{"id":5208,"date":"2012-09-17T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2012-09-17T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:53:08","slug":"romney-tells-wealthy-donors-that-47-of-americans-are-lazy-moochers-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-tells-wealthy-donors-that-47-of-americans-are-lazy-moochers-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are the 47%! And there are no fewer than 20% who oppose Obama no matter what &#8212; not that they\u2019re all racists, just some. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/09\/17\/862281\/romney-writes-off-low-income\/\">Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers | ThinkProgress<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/author\/astrasser\/\">Annie-Rose Strasser<\/a> on Sep 17, 2012 at 4:57 pm<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s only September, but Mitt Romney has already written off almost half the country\u2019s voters. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/09\/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser\">hidden-camera recording<\/a> obtained by Mother Jones captures Romney at a private fundraiser telling donors that, \u201cThere are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">who are dependent upon government<\/font>, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.\u201d Watch it:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/09\/17\/862281\/romney-writes-off-low-income\/\">Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans sound like victims all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are the 47%! And there are no fewer than 20% who oppose Obama no matter what &#8212; not that they\u2019re all racists, just some. Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers | ThinkProgress By Annie-Rose Strasser on Sep 17, 2012 at 4:57 pm It\u2019s only September, but Mitt Romney has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-tells-wealthy-donors-that-47-of-americans-are-lazy-moochers-thinkprogress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers | ThinkProgress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}