Chutzpah, thy name is Romney
Mitt Romney is repudiating his 47 percent speech.
I said something that was just completely wrong.
He’s not apologizing. Nope. I simply misspoke, Romney told Hannity on Fox News.
Well, clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then, you are going to say something that doesn’t come out right.
To refresh your memory:
There are 47 percent who are with [the President], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.
In real time, his tune was different.
Mitt Romney said tonight he stands by his message in a secretly taped video, in which he is heard saying that 47% of Americans will vote for President Obama because they are “victims” and “dependent upon government.”
….But his point, he said, is that Obama relies on the government to help people while his approach is rooted in free enterprise. Romney said tonight Obama’s approach is “attractive to people who do not pay taxes.”
Just how off-the-cuff does this seem? A scheduled speech with high roller contributors? Really?
Mitt Romney’s videotaped remark to wealthy supporters that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name it” and that “my job is not to worry about” people who won’t “take personal responsibility and care for their lives” was pretty stunning any way you look at it.
Listen for yourself, then tell us which you think is the real Romney. The man speaking to supporters, unaware of the silent camera … or the man on TV, breathing a sigh of relief that Obama and company gave him a pass last night.
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Of course he’s trying to bury the 47% remark.
The tradition of trying to fool people into believing something that isn’t real is an old one in America. The tradition of being savvy enough to know when the game is on is also an old one, although many people still consider it impolite to come right out and call someone on it. I wonder if voters of the past (say post WWII through the mid-nineties) were better at discerning character than we are today? They had more face to face experience and perhaps were better at reading people as a result. Of course we have an advantage in being able to call up facts at our fingertips – but arrangement of facts to suit a pov still leaves room for plenty of interpretation. My view of Romney is pretty simple: I don’t think he can be trusted. You can’t be all things to all people, not without major morphing, shifting, and story changing. Which one is the real Mitt?
32 days…
Zepher, Romney came off as a used car salesmen in 2002 when he was “running” the Salt Lake Olympics.
This seems to me to be part of his abrupt shift to the middle to attract independent voters. However, I do believe he honestly believes what he said in his 47% remark to the wealthy doners. What struck me the most in those remarks was the sound of contempt in his voice when he was talking about poor, especially that the poor (47%) believe they are entitled to food, housing, and healthcare. Personally, I don’t care for the man. He reminds me of a fast talking used car salesman.
Sarcasm Alert! KG, feel free to play the Obama tape from June, 2007 to see how Obama feels about certain people. Make sure it’s the version with the erroneous Stafford remarks, not the shorter, prepared remarks version, the press got. Both versions say how he will enable a program to get young unemployed’s out insulating houses throughout the country. Brrrrrr.
dd, ya gotta link?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/02/obama-speech-jeremiah-wright-new-orleans/
dd
I saw the video. What is the problem, again? What was the erroneous Stafford remark?
Serious Alert! Ohio, I apologize, I can’t find a citation, but I think Obama said they got a 60 day exemption on the 10% requirement, at the State level, btw, but I believe it was actually 60 months. I’m not sure, but I also think money to localities did not have the 10% requirement.
In any event about $110 billion by Jan 2007, more than six months before this speech, the Bush administration had sent at least $110 billion to areas damaged by Katrina, compared to only $20 billion to NYC after 9/11″ :http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/0bamas-race-baiting-racist-demagoguery-on-full-display-in-2007-speech-at-hampton-university/question-3216945/
Sorry, this a biased source, best I could do.
Romney did not out-debate Obama, but he clearly out-debated the ‘other’ Romney…
The other Romney was there also…. when he started out by attacking PBS, the host, …. That hit at a level deeper than politics to show the man Romney, the bully.
dd
Okay. I’m going to give up and just say it sounded like a sincere speech to me; a policy speech of what he would like to do as President given to a bunch of preachers in “preacher cadence”. I did hear the word Stafford and got the impression that funds were slower to get to NO than to NYC, etc. and that was his concern. His thoughts on responsibility, both governmental and personal, sounded reasonable to me. So I guess I will assume this was, as other articles posited, an effort to rile up the rad right, which it may have done, and should be kept to those articles and not show up on every article posted.
Sarcasm. Perhaps Clint Eastwood was right.
Ohio, said: ” So I guess I will assume this was, as other articles posited, an effort to rile up the rad right, which it may have done, and should be kept to those articles and not show up on every article posted.”
Fits the 47% video nicely.
DDuck – Jon Stewart did a great comparison on Wed, I think, with GW saying the same thing (I am assuming this is Drudge’s Katrina sppech) in almost the exact words. Yeah, the tone was different – GW was speaking to a camera and Obama to real people. If this is not the Drudge speech, sorry, but it’s the meme of the week.
Also – deflection doesn’t cut it. This is not a post on who is the real Obama. It is a post on who is the real Romney. This form of argumentation DRIVES ME BATTY. If there were to be a comparison, it would be with Obama’s secretly taped remarks in the 2008 primary. HE apologized.
OrdinarySparrow – I missed the event because I was teaching a class. But I am beginning to think I need to watch it if only for the PBS slight.
R, Z, Y – yes he’ll want to bury it. Won’t happen if voters in swing states watch live TV. If I lived in a swing state, I’d be DVRing everything. Wait, we already do that.
Here’s the interview: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/04/video-mitt-romney-paul-ryan-sit-down-with-sean-hannity-in-first-interview-since-debate/
Kathy these days when i decide where my vote will go it is determined by character…there is such a tendency to seduce based on issues polls i have little trust in the content of their platforms….so character moves to the top…
The PBS funding such a small factor in the overall budget, yet the swipe seems to illuminate the underlying character…
I posted this comment on another post… and will share here too…
Kathy i hope you take the time to watch the first few minutes of the debate.. The PBS swipe was Romney’s lead so you will not have to search through much to find it…
” This was a small incident that spoke loud for me…..and own that i see it through skewed lens…. Romney coming on and taking a swing at this issue seemed toxic and more an indication of some kind of inner flaw….to go after PBS who was the host, seemed disrespectful beyond the level of politics….It seemed like a misuse of power that validates his tendency to bully…
When i was a child my father would get the gun out on Christmas Eve… He would go out and shoot into the air, come back and say he had shot Santa Clause… I could not help but think of the younger children that watched the debate…Surely in there little hearts, here was a powerful man with the leading agenda to take down Big Bird…
This is the same man that strapped the dog on the roof…
Letter from a little 8 yr. old to Romney about Big Bird…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/mitt-romney-big-bird_n_1940400.html
OS, thanks. Yes, the dog on the roof should be enough to turn half the country against him. Character is really all we have tomgo on because the parties are very much in sync on far too much, IMO. Well, that, and the memory of GW with a R Congress.
Debate transcript http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/politics/transcript-of-the-first-presidential-debate-in-denver.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
(shivers)… I just felt a disturbance in the force.
Yes, how anyone could forget those years is beyond me.
Kathy, Started watching the interview with Hannity but thought my head would explode or the tv would when I kicked it in. Feared both. Romney just doesn’t get it. He is so far removed from a human being that Pinnochios’ got nothing on him. The rest of the people in that interview use so little of their brains I am sure they struggle just to keep their involuntary functions operating.
Sarcasm: Romney bad, evil, unfeeling, flip flopper, Obama good, caring wonderful person.
And, the winner Romney showed up, the loser Obama had high altitude sickness.