Dionne says - Obama: The conservative in 2012
So opines E. J. Dionne in this Washington Post op ed this morning. He means that in a specific sense:
Obama is defending a tradition that sees government as an essential actor in the nation’s economy, a guarantor of fair rules of competition, a countervailing force against excessive private power, a check on the inequalities that capitalism can produce, and an instrument that can open opportunity for those born without great advantages.Against this he poses the Republicans as extreme radicals: Rick Perry promising to make the national government "inconsequential" is but one example.
All of the Republicans tout this election as the most important in history, warning of the dangers Obama supposedly represents to kind of America they seem to think the people want, and which they advocate. The President counters, agreeing on the importance, as he noted in his speech in Osawatomie, Kansas:
“This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.”
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