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Obama’s Desperate Class Warfare Attack
The Obama campaign has made it clear that they will run this whole election on class warfare. Instead of focusing on Obama’s dismal record, they want Americans to resent Mitt Romney for being successful. The latest version of this has been a non-stop focus on the fact that Romney has put a small amount of his own money into a Swiss bank account.
The key here is that the Obama campaign isn’t claiming Romney is doing anything illegal or corrupt, but just that he is doing something that is typical of wealthy individuals. In fact, it is very likely that many of Obama’s rich donors and supporters have similar accounts. The claims he is hiding something are absolute nonsense as the only reason we know about these accounts is that Romney declared them on his tax returns in the first place.
Furthermore, how is a President that had several cabinet nominees that failed to pay their fair share in taxes complaining about Romney using legitimate loopholes to limit his tax liability? If you think there is something wrong with these types of accounts, then fix the tax system that allows them. But don’t demonize the individuals who legally take advantage of them. Those individuals are no different than every other American that takes advantage of numerous deductions when filing their own tax returns.
This has been a typical pattern with this President. President Obama demonized Wall Street, while raking in massive donations from them. He demonized Super PAC’s, and then started embracing his own. He proposed the gimmick that was the Buffet Rule to pretend that our budget problems could be solved by taking more from America’s job creators. Barack Obama, who has had more fundraisers than the past 6 presidents combined, seems to consistently only really oppose rich people if they are Republicans.
Americans want to achieve wealth, we don’t want to resent or envy it. This tactic of promoting jealousy and envy between classes to win votes is the antithesis of what the American dream is about. In 2008, Obama ran as a uniter, now his whole campaign strategy is based on dividing Americans.
With unemployment remaining at above 8% and the economy lagging, I understand why the Obama campaign is resorting to such desperate measures. However, voters shouldn’t reward a candidate for trying to divide us. At the end of the day, I believe Americans will care much more about what Obama does with our money than what Mitt Romney does with his own. I hope that I am proven right in November.
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Good article, kudos. Remember that unemployment is really over 14%. Obama’s record is dismal to freedom-loving Americans, but to the Progressive Democrat party he’s Man-Child-turned Saint. Made-up, yet still able to deliver enough of a double-talk laced speech, that his Sheeple feed on it like a gallon of 0 negative in a starving Vampire Zone.
the fact remains is he is using those swiss accounts to avoid paying his fair share of taxes. also the money is probaly coming from one of his many investments in OTHER countries instead of his own! his refusal to show tax returns prove he is hiding somthing that he dosent want the american voters to know. and beside that, its a election. he is bringing up his oppenents bad points, just like romney always talks about obamas bad points, but you dont hear him whining when sombody tells the TRUTH do you?
Dear No Romney,
How is he using it to avoid paying his “fair share”? Do you avoid paying you fair share when you accept a mortgage deduction? He paid taxes on all of the money he earned. Nobody has a responsibility to keep their money where you want it.
If he was hiding something, why did he put on his tax return? You are just being silly.
1) All Obama does is whine and pretend all his bad points are someone else’s fault. 2) Except this isn’t a “bad point”, it’s just being portrayed that way by a desperate candidate seeking to dividing Americans to win votes.
Governor Romney’s dad, when he was running for president, basically said any moron could come up with a years worth of returns and make it say anything they wanted. So he went all unprecedented and released 10 years worth.
Mr Romney doesn’t seem to have learned a lot from his dad integrity wise, but maybe he is actually listening to that advice by NOT releasing more than 1 year?
I also know George warned about the growing military industrial complex, and lost the vote much because he said he had been brainwashed by the Generals in control of nam, and he was wrong and we simply had to get out.
George Romney also walked out of the 1964 Republican National Convention to protest the Republican platform plank against civil rights legislation.
It seems Governor Romney learned everything from his dad what not to do to win an election, but ditched the whole ‘integrity’ lesson along the way.
So the libs have been up in arms the past week demanding to know what Romney is ‘hiding’ in the Swiss bank account that he……..publicly declared on his tax returns?
What a bunch of nattering losers.
if he isnt doing somthig wrong, why does he refuse to show prior years tax returns like every other presidential candidate? and obama took over for another republican who screwed up this country. bush caused the house market to collapse, unemployment was already over 8 percent. we the american people have a right to see his prior tax returns to see just how he gets his money.
Try again. Unemployment was at 7.8% in Jan 2009. The recession was over by June of that year. Also, how exactly did Bush cause the housing* market to collapse? Give me one specific Bush policy that directly led to that (Hint: You can’t).
wow i was off by 02%. when he got in office it was only 4 percent. so it nearly doubled during term. and yes, the housing market did crash during the end of his second term, check the records. not to mention he lied to the country to get us in a war that was still going strong when obama took office. basically all obama has been able to do is try and clean up bush’s mess. obama couldnt get nothing of his agenda doe because the republicans kept shooting them down. i sure hope your not a cop or teacher or fireman as he plans on firing a bunch of them, because as he said he loves to fire people. that will really decrease the unemployment rate. but why should he care, with 250,000 in the bank he will be just fine.
i meant 250 MILLION dollars, sorry
So another words, you can’t name any specific Bush policies that led to the Housing crisis.. as you previously claimed?
I’ve already proven every one of your claims incorrect from your first 2 comments, you don’t just get to keep throwing darts by changing subject every post. Although I will point out that most firemen, teachers and cops work for state governments, so Romney can’t really “fire” them as President anyways. Romney will be fine either way, but America won’t be with another four years of the miserable failure that is Obama.
Dear noromney,
Police, firefighters, and teachers are paid by municipalities. The federal level has nothing to do with those positions. Going further, by demanding more taxes at the federal level, it reduces the ability for a municipality to collect taxes.
in 2007 bush and ben bernanke anounced a limeted bailout for home owners in trouble. so that proves the crash happened during his term. now heres the facts, under bush’s term unemployment doubled, house market crashed and he started a needless war. now if that avoiding answering the question, im sorry. romney is a bush on overload. we cant afford another bush in office
In the English language there is a difference between something happening during someone’s term and them being responsible for it.
then why did he announce on public telivision than he plans on cutting them jobs down? why did he say on public tv he loves to fire people? he proved it by closing down a entire company just to make a profit. obama is not a failure, he is just having a hard time cleaning up bush’s mess durring his 8 year reign.
your correct, but your forgeting that this agents recieve funding from the federal goverment. so if the goverment decides to cut some that funding, as romney is so fond of doing, cuts will be required. and dont forget than when romney was govenor they were 47 out of 50 in the job growth market. thats one state, imagine if he was in charge of 52!!!!!!!!!!!! not to mention they were nearly bankrupt when he left.
Great post and I found a link (pasted below) that readers might also find useful to torch this latest Strawman from Team Obama.
Dispelling the myths about Swiss Bank Accounts – http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/04/11/mitt-romney-swiss-bank-accounts/
Romney is finished. He better come up with a good response fast. Running for President is a totally different kettle of fish. Having a Swiss bank account will not play well in the heartland. Wall street yes, Main street no. Mitt is done, Dems will keep pounding on him to release at least 10 years worth of returns. He better put this to bed with some good answers fast.
everybody wants to dispell the swiss accounts as false, bu nobody trys try prove his dismil record as govenor. or try to accept the fact that the last republican president put us where were at now. it would take any president at least 20 years to clean up bush’s mess that he left. so quit trying trying to blame obama, his only fault is no having 20 years to do that. quit blaming obama for bush’s mess. but like most republicans you are simply trying to put to blame on sombody besides the republican party, typical republican
[...] wasn’t enough that Team Obama was trying to make Mitt Romney’s finances an issue – as if everything would be fine if it weren’t for Romney’s now-closed Swiss bank [...]
when did he close it? after it was found out? since bush isnt responsible for unemployment doubling during his 8 years of office, how is obama responsible? i would think that it was bush’s policies that caused the unemployment to double, wouldnt you? i mean, its 4 percent when he gets in office and 7.9 when he leaves, he didnt somthing wrong