Mourdock: Chrysler bankruptcy deal same thing as slavery

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mourdock-obamas-chrysler-bankruptcy-deal-same-tyrannical-principle-as-1858.php

Indiana GOP Senate nominee Richard Mourdock fired up a Tea Party crowd last week, by comparing the perhaps dry subject of his lawsuit against the Obama administration over the Chrysler bankruptcy to an older, more emotional struggle: Abraham Lincoln’s orations against slavery.

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“He’s a man who does not understand this country. Because I don’t think anyone who truly understands those types of American who sacrifice, would ever be ripping away their assets, to take them from one group to give to another.

“You see, my friends, it is once again that message coming from Washington, D.C., that even people like those pensioners I represent can work and sweat and toil and earn and save, so that someone else can be given their assets.

“It is the same tyrannical principle as in 1858 — but now it’s 2012.”

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Yes, because saving one of America's biggest carmakers is akin to oppressing an entire race of people.

[tmthforu94]

Please wake me up when this nightmare is over.

[Zioneer]

I really hope that Mourdock loses. He's like Allen West, but running for Senate.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

He isn't talking about the brankruptcy itself but rather a specific aspect of it, an aspect which could have been handled differently while still saving the companies, so don't give me that "Well it was worth it" crap.

As for the comparison, it is over the top to be sure, but this is an issue that gets lost in the weeds amongst the broader issue of the autobailout/bankruptcy itself and thus necessitates an attention getter of some sorts. This one seems to be counterproductive, however.