DOES IT MAKE YOU SICK THAT PEOPLE STILL THINK OUR ECONOMY IS BUSHES FAULT? WHAT FOOLS THEY ARE

Obama and his campaign have embarked on a re-election strategy
that has three key components: 1. Divert, 2. Distract and 3.Divide.



Let’s examine each tactic used to date and what we can expect in the months ahead.

The Obama campaign apparently plans to Divert, Distract, and Divide. (Getty Images)

Divert: Divert attention away from Obama and his
administration’s poor record, continue to blame Bush, and falsely attack
Romney on his business record.



The Obama Campaign and its surrogates continue to blame Bush for all
that ails us as a nation some three and a half years from him leaving
office.



This is what the left-leaning Center for Budget Policy Priorities put out in a news release this past week:



“The economic downturn, President Bush's tax cuts and the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq explain virtually the entire deficit over the next
10 years," according to the center. The major drivers of deficits
through 2019, the center says, are "not of President Obama's making."



And even though Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital has brought the ire of
Democratic big wigs like Mayor Booker of Newark and Former DNC Chair and
Former Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania who have said that the Obama
Campaign is wrong to attack venture capitalists and free market drivers —
the Obama campaign has increased its attack on Bain to divert attention
away from Obama’s own economic record.



The Obama Camp seeks to paint Romney as a corporate raider who maximizes
his own profits at the expense of middle-class workers and is a bigger
job-killer than job-creator.



By Obama demonizing venture capitalists and free markets he diverts
attention away from his own intervention in free markets when he
nationalized GM and presided over the laying off of tens of thousands of
auto workers and suppliers, closed entire auto divisions like, Pontiac,
Oldsmobile, Saturn and Hummer and closed thousands of U.S. dealerships
in order to return GM to profitability.



Distract: Distract the American people with issues like
gay marriage and contraception instead on concentrating on his
disastrous record on the economy.



It is a classic campaign tactic to distract the media and the public in
order to avoid dealing head on with issues that are not favorable to
your efforts — like the economy, unemployment, foreclosures,
bankruptcies, inflation, etc.



We have seen a classic diversion by the Obama campaign to rally their
base and distract attention away from the economy and to social issues.



The Obama Camp embarked recently on an effort to pander to the gay
community and women, when it advanced an attack on religion by mandating
religious organizations to provide contraception free of charge to its
healthcare-insured employees.



The attack on religion was followed by a statement by President Obama in
a prime time TV interview in which he stated that is views on same sex
marriage have been the product of a personal “evolution.” This is what
he said:



“I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go
ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get
married.”



This is a 180-degree departure from what he believed as a candidate for
president in 2008. Obama would have never had a chance to either be
selected by his party or elected by the people had he “evolved” his
present position on gay marriage in 2008.



Obama and his campaign staff believe that distraction is a key component
to changing and controlling the news and making Republicans respond to
issues that are incidental if not irrelevant to the issues that will
decide the 2012 election.



Divide: Divide the American people and pit one against the other in a classic Democrat class warfare assault.



The most insidious of all Obama’s campaign tactics is the strategy of turning American against American.



The problems facing America are not the fault of the people, but rather
the fault of a government that taxes and spends too much. A president
who amasses more debt than any other POTUS in U.S. history and a
president who could not produce a single annual budget despite having
controlled the House, Senate and the White House the first two years in
office must blame others for his own failures.



The most likely suspects to blame for Democrats are the wealthy. Their
“Robin Hood” theory of economics of taking from the rich and giving to
everyone else is not only wrong but it is divisive and hurtful to our
nation. We are all in this bad economy together. Every American is
hurting.



A good example of the president’s tactic of division can be found in his own words:



“The free market has never been a license to take whatever you can from
whomever you can,” he said. And “their philosophy is simple. We are
better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by
their own rules.”



President Obama would much rather have the government take whatever it
wants from whomever it wants and spend it however it sees fit —
accountable to no one. Obama believes that America is better off when
everybody is left to depend on government to provide for their needs and
when Americans are dependent on government’s rules.



There is no doubt that in the weeks and months ahead that the Obama
campaign will continue on a path of obstruction and confusion. If Obama
had a record of accomplishment there would be no need for distraction,
division or distortion.



He and his staff should be heralding healthcare, the economy, and
foreign policy. The problem for Obama is that the current state of our
union prevents that.



If there is to be any hope of being re-elected then Obama needs to change tactics.



When the dust settles in November, we will see that campaign tactics
never trump a positive and effective campaign — one that sticks to the
issues that matter, and refuses to be distracted, diverted, or divided
on matters that don’t.