Obama’s Campaign for Class Resentment - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online

Obama cannot run on his record so he will demagogue the politics of class envy in his attempt to win another term. It will not be pretty. And with funding from people like George Soros, unions, trial lawyers, and every group of liberals and socialists, not to mention the unwavering campaigning on his behalf by the mainstream media, it will likely be the nastiest campaign in memory. I will be glad when it is over.

"Because, you see, he bears no responsibility for the current economic distress. It’s the rich. And, like Horatius at the bridge, Obama stands with the American masses against the soulless plutocrats.

This is populism so crude that it channels not Teddy Roosevelt so much as Hugo Chávez. But with high unemployment, economic stagnation, and unprecedented deficits, what else can Obama say?

He can’t run on stewardship. He can’t run on policy. His signature initiatives — the stimulus, Obamacare, and the failed cap-and-trade — will go unmentioned in his campaign ads. Indeed, they will be the stuff of Republican ads.

What’s left? Class resentment. Got a better idea?"

Obama’s Campaign for Class Resentment - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online