Comments on: Don’t Cry For Me, South Carolina http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/28/dont-cry-for-me-south-carolina/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:22:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: GGIH http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/28/dont-cry-for-me-south-carolina/#comment-53099 GGIH Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:18:42 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19632#comment-53099 The Newsweek piece was a public relations disaster. Glad I'm not Joel Sawyer. The Newsweek piece was a public relations disaster. Glad I’m not Joel Sawyer.

]]> By: Right http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/28/dont-cry-for-me-south-carolina/#comment-53098 Right Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:16:42 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19632#comment-53098 Then there's the lifetime of privation -- this plantation-raised Furman graduate who attended a tony out-of-state graduate school had to sleep on the floor of his parents' room, for God's sake! Why can't everybody else just overcome their disadvantages like he did? And the Rotary Club of Fort Mill is "left-leaning" and "education-heavy." Too bad he wasn't speaking to a generally conservative group of normal people who run their own businesses. Oh, wait. Then there’s the lifetime of privation — this plantation-raised Furman graduate who attended a tony out-of-state graduate school had to sleep on the floor of his parents’ room, for God’s sake! Why can’t everybody else just overcome their disadvantages like he did?

And the Rotary Club of Fort Mill is “left-leaning” and “education-heavy.” Too bad he wasn’t speaking to a generally conservative group of normal people who run their own businesses. Oh, wait.

]]> By: Pat Hendrix http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/28/dont-cry-for-me-south-carolina/#comment-53087 Pat Hendrix Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:39 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19632#comment-53087 “too busy to make their voices heard.” Ah, finally. After years of being an out of touch, rich dude that was generally a pretty decent person down deep, we finally get the "anybody who disagrees is on welfare" insinuation. Then he sniffles and snorts that an unknown, presumably unpolled majority, is really in his corner. Yeah, he talked to a lawyer in Mt. P. that agreed. What other proof do you need? “too busy to make their voices heard.”

Ah, finally. After years of being an out of touch, rich dude that was generally a pretty decent person down deep, we finally get the “anybody who disagrees is on welfare” insinuation. Then he sniffles and snorts that an unknown, presumably unpolled majority, is really in his corner. Yeah, he talked to a lawyer in Mt. P. that agreed. What other proof do you need?

]]> By: GGIH http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/28/dont-cry-for-me-south-carolina/#comment-53063 GGIH Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:43:30 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19632#comment-53063 He has tears for himself, suffering for his principles, but none for the tens of thousands of South Carolinians who are losing their jobs and homes. Cry me a river. He has tears for himself, suffering for his principles, but none for the tens of thousands of South Carolinians who are losing their jobs and homes. Cry me a river.

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