Obama poses a ‘very simple question’ to Floridianshttp://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/politics?type=politicsNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B7tmRCRJt2YFzDsa7MJ1CblL&src=blogBurst_politicsNews&bbPostId=Cz1v2pJtA32q2Cz5q8O2kwPYPlCzCRFBjVLj8h5BBlAED7OXKHp&bbParentWidgetId=B7tmRCRJt2YFzDsa7MJ1CblL“So the first thing I want to do, Florida, is just ask you a very simple question,” Obama said at a town hall meeting in St. Petersburg. “Do you think that you are better off now than you were four years ago or eight years ago? And if you don’t think you’re better off, do you think you can afford another four years of the same failed economic policies that we’ve had under George W. Bush?”
So far, the media seems far more interested in the fact that a couple of protestors interrupted Obama’s remarks this morning, but it seems this line — which I haven’t heard Obama use before — is the more significant development.
The Republican goal is to make the election a referendum on Obama. The Democratic goal, obviously, should be to push the campaign in the opposite direction.
The simple response: