Mitt Speaks. Oh, No!

I've been seeing a lot of articles about very offensive sounding comments made by Mitt Romney lately. They sound terrible taken out of context. The latest hit is his statement on CNN: "I'm not concerned about the very poor". Honestly, I think people are sort of overreacting. In context, Romney was trying to say that his primary focus is the middle class, the people who have enough money that they can't get help but not enough money to live well. However, I still thought this article was very funny. I would recommend it; I was laughing out loud. It did not change my opinion about Romney that much (well, the fact that he apparently tied his dog to the roof of his car was a bit worrisome; I'll have to see if that's really true) but I don't think that was the point. I think it was just a little funny piece, more for people who already dislike Romney. I even thought it was funny, and I don't have strong feelings one way or another. It relied almost entirely on logos, because the writer of the article just picks apart everything Romney said in that particular speech. Maybe she was being a little harsh, but it was funny and I certainly think that someone with plenty of people probably writing speeches for him should be able to do a little better. He should know by now that he needs to be very careful what he says publicly, even if it doesn't sound that bad in the middle of a speech or interview. People will pluck out random sentences and write entire articles about them. And then people like me will make entire blogs about those entire articles about those little sentences.

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