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A Harvard Fairy Tale About Romney and Obama

By Jeffrey Lord on 11.29.11 @ 6:08AM

Meet Alexander Heffner, a pro-Occupy student who targets the first and praises the latter in a false Harvard story.

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Presumably we will never know. But that Barack Obama Sr. in fact has a strong Harvard tie plus a Master’s and was later pushed out is nowhere in Mr. Heffner’s tale of the two Harvards.

THE OTHER FACT IN NEED of ignoring by Heffner is that the private sector is not just the economic backbone of the country at large, it is at the very heart of the existence of Harvard itself. Where in fact does the money for the school’s $32 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — endowment come from?

Why, from the private economy, of course.

Thus the need to divert attention from Mr. Heffner’s daily activities at an institution financed from the private earnings of people like — Mitt Romney. Or, as Heffner describes these evil beings/alumni — perpetrators of “corporate greed.”

One can only marvel at the subjective nature of this redistributionist urge at Harvard.

Let’s assume that Mr. Heffner is a good student and has his requisite share of good grades. While grade inflation has been at issue at Harvard, let’s assume Heffner has earned some A’s and other Harvard students have not. Has Heffner announced his willingness to redistribute his good grades to those who do not have them — out of a sense of fairness? In spite of insisting on the need for “social responsibility” over “personal wealth”? Under Obamanomics the “share the wealth” idea has resurfaced from the political depths, and certainly “wealth” is a term that can be applied to any number of things beyond money. So is Heffner leading a campaign to share top grades out of a sense of fairness? He doesn’t say. How about girl friends? Is he starting a “my girl is your girl” campaign? No word.

In other words, Heffner’s Harvard yen for “social responsibility” rings decidedly hollow when it suits. But he certainly isn’t alone in admiring the Harvard Occupiers.

Take, for example, the case of one Timothy McCarthy, quoted here in Slate:

Timothy P. McCarthy, a Harvard Law School lecturer, explained the relevance of a school-specific Occupy protest to the Crimson: “If Harvard is going to be a place that produces people with power, then Harvard must be an institution where the public good is more important than private profit.”

This is an intriguing statement, yes?

I contacted Dr. McCarthy of Harvard and asked him four questions:

1. What is your salary as a “Harvard Law School lecturer”?

2. Who pays that salary?

3. Since Harvard is a private institution, if your paycheck comes from Harvard, who supplies the money that enables Harvard to pay you your salary?

4. If you are being paid by monies gained from private profit, why are you accepting the money when, by your own definition, those funds would be better served going to the “public good”?

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (73) | Leave a comment Leave a comment

beebop2| 11.29.11 @ 6:33AM

Funny how the left -- which saw BHO elected using the "new" media to its best advantage -- seems to believe that all of the "new" media has its same bias. I may be wrong here, but I find it far easier to find non-leftist websites to counter what is a selective dishonesty in the MSM than I once did. So long as this is the case, people like the kid and the professor here will find the slog to left leaning influence peddling much more difficult.

Thank you for this great article. I had no idea at all about Mitt's up-bringing. I am not sure it alters my perception of his policies and his governance in MA, but I have a better understanding of what drives the man.

Moe Blotz| 11.29.11 @ 7:19AM

Barry's path of social responsibility over wealth creation is a lie. Barry has sought power, and now seeks absolute power.

SpiralArchitect| 11.29.11 @ 7:29PM

Zero drives a bus named Marx down Lennenin's socialist highway to the endgame (utopia - heh!)Communism.

"The redistribution of poverty" runs rampant in Zero's America.

Well done JL, of course. :)

Clint| 11.29.11 @ 7:51AM

Tea Party Rebel, " Do you know where the library is at?"

Harvard Snob, "Here at Harvard we never end a sentence in a preposition."

Tea Party Rebel, " Okay, do you know where the library is at, Assface?"

PCC| 11.30.11 @ 12:02PM

"You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."

martin j smith| 11.29.11 @ 8:07AM

I hope and pray that this is not the extent of a Harvard Education. But I fear as in many places of higher "learning" political indoctrination a at minimum a big part of it. My advice to those going to college: Go in with your eyes wide open. Be skeptical. Argue or disagree with your profs but do so knowing you will be punished. Get you degree, get out and be your own person. Be free.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jacob R| 11.29.11 @ 8:34AM

Don't do that or they'll give you all C+'s and B's while they give drugged out leftists A's for saying what they want to hear.

Or else you better have parents who can give you a job like me, because it wont matter if you score better than 96% of the country on aptitude tests like I do, your 0% score on the leftism test is the only one they'll be consulting when they refuse to further your academic career!

TrueBlue| 11.29.11 @ 12:06PM

Thankfully most businesses don't look at the grades people got, just whether or not they have the degree. Unfortunately, just as many profs are willing to fail anyone that disagrees with them, and not just give them bad grades.

Franco| 11.29.11 @ 12:01PM

Amen.

Redstateboy| 11.29.11 @ 5:27PM

We all fantasize occassionally about being able to go back in time while taking our present acquired knowledge along with us (otherwise what's the point). I'd love to go back to College (I'd've banged even more woman than I did) to drive my Liberal College professors to raging distraction since alas at the time I Was there... I was just a brain full of mush easily indoctrinated to embrace Liberal stupidity. Now that I've become a Man (not just a Liberal male) I'd love to go back and irriate the crap out of those ole' Lefty college Profs.

Timothy L. Pennell| 11.29.11 @ 8:35AM

This is why we never hear anything about BIG UNIVERSITY, and their BIG TUITION COSTS. At least, not from the Left. But, then, why would they?

These Schools can be looked upon, much the same way that the Author: Alexander Heffner - looks at those who attend them.

Back in the day, Colleges and Universities were Learning Facilities. We sent our kids there, at a MUCH LOWER COST, to "Further their Education". That's what they did.
Not anymore.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown. They stopped "Teaching" a long time ago. Education is for Suckers! Ya wanna Learn Something? Check out the local Vocational School. Homey don't do no Learning.

ALL of the Big Universities, with their Millions and Billions in Endowments, have become Indoctrination Mills. Re-Education Camps, and Homosexual Recruitment Centers. They are Breeding Grounds for tomorrow's Socialist Storm Troopers. Indoctrination Facilities for the Useful Idiots, that the LEFT cannot do without.

There is no Logic in Mr. Heffners "reasonings". Only "Feelings". Because, feelings are easy, and what he seeks can easily be paid for, by somebody else.

Social Responsibility is IMPOSSIBLE, without Wealth. Ask the people in Sub Sahara Africa, how all THEIR Social Responsibilty is working out. How much Social Responsibility is achieved, by Record Unemployment, and a Systematic effort Kill Jobs in the cradle? How "Responsible" is it, when you Prevent a Pipeline from being built, from the Canadian Border, to Texas, and Kill the tens of Thousands of Jobs that it would create?

How "Responsible" is it, when you prevent American Companies from extracting OUR OWN Energy Supplies from Beneath the Ground, and Under the Ocean, and trapped in the Shale, killing Hundreds of Thousands of JOBS that this would entail, while, at the same time, making us Energy Independent?

When you give a man a Fish, every day, that is NOT being Socially Responsible. That's called "Feeding the Dog".
TEACHING him to Fish. That's the ticket.

Today's Big Universities have a 3rd way. The Alexander Heffner way.
They "Teach" their young charges to Complain about not having a Fish, and to TAKE TO THE STREETS, until they get one.

And, if that doesn't work?
Blame the Jews.

Jacob R| 11.29.11 @ 8:36AM

One question I would ask, why isn't there a conservative Harvard?

Is that an impossible idea? Is the left right that there are some intellectual weaknesses which preclude the possibility?

Indiana Alex| 11.29.11 @ 9:26AM

I would suggest the reason that there is no "conservative Harvard" is that there is no need for such. Conservative principles are very consistent and rather straight forward.

Liberalism, however, is so convoluted it requires indoctrination over a number of years.

The Bruce| 11.29.11 @ 5:50PM

I think the reason is very easily explained...

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

While conservatives are out in the real world, doing things with the degrees they've earned, liberals tend hang off the college (government) teat, hoping to God they can stay in their little acedemic cocoon, and praying to God they never have to enter the private sector and actually compete and proof themselves.

Rich D| 11.29.11 @ 11:43PM

...and those who can't teach, teach teachers.

Dagny Taggert| 11.29.11 @ 9:54AM

Hillsdale College.

Al Adab| 11.29.11 @ 1:06PM

Hillsdale works. There are quite a number of others as well. However, I have always thought there should be a Republican/Conservative academy along the lines of the military Service Academys. Think of being a student in such a place without the incessant leftist bombardment. One could study the classics, the Western Canon and the great books. Political theory and other disciplines would follow and we would create a cadre of educated, articulate Conservatives too often lacking in the Movement.

faxmatter| 12.1.11 @ 10:16PM

A few decades ago, Hillsdale College was a middling college at best. Now it is the most selective college in Michigan in terms of GPA and test scores due to the support of conservatives. In another generation, it will be as selective as the Ivy League schools on GPA and test scores and more selective than they in respect to knowledge base and rational analysis skills. At $30K per year, it is one of the best deals out there. One can observe the credentials of its student body rise on a yearly basis. It is likely to become a prestige school.

Neo| 11.29.11 @ 1:41PM

It's impossible to find, let alone hold together, enough delusional conservatives to form a conservative Harvard. Free thinking can be a burden.

JimBob7| 11.29.11 @ 3:50PM

What a doltish comment, so devoid of logic or thought. You must be a liberal.

Skippy| 11.29.11 @ 6:11PM

Thinking is not free, nor does it make one so.
Actions do.
Obviously a Harvard man.
You can always tell them, but you can't tell them much.

emo| 11.30.11 @ 10:39PM

There is no free thinking an America's college campuses today. In fact the higher in esteem a school is held, the less free thinking occurs on campus.

W| 11.29.11 @ 8:52AM

A better and more accurate story would be comparing achievement based on merit and hard work vs. achievement based on affirmative action and crony thug Chicago politics, with the MSM as the cheerleader for the latter.

Janeway| 11.29.11 @ 8:54AM

Excellent article. I have followed Romney for many years and support him now. I am amazed how the media, both left and right, have twisted every word his has ever said, criticized everything from his hair to his clothes and then adding "facts" that never happened such as a being a legacy at Harvard. In fact while Obama and Bush were partying and raising general h..ll, Romney was raising a family and pursuing a law degree and MBA at the same time. The truth in this world is hard to find and those that live with sound bites rarely find it.

Red Bubba| 11.29.11 @ 9:01AM

Alexander Heffner attended a $42,000/year boarding school. Now he goes to Harvard and condenscends to decare himself a friend to the underprivleged. Yes Heffner, we care about what you say about Romney, Barry S0tero, or any other subject. Tell us more.

carnot| 11.30.11 @ 6:17PM

bingo! give the kid credit.......he figured out his meal ticket (I know a lot of folks who have done this)....and is now putting the plan into action.

Clint| 11.29.11 @ 9:02AM

“Just as none of the candidates want to talk about being vice president, there is no way on God’s green earth I will think about Romney getting the nod,” Gregg Cummings, Iowa coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, emailed me. “We the people are doing all we can to get a true conservative in the White House, and Romney is not that person.”

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.

RCK| 11.29.11 @ 9:11AM

I am so thoroughly fed up with the MSM I could scream. In canceling my 30+ year subscription to Newsweek a couple of years ago I explained to them that their unrelenting sickening idolatry of Obama had worn me out and their 15 cover story on him was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was gone and not coming back. I now watch almost no television and, except for the Wall Street Journal, do all my reading online where I can pick and choose the articles I care to read.

goldwater girl| 11.29.11 @ 9:19AM

RCK,
What took you so long?

RCV| 11.29.11 @ 11:02AM

That's right. You wouldn't want to read anything that challenges your existing beliefs!

Frosty| 11.29.11 @ 12:06PM

RCV,

We've been reading lies that were supposed to "challenge our existing beliefs" for years. At some point, we get tired of wasting our money and supporting those who are incapable of coherent, logical, and unbiased thought. Logic would dictate that they have had their chance and at some point, must be given up on.

Al Adab| 11.29.11 @ 1:10PM

I've never understood the vaLue of "challenging our existing beliefs". What is the point of 2500 years of Western Civilization which struggled in its search for truth and meaning if the point is not to learn from those who came before? Alternative belief systems have no intrinsic value and serve only to reinforce the value of time honored facts. Goldwater said, "We must return to proven ways, not because they are old, but because they are true." Rejection of the Western tradition has left us a people and a society adrift without a moral or ethical focus.

DRed| 11.29.11 @ 2:21PM

I'm not sure how you could study 2500 years of Western Civilization and come to the conclusion that it teaches you to stick your head in the sand.

Cynicon Implant| 11.29.11 @ 1:39PM

RCV, the problem with the left is they think that it is the challenge that is important; not the realization that the truth that emerges is what counts.

The truth is that capitalism has been challenged by socialism and has lost. The left knows this but don't want to except it so they make up stories like this kid from Harvard did.

John Navratil| 11.29.11 @ 8:01PM

“In Izvestiya, there is no Pravda and in Pravda there is no Izvestiya”

If you have to read Newsweek for the news you must live in an outhouse.

Al Adab| 11.29.11 @ 9:00PM

John:
Da.

Stammon| 11.29.11 @ 9:33PM

I'd have Newsweek in the outhouse but the biased articles and waxy paper make me itch.

emo| 11.30.11 @ 10:40PM

coming from the left, it isnt much of a challenge.

Louis Jenkins| 11.29.11 @ 9:17AM

Heffner is a charlatan newsboy. How can anyone take his tripe seriously? Make an accusation here or there, throw in some falsehoods, and lies occassionally. Those who know and have read know of Romney's past. Heffner is much like former President Johnson's political belief. "We don't want him (an opposition political candidate) to admit that he has carnal knowledge with his farm animals, we just want him to deny it."

susan| 11.29.11 @ 10:12AM

I imagine feigning surprise at Heffner's thinking makes for a good article, but, really, why would one expect anything else from the likes of Mr. Heffner? This is what he has been trained up to do. The concept of original thinking is lost.

Appleby| 11.29.11 @ 10:14AM

When I lived in Atlanta I followed the advice of Ari Onassis who advised *Live at a good address if you have to live in the attic*. I wrote lots of libertarian letters to the Atlanta papers and usually the responses that came in began *Just because you were born on third base and think you have hit a home run* (the local equivalent of the Silver Spoon myth) -- necessitating my pointing out that neither of my parents had graduated from high school and between them they never made more than $10,000 a year in their working lives, etc. My parents worked hard in factory and farmyard so we would not have to. That was the ideal that Jefferson articulated whe founded William and Mary College. Yet even in the 1980s the whiners assumed that anybody who was successful was a Trust Fund Baby. And that was because admitting that one could start at zero and work up to $$$ would be admitting that ones own failure to reach $$$ was quite probably due to lack of ambition and not Fate.

In 1970s California when I was wearing my WHO IS JOHN GALT? shirt everywhere, a socialist friend asked me if I would support MediCal (welfare) voluntarily. I said no, and she responded triumphantly, *You see? THATS WHY YOU HAVE TO BE FORCED TO!*

From here in Canukistan, I think of that conclusion nearly every day.

W| 11.29.11 @ 4:56PM

That is the fundamental belief of the leftists: they know what is best for you whether you like it or not.
It justified the commies killing over 100 million people from 1917 to 1989.

sparch| 11.29.11 @ 10:21AM

Another left wing writer trying to write cultural myths for the benifit of his party. Facts get in the way of a fine, but obscured, narrative.

If his greatness Obama was great at Harvard, why is it that we only know he attended the university and was given the title of editor for the law paper We do not know much more than this. Did he even attend classes? What is the story thats being cloaked?

I will disagree with Mr. Lord on one point. Mr. Lord says he did not create one job. He did create one, his own.

J Goebbels| 11.29.11 @ 10:51AM

How dare you all pick on Barry. Proverbs, teach a child while he is young and he will not depart his ways. Good Muslim teachings and love for America, young Barry worked his way thru college. It was difficult for him at times w/o money to purchase a ashtray, he was forced to crush out his smokes onto the carpet of the library. But yet he continued his 'struggles and look at the change he has made in the world. Carrying on after Jimmie Cartor liberated Iran that country is now close to the nuclear bomb. By keeping quiet during Irans student uprising, but raising 700-hammered hell over Egypts and Libyas uprising there is now danger for the world and Israel. Who would have guessed it after the way he insulted, and embarased Prime Minister Netanyahu recently. Barry took his early years training to heart. Too bad he hasn't learned anything since.

hardcard| 11.29.11 @ 10:52AM

Isn't harvard the place the kennedy's attended,what was teddy's GPA?

Lyneuss Fields | 11.29.11 @ 11:36AM

Teddy was thrown out of Harvard for cheating. Then he went on to be a beloved (by the left of course) U.S. Senator. But, with regard to Mitt it’s his values and beliefs that is the issue with conservatives. Like Reagan, he will raise taxes and lead America into global conflicts. http://lyneussfields.blogspot......gious.html

RJ Chavez| 11.29.11 @ 11:05AM

Kudos to the author, who really does obliterate Heffner's arguments completely. Alas, Democrats rely on emotion, fear, and spectacle to make up for their lack of substance, premises, and conclusions. Poof, goes Heff.

1ConservativeUSA| 11.29.11 @ 11:08AM

Enemies of personal liberty and objective media, like MR. Heffner, are born every day.

It is the duty of all conservatives to fight the battle for free people and for freedom of the press, however misguided that press may be.

martin j smith| 11.29.11 @ 11:17AM

In the olden days--my parents as with my peers assumed that a college education would bring the benefit of skills for life and thus be self-sufficient thru gainful employment, Today, the goal of college education are two: Be a Socialist or Communist and get a good high paying GOVERNMENT JOB. Or, be in academia or on welfare. So, now what is a parent to do ?

1ConservativeUSA| 11.29.11 @ 11:19AM

Well done, Mr. Lord.

Leftists arguments, being fundamentally false, can always be defeated morally, intellectually, operationally....and on, and on. However, this requires a great deal of skill, effort and passion, which you have exhibited.

True conservatives must join you in this fight.

Al Adab| 11.29.11 @ 1:59PM

The problem for university students is that they are punished through grades for taking alternative philosophical positions to those of the professor. It is not about free thinking it is about parroting the communitarian world view of academia. Conservatives need a home, many colleges of their own, in which the wisdom of Western Civ is respected not abused.

Dave| 11.29.11 @ 11:31AM

Here's what I want to know; If someone knows that a piece is lies, then why not expose it in print and media?

I routinely see these articles about how this writer lied and that author told a lie, but this is TAS and exposing it here will not have the impact that exposing it elsewhere would. It's almost as if someone has a juicy bit of gossip, but they are afraid to tell it to everyone so they keep it in a tiny group of people - hoping that they will spread the word!

Get off it! If you know it's a lie then step out there with the proof and say so! Tell it from the mountain! Stop being a sissy about it and trying to keep it behind closed doors where it will do little!

Bill| 11.29.11 @ 11:38AM

Obama lied about his education and faith. His uncle, Herman Cain is lying about those sexual harassment charges against him. I detest both.

Pete| 11.29.11 @ 11:45AM

They ought to put you in jail for that thrashing, JL. Nicely done.

cicero| 11.29.11 @ 12:01PM

If we can find Obama Sr.'s Harvard records, why can't we see Obama Jr.'s? How did he get fromn junior college in California to Columbia? Who paid his way? How did he get into Harvard? who recommended him and paid his way? What were his grades along gthe way?

Renaissance Nerd | 11.29.11 @ 12:02PM

What else do the petite-fascist have to sell? Fairy tales make up their entire arsenal. They call them 'narratives,' of course, but they're really just standardized templates that fit existing common fairy tales. There's never anything new.

J Michael| 11.29.11 @ 12:25PM

Harvard leftist - a selective liar. Who would have thought?

Frosty| 11.29.11 @ 12:54PM

Alexander Heffner-grew up in New York, Phillips Academy grad, Harvard undergrad. Steeped in the process of prevarication for partisan purpose. Oh, but what a pissant. Another lying, obfuscating, liberal know-it-all has descended from on high to convince us that we are all rascists, bigots and greedy capitalists unless we cede control of our lives and fortunes to them.
Alexander.....go away.

Neo| 11.29.11 @ 1:37PM

Edward Kennedy went to Virginia (after he got caught cheating at Harvard).

Cynicon Implant| 11.29.11 @ 1:42PM

If Harvard had any sense, they would not give this charlatan a diploma. What a little s**t.

martin j smith| 11.29.11 @ 1:58PM

I am getting the impression that most if not all of our Ivy League schools are no better than going to Six Flags. But the ticket is far and above. Do these students learn anything other than Socialist or Communist propaganda.

PJ| 11.29.11 @ 7:06PM

The real action is at the graduate level in the natural sciences like math, statistic, physics.... Sometimes if you know exactly what to study, history could be very good too.

elmo| 11.29.11 @ 2:40PM

What a great article!!!

Bill| 11.29.11 @ 3:46PM

The liberal pundits in the campuses produce lunatic like Barney Frank, John Edward, Barack Hussein Obama, and .......................

Red Ryder| 11.29.11 @ 4:14PM

I love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted for Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that do, just aren't that bright.

Chris| 11.29.11 @ 6:53PM

Harvard is vastly overrated.
Exhibit A: Barack Hussein Obama

Osamas Pajamas| 11.29.11 @ 11:46PM

Great article and there's enough reference to OhBummer in it to retitle it "A Tale of Two Worms."

ENVY AND THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY

The enemies of pure, laissez-faire capitalism --- a politico-economic model which has never been tried --- are adept at laying the shortcomings of government policy [statism] at the feet of capitalism.

And the more frequent, abject and complete the failure of these statist policies, the more urgently they demand more of the same.

But Austrian School [capitalist] economist Murray Rothbard argued that if our goal is the Benthamite "greatest good for the greatest number," then it is necessary to adopt laissez faire capitalism.

Is it true that there are unequal success rates among human beings --- and therefore unequal rewards in the free market? Sure!

My body mechanic [my doctor] and my auto mechanic both make more money than I do --- but of course I would not recommend that you hire me to remove your appendix or fix your car --- unless you're pretty much tired of living.

The market rightly rewards them better than it rewards me for their kind of work --- pero asi es la vida.

Osamas Pajamas| 11.29.11 @ 11:48PM

Great article and there's enough reference to OhBummer and Heffner in it to retitle it "A Tale of Two Worms."

ENVY AND THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY

And the more frequent, abject and complete the failure of these statist policies, the more urgently they demand more of the same.

But Austrian School [capitalist] economist Murray Rothbard argued that if our goal is the Benthamite "greatest good for the greatest number," then it is necessary to adopt laissez faire capitalism.

Is it true that there are unequal success rates among human beings --- and therefore unequal rewards in the free market? Sure!

The market rightly rewards them better than it rewards me for their kind of work --- pero asi es la vida.

Whitey O'Carr| 11.30.11 @ 12:53AM

Holy Fart Nuggets!!! This Harvard Puke can't or will not tell the truth. Five seconds reading this article I see the lie. Barry Soetero is a Harvard Grad? No way, he is an alleged graduate of Columbia and a graduate of Harvard Law School. God I hate the Ivy-League. When can we get rid of these people? I know, since Mexico is sending their people to do our menial labor, why not send an equal amount of Harvard and ivy-league alums to Mexico to run their society? That way the whole equation will balance out.

Mrs.Vito| 11.30.11 @ 2:29PM

Excellent article, Mr/ Lord. Although Mr. Heffner's hypocrisy is repugnant, it needs to be uncovered, nevertheless.

shipley130| 11.30.11 @ 3:49PM

Facts make liberals break out in boils.

Marc Jeric| 12.1.11 @ 4:23PM

When I hear somebody is from Harvard, I automatically assume that somebody is a stupid marxist - well, I should know them, being a refugee from a communist hell.

Wayne| 12.1.11 @ 6:35PM

The author really needs to read Sal Alinski, or at least Richard Daley. What the liberal media is doing is give the guy least conservative and least likely to grab the enthusiasm of the Tea Party, street cred.

Obama wants to run against Romney, and is doing what he can to get Romney nominated. If you don't believe this, then think the effect Obama words would have if he PRAISED Romney. Those would be the words that end Romney's campaign, not the words of criticism.

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