Washington Week Webcast Extra | July 6, 2012

On the Webcast Extra: Mitt Romney's wife, Ann took issue with the way President Obama's campaign has represented her husband.  Could she be Mitt's secret weapon? Meanwhile, the Super PAC war wages on as campaign spending grows. Can Romney lock down North Carolina? Also, do people care about when presidential candidates go on vacation?

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[john townsend]

One thing about the privileged who not only easily get to go to harvard but have an easy time of it while there, and get through regardless. Mitty´s academic record apparently was lacklustre at best as Obama graduated cum laude. No mean feat for an underpivileged black man relying on scholarships to even live half decently..

[existentialvoid]

the hypocracy i agree is pretty absurd. Obama for example went to Harvard Law, but Mitt went to Harvard for his BA, his law degree, and an MBA. So with regards to the elitism argument, Romney is far more privileged. Same for wealth and so on. But I don't think that the question itself is good - i hope that my political leaders went to the best institutions and/or were successful in their own right. But considering republicans are so anti-intellectual and anti-class - it is an odd choice.

[john townsend]

Sorry .. do not agree! Romney chumming around with that "greed-is-good" Trump asshole who is still ranting and raving about that totally debunked birther issue is a case in point. Mitty boy just doesn´t get it. What else is he going to rub our noses in. As if it isn´t enough for him to get all huffy about his disproportionate wealth status claiming the I-earned-it- therefore-I-deserve-it mantra as if inherited privilege like his grows on trees ripe for the picking by anyone who wants it

[existentialvoid]

So this is going to be a 2 billion dollar election, every 4 years for the prez, with a political cycle in congress and the senate every 2 years? Thank you Supreme Court for setting up the most expensive election system ever. . .

[existentialvoid]

m8, your political, economic, and military leaders, like all leaders throughout the entire course of human history, are going to be rich and powerful.  I disagree with Romney's policies, his personal wealth does not and should not bother me or anyone else.

[john townsend]

Romney just as he really doesn´t get it when he trots out his dutiful trophy wife to mouth off on women´s plight in a "failing Obama economy" even though she, pampered and ensconced snugly in his many luxury homes, is hardly a credible surrogate for most young women who are struggling to both earn a living and raise children.

[neppy503]

If Mitt wasn't using these props to look like a man of the people, he wouldn't set foot in a cabin like this, on his own accord. Ann, has never had to work, things always handed to her, 2 Cadillacs. She is not intelligent to come up with any well thought out response. Thank goodness she can read the prompter.

What? Ann cut off Mitt? Then Ann said Obama wants Mitt killed? There have been a lot of Republicans making threats against Obama, The tactics the Republicans have gone to, is despicable.