Yes. I don’t want to take away Mitt Romney’s freedom of speech or right to spend money expressing it either.
Do you?
Is that Rebecca? OMG, I heart her! I’ve hearted her ever since her days as Commie Girl!
(Schoenkopf, btw)
and, as we all know, you just can’t fix stupid 
Romney in secretly-filmed meeting with big donors;
[QUOTE=Mitt Romney]
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.
[/QUOTE]
Every time I think Mitt Romney can’t shove his foot deeper into his mouth, he just unhinges his jaw like the snake he is and jams it in a little further.
It’s hard to believe that anyone that smart and funny came out of Orange County.
Heh, some stuff the rest of that quoted speech is even better:
To be fair, though, while I definitely think this is a stupid thing for Romney or any Republican to believe (what, you don’t think anybody in that entire one-half of the population you earnestly aspire to govern is pro-Obama for **any[b/] other reason than being a selfish helpless loser? And you think that not making enough money to owe federal income tax automatically makes someone a selfish helpless loser?)—I don’t really see how Romney stuck his foot in his mouth by saying it in this context.
He was at what he thought was a secret meeting with Republican donors, so he threw them the class-warfare red meat that they expect of him.
But I think I did spot a new stupid in that speech: Romney’s conflating the nearly one-half of US households that currently pay no federal income tax with the nearly one-half of likely voters that are planning to vote for Obama.
Since likely voters tend to skew non-poor, there are a lot of Americans out there who do pay federal income tax who are planning to vote for Obama.
About 1/3rd of folks who pay no income tax are senior citizens who pay no income tax because they make no income anymore.
Deadbeats!
I pay taxes! I am not a moocher! I am not a victim! I am not a selfish, helpless loser! :mad:
This idiot makes me so MAD! :mad:
They don’t pay taxes on SS benefits??
eh hem. The construction used, “… the first African American president using the N-word, …”, would commonly be construed as “The man who is the first African American president has used the N-word.” So, I submit that this particular phrase is not strange or stupid.
But shouldn’t president be capitalized in this context?
Do you think so? I don’t. I think he said something very frank and unflattering about a callow young American. I wonder if he ever decided it was unseemly for a fortunate young man to pass judgment on his grandfather.
Can anyone provide the rest of the story?
Who is the callow young American?
Normally, no. People who have additional earnings, sometimes. If your half of your Social Security benefit plus your additional income is more than $25k, then half of your Social Security benefits are taxed. If the combined figure is $35k or more, than up to 80% (I think) of your benefits are taxable (there’s a sliding scale).
:rolleyes: He wasn’t “passing judgement” on his grandfather. He was describing how learning about his grandfather’s disparagement of black people made him feel angry, “causing ugly words to flash across [his] mind”.
In other words, that phrase is not meant as a “judgement” that Obama deliberately formed, but merely as a reflection of his mental state of shock and dismay when he found out something about his grandfather that startled and distressed him.
Pretending that this somehow qualifies as Obama’s considered verdict on his grandfather is about as dishonest a piece of partisan bullshit as I have ever seen.
No, the job title alone is not capitalized. When it’s paired with the job holder it is capitalized, thus “the president” vs “President Obama.”
I think that is true, though I may be making it up like most of the grammar and punctuation I use here. 
That’s what the Chicago Manual of Style suggests.
Himself. He was very young at the time of the events described, wasn’t he?
His grandfather, apparently, had a very hard life. The brief sections quoted sounded like Barrack Obama did not, when he was writing, approve of his attitude toward his grandfather.
However, I admit that I have not read the book. I admit political autobiographies don’t appeal to me. Is it a good book?
Thank you.
As I recall from forty years ago, so did the AP Stylebook. It is a book so it should be italicized.
That’s doubtless why she left.
If they make enough money outside of social security, they do pay taxes on up to 50% of their SS income.