Truther. #ObamaExtremism
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) August 25, 2012
Reminder: it wasn’t Mitt Romney who voted against saving the lives of babies who survive abortion attempts when they don’t “come out limp and dead.”
#ObamaExtremism Doesn't believe infants who survive abortions deserve legal protection or medical care.
— Andrew Bair (@ProLifePolitics) August 25, 2012
https://twitter.com/matthanafin/status/239368543358054400
Saying he doesn't want his daughters "punished with a baby". #ObamaExtremism
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) August 25, 2012
https://twitter.com/CShields1992/status/239385211777982464
#ObamaExtremism He believes that a baby is still a fetus after its born, but thinks a 26 year old is only a child!
— Stephen Zieman (@StephenZieman) August 25, 2012
https://twitter.com/matthanafin/status/239408806050811904
Perhaps a president who occupies a glass White House shouldn’t throw stones.
https://twitter.com/kesgardner/statuses/239404768647323648
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Full transcript of the AP interview with Obama:
Full interview transcript: http://t.co/AKyoJsBr
— Ben Feller (@BenFellerNY) August 25, 2012