Romney claims he's like average Americans, but his pet is in the Olympics
Olympics 2012 is in full swing. After a spectacular opening ceremony that was a nice balance of an opening scene from the Broadway play Les Miserable, a 1980 dance party and feel-good Hallmark commercial the games are on in full swing. I, like most people in America, are tuned-in and full of American spirit.
Mitt Romney was in London for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Turns out, he wasn’t there only to show us what an excellent statesman he is by connecting so easily with the British people, he was also there because he has a horse competing in the Dressage event in the Olympics.
Hold it..Googling “dressage”..definition: the “horse ballet”.
Well, if I was ever concerned that an uber-rich man like Romney understands what average Americans face every day, my concerns are now put to rest. We have something in common! We both have pets. Romney has his pet horse and I have my pet cat.
Here is a list of similarities with our two pets:
Romney’s horse is estimated at a value of $500,000. My cat Harry, I adopted from my local vet for $50. Both numbers have a 5.
My cat Harry does an amazing dance when I dangle a string in front of him. Romney’s horse does “ballet”.
Romney’s horse will jump. My cat Harry jumps from the couch to his cat house.
My cat Harry and Romney’s horse both eat food.
That confirms it! Romney is correct when he says he is just like me, an average American. I just did not realize that I could have sent my pet to the Olympics.
Why didn’t the 99% of American people get the message that we could also send our pets to the Olympics? I’m sure there would be millions of American dogs, cats, hamsters and fish that would have also like to have an Olympic experience. Well, now we know.
I will continue to look for more ways that Romney is just like “average Americans”. Right now I’ve got to go start training Harry for the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Somebody get me some cat treats stat.
JR Beillenhouser
9 months, 4 weeks agoWho cares. I bet he can get the economy going again.
Mark Hastert
9 months, 4 weeks agoHey, the guy was born rich and got richer. He doesn’t know anything else. He doesn’t understand what it’s like to be anything less. As Molly Ivins once said about guys like him, he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
Steven Fetter
66223
9 months, 4 weeks agoIf being rich precludes one from governing, then starting with George Washington and all of the founding fathers and continuing through “men of the people” such as Roosevelt, Kennedy, and almost every member of Congress, we should just select people for office from the welfare roles.
Rich, poor, black, white, just give me someone that is competent to manage this economy.
Mark Robertson
9 months, 4 weeks agoClass envy doesn’t improve the life of anyone, including yours. The 99 percent claim shows how out of touch you are. So if Romney did understand what it is like to be “average,”(because of course we know he doesn’t) how would that help the “average.” I guess that would mean that he would want to take money from the “rich” and give it to the nonrich. I’ve got a novel idea, how about concentrating on making the economy strong for all citizens. Cut taxes across the board, cut spending and cut regulation. It works every time. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence
Mark Hastert
9 months, 4 weeks ago“What a vacuous, petty snit Ms. Patton”… “She and Hugo Chavez both support Obama” ” our most imperial president ever. He has ruled and mangled the nation”
What? no Hitler or Stalin reference? Pot? Kettle?
“Cut taxes across the board, cut spending and cut regulation. It works every time. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence”
…actually it’s been more than ten years now since we cut taxes, going on thirty plus since we started deregulating. If this is what you call “works every time” we can’t stand anymore. LOL
Kent Mueller
9 months, 4 weeks agoMark….who was the first president to de-regulate an industry?
And following the Bush tax cuts were 51 consecutive months of employment gains, a record. Were they huge gains? No, but they were steady gains. Which is a good thing.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 4 weeks agoFirst it was vaginas Aimee, now it’s come to this….
Your love of class-warfare is all your side can talk about. You can’t talk about the economy, the big 0 has put it further in the crapper. You can’t talk about the deficit, the big 0 has added 5 TRILLION to America’s deficit, pushing us closer to probably your beloved Europe. You can’t talk about “engagement” with our enemies as Iran continues to build a nuke and we still have troops in Afghanistan.
So, you talk about class-warfare. Not too classy Aimee…..
Mark Hastert
9 months, 4 weeks ago“And following the Bush tax cuts were 51 consecutive months of employment gains, a record.”
Yes Kent at the slowest growth since WWII. Oh the sin of omission. Compared to other administrations they were weak, weak, weak… and those 51 months of consecutive gains culminated in???? Face it, deregulation and low taxes aren’t, haven’t and aren’t going to work ‘cause well, here we are. Your proof is in the pudding.’cept it doesn’t smell like pudding. LOL
“So, you talk about class-warfare”
George your party/movement has been waging a successful war against the middle class, women, minorities and the poor for more than 30 years. Ain’t it a bitch when we fight back?
Kent Mueller
9 months, 4 weeks agoMark….sin of omission? You didn’t say which president first deregulated an industry. FYI, it was Carter deregulating the airlines. I also await your response to my questions in McClanahan’s Chic-fil-A thread.
How do you connect the dots of de-regulation and the financial melt down of 2008? The only credible connection was the repeal of Glass-Steagall. I agree that was not a good idea. But, when the Democrats had full legislative, veto proof control, they didn’t re-instate Glass-Steagall. Why didn’t they? They passed over 2,000 pages of financial reform that mostly is a collection of their party base’s agenda, not the prevention of another crises.
So, in short, Mark, what de-regulation caused the crises. And if it was Glass-Steagall, why didn’t the Democrats reinstate it?
Mark Hastert
9 months, 3 weeks agoAlways junmping to conclusions aren’t you? I never said that the Dems didn’t drink the deregulation kooladi too. Bill Clinton signed the repeal of Glass-Steall. Industries, Big Energy, and the financial sector have been deregulated and had lax oversight. We had/have too few inspectors/inspections of deep sea drilling rigs, coal mines, meat packing, financial instruments. The Chairman of the Fed. Alan Greenspan famously (infamously?) said that he didn’t believe we needed regulation and oversight at all because markets were self regulating. Boy did they ever self regulate. It was all a terrible, terrible mistake. Business ethics and morals have devolved to the point that unless it’s illegal it’s deemed to be OK. Intelligent regulation and oversight insure a stable and healthy market, it promotes trust on the part of investors and is good for capitalism.