Posted on 10/19/2012 9:22:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama's stump speech Thursday at Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester, N.H., was much like the speeches he's given across battleground states in the last few weeks. Listen to it, and you'll hear the short version of what the president promises to accomplish in a second term. It's not much.
"I will not be satisfied until everybody who wants to work hard can find a job," the president told the crowd. To make that happen, he promised to do five things.
First, he would "send fewer jobs overseas [and] sell more products overseas." He proposed to "reward companies that are investing right here" in order to "create good jobs and provide security for the middle class."
Second, he would "control more of our own energy and how we use energy" by "investing in the energy sources of tomorrow." This will not only make America more energy-independent, Obama said, but will also help stop global warming, which leads to "droughts and floods and fires."
Third, the president would create "the best education system in the world right here in the United States." He proposed to hire new math and science teachers and provide job training in community colleges. He also said he'll "work with colleges and universities to keep tuition low."
Fourth, Obama would "cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years." He has already "cut spending that we didn't need," he said, and will do more in the future, but vowed not to cut any funds in areas like education and research.
Fifth, Obama would raise taxes on higher-income Americans. "We can't get this done unless we also ask the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on their incomes above $250,000," Obama said. "That's how you do it."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Mitt Romney has been the target of sometimes withering criticism for offering scant details to support his campaign proposals. But could there be anything less substantial than the Obama second-term agenda?
In other words - he would keep doing all the stupid things he is already doing...
And the crowd yelled back...we don’t want to work....we want what we’re entitled to....food, shelter, clothing...but we want the good stuff....like he got.
It is because his ‘world’ is intellectually void of reason and truth. He appeals to sloth and greed and blame for self destructive behavior. When confronted with substantive honest and direct complaint (Romney in the debates) he later responds on the campaign trail “Romney wants to kill Big Bird”.
Nothing substantive, no explanation for his failure; only more vague promises of more largess without any explanation of how all what he’s done and what he is again promising gets paid for.
The ultimate answer to his idiotic attacks? Last night. Romney. “In the spirit of Sesame Street, the President’s remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter “O” and the number “16 Trillion.” It pretty much says it all.
This is the biting rebuke we must barrage this skidmark with for the rest of his miserable only term in office.
"Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I'm running behind"
Sounds like an endorsement for Romney. Obama is the one who has been President for four long, dreary years. If change is necessary, he should be the first to go. That is the best way to effect the "change".
Everything he says makes it sound as if he hasn’t been president for the last 4 years.
All of it begs the question, ok, Mr. President, what have you accomplished in the last 4 years to work towards each of these goals you just mentioned???
His chair is empty and so is his binder.
Barack Obama is offering us four more years of the same Obama Misery Index.
That’s not good enough for the country - it wants change and is going to get it in 2013.
One thing the 'rats never answer -- what tax rate is high enough for a "fair share"? It's always "more taxes"... they'll never put out a number that says "this is 'fair share', not a penny less or more".
Obama has been running on empty and on a glide path since January, 2011 - when the Republican majority was seated in the House of Representatives.
He has accomplished NOTHING other than obstruction and destruction since then, and he wasn’t terribly good at construction before then. Univision called it correctly when they went after him for not doing anything on immigration, when he had the hearts and minds of the entire Congress.
When the political capital is spent, sometimes it is difficult or impossible to rebuild it.
He had 4 years and only made things worse.
Time to give someone else a chance.
Sorry————It’s way past time. He should have been impeached when he refused to enforce DOMA.
I always chuckle when I hear big government Democrat scumbags like Ubama use the word "ask".
Big government Democrat scumbags like Ubama don't "ask" for more taxes - - they confiscate them from people at the point of a gun.
"... by trying to get as many people as possible to give up the whole 'wanting to work' thing," he did not say aloud.
Those 5 sound very similar to Romney’s 5 things he will do.
Obama becomes the ‘me too’ candidate.
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Obama’s record is so bad that he has to do what John Kerry did. Kerry borrowed ‘accomplishments’ of others, including Senator Bob KerrEy.
The only reason he didn’t run out of gas a long time ago is because he has been siphoning it from other people’s cars.
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