Romney Just Saying He Grew Up Poor In Memphis Now
Abandoning his campaigns previous strategies for winning over undecided voters in advance of Novembers presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney is just now telling people he grew up desperately poor in Memphis, sources confirmed Sunday.
Addressing a rally in Colorado, Romney spoke a great deal about his humble birth on a farm on the outskirts of Memphis; about wheat farming; and about his parents, Rufus and Maybelle Romney, and their struggle to provide for six hungry children as they toiled away at low-paying, menial jobs.
As you all know, I didnt grow up with much in the way of wealth, Romney said of his upbringing in an impoverished neighborhood in North Memphis. Back then, we didnt live in much more than a shack on the wrong side of the train tracks, and Mama and Daddy had three jobs apiece to keep us all fed. It fell on me of course to take care of the young ones, of which a few, God bless, are no longer with us.
Ann and I, we know what its like to grow up with nothing, to wonder where your next meal is coming from, to have to choose between putting food on the table or coal in the fireplace, continued Romney, speaking of what he called his wifes rough childhood in Mobile, AL, where she was raised by a single mother. Brother, we know that pang of hunger and hopelessness all too well.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-just-saying-he-grew-up-poor-in-memphis-now,29571/
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)I can't believe they said that! What a out and out lie! Can anyone prove they are lying again?
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)rocktivity
Brigid
(17,621 posts)"You mean I'm gonna stay this color?"
was really fixing to explode at another lie, then duh, it dawned on me, the Onion
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Was it a log cabin, with no electricity, and he got him MBA reading by firelight?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)to having to sell stock to be able to pay the rent on a Paris chateau while avoiding the draft.
Oops, missed onion link...
jsr
(7,712 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Drugs took my brother Jimmy way too soon. Vietnam took Tommy. But even after Daddy left, we never complained, Romney told the crowd. In our hardscrabble Memphis neighborhood, thats just what life was. For us, it was the little things that mattered: sitting on the porch, Grandpappy playing his fiddle, Mama making buckwheat cakes in the kitchen. Simple as it was, it was all knew, and all we needed.
Romney then produced a harmonica from his hip pocket and played a stirring, lonesome melody.
from now on when I think of Mitt Romney and his heritage I will think of this song:
TrogL
(32,822 posts)That's how surreal this campaign has gotten. Mitt has become such a loose cannon and lies with such impunity that it is entirely believable he'd say something like that and expect to be taken at face value. Fox would find some way to spin it.