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The five-figure-a-plate fundraising soirée for Mitt Romney brought out the elite to the Hamptons, where they could show their appreciation for a man who truly gets them. Along the way, he wondered why the hoi polloi doesn’t think that what’s good for the rich is good for everyone.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed one woman who mused that normal people just don’t get it.
A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.”
“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails [sic] 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.”
In case you missed it, there was a not-so-veiled reference there to the right to vote, and why it should probably be taken away from the great unwashed masses.
But the unnamed rich woman wasn’t the only clueless person helping out their fellow clueless rich person.
A few cars back, Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel in Sag Habor, N.Y., long a favorite of the well-off and well-known in the Hamptons, could barely contain his displeasure with Mr. Obama. “He is a socialist. His idea is find a problem that doesn’t exist and get government to intervene,” Mr. Conklin said from inside a gold-colored Mercedes as his wife, Carol Simmons, nodded in agreement.
Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband’s generous spirit: “Tell them who’s on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!”
Over Mr. Conklin’s objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive from Miramax, the movie company, was on the 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were no rooms left at the hotel.
Alas, it wasn’t all fun and games for Mitt’s elite friends. After all, how does one maintain one’s level of superiority over others when one is among one’s fellow überrich?
A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney, “Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P.”
Yes you are! You are so V.I.P.!
While the very rich are no doubt different than you and me, one can’t help noting that the first woman quoted, the one lamenting the poor, uneducated common folk, was wrong. Mitt Romney is not struggling to overtake President Barack Obama because the commoners don’t understand the system. Mitt is struggling to catch on precisely because the common folk understand the system all too well.
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This country can't live without the poor working class.We are the ones that build their houses,landscape their yards,clean their houses,etc. Sometimes we are more educated then they are. Just because we do not have the money to fight for what we want, doesn't make us naive or stupid
"Well, I think rather than the fact that we're not smart enough as educated people to get Romney, I think he's not educated enough to get us. Therefore, he's not smart enough to be our president."
Never seen a better description of him before. I'd give you a green star, only I don't have that privilege yet.
"Gee, isn't it great to be looked down on?"
No... and I'm pretty sure if Romney had a taste of it he wouldn't be preaching the kind of hypocrisy that he is. Or he might blame it on the rest of the world, as republicans are prone to do, and seek revenge on all he holds responsible.
He was probably bullied as a kid. Although he couldn't stand up for himself then, he took a secret vow that, when he grew up, he was going to take it out on the whole country. He's doing a very good job of that too.
There really is no comparison between President Obama, and the CEO of Bain, Romney.
Obama wants taxes raised to the level under Clinton, and only those making over two hundred fifty thousand dollars...that means taxes are not raised until you reach the 250 level..so the taxes start at that point. In most places in this Country 250 is a whole lot of money. Of course that is chump change to Romney. Obama would be raising the taxes on himself, but Romney is apoplectic about paying a little more on his massive wealth.
President Obama is for women's rights and equal rights. Romney is against that. Obama is for the American Jobs Act. Romney is against it. Obama is for equal pay, Romney is against it. Obama is working to get us out of Afghanistan. Romney is for more wars, but not for any of his five sons to sign up. Romney went to France to get out of the Vietnam war.
President Obama released his tax returns, as well as his birth certificate, short and long because the tea party pushed and pressured day after day along with the carnival barker, Trump. Romney won't release his past tax returns as other Presidents have done. Why?
We now know that he has squirreled away part of his fortune in foreign Countries. He ships jobs overseas as well as his money. What is he hiding besides not wanting to pay his fair shares of of taxes? It appears it has something to do with Bain.
Sadly the exact same can be said about Obama he has these same dinners so dont act like its just republicans that do it . Also I hear it said a lot on here that the republicans are bought and owned by big oil well heres a wakeup call so is Obama and most democrats to. and if you want to talk about someone so out of touch its pathetic look to Obama whose still to this day pointing the finger of fault anywhere but into the mirror. now I am not saying I like Romney because I dont. What I am saying is cmon people we can do better then these two handpicked sock puppets were going to be forced to vote for .
The fund raisers should be eliminated for both of the candidates. This race for money is obscene on both sides of the aisle. Obama flying all over on the tax payers dime to campaign is disgusting, not to mention illegal.
The voters, the majority of who are not of the elite class which includes both of the candidates, have to deal with the reality that money buys power, and it also buys elections. Obama bought his in 2008 , way outspending McCain, and this next election probably won't be much different.
Looking up from the bottom most rung of the social ladder, I see two arrogant opponents, both blinded by the prize and seeing more of what they want to see than what really is.
Well, I think rather than the fact that we're not smart enough as educated people to get Romney, I think he's not educated enough to get us. Therefore, he's not smart enough to be our president.
Yes and he stood there looking aghast. How can you be unhappy with me???? Thats not part of the script.
During the course of watching the various national news broadcasts , happened upon Mitt Romney speaking to an a crowd of African Americans and as he laid out his plan he was receiving 15 seconds of straight booing.
I guess he has a bit of work to do in either wooing various non Anglo groups or a few more calls to make to the voter disenfranchising squad.
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