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opebo
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« on: February 01, 2012, 04:16:17 PM »

In any case this will only be a gaffe if independent voters can be bothered to care about the poor, for the poor won't be voting for him anyway.

No, it doesn't depend on that, Simfan, because:

The comment is comically tin eared. It's the kind of thing that can actually lose votes. Accept this and move on.

You see it makes him look ridiculous - like a Daddy Warbucks or Colonel Blimp sort of character.  

Whether people actually agree with the implied criticism of the candidate isn't necessarily important - if he is easily caricatured and gaffe prone, its another way of seeming weak and incompetent, and this is what the insecures in the middle (independents) vote about.
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opebo
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 04:48:25 PM »

Mitt Romney, unfortunately, is a walking ad machine for the Democratic Party.
At the end of the day, the bottom 25% of Americans are deadweight.  It's true. The very poor will always have nothing and be leaches to taxpaying Americans.  That's not news

My parents grew up in the bottom 25%.  Now they are 1%ers paying taxes.  You disgust me.

The Republicans all despise the poor, Link, no surprise there.  But I would caution you to be more skeptical of the Horatio Alger myth - individuals cannot better themselves in capitalism, unless there is redistribution to make it possible (as there no doubt was during your parents post-war heyday).
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opebo
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2012, 10:24:05 AM »

..Obama knows nothing about economics and business. He basically has the neanderthal attitude, "GOVERNMENT GOOD. MORE GOVERNMENT BETTER."

Good - that's all he needs = the simple truth.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2012, 07:34:52 AM »

I'm not concerned about the very poor, and neither are most Americans.  They give money to charities, in the hope that it helps the few who have encountered tragedy in their lives.  The rest?  Largely responsible for their own situation.

Americans are for lifting up the deserving and helping those who face difficulties.  People who suck at life?  They can drown.

There's a word for people like you. First syllable of 'country', in case you'd not guessed. I think in your case we can extend it somewhat; perhaps by adding 'obnoxious' in front of it. Perhaps things could be done with words like 'scum' and 'reprobate', and I suppose a case exists for the use of 'depraved'.

I'd use a word like "sociopath" as well.

Al, Lief, you are giving a bad name to we scum, sociopaths, and depraved reprobates.  What makes people like Globalizer so pitiable is he believes an absurd construct about 'how society works'.  He believes that one can be 'good' or 'bad' at life, that one's individual efforts and 'hardness' of work matter.  In other words he is a dupe of larger forces, and obnoxiously proud of it as well, due to classic group-mentality - 'there are more of us/my side is winning, so f-you'.

We amorals don't actually care about the poor, or sympathize much (though we are very capable of fearing that we will be poor), but we are quite capable of recognizing the reality of capitalist exploitation and the rational that exists or the vast majority to guillotine the rich. 
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