Obama should stick to his message
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Several news sources are abuzz with headlines about how President Obama is going to reboot his campaign with a speech in Ohio today. After the poor May jobs report, the Democrat's loss in Wisconsin and the president's gaffe about the "the private sector doing fine," some on Obama's team might be getting a tad nervous.
Polls are tightening up and the GOP is starting to get behind their candidate as the money is rolling in, particularly from the financial sector.
So, we're getting into the long haul. I assume Obama will talk about differing visions for the country, about how Romney's policies would help those who don't need the help, and how Obama would work to create greater opportunity and fairness as the middle class tries to hold on to what's left of the American dream. I hope so, anyway.
I know Romney wants the ballot question to be about who can fix the economy. I understand that he wants us to believe that his business experience gives him an advantage, that if Romney wins, we all win, or some such nonsense.
For a while there every Republican talking head was saying that America consists of the rich and the soon-to-be rich, which sounds more like a lottery advertising slogan than a campaign theme.
Obama's message has to be that, for a guy like Romney, worrying about the bottom line means that very few win while most lose. That's what his business experience has taught him. That's what he would bring to the White House.
It's ironic that the right has always gotten great traction by saying the left wants to redistribute wealth from the "have more" to the "have less." It's time the rest of us started talking about the fact that people like Romney have always been about redistributing wealth in the other direction.
Experience creating wealth is not the same thing as experience creating jobs. I hope American voters clue into that fact in time not to make a big mistake.
Never forget that, in Romney's world, America consists of the rich and the soon-to-be screwed.
(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)
So, we're getting into the long haul. I assume Obama will talk about differing visions for the country, about how Romney's policies would help those who don't need the help, and how Obama would work to create greater opportunity and fairness as the middle class tries to hold on to what's left of the American dream. I hope so, anyway.
I know Romney wants the ballot question to be about who can fix the economy. I understand that he wants us to believe that his business experience gives him an advantage, that if Romney wins, we all win, or some such nonsense.
For a while there every Republican talking head was saying that America consists of the rich and the soon-to-be rich, which sounds more like a lottery advertising slogan than a campaign theme.
Obama's message has to be that, for a guy like Romney, worrying about the bottom line means that very few win while most lose. That's what his business experience has taught him. That's what he would bring to the White House.
It's ironic that the right has always gotten great traction by saying the left wants to redistribute wealth from the "have more" to the "have less." It's time the rest of us started talking about the fact that people like Romney have always been about redistributing wealth in the other direction.
Experience creating wealth is not the same thing as experience creating jobs. I hope American voters clue into that fact in time not to make a big mistake.
Never forget that, in Romney's world, America consists of the rich and the soon-to-be screwed.
(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)
Labels: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
posted by Richard K. Barry at
1:50 PM
2 Comments:
"Experience creating wealth is not the same thing as experience creating jobs. I hope American voters clue into that fact in time not to make a big mistake."
Interesting: Solyndra created a lot of jobs, but no wealth. Now there are no jobs.
Meanwhile, successful companies that generate wealth are the ONLY ones who can offer jobs. So let's tax them more.
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Eric, at 8:48 PM
In Romney's case generating wealth for investors was the primary goal of his business career, not creating jobs. If destroying jobs was the best way to do that, that is what would happen.
By
Richard K. Barry, at 10:21 PM
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