Romney’s gaffe worse than Obama’s


Mitt Romney’s 47% gaffe is worse than Obama’s gaffe about “guns and religion,” says William Saletan in Slate. Both comments were bad for the candidates, but Romney’s is worse because it leaves no room for exceptions to his generalization, Saletan says.

John de Rosier

3 Responses

  1. The Gray Ghost says:

    What about Obama’s audio gaffe about how he believes in redistribution? Or will most of the public even hear about that one? I think that is the worst of all.

  2. iknowtruthismine says:

    The GG – Government, ALL government, is involved in wealth redistribution, either from the top down (at times) or bottom up (too much of the time), and laterally most of the time, to carry out normal governmental services, you know, like building roads, protecting us from being poisoned by those who provide what we need, and making sure there is a safety net for those not lucky enough to win the genetic lottery (like Paris Hilton), or have their jobs outsourced to enhance the ‘profits’ of the lucky few. When the laws of a nation are written by the beneficiaries of the concentration of 1/2 of ALL wealth into the pockets of a few thousand people, wealth becomes a tool to serve its own interests, which is the situation in we now find ourselves, as corporate wealth (power) attempts to consolidate their position by getting the lower classes to vent their anger, not at them, but at each other, and as they dismantle the only institution with the potential to protect the little guy, the government.

  3. Ann says:

    They’re both idiots. The government’s corrupted by these politicians. We just muddle along because the alternative -giving up our comfortable couch and revolting -isn’t all that nice.

    A revolution is more than just a large “sit-in”, by the way.