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Why the Obama Economy SHOULD decide the 2012 election
During Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign against George H. W. Bush., political consultant James Carville famously quipped “It’s The Economy, Stupid” as a way of keeping Clinton on-message.
And during the 2008 election, then-Senator Obama was more than happy to make the economy a central focus in his campaign.
“Let’s be clear,” Mr. Obama said sternly. “What we’ve seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed.”
“Instead of offering up concrete plans to solve these issues, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book: you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem,” Mr. Obama said. “But here’s the thing — this isn’t 9/11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out.”
Even after being elected president, Obama made it clear to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the American economy should be the weathervane for his success in office.
“Look, the only measure of my success as president, when people look back five years from now or nine years from now, is going to be, did I get this economy fixed?”
In February 2009, President Obama told Today Show‘s Matt Lauer that he should be held accountable for the economy.
““Look, I’m at the start of my administration. One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I’ve got four years. A year from now I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress,” said Obama. ”But there’s still going to be some pain out there. If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
But now it’s become abundantly clear that not only did Obama not fix the economy, he has presided over a historic downgrade of it. His Keynesian wealth redistribution schemes have failed in record time. And Liberals are going into major damage-control mode. They’re already crafting the narrative to distract attention away from Obama’s ineptitude.
Conor Friedersdorf’s newest article in The Atlantic makes an ineffectual case for Democrats not to abandon Obama over his failure to fix the economy.
…I am not going to vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate, or GDP numbers, or the credit rating. Nor should you. It isn’t just that blame for the bad economy is properly spread among many actors, including Obama, President Bush, various Congresses, the mortgage industry, and voters. Or that presidents, no matter what policies they implement, just don’t have that much control over economic health. As relevant as those factors may be, I am going to ignore the economy when I vote for a different reason: the president largely determines policy on foreign affairs, national security, and civil liberties — and all are even more important than GDP and the unemployment rate.
Funny, that’s not the chorus we were hearing from the Left in 1992, or in 2008. To Democrats, everything — especially the economy — was George W. Bush’s fault. In fact, most Liberals still try to blame Bush for the events currently happening under Obama’s watch and at his direction. But no matter; to the party faithful, nothing must prevent Teh Won from being granted a second term with which to “fundamentally transform” America.
Where and under what circumstances we wage war, the degree to which the executive branch is checked as the founders intended, the effectiveness and morality of our counterterrorism policy, the civil liberties we enjoy and the pace at which they erode — these things matter more than the unemployment rate.
Try telling that to 14+ million unemployed Americans.
Obama hung his hat on the fallacious claim that he could run the Oval Office better then his predecessor. Now that it’s abundantly clear that his inexperience and naïveté prevent him from even reaching the low standards set by President Bush, Obama’s minions want to move the proverbial goalposts.
Even if I were to take Friedersdorf’s argument at face value, Obama fails those litmus tests as spectacularly as he does the economy. He has proven by every measure that he doesn’t deserve to lead this great nation. And because he asserted the economic petard, he deserves to be hoisted upon it.
Sorry, Libs. Clear-headed Americans aren’t buying what you’re selling. That sour milk won’t smell any better next year just because you slap a new Hopenchange label on it.
Even DNC Chair and chief Kool-Aid drinker Debbie Wasserman Schultz proclaimed that Democrats “own” the economy. This week’s downgrade, and everything associated with it, most definitely should be key factors in the 2012 election.
Obama was pretty clear about it. So should we be when it’s time to pull the lever in 2012.
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RELATED: This American Thinker post should be required reading for anyone who plans to vote in 2012 — “The Keynesian Fraud.”
Aided by Keynesian economics, the political class cultivated and promoted the myth that government was responsible for economic success, especially the notion that more government means more success.
Government is like the rooster who believed his crowing caused the sun to rise. More accurately, the propaganda-conditioned voters see government as this rooster.
Government cannot cause the economic sun to rise. It can, however, prevent it from rising. That is the point this country has reached. Government has crippled the economy with an unbearable burden of poor policies, unnecessary regulations, and overspending.
Now the rooster crows but the sun does not rise. The economic crisis persists and worsens, despite unprecedented government crowing (spending).
The economic solution is simple: pare back government and its burden on the economy. Get government out of the way and the economy will recover. The economic sun then will again rise.
While Barack Obama is President, there will be no way to get government out of the way of the economy. He must be replaced if America is to recover.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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