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Botany

(70,489 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 09:52 AM Jan 2012

Mitt, God wanted me to be rich so all you 99% people STFU

http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/mitt-romney-tells-the-99-to-stop-being-jealous-quiet-down/

ROMNEY: You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have
a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one
percent — and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent —
you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent
with the concept of one nation under God.

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So what if they made this money firing good people because after all
we are "one nation under God."

ATTN: Republicans please make this turd stick your nominee.
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Mitt, God wanted me to be rich so all you 99% people STFU (Original Post) Botany Jan 2012 OP
Quick! Call the whaaambulance! Mittens is being oppressed! PotatoChip Jan 2012 #1
that picture undermines their "success" B.S. Enrique Jan 2012 #2
What does "one nation under God" have too do with it? SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #3
I hope the Democrats will articulate a strong counter-argument deutsey Jan 2012 #4
I just don't understand this part... RevStPatrick Jan 2012 #5
Has anyone got a screen save of him having his shoes cleaned malaise Jan 2012 #6
As a progressive I'm excited by a Rmoney candidacy. CanonRay Jan 2012 #7
He will be a target rich environment Botany Jan 2012 #10
Is that Obama JJW Jan 2012 #11
Rmoney sounds to me like a medevil lord CanonRay Jan 2012 #8
I hear he's a Mammon. WingDinger Jan 2012 #9
The sad thing is rbixby Jan 2012 #12
Republicans are just wrong when they claim being rich is a sign of success treestar Jan 2012 #13
I'm starting to think Lewis Black is on to something. Initech Jan 2012 #14
I first heard this bs when I was living in Utah siligut Jan 2012 #15
He wants to be our oligarch. Quantess Jan 2012 #16
What an asswipe Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2012 #17
Isn't it really Bane Capital Dont call me Shirley Jan 2012 #18

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
3. What does "one nation under God" have too do with it?
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:07 AM
Jan 2012
Dog whistle.

Trying to link OWS with Obama .


Wealth=Success , except when it doesn't *trust fund babies*

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
4. I hope the Democrats will articulate a strong counter-argument
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:07 AM
Jan 2012

that clearly states what the real issues are (hint: they have nothing to do with envy).

God help us if they ignore it, offer some mealy-mouthed rebuttal, or, worse of all, try to one-up Mitt's bullshit.

 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
5. I just don't understand this part...
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:07 AM
Jan 2012
"When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent..."


When has the president ever done that?
Did I miss just miss it?
Or is Mittens lying again?


malaise

(268,916 posts)
6. Has anyone got a screen save of him having his shoes cleaned
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:12 AM
Jan 2012

in front of a private jet - from the Newt docu-advertisement?

Botany

(70,489 posts)
10. He will be a target rich environment
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 11:07 AM
Jan 2012


But after all who among us doesn't get their shoes shined as they are
about to get aboard a private jet?

CanonRay

(14,100 posts)
8. Rmoney sounds to me like a medevil lord
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:44 AM
Jan 2012

Last edited Thu Jan 12, 2012, 11:26 AM - Edit history (1)

explaining to the peasants that God want him to be a lord, and they should be happy with their lot.

rbixby

(1,140 posts)
12. The sad thing is
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 12:35 PM
Jan 2012

he's the one with the best chances against Obama anyway, and those aren't very good.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
13. Republicans are just wrong when they claim being rich is a sign of success
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 12:40 PM
Jan 2012

and is thus a personal attribute being rewarded. Someone born with Romney's connections should STFU about envy too. We should respond to that crap with: yes we do envy you. Not having to worry about money at all and just being able to take advantage of the opportunities life has handed you. Romney does not understand what it is like to look for a job and not be able to find one.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
14. I'm starting to think Lewis Black is on to something.
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 01:25 PM
Jan 2012

On one of his specials he said "If you own a company and it can't explain in one sentence what it does it should be illegal."

Bain Capital is just one such company.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
15. I first heard this bs when I was living in Utah
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:45 PM
Jan 2012

Paraphrasing: "Aren't we lucky god loves us so much", as we attended a very grotesquely ostentatious dinner. Along the same lines as the pharaohs claiming they were the off-spring of the gods.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
16. He wants to be our oligarch.
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:56 PM
Jan 2012

Matt Lauer pressed him on income inequality and Romney said something like, "we can talk about that sort of thing in quiet rooms.."

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,911 posts)
17. What an asswipe
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 04:27 PM
Jan 2012

Good luck in getting elected with that attitude. All the Citizens United money won't save your as Willard.

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