“After all,” Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United states and former a Massachusetts Governor said in 1925, “the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
Jump forward to the present day and the 44th President is attacking a former businessman and another former Massachusetts governor, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Either we’ve come very far from 1925 or the president is seriously out of touch with the business of the American people.
While at an official NATO summit event with other world leaders, Obama said of Romney:
Well no, I guess it isn’t, Mr. President. But no one is arguing otherwise. Mitt Romney isn’t running for president to make a profit through government. That makes no sense. Mitt Romney is running for president to make government work like a business: that means efficiency, passing a budget and doing things every other organization has to do to remain in existence.
But for the sake of argument, let’s ask what President Obama has ever had to run? What has he been charged with to make these things happen? A large business like Bain Capital? No. A small business? No. A mom-and-pop store? No. Um, Avon? Nope. It must be easy for the president to criticize someone else’s business experience when he has none.
It’s also hypocritical. While the Obama campaign (and specifically spokesman Ben LaBolt) criticize Romney and have to yank “Cry” Booker off the national stage for not sticking to the campaign’s talking points, they keep fundraising from the same people who do what Romney did at Bain Capital.
And the pushback among those supporters is already beginning.
So there you have it: a hypocritical president who criticizes someone else’s experience when he has none. As NRO’s Jim Geraghty said: “We’re not worried about profits, Mr. President. We’re worried about stopping an endless string of catastrophic losses.”
