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ORIGINAL: isoLadyOwner

Meh. These are the same Obama voters who call everyone who disagrees with Obama a racist, a right wing extremist, and a tea bagger. Obama ideologues will be outraged while free thinkers will just laugh at the blatant hypocrisy of the cult of Obama.

Hardly.

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Nope, they're sick of the generational welfare leeches too

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Nope, they're sick of the generational welfare leeches too. Like I said, the only people who will care about this video weren't going to vote for Romney anyway... And the democrats who are pretending to care about the welfare class.

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Nope, they're sick of the generational welfare leeches too

Join in here... http://www.collarchat.com/m_4243564/tm.htm

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

That's actually brave of Rob to admit civil servants, especially cops, are generational leeches.
I say fire.em all and see what we can salvage from those pensions they've been breaking the tax payer's backs with. And they ought to make it as least as hard for them to "go out on disability" (yep there's even a term for it in their vernacular). Yeah hats off for admitting where the problem really lies.

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That's actually brave of Rob to admit civil servants, especially cops, are generational leeches.
I say fire.em all and see what we can salvage from those pensions they've been breaking the tax payer's backs with. And they ought to make it as least as hard for them to "go out on disability" (yep there's even a term for it in their vernacular). Yeah hats off for admitting where the problem really lies.

How does having a job and collecting a salary meet the definition of a generational welfare leech Skippy?

I guess by your definition every democrat politician is a leech, lets lay off the President first... He and Michelle are the biggest leeches of them all. Go ahead and lay every cop and fireman off. Teachers and garbage collectors too... Can't forget the streets workers with winter coming up... Nice to know you want all of us fired, and added to the unemployment rolls.

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How does having a job and collecting a salary meet the definition of a generational welfare leech Skippy?

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How does having a job and collecting a salary meet the definition of a generational welfare leech Skippy?

Do you know how many people have jobs that collect some form of welfare?

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How does having a job and collecting a salary meet the definition of a generational welfare leech Skippy?

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The working poor.....who in spite of working(sometimes 2 or three jobs) would be homeless or hungry without some help.

The other big chunk of the lazy "47%" are the elderly who can`t work and who are broke.Tax dodgers......every one of them.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

From Mother Jones with five video clips.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them.


Yayyy Romney, theres gonna be far tooo many who will agree with him, but ouch....

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David Corn of Mother Jones released the “complete” audio and video of the secretly recorded Mitt Romney speech at a private fundraiser.

Yet the complete audio and video is not complete. There is a gap in the recording immediately after Romney’s now famous discussion of the 47% of voters who don’t pay taxes. The cut in the audio and video comes while Romney is in mid-sentence, so we actually do not have the full audio of what Romney said on the subject.

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I found Corn’s email address, and he responded as follows:

According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.

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Corn says that his source told him the recorder shut off on its own right in the middle of Romney’s answer, and then was not turned on until Romney already was into a different topic. We have no way of verifying that source’s story, but we do know that there were various edited pieces of the tape circulating prior to Corn’s involvement, so it is just as possible that Corn’s source or someone else handling the video prior to Corn edited out part of the answer.

It is impossible for us to know if Romney said something which changed or put the remarks in context. Romney doesn’t remember the event except for what exists on audio/video. Maybe in the fullness of the answer, the answer was less “inelegant” than it appears. Maybe Romney put some of the context on it that we have heard in his interviews the past two days.

What difference does it make?

Think how the initial 24 hours of controversy might have played out differently had Corn made the disclosure up front. That part of the answer was missing from the tape would have provided a valuable context both to readers/listeners, and to the Romney campaign. That never happened because there was no disclosure by Corn that part of the tape was missing.

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It also is unreasonable to expect Romney to correct an incomplete audio/video of a comment he did not remember making except for the existence of the audio/video. That’s why Romney asked for the complete answer to be released.