Is it true Romney invested in the blood diamond trade?

[7,052,770]

This is the new rumor. Any truth to it? Is THAT why Romney won't release his returns?

[Supersonic]

Spare us.

[Adam Griffin]

So the word's out that Romney met with blood diamond merchants in secret in Israel. Let him prove he didn't meet with these diamond merchants, because he did.

[Lincoln Republican]

So the word's out that Romney met with blood diamond merchants in secret in Israel. Let him prove he didn't meet with these diamond merchants, because he did.

No, my accusatory friend, you prove he did invest in the blood diamond trade, you are the one laying the charge.

NOW PROVE IT!

[memphis]

Just about everybody who has been married has invested in the blood diamond trade.

[Adam Griffin]

So the word's out that Romney met with blood diamond merchants in secret in Israel. Let him prove he didn't meet with these diamond merchants, because he did.

No, my accusatory friend, you prove he did invest in the blood diamond trade, you are the one laying the charge.

NOW PROVE IT!

These sorts of dodgy retorts fail to give the American people the information they need. I've sent several people to Israel and you won't believe what they're finding. If they were normal diamonds and not blood diamonds, then there is a certification system that allows owners to prove that.

SHOW US THE DIAMOND CERTIFICATE!

[Lincoln Republican]

Show me proof of your scurillous accusations.

I want proof.

I demand proof.

You are the one making the accusations, now show us the proof.

PROOF!  PROOF!  PROOF!

[Politico]

*Yawn*

Almost everybody is growing increasingly bored with Obama's attacks and distractions. This stuff was unleashed way too early.

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

[Adam Griffin]

*Yawn*

Almost everybody is growing increasingly bored with Obama's attacks and distractions. This stuff was unleashed way too early.

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

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[Lincoln Republican]

*Yawn*

Almost everybody is growing increasingly bored with Obama's attacks and distractions. This stuff was unleashed way too early.

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

No.  What's next is Ann Romney was a Girl Guide who sold vanilla cookies and the Dems will say she didn't sell chcolate cookies therefore she was a racist.

[Politico]

*Yawn*

Almost everybody is growing increasingly bored with Obama's attacks and distractions. This stuff was unleashed way too early.

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

No.  What's next is Ann Romney was a Girl Guide who sold vanilla cookies and the Dems will say she didn't sell chcolate cookies therefore she was a racist.

Yep. Also, Mitt and Ryan were Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts do not allow female members, so therefore Mitt and Ryan hate women!

[Likely Voter]

it would be nice if this forum could reduce the hackishness and counter-hackishness

[NHI]

Either American campaigns have sunken to a new low, or the Democrats are so terrified that Romney is going to beat Obama, they'll do everything and anything to derail his campaign. Simply, pathetic at this point, let's focus on the economy and America's future.

[Politico]

Either American campaigns have sunken to a new low, or the Democrats are so terrified that Romney is going to beat Obama, they'll do everything and anything to derail his campaign. Simply, pathetic at this point, let's focus on the economy and America's future.

Just wait until you get a load of their anti-Mormonism tactics on the horizon. These liberals will do anything.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Either American campaigns have sunken to a new low, or the Democrats are so terrified that Romney is going to beat Obama, they'll do everything and anything to derail his campaign. Simply, pathetic at this point, let's focus on the economy and America's future.

Just wait until you get a load of their anti-Mormonism tactics on the horizon. These liberals will do anything to try and win.

This coming from the Republicans who attacked Kerry and Cleland for their service to this country while never serving a day in Vietnam. The Party that fanned the flames against Obama and claimed he was  "Palin' around with terrorists" and that he wasn't born here. That called him a Kenyan, Marxist, Socialist, Communist who hated America. It is the Republicans who do anything to win. In the past we came with a knife to a gunfight. Now we fight fire with fire and you guys start decrying "Democratic Gutter politics" and how we will do nothing. This whole system is f*ucked up.

[7,052,770]

Republicans have skewered the religious beliefs of the last 2 Democratic nominees.  While anything could happen, I doubt Democrats will ever attack Romney's beliefs even half as much as Republicans attack Obama's and Kerry's.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

*Yawn*

Almost everybody is growing increasingly bored with Obama's attacks and distractions. This stuff was unleashed way too early.

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

No.  What's next is Ann Romney was a Girl Guide who sold vanilla cookies and the Dems will say she didn't sell chocolate cookies therefore she was a racist.

Ann Romney isn't American?!?  That's the only way she could have been a Girl Guide instead of a Girl Scout.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Again, they're playing straight from the Rove/Goebbels handbook; run the dirtiest campaign possible, then cry and ask for an apology when Democrats try to play the same game.

[pbrower2a]

Just about everybody who has been married has invested in the blood diamond trade.

The DeBeers trust supposedly avoids them because they undercut diamond prices that DeBeers can get. 

A hint: neither South Africa nor Russia produces them.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The real question: Is this a bad thing?

[Gustaf]

I think blood diamonds feel more real, somehow. There is like a human story behind each of them and I think the narrative that this creates is a great part of the value.

[memphis]

Just about everybody who has been married has invested in the blood diamond trade.

The DeBeers trust supposedly avoids them because they undercut diamond prices that DeBeers can get. 

A hint: neither South Africa nor Russia produces them.

There would be very little market for diamonds, blood or otherwise, if not for the insistence of people on the silly diamond tradition. There are some industrial uses here and there, but most diamonds go to brides who will probably end up fat and divorced in a few years time anyway.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What's next: Mitt's dad was a Nazi?

No, but he forgot about condoms which is bad enough.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Just about everybody who has been married has invested in the blood diamond trade.

The DeBeers trust supposedly avoids them because they undercut diamond prices that DeBeers can get. 

A hint: neither South Africa nor Russia produces them.

There would be very little market for diamonds, blood or otherwise, if not for the insistence of people on the silly diamond tradition. There are some industrial uses here and there, but most diamonds go to brides who will probably end up fat and divorced in a few years time anyway.

The industrial uses are largely supplied by artificial diamonds these days.  Making diamonds for use as abrasives is less costly than getting them out of the ground, so only the rejects from mining for gem-quality stones make it into the industrial supply.  (Much as a good deal of the silver mined these days is recovered as a byproduct of mining for lead or copper.)