We had David Axelrod, Obama's adviser, on Meet the Press with David Gregory this morning. Axelrod said "We need policies that help the middle class." I beg to disagree, we need policies that help the economy as a whole. And the citizens as a whole, not just special classes of the citizens.
Then Axelrod waxed indignant about Romney ads accusing Obama of cutting the work requirements from welfare. Claimed that Obama had done no such thing. Trouble is, it was widely reported in both sides of media that Obama had done exactly that.
The Clinton welfare reform had fairly stiff work requirements. That was passed 20 odd years ago, and worked wonderfully well, number of people on welfare dropped a lot, and the entire divisive welfare issue solved itself and dropped out of normal political discourse. Obama is messing with success, and given his reverse Midas touch, that's a bad thing.
Anyhow, Axelrod was saying it never happened, when we all know it did. Gregory let him get away with it, too.
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