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“An America in which prosperity is shared”

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Well, it’s game on. From Obama, with the perfect socialist meme:

‘Too many folks still don’t have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today. And so, the question in this election is which way do we go?’ President Obama asked at a fundraiser in Chicago on Sunday.

‘Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?’ Obama asked. ‘Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place?’

He thinks everything about America is a mess, not just the recession which he has made much worse through everything he has done. We are back to spreading the wealth around as wealth is being destroyed by the billions.

Written by Steve Kates

August 14th, 2012 at 8:14 am

Posted in Uncategorized

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  1. ‘Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?’ obongo asked. ‘Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place?’

    Well, that’s about as clear an endorsement of Romney and Ryan as you’d expect to hear.

    Americans, despatch the criminal racist commie idiot.

    You know it makes sense.

    Rabz

    14 Aug 12 at 8:46 am

  2. What is so bvery depressing is that he’s competitive

    JamesK

    14 Aug 12 at 8:50 am

  3. ‘Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?’ Obama asked. ‘Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place?’

    Sounds like Obama screwed up the message from Clinton’s ’96 election campaign.

    Was the Sun King being unfaithful to his tele-prompter by ad libbing again?

    BTW, going back to ’96 for an idea is both desperate and stupid as every Republican alive saw how fumbling this allow Dole be position as a candidate from the 1950s.

    Token

    14 Aug 12 at 8:53 am

  4. James, I don’t think he is competitive at all. The danger is that he is desperate.

    Obama’s competitiveness comes from most polls of registered not likely voters. These are very pro Democrat. Then when you look at the make up of the poll sample of most non Rasmussen polls you find that their are lots more democrats polled in the sample then should be there. Consequently Obama is in front. But if you play the Rasmussen sample of registered Democrats and Republicans, Romney is in front.

    The other interesting thing is that since Ryan was announced Romney’s intrade rating has gone up from 39 to 42. I am more and more inclined to think that Romney will win this and win big.

    John Comnenus

    14 Aug 12 at 9:20 am

  5. Thereby proving in the minds (if I can call them that) of the left that all Americans are Waaacist.

    Cato the Elder

    14 Aug 12 at 9:41 am

  6. Paul Ryan in American Spectator: Who Built America?

    In 2008, then-candidate Obama said he intended to “spread the wealth around” — not his own wealth through voluntary transactions, of course, but the earnings belonging to American families through coercive redistribution. In April 2009, he claimed that the founding principles on which America was built are too weak to withstand 21st century pressures. He called our free economy a house built upon sand, destroyed when the financial storm of 2008 hit. America must be reconstructed, he asserted, upon a “new foundation” of “pillars” hewn from the solid rock of big government.

    The agenda he promoted demonstrated in a practical way what his rhetoric meant. He pushed unprecedented stimulus spending, a government-driven health care overhaul, further distortions in the U.S. financial sector, an expensive cap-and-trade system to restrict American energy, and more. His transformative proposals were based on a vision of a government-centered society that conflicts with the foundational principles of freedom and equality rooted in our Declaration of Independence. To support his expansive new vision of government without limits, the administration sent Congress four massive annual budgets that called for crushing levels of debt. The Democrat-controlled Senate, cognizant of the political peril of voting for such reckless spending, taxes, and new debt, gave up on budgeting altogether. The U.S. Senate unanimously rejected Obama’s budgets, without passing any budget of its own for over three years.

    RTWT

    JamesK

    14 Aug 12 at 10:06 am

  7. The other interesting thing is that since Ryan was announced Romney’s intrade rating has gone up from 39 to 42. I am more and more inclined to think that Romney will win this and win big.

    There is a big fight here, but at least it will be over substance.

    It is interesting how this has turned out, looks like there was more method in Romney’s nomination of Ryan than I first thought.

    By pinning Romney with Ryan’s budget/Health Care plan the Democrats are unmining their ability to attack Romney on the Massachusett’s healthcare plan.

    On CNN yesterday, Obama strategist David Axelrod claimed that “most of the experts who have looked at this” have said that Paul Ryan’s plan to reform Medicare would put the program “in a death spiral” and “would raise costs on seniors by thousands of dollars.” A day earlier — as Representative Ryan was preparing to accept Mitt Romney’s offer to join his ticket — Obama campaign manager Jim Messina had said the plan involved “shifting thousands of dollars in health-care costs to seniors.”

    None of this is true. Any expert who looks at Ryan’s plan — any intelligent and fair-minded person, really — can tell you the actual worst-case scenario for how much more it could make beneficiaries pay: $0.

    The claim Axelrod and Messina are making is based on a hostile interpretation of an earlier version of Ryan’s proposal. Ryan has changed the proposal over the last year, however, and Romney has endorsed the new version. The Democratic criticism, applied to the new plan, is indisputably false.

    The Romney-Ryan proposal — which has the support of liberal Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon — would let senior citizens choose a coverage plan provided either by the federal government or by a private company.
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    Nice pivot, eh?

    Token

    14 Aug 12 at 10:29 am

  8. Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared

    The process of involuntary sharing is by its very nature inherently corrupt.

    rodclarke

    14 Aug 12 at 1:00 pm

  9. Maybe he was having a bad teleprompter day and meant to say where property is shared.

    Aqualung

    14 Aug 12 at 1:47 pm

  10. Or where prosperity is shed.

    Aqualung

    14 Aug 12 at 1:48 pm

  11. There, there Oby…..you’re just another comrade who wants to take my profits but refuses to take my risks.

    Twas ever thus.

    Alfonso

    14 Aug 12 at 6:24 pm

  12. The guy is a thief. The worst kind of thief. The one who tells you he is entitled to take your earnings

    whalehunt fun

    15 Aug 12 at 8:33 am

  13. The guy is a thief. The worst kind of thief. The one who tells you he is entitled to take your earnings.
    He needs to be discarded like any other rotten fruit you innocently chose on the basis of its outer appearance.

    whalehunt fun

    15 Aug 12 at 8:55 am

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