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"Bigoted" To Call Obama Unintelligent or Lazy

Summers Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 7:38 AM
I realize that. I am simply far beyond the mood to say that I will entertain any more excuse making without calling it as I see it. Both Obama and Romney are in over their heads. It is a war of egos, not competence. Both lie. Both are lost balls in tall grass.

On Chris Matthews' weekend talk show, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell and Time Magazine's Joe Klein teamed up to insulate President Obama from attack, insinuating that questioning the President's intelligence and work ethic in the wake of a lackluster debate performance is racist.

First up, Andrea Mitchell recounted an exchange she had with Romney campaign co-chair John Sununu in which Sununu said Obama "revealed his incompetence, how lazy and detached he is, and how he has absolutely no idea how serious the economic problems of the country are."

Mitchell said she...

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