Posted on 09/03/2012 2:06:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CHARLOTTE — After being pummeled for days at the Republican National Convention for his remark that business owners “didn’t build that,” President Obama heads to the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina this week facing mounting questions about how he will respond to charges that he is hostile to free enterprise.
On Sunday, senior Obama advisers suggested that they will not address the anti-business allegations directly but will instead try to turn the tables on their GOP rivals by accusing them of being dishonest about what Obama meant. David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser, said in an interview Sunday on ABC News that Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign is engaged in a broader pattern of dishonesty and is “built on a tripod of lies.” Plouffe cited accusations that Obama has gutted the work requirement for welfare and “raided” Medicare to pay for the nation’s new health-care law as other examples of untruths coming from the GOP.
The Obama team thinks that it has effectively dealt with the “build that” attacks and that the issue is overblown — the “drill, baby, drill” of 2012, a rallying cry for the right but ultimately one with limited appeal in the broader electorate...
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What’s really startling pen is that freepers and other alert people knew everything in 2016 already and yet this comes as a shock to everyone I know who’s seen it.
This week I’m going to be extremely careful - I may not watch any of it- just freep and DRUDGE, The Corner and Hot Air. I check out Hillbuzz and No Quarter to see what the moderate dems are thinking (although I think there’s only about 200 of them left).
I forget about no quarter. I will have to check it out again. I read him years ago during the 2008 election.
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Indicatively, the 173,600 increase in Foodstamps recipients in June was three times greater than Americans finding jobs (64,000, most of which part-time) according to the BLS. * * *
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