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"Mr. Romney apparently views the people as a series of segmentable, selfish market shares."
The Washington Post scolds Mitt Romney as a sore loser painfully attacking those that did not vote for him as worthless moochers and parasites. And also repudiates Bill O'Reilly, the racist bigot and hater of Fox News.
Washington Post
Editorial Board
Mitt Romney’s parting ‘gifts’November 15, 2012
Mitt Romney’s parting ‘gifts’
Some excerpts :
Mr. Obama “evolved” on gay marriage just in time to solidify the gay vote. It wasn’t until his fourth year in office, with Hispanic voters in play, that he decreed a path to legality for some young undocumented immigrants. Coincidence? Don’t be naive, Mr. Romney is telling us.
Our guess is that Mr. Obama thought that both policies would be good for the country — at worst, a confluence of good politics and common sense — just as Mr. Romney saw promises of lower taxes and expanded drilling as in the national interest, not “gifts” to small businesses and oil companies. Yet he seems to view extending health-care insurance to the uninsured as a political payoff to minorities.
“With regards to African American voters, Obamacare was a huge plus,” Mr. Romney said. “You can imagine for somebody making $25- or $30- or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care — particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 a family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus.”
Yes — and shouldn’t it be? Would Mr. Romney prefer that people making $25,000 a year remain uninsured? Does the man who expressed pride in extending insurance to everyone in Massachusetts really see the Affordable Care Act as nothing but a play for votes?
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