◼ Obama needed a filet mignon in the June employment report. But instead he got a rubber chicken. - Lawrence Kudlow/Human Events
In a campaign stop in Ohio on Friday, Obama actually said we’re still “heading in the right direction.” Is he kidding? As a stagnant gross domestic product drops below 2 percent, employment falters, retail sales decline and the ISM index for manufacturing drops below 50 (signaling contraction)? No objective observer can deny that the economy is headed in the wrong direction.
I don’t like playing the pessimist, but the numbers are the numbers. This is exactly what former Clinton advisers James Carville, Doug Schoen and Stanley Greenberg have been warning Obama about. People just don’t believe the economy is getting better. So he’s gotta change his message.
But what change? Taxing rich people won’t create jobs. Neither will bashing Bain Capital. Obama is surrounded by leftist campaign advisers. And it’s hard to see them shifting gears to something constructive like making a summer deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for a year, or heaven forbid, backing off the 20-some-odd tax hikes embodied in Obamacare.
In other words, Obama’s goose may already be cooked....
◼ EXCLUSIVE - CADDELL: TAXES AND TRUST - THE ACHILLES HEELS OF OBAMACARE AND OBAMA, PART I - Pat Cadell/Breitbart
◼ EXCLUSIVE - CADDELL: TAXES AND TRUST - THE ACHILLES HEELS OF OBAMACARE AND OBAMA, PART II - Pat Cadell/Breitbart
