Two different strategies
One suggests that the Obama campaign attack Romney personally for hiding his wealth in other countries, for taking jobs out of this country, for changing his positions so many times, for outright lying, for his $100 million dollar IRA? The guy is simply not qualified to be President of this country, if you look at everything he has been involved with and is still involved with. He may as well be a Manchurian candidate, some might say?
Others say the best strategy is to remind the voters where we have come from. We were near collapse - economically and socially. The President has to impress upon the voters just how much we have accomplished to stay out of another depression. It was very, very bad and we are just beginning to recover to the point where the economy can stand on its own. Our country, your country, cannot afford to go back to trickle-down economics like we had during the Bush years. Yes, we have to make cuts and we have raise taxes.
But the first place we should look to cut is not Medicare and Social Security. We should start with the defense budget and go from there. There is simply no reason that Americans should be so paranoid that they feel they have to spend a trillion dollars per year on armaments. If we have to cut Medicare, then we should start with the most wealthy recipients who will not be affected as much by cuts in their medical care. We should reassure our elderly and needy that the Democratic Party will not throw them under the bus.
Also, some people are going to have to pay a little bit more. They have put everything on the nations credit card since 2001 and we can no longer afford to do that. We will let the Bush taxcuts expire and we will ask the Republicans to keep the middle-class cuts in effect. If they refuse, then there will be no tax cuts for anyone. We simply cannot afford this deficit for the long run. The wealthy that have done so well will need to pay a little back.
Perhaps it is best to have both strategies? However, I tend to believe the best strategy is to remind the voters of where we came from. It did not happen by accident. It was the policies of a Democratic President. We could have been in much, much worse condition. He saved a lot of automobile manufacturing and supply jobs. He helped to bring the unemployment down from a loss of 800,000 per month to a gain of 100,000 on the plus side. The stock market has doubled from its low in 2009. The 401K's of a lot of people have come back and many people have benefited. The President has to talk about what his Administration has accomplished, in my opinion.
