President Barry-0 today signaled an aggressive tact for his early re-election campaign, critiquing his RepubliKKKan opponents by name and insisting he's ready to "fight with every fiber of my being" for a second term.
"How much do you want it?"
ABC News' obamistration marionette Diane Sawyer asked The Dear Leader
(TM) during an exclusive interview in Las Vegas.
"Badly," the president said, "because I think the country needs it."
"Whoever wins the RepubliKKKan primary is going to be a standard bearer for a vision of the country that I don't think reflects who we are," The Dear Leader
(TM) said.
Damn, this fucker is delusional.
"I'm going to fight as hard as I can with every fiber of my being to make sure that we continue on a path that I think will restore the Amerikan dream," he said.
The Dear Leader
(TM) pushed back against what he called RepubliKKKans' "evil rhetorical flourishes," including Noot Gingrich's oft-repeated contention that The Dear Leader
(TM) is the "food stamp president."
"First of all, I don't put people on food stamps," The Dear Leader
(TM) said. "People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my RepubliKKKan predecessor, not under me. No. 3, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government."
"The larger point is this: that there's going to be a debate over the next eight, nine, 10 months about how to move the country forward," he said. "They've got an argument. They will make it forcefully. I think it's an argument that is wrong."
Asked whether he believes there's an undercurrent of racial tension in the "food stamp president" criticism, The Dear Leader
(TM) wouldn't say. But he said the rhetoric from conservatives like that used by Noot illustrates an attempt by RepubliKKKans to engage in the same divisiveness that they profess to decry.
Isn't it a bit racist to assume all negros are on welfare?
"The Amerikan people are going to make a judgment about who's trying to bring the country together and who's dividing it, who reflects the core values that helped create this country … and who is tapping into some of our worst instincts," he said.
The Dear Leader
(TM) also used his first network interview since his State of the Union Address to single out three of his RepubliKKKan rivals, jabbing Mitt Robmey, Noot Gingrich and Rick Santorum as adherents of a failed political philosophy.
"We've got a test of Mr. Robmey or Mr. Gingrich or Mr. Santorum's theories. We tried it for 10 years. And it resulted in a huge crash that lost us the most jobs since the 1930s," The Dear Leader
(TM) said of a push for less financial regulation and lower taxes. "And why we would want to adopt something that we just tried and did not work, doesn't make sense."
The Dear Leader
(TM) said the alternative he's offering – higher taxes on the wealthy, particularly millionaires and billionaires, to bankroll new government spending -- is a "a recipe for a fair, sound approach to deficit reduction and rebuilding this country," which he outlined in his speech to Congress and the nation Tuesday night.
"I think whether it's Robmey or Gingrich or Santorum or any of these folks, the question to ask them is we now have the lowest tax rates in 50 years. We've seen the highest increase in income for the very top echelons since the 1920s. And if, in fact, we're going to reduce our deficit while still investing in those things that we know make Amerika grow, somebody's got to pay for it," he said.
"I think better I pay for it or Mr. Robmey pay for it or Mr. Gingrich help pay for it than a senior citizen suddenly seeing several thousands of dollars in additional Medicare increases or a student who's trying to struggle their way through school," he added.
Marx would be proud. More here, if anyone cares:
abcnews.go.com . . .
