BloggeRhythms 5/25/2012

It’s been a while now since I began including the incumbent’s gaffes in my entries, and frankly, I never really expected to find one virtually every day because I think it’s inconceivable that even he could be that incompetent. However, although the hardball campaign for the White House hasn’t even really started, it seems he’s beginning to panic and utter such totally outlandish babble that I have to wonder how badly he’ll unglue when pressure begins to build.  And in that context, here’s what I found this morning.

In a speech POTUS made yesterday, according to Fox News on-line, “Escalating his criticism of Romney's background as a venture capitalist, Obama said it wasn't adequate preparation for the presidency.” Which to me means he’s opened not just one door to having his words come back to bury him, but maybe two or more.

Because, as far as background or preparation for the presidency’s concerned, he himself has less than none at all. And that means that all Mitt Romney need do in retaliation is remind voters that the incumbent was a bottom rung party organizer, minor league lawyer, inconsequential party hack and ineffectual senator with almost no voting record of import before backing into a presidency bought for him by special interest groups .

Romney, on the other hand, indeed successfully ran Bain Capital, which by itself is excellent preparation for the state that the nation’s economy’s in because that business is all about maximizing the value of assets, effectively using personnel, cutting waste and striving to insure profitability. Whereas if the country were a business; it would have no chance at survival whatsoever carrying more than $15 trillion in debt that POTUS thinks is simply fine and dandy.

However, let’s say that POTUS is correct about Bain, despite the fact that he’s not. How about Romney’s term as Massachusetts Governor for four years from 2002 to 2006? During that time he presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees that eliminated a projected $1.5 billion state deficit. And although it may not be a great campaign issue for Mitt, he also signed off on the state’s health care law, providing near-universal health insurance access via state-level subsidies and individual mandates which POTUS thinks that doing almost exactly the same thing nationally is his greatest achievement as president.

So, I think what we have here is a president who either thinks his audiences are dumber than dirt, or perhaps has totally incompetent advisors or worse yet, believes that his own “cow pies of distortion” will simply go by untested. But whatever the case, I continue to think panic’s set in at the White House already and POTUS is now in a game that’s many, many miles over his head.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios