re: #249 simoom

He also worked as the director of Project Vote, as a civil rights attorney for many years, served on the board of directors and as the President of the Board of a number of prominent foundations, and obviously is also a successful author.

Romney’s actually been using variants of this in his stump speech for months, for example:

Which in later speeches morphed into “real job” — like this:

IMO, yes, it’s pretty f’in offensive.

When Palin made her snarky comment about community organizers, I knew I hated her with the heat of a thousand suns. My joy in every humiliation that she has suffered since then starts at that moment. If Mitt wants to claim that any job that isn’t in the business world is not a real job, or that only people in the business would are fit to govern, he can have at it. The more people he offends the shit out of with his disrespect and condescension, the better. Because that’s, you know, most working Americans. Nice to know how he really feels. Can’t care about people when you don’t respect their livelihoods.