I mentioned this as an update to my previous diary, but thought it deserved its own diary.
We all remember "corporations are people, my friend." Now he's personifying, sympathizing with, and asking us to have compassion for the poor banks overwhelmed with kicking people out of their homes and with REGULATION!
“Now, the banks aren’t bad people,” Romney said, according to the Post’s Rosalind S. Helderman. “They’re just overwhelmed right now. They’re overwhelmed with a lot of things. One is a lot of homes coming in right now that are in foreclosure or in trouble and the other is with a massive new pile of regulations.”
WaPo
Romney was standing outside a Fannie Mae-foreclosed home in a struggling neighborhood telling a small crowd why they're having so much trouble. "In this case, it's because of the banks," he explained. "Well, the banks aren't bad people. They're just overwhelmed right now."
During a Monday roundtable with business owners struggling in Florida's hobbled housing market, the former Massachusetts governor told the group that their troubles with banks came because the lenders were worried about staying in business.
"The banks are scared to death, of course," he said. "They're feeling the same thing that you're feeling. And so they just want to pretend that all this is just going to get paid some day."
Both comments echoed the now-famous line Romney delivered from a hay bale at the Iowa state fair: "Corporations are people, my friend!"
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
As Aaron Blake in the Washington Post says,
This, of course, harkens back to Romney’s “corporations are people” comment and, we have to say, continues to make Romney look like the candidate of the political establishment.
For whatever reason, Romney seems to be owning that mantle and downright embracing it.
WaPo
My heart does not bleed for the poor bankers with their bonuses and yauchts.
Mitt really is not a good candidate. Even in a Republican primary, most folks don't feeel sorry for banks.
Hat tip to Dartagnan who brought the cbs link and gave me the idea in his comment in the other diary.