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« on: November 07, 2011, 08:52:48 am »

ALOOFNESS-GATE: Republican Frontrunner Romney Offends Fellow American On Airplane

Nov. 7, 2011

One reason the Republicans are cycling through one non-Romney candidate after another appears to be that they're desperate to stave off the inevitable Romney candidacy, in which the former Massachusetts governor's flaws are fully exposed.


One of those flaws, of course, is Romney's aloofness. At times, he just doesn't seem like he's down with the people.

On a recent flight from Florida, trying to address this deficiency, Romney sat in coach.

This itself is a comical act given how rich he is, but a candidate's gotta do what a candidate's gotta do.

But then he ruined the effect by displaying more interest in his iPad than a fellow American!

Carolyn McClanahan of Jacksonville, Florida, was sitting next to Romney, and she wanted to tell him all about her plan to fix the healthcare system.

But Romney didn't listen!

Instead, reports Emmarie Huetteman of the the New York Times,

“He looked at me blankly and said, ‘I understand,’ then put his iPad headphones in and kept reading,” she said.

So Carolyn presumably did what every self-respecting American would do if not suitably pandered to by a Presidential candidate: Took her story to the New York Times.

The moral of the story, of course, is that if Romney is going to pretend he's an ordinary American by flying coach, he's also going to have to act like an ordinary American by listening to his aisle-mates' boring ideas about how to fix the country.

If he's not prepared to do that, he should just fly private.

Meanwhile, the GOP's "Anyone-But-Romney" hopes and dreams are shifting from the imploding Herman Cain to the already-written-off Newt Gingrich...

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/aloofness-gate-republican-frontrunner-romney-offends-fellow-american-on-airplane-2011-11


That guy is such an empty suit.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2011, 03:58:09 pm »

Architect of Romney's healthcare law says it's 'the same' as Obama's
 By Sam Baker  -  11/16/11 04:02 PM ET

White House hopeful Mitt Romney is “lying” when he says the healthcare law he signed in Massachusetts is substantively different from President Obama’s, a key architect of both plans said Wednesday.

Jonathan Gruber, a healthcare economist and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the comments in an interview with Capital New York, criticizing Romney’s attempt to argue that the federal healthcare law goes further than what he signed as Massachusetts governor.

The problem is there is no way to say that," Gruber said. "Because they're the same f---ing bill. He just can't have his cake and eat it too. Basically, you know, it's the same bill. He can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he's just lying. The only big difference is he didn't have to pay for his. Because the federal government paid for it. Where at the federal level, we have to pay for it, so we have to raise taxes."

Gruber helped craft Romney’s healthcare bill and also consulted with the Obama administration during the healthcare debate.

Romney’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination haven’t hit him especially hard on healthcare lately. The field has largely agreed on a “repeal ‘ObamaCare’” message and left it at that.

But there are indeed strong similarities between the two laws. They share the same basic structure: establish a new marketplace to buy private insurance; provide government subsidies to people who can’t afford coverage otherwise; and use an individual mandate to bring healthy patients into the system.

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/194075-architect-of-romneys-health-bill-says-its-the-same-as-obamas?utm_campaign=hillhealthwatch&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Romney will say whatever his handlers tell him to say.
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 10:20:46 am »

The lady should mind her own business and let others alone on an airplane.  I always wanted people to stay out of my space when traveling.  There's no excuse for her ignorant behavior.
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 12:25:58 am »

The "beauty" aspect of the candidates aside, I believe what the election results of 2012 mean is that the "takers" among our voting citizens outnumber the "givers" now.  They're a little like children with their wants and their not being able to understand that money doesn't grow on trees. However, little kids have an excuse due to their age.

As for the age 44-and-under crowd Obama got the majority of votes from (while Romney got those over 44) >someday< they will finally have to grow up and face reality, that mom and dad knew best, and it will probably be a very hard lesson for them to accept, especially when their playthings are repossessed. 

I'm just thankful, though, that the country should be able to survive through whatever continued harder times lie ahead, because, tonight, no new hope came forth, only the same groping through the dark, or treading water, to simply try and last another 4 years before some catastropic event wakes up even the blindest of those who failed to see the news-media's unchallenged  puppet they put in the highest office in the world---twice.

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