I watched Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday and once again he demonstrated his great orator skills and once again I asked myself "where the beef"? Obama has had three years (two of which with a majority in both chambers) to effectuate meaningful improvement to our dismal economic situation, yet he spent his capital on a failed stimulus and healthcare. Now that he is up against a Republican House, dominated by the Tea Party, and a do-nothing Democratic Senate, all he can do is deliver good speeches. The middle class has been shrinking and the hope that the so-called American dream will be realized has been fading for over thirty years now. It did not start with George W. Bush. This problem ran through the Reagan and Clinton Administrations. The rich got richer and the rest of us didn't notice that we were not making more only borrowing more to get those granite kitchen counter-tops. Obama promised change. Within a year of Obama's becoming president, his grand plan for change consisted of gimmicks like cash for clunkers, a poorly thought out mortgage program, a tax break so measly that most Americans didn't even know they got one, and shovel ready projects that were not shovel ready. Still his Tuesday night speech was impressive. All we need now is a leader who can turn a laundry list into results. This gets me to Mitt Romney.
I think Romney is a doer and a fixer. He has succeeded in almost every venture he has taken on, including establishing a first rate, highly successful private investment firm, turning around a corrupt and failing Winter Olympics in
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