{"id":11616,"date":"2012-07-21T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2019-03-27T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:12:36","slug":"mitt-romney-channels-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/21\/mitt-romney-channels-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney channels Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew Mitt Romney knew more than he was letting on.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ul7k4BPhEVQ?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nMitt Romney agrees that to build a business, people need roads, education, fire and police departments, and that we have to pay taxes to support those things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a certain local newspaper as quoted in my previous post <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/20\/in-roxbury-romney-hits-obamas-business-message\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Roxbury, Romney hits Obama\u2019s business message<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn Virginia, Obama\u2019s blunt \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d was accompanied by, \u201cThere was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So essentially Romney&#8217;s closing remarks amount to &#8220;Take that Barack Obama, I agree with what you meant, but not the way you said it.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Romney even admits that people in government service aren&#8217;t created out of thin air.  We pay taxes for those people, and he just doesn&#8217;t want to do that anymore.  As Elizabeth Warren says, he believes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got mine paid for by the people who came before me, so why should I fund anymore for the people who come after me?  What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew Mitt Romney knew more than he was letting on. Mitt Romney agrees that to build a business, people need roads, education, fire and police departments, and that we have to pay taxes to support those things. According to a certain local newspaper as quoted in my previous post In Roxbury, Romney hits Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27139,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/27139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}