With Base Restless, Obama Toughens Tone (a la Al Capone)

WSJ ^ | August 10, 2011 | JONATHAN WEISMAN And KATIE GLUECK

[yoe]

Democrats across the U.S., watching a roiling stock market and a stagnating economy, say President Barack Obama needs a message and policy response as big as the crisis moment the nation is facing.

Adjusting his tone amid those complaints, Mr. Obama is toughening his demands for short-term jobs spending and drawing sharper contrasts to his Republican opponents both in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.

Plunging stock prices, a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and a near-default on federal debt have triggered fears that Mr. Obama is doing too little to cure an ailing economy and to persuade Americans that his existing plans are the right prescription.

[snip] n his remarks to Democratic donors Monday night, Mr. Obama didn't raise expectations for legislative achievements. Rather, he indicated that the run-up to the 2012 election would be a slugfest between Republicans who "don't believe in government as a partner with the private sector" and Democrats who do.

[yoe]

Obama has proposed American business's partner with the Federal Government....this is very close if not actually a form of Racketeering...Chicago Style. Those Freepers over 55 should remember their parents talking about how the Chicago Mafia ruled that state and especially that city for nearly 40 years - racketeering; organized crime; Alphonse Capone; Chicago; labor unions; criminal law.

Obama already has the Justice Department in his pocket...his 33 Czars...the FBI & supposedly CIA and Lord knows who else. America has been hijacked by a Marxist with the determination to Socialize her....he will eventually hang for it.

[Deo volente]

Another man who strongly believed in “government as a partner with the private sector” was Benito Mussolini.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Obama’s re-election campaign strategy. Don’t push any new agenda except gridlock. Blame the economy on the tea party and the Republicans.

[andy58-in-nh]

Obama certainly has his... enthusiasms.

[GonzoGOP]

Al Capone knew how to run a business and make money. Obama isn’t even close. Also Al’s most famout quote is “You get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word or a gun”. Obama is all threats, rage, and blame. He doesn’t understand that it is better to have part of a growing concern than all of a failing one. More John Gotti than Al Capone.

[Cheerio]

he will eventually hang for it.

Huh? Nothing is gonna happen to this teflon don. There is much that he could be impeached over in the record right today. He is a blank slate with no one acknowledging they knew him in school, he faked his last release of a birth certificate.

This President is a FRAUD and there is no call for his removal.

[yoe]

Obama’s re-election campaign strategy. Don’t push any new agenda except gridlock. Blame the economy on the tea party and the Republicans.

(Rules for Radicals...By Saul Alinsky - 1971)

[jeffc]

Democrats across the U.S.[...]say President Barack Obama needs a message...

Dems read this as zero needs a catch-phrase soundbite for the "media" and other libs to parrot so it sounds like they have an idea and a plan, when all they really would have is a few catchy but empty words.

[Major Matt Mason]

to persuade Americans that his existing plans are the right prescription.

He should simply state, "Plan? This is my plan! And it is working to perfection, homies."