Thursday, August 16, 2012

2 Ways to Run Against Barack Obama: Stewardship or Ideology


By John Sykes

How to beat Obama couldn’t be put much more succinctly or successfully than the following 4 paragraphs. If it doesn’t do the job with your favorite liberal, move on to one who hasn’t gotten completely zombified by the progressive Kool-Aid.

 

From Charles Krauthammer at nationalreview.com:

There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record, or you can run against his ideas.

The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of another $5 trillion of accumulated debt.

The ideological case is also simple. Just play in toto (and therefore in context) Obama’s Roanoke riff telling small business owners: “You didn’t build that.” Real credit for your success belongs not to you — you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat? he asked mockingly — but to government that built the infrastructure without which you would have nothing.

Play it. Then ask: Is that the governing philosophy you want for this nation?

Read the rest here …

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