No sooner had Mitt Romney effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination than President Obama began to sharpen his attacks — on former President George W. Bush.
In pushing for a tax increase this week on millionaires, Mr. Obama said an unfair impact of tax cuts for the wealthy were enacted during the “eight years before I took office.” A White House spokesman argued that Mr. Bush’s tax policies contributed to “global economic chaos.”
Administration officials also took verbal swipes after North Korea’s unsuccessful missile launch last week, accusing Mr. Bush of having rewarded North Korea with food aid years ago in spite of its nuclear weapons activities.
Mr. Obama has criticized the Bush administration’s policies in the past, but the attacks of the past two weeks have been more direct and specific.
“In a poker game, this would be called a ‘tell,’ ” said Steve Schmidt, who managed Republican John McCain’s presidential bid in 2008. “It’s a signal about what the campaign is going to be. From the perspective of the Obama campaign, they’re trying to have a debate about things other than the president’s economic record.”
Read More at The Washington Times. By Dave Boyer.
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If he couldn’t make any headway on the economy and spent like a drunken sailor, what makes him think he can do better in another four years? In four more years, he’ll have us under the Hammer and Sickle
IT’S ALL HE’S GOT!!! “blame, divide, bait racism; blame, divide, bait racism; blame, divide, bait racism…”
That’s all he’s got.
Typical BOON not standing up like a man, this scumbag terrorist better be tried and convicted for treason, along with all the other ball washers in Congress
Leave it to the “”"”" CLOWN PRINCE – - OBUMER THE ANOINTED ONE “”"”" to come up with this type of political ads. He doesn’ know any better. He is on the way out and will go out kicking and screaming all the way thatt WE JOHN Q. PUBLIC don’t like him. The truth be told, we can’t stand him and his LIBERAL LEFT WING SOCIALIST STYLE OF GOVERNMENT. AMERICA was not founded that way. Time for him to take his lumps, lick his wounds and leave office. Then we JOHN Q. PUBLIC can get back to running our great Country as we have for over 230 years.
You have to work to get ahead not complain all the time.