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This is not how big leaders talk, it’s how shallow campaign operatives talk: They slice and dice the electorate like that, they see everything as determined by this interest or that. They’re usually young enough and dumb enough that nobody holds it against them, but they don’t know anything. They don’t know much about America.
My take on that comment was that Romney was admitting that he and his fellow "job creator" cronies are not hiring or doing anything to help improve the economy to increase the odds of Romney getting elected. IMO, he was saying that as soon as he is elected the business leaders and Congress will end their dangerous obstructionism and things will almost immediately get better.
That would certainly be in line with the GOP's top goal of preventing a second Obama term, wouldn't it? Deliberately restrain our economic recovery, blame Obama for it, then "solve" the problem once he's defeated.
One has to wonder, though, what they'll do when he wins.
1. Mitt Romney said his in hiding because he is too slimy to say it during a public address whereas Obama said his to the public.
2. Obama's was easy to understand (to those who have the ability to do so) that people generally have help from those around you.
There was no hidden message there.
100% false.
Obama made his comments about "bitter" whites clinging to bibles and guns and not liking people who look differently than them while in a private fundraiser in San Francisco. Look it up. He did not know he was being recorded.
WASHINGTON — Just which 47 percent of Americans was Mitt Romney was talking about? It's hard to say. He lumped together three different ways of sorting people in what he's called less-than-elegant remarks.
Each of those three groups — likely Obama voters, people who get federal benefits and people who don't pay federal income taxes — contains just under half of all Americans, in the neighborhood of 47 percent at a given moment. There's some overlap, but the three groups are quite distinct.
Confusingly, Romney spoke as if they're made up of the same batch of Americans.
Well it's him (what he said he meant) versus what you think he meant. So whose spinning what? Considering that he said "47% of the people", which I find a bit vague myself, it's impossible to know either way.
But considering that I think that pretty much every republican amd democrat knows that the elderly and those on unemployment have paid their dues into the system, it's also kind of hard to swallow your argument as well.
That's why at the end of the day, like most things in life, this is all much ado about nothing...
I didn't find the part where he said "47% of the people" vague at all. That is as you well know the republicans harping on that don't pay taxes just like Romney said.
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A Breakdown of the "47%"
