Obama supposedly left debate thinking he won.

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He is an arrogant man. We knew that already.

Well to be fair, Romney had never given any signs of being anything other than a fool before.  What the President forgot was his place in America - he maybe president, but he is still a black.  And Romney may just be an offensive, arrogant liar, but he's still white (and rich).

Americans of color everywhere will get the message from this white exodus to the Romney camp - race war.

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Well to be fair, Romney had never given any signs of being anything other than a fool before. 

The stock market is one of those places that a "fool" and his money often part. Romney may very well have a series of flaws, but being a "fool" simply isn't one of them.

Oh please, BS.  He's an annointed one, he never 'did' something.

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Are you seriously suggesting that the fact that his dad was a politician was the sole reason Bane Capital, and Mitt Romney made serious money? The evidence strongly suggests to me that Romney had a talent for stock speculation/finance. Whether that a plus, a negative or neutral in his race is separate question.

No, he got all his money because his father was rich, BS.  That is alwys why people get rich.

Mitt was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

Precisely!  He probably thinks he's a good debater or something now, when really he just got lucky to have the resources to keep running, election after election, untill he finally got a black man as an opponent. 

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Mitt didn't keep a dime of inheritance.  The only 'privilege' he's had in his life is going to prestigious Universities -- Something he has in common with Obama.  Just except merit for what it is, don't try to pretend it doesn't exist.    

It its a figment of your neoliberal delusion, AmNat.  As far as not 'keeping a dime of inheritance' - you'll believe anything apparently!

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As far as my imagination, he didn't need any money when his dad passed, so why wouldn't he give it away like he did?

Because he obviously got the vast bulk of it transferred to him before his father died.  Don't you nkow how the rich operate, An?   Most of their money isn't even in the USA, its totally hidden.  This it the way with the rich.      

The only 'privilege' he's had in his life is going to prestigious Universities --

Even if this were true, it would be an utterly laughable defense of both the man and the ostensibly virtuous meritocracy that has produced him.

What rigged deck theory are you pushing?  Marxist class system? 
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Dude, it is obvious that anyone who could attend an Ivy League institution is a member of a privileged elite, and that 'merit' has nothing to do with their privilege.

And by the way, obviously the marxist class system analysis is correct, and your neoliberal fantasy is nothing but a subterfuge for a hideous slavery.

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So, you are saying Steve Jobs ended with a net worth of several hundred million dollars because his adoptive parents were "rich?" Most people would assume that things like Pixar, and the iP___ had the most to do with it.

Sure, he only got those things because an army of poor working stiffs he controlled because of his privilege created them for him.  Don't you understand capitalism at all, BS?

Dude, it is obvious that anyone who could attend an Ivy League institution is a member of a privileged elite, and that 'merit' has nothing to do with their privilege.

That is really indefensible.

Why?  Don't tell, me, you're attending Dart-mouth?

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Unless, of course, admission to those "elite schools" is itself a measure of "merit." I don't dispute that there are kids who were admitted to Harvard because daddy went to Harvard and contributed thereafter. But, there are also kids admitted there based on their own "merits."

That's crazy, man.  They are admitted because they're rich - even the unimportant ones (that aren't Romney's or Bushs or that ilk) have to pay $60,000/year or more to attend.