To say you are sorry, or that you were wrong, after getting caught, doesn’t entitle you to forgiveness. If you  said that there were three cookies left,and really thought that, but in fact there were really four, that might be a mistake.

We’d forgive you.   It could be that there were really four, you ate one, and lied about eating one, but you thought it was just a little “white lie.”  We’d feel betrayed, but might understand how your love of cookies could get the better of you.   But if you said that you ate all 12 of the cookies in the cookie jar, that you didn’t care about the other people in the family who were hungry and hadn’t had any cookies, and said “let them eat cake,” you were not just wrong.  The full remark revealed your total lack of concern  or respect for those who didn’t get any cookies.   If you later said you were “wrong” it would be clear that you had not changed your selfish attitude, but only that you wanted the other people in the family who were still hungry, to think better of you.  Mitt Romney has revealed that he doesn’t care about the middle or lower income people of the country.  His only real regret is that someone recorded him making those remarks and he was “wrong” to say what he did in front of someone with a recorder.

Here is the actual statement Romney made suggesting that the people who would vote for Obama were dependent on the government.

The audio recording of Romney saying this to potential donors was recorded without his knowing. When the audio was released the cochairman of his campaign Bill Schuette said that it was “ MAYBE not the best choice of words.” Romney himself said: “It’s not elegantly stated, let me put it that way. I was speaking off the cuff in response to a question. And I’m sure I could state it more clearly in a more effective way than I did in a setting like that.”  He didn’t say he was sorry or that his message was wrong.

Now that public outcry has continued Mitt Romney has changed his message about what he said. Now he doesn’t think he could state it “more clearly” he has just said he was “wrong.” Romney’s remarks about the 47% of people were amazing similar to his comment made back in February when he announced that he wasn’t really concerned about the poor.

Entire articles have been devoted to explaining who doesn’t pay taxes and why.  As set forth in those articles, the majority of Americans pay taxes of some kind, and have paid income taxes at some time in their lives, so the statement is misleading.  However the really  offensive nature of the comment can be found by reading the statement in total.  Romney didn’t just misstate a number or get a name wrong.  He clearly meant what he said at the time.  So the question is was he lying then or lying now about being wrong. Romney failed to say why he was wrong.  He failed to offer any explanation about why he was wrong, (i.e. he was possessed by the devil, or under the influence of heroin).  At the time he made the comments he gave a detailed explanation of the dependency of the people who “don’t pay taxes.”  If I had $10,000 to bet, I’d bet that he was lying about being wrong.  I’d bet that he realized that if the truth surfaced about his real attitudes, he would raise a lot of campaign money, but wouldn’t gain enough votes to win the election.  Romney is an elitist, a liar, and deceptive.

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UPDATE:    Listen to Romney’s original explanation of the statement, as he explains that he really did mean what he said:

 

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