Attacking the President's stewardship is easy, he explains:
"worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of an additional $5 trillion of accumulated debt." (WaPo - Krauthammer)Throw in the crony crapitalism of Solyndra, those non-union auto workers he ripped the pensions away from during his above-the-law auto industry bailout (Which still leaves us $25 billion in the hole), Eric Holder's serial malfeasance, and this White House looks downright Nixonian.
Add to that the $1.68 trillion of new expenditures Obamacare will cost us, and making a case against Obama's disastrous stewardship of this nation should be a slam dunk, but his press flunkies and the leftwing mudball brigades are out in full force, acting as Obama's gargoyles on the parapet of the Progressive State.
Play "You Didn't Build That!" in Context
Krauthammer says we need to attack Obama's ideology, and I agree. The good doctor also recommends we...
... play in toto (and therefore in context) Obama’s Roanoke riff telling small-business owners: “You didn’t build that.” Real credit for your success belongs not to you — you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat?Yes! Is the Romney campaign listening to Charles Krauthammer?
President Obama Holds us in Contempt
Not just the president's words, but his tone betrays a contempt for smart, hardworking people who put everything on the line to fulfill a dream. And it's not a selfish dream, it's a capitalistic free-market dream, which means these men and women find creative ways to make the rest of us happy by providing us goods and services at an attractive price. Unlike Obama's blundering, bureaucratic, imperial government, private businesses have to compete for our money, and that is where the contempt and the resentment comes in.
Statists like Obama and his minions hate businesses and the people who run them, unless they can milk them for bribes, er.. campaign contributions. The average business owner is smarter and more hard working that Barack Milhous Obama. Before the country elected him Prom King, he'd never run anything larger than the Choom Gang, a collection of teenage Honolulu potheads.
So here again, as a public service, is el Jefe Maximo doing his best Hugo Chavez impersonation...
His contempt is palpable, and can anyone remember any other president publicly mocking his enemies the way this man does? And listen to that crowd hooting and cheering on his demagoguery. It's shameful.
So yeah, let's keep playing this, over and over, and make sure every voter sees it, in context.
Related: Western Hero - Demagogue in Chief
