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To: i-node who wrote (650983)	4/11/2012 3:33:31 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580220

Swiss bank accounts: Could there be a better symbol of the super-rich with something to hide? While the Obama allies tried to use Romney's banking practices as evidence of his betting against the United States, pointing out the currency play in Romney's transfer, the phrase alone is powerful enough. To ears of a certain age, at least, Swiss bank accounts have always connoted something shady and certainly not something available to your average wage-earner or holder of a 401(k). So far, the news conference was a direct hit on Romney's glaring weakness: He is out of touch. His campaign seemed caught by surprise and had no answer. But the Obama folks should have quit while they had the shutout. Instead, campaign manager Jim Messina called for Romney to release 23 years of tax returns. The press pounced: "How about your guy, Jim? He good for 23 years, too?" Messina didn't seem ready for that one, so score one for the press. But all in all, a good day for Obama. A video obtained by Gawker from an individual whom the site claims to be a "long-standing, current" Fox News employee shows presidential candidate Mitt Romney bantering with host Sean Hannity before an interview last February. "What kind of horses do you have?" asks Hannity. "She has Austrian warmbloods," says Romney, "It's a dressage horse ... for the sport she's in." "Me? I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait -- it moves very fast." The New York Times reported in December that Romney acquired "six-figure warmblood horses for his wife." The story was corrected to say that the horses were warmbloods, not thoroughbreds. Ann Romney has used horses for therapy following being diagnosed for multiple sclerosis. The Washington Post described dressage in a recent article on Ms. Romney's love for horses: Dressage, whose roots date to ancient Greece, got its name (and its pronunciation, dress-AHGE) from a French term that means “training.” According to the U.S. Dressage Federation, “its purpose is to develop the horse’s natural athletic ability and willingness to work making him calm, supple and attentive to his rider.” Unlike other types of holdings, dressage horses are living investments whose value can tumble with the wrong turn of a hoof. A 2004 Newsweek portrait showed Romney, dressed in black, riding a horse with dark clouds in the background. Later in the clip, Hannity asks Romney whether he stayed off the Vegas Strip because of scrutiny, which Romney said wasn't the case. "You can spend your money on ads or you can spend it on hotel rooms -- I'd rather spend it on ads," he responded. Romney later won the Nevada primary.