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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStrickland nails it this morning on CNN:
Source: CNN
Pres. Obama Campaign National Co-Chair & former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland responds to the leaked video of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising dinner.
Strickland says, Well, it wasnt a bump in the road, it was a deep chasm, in my judgment. And quite frankly, what the Governor said is very significant because it reveals something about his value system. For him to speak with such disdain about so many Americans and he wants to be our President? Some of those people that he was talking about, Soledad, are soldiers that are risking their lives at this very moment in Afghanistan. Some of those people he was talking about in such a disdainful way are older people. How can this man who wants to be president talk in such a disdainful way about half of the American people, and then hope to pull this country together and to be our president.
He continues, Hes very sly . Many people dont pay income taxes because theyre so poor they dont make enough money to be able to pay income taxes. But they pay payroll taxes, they pay state taxes, they pay excise taxes. This man apparently feels that if youre not a part of his social class or you dont have his economic status, that somehow youre a parasite.
Link: http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/18/pres-obama-rep-on-romney-leak-it-was-a-deep-chasm/
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Strickland nails it this morning on CNN: (Original Post)
trailmonkee
Sep 2012
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porphyrian
(18,530 posts)1. . n/t
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. Bingo. Nutshell. "...if you’re not a part of his social class or you don’t have his economic
status, that somehow youre a parasite.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)3. Strickland has been a great and agressive surrogate for the president this year.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)4. not one word wasted
malaise
(269,054 posts)5. He was great on Ed Shultz last night
Freaking brilliant
alfredo
(60,074 posts)6. It appears Romney has been feeding at the Ayn Rand trough
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)8. the same Ayn Rand who collected social security?
a socialist welfare program...
alfredo
(60,074 posts)10. Don't tell him, he's had more than enough bad news for the week.
I think he got that from Ayn Ryan.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)7. If you are not in Mittens's social class, you are a parasite to him.
Strickland is awesome.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)9. This certainly explains Willard's attitude in prep school towards scholarship students.
And boys from families without as much money as his. This is a lifelong attitude.