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Jewish World Review Sept. 20, 2012/ 5 Tishrei, 5773 Distractions and diversions By Cal Thomas
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There's another video, this one of The video was reportedly "leaked" by But the Obama campaign has had to deal with a "leak" of its own recently, namely the release of a 14-year-old audio recording of remarks supposedly made by then-Illinois State Sen. Obama at a conference in Romney was correct when he told the donors, "Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income taxes." He was also right when he suggested that "...47 percent of the people ... will vote for the president no matter what" and that they "are dependent on government" and "believe that they are victims." Democrats are the party of government and the more people they addict to government the better for Democrats. Romney refused to back down, but did admit his remarks had not been "elegantly stated." What he said was that a large number of people "...believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it." Who could credibly say otherwise when all we hear about are entitlements?
What Romney might have said was, "My policies will help people get jobs and earn a decent wage while President Obama's policies will cause more people to rely on government than on themselves." I wonder what's going on behind closed doors at the Obama campaign, that, if recorded and published in a conservative magazine, would cause political damage to the president's re-election prospects? But we don't have to go behind the scenes. There is plenty already in the public arena, much of it ignored by mainstream media.
Will the same media that plays "gotcha" with Romney, advancing the viewpoint that he is incapable, or unwilling, to connect with "average" Americans, hold the president to the standards he set for himself? The president says he tried to "reach out" to Republicans, but they refused. What they refused to do was give in to big government and his tax-and-spend agenda. This is the way Democrats play the game: if you agree with them and compromise your principles, you are bipartisan. If you stick to your principles, you're a polarizer. Do the promises Obama made four years ago still matter? They should, especially when he has failed to fulfill most of them. But don't look for the moderators of the upcoming debates to hold him accountable. Perhaps Romney might reference Vice President Biden's recent remark. Romney, he said, "...thinks the middle class is During the In light of the uprisings that have included the burning of American flags in the With comments like these, there's no need to go behind closed doors. It's all out in the open.
JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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