Like you, I often think, "Don't they have enough? How much do they need?" It's greed for the sake of being greedy. There's no purpose for it. They don't want to help people or make the world a better place. In fact, they seem to get some kind of perverse pleasure in doing the exact opposite. They are just ... empty.

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Because of their obsessive/compulsive need for more, More, MORE.

He can never get "enough". Nothing will ever satisfy him - he will always be looking for a way to get more, preferably from someone already struggling.

Next time a Republican complains about classwar there is "no excuse Romney" to kick around in his Nixonian nightmare.

to serve themselves and want even more. They want declining wages, impoverished retirees and the satisfaction of shaming those who they have made poor. Those bankrupted by medical costs is nothing that needs to be corrected.

This reminds me of being in High School. When the girls in my class would diss those like myself, making fun of me because I was from a poor family and they weren't...and my clothes weren't as cool as theirs. I wasn't invited to all the parties they were invited to because of that. I lived in near poverty, but never thought so, because I didn't know I was. It only became apparent to me at that time that there were people that held those with such contempt. I was never aware of it until that time.

Superficial nonsense that means nothing. I would really like to know where those girls are now and what they are doing. Especially since I am one of those folks that Romney thinks so little of, but have managed to be successful and managed to put two kids through college who are already on the road to having a better life than I did. AND I pay LOTS of taxes. Of which I have never complained about.

your staement about paying taxes reminded me... I once worked at a small independent oil refinery. The CFO often said his ambition was to pay more taxes than anyone else.


I always liked that.

And your thoughts.

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A gaffe is something embarassing but trivial. Obama saying he's been to all 57 states was a gaffe. Bush's "is our children learning?" was a gaffe. Poppy's upping some chuck into the Japanese PM's lap was a gaffe. Clinton saying "I never inhaled" was a gaffe.

Romney has stated his intent to abdicate presidental responsibility to half the nation. On top of his statements that he will throw us into a third middle eastern war. On top of his tax evasion and vulture capitalism.

These aren't gaffes, these are fucking bombs. And the Romney campaign is the one dropping them on the Romney campaign.

that gaffs are that simple. Gaffs are sometimes words that come from one's true convictions. I would say that gaffs can be good or bad, but gaffs are inherently bad. Though sometimes, like some typos I read here are gaffs (or typos) make a better point than the original intent. Some are hilariously accurate, despite themselves.

Well done and well thought out.

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Just don't talk to me in the morning until I've had at least two cups.

Nobody is allowed to speak to me until I get that one under my belt. Welcome to DU and thank you for your post.

I think Mittens thought he could buy the White House for himself just like he acquired businesses. I'm now wondering if his billionaire buddies will decide to cut their losses and put the checkbooks away.

...they have too much invested at this point. They will keep what is often said "throwing good money after bad."

This ain't Vegas where when you toss more money on the table doesn't mean the house doesn't have the advantage.

Yet they will.

I grew up in San Angelo. Houston was MAJOR metropolitan city compared to my little sorta city.

I was born in San Antonio (Brooke Army Medical Center), and moved around a lot as a kid. My dad's last duty station was Fort Lewis, WA. After he retired, we moved to Houston, where he worked for a major corporation, but without the major corporate salary.

Hated it. (And Houston - nothing like San Antonio...)

We moved back to the Northwest, and now I call the Greater Seattle area my home.

(Still say "y'all", though. And will till the day I die.)

"fixin."

My family and most friends have significant affiliation with the military. My son spent two tours in Iraq.

How's your son; is he all right?

Thank you for asking. Though he is still an 18 year old in a 27 year old body. Boys!!! Sheesh!!
Still a great kid. Treats his mom very well.

Nothing better than to know he made it home safe. Very stressful time.

Better than being old before his time, I guess.

What was his MOS? I was a 19Kilo; an M1A1 tanker. I was in the Gulf in 1991. I can't imagine doing two tours. That must have been brutal...

I wish I could remember. What I can say is Command Post.

we should try to have a DU get together and work on getting folks to help in the campaign...Peace-Mike C

...I live in Northern Virginia now.

...kids....etc.

Better late than never, eh?

I CONSTANTLY feel like I have no time and all I have is two cats!!!

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him is missing and he tries to fill it with money. But even that does not satisfy him so he constantly wants more.

I thought that Romney's rendition of Mr. Bean takes a holiday should have tanked his career. But, he has a lot of people that support him, just because he is a Republican and he is takin on the libruls. This really should do it though. I think there are some people that can put two and two together still and realize that they will need SS and that their children will need or are getting student loans. Or that maybe it's a good thing that their son/daughter with asthma can now get health insurance easier. Anyway, I will be checking on the polls in a few days to see if this latest, I hate the poor screed, has taken effect.

that have been written, mainly since the RNC's CONvention, but one never likes to count chickens and all that...

That said, the last week or so has been quite full of really glaring errors, revelatory errors that rip the cover off that man behind the curtain. And by now it's not just one isolated incident. It's a Bizarro World string of pearls. More gaffes and blunders and pearl-clutching seemingly by the DAY. And it starts to combine into a fuller picture, all of it - um - shall we say unimpressive.

And the secretly recorded video - in which he's talking behind closed doors where the press isn't supposed to go and everybody's been well-vetted and no "undesirables" are allowed. He's talking to his own, the only people he really cares about, and showing his real self. I don't know if he can recover from this one. This may be just one callous blunder too many.

Glad you're here! We need you!




Now get to work.

For some reason, I suspect that there is more to come. That the close we get to Election Day, the more likely it is that we will have yet another bombshell.

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Yes, I do believe this video will change a lot of minds. It is funny seeing the 'pugs doing verbal gymnastics trying to spin this though.

BTW, veteran here and damn glad your son made it home safe and sound.

..for your service. I wan't allowed to because of health reasons. So. I do so in other ways.

Huge money gets made in Republican fundraising. Plenty of cash gets pilfered, redirected and outright stolen from gullible people. Hey, they're Republicans aren't they? "A fool and his money are soon parted".

Romney was simply the put up job. The pitcher you send to the mound in the ninth inning when you're down eight or more runs. Bob Dole was kinda like this in 1996. They have to run SOMEBODY.

has a double-digit ERA, things are pretty dim. However, you must stay on your guard lest this fellow pushes a fastball past you while looking.

I love baseball. Go Nats!

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and in a more just world, the end to any political career at all.

but I never underestimate the power that is based in mega-money. And, I fear the idea that the election can be bought and purchased... justifying, in someway... the means in some shape or form.

I hate that I live in a society that lives in such a world. Worse, that our citizens have become so polarized, so brainwashed, so ignorant...that they don't recognize that they have given up their ability to think for themselves because it is easier than drawing their own conclusions.

Will that trend ever stop or are we doomed to face and fight that during every exection cycle?

On their side, thanks to the treasonous Supreme Court, they have Citizens United and unlimited money in politics. But, our side knows how to use the new media far better than their side. I think, for now, until the Rhinosaurs make it into the 21st century, we still have a small edge, a small, viral, edge.

Welcome to DU, BTW. There are some scary smart people here. Hopefully, it will restore your hope, especially when you realize that many are not just keyboard warriors but actual boots on the ground activists.

...I was the go-to person for new-media.

But after many years and different jobs which didn't require their use, I have lost the edge. My hubby has decided I'm a Luddite. I'm lucky to figure out how to "www" stuff.

It's so not fair that he, being 6 years older than me, is much better at it than I am! I have issues with that. I've told him so, too.

But when necessary....I'm not so inept. I can, sometimes, rise to the occasion!

Check out information about the Gilded Age and Robber barons. Mark Twain does a really good job in his novel looking at the Republican fantasy of "the good old days." You might want to check out the progressives, Theodore Roosevelt, and bull moose. For the most part, leave the internet alone on this. I think, both in what he is against, and what Obama is trying to do, will be found in those general pictures of US history normally forgotten in the classroom.

align with any other major religion, because they all put the less fortunate ahead of self. The unapologetic rich betray whatever religion they claim to belong to. rMoney really doesn't give a shit about anything but wealth and power.

Sniff, sniff... Welcome to DU. I'm new myself. And may I say you're short bio touched my heart. I, too, grew up poor and suffered ill treatment from my peers for it. Hell, I'm STILL poor. But one thing I've always HAD was empathy. So many people today seem to lack it, would you agree?