Two To Tango, Cash

I think Obama has bigger fish to fry, no Chait?

"...Instead the video exposes an authentic Romney as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party."

Instead, Obama's speeches, past comments captured on both video and in paper clippings, people and organizations he associated with, and edited bios that skew his past expose him as an authentic as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering anti-business, divisive, redistributionist, soft socialist and pseudo-populist pauper, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party.

There.

"...Some pundits have likened Romney’s comments to Barack Obama’s 2008 monologue, also secretly recorded at a fund-raiser, about his difficulties with white working class voters in rural Pennsylvania. But the spirit of Obama’s remarks was precisely the opposite of Romney’s..."

Let me stop you there.

Where have I heard this? Right. The spirit of the "you didn't build the infrastructure" line was taken out of "context." Sure it was.

And the "spirit" of Romeny's point, and there damn well is merit to it, is that too many people - good or bad, lazy or not - are dependent on the welfare state.

"Obama was aspiring to become president of all of America, even that part most hostile to him, in the belief that what they shared mattered more than what divided them. Romney genuinely seems to conceive of the lowest-earning half of the population as implacably hostile parasites."

And Obama genuinely seems to conceive the highest-earning portion of the population as implacably hostile exploiters.