I heard him say the same thing on Hannity tonight. He shouldn’t have apologized.
A lot of people agree with the idea of the 47%. He could have restated it differently and ran with it. Obama will slam him with it now.
I don’t think Obama wanted to touch it last night because he knows how people feel about the increasing numbers of people being put on welfare.
Oh well...
This hurt him and didn’t help him even after his numerous restatements to make his intent more clear. I have no issue with the retraction tonight.
Romney has not handled the matter/issue very well,indeed with his latest backtrack he seems to have wiped away much of the strong stand he made in the debate. I feel someone in an advisory capacity is giving him sophomoric advice. Not a promising situation. His comment should/could have been something like ‘ I know and others know there are 47% of the people who will be inclined to vote for Obama because in these difficult times aid is needed and currently these people have been given the balm of some kind of government subsidy. It is my goal to move these people in as many who truly seek to join the the other people who get a living from meaningful work with the reward of building a strong National economy.’ Having grown up during and experienced the ‘great depression’ I think I understand the innate desire for many of the 47% to get back into the wage earner group.