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(Talking Points Memo) Followup Mitt Romney closed his wife's Swiss bank account, presumably because he didn't want Americans to discover he is, in fact, a Bond villain   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) divider line 114
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WTF Indeed
2012-01-24 10:44:12 AM
Romney's problem is the he's the guy every American wishes they were, but none of them like.

"I wish I could jump on a plane and fly to my weekend house wherever I wanted, but I've got to work for a living, unlike that prick,"
 
Weaver95 [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 10:45:51 AM
I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 10:49:39 AM
I could see him as a bond villain.

Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?
 
keylock71 [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 10:56:00 AM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?


It's hilarious that Mitt and his handler's didn't think this type of crap was going to be an issue for him running for president in the worst economy in decades.Their handling of this issue has been a complete cluster fark... Best organized and prepared candidate, my ass.
 
Weaver95 [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 10:58:37 AM
hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:00:12 AM
keylock71: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?


It's hilarious that Mitt and his handler's didn't think this type of crap was going to be an issue for him running for president in the worst economy in decades.Their handling of this issue has been a complete cluster fark... Best organized and prepared candidate, my ass.

He's definitely a study in contradictions.

And you're just jealous.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:02:04 AM
Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

Oh c'mon! He's a man of the streets. He does his own laundry. There were times when he didn't know where his next paycheck would come from.

And yet we're guilty of envying him? What's to envy? This commoner facade, or the real Romney?

He'd better square his narratives, and quick.
 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:05:27 AM
Diogenes: I could see him as a bond villain.

Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?

I don't have an account, but I have one of their knives. I'm also a big fan of their cocoa.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:07:19 AM
Which makes Gingrich, what, then? A Dudley Do-Right villain??
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:08:04 AM
Diogenes: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?

I once had a German bank account...

*snaps heels together*
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:08:42 AM
I_C_Weener: Diogenes: I could see him as a bond villain.

Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?

I don't have an account, but I have one of their knives. I'm also a big fan of their cocoa.

I wish everyone could try my Aunt Loti's Swiss cheese fondue recipe.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:10:16 AM
Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

As much as I liked Huntsman, he'd also have a hard time breaching that disconnect, what with Daddy helping pay for his campaign & stuff.

The ONLY guy I see that might understand what the 'little guy' has to deal with would be Santorum or RON PAUL.

In short, the entire GOP field is full of nuts. Just different kinds of nuts.

That also being said, when was the last time a poor or middle-class American became President?
 
keylock71 [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:11:52 AM
Diogenes: Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

Oh c'mon! He's a man of the streets. He does his own laundry. There were times when he didn't know where his next paycheck would come from.

And yet we're guilty of envying him? What's to envy? This commoner facade, or the real Romney?

He'd better square his narratives, and quick.


Lol... I'm definitely envious of the way he tucks his button down shirts into his designer jeans... Makes him look like a rugged longshoreman.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:12:15 AM
xanadian: That also being said, when was the last time a poor or middle-class American became President?

The movie Dave.
 
Jake Havechek
2012-01-24 11:18:35 AM
Hey, Mitt is just like us!
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:23:50 AM
The white Persian cat was a tipoff, too
 
vernonFL [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:31:28 AM
www.solarnavigator.net
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:34:59 AM
vernonFL: [www.solarnavigator.net image 450x333]

Sister wives?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 11:38:34 AM
He's not cool enough to be a Bond villain. Well maybe that media mogul from Tomorrow Never Dies.
 
VictoryCabal [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:06:51 PM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have Swiss cheese in my refrigerator, so that's pretty close.
 
mrshowrules [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:09:29 PM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

That depends, where is PayPal headquartered?
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2012-01-24 12:23:45 PM
Mugato: He's not cool enough to be a Bond villain.

Yeah, you need a personality to be a Bond villain. At best, he's one of those unnamed perfect White People that Hugo Drax takes into space in Moonraker.
 
Lost Thought 00
2012-01-24 12:31:48 PM
xanadian: Which makes Gingrich, what, then? A Dudley Do-Right villain??

More of a Rocky-and-Bullwinkle villain
 
pute kisses like a man [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:32:17 PM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I had a swiss bank account.

/ of course, I lived in switzerland at the time, and it was only a checking account
 
Guidette Frankentits
2012-01-24 12:32:47 PM
Swiss bank account or ethics violations. Which is worse?
 
PanicMan
2012-01-24 12:33:03 PM
Romney wishes he was a Bond villan. Bond villans get shiat done. And they employ lots of mercenaries, and stimulate the economy with doomsday funding.
 
Nuclear Monk
2012-01-24 12:33:16 PM
Is this where I make douchy comments about how much better a Swiss Credit Union Account is and Mitt is just dumb for using a Swiss bank?
 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:33:45 PM
Guidette Frankentits: Swiss bank account or ethics violations. Which is worse?

Mitt only made her close the Swiss account so she could upgrade to a younger and prettier offshore account in Barbados.
 
Lost Thought 00
2012-01-24 12:34:11 PM
xanadian: Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

As much as I liked Huntsman, he'd also have a hard time breaching that disconnect, what with Daddy helping pay for his campaign & stuff.

The ONLY guy I see that might understand what the 'little guy' has to deal with would be Santorum or RON PAUL.

In short, the entire GOP field is full of nuts. Just different kinds of nuts.

That also being said, when was the last time a poor or middle-class American became President?

Clinton was probably the lowest net-worth candidate (at the time of his election. He's earned a small fortune from books/speaking since then)
 
Rapmaster2000
2012-01-24 12:34:14 PM
Mitt should hire some sexy, female bodyguards. I'd vote for him.
 
yert
2012-01-24 12:34:39 PM
I have a swisher sweet account.
img205.imageshack.us
 
TofuTheAlmighty
2012-01-24 12:36:01 PM
xanadian: That also being said, when was the last time a poor or middle-class American became President?

Um, his name is Barack Obama. (He may not have been strictly middle-class when elected but it's not like Obama inherited wealth or descended from affluence.)
 
Guidette Frankentits
2012-01-24 12:36:24 PM
Newt Gingrich shut down the government in 1995
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2012-01-24 12:36:29 PM
Romney is.......Willard Whyte.

upload.wikimedia.org
 
stevie1der
2012-01-24 12:37:11 PM
C'mon guys, let he who is without a spare European bank account with three million dollars in it doing nothing throw the first stone.
 
TravisBickle62
2012-01-24 12:38:03 PM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

You think I would tell you if I did?

/Swiss safe deposit box with cash, passports and guns
 
fracto73
2012-01-24 12:40:18 PM
Diogenes: Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

Oh c'mon! He's a man of the streets. He does his own laundry. There were times when he didn't know where his next paycheck would come from.

And yet we're guilty of envying him? What's to envy? This commoner facade, or the real Romney?

He'd better square his narratives, and quick.


He picked the wrong narrative. It should have been more like "Of course I'm rich. I gained my money when the country's laws made that easy. I would like to go back to those laws, so that you can be rich too. My friends, that is the American dream. Vote for me, I'm not promising to do it for you (fade to Obama picture), but I will make it easier for you to do it for yourself."
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:40:26 PM
Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

The Hell you say! Mitt is the American Dream made flesh: A self-made man who , with his Harvard Business School education, did what any of us could have done: Came out of college and got hired as the CEO of a major Private equity fund, and the fact that he was the sone of a wealthy and powerful poltical figure had NOTHING to do with his success. Why I'm sure your resume or mine was the very next one Bain capital was going to get to if they hadn't settled on Mitt
 
Johnny Swank
2012-01-24 12:40:29 PM
I_C_Weener: I don't have an account, but I have one of their knives. I'm also a big fan of their cocoa.

I bedded down one of their Miss's for awhile. Does that count?
 
apoptotic
2012-01-24 12:41:26 PM
The account was closed in 2010. Didn't the rules change in 2010 as far as Swiss banks having to disclose info on American customers? I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
 
blahpers
2012-01-24 12:41:53 PM
xanadian: Diogenes: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?

I once had a German bank account...

*snaps heels together*

...

...

...but then you took an arrow in the knee?

/*flinches and runs*
 
Duke Phillips' Singing Bears
2012-01-24 12:41:57 PM
keylock71: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?


It's hilarious that Mitt and his handler's didn't think this type of crap was going to be an issue for him running for president in the worst economy in decades.Their handling of this issue has been a complete cluster fark... Best organized and prepared candidate, my ass.

When you never have to think about money, I imagine it's surprising to discover other people worry about it constantly.
 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:42:12 PM
Johnny Swank: I_C_Weener: I don't have an account, but I have one of their knives. I'm also a big fan of their cocoa.

I bedded down one of their Miss's for awhile. Does that count?

Only if you, like much of middle America, have invested in these...

i.imgur.com
 
Lost Thought 00
2012-01-24 12:42:33 PM
The account was closed during the "Grace Period" the swiss government gave investors to close their accounts before they released their records to the IRS and other equivalent agencies around the world. Not suspicious at all.
 
BalugaJoe
2012-01-24 12:43:14 PM
I got swiss cheese in the fridge.
 
MFAWG
2012-01-24 12:43:21 PM
keylock71: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?


It's hilarious that Mitt and his handler's didn't think this type of crap was going to be an issue for him running for president in the worst economy in decades.Their handling of this issue has been a complete cluster fark... Best organized and prepared candidate, my ass.

They never, ever saw an attack from the left coming in the primaries.

The GOP is attacking him for being a good little capitalist. It's a little hard to imagine!
 
iron_city_ap
2012-01-24 12:44:59 PM
I'm sure there were plenty of times he didn't know where his next check was coming from. Sometimes it was direct deposited into his Swiss account. Sometimes his secretary cashed it for him. Sometimes it was a briefcase full of cash delivered by a black helicopter...
 
Rann Xerox
2012-01-24 12:45:19 PM
xanadian: Diogenes: Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

I have a Swiss cousin who's a banker. That count?

I once had a German bank account...

*snaps heels together*

I have a German surname.

/Hates Illinois Nazis
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2012-01-24 12:45:38 PM
xanadian: Weaver95: hmm. I'm starting to think that Romney isn't exactly a 'rank and file' sorta guy. this sort of 'swiss bank account' thing MIGHT lead one to believe that Mitt Romney could have trouble understanding what life for little people is like in this country.

As much as I liked Huntsman, he'd also have a hard time breaching that disconnect, what with Daddy helping pay for his campaign & stuff.

The ONLY guy I see that might understand what the 'little guy' has to deal with would be Santorum or RON PAUL.

In short, the entire GOP field is full of nuts. Just different kinds of nuts.

That also being said, when was the last time a poor or middle-class American became President?

Obama or Clinton (if Upper MC counts as MC) are about the closest we've come since Truman maybe (and then it's a long way back from there) One of the things that struck me during the 08 campaign was Obama quoting his wife about why he should run in 08 rather than wait. She apparently said that Obama should run while he was still "normal". By which she meant the two of them had only recently paid off their student loans, still had a mortgage, had a total net worth including the house of only about $800k etc. so they were still connected to the struggles of ordinary Americans in a way they might not be in the future
 
LarryDan43
2012-01-24 12:46:35 PM
Weaver95: I don't have a swiss bank account. do any of YOU have a swiss bank account?

Well dog my cats, I do.
 
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