I can see this is going to be an exquisitely fair fight between President Obama and Mr. Romney.
Mr. Obama has ordained himself the rules setter, which only seems fair, being the boss of the whole country.
Just three Obama categories are off limits, the President deigned yesterday at the NATO summit in Chicago: His achievements, his career and his family. Other comments shall be deemed racist.
As for Mr. Romney, the President ruled the “little-known” challenger’s life should be an open book so he and other interested voters get to know him. No exceptions.
Surely we can concur this is darned fair treatment, said Mr. Obama, since “my opponent” belongs to such a minority religion and has accumulated more dough than any contender in the past two elections.
The Associated Press, a leading donor to and a principal spokesman for the Obama campaign moved a new anti-Romney story yesterday. The boy is not catching on, wrote the A.P.’s Jack Gillum.
Out of 50,000 Republicans who contributed last winter to candidates other than Mr. Romney, A.P. bean-counters, believed to be college graduates, gauged that barely 600 of them wrote checks to Mr. Romney last month. The A.P. says this validates their thesis and their fervent desire: The boy is not catching fire.
With that, Mr. Obama, according to the Huffington Post, said it was his day to whipsaw his rich rival, given he has been criticized by so darned many Republicans.
Turning to Bain, Mr. Obama said: “I think it’s important to recognize that this issue is not a, quote, distraction. This is part of the debate that we’re going to be having in this election campaign about how do we create an economy that everybody, top to bottom, folks on Wall Street and folks on Main Street, have a chance at success.
“You know, he’s not going out there touting his experience in Massachusetts,” the President said. “He’s saying, ‘I’m a business guy and I know how to fix it.’ This is his business. When you’re President, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, your job is not simply to maximize profits,” he said.
After the press applause died down, a brave reporter ventured:
“If your job is not to maximize profits, what is the President’s premier responsibility?”
Just then a meatpacking truck roared toward State Street. All Mr. Obama could be heard saying was “…as I have said numerous times in the past. Next question.”
