Obama campaign deputy manager Stephanie Cutter said Tuesday that Mitt Romney’s comment that he has given up on winning 47 percent of Americans is the “opposite” of President Obama’s 2008 remark about Americans clinging to guns and religion. Both comments were made at private fundraisers.
“[Obama] was talking about how some people get frustrated by their circumstances and react to that,” Cutter said. “And that we need to bring everybody together and talk to everybody about how we are gonna strengthen middle-class security. Mitt Romney was saying the exact opposite, that 47 percent of the country are never gonna vote for him because they don’t take personal responsibility for themselves, they consider themselves victims and they are never gonna vote for him. They are not his concern. So it’s the exact opposite.”
