Well, Pres. Obama is saying the right thing!

On Monday, in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama made a speech which included the following words:

There are too many people out there who are struggling, too many folks out of work, too many homes that are still under water. Of course, we need to do better. The debate is not whether, it is how. How do we grow the economy faster? How do we create we create more jobs? How do we pay down our debt? How do we reclaim that central American promise that no matter who you are, you can make it here if you try?

And yesterday, Peter Wehner posted the following (in a post entitled “Obama’s Ineffective Reelection Argument”) on Commentary magazine's site (after quoting those words of the President's):

Obama has framed the election in exactly the right way. The problem for the president is that in answering his questions — how do we grow the economy faster, create more jobs, pay down our debt, and reclaim the central promise of America—you could do worse than to say, “Do the opposite of what Obama has done.”

There is something slightly astonishing in Obama — given his staggering record of economic incompetence — pretending he has answers to economic growth, job creation, and cutting the debt. He’s had nearly an entire term as president to show that he has solutions to the challenges facing America; instead, he’s produced the weakest economic recovery on record and failed to meet virtually every goal he set for himself.

The president is making two arguments for his re-election. The first is that after nearly four years of his stewardship, too many people are struggling, too many folks are out of work, too many homes are still under water, and we need to do better; the second is that the same ideas that contributed to our misery in Obama’s first term will lift us out of our misery in his second term.

Good luck with that.

I think that Wehner put it exactly right. President Obama is making it a debate on questions like “How do we grow the economy faster?” “How do we create we create more jobs?” “How do we pay down our debt?” And we've tried his solutions for 3½ years, and they haven't worked. As Wehner put it: “you could do worse than to say, ‘Do the opposite of what Obama has done.’”

President Obama is asking the right questions. The problem is that he can't seem to recognize the right answers. Which is the main reason he must be retired by the voters in November.