You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit – the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us – the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this – when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers – it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Aug. 11, 2006
“Of course, me spending the nation into oblivion while taxing you into the poorhouse probably isn’t helping matters any.”
well barry, that’s why there are private charities.
not always the government YGDFT!
“governmental empathy” today’s oxymoron.
Should I be surprised that he didn’t say we should put ourselves in the shoes of the guy that has worked hard all his life to grow his business only to see it taxed and Obamacared out of existence? That’s right, his statement regarding that guy is “You didn’t build that.”
So today I take the opportunity to announce the new Federal Program called “Walk a mile in another man’s shoes” where two people take turns wearing a single pair of shoes. This will create empathy and also help our nation during the national shoe leather crisis by administration inherited from the Bush Administration.
Obama has never really been able to put himself into someone else’s shoes. But he’s very good at putting himself into other people’s wallets.
@4 DamnCat
shoes, wallet they’re both leather. i’d like to give him a belt.
We will put a scotch to that.
I walked a mile in another guy’s shoes while he walked in mine. We both got blisters and I got athlete’s foot, too.
“empathy deficit”
Pffft. The psychotic idiot needs to work on his frontal lobes.