ClydeR
12-12-2011, 04:46 PM
You all know that I'm not fond of France. Since most of what I know about French culture I learned as a child from Pepe Le Pew, I can't claim to be an expert. But what Romney said yesterday reinforced everything Pepe taught me. The French live in filth and smell bad because they seldom bathe.
“You’re not living high on the hog,” he said. He recalled renting apartments without showers, refrigerators or toilets --a “bucket affair” -- he said.
“I lived in the way that people of lower middle income in France lived,” he said. “It was a wake-up experience for me.”
More... (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/romney-seeks-to-deflect-attacks-from-rivals-over-10-000-wager.html)
I think Romney is exactly right about people in the lower middle income in France not having plumbing. It's a bad, bad place, because they're all socialists and unionized.
Romney was trying to deflect perceptions that he has lived too privileged a life to understand ordinary people. To do that he told the story about being a Mormon missionary in France, something I referred to earlier (http://forum.gsplayers.com/showpost.php?p=1330781&postcount=92).
Romney is being pressed to show that he understands ordinary people because of his $10,000 bet at Saturday's debate. And his answer to one particular debate question probably didn't help much either.
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: I didn't grow up poor. And if somebody is looking for someone who's grown up with that background, I'm-- I'm not the person. But I-- but I grew up with a dad who'd been poor, and my dad wanted to make sure I understood the lessons of hard work. And my mom and dad wanted to make sure that I understood the principles that made America the greatest nation on earth.
And so they made sure we had jobs as we were growing up. They made sure we didn't spend money foolishly. And they made sure that I had-- a care and concern for other people. I was able to serve my church overseas, and to-- to meet people there that had very difficult circumstances in their life. I also spent time in this country, serving as a pastor in my-- in my church, and again, having the occasion to work with people that were really struggling. I saw marriages under great stress.
You see, when-- when people lose jobs, marriages get strained, people's health gets affected-- people become depressed. And-- and I'm in this race, not-- not because I grew up without means, but because I understand what it takes to get America working again. And I love this country enormously and understand the principles and understand the specifics that it takes to get America creating jobs again. That's why I'm in the race.
More... (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abc-news-iowa-republican-debate/story?id=15134849&singlePage=true)
“You’re not living high on the hog,” he said. He recalled renting apartments without showers, refrigerators or toilets --a “bucket affair” -- he said.
“I lived in the way that people of lower middle income in France lived,” he said. “It was a wake-up experience for me.”
More... (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/romney-seeks-to-deflect-attacks-from-rivals-over-10-000-wager.html)
I think Romney is exactly right about people in the lower middle income in France not having plumbing. It's a bad, bad place, because they're all socialists and unionized.
Romney was trying to deflect perceptions that he has lived too privileged a life to understand ordinary people. To do that he told the story about being a Mormon missionary in France, something I referred to earlier (http://forum.gsplayers.com/showpost.php?p=1330781&postcount=92).
Romney is being pressed to show that he understands ordinary people because of his $10,000 bet at Saturday's debate. And his answer to one particular debate question probably didn't help much either.
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: I didn't grow up poor. And if somebody is looking for someone who's grown up with that background, I'm-- I'm not the person. But I-- but I grew up with a dad who'd been poor, and my dad wanted to make sure I understood the lessons of hard work. And my mom and dad wanted to make sure that I understood the principles that made America the greatest nation on earth.
And so they made sure we had jobs as we were growing up. They made sure we didn't spend money foolishly. And they made sure that I had-- a care and concern for other people. I was able to serve my church overseas, and to-- to meet people there that had very difficult circumstances in their life. I also spent time in this country, serving as a pastor in my-- in my church, and again, having the occasion to work with people that were really struggling. I saw marriages under great stress.
You see, when-- when people lose jobs, marriages get strained, people's health gets affected-- people become depressed. And-- and I'm in this race, not-- not because I grew up without means, but because I understand what it takes to get America working again. And I love this country enormously and understand the principles and understand the specifics that it takes to get America creating jobs again. That's why I'm in the race.
More... (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abc-news-iowa-republican-debate/story?id=15134849&singlePage=true)