Romney Out-Hustling Obama on the Campaign Trail......Yep, lazy and shiftless....

Romney Out-Hustling Obama on the Campaign Trail

by Keith Koffler on October 19, 2012, 8:28 am

Gov. Mitt Romney is spending far more time campaigning than President Obama, staging 16 campaign rallies and speeches compared to only 9 by Obama so far this month, according to a White House Dossier analysis of their schedules.
Obama had held only six events through October 16. With his recent decline in the polls, the president is suddenly making up for lost time, holding three events in the last two days. He is appearing at another today in Fairfax, Virginia. Romney holds a rally this evening with running mate Paul Ryan.
Obama has been off the campaign trail a total of about a week this month preparing for the first two debates, with mixed results. He flopped in the first debate after three days of study.
The figures are for traditional campaigning and do not include fundraisers done by the candidates.
Romney’s campaign travel has focused intensely on two swing states – Virginia and Ohio. Eleven of his sixteen appearances have been in one of the two, with seven stops in Virginia and four in the Buckeye State.
Obama also has focused on the two states, making three appearances in Ohio and two in Virginia.
Both candidates have also been to Colorado, Iowa and Florida. Obama has not held a rally this month in North Carolina, the state where he held his convention but which appears to be slipping from his grasp, while Romney was there Oct. 11. Obama has been to New Hampshire and Wisconsin this month for rallies, but Romney has not.
Obama is approaching his reelection very differently than George W. Bush did eight years ago. Bush barnstormed the nation in October 2004, holding nearly 30 rallies between the first of the month and the eighteenth. Bush also made two appearances for other GOP candidates and held a brief impromptu question and answer session with reporters.
Unlike Obama and Romney, Bush continued to campaign in the days leading up to his debates with Sen. John Kerry.

Romney Out-Hustling Obama on the Campaign Trail

by Keith Koffler on October 19, 2012, 8:28 am Originally Posted by ChoomCzar

Since I had never heard of Keith Koffler, my first reaction was that it was another Marshy alias. I then thought just maybe Keith Koffler was a real person. With that thought in mind, I did a search and the first listing on the Yahoo search engine for Keith Koffler produced the following MediaMatters article.

Prior to producing the article, I first want to personally thank Marshy, errrrrr Choom for putting Keith Koffler into our lives. Thanks Marshy, errrrrrr Choom!

Then again, perhaps my first reaction was accurate. Keith Koffler is just another Marshy alias!



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Keith Koffler, author of a spectacularly inane Politico column earlier this month, is inexplicably granted additional op-ed space by Politico, with which he peddles the absurd it's-Obama's-fault-people-falsely-believe-he's-Muslim meme.

• Most of Koffler's reasons for blaming Obama are tired and lame. It is unclear why Politico would deem observations such as these worthy of publication: "Other actions confuse, like the deep and natural-looking bow he took before the Saudi ruler" and "When Obama fails to provide some type of public Christian narrative, he can expect it to be filled for him by others."
  Others are worse, such as this blatant falsehood:

  It is understandable if some are unsure about his Christianity or just don't know. The president almost never does what the overwhelming majority of the faithful do: attend church. He's more likely to be in a sand trap than a pew on Sunday mornings.
  

  Nope. Not true. According to Pew, 89 percent of Americans are people of faith, and according to Gallup, only 43 percent of Americans are frequent churchgoers. As you may have noticed, 43 is not an "overwhelming majority" of 89. In fact, it is not a majority at all. Most Americans of faith do not attend church frequently.
  [I]Let's go ahead and say that again: Like Barack Obama, most Americans of faith do not attend church frequently.
  Or, put another way: There is nothing noteworthy about Barack Obama's infrequent church attendance, particularly in light of the fact that frequent church attendance is not the norm among Americans in general or American presidents in particular. (Not to mention the fact that the President, like all other Americans, is under no obligation to attend church.) So, maybe the media could stop making note of it?