So Maybe Monsanto Will Be The Real President If We Vote For Romney

Romney's first project with Bain in 1977: Help propel Monsanto
by S. D. Wells

(NaturalNews) One year before Mitt Romney began working on the Bain & Company project to rebuild "Monsanto" and cast their new image and focus on agriculture biotechnology, Congress passed a bill banning PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl), an odorless, tasteless, clear liquid known to cause cancer that was the "bread and butter" of Monsanto's profits. Monsanto was already branded and plagued with the label of having created the "Agent Orange" contaminated dioxins used in Vietnam. Now Monsanto would need a big save, financially and reputation-wise, so they could fool the public with their new image and a new "frontier," while secretly polluting and genetically modifying American agriculture with the new faceless poison known as Roundup.

Romney knew his first job at Bain was to propel an evil company that was on the brink of failure. He knew Monsanto's previous reputation and about all the litigation. Romney also knew he would be rewarded financially in the biggest way if he could pull the whole thing off, and he did. Romney changed Monsanto's image over the years, from a scandal ridden chemical giant to a seemingly "prestigious" Agri-business firm. (http://dprogram.net)

Fresh out of Harvard in 1977, Romney basically lead Monsanto down an unethical but highly lucrative path, helping sweep the PCB and dioxin scandals under the rug, since that negative public perception was crippling the company. Romney and Bain recommended to Monsanto that they focus the business on genetically engineered crops and RoundUp, the massively profitable weed killer. Monsanto finished developing and patenting the glyphosate molecule and has marketed Roundup ever since. (http://naturalsociety.com)

But it wasn't a "pretty" road to this infamous success for Romney. Monsanto was still bombarded with an onslaught of litigation throughout Romney's years at Bain, including a $180 million settlement covering the claims of over 50,000 troops that got cancer from hiking over and through Agent Orange in the burned up jungles of Vietnam. Agent Orange is on record to have contaminated a total of 10 million Vietnamese and American people, including children and babies. This was by far the largest chemical warfare operation in human history up until now, when Monsanto's RoundUp laced GMO vegetables like corn and soy have begun a cancer inducing genocide which could easily surpass the damage done in the Vietnam jungles just 50 years ago. (http://naturalsociety.com)

Romney would later use his Monsanto "payback money" and power to become the "private equity king," mowing down companies and robbing workers of their retirement savings. (http://dprogram.net) This is how Romney created jobs back then, and GMO is how he will create jobs and promote disease if he wins the presidency of the United States. Big Pharma, of course, is behind it all, because when people eat GM vegetables and get cancer, Big Pharma and the chemo scam make billions, if not trillions.

Romney has already chosen his biotech partners in crime

One of Mitt's advisory co-chairs was a key speaker at the 'Biotechnology Industry Organization' and said, "It is vital for the United States and other countries to support science-based standards and systems that will bring agricultural biotechnology products to the market to meet this demand." It's not hard to guess who will make up Romney's cabinet if he wins.

Do We Want Bain Capital to be President?

Romney was a huge Monsanto pusher when he worked for Bain! (Yep, they're both--Romney and Bain--Monsanto sellouts... is anyone surprised?

--NaturalNews Insider Alert

I Didn't Know the Koch Brothers Were Running for President

Big polluters like the Koch brothers are spending millions and millions of dollars in this election. In August alone, the Koch group Americans for Prosperity spent $25 million1 on attack ads targeting President Obama. And that's just one group, in one month, in one race. So far this year, there's been more than $150 million spent on ads promoting dirty-energy policies.2

Flooding the airwaves with misleading ads is all big polluters can do, because in their fight to tear down our clean-air and water protections, they know they don't have the facts on their side.

Now you can help your friends and family see through the fog of attack ads and soundbites... and get the facts about what's really at stake. The Sierra Club's new online Voter Guide puts that power in your hands.

Check out candidates running for office in your state with the Sierra Club's new Voter Guide, then share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter:  http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/

To your friends, family, and neighbors, your opinion is worth a whole lot more than any 30-second ad paid for by polluters. That's why the best way to cut through the noise and the clutter of the election season is to simply talk to your friends and family. With our new online Voter Guide, we're giving you a powerful tool to arm them with the facts on some of the key races nationwide.

You can give them information on everything from how to register and where to vote, to where the candidates stand on key issues like:

Clean energy jobs
Clean air & water
America's wild legacy
Women's health
Climate disruption

Find your own slate of Sierra Club-endorsed candidates, and share our Voter Guide so your friends and family can get the facts too: http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/

Big polluters will do, say, or spend anything to put their profits before the future of our planet and the health of American families. This election, they've launched a full-scale assault on the safeguards that protect our kids from soot and mercury, and they're taking aim at the strong, new fuel-efficiency standards and clean-energy jobs that threaten their profits. And they've only just begun.

But we've got two things they don't have: people and facts. Find your candidates and go to  http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/ and email it, tweet it, share it, post it, pin it -- whatever you can do. Help your friends and family get the facts so they can stand up against the big polluters in this election.

Thanks for all you do to protect our environment,

Cathy Duvall
Sierra Club Political Director

P.S. Another great way to get the word out is to simply send a copy of this message to your friends and family

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Their fringe ideology completely ignores scientific fact. Instead, they take orders from Big Oil financiers like the Koch brothers, who have spent more than $100 million in attempts to defeat President Obama at every turn and completely take over Washington.

Sincerely,

Al Gore

Please Do Not Let Us Elect A Scientific Idiot

Romney said: "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no — and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous."

Did he not finish college? Does he not understand "pressurized?" How can you vote for someone who doesn't even understand the simple concept of gravity, atmosphere, being dragged out of the window because of the difference in pressure between the outside of an airplane and the inside?

I'm voting for the candidate who has brains and ability--Obama.

Romney: “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

Remember Mitt Romney’s solution to an auto industry teetering on the brink? “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

I watched as he kicked autoworkers when they were down. You watched as he told us his “job isn’t to worry about” 47% of Americans.

But we can’t just watch any longer—with just 42 days left, polls are within the margin of error. If you want to elect President Obama and a Democratic majority — I need your support immediately.

Let’s win this.

Jennifer Granholm    


This is from me: Obama saved the Amercian auto industry after Bush tried his hardest (in my opinion) to destroy it--remember that.

Tea Party or Democarcy--the Choice is Obvious: We must support President Obama

What if Congress could protect thousands of American jobs just by passing a bill that has widespread support from across the nation and across the political spectrum? Seems like a no-brainer, right?

But right now, a bill to protect American jobs in the growing wind industry isn't going anywhere, because Speaker of the House John Boehner -- who sets the calendar for the House of Representatives -- doesn't want to schedule it for an up-or-down vote.

Under fierce pressure from the obstructionist Tea Party to let the wind industry wither and die, Boehner and the House leaders are playing a game of chicken with the economy and with thousands of Americans' livelihoods. Congress will keep heading toward disaster until we've put as much pressure on Boehner as the Tea Party has.

Rather than stand up for American workers and their families, Boehner is running out the clock on the wind industry. It's our job to make sure he understands that America knows exactly what's going on, and that we know who's responsible for keeping the Production Tax Credit bottled up in the House.

The wind industry employs 75,000 Americans in manufacturing, installation, and maintenance. These are good-paying jobs for skilled workers, and they're helping the country move beyond the wasteful and outdated energy technologies of the 19th century. And they're disappearing while Boehner delays action. What's he waiting for?

Layoffs have already begun as manufacturing and installation jobs are put on hold. According to news reports, more than 2,000 jobs have already been lost this year.1

The Production Tax Credit needs to be renewed, and it needs to happen now. The longer John Boehner waits to take action, the more jobs will be lost. It's that simple.

Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,

Mary Anne Hitt

Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director

Romney keeps relearning history's lessons

Romney keeps relearning history's gaffe lessons
By CONNIE CASS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Who says Mitt Romney doesn't worry much about the very poor? That he believes corporations are people, too? That his wife drives two Cadillacs?

Romney himself, that's who. When it comes to portraying the Republican nominee as an uncaring, out-of-touch rich guy, he's his own worst enemy, offering up a bonanza for Democratic attack ads.

Romney hit the trifecta this time by saying that 47 percent of Americans believe they are victims, think "government has a responsibility to care for them" and are unwilling to step up and support themselves.

Another Reason to Vote for President Obama

Go to this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/president-obama-gives-iowa-couple-huge-wedding-surprise-170605502.html

Romney and the People in Need

How can we let Romney win?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/us-usa-campaign-romney-video-idINBRE88G1H320120918

http://www.theday.com/article/20120918/NWS13/120919684/1047 :

Romney plans no apology for stating that nearly half of Americans "believe that they are victims." 

Today we learned that Mitt Romney said this about Obama supporters to fellow millionaires at a closed-door fundraiser: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who aredependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax ... "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The man who spoke these words -- who demonstrates such disgust and disdain for half of our fellow Americans -- is the other side's choice for president of the United States. He wants to lead our country.

Today we learned that Mitt Romney said this about Obama supporters to fellow millionaires at a closed-door fundraiser: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who aredependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax ... "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The man who spoke these words -- who demonstrates such disgust and disdain for half of our fellow Americans -- is the other side's choice for president of the United States. He wants to lead our country.

How can we let him win?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/us-usa-campaign-romney-video-idINBRE88G1H320120918

http://www.theday.com/article/20120918/NWS13/120919684/1047 :

Romney plans no apology for stating that nearly half of Americans "believe that they are victims." 

Do We Need An Act Before We Think President? No!!!!!

Romney under friendly fire for his response to embassy attack in Liby
By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News

Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain's 2008 campaign, told Yahoo News that Romney's decision to stand behind his initial criticism of Obama could damage his image with voters.

"For people who are running for president, this is a test where people evaluate their mettle as commander in chief, and the Romney campaign put out a statement before the facts were in that politicized the matter and gratuitously attacked the administration for something they did not do," Schmidt said. "The decision to double down on the initial mistake has put them into a potentially very dangerous political situation. During a foreign policy crisis, you can't build a position on a foundation of politics. … The situation remains serious, it's volatile and Romney is appearing to be very political."

The danger for Romney is that his response to the Middle East attacks feeds into a consensus among the news media that his campaign to unseat Obama is in serious trouble. For the fourth time in recent months, prominent conservatives have gone public with fretting over the direction of Romney's campaign—a panic set off most recently by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham's suggestion Monday that if Romney can't beat Obama then the Republican Party should be "shut down." On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board piled on, suggesting Romney could lose the election because he's been too vague when it comes to explaining his policies.

Do You Really Like Romney's Medicare Program?

Obama to Use New Study to Attack Mitt Romney on Medicare

By Mary Bruce | ABC OTUS News 

MELBOURNE, Fla. - Campaigning in Florida today, President Obama will seize on a new analysis showing the Romney-Ryan plan would raise Medicare costs to launch fresh attacks against his opponents plan to "voucherize" the popular entitlement program.

Appealing to the large senior population in this key battleground state, the president will highlight anew study by the left-leaning Center for American Progress that found that, under the Romney-RyanMedicare plan, seniors turning 65 in 2023 would see their health care costs increase by $59,500 during retirement.

The analysis found the numbers are even higher for future generation. According to the study, a person who qualifies for Medicare in 2030 would, on average, have to pay an extra $125,000 inMedicare costs over the course of their retirement.

The president ramped up his hammering of his opponents' Medicare proposals on the road Saturday.

"No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. After a lifetime of labor, you should retire with dignity and respect. You've earned it," he told supporters in Kissimmee, Fla. "We do have to reform and we will strengthen Medicare over the long haul, but we're going to do it by reducing the costs of health care - not by dumping those costs on to seniors."

So Romney Now Likes What Obama Has Done With Healthcare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them.

Romney, who faces Obama in the November 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform."

"Of course, there are a number of things that I like in healthcare reform that I'm going to put in place," Romney added. "One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like."

Why the Sierra Club and I am Voting for Obama

From the Sierra Club:

The conventions are over, the speeches are done, and the platforms from both parties have been approved. And when you get down to the details, the differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney couldn't be clearer.

"And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it."

- President Obama, 9/6/12

Vote for President Obama.

Why Sandra Fluke is Voting for Obama

On Wednesday night, I spoke on the floor at the Democratic Convention about what a Romney-Ryan America would mean for women.

An America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use it.1 In which politicians redefine rape so survivors are victimized all over again.2 In which someone decides which victims of domestic violence deserve help, and which don’t.3

And six months from now, we could all be living in that America.

But we’ve also seen another future we could choose. An America in which our President -- when he hears a young woman has been verbally attacked -- thinks of his daughters. Not his delegates or donors.

We talk often about choice. Now, it's up to all of us to make the choice to support our President with a Democratic majority.

Will you add your name to say that you're standing with President Obama?

Thank you,

Sandra Fluke

Romney Supports Forced Labor and Poor Working Conditions

Earlier this month, Mitt Romney gave a speech with dozens of soot-stained coal miners behind him -- an attempt to show his support from the working class. One problem: Miners say they were forced to attend Romney's rally, without pay, by their bosses at Murray Energy. In the bizarre words of the coal company’s chief operating officer Robert Moore, “Attendance was mandatory but no one was forced to attend the event.”

Murray has a horrible safety record, significantly worse than the industry average, leading to a 2007 mine collapse that resulted in nine deaths -- and now it has taken a good day's wages from employees to shill for a candidate vowing to strip government oversight from their industry and undermine the workers’ safety on the job.

Tell Murray Energy to pay its workers for their mandatory Romney rally.

Murray Energy's CEO, Robert Murray, has used his position like a cudgel, holding weekly meetings for his employees in which he goes on tirades against President Obama and the union that supported him, the United Mineworkers of America. Workers report that they sometimes have their pay envelopes stuffed with political literature.

Even worse, employees said they are routinely pressured to donate to Republican causes and that the company keeps track of who gives and who doesn’t. But for many, being asked to support their boss's candidate, unpaid, was the final straw. One woman called in to a local radio show to speak about her husband, saying “he was really upset that they took his free time with his family away from him.” In general, she said “he felt like they were pushing the Republican choice on him and he felt a little intimidated by that.”

Murray Energy workers are forced to respond to their boss's whims in part because they work at a non-union mine, in an industry that has been vigorously undermining workers’ rights for years. Robert Murray has shown that he doesn't just want to control his employees' work while on the job -- he wants to own their voting habits as well. In an area where jobs are hard to come by, the risk of punishment for speaking up can be too high to do anything. But by standing together, SumOfUs.org members can help these workers use their voice, and fight back against abuses by tyrannical bosses.

Thank you,

Claiborne, Kaytee and the rest of us at SumOfUs.org

Republicans/Liars--Synonyms

Governor Romney and his allies are hell bent on taking President Obama down. And you better believe they're going to spend -- and say -- whatever it takes to make that happen, even if they have to make it up, like the phony attacks charging the President with weakening work requirements for welfare or the charge that he plundered Medicare, when in fact he added eight years to its solvency and closed the doughnut hole in the drug program!



--Bill Clinton

Entitlements

According to Nicholas Eberstadt of the Wall Street Journal (Saturday, 9/1/12--Review Section), Republicans talk the talk, but never walk the walk.

He states that under Republican presidents, entitlements have soared at least eight percent: "...in any given year (over the last fifty), it (entitlements) was on the whole roughly eight percent higher if the president happened to be a Republican rather than a Democrat."

More: "From a purely statistical standpoint, the growth of entitlements over the past half-century has been distinctly greater under Republican administrations than Democratic ones."

A Great Platform

“When you've…walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.” –Michelle Obama

Today, the Democratic Party approved the following language in its 2012 platform:

"We support the right of all families to have equal respect, responsibilities, and protections under the law. We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples... 

We oppose discriminatory federal and state constitutional amendments and other attempts to deny equal protection of the laws to committed same-sex couples who seek the same respect and responsibilities as other married couples. We support the full repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act ...

We know that putting America back to work is Job One, and we are committed to ensuring Americans do not face employment discrimination. We support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because people should not be fired based on their sexual orientation or gender identity."

Platforms are more than pieces of paper -- they are outlines of where a party will go. President Obama and the Democrats are choosing to move forward.

When the delegates approved this platform today, they put us on the right side of history.

Make sure you and your friends are registered to vote, and show your support at the polls for the only party that's standing up for equality.

Thanks,
Jamie Citron

New Fuel Economy Standards

From the Sierra Clu

The new vehicle fuel-efficiency standards announced on August 28 are the Obama administration's biggest climate accomplishment -- a game changer and the biggest step any administration has ever taken to move us beyond oil. This latest victory is largely thanks to Sierra Club activists like you and will result in 570,000 new jobs, $1.7 trillion saved at the pump, and a nearly 10 percent drop in U.S. carbon emissions from current levels.

A History of Why We Must Vote for President Obama

The following is by Larry Smith,
Caliban Chronicles #5

I have sixty years of political memory. When I was in third grade I was already a committed Democrat and wore a “Stevenson button to school (even though my parents were Republican). My candidate didn’t win either of his runs for the White House, but Eisenhower didn’t turn out to be as bad as I thought he’d be.

Can you imagine any current Republican with the guts to send in the National Guard to desegregate the Little Rock public schools? Or to warn the nation about the danger of the “military-industrial complex”? I was ecstatic when JFK won, but was devastated by the string of assassinations in the 60s, taking the reformers, the champions of justice and equality, out of action.

There were forces of evil at work, but much of the country refused to acknowledge them. I had a first-hand glimpse of those forces when my friends and I attended a Young Americans for Freedom rally in New York City, 1961. We went because we couldn’t believe that there was an ultra-right wing movement for teenagers. What could possibly be the attraction?

After hearing speaker after speaker praise Sen. Joseph McCarthy and watching in horror as John Dos Passos recanted his leftist past and his passion for justice, we knew the ugliness was real. Then there was LBJ’s betrayal of everyone during the Vietnam War, the evil that would overshadow every good thing he did. That was followed by Nixon’s grim era, ending in Watergate. Jimmy Carter, with every good intention, stumbled badly.

Then there was Ronald Reagan, the man who as Governor of California unleashed hordes of Alameda Sheriff’s Deputies armed with shotguns on protestors in Berkeley in 1969, who opened his campaign for the presidency in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were tortured and killed by the local KKK. It was an ominous show of contempt for the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that has become even more strident today. Reagan was also the beginning of “supply-side economics and the deliberate dismantling of American unions.

He was followed by Daddy Bush, the first Gulf War, Clinton (who stumbled even more badly than Carter when taking on medical reform and the ban against gays in the military). Then there was a stolen presidential election, followed by another that was most likely stolen in Ohio by the manipulation of electronic voting machines that had no paper record.

All of this sounds horrible. There was a lot of darkness during those years, but I have recounted this history in order to suggest that what would ensue if Mitt Romney won the presidency would make all those preceding years look like a picnic. These are not the old.

Republicans, who actually had a liberal wing as well as moderates and conservatives. Through massive schemes of voter suppression, state laws intended to nullify Roe vs. Wade, even an attack on the legality of birth control, and plans to destroy Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the EPA, and bank regulation, the current radical Republican Party has promised to undo every progressive act of the last 100 hundred years. And yet the media, the great American center, and even many progressives, do not seem concerned.

We are talking about a political coup that would turn on its head virtually everything we accept as modern America society. Have Americans been anesthetized? Hypnotized? This ultra-right incarnation of the Republican Party constitutes a shrinking minority. If they win in 2012, they will try to re-engineer everything, so that free and fair elections at the national level might never happen again. This is what Tom DeLay used to call the “permanent Republican majority”.

There are people who are attracted to right wing authoritarian rule. The excitement these people have in this election cycle is understandable. If you are not one of those people and you are not working to re-elect Barack Obama (a man who has achieved significant success in his first term) and stave off this disaster, I’m afraid you will wake up from your walking sleep only after it’s too late to do anything.

Environmentally, This Is Why We Actually Must Make the Right Choice

Click on this link to see how the Republicans and Democrats differ on environmental issues:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151063271112572&set=a.72328147571.77213.6204742571&type=1

This is another reason why Obama is the only choice.

Ryan Tells Another Lie

Paul Ryan Trips Over Marathon Question
By Shushannah Walshe

COLUMBUS — Paul Ryan is an athlete, no question about it — we know he does the rigorous P90X exercise regime daily.

But is he a marathoner?

On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Aug. 22, it sure sounded like he was, at least in his youth.

Hewitt asked the vice presidential candidate whether he is “still running.”

Ryan answered that he “hurt a disc” in his back,” so he doesn’t “run marathons anymore.” Instead, he said. he just runs 10 miles or less.

The conservative radio host then asked him what his personal best time is. For a marathoner this is a badge of honor, but

Ryan couldn’t recall exactly.

“Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something,” Ryan said.

Hewitt was surprised, saying, “Holy smokes.”

Ryan replied: “I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”

But it turns out, he’s only run one and it wasn’t under three hours or even under four hours.

Do We Really Want to Vote for Karl Rove...Ooops, I Mean Romney?

Karl Rove said,: “We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”

Rape and the Republican Party

Just so Republicans know--rape is always forcible. If a woman wanted to have sex, it would not be forcible. So by definition, rape is a crime because it is forcible or--and here’s other big words Republicans might want to learn--it's coerced, it's violent, it’s against their will. Rape is always forced.

De We Want Racists Running Our Country?

This happened at the Republican Convention. If this is not a wake up call to all minorities and everyone who wants to put racism to an end, I do not know what is. How can anyone choose to vote for a party full of racists? Here is an excerpt:

Peanuts thrown at black camerawoman at GOP meeting

By DAVID BAUDER--Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A black camerawoman who works for CNN said Thursday that she was not surprised to have two people at the Republican National Convention throw peanuts at her and say "this is what we feed animals."

"I can't change these people's hearts and minds," the camerawoman, Patricia Carroll, said. "No, it doesn't feel good. But I know who I am. I'm a proud black woman. A lot of black people are upset. This should be a wake-up call to black people. ... People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we've gone further than we have."