but congratulating yourself for success rubs people the wrong way. politicians who are successful are ones who make the campaign about other people. about we, not about me. not about patting themselves on the back in an untoward way. he better be prepared to explain how he made every nickel at bain capital. okay, explain how ut made the money. this opens the door for that. we thought it was gone with newt gingrich s documentary being done and over with. but this opens the door. if you think you are the definition of success, which is what he was saying. look at me, i am success. then let s put that under the microscope and look at that. and the bain bane, you know, there are examples but there are times when they didn t exact act in a fair manner. he talks about success equalling fairness. if you lose your job because guys come in and take it away, that s not fair. in an interview with piers
congratulations and congratulate any politician seen on stage congratulating himself is not someone that gez over well with voters. self congratulations is not a pretty thing to say in any public figure and romney is seen congratulating himself and rich people in the back. yeah, a quarter million and it s his. but now he wants people in the new speech of his to congratulate people who make a lot of money. teacher doesn t make a lot of money, and the cop who catches bad guys, forget them. if you are rich, we should congratulate you and make you a leader. i have never seen it laid out there like it he is now. and attacking success. meaning, attacking people who want it give tax breaks to the rich and the wall street melt down that cost this economy millions of jobs. the interesting thing to me, playing off john s point, in my book which covered 2011, i saw how the president spent the whole year trying to set up a
access to the good schools of their choice. well stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends businesses. we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing. we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the very taxpayers they serve. and one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next. a huge problem out there, john, you are covering this campaign, writing another book on it. here is the problem with this guy, romney. at the same time he comes out and said not only should we respect great wealth we should congratulate it. congratulate people that make money, no matter how they make it. land developers, strip miners, hedge funders, whatever. make a lot of money and applaud you and congratulate you. at the same time, he is trying to poach the theme of fairness from the democrats because he saw the wall street journal nbc
more than 20 people still unaccounted for. rescuers are blowing holes in the side of the ship to get where they think people might be located. they found five bodies yesterday nap matt c . confirm death toll is 11. the man at the controls that might is now under house arrest today. prosecutors say they are speechless that he s even out of jail. they want to charge him with manslaughter and abandoning his post. we also learned today that it might not be the first time that that same ship was dangerously close to that s land. more in a couple of minutes. but first listen to this passenger who told us today what it was like. people s faces were panicked and they were trying to jump in and they just started hitting people with anything they could, the oars, poles, trying to push people back. but people kept persisting. and that s really when the screaming started and everyone was screaming and that s when they said we need to go, we need to get this down and it was just heartbr