"I Believe The Word You’re Looking For Is “Boy.”

[ismnotwasm]

(I just found this blog, I thought it a good analysis).

Soonergrunt and I saw this at about the same time*, but here’s that survivor of adversity Josh Romney commenting on the nature and character of the President of the United States (via TPM):

“I don’t know if you guys saw the debate last week,” Josh Romney said, as the crowd cheered and applauded. “I take a lot of pride in that, because — I don’t know if you noticed, but I was — me and my brothers were responsible for my dad doing so well…

“So as a father, he learned how to debate an obstinate child. We had a lot of fun, we had a lot of fun watching the debate.”

Seriously, once again, I find myself in the odd position of wanting to thank a member of the opposing team. Really, Josh, I appreciate this insight, this glimpse inside the real views of Team Romney.

The President of the United States — the one who steered the country through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the one who passed the most significant health care reform in two generations, the one who saved the auto industry (in which your own family once took pride, as I recall), the one who steered a very delicate course that ended with the fall of more than one dictator and the transformation of autocratic Arab regimes into something much closer to one their own people recognize as legitimate, the guy who got Bin Laden and all the rest — that great American is to you “an obstinate child.”

Really?

Oh — and I forgot to mention. That president, our president, your president, like it or not, happens to be the first African-American to hold that office, which among many other things means he has to deal with a level of identity pressure unlike anything a born-rich, never-has-to-wonder-about-your-children’s-children’s-material-well-being guy like yourself. And with all of that you’re going to call that man “an obstinate child.” Just a brat arguing with Daddy-knows-best at the dinner table. A servant, perhaps, a member of the lower orders, who should, by rights, know his place?

As I said, the word you are looking for is “boy.” Really, you just said it.

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/i-believe-the-word-youre-looking-for-is-boy/

[Control-Z]

1. Nothing pissed me off more

than the obstinate child bullshit. Especially when he's the obstinate rich boy who does throw temper tantrums. How dare he call the president a lying child? And his disgusting wife accused him of being a poor sport playing in the sandbox. Boy is exactly what each of them meant, and then they have their spoiled ugly son saying the same.

These people are disrespectful and degrading. They have no right. They just have no right to treat our president this way.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Generational ugliness

And you are so correct. They have no right or reason. I suppose they would, in a pinch, try to backpedal and call it politics, but clearly they really do think this way. It makes me sick.

[malibea]

3. I agree.

I agree with you: how dare these ingrates degrade our President like this. But this is all they know and all they can do because they are ugly little ignorant fools. They unfortunately, will never learn any better because there is no one to teach them -Mother or Father. Too bad.

[formercia]

4. A 'Chip off the old Block.'

These spawn don't even deserve 'Dueling Banjos.'

Critical thinking doesn't seem to be a Genetic Trait in this gaggle.

[bemildred]

5. Yep. That's the word.

And that sentence was no accident.