[jaxmike]

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Is this a joke?

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No.

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I wouldn't call anyone who cares at all whatosever about a politician's summer home compassionate, and I wouldn't call anyone who didn't the opposite.

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Why does this not suprise me?

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I wouldn't even give him a nickel,

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Nor would I, however, to not feel compasion for his loss is inhuman IMO.

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and the fact that the media would even point out that a particular politician's home was destroyed is not only irrelevant and insignificant,

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I agree. It doesn't matter who's home was destroyed. The fact that anyone's home was destroyed is sad.

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but disrespectful to people who lost their *only* and *actual* homes and probably couldn't afford to buy others for vacationing in the first place.

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I think that it IS in bad taste for media to point that out. I am not sure it's actually disrespectful, but it may very well be close.

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Save compassion and sympathy for those who need it; there are many.

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Why? Why not have compassion and sympathy for everyone effected?