Only A Fool Would Compare Barack Obama's Questionable Sociology With Romney Dissing Half The Nation

[DemocratSinceBirth]

There's a big difference between suggesting people hold on to what's dear to them in times of societal change and telling half the population to drop dead. The former was suggesting why some beleaguered groups align themselves with leaders inimical to their interests while the latter was telling a group, basically half the nation, they are Lebensunwertes Leben.

[DonViejo]

1. Joan Walsh summed it up nicely:

But even more important: Take issue with Obama’s choice of words if you will. There is no denying that he told the story as an attempt to empathize with those voters, and to get his wealthy San Francisco crowd to move beyond their cosseted kneejerk certainty that the only reason those voters were skeptical of Obama was that he was black. Romney’s discussion wasn’t an attempt at empathy, or an effort to get the rich to care about the poor: it was just piling on, playing to his crowd’s prejudice and despicable self-love. People really have to stop comparing the two events.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/mitt_romney_hates_half_the_country/