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February 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Although Mr Romney’s broader point will strike a chord with many Republicans
and middle-class Americans, in the partisan world of US electoral politics
where sound bites are seized and used out of context, even Republican
analysts said he had played straight into the hands of his opponents.
Asked to clarify his remarks, Mr Romney succeeded only in digging himself
deeper into trouble.
“We will hear from the Democrat
party, the plight of the poor … You can focus on the very poor, that’s not
my focus … The middle income Americans, they’re the folks that are really
struggling right now and they need someone that can help get this economy
going for them.”
Erick Erickson, a leading Republican commentator, said that Mr Romney had “seriously
put his foot in his mouth”. He said on Twitter: “When Romney
speaks from the heart he plays into the liberal caricature that Republicans
don’t have one.”.
“So much for ‘we’re all in this together’.”, quipped Jim Messina, Barack
Obama’s re-election campaign manager referring to recent Republican
accusations that Mr Obama had engaged in “class warfare” politics
with his campaign promise to raises taxes on millionaires.
This is not the first time that Mr Romney, a former management consultant with
Bain Capital whose personal fortune is estimated at $250m (£157m), has been
accused of being cloth-eared when it comes to connecting with ordinary
Americans.
Earlier in the campaign Mr Romney’s described his $370,000 (£233,000) annual
income from speaker fees as “not very much”, an astonishingly
tactless remark that painted Mr Romney as out-of-touch with an America
suffering from high unemployment and record house repossessions.
In another clumsy remark that was taken somewhat out of context, Mr Romney was
pilloried after being caught on tape with supporters saying, with apparent
relish, that “I like being able to fire people” who give bad
service.
The latest gaffe was a poor start to a day when Mr Romney’s election team was
hoping to capitalise on the momentum from his victory over the former
speaker Newt Gingrich.
While Mr Romney was being castigated on the left for being “callous”,
Barack Obama was on television delivering a speech aimed at reassuring the
11 million Americans who are now in negative equity as house prices
collapsed after the 2008 credit crunch.
“We need to do everything in our power to repair the damage and make
responsible families whole,” said Mr Obama, implicitly contrasting
himself with Mr Romney who has campaigned against government intervention,
arguing that housing repossessions must run their course.
The perception that Mr Romney is the candidate of the super-rich – tagged as “the
one per cent” – will also be deepened by the disclosure that his
campaign has been bankrolled by a clique of hedge-fund managers, Goldman
Sachs executives and former Bain colleagues.
Figures released to the Federal Election Commission showed that three
hedge-fund managers had donated $1m each to “Restore Our Future”,
a quasi-independent Political Action Committee, or “Super PAC”,
that spent US$11m deluging Mr Gingrich in negative advertising in Florida.
Mr Romney’s former colleagues at Bain Capital contributed a total of $750,000
while senior executives at Goldman Sachs, the investment bank that has
become synonymous with the debate over inequity in America, together
contributed $385,000.
Democrats will be quick to contrast Mr Romney’s narrow funding base with that
of Mr Obama who reported raising $140m (£88m) in 2011, mostly from his
grassroots apparatus, far eclipsing the $57m (£36m) raised by Mr Romney this
year.
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