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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWillard is not awkward in his hidden camera video
Did anyone notice that? He's completely comfortable and at ease. He also seemed more truthful. Why does a man who is only comfortable around millionaires want to run for president of a country where the median income is around 50k/year?
edited to clarify: "truthful" about who he really is, as usual, his "facts" are wrong
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)Very revealing...
EdwardKingSolomon
(60 posts)The time shall soon come, when the hard working man can no longer feed his family, his children deprived the opportunity to higher education, the social order stagnate, and an era of American Aristocracy takes reign; however, this reign will be short-lived, as history will repeat itself once again:
Bring forward the wicked and cruel, and allow the Guillotine bestow its divine wisdom upon them, for they shall be judged fairly.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)Blue Belle
(5,912 posts)this is how he really feels. There is no pretence of actually having to sell anything.
jsr
(7,712 posts)lob1
(3,820 posts)d_b
(7,463 posts)which makes it all the more creepy
ncgrits
(916 posts)He's among his people and speaking the truth as he sees it. When he's campaigning among "you people" he is ill at ease and full of lies.
So this video also reveals that his odd manner everyone wonders about is not some kind of social disability. It's just how he acts among the peasants while trying to remember the lies he's got to tell.
apples and oranges
(1,451 posts)autism can just stop now.
avebury
(10,952 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)I can't tell if he's awkward from the clip. If he seems more relaxed, it's likely because he's being himself, a dick!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021363972
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)...
Gin
(7,212 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:17 PM - Edit history (1)
In normal conversation he was awkward.....but.....when he talked about war and killing he was articulate and never misspoke..
IMO
stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)"hundreds of young women working for $6 a month! and they have a WAITING LIST of future employees!!!"
he's one sick individual.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)any man who isn't satisfied with $300 million is quite sick, unbalanced.
ego, ego, ego, avarice.
very much about himself.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)SayitAintSo
(2,207 posts)CEO mode....speaks volumes...
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)It's what he loves, the smell of easy money.
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)He was confident. He wasn't fumbling or stumbling for words. He didn't seem awkward or ill at ease. He was calm and in control. He was also showing complete contempt for ordinary people. THAT was the real Mitt Romney!
TardisBlue
(56 posts)when speaking to his 'own' people.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)outsideworld
(601 posts)That Mitt Robme is the closest thing we will get to a corporation running for president
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)The only reason Republicans run for higher office is so they can divert public money into their own pockets.
efhmc
(14,731 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)I once worked a private function that McCain spoke at (in the 90's). He was a lot different in a small room of businessmen than he was on TV. A lot more open and relaxed. Frankly, a lot nicer too. He even spoke kindly about Clinton, who at the time was mid investigation.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Sociopaths have personas that they hone over a lifetime. When they feel safe, they allow their actual (sociopathic) selves out. Clearly, with Romney, his authentic sociopathic personality is more relaxed than the persona he uses in the rest of his pathetic life.
BlueNinja
(25 posts)I think when he's dealing with "his people" he can be at ease. The fact that he has to get all folksy in his in his mom jeans in a feeble attempt to manipulate probably makes him uneasy because even he has to admit he's better at steamrolling over people than charming them.
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Bain didn't exactly buy companies by mail order, he had to pitch his deals to the current owners. Saying whatever was needed to get small groups of wealthy people to let him in the door and get Bain in control of companies is his career.
This is a nice, familiar situation for him. It's why God put him on this earth and installed his batteries.