Now, for sure, I'll be branded a scurrilous racist for saying this - and no doubt the reason serious writers are not saying it is because they know full well they'd be branded scurrilous racists and their careers would be over - but I don't have a career so I can say it - and furthermore I think I can say it because I'm pretty damn sure it's true - but Obama's unconstitutional reinterpretation of the welfare reform law is an attempt to mobilise the minority vote in general and the black vote in particular, right? And it was done in concert with the move on gay marriage, yes? because the Obama people know full well the gay marriage move could suppress black and hispanic turnout [you just know Obama and the boys are all smiles gloating over the cold cunning behind this ploy].
I mean I'm beating a dead horse I guess but if you're Romney and you don't realize the kind of no holds barred political fiend you're up against here in Obama and you think you can just stand back and let the supposed 'objective facts' of the economy win the election for you, then you're gonna lose - sure, if the press was a fair and even handed arbiter holding Obama to account for his bad behavior and poor record, then yeah, maybe you could get away with such a strategy - but that ain't ever gonna happen. The press is co-opted, they're deeply invested in the bullshit liberal dreamy land made manifest in the ideal of Obama - sure many of them may be at this point holding nose and closing eyes - but they're completely bought in and it's simply a case for them now of the end justifying the means.
It may be a sad, sad commentary on the state of our democracy - and that's a conversation we can have later since there's much to worry about in that respect - but right now the bitter reality is the bitter reality - Obama needs to lose, and if Romney can't go to the mattresses and figure out how to make that happen, then... well, good luck to us.
