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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSalon: Dear Mitt, you walk funny
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/dear_mitt_you_walk_funny/Dear Mitt,
I think its your hips. I saw you on television yesterday on a platform and you turned to your left and it looked like you being rotated on a lazy Susan. You take tiny steps like a little ballerina. Your torso doesnt bend. Your arms seem connected to your shoulders with quarter-inch lag bolts. As performance art it was sort of beautiful the way nothing in your hips or torso betrayed any animal vitality, as though youd been drained of bodily fluids by a Republican scientist. But this avant-garde dance is unlikely to win votes.
How could a president who takes such tiny steps ever rope a steer? is what voters are thinking. Remember George W. Bush, how they asked him why he had that swagger and he said that down in Texas its what they call walking? That was pretty good. He swaggered and he was a dumbass. We could relate.
He was scary but in a different way from the way you are scary. He was scary like a dumb jock. How could George W. Bush be a plutocrat if he couldnt pronounce plutocrat? You are scary like a cyborg. Were afraid youre going to put us in a machine that harvests our organs.
You know what I loved in that tape of you talking to your donors? It was the part where you talked about these misguided people who think they deserve food. That was awesome. Forty-seven percent of the electorate misguidedly believe they deserve food. Wait till news gets out. That was brilliant.
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morningglory
(2,336 posts)Edited trying to spell her name correctly. Miss her.
highplainsdem
(48,921 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)It may be petty, but that little stutter step of his is very unattractive and wimpy. It's like he has something up his ass.
I don't find him attractive at all. Yuk.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Cha
(296,893 posts)silver spoon?
he comes across like a robot whose better is about to die .
sorry , I meant to say "battery " .
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Welcome to DU There is one you know (an edit button).
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He's actually a computer program.
Though Mark Hamill said Romney's like The Thing - he can only imitate human behavior, but he's not actually human himself.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Those are two things he's actually good at.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)An altered gait, with short steps, may be an early indicator of Alzheimer's or dementia:
NY Times: Footprints to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Are Seen in Gait
Business Week: Changes in gait may be early signs of dementia in older people
siligut
(12,272 posts)He looks like the third grader who is going on stage to read the Mother's Day poem he wrote. I am guessing he is a mama's boy, just watch the way he looks at Ann while she defends/supports him.
spartan61
(2,091 posts)it looks to me like he has a load in his pants. He's trying to be so careful that the turd doesn't fall out on the floor.
siligut
(12,272 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)I have to admit, if I liked him I wouldn't make fun of the way he walked. Everybody has their little goofy mannerisms. But because I don't like him, I love your description--it's really accurate!
sad sally
(2,627 posts)man has first stage dementia. His problem isn't with his head - it's his heart. He doesn't have one - he IS a machine, not a human being.
longship
(40,416 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)...he might call the dance the "Rites of Mitt."
mehrrh
(233 posts)I don't know what it is, but I have also noticed that Romney has a peculiar stride. Small, mincing steps, as opposed to the long strides men usually take - even short men. I agree there is something about his hip that probably causes it ----or maybe it's the "special underwear" of the Mormons. It is another factor that contributes to the perception that there is something odd about the man in more ways than one.
MariaM83
(233 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)MariaM83
(233 posts)Leading a visually-impaired teacher to walk into a door as a joke?
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)with a back problem. He seems stiff and awkward and when he turns he kind of rotates around. Very odd. I have back issues myself, so I know it can affect the way you walk. No one has elaborated on whether Mitt has back problems that I know of.
No matter what the reason, his gait definitely adds to the impression that he is "stiff" and not comfortable on stage or with crowds.....even if they are adoring fans.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)is low enough to exempt them from paying federal income tax, we ought to be embarrassed and apologetic.
these people just scrape by. many are retired from lifetimes of work. others have been disabled in the service of our country. and still others work more than one job and don't make enough money to pay for basic needs. and romney says they contribute nothing.
for romney to imply that those with limited income are leaches is outrageous. some of the 47% he refers to may be there as a result of romney stealing their pension. who is the leach? he never produced any real product. he is enron. he sells schemes to fleece others. a flim-flam man. and to act as if the underclass can lift themselves up and thrive if they would just adopt a new attitude is ridiculous when romney and his ilk have all the money. they are not sharing. that is the problem.
if half of us live at or below the poverty level their is something very wrong with our economic structure.