2016 Postmortem

caseymoz

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42. Evildoers? That's eloquent?

Fri Sep 28, 2012, 08:42 AM

Sep 2012

I'm sorry, when Bush was talking about "killing, bombing, punishing, screwing the poor," he would sometimes rise to the eloquence of a 1960s comic book. Not especially gaffe-prone, but it made you wonder what universe you were living in.

Romney's haplessness as a political speaker in contrast to his glibness as a business speaker belies his claim that running a business is anything like running a government.

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NEW ROMNEY VIDEO: In 1985, He Said Bain Would "Harvest" Companies for Profits [View all] TroyD Sep 2012 OP

say good night, stench. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2012 #1

Drip... Drip... Drip... NT Grown2Hate Sep 2012 #2

Wow trumad Sep 2012 #3

Harvesting money Justice Sep 2012 #4

what a horrible vampiric nazified word to use. it makes my skin crawl roguevalley Sep 2012 #41

Fuck 'em and forget 'em BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #5

No remorse then Hubert Flottz Sep 2012 #6

Hopefully this wil finish off Romney's claim that his main priority was creating jobs TroyD Sep 2012 #7

If corporations are people, this is Soylent Green. (nt) enough Sep 2012 #8

You SO beat me to it... Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2012 #10

I'm ready to seal the deal with the likes of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. nc4bo Sep 2012 #9

SO now corporations and people like Mitt have gone to fasttense Sep 2012 #11

+1 MNBrewer Sep 2012 #16

Kick & R n/t Dalai_1 Sep 2012 #12

posting to watch later n/t Heather MC Sep 2012 #13

Like I've said, he ain't RW Marriott, who was a REAL businessman DinahMoeHum Sep 2012 #14

Delish malaise Sep 2012 #15

More Damning than the 47% video! List left Sep 2012 #17

Translation: beac Sep 2012 #18

He's a REAPER- how very seasonal! bettyellen Sep 2012 #19

a grim statement, that. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2012 #20

Actually this video shows that Bain was started with the standard understanding of a venture grantcart Sep 2012 #21

"harvest" may be a legitimate term to the VC community nichomachus Sep 2012 #33

No I think its a pretty weird word for the business community and it does sound predatory. grantcart Sep 2012 #40

I work in the financial industry and I am very familiar with the VC community... Raster Sep 2012 #44

Yeah, it sounded like SOP for Wall St to me. raouldukelives Sep 2012 #38

Hide ya businesses, hide ya medicare, hide ya organs NCLefty Sep 2012 #22

Bain was all about extracting every penny out of their acquisitions. JRLeft Sep 2012 #23

Doesn't even mention "jobs" once in that clip. We need a larger amount of it to see if he does 4lbs Sep 2012 #24

Greed is good! He's a real-life Gordon Gekko! nt MADem Sep 2012 #26

There are many real-life Gekkos jmowreader Sep 2012 #39

HARVESTING....the way he says it, it's like ORGANS, not crops...! nt MADem Sep 2012 #25

Hope the MSM widely dissemenates this video also!!! gopiscrap Sep 2012 #27

Harvest time! ashling Sep 2012 #28

Indeed the Grim Reaper! Salivating to harvest the USA! hue Sep 2012 #29

What struck me most about this nichomachus Sep 2012 #30

Evildoers? That's eloquent? caseymoz Sep 2012 #42

Romney wants to harvest America's assets Digit Sep 2012 #31

Corporate grim reaper! L0oniX Sep 2012 #32

This year's Halloween costume. nolabear Sep 2012 #37

You have to wonder how many more of these damning videos are out there nichomachus Sep 2012 #34

I'm assuming it will be on all the political shows tonight (except FOX perhaps) TroyD Sep 2012 #35

David Corn and Mother Jones are coming through Cha Sep 2012 #36

did romney make this tape so he could continue iemitsu Sep 2012 #43

1985- a mover and shaker - saying this BS....and he wasn't doing coke?? underpants Sep 2012 #45

MBA/CEO versus Leadership oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #46

This video isn't getting enough play in the media TroyD Sep 2012 #47