Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’

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Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’

By Alex Seitz-Wald

Speaking at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters this morning, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama as out of touch for spending too much time at Harvard, where the president went to law school. “We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps,” Romney said.

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Unfortunately for Romney, his attack is undermined by the fact that the GOP presidential hopeful has twice as many degrees from Harvard as Obama. Romney earned a combined JD/MBA from the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts university. That means Romney spent an extra year at Harvard, getting the combined degree in four years, compared to Obama’s three for the JD alone. Indeed, Romney thrived at Harvard by all accounts.

Romney has previously attacked Obama for taking advice from the “Harvard faculty lounge,” even though one of Romney’s top economic advisers is Harvard professor Greg Mankiw.

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http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/05/458987/romney-who-has-two-harvard-degrees-says-obama-has-spent-too-much-time-at-harvard/

[redqueen]

1. Sweet Jesus.

[onehandle]

2. Rmoney's jus' reg'lar folk.

Cletus is simply aghast!

[BeyondGeography]

3. What's next....Obama's Mormon faith?

[lupinella]

4. Ha!

Why does this seem prescient? Am seeing the ad now....

[Cosmocat]

20. THAT is about all that is left ...

maybe accuse President Obama of spending too much on haircuts or wearing dad jeans ...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

27. Obama is a Mormon who put a dog on his car who destroyed companies and jobs at Bain capital

who has car elevators at the White House who looks, sounds, and acts like a robot...

Romney calls Obama "out of touch" but did you see the discussion on MSNBC showing that Romney doesn't even know how to use a cell phone? HAW!!!!!

[Donald54]

5. Kind of a foolish point for Romney

Yes, kind of a foolish point for Romney when you look at his educational background.

[gratuitous]

6. So, Mitt, noted expert that you are

You have previously opined on the right height for trees, perhaps you would favor us with just how much time is too much to spend at Harvard?

The real fun, however, will be whether the popular media notes Romney's own personal history with Harvard. If they do, how do they handle the inevitable hissy fit from the Romney campaign which will accuse them of anti-elitism or class envy or some other nonsense for noticing Romney's flaming hypocrisy?

[LibDemAlways]

52. The corporate whores have no intention of exposing Mitt's

hypocrisy. Mitt wouldn't have opened his yap with that comment unless he was sure it wouldn't come back to bite him in the ass.

[julian09]

7. Romney also spent time in France during Vietnam war while to stay out of conflict.

out of touch then and out of touch now.

[Major Hogwash]

8. If that was true, Obama would say he wanted to pahk his cahr close to the pahk.

And say "idear" when he meant to say "idea."
But, Obama doesn't sound anything like that.
Hell, he has better diction than Johnny Carson had!

[MADem]

13. Caaaaaah!!! Paaahk the CAAAAAAH!

In Haaaahvid Yaaahd! And go up to Maaaahk's ah-paaaht-mint cuz he wuz havin' a PAAAHTY! No BEEE-ah, just TONIC!

And worry about those missiles in CUBER, while you're at it!

Carson did have great diction!

[VWolf]

22. Wicked funny. What a pissah. n/t

[MADem]

24. Heh heh! nt

[Number23]

35. Maybe I've been Down Under for too long

But that could easily read as an Aussie accent too.

[MADem]

37. In person, it's different!

The Aussies put a few more vowels up in there!

[Number23]

39. More than just a few!

I practically dislocate my jaw every time I try to imitate my husband!

[MADem]

40. That's one accent I can't do too well, myself.

I have a decent ear and can get most North American regional and UK/Eire dialects, but that Aussie stuff and the South African accent I can only fake in short bursts!

[Major Hogwash]

48. Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!

Romney's sons even went to Haaaahvid.

His whole campaign is spent bashing himself and his family!

[MADem]

49. I'll bet those little bass-tids paahked they-ah caaaahs in Haah-vid Yaaahd...

Even long after parking was prohibited in the Quad!

They're the sort of greedy and entitled sorts that would do that kind of thing!

[Iliyah]

9. When Mittens say

Pres O will end Medicare he actually means Mittens and the insane GOP will end Medicare, Medcaid, Medi-Cal and SSI because we all know that the 1% needs the money.

Mitten's like the rest of the GOP field are two faced. Listening to N Haley about women and women's health solidifies that the GOP women like their counterparts hates their own gender, or better yet don't care.

Mittens don't want his religion mentioned but he's attacking Pres O's.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Hey another MBA President just like our last Republican MBA President.

Gonna run the country like a business...again.

[Ikonoklast]

12. And the morans forget that businesses are bankrupted by their CEO's every day in this country.

Romney's plan for America is to finish looting it.

[MADem]

11. What Romney is saying is that a black man has no business at Harvard AT ALL--unless there was

floor mopping involved. The guy might be trying to play the "elitist" card (with a complete absence of irony in noting his own Harvard history) but it comes off like he's playing the RACIST card.

Very ugly, indeed. He wears that frantic, needy desperation so openly--the guy will spend every penny to be called President...which is why he must be denied the title, unless he wants to be President of the Boy Scouts of America, or something...

[bayareaboy]

17. Along those lines ... ...

It was just a short time ago that the LDS church kind of decided that black folks were kind of OK.

Mittens, I think has a benign racism thing going on, in which he thinks he a one percent white male should interpret the rules for those of darker hues than him.

So this is why he is doing all this to educate us all.

I am glad that Mr. Mittens will be around till November. Couse I think that most of us 99% could learn a lot about Mitt and his party and his beliefs.

Oh and I have seen how the Boy Scouts got screwed up by LDS, a few years ago.

[MADem]

38. Yeah, they even managed to con Gladys Knight into joining that club.

Poor dear. I just can't see going where people look down on you, and then, poof, they change a "rule" and suddenly they don't. I just can't buy that.

[bayareaboy]

42. The LDS church was dead set againist ...

Black males throughout their history until about 1978, but never mentioned Black females. But it seems as though Brigham Young the govenor might have allowed slaves to be kept in Utah till the beginning of the Civil War.

[Art_from_Ark]

43. Your comment made me look up the history of slaves in Utah

It seems like Young had a complex, sometimes ambivalent attitude toward slavery-- including native slaves.

http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/slaveryinutah.html

[hunter]

23. Yep, it's a dog whistle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

[Glimmer of Hope]

33. Ugh . More to come!

[LynneSin]

14. the stupids is so painfully obvious in this one!!!

[DaveJ]

15. LOL... He then goes on to say "...or maybe just not enough time actually working in the real world"

Last I checked, managing hedge funds and leveraged buyouts are not most peoples' idea of working in the real world either.

I think these swindlers are using the election to create a air of legitimacy in their actions. In a fair world, their actions would be classified simply as white collar crimes.

[Bruce Wayne]

16. And to think I wanted Gingrich for us to run against.

This man is pure gold.

[Brooklyn Dame]

18. Boundless hyprocrisy?.... or is it

that he honestly doesn't know what is coming out of both sides of his mouth? Sheesh!!

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/03/set-the-record-straight/

[JDPriestly]

19. Romney is way out of touch -- even with himself.

[jopeli]

21. Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’

Romney is trying to use Carl Rove tactics.But clearly, he is not good at it.

[aquamarina]

25. Good grief - what an idiot

[rurallib]

26. Guess which one paid his own way

with his own money and scholarships
and which one had his daddy pay?

[Voice for Peace]

55. good point there

[jtuck004]

28. Everyone could learn from Maddow's segment last night, where she showed

example after example of the tactic of identifying your own weakness and then accusing your opponent of that to deflect criticism.

Rom$ney did it over, and over, over, and I bet he continues, though he hasn't the exclusive franchise, and she pointed out that it is a Karl Rove tactic - you can see it in others. She has a bit of a liability in that she seems too in love with her own voice to listen to others, and her latest commercial, kinda half-ass in support of social security, still manages to minimize the pain of millions of seniors who are really not "doing ok", while she is doing quite well. That may just be a precursor to support excuses to cut some future benefits to appease the mean Republicans - not sure yet. But she usually has a strategic reason for pushing a point of view.

Regardless, she does have some useful data and analysis once in a while, and that was one of those.

[BREMPRO]

44. can't believe someone running for president could be so self unaware! holy Jesus from planet KOLOB!

this is basic high school psychology.. pure naked projection. Shows he has a profound disconnection to himself.. dangerous quality for a president to have.. golly jeez..i guess if your religion is from outer space you have to have a little denial build in to your character... he said the other day OBAMA only says things to get elected!! this from the KING of tell em what they want to hear! lol! would be funnier if more people saw through his Obama derangement syndrome and blinders to his own qualities... He's just plain rambling creepy.

[jtuck004]

47. I think he acts like one of those manikins come alive from The Twilight Zone. Nevertheless...

his handlers have a strategy, born from long success with those tactics, and there is a segment that will follow along, some that won't.

The radical conservatives have pissed off virtually every group except white men with guns, (they are already pissed off, apparently), but it is early, and November is a long time away, with economic slowdown almost a certainty. It is possible all that could become a non-issue and we start tanking on jobs again, 'cause we can only push so many home health care aides, baristas, and Walmart greeters out into the market.

Then it might be a different election. I just can't imagine living in a country where a person can buy up companies (take a cut), load them with debt they can never repay (take a cut), watch them go under (take a cut) and walk away (take a big, big, damn cut), and then become president on the bodies of the working people he destroyed, but I can see where people are in many cases feel and think that they are worse off after 4 years, and want a change, without looking that deep.


The question is will all or enough of the independents choose him or not.

Actually the Mormons do one thing I know of very, very well - which I can't imagine ol' phony $$ baloney doing - and that's practice community. They teach everyone to store food, and have a pantry where members who need it can get it - free if need be. They have their own small canning-quipment-equipped commercial kitchens in many communities, shared by members and sometimes the public. I don't participate in religion, but I admire what they have done in that regard. Ought to be more of those in regular communities, open to the neighborhood. Maybe we are going there...

[GeorgeGist]

29. That suggests to me ...

that Rmoney didn't spend much time 'earning' Harvard degrees.

[Voice for Peace]

56. hmmm.. he didn't spend much time there, unlike Obama

& got the two degrees how? online courses? bought?

[JoePhilly]

30. Which Mitt Romney was speaking? After all, there is more than one.

Its like he has an evil Twin.

[DFW]

31. Yeah, and anyone who quotes what he says..........

is lying!!!

(hey, Gingrich used it)

[alp227]

32. Can anyone say...projecting?

[Number23]

34. You spelled his name wrong, Pro

It's Rmoney, remember.

[Scurrilous]

36. K & R

[opihimoimoi]

41. The dude is clueless and his campaign is in distress....much ado about a fanatical dream...not

gonna happen....

[Cali_Democrat]

45. Anyone else besides me think his eye blinking is super creepy?

And he does it with this annoying smirk on his face.

[goclark]

46. He is super creepy to me

He talks like a puppet ~ Howdy Doody fits him like a glove..

He doesn't seem to have a "Care Gene."

His father must have paid big bucks to get him through Harvard --- if he is smart, he hides it extremely well ~ to me he is clueless.

He doesn't get it that Doggie should not have been on the car,

I could go on and on and on about Mitt ~ he is no way ready for Prime Time.

[bucolic_frolic]

50. Romney is Like a Used Car Salesman That Rolls Back the Mileage

He will twist or tweak anything to get a better deal for himself.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

51. What advice did he give his kids?

Don't go to college, you might come in contact with alternative viewpoints.
Did Washington cut down the cherry tree or not?

[Initech]

53. Ugh... Mitt Romney is the *VERY* text book definition of what an elitist is.

Yet Obama is the one who gets painted as such. Fuck our media.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

54. All part of the GOPs Attack on Education and Intelligence- Enough already-we know stupidity when we

...see it.

[MrScorpio]

57. Basically, he takes his own problematic qualities and projects them on his opponents...

Next, he'll accuse President Obama of being too white, too bland and too out of touch with the rest of humanity.