politics and the 47%

As always, Aaron Sorkin put the best words into the mouth of one of his characters.

                                SHEPHERD
  Sydney, I can't challenge the school
  bully to a fight just because he
  picked on my girlfriend.

    SYDNEY
  I'm not asking you to. I can take
  care of myself. This isn't about me.
  How can you keep quiet? How do you
  have patience for people who claim
  they love America but clearly can't
  stand Americans?

I really can't improve on that.