RealClearPolitics - O'Malley: Election Won't Be Referendum on Obama (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/16/omalley_2012_election_wont_be_referendum_on_obama_111358.html?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=dcdma)

Y'all keep electing this moron.

Martin O'Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, insisted Thursday that the 2012 presidential election will be a choice between two alternatives and not a referendum on President Obama.

It's a point Democrats have been making for months, but the Maryland governor offered a series of sound bites explaining why during a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

“Obama will be running against the alternative, not the almighty,” he said twice.

He argued that it is Republicans who created the economic recession that still saddles the nation and must own it -- hence the choice before voters.

“Their party is directly responsible for a great deal of damage to our economy because of their policies, and they cannot run away from that,” O’Malley said. “Their worship at the altar of tax cuts for the wealthy is unbecoming to the vast majority of working families that want a better future for their kids.”

And he accused congressional Republicans of deciding it is in their political interest to prevent Obama from taking actions that would create jobs: “And I believe therefore they will do their very best to deny him any victories that could lead to job creation or a speedier recovery.”

I like one of the responses to the article above at realclearpolitics:
"Independent+Texan [Moderator] 23 hours ago
So let me get this straight. The campaign slogan will be "if you think I suck, just wait 'til you see this other guy" ?? Or, "he sucks worse than me" ??

Dems are the walking example of what's wrong with the country. Failure to take ownership of anything, finger pointing for everything. Ultimately, believing all progress is led by the government and jammed down on the people.

Sure, the Republicans have messed a lot of things up. Dems solution is to take what the Repubs have done wrong in the prior administration and double and triple down on the same things. Idiocy."

Most recessions last about a year and a half. As long as they've been tracking them. By the end of six quarters, things start trending up. It's why the traditional measure of a recession is two quarters of negative growth, and the end is marked by four quarters of positive growth.

This one is soon to go into its fourth year. It's not a question any longer of "gosh, Bush left us in a really bad mess, didn't he?". It is clearly a consequence of mishandling by the present administration. It IS Obama's fault at this point, and most experts claim it will still be a problem this time next year.

And I can see one of the worst causes is, the guy talks out both sides of his mouth. I've now read and watched a number of shows and articles pointing to the enormous burden over-regulation puts on small businesses - Obama totally assures us he is in favor of lifting it - and then in the next sentence tells of of the horrors of letting the genie out of the bottle and the possible abuses of removing regulations. Would YOU put much faith in his promises, if his behavior keeps saying "business bad, government good"?

As our parents told us, don't listen to what they say, listen to what they do.