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U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney pauses during his reaction to the Supreme Court's upholding key parts of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law during a rooftop news conference in Washington June 28, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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WASHINGTON | Sun Jul 1, 2012 10:48pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney needs a better campaign team if he wants to defeat President Barack Obama in the U.S. election in November, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said on a social media network on Sunday.

"Met Romney last week," Murdoch wrote on Twitter. "Tough O Chicago pols will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful."

Murdoch, a worldwide media mogul whose News Corp owns the Fox brand of TV networks and movie studios in the United States also tweeted, "US election is referendum on Obama, all else pretty minor."

A few days earlier, Murdoch wrote that Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, "Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn off Hispanics."

Recent public opinion polls give Obama a slight lead over Romney.

(Reporting By Charles Abbott; Editing by David Brunnstrom)
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flashrooster wrote:
Leave it to the head of the rightwing’s primary propaganda source to give Romney advice on how to beat Obama. How sad the entire Murdoch story is and how much it’s damaged our democracy. And he’s not even American. Ironically, there are probably more people in the US who think Rupert Murdoch is an American and our own President, thanks to Murdoch’s money making propaganda machine, FOX News. He will ultimately be one of the primary players in bringing about the end of democracy in America. And so many of the rightwing minions fill their vacuous heads with Murdoch’s misinformation and hatred for fellow Americans. A key player in the great American tragedy.

Jul 01, 2012 11:13pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
borisjimbo wrote:
And that’s all it’s really about with them, getting rid of Obama, not necessarily replacing him with anyone better. GOP politics of personal destruction at its finest.

Jul 01, 2012 11:34pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
flashrooster wrote:
The GOP has gotten where they aren’t making sense anymore. It’s become bazaar. They’ve nominated a man to run for President and his number one goal is to repeal a healthcare plan that he promoted and put into place in the state where he was governor. It’s friggin’ crazy. He stated that the mandate is a great idea. Now it’s the worst idea, and he’s unable to explain why it’s a great idea in Massachusetts but a terrible idea everywhere else.

When Bush was President he increased government spending more than anyone before him (far more than Obama has) while cutting taxes. In the middle of it all Cheney states that deficits don’t matter. No one on the right complains. But on the day Obama is sworn into office deficits become the ONLY thing that matters. They are out of control and can’t be trusted. They’ll do everything in their power to enable a billionaire to increase his astronomical wealth, but when a working man or woman needs help with healthcare, they will do everything possible to prevent it. It makes no sense.

We’ve become a culture of freaks. We believe in self-promotion at the expense of others. We’re the only industrialized nation who refuses to accept the fact that the world is growing warmer and that it poses a threat to the human race. So we do nothing. We’re heading toward a disaster. People on the right keep blaming everyone else for our country’s problems, failing to realize the obvious, that America has been moving to the right since Ronald Reagan was President. That also happens to correspond with the period when we began our descent from greatness. How do you get people to agree that the sky is blue when they are looking up into it and denying that it’s blue?

Jul 01, 2012 12:38am EDT  --  Report as abuse
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