Yes, the concern trolls are out big time. Word has gone out from Billionaire and Millionaire Central: man the barricades you lackeys, because Obama and many Democrats want to make us pay a tiny bit more in taxes. So the concern trolls have been activated, along with the tradmed propagandists: Mark Penn, followed up by Mark Halperin to make sure people realize that Penn speaks for "serious people."
Barack Obama is careening down the wrong path towards re-election.
He should be working as a president, not a candidate.
He should be claiming the vital center, not abandoning it.
He should be holding down taxes rather than raising them.
He should be mastering the global economy, not running away from it.
And most of all, he should be bringing the country together rather than dividing it through class warfare.
Mark Penn
Sounds just like John Boehner. Lowest taxes since Eisenhower, but Penn wants them lower. And Obama's plan REDUCES taxes for many middle class people. But that's the wrong kind of tax cut for Penn.
Thank you for your concern, Mr. Penn. Asshat.
Penn was a key advisor to Hillary Clinton in her run for President. He's also long been a DLC, right wing, anti-worker asshat. Really. And I'm being polite.
And he's backed up here by Mark "I-thought-Obama-was-being-a-dick" Halperin:
Remember?
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” the editor-at-large for TIME says of the president on Morning Joe...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Yes, you call the President a "dick" on national television and you expect to be treated like a journalist? Why was he calling President Obama that? Because the President stood up to Halperin's Republicans.
Here Halperin creams in his jeans over Mark Penn's concern trolling:
Clintonista Mark Penn pens scathing essay, says Obama's deficit plan plays politically-ruinous "class warfare."
Penn has few fans in Obama World, and this piece won't make him any new ones. It is notable that Penn highlights in particular the under noticed tax increase in Obamacare. More generally, his warning that Obama is going left when he should be going center finds support throughout much of the New Democratic realm.
http://thepage.time.com/...
I have two words for Mr. Penn and Mr. Halperin: F..k off.
We're hip to your concern troll tricks.
Neither of you have any credibility.
Greg Sargent at WaPo has their number:
To insist that this is only about winning over disaffected Dems is to misstate the nature of the bet the White House is making, which is a bet on where the true center of the country lies. Worse still is the unstated assumption underlying much of the analysis: That there’s no way the middle of the country could possibly embrace Obama’s new approach.
But as it happens, strong majorities of moderates and independents support tax hikes on the wealthy as the best way to close the deficit. I’ve compiled a half dozen polls showing that to be the case.
WaPo, Greg Sargent (follow link to polls)
Many of us complained and argued, fought and hoped that Obama would move left. Well he has and the billionaires, millionaires, and their lackeys are working to undercut President Obama on this.
Penn is no Democrat. Halperin is no journalist.
We progressives have to have Obama's back on this. It's time to step up. This is the fight we want: over the future of our nation. Tax the wealthy or cut social security or medicare. Tax the wealthy or let public education die. What kind of nation will we be? Will we create jobs or will we just exist to enrich a small few? Decency or greed. Right or wrong. A choice must be made.
President Obama:
"Either we have to ask the wealthy to pay their fair share, or we have to ask seniors to pay more for medicare, or gut education," he continued. "This is not class warfare. It's Math."
That is the center position in America. WE THE PEOPLE.