{"id":15574,"date":"2012-07-12T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2012-07-12T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:53:12","slug":"mitt-romney-booed-at-naacp-event-after-vowing-to-repeal-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15574","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Booed At NAACP Event After Vowing To Repeal \u2018Obamacare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON\u2014 Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd, <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong> declared Wednesday he\u2019d do more for African-Americans than <strong>Pres. Barack Obama<\/strong>, the nation\u2019s first black president. He drew jeers when he lambasted the Democrat\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,\u201d <strong>Romney<\/strong> told the group\u2019s annual convention. Pausing as some in the crowd heckled, he added, \u201cYou take a look!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor real?\u201d yelled someone in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The reception was occasionally rocky though generally polite as the Republican presidential candidate sought to woo a Democratic bloc that voted heavily for <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> four years ago and is certain to do so again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romney<\/strong> was booed when he vowed to repeal \u201cObamacare\u201d &#8211; the Democrat\u2019s signature health care measure &#8211; and the crowd interrupted him when he accused <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> of failing to spark a more robust economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON\u2014 Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd, Mitt Romney declared Wednesday he\u2019d do more for African-Americans than Pres. Barack Obama, the nation\u2019s first black president. He drew jeers when he lambasted the Democrat\u2019s policies. \u201cIf you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,\u201d Romney told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}