{"id":1755,"date":"2009-11-02T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:05:51","slug":"obama-unveils-re-election-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1755\/obama-unveils-re-election-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Unveils Re-Election Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his closing argument<\/a> for New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine\u2019s re-election campaign, President Barack Obama moved back the goalposts on when elected leaders should be held accountable for their actions:<\/p>\n

Listening to Jon’s opponent, you’d think New Jersey was the only state going through a tough time right now,” Obama told almost 19,000 gathered inside the Prudential Center in Newark. “I have something to report: We have the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. By the way, that didn’t start under Jon’s watch, that didn’t start under my watch. I wasn’t sworn in yet.”<\/p>\n

Obama quipped there was a little revisionist history or selective memory on the part of Republicans and other critics who seek to hold Corzine responsible for New Jersey’s economic woes.<\/p>\n

“A little amnesia about how we got into this mess,” Obama explained. “This crisis we are living . . . came about because of the same theories, the same laxed regulation, the same trickle-down economics that the other guy’s party has been peddling for years. And you know, look, we’re not interested in relitigating the past, and I’m more than happy to go and do the work that’s required to get this economy moving again. I think about it every day. Jon Corzine thinks about it every day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One problem with Obama\u2019s remarks; Corzine was<\/em> sworn in before the economic recession hit \u2013 by two years. And it\u2019s not like Corzine can say he\u2019s just a community organizer with scant business experience. As head of Goldman Sachs<\/a> during part of its \u201cmaster of universe\u201d phase, Corzine – along with former colleague and successor, Hank Paulson \u2013 knows how to make money under a lax regulatory system.<\/p>\n

In fact, Corzine apparently knows how to\u00a0\u201cspread the money around\u201d to take care of his former corporation<\/a> while serving in government.<\/p>\n

As for the president, apparently he thinks a re-election campaign is not the right forum to \u201cre-litigate\u201d the past four years of the current administration. Good to know. I guess that means a politician can only be criticized when he\u2019s termed out of office. Thank goodness for Jon Corzine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During his closing argument for New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine\u2019s re-election campaign, President Barack Obama moved back the goalposts on when elected leaders should be held accountable for their actions: Listening to Jon’s opponent, you’d think New Jersey was the only state going through a tough time right now,” Obama told almost 19,000 gathered inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,313,412,411,410],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-hank-paulson","tag-jon-corzine","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}