October 6, 2012
BILL CLINTON AT LEAST HAD A DEVOTED MOTHER...:
The Real Debate: The Good Father vs. The Abandoned Son (Roger L Simon, 10/06/12, PJ Media)
What we have before us in these debates is an almost archetypal confrontation - between a man who was and is an exceptionally good father and a man who was deserted by his.Good fathering is the story of Mitt Romney's life. He has five sons who are, by all accounts, devoted to him and vice-versa. These boys grew up with a father who, although wealthy and successful, worked like a demon, doted on them, and apparently devoted an extraordinary amount of time to charitable work, in which he also involved them. Indeed, I've never heard of a politician who did anything quite like it.Almost the polar opposite, Barack Obama's father abandoned him twice and then ended up an irresponsible drunken victim of multiple car crashes. This sad behavior precipitated a search by Obama that brought him in contact with several father surrogates, notably Frank Marshall Davis and Jeremiah Wright, that it would be hard to brand as anywhere near satisfactory. (Davis was a pornographer and about Wright the less said the better.) No Mitt Romneys there.
...but the absence of any sort of parental love is most clearly reflected, not in the UR's debate performance, but in his refusal to stand for anything, so that he can be all things to all people, in order that they might love the image of him they create in their own heads. Sadly for him, after four years even his inactions have created new images. And folks don't love what they now see. The clothes, it turns out, have no emperor.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2012 5:03 PM
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