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So Mr. Romney, You paid NO taxes for a decade?

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/16/romney-called-for-tax-transparency-in-past-campaigns/

"It's time the biggest-taxing senator in Washington shows the people of Massachusetts how much he pays in taxes," Romney said in April of 1994, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

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Roads and bridges:

He was talking about infrastructure, that was the whole point. Wouldn't it be really weird for him to be talking about infrastructure, then throw in exactly one sentence in the middle of all that to say that business owners didn't build their own businesses?

And he hasn't fired any speech writers over this BS that he keeps spewing? Even if he didn't intend for things to sound the way they do (it seems to happen an awful lot) he should be at least reading over his speeches before saying things that sound so screwy. :nono:

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And he hasn't fired any speech writers over this BS that he keeps spewing? Even if he didn't intend for things to sound the way they do (it seems to happen an awful lot) he should be at least reading over his speeches before saying things that sound so screwy. :nono:

Why would he fire any speech writers?

His words were pretty clear to pretty much everyone would wasn't looking for him to say something wrong.

What's all this BS he keeps spewing?

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And he hasn't fired any speech writers over this BS that he keeps spewing? Even if he didn't intend for things to sound the way they do (it seems to happen an awful lot) he should be at least reading over his speeches before saying things that sound so screwy. :nono:

Not yet, but like any President or politician, I bet he's keeping count.

There are always changes over time.

And it doesn't matter if some understand and some don't.

It's that "some hear it the wrong way" that causes all the troubles.

Reading a script is pretty much blind trust in whoever wrote it.

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And it doesn't matter if some understand and some don't.

It's that "some hear it the wrong way" that causes all the troubles.

Reading a script is pretty much blind trust in whoever wrote it.

^^^ This.

He just keeps giving those against him more to talk about!

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Not yet, but like any President or politician, I bet he's keeping count.

There are always changes over time.

And it doesn't matter if some understand and some don't.

It's that "some hear it the wrong way" that causes all the troubles.

Reading a script is pretty much blind trust in whoever wrote it.

That hardly matters. There is always a way to take something the wrong way, especially if it's politically advantageous to do so. Remember how Al Gore invented the internet? He never said that, and in fact what he actually said wasn't inaccurate, but the sound bite probably cost him the election.

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I agree, I think he's talking about the roads and what not if you listen to it in context, but the rest of the speech IS about how you didn't build your business. That and the almost mocking tone he takes toward anyone who thinks they are successful because they're smarter and harder working than anyone else is what I think is more damning. Notice all of his examples of people/things that helped you succeed are from the government? He basically says, "You're not successful because you're smart (crowd applause!), you're not successful because you work really hard (crowd applause!), you're successful because the government made you that way. We gave you a teacher, a road, a bridge, the internet, it's the government that made your success, not your ideas or hard work."That's what people should really be infuriated about.

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