Responsibility

Mitt Romney's campaign has been under fire all week about comments he made to supporters last spring that were captured on video. He said 47% of the people in this country were going to vote for Obama because they felt like victims and the gov't owed them a living. Rob Tisinai does a bit of compare and contrast from what the candidate said last spring and what he said this week trying to dig out of the hole his campaign fell into. From this week's press conference.

My campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again, particularly those that don’t have work.

From last spring's video:

I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Tisinai concludes:

Romney’s whole campaign is about something he believes he can never achieve. Think about that.

Yeah, Romney named a big problem in American and has told us he isn't the one to fix it.

Tisinai is good at capturing that contrast in a visual image.

One responder notes that while Romney may not be able to "convince" people to take personal responsibility, there are solutions, such as using force. Is it enough force to simply dump them off all gov't assistance? Or does Mitt have something stronger in mind?