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« on: April 23, 2012, 08:31:53 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 09:15:05 PM »
« Edited: April 23, 2012, 09:17:03 PM by Missouri Fox Trotter »

"Dad's dad"?  Granted, "granddad" isn't as precise, but that's what everyone would have assumed he was talking about and it sounds right. Altho, IIRC, mom's dad was fairly well off as well.

Mitt's efforts to appear to be ordinary always seem off-tone to me.  I don't see them as helping him, and to a certain extent they hurt him.  His justification for being the better choice for President has always been that he knows what to do with money, so pretending to be just folks mutes that theme.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2012, 11:07:42 PM »
« Edited: April 23, 2012, 11:09:15 PM by ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ »

Well, by the the time Mitt was a kid, his daddy was pretty rich and famous.
 
But I guess compared to George W Bush, where you have to go back 4 paternal generations to find a someone who might not have been a millionaire (still a Yale alumni though), he's not quite as blue blood.
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 11:26:48 AM »

Wasn't Mitt's grandpa a polygamist?
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2012, 12:15:51 PM »

That's also the number of generations you have to go back in Obama's family to find someone who was never a millionaire...
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2012, 12:31:54 PM »

That's also the number of generations you have to go back in Obama's family to find someone who was never a millionaire...

Obama's parents were millionaires?
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2012, 12:37:40 PM »

That's also the number of generations you have to go back in Obama's family to find someone who was never a millionaire...

Obama's parents were millionaires?

It's wormyguy.
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2012, 12:38:19 PM »

That's also the number of generations you have to go back in Obama's family to find someone who was never a millionaire...

Obama's parents were millionaires?

Not when he was born, but later in life yes.  (Romney's parents weren't millionaires when he was born either).
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2012, 01:43:21 PM »


Great-grandpa.  Grandpa had only the one wife.
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2012, 02:15:57 PM »
« Edited: April 24, 2012, 02:53:32 PM by ibarnes »

That's also the number of generations you have to go back in Obama's family to find someone who was never a millionaire...

Obama's parents were millionaires?

Not when he was born, but later in life yes.  (Romney's parents weren't millionaires when he was born either).

I'd like to see some evidence of this (Obama's parents were millionaires later in life). On what do you base this claim?
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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2012, 02:45:06 PM »

(Romney's parents weren't millionaires when he was born either).

That's not very believable. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2012, 02:55:35 PM »

Wow, that is like so amazing.
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2012, 03:19:21 PM »

(Romney's parents weren't millionaires when he was born either).

That's not very believable. 

Mitt was born in 1947, George was at the time working for the Automobile Manufacturers Association.  It was a decent middle-class job, but not millionaire territory. In 1948 he went to work for Nash-Kelvinator (one of the forerunners of AMC) and when Nash-Kelvinator merged with Hudson to become American Motors Corporation, George was tapped to become CEO's.  But that was still in an era when income tax rates were confiscatory and unless they owned stock, CEO's of major corporations did not become millionaires.  It also was in a era when a million dollars was a lot more money than it is today.

So while George was upper middle class when Mitt was born and later rose to become upper class, it's quite believable that he wasn't a millionaire at the time.
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« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2012, 03:24:27 PM »

So while George was upper middle class when Mitt was born and later rose to become upper class, it's quite believable that he wasn't a millionaire at the time.

I'm sure they were more than millionaires in 2012 dollars.
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2012, 09:12:10 PM »

So while George was upper middle class when Mitt was born and later rose to become upper class, it's quite believable that he wasn't a millionaire at the time.

I'm sure they were more than millionaires in 2012 dollars.

Exactly, and I'm sure by the time Mitt was in HS, his daddy was a millionaire in non adjusted dollars.
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« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2012, 09:14:36 PM »
« Edited: April 24, 2012, 09:17:33 PM by Politico »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents, preferably poor ones because there is nobility in being poor. George Romney did not deserve all of that income/wealth as a result of his time and labor. It all should have been sent to Washington, DC, so that our wise bureaucrats could redistribute it to hard-working welfare recipients.
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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2012, 09:16:31 PM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents. George did not deserve all of that income/wealth. All of it should have been sent to Washington, DC.

We would never of heard of Mitt if he hadn't been born to someone as rich and famous as his daddy.
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« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2012, 09:20:25 PM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents. George did not deserve all of that income/wealth. All of it should have been sent to Washington, DC.

We would never of heard of Mitt if he hadn't been born to someone as rich and famous as his daddy.

Just like we never would have heard of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, etc. had they not been born to someone as rich and famous as their parents, right?

When did you become infected by Eurotrash propaganda, good sir?
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« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2012, 09:23:58 PM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents, preferably poor ones because there is nobility in being poor. George Romney did not deserve all of that income/wealth as a result of his time and labor. It all should have been sent to Washington, DC, so that our wise bureaucrats could redistribute it to hard-working welfare recipients.

Despite being so over the top as to be laughable, Politico is giving a better defense of Romney's background than Romney himself has.
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« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2012, 09:29:47 PM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents. George did not deserve all of that income/wealth. All of it should have been sent to Washington, DC.

We would never of heard of Mitt if he hadn't been born to someone as rich and famous as his daddy.

Just like we never would have heard of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, etc. had they not been born to someone as rich and famous as their parents, right?

When did you become infected by Eurotrash propaganda, good sir?

Yes, we would have never heard of  William Jefferson Blythe III or Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Oh wait.
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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2012, 10:54:22 PM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents. George did not deserve all of that income/wealth. All of it should have been sent to Washington, DC.

We would never of heard of Mitt if he hadn't been born to someone as rich and famous as his daddy.

Just like we never would have heard of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, etc. had they not been born to someone as rich and famous as their parents, right?

When did you become infected by Eurotrash propaganda, good sir?

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« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2012, 11:24:25 PM »

Personally, why support the new money when you can support a real blue blood, like Rawn Pawl.

I was going to support Romney, but now that I see his father wasn't born into money, I changed my mind.
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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2012, 12:31:06 AM »

His wife is definitely a woman of the people.

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« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2012, 05:55:59 AM »

God forbid somebody choose to be born to wealthy parents. Mitt made such a poor choice when he chose his parents! He should have chosen to be born to other parents, preferably poor ones because there is nobility in being poor. George Romney did not deserve all of that income/wealth as a result of his time and labor. It all should have been sent to Washington, DC, so that our wise bureaucrats could redistribute it to hard-working welfare recipients.

Precisely.  An exploiter and class-enemy should automatically be disqualified from receiving the vote of any person who has to toil - that is, is exploited.   The people should call for his beheading, not his election.
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