Comments about ‘Charles Krauthammer: President Obama's campaign strategy is to maintain empathy gap’

If the 'empathy gap' obama is supposedly creating is such a problem, shouldn't chuck be suggesting that romney close that gap?

chuck is right. So instead of Obama talking about helping to build America, he should concentrate on giving tax cuts to the rich (at the further expense of the middle-class) and attacking Iran.

Great call chuckie!

Oh the President has real empathy for the middle class reducing their employment taxes at the expense of the elderly dependent on Soc Sec., and taking money from Medicare to fund a poorly designed and flawed new health care law (of course the cuts were not really made so there was no real money and will not be). Driving the economy into a worst state than Jimmy Carter so their kids can not find jobs to pay for the ever increasing loans required by the Union controlled schools and tenure controlled institutions of Higher Education. This gap is one the media creates and maintains. It is partisan based media propaganda at its worst "Democrats care and are made up of us common folks", the "Republicans are rich white guys". Of course, they pillory some of the real middle class that makes up the Tea Party Movement. The Democrats and Republicans are both controlled by the very the very rich elites whom they serve with no care whatsoever for the middle class or the poor. Partisan rhetoric not withstanding.

The Real Maverick could you please explain how tax cuts to any individual is an expense to any other individual or group-middle class. Please recall taxes are income not expenses. But, thanks for your illuminating comments.

So Krauthammer somehow thinks that telling the truth about Romney is "demonizing" him. Typical Krauthammer. Sad.

The Great Recession is reminiscent of the Great Depression in 2 respects: (1) I was lilely rooted in the financial/housing collapses of 2009/10 and (2)it will take more years to climb out of.

The electioneering continually over-simplifies the fiscal and economic changes that must occur to set America back on course:

The Democrats say it's OK to go into debt for the structural changes needed in health care (ObamaCare), Medicare and the big outlays we've seen for infrastructural improvements in our highway/bridge systems.

The Republicans say we must end deficit spending by modifying medicare, ending ObamaCare while maintaining the Bush tax cuts for all, including those that have the advantage of off-shore accounts.

Neither of these approaches will fix our problems. Two things are needed: TIME (it will take additional years) and COMPROMISE (we have a 50/50 nation and the Legislative Branch reflects that split. Gridlock is unacceptable and prevents chnge.

How can a person empathize with a president who so glibly dismisses those who disagree with him? That's not polite in good company. When the Tea Party, the biggest grass-roots political movement in modern times, arose to oppose Washington's reckless spending, did the President listen? No, he derided them as kooks and extremists, and dismissed them and their message. Today he still makes fun of those who disagree with him, without substantive discussion of their ideas. He twists their words into something that sounds ridiculous and makes it into a joke. It's not funny. He is the most closed-mined man in Washington, and that is saying something.

Demosthenes...I believe all ploiticians, including Obama, listen to their critics and factor in their concerns. they often do not respond directly to them, though.

Beyond that, I detect a certain disdain for Obama in your comment. That's not unusual. However, there's a 50% chance he will be reelected. Then, we need to unify and try to keep America moving in the right direction. the same applies if Romney is elected.

Now...if you are from a position where you simply cannot stomach or accept one of these candidates as President, then there is a 50% chance you will be depressed for the next 4 years.

Being a patriotic American requires flexibility, compassion, tolerance and love. And acceptance that we'll get another chance in 4 more years.

To Demosthenes 2:14 p.m. Sept. 10, 2012

How can a person empathize with a president who so glibly dismisses those who disagree with him? That's not polite in good company.

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What an excellent indictment of Geoge Walker Bush! Thankfully we have a President now who at least has tried to work with people and engender compromises. Only when his efforts were obstructed, and were thrown back in his face multiple times over, did the President say "the heck with it" and become more forceful. Shame on the far right for putting politics before the welfare of the country.