Obama and Romney Play Duck-and-Cover Over Bigotry, While Christie Takes a Stand
One day in mid-July, President Obama addressed the nation—“not so much as a president” but “as a father and as a husband.” It was, he said, the “darkest of days”: the aftermath of the horrific slaughter of moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado. It was the right speech at the right moment, the right way to address the unaddressable. Mitt Romney, too, spoke of his sincere sorrow for the loss of life—similarly speaking “as a father and a grandfather, a husband, and an American.”
Neither man campaigned that day.
But two weeks later, when another lunatic shooter opened fire on another group of husbands and wives and fathers and sons and mothers and grandparents? The campaigns didn’t skip a beat. Neither candidate appeared on the scene. Read More
