Obama ad: 'Get real Mitt'

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Mitt Romney's suggestion that students struggling to pay for higher education should ask their parents for help was met with a tough retort in an ad released Tuesday from President Barack Obama's campaign: 'Get real.'

In the 30-second spot that the campaign says will air in Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia, Romney is shown saying: "Take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents."

"Hope they can afford it," a narrator in the ad replies. "Romney's plans could cut college aid for nearly ten million students and eliminate the tax deduction for college tuition."

Romney's remarks, which came during an April address at a college in Ohio, encouraged students to take risks in order to become successful.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/obama-ad-get-real-mitt/

[missingthebigdog]

1. The problem is, this is REAL to Romney

He is out of touch with the reality of being poor or middle class to an amazing degree. . . .

[Warpy]

5. The man is utterly clueless about the result of his and other

predatory capitalists' actions, that of throwing people out of work for a solid 30 years, wrecking their finances, diminishing their expectations, and preventing their saving anything for their childrens' education or retirement.

I almost hope the derivatives casino collapses sooner rather than later. Men like Romney need to feel a hard squeeze on their balls like we've all felt on ours all our lives.

[Iliyah]

10. Clueless? Nah, Mittens/Paul don't give a shit.

Actually, the present GOP party don't give a shit.

[IggleDoer]

6. He knows all about being poor

He wrote about his days in school where he had to dip into his daddy's trust fund just to survive.

[RedStateLiberal]

2. I love how they're encouraging the youth

to GOTV.

[JBoy]

3. Also under the "Get real, Mitt" category:

1. How he's also been unemployed.
2. How he and Ann struggled through college (by selling off stock).

[rfranklin]

7. Don't forget he had to live in a drafty castle in France no less!

And he only had one servant on that mission!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. Good

I like the fact info is repeated in the ad if viewers didn't get it the first time.

[obxhead]

9. Yes

Pick one message and repeat it 2 or 3 times in the same ad.

[RepublicansRZombies]

8. It is more realistic to suggest that Romney himself pay for everyone's college

He took all of the money from what would have been jobs in the US and stuck it in the Cayman Islands.

He personally has more than enough to pay for thousands of students.

Take a risk, How about it Mitt?

[Chemisse]

11. Asking your parents for money is taking a risk?

I guess Romney fancies himself quite the adventurer for relying on his family's money to pay for his education.

Too bad all high school graduates don't have one-percenters for parents.

[tomm2thumbs]

12. Great ad - gets the parents and the kids mad about it at the same time

Kids don't want to have to borrow money and parents don't want to lose financial aid programs