I feel your pain, Ann!

[OmahaBlueDog]

From: "I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President." on Facebook

[Cleita]

1. How true. I remember the months I lived on the 10# bags of potatoes

and not much else when I was in between jobs and had to pay the rent so as not to become homeless. Tuna casserole would have been a gourmet meal for me back then.

[SunSeeker]

6. Been there, done that.

It was the early 70s, the 25-cent packs of Ramen had not hit the stores yet.

[jillan]

32. Boiled potatoes served with mustard sandwiches.

That was a staple during a time in my life.

[Progressive dog]

2. OMG Tuna Casserole, way below your gourmet tastes, isn't it Ann?

You and Mitt really had it rough.

[dballance]

3. I didn't have stock to sell Ann

In college I worked two jobs and still had to live off beans and rice and Ramen noodles because minimum wage is terribly minimum. I could barely go to classes because I was so tired after working all day and night. And, of course I couldn't go to the doctor since I had no insurance. I still have a problem with my leg because I couldn't go to the doctor.

So spare me your difficult time you and Mitt had to sell stock. Did anyone bother to tell you how shallow that sounds?

Most people are very proud of you that you and Mitt have been successful. We just are not proud you are total assholes about it.

I had to live in squalor in college. I'm sure you'll have to look up that word "squalor" since you've never had to work a day in your life.

Like Clint Eastwood did during your husband's debut I want to tell you to go do something to yourself. Your bleach-blonde persona is so fake it is embarrassing. If you think you humanized Mitt you are sadly mistaken.

[lunatica]

4. Ann is in need of being humanized too.

I'm sure we don't despise her nearly as much as she despises us.

[NJCher]

15. correction

I'm sure we don't despise her nearly as much as she despises us.

I'm sure we don't despise her nearly as much as she despises herself.

AR is clearly not comfortable with herself, thus the fake blonde hair.

Thus the speech that sounded like a speech coached worked with her until 5" before the stage.

A person who has come into her own would be able to deliver a speech that was compatible with her character. AR doesn't have a clue as to what her own character is.

Thus the need to separate herself from "you people."

Thus the... (need I go on?)

It's a lot of work to make a fake self. Effort put into making fake self = to self hatred.



Cher

[riderinthestorm]

5. Sorry bubs but Ann and Mitt had to live in a BASEMENT APARTMENT!!!111!!!

Mitt had to BORROW money from his dad to buy his first house - the horror!!!!111!!!


Top that cruel, cruel world!!

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. Oh dear God no!!!

Poor, poor princess!!

[napkinz]

7. what a poser!

[Motown_Johnny]

8. OK, now I want tuna noodle casserole.

Damn that sounds good right now.

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Is the princess insinuating

that eating tuna casserole is a sign of being poor? I love it and have it frequently. Guess I'm poor and struggling.

[Cleita]

12. Not only that she had to get all snooty and called

it pasta and tuna fish.

[NJCher]

17. really?

Did she really call it "pasta" and tuna fish!?

That's a dead giveaway right there!

OMD, that is funny!!!

It's kind of like the city guy we went hiking with one weekend. He professed to be a very knowledgeable woodsman. He pointed out some branches on the ground and said, "Look at all that lumber!"



Cher

[Cleita]

19. Yep, here's an article about it in Daily Kos,

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/01/1126711/-Ann-Romney-untruths

[gateley]

30. That's hysterical!

[elbloggoZY27]

10. I Will Just Say No

I'll say no to Romney & Ryan.

They really do not care.

So sorry they represent the NO PARTY.

[onethatcares]

23. that was a great start to

a Doctor Suess type poem.

Welcome to DU.

[smirkymonkey]

13. She really makes me physically ill.

I can't understand why so many people think she's Mitt's "better half". I see right through her. Why can't other people?

[Buzz Clik]

14. I have a friend who was seriously considering selling an internal organ.

Damn, Romneys. Get a clue.

[progree]

16. "They were not easy years. You have to understand ... we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/21/1085384/-Another-hard-luck-Romney-Story-The-College-Years

"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.

We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year—it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.

Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.

[gateley]

31. "...it wasn't much, a few thousand..."

I can't fucking believe she said that!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. Ann Romney is as big a phony as her husband

n/t

[LeftofObama]

21. Poor Ann!

[Nikia]

22. Although having a poverty light experience probably was good for them

They should acknowledge that it wasn't that bad because they did have some money because of the stock. They ultimately had a family safety net, although I have known people like them who refused to use that option. It was a temporary situation and they knew that it was likely to be temporary at the time. They could say that they acknowledge that many Americans live in their former lifestyle or worse and have little hope of improvement, only fear that it will get worse. For some reason, they failed to reach that conclusion.

[renate]

33. poverty lite--exactly

For people who had a giant safety net under them, it was probably kind of fun to live in a basement apartment eating pasta and tuna fish because they were newlyweds and they knew--they KNEW, without a SHADOW OF A DOUBT, that it was temporary. Like camping is fun for people who don't have to worry about being homeless.

There is no comparison between being afraid that a lost job will make you homeless and living on a tight budget while knowing you will always be okay. It may look the same from the outside but the internal experience is as different as night and day.

[ailsagirl]

24. ...

[JohnnyRingo]

25. She's no Princess Diana.

...and that isn't saying much because Diana was a horrendously wealthy woman who grew up as a goddam princess!-and she was still more rooted in the struggle of the (un)working class than Ann Romney.

That's sad. In a way I pity the woman.
...Then again, screw her. She can still go back to her mink lined castle when this is all over.

On edit:
Thanx for the FB graphic.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. That's perfect.

I myself ate potatoes like that for months (with ketchup, of course, for the lycopene) back when I first got out of college and moved out on my own, and my daughter sold her plasma to get through college for her undergrad degree because I couldn't afford to help her out. (She never asked for anything. I probably could have scraped up a little bit to help her out, but not much.) I used to be a masterful check floater until the banks shut down that practice.

Yes, Ann Romney really suffered.

[Jellybeanz]

27. OMG I have something in common with Ann ?

We eat "pasta" and tuna once a week, and tuna itself a few times a week. Gosh, now if I only had some stocks.. I'd be in business.

What a sad tale. I missed her speaking, guess I didn't miss too much. And about Princess Di, I agree, even she, who grew up privileged seemed to have compassion at least for those less fortunate.

What a screwy world these people live in. And what must other poorer countries than us think of this nonsense?

[renate]

34. welcome to DU!

I also wonder what people in other countries (except maybe Italy... and look how well Berlusconi worked out for them) think of a country that has a 0.001%er running for President who is taken seriously by half the population.

[tclambert]

28. Leftover caviar.

Ah, the trials of the rich.

[ELI BOY 1950]

29. Iron Board

Mitt went to the wealthiest prep school in America...and when he and Ann married their dinner table was a Ironing board...are the american people that stupid????