By: Jeffrey Klein, Political Buzz Examiner
Examiner.com

As presidential primary candidate Gov. Mitt Romney told everyone he expected, the artificially compelled early-release of his 2010 federal income tax return yesterday, gave the Obama administration, Democrats and the entire Liberal-tilted mainstream media, a Republican “poster child” to match up with their new prime narrative for this election cycle–wealthy people aren’t paying their “Fair Share” [in taxes], preventing the economy and middle class from recovering.

Picking right up on that note, an article published this morning by George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ TV show, reported on his interview this morning of David Plouffe, Senior White House Advisor to Obama.

He asked Plouffe if he had learned anything [substantive] from viewing Romney’s tax returns, to which he replied–without a single pause:

“The point is we need to change our tax system.

We need to make sure that middle class workers are not paying more in effective tax rates than people making $ 40, $50, $100 million a year.

So [sic] we have rules of the road in place right now.

I’m sure Mitt Romney tried to follow them.”

That was very gratuitous of Mr. Plouffe.

But now, here it comes…

“One of the things the President is going to talk about in the State of the Union tonight is something Warren Buffett famously talked about is [sic] he should not pay less in taxes than his secretary does.”

The question is [sic] we just need change in our tax code so that everybody is doing their fair share,” … which is how he said the administration will grow a strong economy, further saying that will be a primary theme President Obama will highlight in tonight’s State of the Union Address.

The president, as you know, has talked about something called the ‘Buffett Rule.’ We’re going to outline that specifically tonight, what that would mean.”

Stephanopoulos reported that Obama is facing reelection amid tough poll numbers, and that according to ABC News’ latest poll the president’s approval rating stands at just 48%, with more than two-thirds of Americans believing the country is headed in the wrong direction.

But, as Obama has such failed record, he cannot run on a straight up-or-down referendum on his own job performance while in the Oval Office, so he is going to pitch using the “choice” argument, used by none other than George W. Bush, during his 2004 reelection bid, according to James Rosen’s FOXNews article today.

“We have not seen a choice this stark in years,” Obama told the friendly audience at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater on Thursday. “The contrast this year could not be sharper. So the question is not whether people are still hurting; people are still hurting profoundly. A lot of folks out there still out of work looking for work. The question is, what do we do about it?”

But, according to Plouffe, before Obama convinces voters to stay the course in November, they need to convince the American people and elected officials of “what’s the right thing to do this year on the economy.”

Newt Gingrich laid out his version of the “choice” for his supporters, saying … “The debate we’re going to have with President Obama over the next eight or nine months [involves] the outlining of the two Americas.

The America of the Declaration of Independence or the America of [radical organizer] Saul Alinsky.

The America of paychecks, or the America of food stamps.

The America of independence, or the America of dependence.

The America of strength in foreign policy, or the America of weakness in foreign policy.

“Those two choices, I believe, will give the American people a chance to decide permanently whether we want to remain the historic America that has provided opportunity for more people of more backgrounds than any country in history, or whether in fact, we prefer to become a brand new secular, European-style bureaucratic socialist system.”

President Obama is totally dead in the water for being reelected on the basis of his record, including a stagnant economy and unemployment, non-existent net job growth, cataclysmic growth in the national debt and the vastly hated “Obamacare.”

So, the only rabbit left in Obama’s hat is his totally vacuous “Fair Share” doctrine, which he will trot out tonight–without a single honest concern for its boundless absurdity, or the future of our country and all Americans.

Copyright (c) 2012 by Jeffrey Klein