This graphic, which completely contradicts the right wing mantra that President Obama is the biggest spending President of all-time!!!, has been making its way around Facebook:
Politifact rates the graph as “Mostly True.” (and if you read their reasoning for why they said it’s “mostly true” instead of “100% true” you’ll see that they are really splitting some hairs. This is the fact: President Obama has presided over the slowest growth in federal spending in 60 years.)
The right wing American Future Fund is running an ad accusing President Obama of not going after Wall Street hard enough called “Justice for Sale.” Here it is:
The hypocrisy of this attack is so blindingly obvious that it feels unnecessary to point it out. The Republicans accusing Obama of being in bed with Wall Street and appointing Wall Street friendly people to his administration? This is just ludicrous coming from the GOP.
While a strong argument can be made that Wall Street essentially owns both major political parties, this is surely not an argument where the Republicans come out looking better. Everything that President Obama and the Democrats have tried to do to reign in some of the abuses of Wall Street has been blocked by the GOP. (And now that they have control of the House they are trying to roll back what was able to be done.)
This ad is not meant to do anything but depress liberal voters so that the right wingers can win the elections and put in people who are even more favorable to Wall Street.
The people behind this ad have made a calculation: They think you’re stupid enough that this ridiculously hypocritical ad is going to cause you not to vote for President Obama (or … vote for Mitt Romney because he’s going to go after Wall Street?!? it’s too laughable to consider.)
The end goal of the people behind this ad is exactly the opposite of the the perspective of the ad. They want to make liberals mad Obama isn’t doing enough to stop Wall Street injustices (while the bigger problem is actually the Republicans who stand in the way of everything he has tried to do) so that they can get a Republican White House (and House & Senate, most likely) so we can go back to the good ol’ days of George W. Bush that lead to the greatest economic collapse since 1929.
I’m very surprised about this: President Obama is coming out with official support for gay marriage. Obviously to anyone who is not stuck in the bigotry of the past it’s the right thing to do, but it’s also very politically risky (for example gay marriage just lost a vote in North Carolina yesterday.)
To make this principled stand for the civil rights of gay people in America takes a lot of guts from the President and it also shows once again that anyone who claims there’s no difference between President Obama (and the Democratic Party) vs. Mitt Romney (and the Republican Party) is ignorant.
Because the Republicans were wrong on Bin Laden (both John McCain & Mitt Romney opposed the strategy that Obama laid out in the 2008 campaign that lead to the death of Bin Laden), because George W. Bush failed to focus efforts on getting the 9/11 mastermind (instead starting a war in Iraq based on lies), because the Republicans are miserable failures who have been proven wrong about everything they are running a ridiculous attack ad that claims President Obama didn’t thank the heroes who killed Bin Laden (and took undue credit… really? This coming from the party of George “Mission Accomplished” Bush?!)
They are attacking President Obama for having success where they failed. This is a technique the Republicans have used many times before, they are attempting to make a great strength into a weakness and their method for doing this is to lie by claiming the President didn’t thank the heroes who killed Bin Laden:
For the first time in nearly a year (May 27, 2011) President Obama has hit 51% approval on Gallup’s daily tracking poll.
An incumbent President with a 50%+ approval rating will almost certainly win reelection even if facing a strong challenger and with the extremely weak Mitt Romney as Obama’s opponent on November 6th, there’s no doubt that Obama will win another term if his approval rating remains this high.
Bin Laden Anniversary
Why is Obama’s approval rating on the upswing? Perhaps it’s the anniversary of the Bin Laden raid where Commander in Chief Barack Obama accomplished what George W. Bush couldn’t in over 7 years: finally bringing to justice the man who was responsible for 9/11.
Right Wing Lie Machine (Lame Swift Boating Attempt)
Lately Karl Rove and the rest of the right wing liemongers have been running whiny ads about President Obama’s success as Commander in Chief. This is truly pathetic. If only they could be man enough to admit that Obama succeeded where Bush failed.
The fact is both John McCain & Mitt Romney said President Obama’s plan to go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden was the wrong way to go. They can’t claim they would do the same thing now when they said they wouldn’t do it before. It’s because President Obama was in the White House that Bin Laden is dead today. He deserves far more credit than he has ever taken for himself.
It is ludicrous for the party of “Mission Accomplished” to claim that the President is “spiking the football” or taking undue credit (and who would have been blamed if the mission were a failure?) This is the party of Rudy “9/11″ Guiliani. This is the party that made getting attacked on 9/11 a huge political asset (and remember Bush ignored warnings about Al Qaeda.)
Think about how twisted it is that the Republicans can turn their failures into political positives and then want to turn President Obama’s successes into a negative. Karl Rove, Frank Luntz and the rest of these guys spend their time trying to figure out how they can brainwash the masses. Their goal is to turn the truth inside out because if people would only look at the facts the Republicans would never win another election.
The fact is as Commander in Chief Obama has been ably cleaning up the many mistakes Bush left for him. The fact is both John McCain & Mitt Romney said they would not go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden would be alive today if President Obama were not in the White House.
President Obama’s reelection campaign has made its 2012 campaign slogan official: Forward. Simple & direct. The message is clear: you can either vote to move forward with President Obama or you can vote for Mitt Romney to go back to the policies of George W. Bush that caused the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression.
