House Speaker John Boehner went over the top today when he ripped into President Barack Obama during an interview with Fox News Radio.
When talking to Kilmeade & Friends about Obama's speech in Ohio yesterday, Boehner said this:
"Sometimes I have to catch my breath and slow down because the rhetoric in this campaign is just so over the top. And that's because the President's policies have failed. Listen - 93% of Americans believe they're a part of the middle class. That's why you hear the President talk about the middle class every day, because he's talking to 93% of the American people. But the President has never created a job. He's never even had a real job for God's sake. And I can tell you from my dealings with him, he has no idea how the real world, that we actually live in, works."
Boehner also said it's been "months" since he's last interacted with Obama in a meaningful way.
"Eleven months ago, Labor Day last year, the president decided to check out," Boehner said. "And he's been AWOL from the legislative process ever since."
By Steve Frank, Thu Aug 2, 2012 4:06 PM EDT
Source includes an audio of the interview.
I recall in 2008 watching President Obama speak at my school and make all of these promises for helping the middle class. It was a typical stump speech that wasn't well-tailored to the audience, but all the students in the crowd went crazy over it. Meanwhile, I was thinking, I'm a poor college student. How on earth is anything that you've focused on in this speech going to help me out? Of course now that Obama's in office, my parents actually are middle class and they're getting squeezed right now. :-/
Edited at 2012-08-03 07:59 pm (UTC)
"Middle class" is a bit posher in the UK but they've stolen the rhetoric from the US and started talking about the "squeezed middle" and all that.