{"id":2910,"date":"2012-06-03T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/the-amateur\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:41:33","slug":"the-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amateur (Klein, Edward)<br \/>\n&#8211; Your Highlight Location 2649-2677 | Added on Saturday, June 2, 2012 11:37:24 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To win reelection in 2012, Barack Obama must divert the country\u2019s attention from his record of incompetence and amateurism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t want to remind people that America lost its triple-A credit rating on his watch\u2014a downgrade that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called a firing offense. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people that he increased the national debt by nearly $5 trillion\u2014the most rapid increase in debt under any president. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people that he pushed through a bill that includes more than a trillion dollars in new healthcare spending and contains a 4.5 percent tax increase. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people that Jon Corzine\u2019s bankrupt financial company, MF Global, which is under investigation by a grand jury for misusing clients\u2019 money, was one of the top sources of contributions to Obama\u2019s reelection campaign. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people of his erratic stand on illegal immigration, which has swung wildly between fast-paced deportations\u2014removing nearly 400,000 illegal foreigners in each of the last three years\u2014to a policy of virtual amnesty. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people of his inconsistency on environmental regulation\u2014first pushing through burdensome, anti-business rules to toughen air-quality standards, then suddenly scrapping those rules to win over campaign supporters in the business community. Republicans will have to remind them.<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t want to remind people that he was for lower taxes before he was for higher taxes; that he was for forcing Catholic-affiliated institutions to provide contraceptive and abortion insurance before he was against forcing them to go against their religious principles; that he was for removing terrorists from Guantanamo before he was against it; that he was for bringing the country together before he was for dividing it; that he was for a grand bargain with the Republicans over the debt ceiling before he was against it; that he was for energy independence before he rejected the Keystone Pipeline; that he was in favor of extending an olive branch to the mullahs in Iran before he was against it&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans will have to remind America that Barack Obama is The Amateur.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amateur (Klein, Edward) &#8211; Your Highlight Location 2649-2677 | Added on Saturday, June 2, 2012 11:37:24 PM &#8220;To win reelection in 2012, Barack Obama must divert the country\u2019s attention from his record of incompetence and amateurism. 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