jesus, one after another: "i'll bet you $10,000!" "Only the wealthy should run for president!"

"Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has spent 25 years in the real world economy," Saul asserted. "As a young person just out of college, he worked his way up the career ladder knowing that his continued employment was by no means guaranteed. That's the way it is in the private sector."

Besides everything else wrong with this statement (Romney worked his way up but Obama didn't??), someone actually believes that if you work in the public sector your employment is guaranteed?

"I know what it's like to worry whether you're going to get fired"

Considering he was the one who was doing the firing, he's right.

sweetmelissa31: Romney worked his way up but Obama didn't

this is how insane the GOP is now. they can say something that is patently, demonstrably a lie - yet they say it with a straight face and people believe them. the media will not correct them either, because they're terrified of being called "liberal. it's farking obscene.

Mitt Romney is a cardboard cutout of a human being. He is the Stepford candidate. The man is a farking robot.

sweetmelissa31: "Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has spent 25 years in the real world economy," Saul asserted. "As a young person just out of college, he worked his way up the career ladder knowing that his continued employment was by no means guaranteed. That's the way it is in the private sector."

What the hell do they think Obama did? Do they think he just moved here from Kenya in 2004?

sweetmelissa31: "Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has spent 25 years in the real world economy," Saul asserted. "As a young person just out of college, he worked his way up the career ladder knowing that his continued employment was by no means guaranteed. That's the way it is in the private sector."

Besides everything else wrong with this statement (Romney worked his way up but Obama didn't??), someone actually believes that if you work in the public sector your employment is guaranteed?

Umm it is if you're black, hellooo

Cagey B: He may as well just embrace the whole "wealthy industrialist" thing and come out at campaign appearances dressed up like Ted DiBiase. It would at least be funny.

If I didn't have so much work to do this afternoon I would definitely photostop Willard's head onto Ted Dibiase's body, much like keylock_71 did the Senator with the pickup truck:

Oh FINE. I was planning on working late anyway.



Yeah it's quick and dirty

Cagey B: He may as well just embrace the whole "wealthy industrialist" thing and come out at campaign appearances dressed up like Ted DiBiase. It would at least be funny.

I would vote for him if he offered to give a poor kid $1,000 if he could dribble a basketball 10 times, and then on the 9th bounce he kicked it out into the audience.

I have to give Perry credit for his take on this. Basically, he said that of course Romney was worried - about whether he would run out of pinks slips.

sweetmelissa31:

Besides everything else wrong with this statement (Romney worked his way up but Obama didn't??), someone actually believes that if you work in the public sector your employment is guaranteed?


It's just more dog whistle politics. They're implying that Obama was appointed president due to Affirmative Action. The falsity of the statement is irrelevant, it's simply another case of "psst, remember that guy's black!"

I recommended, in another thread, that Romney stop having people speak on his behalf. I should clarify that statement to include Romney himself.

The less said by the Romney campaign, the better...for him. The more said by the Romney the better it is for those who like to point and laugh at him.

Look, Mitt.

You were born to privilege and wealth. Just. Admit. It.

Most of us are cool with the fact that you have more money than us, we just don't like you pandering.

Immediately after, he launched into his 346th repeat of "For beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..."

I really wish Romney would just let his inner Patrick Bateman out.

Timmy the Tumor: Immediately after, he launched into his 346th repeat of "For beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..."

Surely Mittens doesn't know that "America the Beautiful" was written by a lesbian feminist who was speaking out against greed.

The original third verse was:

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

Selfish gain, Willard. Think about it.

Sounds like the Romneybot 5000 need a little more fine tuning if its going to convince the public that its a human being.

coco ebert: I really wish Romney would just let his inner Patrick Bateman out.

I think he would be a master at it.

what_now: Most of us are cool with the fact that you have more money than us, we just don't like you pandering.

I'd be even more cool with someone who was a self-made millionaire, not just some trust fund kid.

xanadian: what_now: Most of us are cool with the fact that you have more money than us, we just don't like you pandering.

I'd be even more cool with someone who was a self-made millionaire, not just some trust fund kid.

Well, sure. But trust fund kids aren't necessarily bad. I believe that they can understand and sympathize with the concerns and issues of my economic situation.

It pisses me off when they pretend to have *LIVED* in my economic situation.

This is the kind of shiat that pisses people off, not that people are richer than them. There's a lunatic fringe on every side of course but most people don't begrudge people for simply being rich. It's the rich who control the government and most important, won't farking admit it. Or even worse, try to convince the people who they're stepping on that they're one of them. That's what people are pissed about and what people who call the OWS movement "hippies" refuse to acknowledge.

I guess there isn't time to blanket NH with that, but this could be fun for SC.

what_now: xanadian: what_now: Most of us are cool with the fact that you have more money than us, we just don't like you pandering.

I'd be even more cool with someone who was a self-made millionaire, not just some trust fund kid.

Well, sure. But trust fund kids aren't necessarily bad. I believe that they can understand and sympathize with the concerns and issues of my economic situation.

It pisses me off when they pretend to have *LIVED* in my economic situation.

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,

"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."

Well, what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do."

Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean that you are not going to have to worry about getting fired

Lots of rich people live overstretched and such financial hurdles would prove really bad.


Oh wait I mean fark the one percent

Tatsuma: Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean that you are not going to have to worry about getting fired

Lots of rich people live overstretched and such financial hurdles would prove really bad.


Oh wait I mean fark the one percent

Are you saying, then, that Mr. Romney has behaved financially irresponsibly?

He means when those uppity peasants storm the castle with torches. Oh the burning! It burns! It burns! Hotdogs anyone? Get your program here!!! Cold beer here! Cold beer!

What the fark is this clown smokin'?

If he thinks you are so stupid as to believe that chit, what is to come?

Somebody is holding out the good swag for his rich self.

Dimensio: Tatsuma: Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean that you are not going to have to worry about getting fired

Lots of rich people live overstretched and such financial hurdles would prove really bad.


Oh wait I mean fark the one percent

Are you saying, then, that Mr. Romney has behaved financially irresponsibly?

Not at all.
Just sayin' he would make a nice snack in these hard times.

snocone: Not at all.

overspending yourself is the american way you commies

Tatsuma: Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean that you are not going to have to worry about getting fired

Lots of rich people live overstretched and such financial hurdles would prove really bad.


Oh wait I mean fark the one percent

you play the game at that level and f*ck up then yes, you SHOULD lose your multi-millon dollar house. we're told all the time that 'rich people' are rich because they DESERVE to be rich. they WORKED for that money. that rich people make TOUGH DECISIONS all the time and that they're SMARTER than us.

so if someone is rich and loses their job then winds up on skid row well then...obviously they fell from grace because they deserved to do so. I'll show them the same level of mercy and compassion they've shown the rest of the country.

"Oh, sure. Lots of my bosses would have fired me for poor performance. Even though my dad was governor. That granted me no favors at all. No sir."

He probably believes this.