Stephanie
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bingo..VOTE this ugliness out folks
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By KEITH KOFFLER | 10/16/11 9:03 PM EDT
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else.
But Obamas reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans.
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Having failed to lower the unemployment rate to a politically tolerable level, Obama cannot run as most presidential candidates do on the economy. So he and his advisers seem to have decided instead to mount a deeply polarizing campaign based on values suggesting his vision for America is correct even if the economy is not right yet.
But in waging this battle, Obama is saying nasty and dangerous things. He is promoting his own principles not just by touting their goodness, but by suggesting that Republicans hold to an offensive, even un-American, philosophy.
By painting his opposition as not just wrong but evil, Obama risks dividing the nation in a profound and unnecessary way.
Obama previewed the strategy last April, when he said that the budget produced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and eventually passed by the House was not a vision of the America I know.
In the past several weeks, Obamas pronouncements on what is American and what is not and his accusations of bad faith by his opponents have increased in frequency and intensity.
In September, Obama used reactions by a handful of audience members at GOP debates to indict the entire party.
Some of you here may be folks who actually used to be Republican, Obama said during a California fundraiser, but are puzzled by whats happened to that party. Youve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they dont have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because theyre gay. Thats not reflective of who we are.
Allegations that Republicans want sick people to die and hate homosexuals are caricatures you might expect of an extreme House member or a raving partisan running for local office. That a president would say or even believe such things is deeply disturbing.
Read more: Opinion: Obama launches cultural warfare - Keith Koffler - POLITICO.com
SNIP:
By KEITH KOFFLER | 10/16/11 9:03 PM EDT
President Barack Obama stands accused by conservatives of waging class warfare, seeking to galvanize his base and lure middle-class voters by pitting the rich against everyone else.
But Obamas reelection strategy is about more than the haves and have-nots. It appears he is seeking to stir up full-blown cultural warfare against a large and diverse segment of society known as Republicans.
POLITICO 44
Having failed to lower the unemployment rate to a politically tolerable level, Obama cannot run as most presidential candidates do on the economy. So he and his advisers seem to have decided instead to mount a deeply polarizing campaign based on values suggesting his vision for America is correct even if the economy is not right yet.
But in waging this battle, Obama is saying nasty and dangerous things. He is promoting his own principles not just by touting their goodness, but by suggesting that Republicans hold to an offensive, even un-American, philosophy.
By painting his opposition as not just wrong but evil, Obama risks dividing the nation in a profound and unnecessary way.
Obama previewed the strategy last April, when he said that the budget produced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and eventually passed by the House was not a vision of the America I know.
In the past several weeks, Obamas pronouncements on what is American and what is not and his accusations of bad faith by his opponents have increased in frequency and intensity.
In September, Obama used reactions by a handful of audience members at GOP debates to indict the entire party.
Some of you here may be folks who actually used to be Republican, Obama said during a California fundraiser, but are puzzled by whats happened to that party. Youve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they dont have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because theyre gay. Thats not reflective of who we are.
Allegations that Republicans want sick people to die and hate homosexuals are caricatures you might expect of an extreme House member or a raving partisan running for local office. That a president would say or even believe such things is deeply disturbing.
Read more: Opinion: Obama launches cultural warfare - Keith Koffler - POLITICO.com