It's frustrating that the country's middle or apolitical chunk of the electorate doesn't share the concerns and priorities of the conservative grassroots. But they also don't share the concerns and priorities of the progressive grassroots, either. President Obama is going to spend the next few months trying to get a country, beset by crisis after crisis, mess after mess, to ignore what's worrying them and adopt the priorities of the Left.
What are Obama's concerns and priorities?
Obama intends upon running upon climate change, the minimum wage, the need for "common sense" gun control, and workplace equality.
He'll campaign upon the need for "comprehensive immigration reform," complete with a "path to citizenship," even though we're facing a humanitarian crisis on the border from a sudden influx of unattended children — an entirely predictable response to a policy change that provides a path to U.S. citizenship to children who enter the country illegally.
And he'll spend the summer on his traditional golf and fundraising schedule.
And what are the issues of concern to conservatives?
If you ask a conservative what issues are on his mind, you might get a list that included the administration's shameless dishonesty about the Benghazi terror attack, the national shame that is the VA scandal, and the sense that crises from Ukraine to Syria to Iraq to the South Pacific are spinning out of control. The border is unsecured. Obamacare is a mess, forcing people to buy coverage they don't want, paying higher premiums than they expected, forced into narrow networks where they can't keep the doctor they like. We're letting the worst of the worst out of Guantanamo Bay for one imprisoned American.
And the rest of Americans?
People are having trouble finding jobs. The jobs don't pay particularly well. It's tough to find a good job with manageable hours and decent benefits. There's no guarantee that your local public school will educate your kids particularly well. If your kids do make the grades they need to get into college, most schools are way too expensive. You can take out student loans, but you'll spend half your life paying them back, and a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a well-paying job. Are young people able to start their lives, start their careers, get married, start families of their own? How long can young adults last in a perpetual adolescence? With all of these financial pressures coming at people from all directions, retirement seems like a more faraway goal.You can sign up for his free newsletter here.
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The man makes Nixon look like a choirboy.
If any Republican president were as corrupt as Dear Leader the press would be asking for his head. But as accredited members of the MSM it's the job of the press to protect the Democratic party at all costs.
Good palace guards do that, you see.
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