Team Obama all but promising a negative campaign
“No significant education has been done about Governor Romney’s economic record yet,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday when asked how Obama plans to overcome Romney’s 40-36 lead among voters on economic issues. “And when people find out that he made a series of promises in Massachusetts that he didn’t fulfill . . . he didn’t fulfill them in Massachusetts.”
LaBolt may have a case to make on Romney’s record — although Romney will likely counter, as he did in the primary that Democrats who now support Obama blocked his agenda — but what is striking is the absence of any defense of the president.
Watch the video. LaBolt makes no effort to defend Obama’s economic record, at all. To convince voters to trust Obama on the economy rather Romney, the Obama plans to weaken their confidence in Romney, not strengthen it in Obama.
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Go for it.
dogsoldier on April 22, 2012 at 6:53 PM
It looks to me like the US economy is set to weaken further over the next quarter. Obama is going to have a tough sell if economic conditions under his watch continue to deteriorate.
crosspatch on April 22, 2012 at 6:55 PM
In 2008 they didn’t have to go negative. Team McCain did it for them against Palin.
Blake on April 22, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Are you better off today than you were when bho was elected? If not, would you want a new ‘ hope & change’ for the same ole same ole?
From what I have seen from bho/team they have negative since bho was elected? Just tell us bho/team anything positive you could run on?
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letget on April 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Obama won on all flash and no substance, he governed on all flash and no substance, and all he’ll ever have is all flash and no substance. Yes, he’s worked to implement a left-wing agenda of tax and spend. But what he says about jobs, the middle class, energy independence, the Republicans, ObamaCare, our future, it’s total b***s***. It’s nonsense. No one can back it up. His budgets fail in Congress without any votes. He talks, but his words don’t mean anything.
Paul-Cincy on April 22, 2012 at 7:05 PM
Obama was negative in 2008, too. This idea that he ran a “positive” campaign 4 years ago is a myth. He was just as vicious, nasty, and condescending then as he is now. How ironic that he’ll likely get bounced out of office because his 2012 campaign will look so negative compared to the mythical campaign of 2008. Ha!
Rational Thought on April 22, 2012 at 7:05 PM
How can you defend the indefensible?
rbj on April 22, 2012 at 7:07 PM
rational thought,
damn straight
rob verdi on April 22, 2012 at 7:11 PM
Where’s the hope and change?
WisCon on April 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM
We have informed the media to start the “Palin treatment “
Greed on April 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM
Bring it, baby.
thebrokenrattle on April 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM
Um…Did they take high school English?
RedCrow on April 22, 2012 at 7:28 PM
And by the way, Obama ate a puppy.
threeinone on April 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM
He’s pretty much lost the flash, too.
de rigueur on April 22, 2012 at 7:38 PM
Circusmeisters
Schadenfreude on April 22, 2012 at 7:39 PM
Racism, sexism, homophobia…blah, blah, blah.
SouthernGent on April 22, 2012 at 7:43 PM
Well, this is certainly the “shocker” headline of the day./
4Grace on April 22, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Really? I mean, I thought for *sure* Obama would be running on his record of successes in office….
/snark
ProfShadow on April 22, 2012 at 7:58 PM
Øbama waging a negative campaign? Bank on it. That’s an Alinsky community organizer’s modus operandi.
Personally, I’m hoping Romney will take off his Mittens, and take the fight to Øbama as never anyone has done before. Mitt destroyed his opponents in the primaries by playing hardball. Now let’s play hardball against this little Marxist punk who is destroying us.
petefrt on April 22, 2012 at 8:10 PM
He won’t have history nor be mr. positive (not that he was before), so he’s pretty much screwed.
Though what education on Romney’s record? Most conservative since Goldwater, yet the grandfather of Obamacare? Good luck with that.
Zaggs on April 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM
I wouldn’t point at Romney too much, since he was constrained by a state legislature full of liberal Dems with a veto proof majority. The fact that he balanced the budget and held down spending was pretty good considering that all he had was a brake.
Obama has blamed the GOP even when they had no power in Congress to mention and were excluded from everything during the first two years. So Obama can make all the excuses he wants; they just won’t wash. He’s to blame for his own incompetence, and he looks like a bigger weakling for all his evasions and excuses. He’s just a failure. It’s that simple.
flataffect on April 22, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Bad economy + eating dogs = defeat in 2012.
teacherman on April 22, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Good! We expect nothing better from you and we are “fired up and ready to go!”
ExpressoBold on April 22, 2012 at 10:18 PM
Bring it.
AB2012
herm2416 on April 22, 2012 at 11:14 PM