Gentleman Mitt Romney To Uppity Teacher: ‘I Didn’t Ask You a Question’
Here is a video from a nice lady who attended a Romney roundtable all interested and optimistic about the whole thing until Romney asked, “Which one of you is the teacher?” and being a teacher, this nice lady raised her hand. Then Romney began lecturing her about teachers unions and how we need to privatize everything and have charter schools, and how we suck as a country compared to Other Countries. Kind of tired of being lectured, this nice lady said “Oh I have an answer for that.” Romney, being the gentleman he is, responded “I didn’t ask you a question.”
Got that, lady? ROMNEY, and occasionally Egg and MAYBE Tagg ask the questions, ok? It’s HIS TIME, he is here to save America, we’re lucky to have him, for chrissakes, and we’re not super clear on why that’s none of this is getting through to the peons. ANYWAY, this nice lady came away from the roundtable unconvinced that Romney can relate to people from small towns who have small town values, due to the limitations of his life experiences. We’re not super sure about that either — doesn’t he own at least four or five small towns at this point? Anyway, Romney will ask the questions, and let’s all make note of it for any encounters we might have with him in the future.
[DailyKos]
Remember in one of the televised debates where he was asked a question and refused to answer saying something like "I want to talk about what I want to talk about"? CEOs, like four star generals and Supreme Court justices, are only capable of working in a very high echelon environment where their pronouncements are holy writ. He'd make an awesome dictator but isn't really programmed for democracy.
Anyone who suggests privatization as a solution to the tragedy of the commons <em>really</em> really hasn&#039;t even begun to grasp the concept of non-excludability.
That basic failure of comprehension has also always bugged my about libertarians. I always kind of assumed that most of them were too unsophisticated to even consider it, but to discover that many have thought about it and failed so utterly to understand it lowers my regard for their intellectual development still further, hard as I thought that would be to achieve.