I’m loving the push back from President Obama after the GOP spent three days reinforcing the notion that they really are the party of NOthing.
Nominee Mitt Romney “did not offer a single new idea, just retreads of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years,” Obama told supporters in Urbandale, Iowa, near Des Moines.
Obama, who accepts re-nomination from the Democrats next week at their convention in Charlotte, N.C., said Romney’s proposed tax cuts would lead to cutbacks in such middle class programs as Medicare and education.
Making his first public comments on the Republican convention, Obama said voters are already familiar with GOP plans because they applied them during the last decade, leading to the financial meltdown of 2008.
“You’ve lived through it,” Obama told the crowd. “You can’t afford to repeat it.”
Obama repeatedly ridiculed the recent Republican convention in Tampa. He said the GOP blamed him for all the nation’s problems, exaggerated Romney’s qualifications for the presidency, and simply re-cycled “trickle down” economic ideas that benefit the rich and fail the middle class.
“It was a rerun,” Obama said. “We’d seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”
Romney, running mate Paul Ryan, and other Republicans spoke of “hard truths” and “bold truths,” Obama said, “but nobody ever bothered to tell you what they were.”
There are hard truths but you won’t find Republicans speaking about them. Ryan has spent two weeks running away from his budget plan’s position on Medicare and Social Security. He won’t even defend his hard-right position on abortion and rape. Romney, for his part, has spent a year running away from every position he’s ever held…gay rights, support for Roe v. Wade, gun control, Romneycare, the stimulus and the GM bailout to name a few.
The entire RomneYAN campaign has essentially come down to: the economy sucks, Obama sucks, blame Obama for everything and ‘Bush who?’ – therefore, close your eyes, block your ears, shut down your brain and trust Mitt and Paul to fix it all.
Down in Tampa, you heard Republicans paying lip service to the middle class, minorities and women. In fact, the policies they’ve proposed (but don’t speak of much) would destroy the middle class, make second class citizens of minorities and take women’s rights back a hundred years.
This choices in this election could not be any clearer. On one side you have a political party that believes that the only real contributors to society are the rich and therefore every effort should be made to make them richer, even if it means raping the planet and destroying the social safety net that protects the poor and middle class in difficult times.
On the other side you have a political party that believes the exact opposite.
As I wrote, it could not be clearer.
Note: Special thanks to E.A. Blair, our resident linguist, who came up with the MiddleClass part of the Obama equation. I was looking for a way to translate Einstein’s e=mc2 into something meaningful for the election and within minutes of asking E.A. for ideas, he came up with MiddleClass. Brilliant.
I’ll be adding the graphic to the store later today. Obama=MiddleClass² on a bumper sticker or t-shirt? That works.
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(The Barack Obama source image is a U.S. government work and therefore in the public domain.)
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Great picture and post Mario. I am looking forward to the debates when Obama pits his extraordinary intelligence, superior debating talents, and memory against the guy that David Letterman says the following about;
“…Mitt Romney looks like a guy modeling briefs on a package of underwear … He looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes … He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping … He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership…. He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial…”
~David Letterman
O = middle class 2
GREAT BUMPER STICKER MARIO !!!
RAVE!!! Thanks you 2
Make me a t-shirt, a sweatshirt and a mouse pad…
(see you at the store soon)
I live right next to Urbandale and saw Barry give this speech yesterday. The atmosphere was marvelous & enthusiastic. Over 8,000 people there.
I haven’t yet seen even one bumper sticker from Romney/Ryan but several for Obama. We’re supposed to be a swing state. In reality, I guess the rural areas are less liberal than the cities.
Oh well, Obama Rocks!
LOL dude, this is exactly what I asked for the other day! I love the O=MC2. Great job Mario and EA! Tshirt and bumper sticker. And I tweeted you a math formula from NASA that says be greater than average. Can you put that on the back of the tshirt?
Too bad I cant wear it to a watch party Thursday night! You should have done this earlier Mario, you coulda made a killing in Charlotte!
Love, love,LOVE it! I will be making a purchase tonight!
There is no doubt about it in any way that America is better off today then it was four years ago. The banking industry is better off. The housing industry is better off. Wall Street is better off. The economic foundation of America is now much more solid than it was for years ago. There is not a lost of 600,000 to 700,000 jobs a month as there was four years ago. We are now adding jobs every month instead of losing jobs every month as we were for years ago. America is no longer on the brink of a Depression as it was four years ago. We are now on the path to financial recovery unlike where we were for years ago. I know it is a recovery that is taking time but when an economy loses 9 million jobs as it did 4 to 6 years ago it will take time to fully recover because it’s consumers that create jobs by buying things and someone with a job is a consumer. It’s easier to get a job today than it was four years ago. The job market would be even better if it wasn’t for the Republicans in Congress who are not funding any kind of hiring of new government employees or government projects since two years ago when they took control of the House of Representatives. Also the Republicans in the private sector are also doing their best to increase the unemployment figures. You see, most of the big companies in America are owned or operated by the rich. Most of the rich are Republicans. Most of the large companies are making record profits yet most of the companies are cutting their work force to the bone and cutting salaries, benefits and investments in the company. Then many companies say they won’t hire because of Obamacare. That is a lie! Most companies already have enough money in the bank to cover Obamacare and most large companies already have health insurance so Obamacare wouldn’t affect them much. Also Obamacare doesn’t fully go into effect until 2014 and if they don’t have the money in the bank to cover it then they can always borrow the money. So you see since President Obama became president the Republican politicians and the Republicans in the private sector are purposely messing up the economy so to increase the unemployment rate because they know that a high unemployment rate is the only way to win the election. Are you going to reward the Republicans for messing up America’s economy by voting for them?!!! Besides the ONLY economic plan Romney and the Republicans have is to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich as well as cut other taxes for the rich. Romney and the republicans lie as they say that the rich need money to create jobs when the rich already have enough money to buy or already own most of the things that create jobs like cars, houses, clothes, furniture, household goods or services. The economy is like a piece of pie, the more people who can buy a piece of the pie the bigger the pie you will need. The rich get richer by selling more pieces of the pie, not by trying to get as much as the pie for themselves. The rich get richer by people buying the things that they sell. Then Romney and the Republicans want to unnecessarily increase the military budget, cut or gut as many regulations and environmental laws as possible and make abortions illegal. Doing all of this will increase the deficit which will make Romney and the Republicans cut the budget more than they intend on doing with the Ryan budget plan. This means that ALL the programs and benefits affecting the middle class and the poor as well as ALL the CURRENT RETIRES will be on the Republican chopping block. You see folks, the Republicans are sick and tired of paying taxes and they are sick and tired helping the poor and needy so the Republicans are going to give themselves a bunch of tax breaks and the rest of us are on our own! Don’t listen to the Republicans lies and the lies of the Republican media outlets like FOX News and MSNBC Mourning Joe whose biased one sided narrow minded untrue analyze are wrong.
I understand that the Republican Base tends to do things that require a lot of Faith and Initiative, thus “Faith Based Initiatives.”
I understand Faith and the need for Faith because the quest for Faith goes back to the very basest nature of Humankind.
Faith has been defined as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.
It is my opinion, however, that this time around, we are being asked to exercise more faith than ever before in any Presidential Election.
In fact, I think we are being asked to accept things about the Republican Campaign and their promise for the future that far exceeds any definition of “Faith” up to and including “Super Human Faith.”
From hard experience I can understand one thing about “Faith” when applied to this brand of American Conservatism that we have dealt with since approximately 2000.
The one thing I can understand about that kind of Faith commitment is this: “If they tell you they are going to give you the shaft, you can have absolute faith they are speaking truth.”
John Liming
http://blueheartchronicles.blogspot.com/
Just thought I’d do my duty as a Citizen of the United States and grant you the rights to a name I just came up with for the GOP who support Romney….They will now be known as “Mittwits”
Thank you, Kelly. I’m going to make use of it.