I’m sure you’ve noticed --- I HOPE you’ve noticed --- that thus far in this campaign Obama has not run on his accomplishments.  There’s a reason for that.  Obama has NO accomplishments that he can run on.  Oh … there’s accomplishments all right. Increasing our debt by more than the first 41 presidents COMBINED is quite the accomplishment.  Engineering the worst economic recovery in the history of this country – while Canada to the north is doing quite well, thank you very much, is another accomplishment!  Managing to have fewer people in the work force – and fewer people with jobs in the private sector – than when you started is in Obama’s belt, as is the effective takeover of about 16% of our economy with ObamaCare – a program the people simply don’t like.  Then you have expanding the power of the EPA to the point that power plants are shutting down, increasing regulation on the private sector to draconian levels.  But the Secret Service, under Obama’s tax cheat Treasury Secretary Timothy Gainer, did manage to create or save a few dozen jobs for hookers in Colombia.

So … Obama knows he can’t run on his record.  What next?  Class warfare!  That’s what Marxists are all about anyway.  So set up the high-achievers, the jobs producers, the business owners, the entrepreneurs, those who invest in new businesses, the banks that finance new businesses, The CEOs that rescue businesses and save tens of thousands of jobs by putting them back on the path to prosperity --- set up all of these people as the enemies of the middle class. Once you have the middle class and the poor, poor, pitiful poor hating these folks, then you announce that your going to assuage their envy and hatred by raising taxes on their new enemies.  Thus the Buffett Rule. 

Now Obama knew from the get go that the Buffett rule wasn’t going to pass.  He knew that if it did pass it would result in lower tax revenues, higher deficits, and more jobs losses.  If he had thought the Buffett Rule had a chance of passing he would have backed off.  Failure was part of his plan.  Now he has the evil rich to rail against throughout the campaign … and he can use the failure of the Buffett Rule to campaign against the Republicans in congress as well. 

So, on to the next demagogic issue …