◼ The watchword of the Republican National Convention in Tampa was disappointment — as in President Barack Obama has been one. - Jonathan Allen/Politico
You can hammer Obama on health care. Mock his golf outings. Demand to see his birth certificate and Harvard transcript, and call him a European socialist bent on turning the American Dream into a Belgian nightmare. He’ll throw his head back and laugh at you like a Bond villain.
But tell voters he’s not the man America fell in love with in 2008 — and pine, however disingenuously, about his unfulfilled potential — and a shiver runs through his Chicago campaign headquarters....
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” Mitt Romney said in accepting the Republican presidential nomination Thursday. “My promise is to help you and your family.”
Or, as Sen. Marco Rubio put it, “Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. … Our problem is that he’s a bad president.”
