On July 17, 2012 Grace Wyler of the Business Insider said: In a media blitz this morning, John Sununu proved once again that he is willing to say just about anything to attack President Barack Obama, including suggesting that the President is a felon and that he doesn't understand America because of the years he spent in Hawaii and Indonesia. Here are the most remarkable quotes from today's Sununu's rants:
From an appearance on Fox News: "He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure." On a Romney campaign conference call: "I wish this president would learn how to be an American." From an interview with New Hampshire talk radio: " He introduced the word felon into the discourse — can you imagine how not bright it is of him to do? In Chicago, felon and politician are almost synonymous."
On July 17 USA Today said - Romney surrogate John Sununu apologized today for saying he wished President Obama "would learn to be an American." "I made a mistake. I shouldn't have used those words," the former New Hampshire governor said in an interview on CNN. Sununu said he was trying to make a point that Obama doesn't understand how jobs are created in America and that he doesn't give credit to entrepreneurs. "The president has to stop denigrating American values," Sununu said on CNN. Sununu's original comment, made during a conference call with reporters, drew fire from the Obama campaign that Romney's team has "gone off the deep end." Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for Obama for America, denounced Sununu's remarks as a "meltdown" aimed at changing the subject from Mitt Romney's at Bain Capital. "The Romney campaign has officially gone off the deep end," Smith said. "The question is what else they'll pull to avoid answering serious questions about Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and investments in foreign tax havens and offshore accounts. This meltdown and over-the-top rhetoric won't make things better — it only calls attention to how desperate they are to change the conversation."
In the morning conference call with reporters, Sununu sought to clarify his comment about Obama's American identity by putting it into context of the jobs debate. "What I thought I said ... The president has to learn the American formula for creating business," Sununu said. "The American formula for creating business is not to have government creating business." Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, a Romney campaign co-chairman, said on MSNBC that it was "appropriate" for Sununu to try to walk back his remarks. "The governor has a knack for colorful language and can be very informative and entertaining. This one, he admitted perhaps he wasn't as clear as he should have been and issued a clarification," Pawlenty said.
It wasn’t just the Republicans taking jabs at the President; businesses did too. But this doesn’t surprise me. Yes, business owners make sacrifices but they are not the only ones. Every parent does to in order to put food on the table and try to keep up with the increases in prices. It’s not as it was years ago when only one parent had to work to meet these demands; today the majority of families have 2 parents working.
Terry Savage at www.creators.com gives you her opinion on keeping tax cuts for the rich in her Why Hiking Taxes on the "Rich" Doesn't Work article. A March 27, 2012 New York Times article The Case for Raising Top Tax Rates by Eduardo Porter totally disagrees with Savage. So I checked out several sites that compared Reagan’s record with that of Clinton’s and http://www.paulkienitz.net/reagan-vs-clinton.html gave an easy to read explanation. My favorite part: The one thing he did that most offended the Republicans was pass what Bob Dole liked to call “the largest tax increase in our nations’ history”, pushing upper bracket rates part of the way back to pre-Reagan levels. Compromising with Republicans in congress, he worked out budget cuts that were broad and balanced, instead of trying to gut particular sectors that he was ideologically opposed to. The bottom line was that because he increased the taxes on the wealthy Americans he was able to reduce unemployment, poverty, crime and the deficit…In short, everybody is better off.
I believe that what Clinton did is what Obama is trying to do and why Republicans and many businessmen are afraid. If the Republican way actually worked the deficit wouldn’t be what it is (see October 21, 2011 blog - Social Security and the Budget; the debt quadrupled during the Reagan/Bush era and Reagan raised the debt limit 18 times). I don’t understand why the 98% isn’t supporting the Wall Street protesters and are choosing to listen to the foolishness of the 2%.
More people need to do the research and form their own opinions instead of joining radical groups or just siding with the opposition party because things do not look good right now; change could make things worse.
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