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Obama Says He Loves You, Middle Class
Cedar Rapids (7/10/12):
THE PRESIDENT And then when I came to Iowa for the presidential campaign — first stop, Cedar Rapids — (applause) — first stop.
AUDIENCE: We love you!
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.)
Obama claims he is a champion of the middle class.
“I’m a warrior for the middle class.”
“We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We’ve got to have middle class families up in front.”
“Responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses who … take advantage of middle-class families.”
“In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”
“I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans.”
From Cedar Rapids to Cincinnati, to Hampton Rhodes, wherever middle-class votes might be the key, Obama is on message.
Iowa
Obama won Iowa in 2008 by a decisive 9.54 percentage points. Today, the race in Iowa is too close to call. When polling showed Obama struggling, his re-election campaign started dumping money and its top stars into the Hawkeye State. He “bamboozled” (to use an Obama term) Iowans in 2008, and the Love Boat Captain is at it again.
Virginia
President Obama campaigned for two days throughout the battleground state of Virginia. He talked about his “Vision for Virginia’s Middle Class” in all five campaign stops, highlighting the differences between his economic and jobs plan and those of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Ohio
“I, I, I, I, I’m, I’m a warrior for the middle class. I’m happy to fight for the middle class,” President Obama said at the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati, OH.
Meanwhile:
When he speaks to black or Latino communities to pump up his base, he changes his tune. Out pops the community organizer, ginning up resentment and victimhood and thereby indirectly blaming the white middle class and promoting a divisive us-against-them mentality. Speaking on the Latino station Univision
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