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Yeah, it's not fair, since Obama has described middle class Americans as having an income $250,000 or less. This is a stupid meme. Post something with substance, please. Don't just paste a gawker article.
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Kudos to being intellectually honest. Way to go.
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In your headline you left out the part at the end of his statement where he added the words "or less" to his figure. Did you do that on purpose for shock value? Would it have been more accurate to say "Romney shares President Obama's definition of middle class as having a household income of $250,000 or less?"

Yes, yes it would. But you hate Romney (don't worry, so do I) so you carried the same torch every other media outlet has all day. You have contributed to the perceived bias of the media by *drum roll* writing in a bias manner. Knowing full well that skim-readers everywhere are going to read that line and close the page believing Romney is alone in using this definition. Nice Fox News tactics, Mercury.

Further, your whole presentation of this gaffe above starts out with a vibe of "OMG Romney is a total out of touch moron" and then ends with, "Oh wait, our President uses the same definition, but somehow he's not an out of touch moron, so instead I'll use my last few sentences to go back to my original hate for Romney even though I've already acknowledged that it's not fair and ignoring the fact that BOTH he and Obama are aiming a little too high on this figure."

So WTF is the point you're trying to make here with this "non-news?"

There are -many- things that Romney is completely out of touch with that would be much more useful, funny, and less skewed to bash than this stupid gaffe that tells us nothing other than that he and the current President share the same exact figure as a definition of the middle class.

Oh, Mercury. Please stick to music reviews. Your intellectual reporting falls so short so often.
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Middle class and middle income are not the same thing.

If you make 250,000/year, you're rolling in dough, but you're sort of living the same way that the rest of the middle class lives - your kids go to (private) school, you drive your own (bentley) car, you work 40+ hours a week (as a high ranking exec), etc. You don't own a private jet or have a wing of your house for the help. Yeah, it's a ridiculous amount of money, but if you divide folks into poor/middle class/rich, I can (sorta) see why someone would say that $250,000 would fall into the middle class bracket.

Middle income is ~50,000/year/household. It's not an opinion, it's a fact - the average household earns about 50,000.

Maybe he misspoke; maybe he meant middle class and not middle income. But if he really does think that the average household makes 5 times what they actually make - well, that's ... as Paul said, 'an out-of-touch Uncle Moneybags who has no idea what the average American makes.'
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That was a helpful explanation. I just assumed he meant middle class when he said middle income. But that's not a safe assumption. Thanks!
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D*mn, I have to find a way to hit this guy up for some money...
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I'm no Romney-supporter, but just from the quoted conversation, this is pretty unfair. He wasn't asked what he thought the median income was. He was asked who wouldn't have their taxes raised. He's clearly saying he intends to keep taxes down on not just people who make 100k, but also people who make up to 200k-250k. And as Constant also points out, it's well-established that 200k-250k is considered middle-income when talking about tax policy.

There are lots and lots of reasons to think Romney is an out-of-touch Uncle Moneybags, and a terrible candidate for President, but this is not one of them.
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Daaarg has it quite right and makes my previous comment redundant, but isn't Paul Constant a Stranger writer? And does he even read the comments here?

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