Conley
03-01-2012, 10:19 AM
President Obama has a new message: America has gotten its groove back.
In ways large and small, Mr. Obama has seized on a narrative of national optimism in recent weeks, offering a portrait of a country that, guided by him and powered by the American worker, is making a comeback. It is a narrative with strong echoes of President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign and one that is intended to provide a contrast with today’s less sunny Republican candidates.
And, of course, it is meant to suggest that Mr. Obama himself has hit his own stride.
“I placed my bet on the American worker,” he said Tuesday in a boisterously received speech at a United Automobile Workers conference that was centered on his often-criticized bailout of the auto industry three years ago. “The American auto industry is back.”
In his State of the Union address in January, he went so far as to use the same three words that Mr. Reagan had in his own 1984 address: “America is back.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/us/politics/president-offers-theme-of-nation-seeing-comeback.html
How clueless is this? Not only is America not back, but claiming that America is back in the manufacturing industry seems even more ludicrous. It's dying just as it has been over the last couple of decades. It's just a bunch of hot air.
In ways large and small, Mr. Obama has seized on a narrative of national optimism in recent weeks, offering a portrait of a country that, guided by him and powered by the American worker, is making a comeback. It is a narrative with strong echoes of President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign and one that is intended to provide a contrast with today’s less sunny Republican candidates.
And, of course, it is meant to suggest that Mr. Obama himself has hit his own stride.
“I placed my bet on the American worker,” he said Tuesday in a boisterously received speech at a United Automobile Workers conference that was centered on his often-criticized bailout of the auto industry three years ago. “The American auto industry is back.”
In his State of the Union address in January, he went so far as to use the same three words that Mr. Reagan had in his own 1984 address: “America is back.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/us/politics/president-offers-theme-of-nation-seeing-comeback.html
How clueless is this? Not only is America not back, but claiming that America is back in the manufacturing industry seems even more ludicrous. It's dying just as it has been over the last couple of decades. It's just a bunch of hot air.