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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 09:12 AM Aug 2012

Mitt Romney's Whiteboard Blues

ANALYSIS: Everything you need to know about how this week went for Mitt Romney can be summed up in one word: whiteboard.

There he was in Greer, S.C., with a black dry-erase marker in hand scrawling out on a wood-framed whiteboard how -- in his view -- a Romney presidency would be better for current seniors and future recipients of Medicare than four more years of President Obama.

"The differences in our Medicare perspective could not be more stark and dramatic," Romney said at the hastily-arranged news conference. "As the seniors in America understand what the president's plan is doing to Medicare, they're going to find it unacceptable."

Whatever hand-written message Romney was trying to get across on Medicare got largely obscured by his decision to wade deeper into the debate over his tax returns during the question-and-answer session that followed his lecture.

But none of what the presumptive Republican nominee said yesterday in South Carolina really matters all that much. The moment Romney allowed the campaign to shift, almost fully, to the issue of Medicare -- as opposed to the economy, unemployment and rising gas prices -- was the moment he started losing the week.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-whiteboard-blues/story?id=17026381#.UC5C192PW8A

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Mitt Romney's Whiteboard Blues (Original Post) maddezmom Aug 2012 OP
But what's worse that the media won't talk about BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #1
If he said something stupid, he can blame the marker fumes. Coyotl Aug 2012 #2
. rocktivity Aug 2012 #3

BumRushDaShow

(128,905 posts)
1. But what's worse that the media won't talk about
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 09:24 AM
Aug 2012

is the fact that this man actually stood outside on a lawn somewhere with a damn "whiteboard" and markers and lectured the press and other attendees (and theoretically TV viewers) as if he were in a board meeting.

I mean seriously, what was he thinking?

I next expected him to bust out with a screen, laptop, and powerpoint presentation, filled with charts and graphs and other crap that is the stuff of corporate office meetings. Then I was surprised he didn't whip out the flip charts in order to solicit questions and come up brainstormed solutions.

Governing a nation does not equal running a business.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
2. If he said something stupid, he can blame the marker fumes.
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 09:40 AM
Aug 2012

This is an example of how un-intelligent Americans are and of how much power capitalism has in America. Using a whiteboard exposes the user to hazardous chemicals that impact the brain and can permanently damage cerebral function. Capitalists sell them to children as toys, and they are in classrooms. Yes, the dose is low most of the time, but the fact are the facts. Stupidity and ignorance rule the day in the USA.

Don't vote for a man who huffs solvents

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