In all my years, I have never witnessed a POTUS use the weekly address, designed to simply talk about the current events, as a platform to campaign and attack. But, then, we have never had a president who never leaves the campaign trail, one who thinks he only represents a portion of the American People
With five weeks remaining before November’s midterms, President Obama is slamming the Republicans’ legislative agenda as a gift to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
The GOP’s “Pledge to America,” Obama said Saturday during his weekly radio address, promotes “the very same policies that led to the economic crisis in the first place.”
“It is grounded in the same worn-out philosophy: cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires; cut the rules for Wall Street and the special interests; and cut the middle class loose to fend for itself,” Obama said.
“That’s not a prescription for a better future. It’s an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.”
Continuing on (read the whole transcript here), he pushes class warfare, never mentioning that he is one of those “evil rich,” as are most of his advisers. Regardless, I cannot remember either Bush, Clinton, or Reagan being so utterly partisan during their weekly addresses. Pushing partisan policy is one thing: using it as an attack platform is another, especially for campaign purposes. With each passing week, I am closer and closer to saying he is not my president. He doesn’t represent me as an American at least 90% of the time.
