Arianna appeared on MSNBC's "Countdown" Wednesday night to discuss President Obama's Ohio speech from earlier Wednesday, in which Obama refused to consider extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and dared Republicans to keep fighting for them.
"I wish he had been as fired up for the last 20 months as he was today. This was definitely the best speech we've gotten from him since he's been in the White House," Arianna told host Keith Olbermann. "There's no question that he drew a clear line in the sand. It was really more like a moat that he filled with man-eating crocodiles."
However, Arianna said, "one speech does not change the narrative." Obama needs to "keep making it clear that he is for the middle class, and the Republicans are not," she said, noting that "during the campaign, Obama said the middle class was his North star -- that was really the essence of his campaign."
"I've spent a whole year writing this book on the assault on the middle class," Arianna added, "making it very clear that nobody, not even the super-rich that John Boehner supports, would want to live in a country that is really a third-world country when the middle class crumbles and you have the super-rich and everyone else, the super-rich living behind gates with their kids protected by security guards against kidnapping. I mean, that's not America, that's not the America of upward mobility, of the American dream."
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John Stewart's complete @nnihilation of Tim Kaine, should be the final wake up call as well.
Everybody has to be on board, with the same enthusiasm as the Prez.
Tim F@iled miser@bly, and that has to stop.
that traveling became hazardous to your piece of mind, Healthcare went to hell literally, Education
was given the title No Child left Behind and a series of tests that Bush couldn't have passed or Quayle for that matter.
The Banking system that Bush left behind bellied up a few months before his time
came to an end and now his wife laments not doing more while in office? Some of you are really
beyond belief in your wishes and desires........................ Andrea
either for the greater good. Lets see people cant figure out why the President can't turn around the
last eight years in less than 18 months? Well where were your voices on spending 3 trillion on the wars ( the fake lets go too war, and maybe the real one.............
Where were your voices on deciding that you could not handle your own finances, going to school to become even partially educated( yes what did the republicans do for education? Oh Bush cancelled
financial help, Pell grants does this ring a bell, even Tony Blair keeps reminding us of what an absolute simpleton he was, perhaps he should have used one.Healthcare??? Andrea
His speech generated so much excitement that his handlers had to frantically look for students to fill the seats before it began. Are you all fired up yet!
You should go on leave from HuffPost and, as a public service, start running Obama's communications. He still doesn't seem to understand the need to continuously communicate his vision (if he has one) to his base in particular and the American public at large.
I know you're busy creating a media empire but your country needs you...now. You've already proven that you are one of the greatest media forces in America (if not the world).
I'm not just blowing smoke. As someone once asked, "If not now, when? If not you, who?"
http://buythecover.com
BTW: Yes, I'm ready to be your deputy communications czar.