Saturday, September 1, 2012

President Obama arrives in Charlottesville to ask for the support of college-aged students


President Barack Obama arrived in Charlottesville on Wednesday to deride the Republican presidential candidate’s economic plan while also asking for the support of college-aged students[1], a demographic which helped shape the 2008 presidential election in President Obama’s favor.[2]

From the size of the crowd at Charlottesville’s Ntelos Wireless Pavilion, it didn’t appear that President Obama has lost the enthusiasm or support of the college-aged demographic. The crowd numbered close to 7,500.

President Obama captured the enthusiasm of the crowd to criticize Mitt Romney’s presidential platform while also accusing the Republican Party of discouraging voters from taking part in the November elections by undertaking a campaign of negativity.

“They will tell you how bad things are over and over again, and they’ll helpfully add that it’s all Obama’s fault,” President Obama stated.[3] However, Obama noted, “if you listen very carefully and very hard, you won’t hear them offering a clear, serious path forward.”[4] By serious, he presumably means policy solutions that will actually work.

The take-from-the-working-and-middle-class-and-give-to-the-rich strategy promoted by the Republican Party was a solution that America previously experimented with during the presidency of George W. Bush. But as Obama said, “we tried this for about a decade before I came into office. It didn’t work then; it’s not going to work now.”

And while Team Romney has been quick to deride the president for his policy positions, the Republican presidential candidate has been shadowy or wavering at best about many of the policies he would pursue as President of the United States.[5]

If nothing else, President Obama has made clear and decisive policy choices that have produced a great deal of positive results for the country as a whole. The policy positions of Romney that have benefited large numbers of individuals (e.g. health care reform in Massachusetts) he no longer claims as his own, at least not until recently.[6]   


[1] http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/313441
[2] http://www.freep.com/article/20120829/NEWS15/308290103/President-Obama-to-college-students-Your-vote-made-a-difference-
[3] http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/313441
[4] http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/313441
[5] http://propagandafactory.org/2012/07/08/mitt-romney-the-most-indecisive-man-in-the-world/
[6] http://2012.republican-candidates.org/Romney/Health-Care.php

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