"Don't talk about the income divide..Poor people just ENVY the Rich!

You've done nothing but post strawmen and other various rebuttals to arguments that no one is making in this thread. Give it a rest.

 

the problem is that America is no longer the land of equal opportunity.
It's become a place where the system is rigged by the rich to keep getting richer and the poor become dependent.
the middle class become the step-child.

 

"Capitalism" used to be real. Now it's just a buzzword trotted out by the powerful to brainwash the powerless.

 

Romney sucks. That is all.

 

I saw this interview when it happened....I couldn't believe he said it. Even if he thought it, I couldn't believe he said it. Particularly given the way the question was presented to him by Lauer.

 

Max, Romney's answer demonstrated breathtaking hubris, but I think he was sincere. It's what he believes. He feels privileged. I suspect that he heard this at his father's knee as a child. One of the odd things about Romney is not that he constantly changes his positions on a host of issues to fit the crowd, or to fit the talking points his campaign staff tells him he needs to push to get the nomination, far too many politicians do that, but rather that he lets slip how he really thinks with a semblance of regularity. Romney is getting better at not saying what he really thinks, but still has a long way to go to satisfy his handlers.

I view the man as both pragmatic and bizarre. The far right doesn't trust him, the progressives do not trust him, but the big middle ground who are still making up their minds are confused, and the Romney campaign hopes they will believe what they want to believe, that the man is a moderate Republican draping himself in a far right, fundamentalist cloak simply to get the Republican nomination, and that he will return to the Romney who was Governor of Massachusetts after being elected. There are a couple of things the middle ground do not understand. One is that Governor Romney may have been as phoney as Presidential Candidate Romney is today, and that no one really knows the man. The other is just how extreme the Republican Party is now, and that whatever Romney believes will not matter. In order to get anything done, he will have to cater to the Republican Congress and the Republican leadership, and the Romney of Massachusetts simply won't do, and that Governor Romney isn't who they would be electing, should Romney manage to win the nomination. They will be electing a man who fits some lines from a song written by Bob Dylan.

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Some will say, "They are all like that!" Those saying it should consider the value of a known quantity versus a man with no center, other than (1) his religion, which he's attempting to keep in the background, and (2) that Romney who speaks of the "envy" of the rich. Those are the Romneys you can count on if he makes it to the White House. The first I have no problem with. The second I abhor.