It is the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. We wake up with a hangover, realizing: OMG, Obama has won a second term as President. We then think: how did such a thing come to pass?
We can safely trace back the beginning of this unlikely event to the Bush tax bill debate during the lame duck session of the 111 Congress during December of 2010. See, he cut a deal with Republicans to not raise taxes on ‘rich millionaires’ (which level was set at $250k). He was pasted by the Left for cutting taxes for the rich, and similarly pasted by the Right for thinking that ‘rich’ people started at $250k per annum.
He accomplished, either by accident or by design (probably the former), into making voters think that he is a centrist moderate. The fact that he demagogued the issue of taxing the rich to give to the poor during the Presidential campaign of fall 2012 not withstanding.
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