Straight from the Obama campaign a strong attack video — Romney quotes from the primary campaign.
Those Obama guys might not be good at little things like closing Guantanamo or keeping themselves from arguing for expansive state power, but they seem to be good at campaigning.
Via Kevin Drum, there’s this stab in the jugular:
If the 2012 election feels hollow, this might be why. Such a massive Constitutional redesign of our American order should be debated, and a Presidential race is the right forum in which to do so. But since that’s not happening, social conflict a few years down the road is probably the more likely path.
— Matt Stoller at naked capitalism
He’s writing about all the terrible things we’re learning about banks robosigning foreclosure documents…learning it conveniently days after the government has (robo?)signed off on a whitewash deal for the perpetrators. Worst fact: it’s still happening.
The thing about that quote is that it could just as easily have been about civil liberties, such as the Obama-Holder view that they can terminate any US citizen with extreme prejudice without bothering to have the slightest judicial process. Of course right now the other side probably is unhappy they haven’t killed more citizens…
Assume that Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee eventually. It’s clear that a slice of the base would rather have Rick Santorum and that they are not going to give up easily. Thus, any friend of the party must be concerned that the ongoing battle will just bleed Romney’s campaign of funds, and provide soundbites for Obama to use against him in the general election.
Isn’t it time, therefore, that all friends of the Republican Party urged Mitt Romney to promise to make Santorum his vice presidential nominee in exchange for his support, and thus unify the party before the internecine fighting becomes too much?
Or, they could just let the food fight escalate and provide free entertainment for Democrats.
Without, I think, meaning to, Crooks and Liars makes the case that Mario Rubio really would be the perfect Veep for Mitt Romney:
Marco Rubio is an ever-shifting creature, changing to fit his circumstances in that time for that group without ever internalizing a belief structure he actually believes.
That sounds exactly like Romney! They are perfect for each other. Yes, there is a small religious problem that Crooks and Liars is ostensibly posting about, Marco Rubio is Sort of Mormon (yes, really) (really, really, honest). But we’re past that sort of thing today aren’t we?
Whether we are past expecting our candidates to look and act like the stand for something, anything, remains to be seen.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY
February 23, 2012
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
Energy Event
University of Miami
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Miami, Florida
As Prepared for Delivery –
Hello, Miami! Thank you, Erica, for that introduction. I also want to thank your president, and this country’s former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala. I want to thank Senator Bill Nelson for being here. And I want to thank your Congresswoman, my friend Debbie Wasserman Schultz for joining us today.
It is great to be back in sunny Florida. I still don’t know how you all make it to class every day down here. In another life, I’d stay in Orlando for the NBA All-Star weekend, but these days I have a few other things on my plate.
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