Romney's compassion

[Jackpine Radical]

I just realized something about the portrayals of Rmoney's compassion. Here are 2 stories were offered at the Republican Convention:

Story 1:

In particular, the program featured Ted and Pat Oparowski, a couple who lived in Medford, Massachusetts in the 1970s. They knew Romney from church, and when their 14 year-old son David was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1979, Romney visited the boy regularly. “They developed a loving friendship,” Pat Oparowski said, recounting the many times Romney came to see her and her son.

(and much more, about how rMoney dd many good & wonderful things for the poor lad)

Story 2:

An assistant back then, Grant Bennett, told Republican delegates at the GOP convention that Romney had "a listening ear and a helping hand." He said Romney devoted as many as 20 hours a week at his own expense.
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He then served as a stake president, the top Mormon authority in his region, which meant he presided over several congregations in a district similar to a diocese.

He counseled Latter-day Saints on their most personal concerns, regarding marriage, parenting, finances and faith. He worked with immigrant converts from Haiti, Cambodia and other countries. Bennett has in the past described how Romney built relationships with other religious groups around his Belmont, Mass., hometown, after a suspicious fire in 1984 destroyed a new Mormon meeting house there.

Now, the thing that struck me is that they have few "compassion" stories featuring Wilard outside his role as a Mormon Bishop, and none displaying his compassion outside the Mormon Church AND outside his own social class.

When playing his Bishop role, rMoney did the "compassion thing" because that's what Bishops do. Bishos who don't do the "compassion thing" probably wouldn't remain long as Bishops. He was enacting a role, not spontaneously acting due to his humane nature.

And then there were a few examples in which he showed some feeling for the suffering of others in his social class. I guess that shows that he an muster up some emotion for the tribulations of others whom he sees as like him.

So I guess he's the perfect President for the Mormon Church and the 1%. He has proved that he can at least hold it together enough to play-act a compassionate role when it is to his benefit to do so.

[factsarenotfair]

1. True compassion is not selective or self-serving. n/t

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