And the next President of the United States will be: teleprompter populist extraordinaire, Barack Obama.
Should the Republicans nominate one of the three current frontrunners
– Mitt Romney, Rick Perry or Michelle Bachmann – Barack “Back-on-track”
Obama wins (despite polls showing him with just a 41 percent approval
rating) by playing the populist card he’s already begun to deal,
forecasts Gerald Celente, Trends Journal publisher.
The President is already calling the bluff of his Republican foes, demanding a millionaire’s tax and daring a gridlocked Congress not to pass it.
“Warren Buffet’s secretary shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffet,” Obama moralizes. “It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher, or a nurse, or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than someone pulling in $50 million.”
Obama began rehearsing his self-described role as “warrior for the middle class” some months ago. In the Summer 2011 issue of the Trends Journal, we alerted subscribers to Obama’s populist campaign strategy:
The President is already calling the bluff of his Republican foes, demanding a millionaire’s tax and daring a gridlocked Congress not to pass it.
“Warren Buffet’s secretary shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffet,” Obama moralizes. “It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher, or a nurse, or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than someone pulling in $50 million.”
Obama began rehearsing his self-described role as “warrior for the middle class” some months ago. In the Summer 2011 issue of the Trends Journal, we alerted subscribers to Obama’s populist campaign strategy:
Undaunted by his string of broken promises, in the Summer of
2011, the born-again populist positioned himself to retain his core
Democratic base, while wooing swelling legions of the hard-pressed,
desperate for a government handout … the out of work and down and out
were left with a Hobson’s Choice: either take Obama or be left out in
the cold by Republicans.
So, in a classic reversal of his recent stance as “Accommodator in Chief,” Obama now vows not to
cut the one program most Republicans want to either eliminate or
drastically reconfigure, but which voters hold sacred: Social Security.
“Obama Plan Won’t Include Changes to Social Security,” read the Sept.
15 Wall Street Journal headline. As for Medicare, Obama has promised to “fix” it sometime in the future … well after the election.
And who gets hurt if Social Security and Medicare get cut? The 78 million retirement-age baby boomers who need the entitlements most, who can afford the cuts the least – and who vote.
“Their health costs are going up; their investments are going down. They’re deep in debt, most without enough to retire on, and the Republicans want to give them less,” notes Celente incredulously. “It’s a suicidal strategy that’s stranger than fiction. It’s as though the Republican campaign has been devised by insidious Democratic infiltrators.”
This is why the new, tough-talking Obama is painting Republicans as the party that “does everything for corporate America and nothing for middle America,” says Celente.
And who gets hurt if Social Security and Medicare get cut? The 78 million retirement-age baby boomers who need the entitlements most, who can afford the cuts the least – and who vote.
“Their health costs are going up; their investments are going down. They’re deep in debt, most without enough to retire on, and the Republicans want to give them less,” notes Celente incredulously. “It’s a suicidal strategy that’s stranger than fiction. It’s as though the Republican campaign has been devised by insidious Democratic infiltrators.”
This is why the new, tough-talking Obama is painting Republicans as the party that “does everything for corporate America and nothing for middle America,” says Celente.
The Presidential Reality Show
Reflecting back on the debates between Republican candidates, Celente
says, “This isn’t politics as an exercise in Democracy in action, it’s
politics as show business for ugly people. Anyone who saw the September
12th debate hosted by CNN witnessed an early episode of The Presidential Reality Show. It
was a star-spangled, made-for-TV-spectacle appropriating the lowest
common denominator elements of the World Wrestling Federation, the Miss
America Pageant and American Idol. (CONTINUE READING)
