Leftists reveal extremism in attacks on Romney

  This video was the hot talk on the radio today. 
  Chris Matthews truly is an idiot; he doesn't let Reince Preibus speak, mocks him and then accuses Romney of doing the whole racist dog whistle thing.
  Romney's racist offense?
  Joking about his own birth certificate.
  Obama is disadvantaged, ya see, with his name and the fact that Romney had a top tier education at exclusive schools.
  Um. 
  Just like Obama, who lived in Hawaii and went to the most exclusive high school in the islands.
  And an exclusive college.
  And an exclusive grad school.
  All while choosing to smoke pot and do cocaine.
  Here's the video:

  James Taranto at BOTW discusses the much maligned dog whistle here.
  It's been pretty obvious right from the start of the arrogant narcissistic Obama's campaign that race is a primary attack method leftists use to discredit anyone who disagrees with Obama.
  Another aspect of leftist argument is that Republicans want to take choice away from women.
  Leftists are the most controlling interfering prudes in the universe. 
  They want to take away your drinks, your gas, your SUVs, replace your house with a government run apartment. 
  Heck, they want to take away your SALT, for pete's sake.
  Yet when Republicans value LIFE, that's anti-choice. 
  Valuing the life of the unborn child is considered 'controlling' while grabbing the salt shaker out of your very fingers is not.
  Chris Matthews is a raving lunatic; he does not have the ability to be objective. 
  They're all loonies. For Obama to call the mild-mannered family man Romney an extremist is absurd.
  A leader who ridicules the opposition, who blows trillions of dollars on stupid crap, who acts like the Occupy movement is normal, who lies as easily as telling the truth, who does not value this great country...
  Now that's extreme.
UPDATE:
  I meant to include Powerline's excellent takedown of the phony former Republican women ad here but they've updated further with this post:

Best of all, we have the alleged Republican women for Obama. The Obama campaign gives us a two-and-a-half minute video featuring four or five women who claim to be Republicans, or to have been Republicans until recently, and who are appalled by Mitt Romney. 

The women faithfully recite the Obama campaign’s “war on women” talking points. The first thing to observe about these talking points is their fraudulence. They are a campaign fabrication for which Private George Stephanopoulos dutifully prepared the battle space at one of the Republican debates this past January. Now the Obama campaign has followed up.Katherine Kersten’s deconstruction of the phony war in this morning’s Star Tribune is the most recent. 

And that’s not all. As John demonstrated yesterday, at least two of the “Republican women for Obama” are ringers. They are lefty women who supported Obama in 2008. 

State Calls Willard & Kelsey Loan

I guess we could say that this is the end of an era. More
Perrysburg-based Willard & Kelsey Solar Group failed to make payments on a $5 million loan and struggled to get financial investments, so the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority yesterday took the unprecedented step of calling the loan due. It declared the solar manufacturer in default and ordered full repayment by Sept. 3
The Ohio Department of Development called a separate loan due this month, ordering Willard & Kelsey to pay $4.1 million by Sept. 5.
If the full amounts are not repaid, the state will begin to liquidate assets and take other legal steps to recoup as much taxpayer money as possible.

Obama Had Better Not Flub Hurricane Isaac

You may want to top your tank off tomorrow. It could be that cutting short the convention by one day as the Republicans have done will nothing compared to the damage Hurricane Isaac may inflict on Obama. The hurricane damage inflicted by Katrina caused oil prices to increase from the mid-$60s per barrel to over $70/bbl and gasoline prices at the pump rocketed to near $5 a gallon in some areas of the country. Now oil prices are already trending up and a barrel of WTI crude is trading in the $97 range. For certain Bill O'Reilly will soon begin his usual tirade against big oil and Obama will have a ready excuse to release crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Regardless of the damage done to the offshore rigs, and it should be minimal, they will have to be evacuated and out of production for a week so the price of oil will surge in the short term. What should make Obama queasy is the possibility that Isaac will hit New Orleans but it could be worse. Considering the lack of competence endemic in this administration even a category one hurricane may be more than it can deal with. Most likely team Obama is lighting vigil candles and praying that Isaac hits deep red Louisiana instead battleground Florida. Flubbing a recovery in Pensacola-Destin with Governors Jeb Bush and Rick Scott pointing out each misstep to Gator State voters might make Obama long for the outrage his administration received after the BP oil spill. If hurricane damage is not addressed and addressed promptly Florida voters won't give a damn about Sandra Fluke's condoms when she speaks in Charlotte.
Hurricane, oil, and Obama have played a large part in permanently changing the political geography of Louisiana. Even after Katrina Louisiana gave John McCain 58.6% of its vote. Part of the reason for that was New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold lost population after Katrina-about 140,000. Then came the BP oil spill, this administration's only chance to date to prove that Barack Obama is a good man to have around in an emergency. As a professor of communications at LSU put it; “I don’t hear anyone talk as bad about BP as they do about the moratorium,” he said. “People in Louisiana, Democrats and Republicans, saw it as an intrusion into their way of life.” After the 2010 elections the Democrats still maintained a majority in the legislature but that changed when one representative switched parties and gave Republican control of the Louisiana House for the first time since Reconstruction. Good show Obama! On to Florida!
Even though there are 1.2 million Democrats and 879,000 Republicans Senator Mary Landrieu is the only Democrat presently holding statewide office. That's change we can believe in!

Romney, Obama Tied in Michigan and Ohio

Two new polls out today show Romney gaining and two vary tight senate races. Since I'm not familiar with either of these polls I'll be waiting for further confirmation from future polls. The Columbus Dispatch poll of 1758 likely voters has Obama and Romney tied at 45% each. Mandel and Brown are tied at 44% each.
Moving north, Republican Pete Hoekstra has a 1 point lead over Lancing heartthrob, Debbie Stabenow with 45% compared to Stabenow's 44%. The same poll, by Mitchell Research has Romney and Obama tied at 47% each. This poll has an exciting finding, at least from my point of view. Obama's lead among black voters has slipped from 92-5 to 73-26. Considering that in this poll 84% of black voters self identified as Democrats, Obama is running 11% behind his party. That's not how elections are won!
“The main argument that Obama supporters will make against the accuracy of this poll is
that Obama is only getting 73% of the vote from African-Americans. That fact, however, does
not make this poll inaccurate. I agree that eventually, at least 90% of African-Americans will
vote for Obama. Obama’s problem now is that he is running behind the party vote among
blacks. More than eight-in-ten blacks (84%) self-identify as Democrats. However, just 73% say
they are voting for Obama. He is running 11% behind his base party vote. That is not good
news. We have surveyed African-Americans that are Democrats. They’re just not voting for
Obama in the same manner yet that they did four years ago,” Mitchell said
In other word Obama will get 90% of the black vote but don't expect that vote to be large.

2016: Barack Obama's America is Already 6th Most Successful Documentary

Owing in part to my partner's excellent review of 2016: Barack Obama's America the film has jumped into sixth place among money making documentaries.

New well in Harrison County "is by far the strongest well that Gulfport Energy has ever drilled,"

The new top dog of Ohio Utica wells is Gulfport Energy's Wagner 1-28H well in Harrison County. It has the ability to produce 14 million cubic feet of dry natural gas and 1,881 barrels of natural gas liquids (after processing), along with 432 barrels of oil, per day according to estimates provided by the company.When the measurements are equalized, those numbers are 54 percent higher than the initial production from Ohio's best known Utica well, Chesapeake Energy's Buell well, which is less than 20 miles northeast of the Wagner well. In April I wrote that a single well in Harrison County (the Buell) was for a time producing 2% of Ohio's natural gas but that was then. Chesapeake Energy's Buell well is great but the Wagner well is simply spectacular.
James Palm, CEO and director of Gulfport, was effusive with his praise when talking to analysts during a conference call earlier this month.
"I can say without a doubt that our Wagner well is by far the strongest well that Gulfport has ever drilled," he said.

Not in my negrohood!

More from our "Democrats say the darndest things" section. A candidate for the New York Assembly, Ben Akselrod sent out thousand of campaign letters denouncing the rising crime rate in his negrohood.

Movie: 2016 reveals truth about Obama

  We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of 2016: Barack Obama's America in this area; it finally arrived. 
  The theater was about 3/4 full at a 4 pm show, much better than usual attendance, which normally runs about a 30% house full of geezers who either beat the dinner rush already at the local smorgasbord or are planning on fryin' up a few burgers on the grill when they get home. Geezers don't like to wait for the evening crowd.
  Several comments about the experience itself--everyone, everyone in the theater was grey haired. I saw no young people. In fact, I've never, ever, in all the movies I have seen (which is a lot), seen so many old people in a theater, even at Christian films.
  There was murmuring, laughter and commentary from the audience throughout the film; about a minute after its conclusion, people sat in their seats and then suddenly applauded.
  As we shuffled out, people chatted with one another, even strangers. In the hallway something else happened I have never seen before. People gathered in small groups discussing what they'd seen.
  The film initiated a great deal of concern, interest and passion.
  In fact, several people expressed that the film made them want to cry.
  Now to the film itself.
  Obama is not depicted as some kind of monster; in fact, Dinesh D'Souza is somewhat sympathetic to Obama, who was shuffled from parent to grandparent and seemed to suffer greatly from the disinterest of his father, the arrogant and dysfunctional polygamist alcoholic who married many times.
  The cinematography is excellent; D'Souza interviews several folks, but the interviews are not in the least boring. The interview of Shelby Steele, who identifies historically with Obama just as D'Souza does, stands out in memory. Particularly chilling was DeSouza's attempt to interview a surviving wife, "Granny Sarah," of Obama's grandfather.The interview was cut short by Kenyan police after Granny Sarah phoned Barack Obama's half sister Auma, who shares Obama's romantic notion of the drunken leach who was their father. 
  My favorite analysis of the film is found here at Hill Buzz; it is detailed and thorough. Hoosierman's film review is here.
  What is stunning about this film is the overview of Obama's life and how that single life has affected the entire country of the United States. 
  The primary influences on Barack Obama as boy, save Lolo Soetero who Ann Dunham turned away from after a few years, were poisonous. 
  Frank Marshall Davis, who many suspect is Obama's biological father, was a particularly pernicious influence, as a Communist and America hater. Davis was a vicious racist and child rapist, according to his own words, quoted here at the UK Telegraph in 2008:

The book, which closely tracks Mr Davis’s life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex. 

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. “I’m not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I’d rather not bed a babe under 20.

  To think that young Barack's grandfather actually thought of Frank Marshall Davis, who was a drinking buddy,  as a positive influence on a young boy who was missing his father is inconceivable. One has to wonder not only what kind of parents Obama had, but what kind of grandparents to allow this despicable man who was "consumed by hate and resentment" to spend time with young Barack.
  Obama, who went on to revel in his drug escapades both in high school and college, described his "agreement" with his grandparents this way:

"I’d arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents: I could live with them and they'd leave me alone so long as I kept my trouble out of sight."

  In fact, card carrying Communists seem to have had profound and repeated influence on the young boy.
  The most significant point of 2016: Barack Obama's America is that Obama himself has a "world view" that precludes a successful America; America's achievements, both as a nation and its individuals, are simply because Americans and the West have stolen from impoverished countries.
  That poverty is on full display in this movie; over and over D'Souza illustrates this with film of desperate people climbing through trash heaps, broken shanties and filth, filth everywhere. Obama sees even America's poor as far wealthier than 3rd world countries.
  And indeed this is true.
  Thus the current President of the United States believes, as he has oft stated, that there should be a "level playing field." 
  That it is necessary to take from one to give to another.
  That true "fairness" means bartering on the success of a country that both works and plays hard, and then using that barter to leverage the fates of others, many of whom have little will or inclination to be successful themselves.
  And who have few leaders who are interested in leading their countries into the light of capitalism and enterprising independence.
  God help us.
  As one woman said leaving the theater yesterday, "We have much work to do."

"2016: Obama's America" Fourth at the Box Office

The fourth highest grossing film is 2016: Obama's America, behind The Expandables2, The Bourne Legacy and Paranorman. It's per theater gross of $2,067 is almost twice that of Expendables 2 and well more than double the other two. Here are the top political documentaries.

Team Obama's Literacy Problem

One wouldn't think team Obama would need a proof reader to put up a five word banner. Consider the source.

Holder's DOJ "Biggest Enabler Of Financial Crime In U.S. History"

After the MF Global collapse and news that $1.2 billion was take from customer accounts to pay margin calls to JP Morgan I wrote 10 posts on the subject. To me it seemed inevitable that Jon Corzine would be indicted. Only recently it was revealed that MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling. Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester, the law firm of Associate Attorney General Tony West. With all this conflicted interest Eric Holder should have recused himself and called for a special prosecutor.

Last week it was announced that the DOJ could find no criminal behavior on honest Jon Corzine's part or for that matter anyone else at MF Global. The customers' money just vaporized. For awhile people close to the case thought DOJ might try to pin the theft on a single mother who rode the bus to work in her Chicago office since it was her job to make the actual money transfers but one suspects that might have seemed too outrageous so for now Corzine et al are off the hook. All that could change with the election of Mitt Romney where an Attorney General Chris Christie or Kelly Ayotte might be stingy with the get out of jail free cards.

Enter the White Knight, James Koutoulas, the lawyer who represents thousands of customers of MF Global. The one downside of doing business nationally is one is exposed to prosecution nationally and Koutoulas is prepared to shop his case to 50, maybe even 57 state attorney generals until he lands honest Jon Corzine in the slammer.

"And the next time a sociopath CEO says, 'Do I go out of business or do I cheat,' he's going to think about the president's biggest fundraiser in an orange jumpsuit in state prison."

The Democrat's Cardinal Sin, Stupidity

President Obama turned down a chance to have Timothy Cardinal Dolan deliver a prayer at the Democratic National Convention after Dolan told Democrats he would be “grateful” to deliver a blessing in Charlotte. Dolan leaked the news to Democrats that he would lead a prime-time benediction at the Republican convention. Lest that be construed as partisan Dolan offered to do the same at the Democratic convention. Thanks, but no thanks was the Democrats' reply opting instead to celebrate infanticide.
“The Republicans are smart enough to get the ‘pope of America,’ and the Democrats are stupid enough not to invite him,” said Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League.
Earlier this month the American Life League commissioned a national of self identified Catholics who were registered voters. The poll found only 27 percent of the Catholics surveyed support President Obama. Of those surveyed, 74 percent of Catholic men over the age of 50 do not support Obama, while Obama support among Catholic men under 50 years is only 25 percent. With Catholic women over the age of 50, the president's support is only 23 percent, with just 31 percent among Catholic women under 50 years.

I thought this women's reproductive rights thing was supposed to be a winner for Obama. Of course there are plenty of Catholics who will put party loyalty before their religion and considering the party to which they give their loyalty that is a shame.
This is a little off subject but related. Crossroads GPS and the RNC have not given up the air time they reserved for Todd Akin ads. If Akin improves in the polls expect them to eat crow and fall behind him in the Missouri senate race. In the meantime they are still trying to negotiate Akin out of the race.

GOP Platform Has A Internet Freedom Plank

True, the Tea Party was founded out of a frustration with big government and deficit spending but it has broadened it mission and message as it has matured. Now the natural corollary to smaller government, libertarianism has emerged in the form of an internet freedom plank in the GOP's party platform. One hopes with the election Ted Cruz and a few more like minded Tea Party senators the country can be spared the legislative assaults on internet freedom as were repelled in the Protect IP and SOPA bills. The House bill, SOPA was the driven by RINO Lamar Smith and was backed by normally sane Tea Party favorite Marsha Blackburn and had moderate Republican backing until the public let it be known that it was in no mood for such nonsense.
The GOP efforts are currently being modeled on the recent stance taken by the Ron Paul-founded Campaign For Liberty’s Technology Manifesto, as well as more right-of-center libertarian tech policy voices. Up until now tech policy has been the private property of regulation prone progressives with conservatives fighting a rear guard action to stave off a hostile take over of the internet. Now internet freedom has been written into the party platform.
“Internet Freedom”, according to the finalized draft language, would entail the removal of “regulatory barriers” for technology businesses, resistance to international governance of the Internet and the “constitutional protection” of personal data.
“We will remove regulatory barriers that protect outdated technologies and business plans from innovation and competition, while preventing legacy regulation from interfering with new technologies such as mobile delivery of voice and video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem,” said the finalized draft.

Mandel Closes on Brown

Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel is closing on Senator Sherrod Brown. The Real Clear Politics average of polls puts Browns lead 4.5% but a recent poll by the University of Cincinnati put Brown ahead by 1. The heavily Democratically weighted CBS/NYT poll put brown up by 7 while a Rasmussen poll called the race a tie

Remove The Threat In November

" I think people are smart enough to figure out what it means." It's more hard hitting than the old Burma Shave signs.
 

Mitt Romney Credited For Sagging Chevy Volt Sales

He's not president yet but Mitt Romney gets blamed for the disastrous Chevy Volt sales. Quoting Businessweek on General Motors CEO Dan Akerson;
"He again said that politics have affected Volt sales. GM reorganized under a U.S.-backed bankruptcy in 2009, which has been criticized by Republicans, including Mitt Romney, the party’s presumed presidential nominee. The U.S. holds a 32 percent stake in the automaker."
Well at least he didn't give Akerson's wife cancer. The bailout did damage the GM brand but Volt sales have been pretty tricky for Mr. Akerson to predict. He forecast sales of 25,000 for 2011 and got 7,671. For 2012 the magic number was 120,000 so far Akerson and GM have sold 10,666, tracking about 19,000 for 2012. If only Newt Gingrich had won the nomination GM would on easy street.

Coming Soon, The War on Mormonism

Now the anti-Mormon smear begins. Lap dog media NBC will air an hour long show on Mormonism. Naturally there will be a gay person who thinks the Mormon Church's view on homosexuality is wrong, discriminatory, and mistaken. Don't expect NBC to condemn the religion that is left to an Obama campaign operative named Laurence De Palma. De Palma has a list of talking points to be used on friends who are Southern Baptist which can be accessed through the campaign's Dashboard platform.
. "I'm thinking that even though we don't LIKE campaigns to get nasty, we in the south (TN) come to EXPECT it," De Palma began. "What we also know is that we have a very 'rigid' view of Christianity, and apparently, Mormonism isn't anywhere in our views. This could easily win TN/SC/AL/GA, etc."


There are voters, predominately Democrats who would not vote for a Mormon for president. The Daily Beast cites a poll that finds that 27% of Democrats and 18% of Republicans would not vote for a Mormon for president. So much for the new civility.

Is Akin That Bad?

Is the Republican Party going to lose the Missouri senate seat at all cost? Ideally Todd Akin will agree to step aside. There is a compromise being negotiated that will allow Akin to run for the congress in his old district while that candidate, Ann Wagner, assumes the senate slot. If Akin can get over his ego this would seem to be a plausible solution to the Missouri mess. But suppose Akin doesn't blink? Is the national Republican Party going to sit on its hands and let the seat stay in the Democratic column? The party has made the argument that the seat is essential so when does it make good sense to throw it away? Yes, we've heard the bluster. No, he won't get a dime. Promise? This reminds me of the Joe Wilson affair. When Wilson shouted "You lie" in response to an Obama lie he was all but hanged, drawn, and quartered by his own party. He was forced to apologize and was deemed to be persona non grata by all right thinking and civil people up until the uncivilized among us donated over a million dollars to his campaign. Todd Akin has misspoke himself rather badly but he has apologized. Are the voters of Missouri that unforgiving? No decision has to be made until late September and politicians are always prone to putting off decisions until the last possible minute but if Akin says he earned the right to run and no he won't step aside I suspect the Republican Party is going to have a change of heart. If Akin can issue a nationwide plea for help from fellow born again evangelists my guess is he will take in enough money to fund his campaign. Then he can tell the Republican Party to go to hell. Claire McCaskill has built up plenty of bad will over the last 6 years both with her voting and her personal corruption scandals. I think Akin can win this race. Obamacare lost big when it was a ballot question in Missouri. After some reflection  the voters will probably side with Akin.

Linda McMahon Leads In Connecticut

A Rasmussen poll finds former WWE CEO Linda McMahon leading Congressman Chris Murphy by 3 points, 49% to 46%. Recent polling in Connecticut seems suggest a general dissatisfaction with the Democrats, as Obama only leads by 8% in a state he carried by 23%. The states unemployment rate is above the national average at 8.5% and voter are clearly worried about further job losses. Groton, home to Electric Boat and the Naval Submarine Base could be fiscally devastated if the defense sequestration is allowed to proceed. The thought of pink slip going out a month or so before the election cannot be much comfort to Murphy.
McMahon has continually pressed Murphy to produce a jobs plan. Finally the Murphy campaign produced this weak ad.

First, putting 75 people to work to clean up a HAZMAT site ain't exactly the Grand Coulee Dam. I certainly don't begrudge the workers a few month work and I do not fault Murphy for procuring the funds from a taxpayer funded boondoggle that should have been killed a generation ago. But a jobs plan? Sadly, this is how career politicians, and Murphy is just that, view the economy. They take tax dollars and spend it on pet projects and the voters are supposed to reward them with a job of their very own. Taxing Peter to pay Paul does nothing to grow the economy and while it may result in employment it does not contribute to economic growth.
McMahon has produced a bold economic plan and that would cut the middle class tax rate to 15%, eliminate capital gain taxes on the middle class, kill the death tax, and end the alternative minimum tax. She would also reduce corporate taxes, allow 100% expensing on capital expenditures and move to a territorial tax for corporation. That is bold! You can view here whole plan here.

The origins of Obama's "you didn't build that" comment

  I've been pondering that "You didn't build that!" comment by the confident, condescending and oh-so-smart Barack Obama, who complains constantly what a mess the economy was in when he began his reign, completely forgetting that Democrats were in charge of the Senate and House since 2007.
  Not that Republicans have little responsibility for the excess spending and bulging entitlements. They certainly have enjoyed playing Halloween handing out the candy to the children.
  But Dems have developed amnesia concerning their own responsibility for the mess we are in economically and financially, Pelosi even claiming that she worked diligently with the Bush White House.
  Interesting, then, in their eagerness to rewrite history and appear to be so benevolet toward the unwashed masses, that Obama became so combative a few days ago about successful business persons not "building that."

  There are two things going on here that reveal who Obama really is; I don't think these ideas have been bally hooed much in the press.
  Yes, Obama stole the initial idea from Elizabeth Warren, who started the meme that no one is completely independent in being successful. He thought it sounded good, so he repeated it.
  But moreso, Obama was stressing the importance of unions when he spoke those fatal words so condescendingly....the unions who build the roads (that need to be rebuilt every couple years), the unions that clean the streets, the unions that collect the garbage.
  By lauding the efforts of the unions, he is appealing to the least among us. Elevating the garbageman to the height of the business owner. Not that the garbageman has nothing to offer; sometimes he does. 
  However, you become a winner for a reason. 
  But there's another reason, I believe, that Obama lost his cool on that day.
  Politico has a review of a new ebook that reveals the true Obama's motives:

It is Obama’s own burning competitiveness, with his remorseless focus on beating Mitt Romney — an opponent he genuinely views with contempt and fears will be unfit to run the country. [SNIP] Obama’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii, was on display one night last February, when the president spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” the president asked her. [SNIP] 

Obama really doesn’t like, admire or even grudgingly respect Romney. It’s a level of contempt, say aides, he doesn’t even feel for the conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most. “There was a baseline of respect for John McCain. The president always thought he was an honorable man and a war hero,” a longtime Obama adviser said. “That doesn’t hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned war hero.”

  Huh. Imagine if Romney had referred to any Dem as a "boy," particularly an Hispanic male.
  Obama thinks Romney is genuinely unfit to run the country? Like this doofus who's in there now knows what he's doing?
  I believe Obama was speaking directly of Romney, forgot himself for a moment and let his contempt show for a wealthy man who made it on his own without a union.
  This comment was unwittingly personal and vicious. Unfortunately for Obama, the public knew it, saw it and took it personally.
  Once in a while, the mask slips. The teleprompter is off and we see the real Obama.
 Sadly, in the long run, it really is what Obama thinks of the most enterprising among us. 
  It's not just about Romney.
  It's what he thinks about all of us.
  And everyone knew it.
  Obama's contempt for one man got the best of him.