Romney bus tour to visit New River, Roanoke valleys
A bus tour in support of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign will make four stops in the New River and Roanoke valleys on Tuesday
The Republican candidate himself will not be on hand, but the Romney Mobile HQ Bus will visit Wytheville, Dublin, Blacksburg and Roanoke as part of a “We did build it” swing through Southwest Virginia.
The Republican Party of Virginia notes the visits will “highlight the hard work, sacrifice and individual achievement of small business owners in the commonwealth.”
It’s part of a Republican push — including television commercials and a string of news conferences last week — to highlight a comment President Barack Obama made during a July 13 campaign stop in downtown Roanoke: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Most nonpartisan fact-checkers have noted that Obama was referring to the country’s infrastructure with his use of “that.” But his political opponents say it reflects a hostility toward business and entrepreneurs.
The Romney bus rallies will include voter registration and absentee ballot drives and remarks by local Republican politicians at these locations:
– 10 a.m., Wytheville, local headquarters, 275 W. Main St.
– 1 p.m., Dublin, Collector’s Showcase, 5635 Old Route 11.
– 3:30 p.m., Blacksburg, local headquarters, 215 Draper Road.
– 6 p.m., Roanoke County, local headquarters, 2706 Ogden Road.
— Brian Kelley
July 30, 2012 - 6:17 PM
“most non-partisan fact checkers”? In the interest of unbiased reporting, please cite these non-partisans so that we may check your assertion.
Who’s driving the bus—-David Koch or Karl Rove?
@1 Allan:
Here are three:
- PolitiFact
- Fact Checker
- FactCheck.org
– Mason Adams
I was at the President’s Roanoke speech and it was perfectly clear to me and friends with me that the reference was to our country’s infrastructure, including not only roads and bridges but also education and research. The President was speaking directly, no notes, no teleprompter, so it’s understandable that not every sentence was perfectly grammatical. The GOP attempt to paint this statement as some kind of un-American, collectivist attack on small business is pretty low, even by current standards.
When your entire campaign is focused on a mis-delivered remark, and a false attribution of sentiment, you are going down in flames. Is this truly all Romney has to offer this nation? Is that leadership in anyone’s eyes? This idea of anyone but Obama has people literally jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Hiring a fox to guard the henhouse has never been a winning strategy. As usual, the rest of the nation will have to save us from ourselves. God, I pray they are up for the challenge…again.
The “Romney Bus” — it’s just like Romney but doesn’t insult its hosts.
You mean like the ‘obama bus’ — which insulted Austrians?
Or the biden bu– err, train wreck which managed to insult Indians, people in wheelchairs, people who listen to the radio, people who work in coal, and people at the Villages??
@5- Really? Because all I hear about is what Rmoney did abroad. Bring on the debates.
I find it comical that you act as if Obama was spouting off statistics that need to be validated through some type of fact checking website or as if he was speaking some ancient language that could be interpreted in a thousand different ways. He was speaking English and telling us what he believes and how he thinks. Listen/read the whole speech, it’s not out of context it’s just a candid awful viewpoint that is being feebly defended by every Obama sick democrat out there.
Don’t try and explain to me what he meant by his speech. If that’s what he meant he should have said it the way you’re explaining. Chalk it up to “oops” and move on to something that doesn’t destroy your credibility.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/world/europe/poland-bristles-as-obama-says-polish-death-camps.html
What an idiot…
“When your entire campaign is focused on a mis-delivered remark, and a false attribution of sentiment, you are going down in flames”
You betcha! Rmoney is supposed to fail, why unseat a guy who’s done everything you wanted him to do?
And earlier today or yesterday Romney was mortified to hear Poles chanting for Obama during Romney’s visit.
They were chanting ‘NObama’, gdud.
#14 Unlike you, MMM, I think they’d come up with something original.