The Best Revenge: Pointing Out that Romney Keeps Pretending to Be Stupid. Or That He Really IS Stupid.
Yesterday in Springfield, Ohio, the crowd listening to Barack Obama booed when the President brought up Mitt Romney and the Republican Congress. That prompted Obama to say:
“No, no, no — don’t boo, vote. Vote! Voting is the best revenge.”
Romney promptly pretended to be very outraged by this. He told his supporters:
“Yesterday, the President said something you may have heard by now. That I think surprised a lot of people. Speaking to an audience, he said, ‘voting is the best revenge.’ He told his supporters — voting for revenge. Vote for revenge? Let me tell you what I’d like to tell you. Vote for love of country.”
“Did you see what President Obama said today? He asked his supporters to vote for revenge — for revenge…Instead, I ask the American people to vote for love of country.”
— Mitt Romney insults the Americanelectorate one last time, Greg Sargent, Washington Post, today
For me, one of the most frustrating aspects of this campaign is the failure of Obama and of the news media, time and again, to pretend to accept at face value that when Romney misinterprets the meaning of a word, a phrase or a fact, it because Romney really thinks that that’s what the word, the phrase, the fact means or indicates.
There are now only one-and-one-half days of campaigning left. Pleeease, Mr. Obama: Ask people whether they really want a commander-in-chief and a budget-and-tax-policymaker who thinks that “voting is the best revenge” means “vote for policies of revenge.”
English is not this guy’s second language. And he attended a fancy college-prep school, Stanford University, Brigham Young University, Harvard Law School and Harvard’s graduate school of business.
Here’s betting that he learned his English-language interpretation skills in law school and business school.
If you get my drift. And I bet you do.
Update: Dan here…pgl takes a shot…comments worthwhile too
With Romney googling is the best revenge http://bit.ly/R5HGki (see first hit).
Considering what the 1% (or 0.1%) have done to the US and world economy I’m sure there are many people who do want revenge and have no qualms about it.
The poutrage reminds me of Frank O’Connor response, when asked by a visitor what Irish politicians’ references to the “1st National Aim” meant: “Revenge, bejaysus, revenge.” (Officially it meant reunification of the island.)
Romney is stupid the way everyone else is stupid–words just mean what he wants them to mean. But Romney has an advantage only rich people have–a whole buncha people he pays to agree with him and tell everyone else how right he is. Cain’t beat that with a stick. 8-)NancyO
Nah, Beverly, Romney is counting on the voters to be stupid. Tell them what words mean and that’s what they mean.
What Nancy said……Rmoney has the best propaganda machine the inherited rich can afford.
Romney is not schizophrenic he is a embodiment of Tweedy Dee and Tweedle Dum.