Mitt Romney was booed on Wednesday at the NAACP for vowing to repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“I will reduce government spending,” Romney told the civil rights group during an address at their national convention in Houston. “Our high level of debt slows GDP growth and that means fewer jobs. If our goal is jobs, we must, must stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we earn. To do this, I will eliminate expensive non-essential programs like ObamaCare.”
The remark drew a chorus of “boos” from the crowd. He paused to acknowledge them, and then deviated from his prepared remarks to double down on his pledge to repeal the legislation.
“I say again, if our priority is jobs, and that’s my priority, that’s something I’d change,” Romney said, referring to a study indicating that the legislation makes employers less likely to hire.
“You know, there was a survey of the Chamber of Commerce. They carried out a survey of their members, about 1,500 surveyed. They asked them what effect that ‘ObamaCare’ would have on their plans, and three quarters of them said that it made them less likely to hire people.”
“I’d replace with something that provides to people something that they need in healthcare, which is lower cost, good quality, a capacity to deal with people who have pre-existing conditions, and I’ll put that in place,” he promised. “And I know the president will say he’s going to do those things, but he has not, he will not, he cannot, and his last four years in the White House prove it definitively.”
Obama carried the black vote in a landslide in 2008 and leads Romney 92 percent to 2 among black voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Romney acknowledged the historic nature of Obama’s 2008 campaign, in which he became the country’s first black president, but also made the case for his own candidacy, saying the president’s policies have made things worse for African-Americans “in almost every way.”
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone,” Romney said. “Instead, it’s worse for African-Americans in almost every way. The unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income and median family wealth are all worse for the black community.”
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That’s because they are too ignorant to understand that for the NAALCP, OblameO has been their WORST nightmare.
These people understand the details of Obama-care, like the protesters against draft in E”Y, understand the words of, Moshe Rab., “Your brothers will come to battle and you’ll sit here?”
They understand perfectly well. It is Romney who is out of touch with reality.