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SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:10 PM Jul 2012

The Romney's just sunk their own battleship!!!

It's quite obvious they are not going to reveal their taxes, which I'm sure will expose his lies and misconduct. Today, Ann indicated We've Given 'All You People Need To Know' About Family Finances. Reminds me of the movie Tropic Thunder, "What do you mean, "You people""? Several big wigs from the GOP have even made remarks to release them. Mittens and his idiot wife are going to stick to their guns, and ultimately screw themselves, by not releasing this info. Here is a man running for the most powerful position in the land, call Americans "you people", and refusing to give "us people" what we want, and rightfully deserve. He's hiding something and we all know it.
Really sounds like someone we can trust, don't it? Even McCain said he didn't consider him in 08, because of this issue. And then they have the gumption to accuse Obama for dirty politics. Everyone knows, the GOP has the most ruthless people on earth. It's about time they got a taste of their own medicine. And I'm glad to see the dems are finally fighting back.

As far as I'm concerned they both sunk their own battleship. (noise of a battleship sinking - gulp gulp gulp)

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The Romney's just sunk their own battleship!!! (Original Post) SmittynMo Jul 2012 OP
They just played that clip on MSNBC! flamingdem Jul 2012 #1
ultimately screw themselves Flashmann Jul 2012 #2
"You people" = "commoners," "the unwashed masses." JaneQPublic Jul 2012 #3
It's gonna pass Politicalboi Jul 2012 #4
Sad, but I agree. Today has been full out personal attacks on Obama, a full offensive. progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #7
Very true SmittynMo Jul 2012 #5
This reminds me of Babs Bush after Katrina MiniMe Jul 2012 #6
We the "You" People ThoughtCriminal Jul 2012 #8
Come ON. He just means "you voters." Don't be so old school. ancianita Jul 2012 #9
Here's a place to run his battleship ! Where McCain was born ! MIDNITERIDER1438 Jul 2012 #10

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
3. "You people" = "commoners," "the unwashed masses."
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:16 PM
Jul 2012

It must really irk them to hear demands from people whom they would only let in through the service entrance.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
4. It's gonna pass
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:22 PM
Jul 2012

Rmoney is making this about Obama not the American people wanting to see his taxes. And the GOP will let it pass. Now if Obama did this, it would be a different story. Can anyone imagine Michelle saying "We gave you people enough of our taxes" in 2008. But since white Ann said it, it's barely a blip on the screen.

Obama needs to look into ways Rmoney broke the law in his business dealings. Do the American people want a President who may be facing jail time? Maybe that is what Team Obama is waiting on. Come October Rmoney may be telling his lies to his attorney to save his ass from jail.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
7. Sad, but I agree. Today has been full out personal attacks on Obama, a full offensive.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 05:22 PM
Jul 2012

And the media is obliging, because they are not paid to ask questions.. they are paid to make sure the wall street guy gets in.

I'm sorry that a large group of Americans are more swayed by someone screaming "unamerican!!!" than by a man that made hundreds of millions shipping jobs overseas, closing down factories, and destroying entire towns.

ancianita

(36,109 posts)
9. Come ON. He just means "you voters." Don't be so old school.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 08:52 PM
Jul 2012

When you want someone's vote, you don't get to tell THEM what they "need to know" to vote for you. THEY TELL YOU. All this "sit down and shut up" treatment is going to cost the Rmoneys.

MIDNITERIDER1438

(113 posts)
10. Here's a place to run his battleship ! Where McCain was born !
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 10:16 AM
Jul 2012

Mittens got his start even more nefariously

Bain Capital started with help of offshore investors

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bain-creation-20120719,0,192124.story

"Did Bain serve as a tax haven for foreign criminals? As Shaxson explains, “Private equity is one channel for this secrecy-shrouded foreign money to enter the United States, and a filing for Mitt Romney’s first $37 million Bain Capital Fund, of 1984, provides a rare window into this. One foreign investor, of $2 million, was the newspaper tycoon, tax evader, and fraudster Robert Maxwell, who fell from his yacht, and drowned, off of the Canary Islands in 1991 in strange circumstances, after looting his company’s pension fund. The Bain filing also names Eduardo Poma, a member of one of the ‘14 families’ oligarchy that has controlled most of El Salvador’s wealth for decades; oddly, Poma is listed as sharing a Miami address with two anonymous companies that invested $1.5 million between them. The filings also show a Geneva-based trustee overseeing a trust that invested $2.5 million, a Bahamas corporation that put in $3 million, and three corporations in the tax haven of Panama, historically a favored destination for Latin-American dirty money—’one of the filthiest money-laundering sinks in the world,’ as a US Customs official once put it.”

http://www.thenation.com/blog/168711/whats-romneys-offshore-accounts#

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