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Romney attacks Obama for time at Harvard
...forgetting that he went there too?
For someone who was smart enough to get into Harvard University for a joint JD/MBA program, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sometimes seems to have an awfully hard time remembering things, like the fact that he studied at Harvard.
Romney told supporters at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters Thursday that President Barack Obama ?spent too much time at Harvard,? portraying his opponent as an elitist intellectual too far removed from the wants and needs of ordinary Americans, New York magazine reports.
Of course, Romney actually spent more time at Harvard than Obama. He spent four years there getting his two degrees, one year longer than Obama spent getting his law degree. New York magazine points out that three of Romney?s sons also attended the Ivy League university for business school.
Romney has attacked his graduate school before, regularly mocking beliefs concocted ?in that Harvard faculty lounge.?
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Seriously? WTF with the anti-education bullshits?
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Re: Romney attacks Obama for time at Harvard
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DWell, it was founded in 1636 AND THERE WAS NO AMERICA THEN! Coincidence? Harvard is therefore non-American. /gavel
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Although he is way out of touch with voters, yup, the later is the case.
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Haaaahaha you are killing me with these!
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Or you know, it was a mistake?
Does that not even make your option list? Jesus Christ.
The funny thing is, this is my tin foil hat theory regarding Obama's complete misstatement of constitutional law...again.
What are you referring to?
What was a mistake?
The again part or the misstatement part?
Because I'm heading out of town for the weekend in twenty minutes I'll just clarify both.
Misstatement #2--SCOTUS overturning an act of Congress would be completely unprecendented
Misstatement #1--Citizens United overturned 100 years of caselaw
Neither statement is accurate.
His comment. We all misspeak points. I don't assume people are idiots based on one quote. If I did , I would have to assume every politician was an idiot. Which I don't think. According to sparrow, he is either an idiot or he knows voters are idiots. I mean,I guess most voters on both sides are idiots to bicker over trivial crap like this lol. So I do see her point.
Idiocricy, here we come.
Okay...I'm just not sure how a mistake comes in here. It's not really an "oooops I misspoke" kind of critique. He's presenting a theory that Obama is out of touch for spending too much time at Harvard while he himself spent more time there. Where's the mistake? Romney mistakenly forgot he also went to Harvard...?
It sounds as if he is speaking with his politician's hat rather than his constitutional scholar's hat.
I'm genuinely confused - Irish, are you saying that in the multiple cases in which Romney disparaged Obama's time at Harvard that he, Romney, forgot that he went to Harvard?
I'm not suggesting Romney is an idiot, but I do think that it's enormously careless to assume that no one will make the connection that he went to Harvard.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment though.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
In addition to this article, I've been seeing (admittedly on Rachel Maddow) clip after clip of Romney disparaging Obama for being a Harvard grad. things like "He spent too much time at Harvard, and not, like you, on the battlefield" (to vets, I guess). "...too much time in the Harvard faculty lounge and not in the real world", etc. It would just, IMO, be a better dig if Romney himself did not go there. I just don't see any way in which it's not just totallysilly. I mean, call out Obama for his limited business experience - that's not because he went to Harvard. He's used the dig as an applause line on more than one occasion, from what I can tell, so that's what I think is dumb. I don't think HE'S dumb, but the tactic is.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Even if he only said it once, it's still a dumb thing to say and intellectually dishonest.
I don't watch the crazies on either side so I haven't seen the Maddox clips. But yes, you can be more tied into a school in certain cases. So I'd have to know context to comment. One of my grad schools I have no tie to and have done nothing with since I left, the other grad school, I absolutely could be accused of spending too much time with...even though both degrees took the same amount of time to complete.
He could be ridiculous on this. I'm not denying that. I was just eye rolling about sparrows two extreme options.
Lol nb, it is automatically intellectually dishonest? Okey dokey.
On that front, I can't continue this conversation. It's reached ridiculous. Maybe it was dishonest. But that it automatically is is hilarious. Good night
Frankly your comments are causing me to scratch my head.
Of course it's intellectually dishonest to slam someone for something when you yourself did the same thing.
If he forgot he went to Harvard, yeah, I think he's an idiot. I think it's pretty unlikely he has forgotten this, or made a mistake about it. Thus, I assume by repeatedly criticizing Obama for having gone to Harvard, he must be assuming those he's addressing, who would be responsive to such criticisms, are idiots. Sorry, I didn't think my comment was really that controversial. "Jesus Christ." lol.