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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney's Marie Antoinette Charge 'Laughable' Coming From 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar
Mitt Romney's Marie Antoinette Charge 'Laughable' Coming From 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar Man': DNChttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/dnc-mitt-romney-barack-obama-marie-antoinette_n_1175429.html
Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the allied Democratic National Committee swiftly responded to Mitt Romney's latest personal attack on the president with character-related attacks of their own.
In an interview with The Huffington Post's Jon Ward on Thursday, Romney charged the president with woeful insensitivity for suggesting that people were too pessimistic about economic conditions as is, considering where they could have been. It was, he asserted, a line reminiscent of one of history's haughtiest figures.
"When the president's characterization of our economy was, 'It could be worse,' it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: 'Let them eat cake,'" said Romney
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"It is actually laughable that the 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar Man' would call President Obama out of touch -- and use the example of a French monarch to make the point," DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell said in a statement to The Huffington Post on Thursday evening. "This is the same guy who joked that he was 'unemployed,' offered a $10,000 bet as casually as one might buy a cup of coffee, and said 'corporations are people.' He's also the same person who, as a former corporate buyout specialist for Bain Capital, made his fortune firing thousands of workers, cutting benefits, bankrupting American companies and outsourcing jobs overseas. He's the one who won't release his tax returns -- most likely because we would all learn that he pays a lower tax rate than middle class wage-earners. Laughable."
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Mitt Romney's Marie Antoinette Charge 'Laughable' Coming From 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar (Original Post)
cal04
Dec 2011
OP
Don't forget Romney believes the banks should foreclose on more homes to end the financial crisis
FSogol
Dec 2011
#1
People like this could fire hundreds of workers in cold blood and not lose an OUNCE of sleep over it
HughBeaumont
Dec 2011
#7
FSogol
(45,476 posts)1. Don't forget Romney believes the banks should foreclose on more homes to end the financial crisis
and that he claims his sons are serving their country by working on his campaign.
Romney =
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)2. how is it possible to be so immoral?
So suave and smooth looking and so thoroughly immoral?
rurallib
(62,406 posts)3. plastic outside, nothing inside.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)9. yep. If only there were tentacles.
Monsters are supposed to have tentacles!!!
pansypoo53219
(20,971 posts)4. sociopath.
nt
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)7. People like this could fire hundreds of workers in cold blood and not lose an OUNCE of sleep over it
Socio. Path.
Stuart G
(38,416 posts)8. Perhaps Romney is Amoral, not immoral..nt.
SpiralHawk
(32,944 posts)5. 1% Republicons got no grasp of how lame they are
Pathetic pointless whining
B Calm
(28,762 posts)6. I work for a living and
I don't have anything in common with ROMNEY! I can only wish for things that Romney takes for granted.
Gee wouldn't it be great if someone came up to you and said hey . . . . . what are you doing now for a living?
and your reply could be:
Oh, I sit around and manage my family fortune and every four years I run for president. . .
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)10. !
really