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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Thu Dec 29, 2011, 10:40 PM Dec 2011

Mitt Romney's Marie Antoinette Charge 'Laughable' Coming From 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar

Mitt Romney's Marie Antoinette Charge 'Laughable' Coming From 'Quarter-Billion-Dollar Man': DNC
http://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

(snip)
"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
how is it possible to be so immoral? BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2011 #2
plastic outside, nothing inside. rurallib Dec 2011 #3
yep. If only there were tentacles. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2011 #9
sociopath. pansypoo53219 Dec 2011 #4
People like this could fire hundreds of workers in cold blood and not lose an OUNCE of sleep over it HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #7
Perhaps Romney is Amoral, not immoral..nt. Stuart G Dec 2011 #8
1% Republicons got no grasp of how lame they are SpiralHawk Dec 2011 #5
I work for a living and B Calm Dec 2011 #6
! BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2011 #10

FSogol

(45,476 posts)
1. Don't forget Romney believes the banks should foreclose on more homes to end the financial crisis
Thu Dec 29, 2011, 10:44 PM
Dec 2011

and that he claims his sons are serving their country by working on his campaign.

Romney =

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
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 09:34 AM
Dec 2011

Socio. Path.

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
6. I work for a living and
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 07:16 AM
Dec 2011

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. . .

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