Arianna Huffington plans to vote Obama, might switch if Romney advocates Afghanistan pullout

[trailmonkee]

Source: The Daily Caller

TAMPA, Fla. — Arianna Huffington currently plans to vote for President Barack Obama in November. Huffington told The Daily Caller, however, that she has been disappointed by Obama’s first term and would consider voting for Mitt Romney if the Republican candidate advocates an end to U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.

“My vote does not depend on a particular party, like, I’m not reflexively voting a particular party, but I will vote for Obama,” Huffington told TheDC during a sit-down interview following an event about American entrepreneurs and job creators she hosted in Tampa on Wednesday.

Huffington reflected on her disappointment with Obama for campaigning on “bold ideas”, but instead governing as a “timid” president. And despite pledging her support to the president, Huffington said she wasn’t sure he would change for the better in a second term.

“I don’t know. I think, as I said on The Huffington Post, it’s Obama versus Obama as well as Obama versus Romney,” she said. “We don’t know whether the campaigning Obama of bold ideas or the governing Obama, who’s been much more timid, is going to be the second term Obama if he wins.”


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/29/arianna-huffington-plans-to-vote-obama-might-switch-if-romney-advocates-afghanistan-pullout/

[lillypaddle]

1. Fuck Arianna Huffington

and the horse she rode in on.

[freshwest]

6. That horse's name was Andrew Breitbart who helped her set up Huffpo.

Andrew Breitbart, the hyperactive, charming, and divisive creator of Big Government and its sister sites who died today at 43, also served as the link between two of the dominant media forces of the last decade: The Drudge Report, which he helped run for years, and Huffington Post, where he was present — briefly — at the creation.

Breitbart’s role as Drudge’s right hand is well known; less public was his brief, memorable stint as one of four partners in the Huffington Post in 2005. It’s a story that hasn’t been told in great detail, but BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who also co-founded the Huffington Post with the site’s namesake Arianna Huffington and media business figure Ken Lerer, recalled that period in an interview today.

Breitbart’s role later became contested — he brashly claimed total credit for “the plan,” which his former partners denied — but he was an unmissable presence in the Soho office that was for a time Huffington Post’s New York headquarters. There, for a month in the spring of 2005, he worked closely with Lerer (who is now Chairman of BuzzFeed), and Peretti, a graduate of MIT’s media lab, to launch the site...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/how-andrew-breitbart-helped-launch-huffington-post

[FarPoint]

10. Great update....

I never knew any of that......what a wicked web they weave.

[Odin2005]

43. HOLY SHIT! Why didn't we know of this before???

[2pooped2pop]

7. + 1000

Her site has been getting less and less pro dem and in some cases shows signs of foxlike GOP bursts of bullshit. Anyone that can change vote on one issue is not a democrat and not smart and certainly not deserving of ever visiting her site again.

I barely do now anyway since she sold out, but she looks like she is Arianna flip flopper. Used to be repiglican didn't she? Perhaps now she has enough money with what she ripped everyone else out of with that sale, and has hung around the pigs long enough that she wants to go home.

Go, you stupid bitch, go back to the pigs and wallow.

[freshwest]

24. She was GOP for a long time. And still is, probably. Don't be fooled, most media is GOP owned:

Arianna Huffington conservative Republican

Do you remember Arianna Huffington the conservative Republican? She and her husband Michael exploded on the political scene of the California Central Coast in 1992...

Unseating an incumbent cost millions and that was just the primary. Then there was the general election.

He spent $5.4 million, a national record, for a lot of negative television commercials, $5.1 million of his own oil fortune was poured into the race...

http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2008/09/arianna-huffington-conservative-republican/

Arianna Huffington Thinks Paul Ryan Is Like George Clooney

Arianna Huffington seemingly had a different opinion. According to the media mogul, Paul Ryan is more like Hollywood star George Clooney.

“He’s like, a bit of a heartthrob,” she explained, adding: “He also looks good without a shirt.”

She continued, adding a bit of criticism for the “heartthrob”: “When he’s next to Romney, Romney has a kind of twinkle in his eye. But here’s the problem– it’s a little bit…you know how you fall in love with a woman because she’s feisty, independent, has her own views…and then you get married, and immediately you want to turn her into a doormat. And that’s happened to Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan has become a doormat.”

Pardon the source, which is wing nut but the video which is from Bill Maher's Real Time segment, shows that the quote is accurate:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hear-why-arianna-huffington-thinks-paul-ryan-is-like-george-clooney/

I could beat this dead horse a while longer, but no, I tell people there really is no liberal media. Just a few crumbs tossed to keep us swallowing subliminally the Reich wing message. Which is always that we and our views are weak, unwanted and we are the minority in the country. Not true.

[cosmicone]

25. If Willard was good at pulling out

he wouldn't have this many children ...

[freshwest]

33. Your reply has nothing to do with my post or the subject at hand.

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[cosmicone]

50. I replied to the wrong post n/t

[freshwest]

51. That's what I thought, thanks.

[RBInMaine]

48. She's a fuckin' WEIRDO.

[kimbutgar]

27. I agree 100 percent

[still_one]

52. You took the words right out of my mouth. She always was a repuke and always will be one. She was

Only pissed at her ex so she played the game to get back at him

[BeyondGeography]

2. Whatever

I guess the war Romney would start with Iran doesn't faze her at all. Such phony "non-partisan" crap.

[cpwm17]

54. I don't think a war with Iran would faze her

[Summer Hathaway]

3. Well, you know what they say ...

"As Huffington goes, so goes the ..." - oh, that's right, nobody cares what Huffington does.

[2pooped2pop]

9. what was it President Obama said about Huffpo?

something to the tune of "the site that reposts the most news from other sites"?

[Summer Hathaway]

15. Ha! You just reminded me

of the Rude Pundit's comment yesterday about USA Today: "Their motto: Sometimes news gets in here."

[awoke_in_2003]

4. She has always been anti-incumbent....

She wants to be "shocking"

[Pirate Smile]

5. This makes zero sense to me based on the stark differences between the parties. I just don't get it.

[progressivebydesign]

8. Did she marry into money? She just doesn't sound very bright.

Yeah.. vote for the WAR monger if he SAYS he'd pull the troops out. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Does she think these comments through, at all? The President has a PLAN in place, that will get us out of the war he did NOT start. But Huffington will consider voting for the Military Industrial Complex Candidate? Really? Yeah, the troops will leave Afghanistan, on their way to Iran and Syria, you twit.

"ooh.. I'm just soooo disappointed in the President." Again, is she stupid? Does she understand that the republican Congress pretty much put a wrench in everything 2 years ago? The President has brought back many industries, the housing market is booming, we've had PRIVATE sector job growth for 29 months. Did she not get her pony he promised? WTF?

[YOHABLO]

11. What an opportunist .. sold Huff to AOL for 315 mil

She's just as big corporate as the Repugs .. who really cares who she votes for or what she has to say. Oh yeah, like voting for Mitt is going to be her anti-vote against Obama. She's an idiot.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Is anyone shocked?

This woman changes like the wind. She's an opportunist.

[Thrill]

13. Shes an idiot. Even if Mittens said he would pullout. It would be bullshit

I guess Trump calling her ugly wasn't enough. Shes still shilling for these fools

[trailmonkee]

19. I think it is against his religion to pull-out?

[Heather MC]

14. Well she is part of the 1%, prehaps the lure of paying .08% tax rate is greater than we realize

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. I was starting to get tired of posting original links to hufpo stories

now I feel re-energized.

If someone posts a hufpo link, I will track down the original story from the people who actually did all the work and post it to the thread, and they will FEEL THE SHAME.

[wordpix]

36. she should have learned about plagiarism already, see this

Huffington was accused of plagiarism for copying material for her book Maria Callas (1981); the claims were settled out of court in 1981, with Callas' biographer Gerald Fitzgerald being paid "in the low five figures."[28][29][30]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington

[Viva_La_Revolution]

39. then she figured out a legal way to do it, apparently.

wow

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. useless asshole. n/t

[stlsaxman]

18. once a turncoat, always a turncoat.

[heaven05]

20. wtf

what immense obstructionism has he been up against the last four years? Hell these republican party jerks and hacks fear a second Obama term because he will have nothing to lose and all to gain. WHAT IS HER PROBLEM!!!!!!

[onehandle]

21. Ugh. Whatever. Go back to 'editing' your T&A rag. nt

[Doremus]

22. Why the hell anyone cares what this woman says I'll never know.

I couldn't care less what this wealthy socialite thinks of anyone, particularly the president of the United States.

Why anyone else does is indeed a puzzle.

[SoapBox]

23. Didn't Coupon Care Ryan agree with Prez O about the withdrawl DATE?

...kiss off Huffington.

I hate your rag publication.

[JI7]

26. i don't think she has ever voted for a Democrat

[Drunken Irishman]

28. What a contradictory slime-ball piece of shit...

Obama wasn't bold enough for her, so she might vote for Romney? What kind of fucked up logic is that shit?

[Xipe Totec]

29. One person, one vote. Knock yourself out, Arianna. nt

[Nedsdag]

30. Arianna Flipfloppington.

n/t

[glinda]

31. she needs to lay off the hair coloring products

[Drunken Irishman]

32. Arianna is proof you can take a person out of the GOP but you can't take the GOP out of the person.

[Agnosticsherbet]

34. I remember back in 1996 her Strange Bedfellow routine with Al Franken

She was, at the time, a Conservative guru.

Considering that Romney has already denounce Obama's plan to have troops out by mid 2013, she is unlikely to get Romney to pullout very soon.

[wordpix]

35. as a 1%-er, she may have money stashed away in the Caymans or Switzerland

In that case, it's best to stick with Mitwit

[railsback]

37. Sounds like Arianna is looking for some GOP in her vajay-jay

What a stupid argument to even consider voting for a douchebag like Romney. She'll vote Republican AGAIN.

[Mz Pip]

38. I wouldn't trust a damn thing Mitwit says.

I just might promise to pull out of Afghanistan but I doubt he would if he actually got elected.

[Whatisgoingon]

40. never trusted her

Whichever way the wind blows, and whatever brings in the most $$$$$.

[yurbud]

41. Romney is just as likely to give all he has to the poor.

[Odin2005]

42. She never really switched to our side, it was a PR stunt...

...to sell her shit tabloid full of BS and woo-woo.

[radhika]

44. Has any speaker even said AFGHANISTAN? n/t

[Bluestar]

45. I'm sure the candidates will

shift their position just for you, you media whore.

[and-justice-for-all]

46. What a dumbass.

[RBInMaine]

47. Single issue twisted thinking wanker = Huffington. Not happy with Obama for not being pure enough,

so vote for RobMe, now there's a plan. PISS ON THIS WEIRDO !

[Jennicut]

49. Yeah, because Repubs are so much better on foreign policy!

I am convinced this women is an idiot. Repubs like Trump call her ugly. Does she get what Repubs are like?

[CBHagman]

53. The GOP is talking more wars, not fewer.

They criticize Obama for not doing enough on Syria, and they're positively spoiling for a war with Iran. The speeches tonight reflected that, especially Condoleezza Rice's.

[Douglas Carpenter]

55. I'll vote for Romney if he advocates a British-model national health service

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completely changing American foreign policy in the Middle East and cutting military spending by at last 30% and redirecting the money toward building infrastructure and strengthening the safety net. But I don't think I'm going to have to wait and see if he does that.

[defacto7]

56. Sounds about as divisive as anything I've ever heard...

I guess she's into power and her own little world more than America's future.

I have nasty, nasty words for people like her!

[think]

57. People seem to be missing the point. Rmoney wants to stay longer in Afghanistan

not less than Obama. fuck this worthless war!

[Rustycup]

58. Exactly and go to Iran

How is Rmoney going to pull out faster then 2014? Plus Iran. Maybe Rmoney needs to answer who is going to fight these wars because the military is already over extended.

[MinM]

59. Arianna Huffington, Tina Brown and the New Media:

Death at an Early Age?

http://www.ctka.net/2009/huffpo.html

[bamacrat]

60. She was on Bill Maher last week and is firmly behind Obama.

This is a hope and wish, like saying I would vote for who ever said they would legalize pot regardless of party. Not going to happen but something to say.

[closeupready]

61. What a vapid, self-centered drama queen.

Arrogance, thy name is Arianna Huffington.