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ecthompsonmd
September 18, 2012
Over the last 24 hours a story about Romney at a fundraiser has exploded. David Brooks, who can be very thoughtful at times, simply roasts Romney. Steve has beaten me to the punch: As the political world digests the significance of Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” controversy, I’ve seen this comparison come up quite a bit. It was just four years ago that Obama was recorded at his own closed-door event talking about how people “cling to guns and religion” when things don’t go well in their lives. The parallels between the two situations are striking; both feature the candidate inartfully characterizing people who
