To me, Ann Rmoney comes across as mean spirited.

[Stinky The Clown]

She has at best minimal control of her mean spirited nature, almost, but not quite, managing to conceal it.

Hers is the meanness that comes of a life of privilege and entitlement.

[Grateful for Hope]

1. Absolutely agree

She has no concept of how most of us think or live.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Even worse than that

She does NOT care.

[FarPoint]

31. I see a little Barbara Bush in her...

I can't recall her exact words today but the thoughts will forever stick in my mind....When the homeless victims of Katrina were sent to a stadium in Texas I believe....she said something how grateful they should be....

The short of it....she was condescending and belittling. Clueless to the plight of the victims.


Help me out if you can.

Oh...wait...I Googled it...Update.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07barbara.html
snip>


Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off


WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.


"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."

end>

[Horse with no Name]

34. "this is working out...(chuckles)...well for them...paraphrased as she saw the survivors of Katrina

in Houston.

[FarPoint]

38. Thanks....

This is how I will always remember her......

Ann rMoney is from the same mold in my opinion.

[Grateful for Hope]

54. true that

[mainstreetonce]

2. She is

the Oscar deLa Renta version os Sarah Palin.

[livetohike]

3. I don't think she wanted Mitt to run for President. She always looks agitated

and this is probably too much work for her.

[Bjorn Against]

22. I think she did want him to run, she may have even been the one who convinced him to run

I get the impression that she really wants to be First Lady very badly, she is not agitated that Mitt ran she is agitated that not everyone views them as the greatest people on Earth.

[obxhead]

45. Exactly. "It's their turn"

She believes they are entitled to WH and is infuriated that "you people" don't understand that.

[Botany]

63. It's our turn

You just don't understand Ann and Mitt were born to be in the White House.

noblesse oblige [(noh- bles oh- bleezh )]

The belief that the wealthy and privileged are obliged to help those less fortunate.
From French, meaning “nobility obligates.”

[spanone]

94. 'it's our turn now'. chilling to me

[Kurovski]

89. Just to be serious for a moment...Being First Lady is a grueling job.

She will in all likelihood provide greatly diminished service.

As I've said before it's a tough call to admit you have to let go of the dream.

[livetohike]

99. Yes, it's a grueling job.....and I think she doesn't want to do it. Not because of

her physical illness, but because of her attitude towards having to work.

[Kurovski]

100. I know all about having to bow out, to let go of a dream that's right in your hands.

it's heartbreaking, and it can ruin a person's life. I'm not going there with you.

At any rate, she would be one of the very worst First Ladies in memory. Even First Lady Barbara Bush had a sincere interest in reading literacy, and a constitution like a plow horse. First Lady Nancy Reagan had compassion for those with AIDS.

Ann's strictly been into herself and her own little world.

[lonestarnot]

4. Comes across? How about she is.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Yes, she does!

Can you imagine what a terror she'll become if her husband becomes POTUS?

The whole situation is almost too scary to contemplate.

[madaboutharry]

6. I think you are right.

She is a cold fish.

[RKP5637]

79. Yep, that's exactly how I feel about her. I hadn't expressed it that way, even

thought about it, but you summed up my feelings exactly!

[etherealtruth]

7. In a moment of compassion ...

I might say this is too much for her. She is not used to her and her family being challenged about anything ... she has clearly come to believe they are above reproach ... and this is unhinging her.

How would she handle the international criticism that is often aimed at the POTUS?

I need to believe she never will!

[hedgehog]

32. I would agree with you - In fact, my guess is that she is

very compassionate when it comes to fellow Mormons. But she is in a bubble, and doesn't understand that most people have a very limited support system.

As for taking criticism of Mitt - my guess is that she has spent 40 some years telling herself that he is the greatest man to ever walk the earth. Hearing other people disagree rattles her entire world view!

[Whovian]

8. Reminds me of an old Hall and Oats song.

[freshwest]

12. Oh, I loved those guys.

[Jellybeanz]

91. LOL

YUP

[onehandle]

9. She doesn't want to 'waste her beautiful mind' on us.

Barbara Bush, redux.

[Cane4Dems]

10. Def a mean woman....thinks of everyone as her inferior

I never understood how she said that she too supports repealing health care, yet then claims that she understands MS patients struggles.....not all MS patients can afford 90,000 horse therapy sessions like she did

[lexx21]

36. Anyone who uses..

terms like "those people" or "you people" obviously has a superiority complex. When you see someone separating themselves from the majority of the public like that, you have an issue on your hands.

[calimary]

67. Welcome to DU! OF COURSE she has a superiority complex.

Probably goes around thinking to herself "MY husband could BUY you a hundred thousand times over!"

I see one word in the back of my mind whenever she appears - SMUG. I have never seen anyone so smug. Condescending, entitled, imperious, arrogant, and smug.

It probably hasn't occurred to her that the President of the United States is a public SERVANT. That's the term used. ALL government workers are public servants. And what they do for a living is called PUBLIC SERVICE. Her ladyship would probably gag if she ever tried to wrap her own little beautiful mind around that.

I've never seen a superiority complex on display that's THIS flagrant.

[EC]

44. No, most of them still have to live day to day lives..

like Michelle Obama's Dad did strapped into crutches and going to work every day to support his family.

[freshwest]

11. Angry at anyone questioning her, period, is how I read it. A lot of anger there.

[C_U_L8R]

13. A DUer posted her horoscope

and it suggested that she's freakin' Cruella De Vil

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122010291

[kestrel91316]

14. Queen Cruella

[mrmpa]

15. Ya think? eom

[Horse with no Name]

16. She is a very mean-spirited entitled person

who happens to have been diagnosed with a disease that many Americans deal with on a daily basis.

One has nothing to do with the other.

[FarPoint]

46. If the GOP steals this election; again

and she is faux first lady....What do you think will happen to the Whitehouse garden?

[Horse with no Name]

47. Same thing that happened to the solar panels when Reagan became POTUS.

They do not believe in sustainability. They believe in replaceability.

[CoffeeCat]

18. You can learn a lot from micro expressions...

She looks angry. She looks bitter and pissed that she has to waste her precious time
explaining herself to "you people."

She's got a Gucci face--snotty, forced smiles and lots of tension around the mouth. She looks like one of those mean cats with the long, white fur. She's practically a Fancy Feast commercial.

You know damn well in private that she wildly complains about the fact that she is forced to convince the unwashed masses.

And before I get trounced on for making fun of her looks--it's not her looks per se. It's her facial tension and the angry undercurrent that you can see--even when she's smiling. She is not genuine. We've all known elitist, fake people who smile through anger and condescension. Ann Romney's face is a perfect example of that.

I mean really. She's all ready called "We The People"..."you people." Ultimately, she resents the fact that she has to explain herself to the little people--who, in her mind are undeserving and uncouth peasants.

[Horse with no Name]

21. She truly is a caricature of the evil aristocrat

and she detests having to answer to us.

[Pathwalker]

42. watch her eyes when she smiles. Like Mitt,

her eyes don't smile either. It's downright creepy.

[aquart]

60. To be fair, that could be the botox.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. I see exactly the same thing you do - the tension in her face, particularly her mouth.

Her lips seem juuuuust barely this side of a sneer.

[BellaKos]

48. The word you're looking for is "countenance." n/t

[polichick]

80. "She's practically a Fancy Feast commercial." LOL!

[CoffeeCat]

93. You're probably laughing...

...because you know the white cat that I'm talking about in those commercials! And Ann Romney looks just like that cat.

[polichick]

98. Yes - what a great analogy...

[HillWilliam]

19. Not so much mean-spirited as

completely thoughtless. She's never been in any position of want or need in her entire life. Everything has been laid out for her since birth: what to wear, what to say, what to eat, what to think. A certain smugness naturally develops from that insulation. Having never met a really poor person, she probably really thinks all the answers are as easy as the ones handed to her. She's never had to think through hard reality and it really comes across.

She's ten feet wide and only a micrometer deep.

[GoCubsGo]

43. Yep. She she doesn't strike me as being "mean".

Condescending and entitled, for sure, but she doesn't really strike me as wishing ill-will on others. I think she just doesn't give a shit about anyone but herself, her family, and her richey-rich buddies.

[SoapBox]

20. Her "aura" to me says selfish.

Self centered, all about me, selfish and greed is good.

[rhett o rick]

23. Many of the wealthy, esp those that dont earn their wealth have what I call class-sociopathy.

Some are mean like Ann appears and Babs Bush, and some are cluelessly sociopathic, like Barbara Walters. Her fawning over Dick Cheney made me puke.

[begin_within]

49. And Barb's good friends with Roger Ailes...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. She reminds me of a Grand Vizier

You can't even pay a compliment without committing a possible offense. The French would call a person like this "un baton de merde" ("a shit stick&quot because she is so defensive and testy you can't decide which end to pick up.

[lunatica]

26. The worse their campaign gets the meaner she looks

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. "Common People" by Pulp (video): "You'll never watch your life slide out of view..."

This song has always been a favorite of mine, since it came out in 1995. In 2007, NME magazine placed "Common People" at number three in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do.

Complete lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pulp/commonpeople.html

[Cooley Hurd]

59. Perfect!

[atreides1]

28. Personally

I put her one step above Jan Brewer!

[treestar]

29. Very

It shows in her face.

[AzSweet]

30. To me..

and I hate to stroke with such a broad brush..but when it comes down to it, most of "them" are in my experience.

[Ilsa]

33. ITA, and I think she makes Willard

look harsher, not "softer". I don't see her as a sincerely caring person.

[chuckstevens]

35. Marie Antoinette

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We've told all "YOU PEOPLE" all we're going to about our taxes! The Romneys don't get:WE GET TO INTERVIEW THEM FOR THE JOB AND IT'S OK TO DARE ASK QUESTIONS THAT MAKE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE!

I'm waiting for her to utter the Dickensian words, "Are they no more poor houses?" I've said it once on DU, but I'll say it again: doesn't she remind you of a younger Barbara Bush?

[gael]

37. That is because you dont know your place

[PatrynXX]

39. thats the word I've been looking for

She's no Laura Bush either. Reminds me of our nasty neighbors wife. (hey she's the one that threw a fence post at my dad. Sometimes think she's meaner than the husband. o_O also known as she makes Palin seem rather sweet.

[Sedona]

40. "Every time she opens her mouth sounds like a scene from 'The Help'"

~Stephanie Miller

[Kurovski]

78. lol

"Hello, Bakers Square? Do you take custom orders?"

[greiner3]

41. "To me, Ann Rmoney comes across as mean spirited."

DUH!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

50. It's the whole "Talking down to the inferiors"

While defending her "superior" status and getting highly offended at the CONCEPT of equality from lesser beings.

[Whovian]

51. May get me banned but she's just the human equivilant

of a female dog. You know. The B word.

[RBInMaine]

52. Multi-Cadillac-Driving Plastic Rich Bitch Stepford Wife who has no clue.

[napkinz]

53. she's very condescending

[Rosa Luxemburg]

55. She comes over as false, superficial

[liberal N proud]

56. The one of many clues is calling the media and American people "you people"

she looks down on 99% of the people.

[DPC.Comment]

57. Eh...people see what they want to see

Eh...I think most people see what they want to see. Some people think she comes across as mean or entitled (I don't) and some people think Michelle comes across as abusive of her First Lady entitlements (I don't).

Instead of blogging about what one "senses" about Ann or Michelle, whether they are or aren't mean, abusive, she-devils, etc., they ought to focus on more substantive things like Ryan being anti-gay rights or Obama failing to keep his promise to shut the detention camp at Guantanamo.

[Kurovski]

75. You headed right for the trampoline!

Welcome, stranger!

most people vote on all these "perception" things, Mitt urges folks to use thier instincts.

such is life. "wouldashouldacoulda" hardly ever works.

[Stinky The Clown]

77. :snort:

[Nostradammit]

86. OK, partner.

[HopeHoops]

58. I still haven't found a way to describe her without getting my post hidden.

[Kurovski]

64. Is calling her a "Phoney Baloney" too phallo-centric?

Because it's certainly a nice start.

[HopeHoops]

68. I'd put that in the "extremely polite" category compared to some of the things I've posted about her

[Kurovski]

71. Perhaps something in the range speculation upon what she might want to do with her immense baloney?

[HopeHoops]

76. No, mostly words that are considered, um, well, "socially unacceptable" on DU (and for good reasons)

There's just nothing polite I can say about her. Nothing. In some ways she's worse than Palin (and I had some threads locked in DU2 over that one). I've got a little bit of a fucking language problem.

[Quixote1818]

61. But she shops at Costco like the rest of us. She is one of us! nt

[Kurovski]

72. It's wear she buys her baloney!

Her great big shopping cart of baloney. Certainly you must have seen her wheeling it around in public? She certainly likes to eat big hunks of it.

"Down the hatch, Little Scarfin' Annie"!

What's so nice about her is that she is always sharing her baloney, and urges us to choke down a fresh slice of it nearly every single day. So kind!

[Kurovski]

73. Yeah, so I misspelled "Where"

just shut up and eat your Romney-provided luncheon meat.

[Marie Marie]

95. LOL. BTW, if you catch you own spelling error,

then the misspelling won't go on your "permanent record".

[Kurovski]

96. Well,

Thanky, teach!

[Odin2005]

62. The Pukes like mean-spirited.

[polichick]

81. They do seem to love it - and they're turned on by bullying. CRAZY!

[Kurovski]

82. I do too

Directed at the blindly powerful, the liars, the demonstrably greedy, the sociopathic. Etc,



I think it's ugly to prop them up and protect them, even as they make life difficult, if not impossible for 99% of the world's population.

[DallasNE]

65. They Make A Perfect Pair

In fact they both were critical of the host for asking the questions they were asking. It's like "what do you think, this is a free country" type of response. They think they are the country.

But it is not just the wealth that makes them this way. Compare and contrast Romney with either Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. Neither of them are anything like the Romney's.

[Warpy]

66. I'm sure her economic peers think she's a lovely woman

who is a gracious hostess. She might even be kind and generous with her time.

It's just her inability to deal with people she sees as potential servants as equals that makes her come across as mean. She spends her entire life creating that reserve and distance and can't turn it off because her husband got a wild hair and is running for president.

Do I think such a woman should ever be First Lady? Hell no. She's so ignorant and tactless the State Department would have to follow her around with a pooper scooper.

However, I do know her type very well. I wish I didn't.

[Kurovski]

74. Her botox parties are all the rage with the tabernacle choir!

[SoCalDem]

69. A technically purer definition of Ann Romney.. She's a "lady of leisure"

SoCalDem (98,030 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2012, 02:34 PM

A technically purer definition of Ann Romney

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002560182

Macmillan English Dictionary

lady of leisure

a woman who does not have to work, especially because her husband earns a lot of money

...............................................................................................................................................................................

Ladies of leisure may or may not have children..entirely their choice


The extreme wealth of the husband allows for all the help necessary ..again by choice

The word "leisure" does not mean that she reclines all day long , eating bon bons..it just means that she is AT leisure from the stresses of figuring out how long that package of bologna will last, or that the washer is broken AGAIN..or that they cannot afford to take a sick kid to the doctor.. or that the electric bill is $160, and the checkbook balance is $95 & payday's a week off... stuff like that.

Ladies of leisure have the opportunity to CHOOSE whether to be a hands-on Mom or one who supervises, but delegates care. Ann Romney won the husband lotto.

I'd be willing to bet money that most of the women pictured below would love to be able to CHOOSE to be a stay-ay-home Mom too..but they probably did not choose a rich man (or have a rich man choose them). I doubt that many (any?) of them chose to wake up a sleeping baby or a sick toddler so they could serve food to strangers or wait on cranky people, and then turn over a large portion of their paycheck to people who watch their kids. These women still have the stay-at-home-Mom chores to do when their paid-jobs are done for the day. They are NOT ladies of leisure.

[RepublicansRZombies]

90. 'Ann Romney won the husband lotto' if you can live with a entitled self centered vacuous idiot

Some things are more important than money.

[SoCalDem]

92. They are two peas in a pod.. She probably has no problem with his odd behavior

and I think she LOVES the money

[wildeyed]

70. Yeah, and it is not just a partisan thing either.

She drips arrogance and entitlement.

[patrice]

83. Not sure about "mean", but you can be damned certain that she's NEVER been subjected to

honest criticism. Mitt has at least been in politics, so he knows at least that much about how other people think and feel and has had the luxury of writing it off to "political agendas" too.

This is likely almost completely new territory for Ann, so I'm not thinking "mean", just ignorant.

[patrice]

84. I'd be willing to bet she heavily DISLIKES being subject to other people's opinions of her.

[mahina]

85. Her theme song

[uponit7771]

87. "YOU PEOPLE" just need to vote for Romney or they'll steal someones pension

[lumpy]

88. I can visualize Mittwife standing on the White House lawn telling us how

Mitthubby is so sick of heart he can't handle the current Mideast problem.

[Kurovski]

97. More lost film of the young Princess Ann Rmoney.

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?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[ClusterFreak]

101. You nailed it.

"It's our turn..."

"No one will work harder..."

"Women, you need to wake up!"

The first quote from an interview she gave with Mitt a while back, when she seemed to suggest she and Mittens were indeed entitled to the presidency...the second one from her supposedly wonderful RNC speech where she actually wagged her finger as she spoke, and to me at least seemed to then suggest by implication "so you'd better damn well vote for my husband!"...and the third came last week at some rally where she decided that since female voters don't appear to like her husband much, they needed a good scolding in order to bring them on board.

This woman comes across as just what you say. I never liked her. I'm sorry she has M.S., but I don't like her and like her husband even less.