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Re: Romney attacks Obama for time at Harvard
I have to say...I'm finding this all to be a very bizarre exchange!
This is how I'm interpreting Irish's point, using me (yes, it's all about ME) as an analogy.
I am a dyed in the wool Aggie. Live it, breathe it, love it. I went to school with plenty of people that didn't, say, have the buy-in that I do.
So now let's say I'm the President (man, I like this all about ME stuff), and a fellow Aggie (but NOT Rick Perry. Not.Rick.Perry) is running against me. This fellow Aggie was a 2%er (Aggie lingo for someone who doesn't get it/buy in to the awesomeness). That 2%er (I'll call her Gina, pronunciation up to the reader) tells voters I spent too much time in College Station.
Sure, Gina spent as much time as I did at A&M (assuming, of course, that she was ALSO on the 5 year plan), but she isn't a brainwashed Aggie like me. I think that's what Romney keeps harping on (whether it's a good idea or not), the idea that Obama is a brainwashed Harvarder (what?). So it's not a matter of forgetting he went there, or voters forgetting he went there. It's a matter of saying "I don't buy into the [liberal] Harvard crap like President Obama does." End statement. No forgetfulness, no "intellectual dishonesty," just Romney trying to paint the "I'm like you (except better-looking, smarter, and far more successful--shhhhhh)" picture.
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Thank you kate and Tef.
No where in that quote does he say he didn't go to Harvard. I love when people on this board pick and chose when to be literal.
I have said similar things about people from one of my alma maters who act like the stereotype of alums from there. They spent too much time there because it turned them into a clone, lol. I went much longer then they did, but for them it was too much because it turned them into the stereotype.
Now, I don't agree with romneys comment and I hate this war on intellectuals in politics. However, I think some of the jumps made in this post are absurd. So sorry for overreacting, but I struggle with figuring out if people here are being obtuse or just really don't think about the comments themselves outside of the article.
lol. No, no, no kbmom Obama is not dumb. He knew exactly what he was saying.
See, I think he is whining about judiicial activism before a decision is made so that when the decision goes against him he can say, "See! I was right!" And then get his supporters whipped into a political frenzy. Against popular opinion, I also still think it was a thinly veiled threat to the Court even if they won't give a crap what he thinks.
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It's far more fun to assume that he's being stupid or unscrupulous.
Hmmm.... should I throw the victim card now, or wait until it gets to page 3?
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Personally I feel like it's an awful lot of nuance for an audience to swallow. To expect people to infer, well sure, Romney went to Harvard and has two advanced degrees but OBAMA... well, he's an elitist snob, well, it kind of requires that the audience has drunk the Romney koolade.
I don't think he's being dishonest, or that he's an idiot, I just think it's a dumb comment. Obama's social darwinism comment is also dumb, for a whole host of other reasons. Biden? KING of dumb ish. Politicians say stupid crap. I just wish when they got called out on it they stopped. And probably Romney will. I bet he'll retire the Harvard line and stick to things that are more sensible - he's got plenty of criticism that does not require that people overlook what could be taken as total hypocrisy. Hammer on the business experience thing. Hammer on the budget. These are things that, even though I am planning to vote for Obama, would make me say "you know, the guy's got a point."
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There is no other way on earth to say that Obama is out of touch than to say the Harvard thing?
Also, if you're slammed for being out of touch, try to counteract that image. Don't point at the others and say "well, they are too, for x reason" and then have that same reason be true for you, too.
I don't really care that much about the comment, I just don't get why people are so up in arms about it being called a dumb comment. Romney misspeaks a lot. I thought that was something everyone agreed on. It's old news. Why the uproar on either side?