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MSNBC: Report: Pres. Obama has "genuine disdain" for Romney (Original Post) Happyhippychick Oct 2012 OP
Well, there's yet another thing President Obama and I have in common Siwsan Oct 2012 #1
I share that disdain liberal N proud Oct 2012 #2
Who doesn't????? RichGirl Oct 2012 #3
yes, I think that's a pretty common emotion when it comes to Mittens ibegurpard Oct 2012 #4
Mitt's likeability is in the 20s, and ProSense Oct 2012 #6
Deep down, even Freepshit land does too aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #7
So do I. The man stands for nothing that I can tell, except to make $$$$. nt Tarheel_Dem Oct 2012 #5
Hell, that's the only kind of disdain to have. tularetom Oct 2012 #8
Disdain is not abumbyanyothername Oct 2012 #9
Based on what? frazzled Oct 2012 #10
Probably MSNBC ProSense Oct 2012 #13
It's odd graham4anything Oct 2012 #11
... and I didn't think I could love Obama more etherealtruth Oct 2012 #12
Who doesn't? Romney makes Dick Cheney look warm and fuzzy. smokey nj Oct 2012 #14

Siwsan

(26,292 posts)
1. Well, there's yet another thing President Obama and I have in common
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:29 PM
Oct 2012

My distain for Willard is most definitely genuine.

liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)
2. I share that disdain
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:30 PM
Oct 2012

But I don't see President Obama expressing any such feeling publicly.

He is too mature for that, or at least outwardly appears as such.

abumbyanyothername

(2,711 posts)
9. Disdain is not
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:40 PM
Oct 2012

a word that I would associate with President Obama.

To a degree that I find almost scary. Maybe behind the scenes he is tougher or something. But what I see is the great concilliator who keeps trying to make the deal no matter how stupid or insulting the other side is.

I can see, however, how this attitude might come out of his life background.

Just like I could see how President Clinton's . . . horniness . . . might come out of his background.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
10. Based on what?
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:41 PM
Oct 2012

Did he say he has genuine disdain for Romney?
Did a spokesperson in the administration say that?
Did they talk to his analyst?

Or did they just teletransport that from the tin foil on someone's head?

(PS: I wouldn't be surprised if he did bear genuine disdain for the man; but my guess is that Romney feels disdain for the president ... where's the analysis on that?)

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
13. Probably MSNBC
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:51 PM
Oct 2012

trying to start shit, but why would they think anyone would disagree with this?

Romney is a despicable bastard.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
11. It's odd
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:42 PM
Oct 2012

As people who know me know, while I hated the politics of Bush41, Bush43, Reagan, Cheney, etc. I never personally distained them just politically.

However, and I can't think of anyone else who was a nominee for President that I feel this way about. Mitt I do.
I find nothing admirable in him, and he is the coldest most calculating person I have ever seen.
(like the biggest baddest villian in a movie or book, yet he is real.)

And I remember well his father. His father was nothing like this, making it even more odd.
Where or who the hell did he get this from?

(in fact, the only other person this cold and calculating would be John Edwards, thankfully never the nominee for President.)

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