Ann's speech

Hi Ann, you will never know me, nor I you, and I suspect both of us will be better for that. However, since I am in Tampa, I fogured I could comment on your speech. It was very flowery, very pretty, the sort of speech your husband has trouble with. That is fine, both he and Obama both seem to be more comfortable working than talking.

However, there are some points you missed:

You said:
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a "storybook marriage." Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or Breast Cancer.

No, those storybooks miss the rough parts. And I will not deny you have lived through rough chapters. However, the bad parts of storybooks have more hope when you do not have to worry about Money. Now, I know compared to the Sheldon Addisons, you and Mitt are not as wealthy, and I am sure you have bills. You however do not have to worry about the chapters that most poor people, and for that matter, most middle class people go through.

You will never be the star of chapters like: "I can't afford to go to the Hospital", or "I am going to be homeless". Now, imagine you having MS, but no way to pay for the care. I have jhad to go to many hospitals, and see people in just that predicament. There is a despair that comes when a bunch of insurance companies want to throw your life in the trash, because some CEO wants to make his books look better. That is a true "death panel"and it happens every day.

Yes, I did read the part about living off pasta and tuna fish, but there are many, especially those on food stamps, who will not even get the pasta or tunafish. The way America's sotrybook used to read was "If you work hard, and show virtue, you will succeed." Well, the problem is, for many people, who played BY THE RULES, who worked, saved, prayed, the storybook has a bad ending. Worse, for the Wall Street crooks, who did things that would make Mitt go "guys, what are you doing?" , the ending is happy.

In case you did not realize, many of those are the same folks that talked in very nasty ways about Mitt, rants full of cigar smoke and whiskey. And deep down, I think you know that they still hate him, and that they will backstab him in any way to get what they want. The problem is, this is no longer a story about Mitt Romney, nor even Barack Obama. This is the story of a bunch of greedy, nasty people who simply do not care who they have to hurt, or how. You read the first chapter of that storybook, when Chris Christie did everything he could to make this speech the opening of his 2016 campaign. The GOP congress has succeeded in filibustering, lying, stalling on everything Obama has tried to do, do you think they will not do that to your husband? Remeber grover saying that we do not need a leader, that includes Mitt, and you know it.

I can applaud the fact you came from a humble background, and even applaud Geroge Romney, who did seem decent, for making his son try to earn his way, not like a certain ex president you GOP had the good sense to exclude from Tampa. But the fact is, the storybook is not true anymore, people who work, study and do the right things are slammed, while people who earned their money in crooked ways win. That is because we made wall street crooks the good guys of the story, to where the Grover Norquists and Koches can go to Mitt and tell him what to do. Also, as far as immigrants go, there was a time people would have hated your ancestor, but America kept it's doors open. Wlesh accents, which I am sure you know, are singsong, much like Mexican ones are. That is becuase both people were oppressed and forced to speak the languiage of a conqueror, which was not like their own tongue. Many of those in Tampa want to deny the chance that someone gave your ancestor. Part of America's story is of immigrants making good, and the GOP wants to end that.

My point is this: you want to belive in your story, calling it "real" bottom line is, right now, that is not the American story, nor the one the GOP wants to tell anymore. Think of how much of Addison's money comes from Red China, aka Macau. These folks do not care if Americans are just one of several servants, like so many horses mant to be worked to death and boiled into glue (a fate thankfully rafalca will never know.)