The Obama campaign has been targeting Romney viciously and unfairly over the last few weeks over his business career. Should I point out that Obama was a lawyer, which are much more disdained than businessmen? We'll leave that for another time.
What Obama is doing is exactly the thing that fires up the crazy "birthers" and the claims that he is a socialist or a communist.
He is attacking capitalism. He is attacking business. Business is capitalism. AMERICA is a capitalistic society. Remember, just over 20 short years ago, we would have had a nuclear war to prevent (or attempt to prevent) the loss of our capitalistic society. Now, we have a President who is blatantly and immorally attacking capitalism, capitalistic careers, ideas, ect.
Then you wonder why the crazies begin to call him a communist or socialist.
If it fires up the birther crazies and rallies them to Romney, well that's Obama's objective achieved. And he's not attacking capitalism, he's attacking those who abuse capitalism - big difference.
You just don't do that. What do you say about the boom of the 1980s? Do you attack the so-called corporate raiders and "hostel" takeovers (eye-roll) or do you consider them part of the 80s economic success machine?
"You just don't do that"?? Says who? Is our country now so dominated by the corporate elite that even the president isn't allowed to speak critically of them?
So what happens if us normal people dare to question the means by which these people have made their money? Will we get thrown in jail or something?
I'm not part of the "occupy" crowd, but in this country no powerful group of people is above scrutiny, especially when their juggling of billions of dollars of funds on any given day has the potential to throw us into a recession, as we have already seen. You can certainly make an argument for capitalism, and I might agree with you, but it's much more American to question and criticize the powerful than it is to keep quiet and let them do whatever they want.
