Romney talks housing, ends up defending banks

[highplainsdem]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57365607/romney-talks-housing-ends-up-defending-banks/

(AP) LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to ground zero of the housing crisis Tuesday to assail rival Newt Gingrich over his ties to the government-backed mortgage companies that helped make it worse, a message Romney has been pushing since he landed in the state. But that meant he also had to talk about banks — and he continued what's become a habit of comparing companies to people.

Romney was standing outside a Fannie Mae-foreclosed home in a struggling neighborhood telling a small crowd why they're having so much trouble. "In this case, it's because of the banks," he explained. "Well, the banks aren't bad people. They're just overwhelmed right now."

During a Monday roundtable with business owners struggling in Florida's hobbled housing market, the former Massachusetts governor told the group that their troubles with banks came because the lenders were worried about staying in business.

"The banks are scared to death, of course," he said. "They're feeling the same thing that you're feeling. And so they just want to pretend that all this is just going to get paid some day."

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Keep talking, Mittens. I'm sure all those homeowners who have faced or are facing foreclosure want to hear about how the poor widdle banks are "scared to death" too...

[liberal N proud]

1. He or is aids have not way of understanding what America needs

They cannot relate to the real people of this country, so far removed from reality they are.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. This guy really can't tell the difference between a human being and a corporation.

"The banks are scared to death"...."They're feeling..." Sure, Mitt.

[yardwork]

5. "The banks are feeling the same thing that you're feeling." This is truly psychotic.

The man thinks that banks are "just as" scared as ordinary people. He's delusional.

I'm very disappointed that all this is coming out now. Too soon.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. He has that "corporate personhood" down pretty well, sounds like.

[Lochloosa]

21. It will make great attack adds...

[NinetySix]

11. I think it's interesting how empathetic he is.

It's as though he's adopted the Clinton line, "I feel your pain," along with the literalist contention of Colbert, that corporations are people.

Clearly, his empathy extends beyond flesh and blood persons to those pitiable, set-upon corporations who are screaming at the top of their money, "what about us!?"

If you can't understand that the banks are hurting too, that they're scared too, just like all of us are, then what are you, a racist?

[colorado_ufo]

15. Does he believe that marriage is between one man and one bank?

Or, being Mormon, does he believe that it should be between one man and many banks?

[Vidar]

22. If you say "the earth is flat" often enough, you might start to believe it.

[YoungDemCA]

3. What else do you expect from a plutocrat?

He earns 100 times more in a year by sitting on his ass and watching his offshore profits increase than most people earn by actually working.

[yardwork]

4. 100 times more? He earns that much more in a day.

[YoungDemCA]

6. I was being generous to Romney....

...you're correct, though.

[yardwork]

8. Didn't mean to sound snarky, either. I got your point. Couldn't resist. Romney makes me mad.

[Enrique]

7. banks are people too my friend

good people, who have feelings just like you and me.

[Javaman]

9. the consumate used car salesman. selling shit while smiling. nt

[JBoy]

10. That's Romney's fatal flaw

Not that he supports banks over people, which he does,

but that when he gets off script, he actually says it.

[Kahuna]

12. Yep. I can see rove and christie cringing

When they hear him say this.

[highplainsdem]

13. Unless Rove is hoping for a brokered convention that will turn to Jeb Bush.

[peace frog]

19. They won't waste Jeb on 2012, regardless of the circumstances

Rove has to know that whether the GOP nominee is Romney or Gingrich, both are/will be irredeemably damaged going into the general election and will lose handily to Obama. Why waste their best in show now, when they can run Jeb in 2016 at a time when the general public will be weary of Demoratic candidates and more open to a reasonable-sounding Republican,,,,enter stage right, Jeb Bush.

[sarcasmo]

14. The more this guy talks the more wealthy he sounds.

[TatonkaJames]

16. Saw this coming years ago

Another scheme for the wealthy to divide the classes. What better than to take someone's home and then rent it back to them.
Heaven forbid they work with them to afford the home so everyone makes out. It's that bottom line with corporations and banks.
If the line isn't met, no matter that it is on the positive side, if it didn't meet expectations, lay people off or take their home.

[Smilo]

18. Romney has a disconnect

from reality.

But keep it up Mittens - we love it when you talk like that

[Odin2005]

20. Out. Of. Touch.