Romney Sounds Medicated

[kpete]

Romney Sounds Medicated
by BooMan
Mon Jul 30th, 2012 at 02:37:39 PM EST

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Talking Points Memo received a transcription of Romney's remarks from his campaign. Reading it made me wonder if Romney is taking some kind of powerful medication because his words are almost nonsensical.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-israel-palestine-gdp-culture.php

GOVERNOR ROMNEY: I was thinking this morning as I prepared to come into this room of a discussion I had across the country in the United States about my perceptions about differences between countries. And as you come here and you see the GDP per capita for instance in Israel which is about 21,000 dollars and you compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority which is more like 10,000 dollars per capita you notice a dramatic, stark difference in economic vitality.

And that is also between other countries that are near or next to each other. Chile and Ecuador, Mexico and the United States. I noted that part of my interest when I used to be in the world of business is I would travel to different countries was to understand why there were such enormous disparities in the economic success of various countries.

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And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things. One, I recognize the hand of providence in selecting this place.

I’m told in a Sunday school class I attended— I think my son Tagg was teaching the class. He’s not here. I look around to see. Of course he’s not here. He was in London. He taught a class in which he was describing the concern on the part of some of the Jews that left Egypt to come to the promised land, that in the promised land was down the River Nile, that would provide the essential water they had enjoyed in Egypt. They came here recognizing that they must be relied upon, themselves and the arm of God to provide rain from the sky. And this therefore represented a sign of faith and a show of faith to come here. That this is a people that has long recognized the purpose in this place and in their lives that is greater than themselves and their own particular interests, but a purpose of accomplishment and caring and building and serving.

There’s also something very unusual about the people of this place. And Dan Senor— And Dan, I saw him this morning, I don’t know where he is, he’s probably out twisting someone’s arm—There’s Dan Senor, co-author of ‘Start-up Nation,’ described— If you haven’t read the book, you really should— Described why it is Israel is the leading nation for start-ups in the world. And why businesses one after the other tend to start up in this place. And he goes through some of the cultural elements that have led Israel to become a nation that has begun so many businesses and so many enterprises and that is becomes so successful.”

I can kind of follow along with what he's saying, but it's a whole lot of bullshit. There's nothing particularly important about what he had to say, except that it revealed a lot about how he thinks. And it is one more demonstration that Romney has a gift for insulting people unintentionally.

more:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/7/30/143739/934

[Betsy Ross]

1. No. Like Sarah Palin.

Thanks for posting the transcript.
It is such nonsense, why do I feel offended?

[HopeHoops]

2. Did he visit Amsterdam?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The rethug "word salad"

The Palin-speak is contagious!

[spanone]

4. psychobabble....

[Brother Buzz]

5. Romney borrowed Palin's salad shooter?

[Quantess]

6. i doubt he is on drugs or substances.

He's just giddy from all the attention and ego-tripping.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. yes...here'a a diagram of a palin sentence and

I think this one by MittWitt would be hard to draw as well

He taught a class in which he was describing the concern on the part of some of the Jews that left Egypt to come to the promised land, that in the promised land was down the River Nile, that would provide the essential water they had enjoyed in Egypt.

[enough]

8. Or he represtents the current evolution of the new approach to language and speach,

which is that it is pure behavior and neither has meaning nor needs to have meaning.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. I might change the prescription

[reformist2]

10. Reducing people and entire countries to cold figures? Sounds like pure unadulterated Mitt to me.

[Brickbat]

11. Part of the problem is that transcription is poorly punctuated. It's difficult to puncutate someone

speaking on and on, but this transcript does a rotten job of it.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

12. Ivy League word salad? nt