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1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 09:37 AM Sep 2012

You know what is so amazing to me about the Romney fundraiser film clip?

It appears in the clip that the camera was just setting on a table, probably in a purse or case of some kind where it would be unnoticed. Well, that seat at the chair cost $50,000. That is what amazes me, someone paid fifty grand to sit at that table and record the event for nearly an hour. I'm glad they did it, but in a time when reporters won't show up at a free lunch to report on what local candidates are saying its good to see someone so dedicated to getting the truth of what the Republicans think of the rest of us out.

To me fifty grand is an amount of money that counts, counts for a lot. But for Romney, for those of his lot, what is fifty grand?

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You know what is so amazing to me about the Romney fundraiser film clip? (Original Post) 1-Old-Man Sep 2012 OP
It looks to me like the camera was on a caterer's table klook Sep 2012 #1
That's one of the best parts about it WallStreetNobody Sep 2012 #3
Wait staff will be strip searched at future events. nt Courtesy Flush Sep 2012 #5
I think it was someone working the event. Lex Sep 2012 #2
Half the people in this country made less than that plate cost in a year. Waiting For Everyman Sep 2012 #4
I think it was one of the 47%-ers serving champagne and caviar to the 1%-ers. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #6

klook

(12,158 posts)
1. It looks to me like the camera was on a caterer's table
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 09:45 AM
Sep 2012

If so, it's wonderful to know that a "lowly peon" pouring $5,000-a-bottle wine for Republican creeps may have been the one to capture and disseminate this video!

WallStreetNobody

(395 posts)
3. That's one of the best parts about it
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 09:53 AM
Sep 2012

The video looks like it was made from the service area, perhaps left there by one of the waitstaff. Funny how someone who may be part of the working-poor destroyed any chance Romney had of winning. The people at that fundraiser, particularly Romney, probably don't even notice the waitstaff. They're invisible to them. Which is why Romney felt no shame in insulting half the population, including those people who were serving his guests their meals.

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
4. Half the people in this country made less than that plate cost in a year.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 09:59 AM
Sep 2012

That's the part I can't get over. It's a sign of a criminally undermined system.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
6. I think it was one of the 47%-ers serving champagne and caviar to the 1%-ers.
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 10:53 AM
Sep 2012

They didn't have to pay to get in and didn't get paid squat for their service. It was on the far side of the serving table so it makes sense that it would be one of them. They couldn't pay me ENOUGH to serve people who would attend such an event for rMoney.


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