For once, the media are calling him on it.
“The right answer for America is not to grow government or to believe that government can create jobs. It is instead to create the conditions that allow the private sector and entrepreneurs to create jobs and to grow our economy. Growth is the answer, not government,” Romney said as he released the plan, called “Believe in America.”
That may be a questionable concept at a time when businesses are seeing record profits but have not put them into the kind of hiring and investment that could start a national economic recovery. ...WaPo
Exactly. The phrasing shows a nice (if you can call it that) little bit of irony on the part of reporters. And yes, it is overly polite to suggest Romney just doesn't know... One of the symptoms of voters' -- not just politicians' -- corruption is the willingness to accept "business good, government bad." It's also insane, particularly when you remember government = us. Corporations are good? We're bad? Is that what the corporate appointees to the Supreme Curt have been wanting us to believe since 1886?
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Are football fans so utterly involved with their sport that they couldn't sacrifice watching about one-quarter of one regular-season game to hear the president talk about economics in the middle of an economic crisis?
Now, to be fair to football, its fans are hardly the only Americans who would put entertainment above citizenship. Exceptionalism? We're an exceptionally negligent nation when it comes to exercising our franchise as opposed to supporting the local NFL franchise. Only 41.5 percent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls in last year's national election, and I've got to assume that not all of the uncaring 58.5 percent were football nuts.
Still, when the president wants to speak to the nation, there's something unsettling about his being afraid to take on NFL fans. Specifically, forfeiting prime time to football means that President Obama will be speaking to the West Coast at 4:00 in the afternoon — a terribly inconvenient time. Good grief, it's lucky that Oprah isn't still on in the afternoons or the president might have had no choice but to come on after midnight in order not to upset the amusement patterns of our citizenry. ...Frank DeFord, NPR
Now, let's move on to discuss whether missing part of a routine football game on TV on Thursday night is BAD because more people watch football than vote, or is it BAD because if Obama's speech runs over, ad time is lost.
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Meanwhile, what about the rest of us? Time to rent, once again, "Idiocracy."
