Friday, October 18, 2013

Henninger: Obama Romneyizes the Republicans; The president is doing the same thing to Ted Cruz and the tea party that he did to the 1%.

 
 Wall Street Journal  "Want a look at how a pro is spinning the Washington mess? Punch into Twitter.com and type "Barack Obama" into the search window. Click on "Barack Obama," next to the "End This Now" logo. The Obama tweets the past week have been fairly amazing. As in the presidential campaign against Mitt Romney, the Twitter feeds going out in the name of the president of the United States are virtually wall-to-wall propaganda.
Barack Obama: "If the debt ceiling isn't raised by Thursday, America could face an economic shutdown." This from the man who accuses the GOP of "manufacturing crises.' "
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"Virtually every Obama tweet demonizes the tea party. Last week, within minutes of the collapse of the Obama-Boehner talks, the tweeting robot called "Barack Obama" had hung the collapse on the "tea party.' "
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"Someone in the tea party outside the Beltway had better wake up and smell the smoke. The great nemesis has done it again: He's turning them into political toast."

The natural follow-up to this strategy will -of course- be this:

Charles Krauthammer: Obama looking to exploit Illegal Immigration for 2014 elections    "He just uses the issue to demagogue Republicans. That’s what he’ll try to do again."


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