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In reply to the discussion: Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’ [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)47. I think he acts like one of those manikins come alive from The Twilight Zone. Nevertheless...
his handlers have a strategy, born from long success with those tactics, and there is a segment that will follow along, some that won't.
The radical conservatives have pissed off virtually every group except white men with guns, (they are already pissed off, apparently), but it is early, and November is a long time away, with economic slowdown almost a certainty. It is possible all that could become a non-issue and we start tanking on jobs again, 'cause we can only push so many home health care aides, baristas, and Walmart greeters out into the market.
Then it might be a different election. I just can't imagine living in a country where a person can buy up companies (take a cut), load them with debt they can never repay (take a cut), watch them go under (take a cut) and walk away (take a big, big, damn cut), and then become president on the bodies of the working people he destroyed, but I can see where people are in many cases feel and think that they are worse off after 4 years, and want a change, without looking that deep.
The question is will all or enough of the independents choose him or not.
Actually the Mormons do one thing I know of very, very well - which I can't imagine ol' phony $$ baloney doing - and that's practice community. They teach everyone to store food, and have a pantry where members who need it can get it - free if need be. They have their own small canning-quipment-equipped commercial kitchens in many communities, shared by members and sometimes the public. I don't participate in religion, but I admire what they have done in that regard. Ought to be more of those in regular communities, open to the neighborhood. Maybe we are going there...
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Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’ [View all]
ProSense
Apr 2012
OP
Obama is a Mormon who put a dog on his car who destroyed companies and jobs at Bain capital
aint_no_life_nowhere
Apr 2012
#27
Romney also spent time in France during Vietnam war while to stay out of conflict.
julian09
Apr 2012
#7
If that was true, Obama would say he wanted to pahk his cahr close to the pahk.
Major Hogwash
Apr 2012
#8
And the morans forget that businesses are bankrupted by their CEO's every day in this country.
Ikonoklast
Apr 2012
#12
What Romney is saying is that a black man has no business at Harvard AT ALL--unless there was
MADem
Apr 2012
#11
LOL... He then goes on to say "...or maybe just not enough time actually working in the real world"
DaveJ
Apr 2012
#15
Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’
jopeli
Apr 2012
#21
can't believe someone running for president could be so self unaware! holy Jesus from planet KOLOB!
BREMPRO
Apr 2012
#44
I think he acts like one of those manikins come alive from The Twilight Zone. Nevertheless...
jtuck004
Apr 2012
#47
The dude is clueless and his campaign is in distress....much ado about a fanatical dream...not
opihimoimoi
Apr 2012
#41
All part of the GOPs Attack on Education and Intelligence- Enough already-we know stupidity when we
fightthegoodfightnow
Apr 2012
#54
Basically, he takes his own problematic qualities and projects them on his opponents...
MrScorpio
Apr 2012
#57