Obama’s Contempt for the Voters

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American Spectator:

Last week Obama's re-election team released a television ad in a variety of battleground states listing the president's "accomplishments." A shameless knockoff of Ronald Reagan's famous "morning in America" spot, this preposterous piece of propaganda begins with the administration's standard complaint about the economic crisis Obama "inherited" and goes on to claim that he somehow saved the country because, "He believed in us. Fought for us." What he really believes about us, however, is better illustrated by what is missing from the ad. It contains no mention whatsoever of Obamacare, the health care "reform" law that Obama and his supporters have, until the beginning of the current election cycle, referred to as a "historic" piece of legislation and his "most important domestic achievement."

Such a glaring omission suggests the president and his advisors believe the voters are too dumb to remember that he and his congressional accomplices wasted a year cobbling together their unconstitutional health care boondoggle while unemployment raged out of control. It isn't simply that Obama did nothing about the jobs problem while expending an enormous amount of time and no small amount of taxpayer money on backroom deals like the "Cornhusker kickback." He ignored the pleas of the voters to set health reform aside until he had done something about an unemployment rate that was skyrocketing. At the time, even progressive bastions like the Huffington Post lamented that Obama "forced a health care bill at the expense of vitally needed focus on job creation."

The absence of Obamacare from the president's new campaign ad does not mean, however, that the White House itself has forgotten about the ironically titled Affordable Care Act. Obama's reelection team is still trying to exploit it via low-profile initiatives intended to spread the good news without making the president or his surrogates actually talk about it. Thus, on Mother's Day, the White House web site featured special e-cards ostensibly designed to help people "show some appreciation for the mom in your life," including one that begins, "Happy Mother's Day from the Affordable Care Act," and proceeds to point out that, "Being a mom isn't a pre-existing condition. It's a joy." Can you imagine the "joy" your mother would have experienced had you sent something like this to her on Sunday?