fear, mitt romney is now the 100% man. here are today s top lines. the dirty word is the last 48 hours. have been not good for governor romney. 47% of americans pay no income tax. my job is not to worry about those this is a campaign about the 100%. the 100% of americans. my capacity to help the 100%. i ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility. entitled to food, medicine, roofs! that s the republican candidate for the presidency categorizing them as a bunch of freeloaders. it s unfortunate when something gets misinterpreted. the distraction of distortion so you will vote for the lesser. it touched off a firestorm at romney campaign headquarters. you could have rubbed shoulders with the president and
position of the united states, and i don t think that they actually wanted to interview him. i don t think the republican party wanted to bring him in for a live interview. they saw his resume. it s a fantastic resume when you look at it on paper, but then you look at his record now and his positions now versus his record then, they don t trust him as dr. peterson just said. that s the problem. they don t actually think he s a conservative, and if you don t believe me, look at his record as governor. they know that. republicans aren t stupid. at least most of them aren t. i would say the same amount of dumb democrats, if you will, so they balance each other out. but my point is he s interviewing for a job and they don t like the candidate for the job and guess what? he may not actually win. martin, i m glad you pointed this out. one, that sort of gives you the reason why he s creating this insane rationale about the 47%. he s trying to prove how he s going to be able to secure the of
air. as we learn more about the true feelings of mitt romney and what he thinks of the national, or at least the half of it he wants to lead, we now know that everything he says in public needs to be carefully compared to what he says in private. take, for example, last week when he attacked democrats for failing to include the name of god in their original platform. the platform was actually amended but this didn t stop mr. romney from offering a withering condemnation. i will not take god out of the name of our platform. i will not take god off our coins, and i will not take god out of my heart. we re a nation bestowed by god. so committed, dedicated to his faith in god, and persuasive to many like-minded voters. but that s in public. here is what he really thinks. there are 47% with him who depend on government who believe they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them
says that instead of thinking that the poor don t take responsibility, they take more than their share of responsibility. they re spending most of their brain power trying to figure out how to survive. they re not trying to be dependent. they re trying to figure out ways to be independent while those who are taking corporate welfare like mitt romney and his ilk continue to obfuscate the fact they are the moochers. the 47% are not the moochers. it s those who have had wealth redistributed to them, and, of course, we believe in redistribution in america except we believe in redistributing the goods and services and the wealth of those who are the masses to those who are the very few and the elite. so mitt romney here is only extending the logic of a kind of class of people who are not used to being empathetic or open to the masses of americans in this country and i think the film showed that. professor dyson, we re actually watching a puppet. i thought it was actually mitt
it s total crap, to use the technical term. mitt romney believes in redistribution. his health care plan in massachusetts was redistribution. social security, medicare, both programs that mitt romney says he supports involve redistribution. we redistribute all the time in america from the young workers to senior citizens, many of whom are more affluent than average families on these retire programs. rich states subsidize poor states. redistribution is as american as apple pie, and the idea they re trying to make obama out to be some kind of communist because of this is another pathetic last grasp of a campaign in trouble. john, this clip of the president is actually 96 seconds long in totality. he was speaking to a college of university students, i guess. how does that compare with 47 minutes of mr. romney speaking to his base at that fund-raising dinner? does one can sem out the other?