President Obama's I'll-Concealed Contempt for USA

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Syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer responds to President Obama calling the U.S. "lazy."

"Well, no one is asking him to go out there and asking him to be a jingoistic cheerleader. But when you call your own country 'lazy' when you are abroad and you call it unambitious and soft when you're home, I think what you are showing is not tough love, but ill-concealed contempt," Krauthammer said on FOX News' "Special Report."

"Obama is ready to blame everybody except himself for the lousy economy. And the lack of investment. Look, why are people reluctant to invest? We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, in the industrialized world. Obama has spoken about it. It's the one issue on which the Republicans would have agreed on lowering that rate, eliminating loopholes. In three years in office, he's done nothing. He has an NLRB trying to shut down a $1 billion plant Boeing has constructed, as a favor to Obama's union allies. People look abroad and say this isn't a place I want to do business. Its his issues, his over-regulation over taxation and all the red tape he has added. And now he blames Americans' laziness. I think it's unseemly."

Obama's speech Monday, hailed by liberals as a poignant moment for the President, essentially claimed that 235 years of free market capitalism doesn't work. The greatest and most prosperous nation in history was built on economic principles that have failed. Supply-side economics, even with the 20 years of unprecedented growth that began with Ronald Reagan's success with trickle down economics from 1980-2000, doesn't work according to Obama. I guess he still believes in Keynesian economics although Europe is about to collapse and the three years he has been promoting stimulus and spending and higher taxes has done nothing but deepen the economic troubles in our nation. The speech was as anti-American as I've heard from a sitting US President. He truly is an ideologue and is blinded by his predetermined views affected by a liberal mother, liberal mentors and a liberal college education.

America cannot afford another four years of this presidency!