Courtesy of the Daily Kos:
When I was asked to speak with Mitt Romney it seemed like a very important thing to me, and I wanted to put a lot of careful thought into what I would say. So, I went to the round table discussion very optimistic and interested in hearing what he had to say.
When he sat down, one of the first questions he asked was, he said "I understand there is a teacher here today, which one of you is a teacher?"
So, I raised my hand, thinking that's a good thing, he's interested in education, but it wasn't a good thing. I felt like his view was a little old-fashioned and I was surprised by it. He went on to kind of lecture me about schools and how bad they are. He talked bad about the teacher's union. He was talking about the importance of private schools and voucher systems.
At one point, I said to him, "I have an answer for that." And he said, "I didn't ask you a question."
So Mitt the Twit makes a bunch of ignorant remarks about the state of education in this country, and a teacher offers to explain what is REALLY going on, and he refuses to allow her to speak.
I think that just about sums up why Romney should never be allowed to have ANY say over the education system in this country.
One of the things I most despise about this current crop of Republicans is their flagrant disdain for our teachers. The idea that these incredibly important public servants have been vilified and mistreated to the point of driving many of them out of education entirely is a national crisis, and want desperately to see it changed in the next four years.
Amen. And this man has never even set foot in a public school, nor have his kids or grnadkids. How dare he treat this woman rudely. He is an ass, and I am so glad this is all coming out now. Wait until the debates. He will be smirking all night and not saying a damn thing.
ReplyDeleteIf he had stepped into my school, I would have personally taken his lunch money, given him a buzz cut in the middle of his marvelous 'do in the front, and left him hanging on a coat hook by him magic underwear after administering an atomic-wedgie that would still have him walking like... well, the same prissy way he walks today in his mom jeans. I guess li'l Milty visited somebody else's public school during the Republican Primary and someone took care of my lite business.
DeleteAnd if he had spoken to any of my teachers like he did to this one in the video, he'd have been drinking his meals through a straw until I told the punk he could start eating solid food again.
It isn't just his attitude about teachers. This is a direct result of the moronic idea espoused by many right-wingers, including the Alaskan Dunce, that a president should be a business owner or CEO.
ReplyDeleteNO! The president is our employee, elected to serve the country. Romney should have been asking the people at that table for ideas. But his reaction was exactly that of a CEO - since when does the CEO solicit input from employees? Their job is to listen to him! Or else!
Ann said the other day that we are lucky that he might "run the country."
He thinks he will be in charge. That is one more reason he must not be elected.
I would have stood up and said "And I didn't come here to be lectured on my profession by an ignorant amateur."
ReplyDeleteThen I would have turned and left.
Yeah, we read this earlier and my husband said if he'd been there he would have stood up, slammed his chair in and said I am not here to be ignored by an idiot like you. Fuck you. Turned and left.
Delete1:13 Loved your response!!! I would have done something similar. Someone also needs to take the same road w/Sarah Palin, Cheney, and Paul Ryan.
DeleteI've never been someone that uses the word 'hate', but that is how I feel about most Republicans that have served, or are serving in Washington D.C. (House/Congress - John Boehner!)
Sarah Palin is just the retard from Wasilla, AK and most Alaskans would love to see her completely out of their state!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I most decidedly would have walked out on that jerk too.
DeleteM from MD
Of course! Have a round-table discussion, not to get feedback from different people in different walks of life, but to lecture each of them on why you're right about everything.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't have a question for me, here, Mitt, I'll give you one.
Mitt: "Am I a prick?"
My answer: "Yes, Mitt, you're a prick."
>>>Have a round-table discussion<<<
DeleteNow they are usually called something like a listening session. As in listen to our B.S. and don't ask questions!
Classic propaganda tactic call it something that it is not.
They don't make enough money to pay taxes, therefore they are of no consequence to him. It's not his job to worry about "those people" to use his own words. As for her being a woman, I wonder how much that added to his disrespect. I can almost see him whispering "shut up, sweetheart, the men are talking."
ReplyDeleteMitt is such an asshole.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever had any doubt about wanting Obama to be re-elected, it was before Romney won the Repub nomination. Now, I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney if I was water-boarded from today until November 6th.
There is a very good reason why the Republicans are attacking teachers. They can only succeed if people of dumb, uneducated and not interested in asking questions-- the kind of person easily brainwashed and hypnotized by Fox News propaganda. During a revolution, the first people to get rounded are the professors, the writers, the artists, and journalists, anyone who thinks and can tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteThe text book folks in Texas have already taken a swipe at rewriting history in the name of text books. The Republicans want to have Creationism replace the teaching of evolution. The Republicans would like to keep the general population dumb and in inadequate public schools while they send their kids to private schools using their voucher system. The attack on teachers is terrible!
So true, if only people could remember this and pass it on to their children. We need to make the understanding of history a value in our families. I remember my dear parents (staunch Democrats!) in 1960 making sure we kids understood the basics of civics. We were grilled about our rights and encouraged to become involved in our communities. At 14, I was encouraged to understand what each of the candidates were all about and we watched both conventions. My brothers were of draft age and we were aware they might be drafted, so we learned all about Vietnam, the pros and cons of the war and it was talked about at family reunions. Now people simply turn their backs and act like we aren’t prosecuting a war unless they have children involved in the war. They sit around and check their Lockheed Martin and Halliburton stock and decide whether a war benefits them personally. We have lost our way.
DeleteThank you. I just don't understand anything at all about Republicans any more. They are not the party that my mom and dad belonged to. The party has been hijacked and split apart by religious zealots who have no respect at all for anyone who does not believe as they do. It's a shame. Eventually things will probably even out again, after enough people see the damage that the most hysterical segment of the Christian right is doing to our democracy. It will take longer than I have left on earth but hopefully someday my grandchildren will get to experience a more tolerant way of life in the United States. It will never be perfect at all, but it has to be more kind and balanced if we are going to make decisions that protect our environment, enrich our social and education systems, and provide opportunity for everyone who works for it. Obama/Biden ... our only sane choice.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%.
DeleteIt was once the Grand Old Party. It is now a travesty.
It is what it is now, and will never be what it once was. Those days are in the past forever.
Was anybody secretly recording his "lecture"? Mitt Romney has no business "lecturing" anyone about anything. I doubt if he can hold a simple conversation with anyone whose income isn't in the multimillions. What would he talk about?
ReplyDeleteSo disrespectful, and ignorant. My contempt for Romney continues to grow.
ReplyDeleteIt also shows what an arrogant prick the guy is. Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteHannity Interview Mystery Explained:What Sarah Palin Was Doing In Las Vegas( With Captivating Photo)
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(a secret meeting with pro-Israel conservative Sheldon Adelson to discuss 2016 perhaps?). LOL
BTW what happened to her fake boobs???? and dark brown spray tan???
That picture looks photoshopped. Her head is so weird and there's an odd haze around him. Something is NOT right with this image, it is not an original photo...anyone else notice this?
DeleteWhoopsies. I didn't read the link closely or I probably wouldn't have clicked on it (don't like to give pro-Palin sites any clicks).
DeleteWhat was immediately striking was that many of the pictures along the sides of the page (and there were many) seemed to be from the 2008 campaign.
Now why aren't they collecting screen shots from her recent appearances on Fox?
Sarah's head has always looked fucked up. No more so in this photo than usual, IMO, as long as the ratio of head-to-body is equivalent to other bobble-head dolls. When she takes off her stinky wigs, she might look different, but no better.
DeleteGreat listening skills there, Mr Romney, a true sign of an effective leader. s/
ReplyDeleteGryphen, your comment about the Republicans having a disdain for teachers is so far off the mark. Where did you ever get such a simplistic idea?
ReplyDeleteIt's not just teachers, not at all. The Republicans have a disdain for everyone, and are trying very hard to bring our country down.
In 2009 I wrote a few ideas I had on the site Obama had set up for citizens to share
Deletetheir ideas for improvement in areas including public education.
Our country needs a diverse population to work and provide services in a variety of jobs. Obama acts and speaks respectfully of world leaders to teachers, musicians to even the sick. Romney is an arrogant dick.
(I can't believe I said that!). He is disrespectful of most of the population. His personality is the problem and his wealth is not the real issue.
Arrogant and rude. What planet made HIM king? Oh, I forgot; he's a Mormon. A rich and privileged Mormon whose life is set in gold from birth to death... and beyond. Don't think he can relate to the "little people."
ReplyDeleteI hate to say this but Mitt the Shit makes Dumbya look good.
ReplyDeleteHow many strikes does this asshole Mitt get?
ReplyDeleteHow many strikes?
DeleteAs many as he needs. No sending him to the bench, even if veto proof majorities in the House and Senate are the result!
These asshole Republicans got in a clown car, just now they realize there are no door handles and that they are trapped with Sarah, Mitt and all the rest of the defectives. Tough shit.
What's happening in the Battleground States? See map at:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/2012-election/swing-state/
Read em and weep, Mitt.
It's as if Romney is purposely trying to lose the election.
ReplyDeleteThis is what concerns me. He's just passing the time because he thinks that he can win no matter what because of what Rove and Koch brothers and the GOP governors are doing to try to stop people that would demographically typically vote for Obama. So he's going through the motions, thinking he has it in the bag. Which god forbid, he does. This is a man who does NOT have his heart in what he is currently doing...it's the front that he must put up until he 'wins'. Polls are great to keep up one's spirit, but if votes don't happen, we're fucked.
DeleteRegister anyone you can, and be available to drive seniors and others to the polls that can't get there otherwise. Canvas your neighborhood and let them know NOW that you are available and willing to take them and get them home. I've already got a huge voting carpool set up with my 4 block area and expanding it everyday. Make sure that people double check, and not assume, that they are not only registered to vote, but that they bring everything they can think of to identify themselves...birth certificate, wedding license, military id PLUS a picture ID if there is ANY suspicion of voter intimidation in your state.
ALSO, and this is critical, make sure that their ID matches EXACTLY to what is on the voter lists...this is how they are planning to stop women who have married and/or divorced with the subsequent name changes that occur.
I took an elderly couple to the DMV and stayed until they got their picture ID's so they could vote. Start now, there's much to be done.
They are ruthless, brutal and unwavering in trying to disenfranchise every democratic voter they can. This is vile beyond comprehension, and yet they are DOING IT RIGHT NOW.
VERY good points! Thanks for doing all that!
DeleteI hope, others will follow your example.
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Don't forget that Mitt is a twofer.... you not only get his arrogant ass talking down to the 47% people.... you also get his arrogant wife who believes she is better than everyone one else too.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine Ann and Mitt in the White House?
Can you imagine how many times the WH staff would jerk off in the Romneys' soup?
DeleteCan you imagine the firestorm if President Obama had been so condescending to this woman?
DeleteHammer and a Feather2:50 PM
DeleteOr in his and his wife's face. Respectfully, of course. Sir and Madam... your cloth napkins, if you please.
I don't understand how Romney thinks people will vote for him when he acts as he did w/this teacher. Does he really think Americans favor his thinking in this matter? Absolutely amazing!
ReplyDeleteHe and Queen Ann are so damned arrogant it makes me sick. And, I'm even so much more thankful that we have President and Mrs. Obama representing all of us. (100%!)
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
He is not interested in solutions. None of those arrogant pricks are. They want to privatize public education, pay teachers as little as they can get away with, and grow even more wealthy off of our tax dollars. They will move heaven and earth to make SURE the current system fails if it means they can make billions every year.
ReplyDeleteRomney's Investment in For-Profit Schools...with His Son Tagg
The money quote:
"Romney has $10,000,000 invested in Solamere Capital, a PE firm headed by his son Tagg. Solamere offered its clients TA Associates which invests in privatizing education."
Who the H*ll does Willard think he is, being so rude and disrespectful !!!
ReplyDeleteMittie, you may not be asking us a question, but we are TELLING YOU - the only way you and Annie will set a foot into the White House is on a tour, intermingling with some of the 47% that you so disdain.
What is it about manners that you people don't understand? When you enter the room, you are expected to take your seat and remain silent until called upon to speak. The King or Queen speaks first, and then you may reply, addressing them as Your Royal Highness, or Your Majesty. As a sign of respect, when you address the King or Queen, one should lower their head, nodding in acknowledgment of Royalty. Do you people think that this is easy? You have no idea how heavy those crowns are. They are made of real gold. Don't they teach you anything in those schools?
ReplyDeleteLOL, perfect!
DeleteIf Mitt will keep his wife out of my yard, I'll quit fucking her. That's all I will promise the old boy.
DeleteThe fact that she keeps drilling glory holes in the privacy fence and sticking her tongue through is a bit distracting when I'm cutting my lawn, I must admit. Mitt, I think she's tired of your empty magic briefs and wants some magic dick.
Republicans hate teachers because they are on the frontline of teaching the critical thinking skills that will someday inevitably lead to the demise of the Repubican Party.
ReplyDeleteThey also teach those pesky science classes, Oh, I hate that.
DeleteEducation is the cure for war. War is the ultimate control of the populace, and is what keeps the rich rich and powerful powerful. Religion=War
DeleteDNC Video Romney's Sorry Sunday
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hu7sw6aWsgI
Not Even Fox News Can Save Mitt Romney’s Sorry Sunday
http://www.politicususa.com/romneys-sunday-built-47-americans-victims.html
Looks like this teacher is in need of some education herself-a refresher course in grammar.
ReplyDelete(He talked bad about .......). Just sayin'.
Anonymous3:00 PM
DeleteLook at your first sentence, ass-wipe. It's a fragment. Also, any Journalism major (or Communications major, for that matter) would know that an ellipses consists of only three consecutive periods, not seven, shit-for-brains.
I'm just sayin' as well, perhaps a bit more emphatically, for the benefit of Sarah Palin and her fellow dumb-ass, junior college drop-outs that she grifts off of for her income.
I might also mention that this is a transcription of a conversation, not a written essay.
DeleteWe are a lot looser in our grammar when speaking. Regional dialects and family and community usage not necessarily conforming to what is slowly becoming "high" English (American).
A similar model might be the difference between "high" written German and speaking regional German such as Swabisch.
I know a really funny joke regarding grammar and a southern belle, but I'll save it for another time.
Romney is like a Mafia godfather: When he wants an opinion, he'll give it to you.
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...And he said, "I didn't ask you a question." ...
ReplyDeleteNot faulting this teacher because she probably has much better manners than I, but if that arrogant, conceited, ignorant, worthless piece of sh.. had said that to me, the flames would have left Willard Romney with singed eyebrows and a life-long memory. Starting off with "I don't take crap from a bully..." and ending (several minutes later) with "...and if you can not engage in adult conversation, don't run for president (or dog catcher)." A long career dealing with engineers and executives in the tech world, gave me a decent vocabulary and stamina to unleash a tirade that little Willard doesn't often meet with in his pampered little bubble life.
This teacher undoubtedly has extensive experience in handling offensive childish behavior. But she certainly had every right to expect courteous treatment by Willard Romney.
I can not believe how angry this story made me. I loathe Romney.
This election is about exactly that:
ReplyDeleteeither a government that listens and cares -
a government of the people and for the people,
or Romney/Ryan where,
if you're not among the wealthiest - a Lord,
the you're a serf and need to shut up and get back to work.
Oh he's nasty sob. I loathe him.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone even think that Romney Boo Boo would even care what one of the service class, a teacher, would care about hem?
ReplyDelete'My 84-year old dad's speech for Obama'
ReplyDeleteI am posting this speech for my 84-year old father, who is not on Kos, but very much wants to participate in the progressive online community, if only he knew how to type and use a computer. He has been a staunch liberal all his life. He has also lived in Arizona all his life, and has watched the state veer from Roosevelt to Goldwater, and now to Jan Brewer. This is the speech that he wishes President Obama would give (though, he adds, both Obama and Clinton gave at least some of it in their convention speeches). Well, I am his son, but wow, I think it's impressive for an 84-year old man to be this well informed. God bless that old man; his son loves him.
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My fellow Americans,
My opponent, Mitt Romney, likes to define me as a president who did not create the financial crisis in America but rather as “one who has made it worse.” Let me count the ways I haven’t done this but first I must submit a short history lesson.
My predecessor, President George W. Bush, took office essentially by appointment, despite having lost both the popular and the electoral vote, as we now know. He inherited a balanced budget, a $200 billion surplus, unemployment below 6% and no ongoing wars. We had recently stopped a war in Bosnia without loss of a single American life.
President Bush, however, wanted to finish the first Gulf War and to do so used untruths, half-truths and emotional blackmail to force Congress to agree. As he put it, Iraq had nuclear weapons and our next warning might come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Mr. Bush, however, could not simply start a war with Iraq without a pretext, which he soon got.
About eight months after Mr. Bush’s appointment, a CIA agent went to Crawford, Texas, where the President was vacationing, to deliver a briefing bulletin stating that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike within the U.S. This warning was to be considered urgent. President Bush told the CIA agent to go home because he had "covered his ass.” Already, as we know, Bush had received several similar warnings. Yet he gave the bulletin to his counterterrorism advisor, Condoleeza Rice, who placed it in her desk without taking any action.
After the tragedy of 9/11, she was asked about this warning and why she hadn’t acted on it. Her answer was simple: It was “too general.” The bulletin did not give the location of the strike.
Her predecessor, Richard Clarke, who had been appointed by President Bush’s father, had been demoted from his position as counter-terrorism coordinator for the National Security Agency and never ever saw the bulletin. His reaction would probably have been to ask for everything the FBI, the CIA, or any other agency had that might pertain to the subject in any way. At the time, the FBI’s famous “Phoenix Memo” existed which questioned why young Middle Eastern men were taking flying lessons that did not include instructions on taking off or landing, even though international law would have barred them from being hired on an airline.
All in all, there were about 50 such warnings and there had even been two major plots foiled overseas (one in France and another in the Philippines) where Islamic terrorists had planned to fly aircraft into buildings. President Bush, it now turns out, received several briefings on the imminent Al Qaeda threat that he did not release to the 9/11 Commission, which was charged with finding out how and why the attack had occurred.
As I said, this is all academic since the 9/11 attack did take place and thousands died. We’ll never know if they would have been prevented but we can reasonably assume that leaders such as Al Gore and Richard Clarke would have acted on the warnings in a responsible way.
One of President Bush’s first acts in office,
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/23/1135615/-My-84-year-old-dad-s-speech-for-Obama
Standing ovation.
DeleteI second that. Standing ovation here, too...
DeleteAs a teacher, I am extremely offended (although not surprised) at the lack of respect Romney showed towards this woman.
ReplyDeleteI understand that he wants to destroy public education and replace it with private education and for-profit schools, but there is simply no excuse for treating anyone with that kind of disdain.
The more I see of him, the more disgusted I am at how he perceives himself as so superior to anyone who is not a 1%er.
Arrogant, despicable man.
First of all thank you, what the heck, I just may be one of your sudents.
DeleteEither way, my teachers shaped my life :)
But it is not just teachers Money Boo Boo has been attacking b, but they certainly are in good company.
Teachers, police officers, firemen, and the military. According to Mittens , you're all over paid and have too many benny's.
I certainly don;t feel so and will be voting a straight democratic ticket, not only for myself but for every teacher I have had.
His eldest son also has his greedy fingers in a charter school 'business' (if that's what you call it), the plan being to replace public education with for profit charter schools that will further line Tagg's pockets.
DeleteTagg is also the one who is vocally opposing a hospice in his posh neighborhood. Rotten apple from a rotten tree.
DeleteObama will kick his ass good..Obama/Biden 2012
ReplyDeleteHere's a question I hope will be asked of Mitt Romney before November 6th:
ReplyDeleteSince he turned 65 in March, does Mr. Romney collect a Social Security payment, and, if not, does he intend on doing so?
Has he signed up for Medicare, and, if not, will he?
He is a nasty SOB and has been for a long time. He's a perfect representation of what the GOP has become.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting to see if Ed Schultz on MSNBC addresses this.
ReplyDeleteM from MD
He may have more money than President Obama, but whoever does his ads is making the money spent go far. All the ads are short, direct and to the point.
ReplyDeleteThis one is especially disturbing because it shows how disconnected Romney is with real working people. This teacher deserves more respect than he's willing to give her. She's shaping our future, she's educating future voters, making a mark on our children, and this doooochebag feels it's perfectly acceptable to marginalize and demean her?
What am I saying? This guy led a blind professor into a closed door for shits and giggles.
And he wants to be near the nuclear codes?
What an entitled , hermetically sealed, socially retarded and inept idiot!!
I would be infuriated if someone said that to me. This man should not be anywhere near the levers of government authority. Day after day, hour after hour, he would piss so many people off, it would take years to clean up the mess he left behind. And this is just on a domestic level; imagine what he would do to our foreign relationships!
ReplyDeleteIf I could I would have my students recite the pledge to Obama every morning..we cannot afford to have Romney as president..president Obama will lead us all to the promises land he just needs four more years
ReplyDeleteWhere is the evidence for this? It seems like an Obama Ad. I'm not trying to be rude here, it's just that everything always seems to be taken out of context for both Romney and Obama so I wanted to see some proof that this actually happened. Otherwise, it's just another Obama ad.
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