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In reply to the discussion: What a big Romney donor said tonight about ''common people'' [View all]JHB
(38,304 posts)19. They also beleive their own PR that THEY are the ones driving the economy...
...and not the ones bleeding it dry.
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"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
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"It's not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine," Michael Zambrelli said as the couple waited in their SUV for clearance into the Creeks shortly after the candidate's motorcade flew by and entered the pine-tree lined estate. "He's basically been biting the hand that fed him in '08. ... I would bet 25% of the people here were supporters of Obama in '08. And they're here now."
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"It's not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine," Michael Zambrelli said as the couple waited in their SUV for clearance into the Creeks shortly after the candidate's motorcade flew by and entered the pine-tree lined estate. "He's basically been biting the hand that fed him in '08. ... I would bet 25% of the people here were supporters of Obama in '08. And they're here now."
Mr. Zambrelli, you have a misconception as to what the engine is. You're not the engine, you're one of the people who rely on it.
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Big donor right about one thing-I don't get why I have to pay for their tax breaks when they
midnight
Jul 2012
#3
They aspire to be aristocrats, not that they actually are. GOP= We think we are aristocrats.
alfredo
Jul 2012
#34
Some-fucking-how, I have developed a whole new level of respect for Mr. Gottfried.
Systematic Chaos
Jul 2012
#40
"my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote"...
ljm2002
Jul 2012
#30
I wonder if she can fix a toilet or change the bag in a vacuum cleaner or knows her zip code.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#26