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The Spectacle Blog
James Piereson suggests that June 21st may be the day that President Obama lost the 2012 election.
I submit that Piereson is off by less than a fortnight.
President Obama lost the election on June 8th.
That was the day the President said, “The private sector is doing fine.”
It was on that day that I wrote, “As long as the economy continues to stall or gets worse, those six words will come back to haunt President Obama.”
The information Piereson conveyed concerning the stock market, oil prices, unemployment claims and bad news from the Federal Reserve merely gives lie to President Obama’s words. While June 21st was the day President Obama’s words came back to haunt him, June 8th was the day he chose to utter them.
Now I realize the election is 137 days away and fortunes can change in an instant. But President Obama is going to have to do something meaningful in order to reverse the damage he did to his credibility on June 8, 2012.
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Ryan| 6.22.12 @ 11:33AM
You just wanted a reason to use "fortnight" in an article.
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 4:05PM
I look forward to the long beatdown his campaignis going to take almost as much as I look forward to his humiliation before the world on November 7th.
Occam's Tool| 6.22.12 @ 4:21PM
"campaign is"
redwolf6911| 6.22.12 @ 6:07PM
I am looking forward to seeing Obama and his minions tossed period.
chuck| 6.22.12 @ 8:24PM
I'm looking forward to the expression of utter outrage, red-in-the-face, spitting mad outrage. And the Wookie's expression should be priceless too.
My apologies to all Wookies for comparing you to Moochele.
Bob S| 6.23.12 @ 3:24AM
I was glad when I saw a Romney ad really magnify this mistake from Obama: "The private sector is doing fine." The ad puts in in stark numbers, in very clear black and white, just how wrong that statement is, and portrays Obama as completely out of touch with the rest of the country.
And later I saw an Obama ad making Romney look bad because he increased Massachusetts's debt. Any rational person would react, "You're one to talk, Mr. Obama." Obama has added more debt to the COUNTRY in his term than any previous president, and he wants to attack Romney on debt?
Yeah, Obama is completely out of touch.
Oldefarte| 6.23.12 @ 10:28PM
With all due respect, I do not think that he lost the election on any particular day or by uttering any particular words. Rather, he has lost the election by the combination of words and actions he has taken since that fateful day 11/4/08. He is a radical , a extremist and probably much more than that; and the essential point is that HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ELECTED POTUS [BUT HE WAS SO STUPIDLY BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE]!!!!!!!!