Posted: October 28th 2010
From The Hill:
Sen. John Thune needled President Obama's campaigning on behalf of Democrats in the Republican weekly radio address, mocking the president on his campaign rhetoric.
Thune, a member of the Senate GOP leadership who may challenge Obama in the 2012 presidential election, posed the quintessential question for a party trying to unseat incumbents.
"I would like to suggest a simple question people should ask themselves to help cut through all the talk: Are you better off today than you were two years ago?" Thune said Saturday.
Thune sought to undercut Obama's message on the campaign trail in the closing days of the campaign, focusing on the job losses Democrats have suffered over the past two years. He asserted that the president should be more focused on job creation than on re-electing Democrats.
“But if the conversations I’ve had with voters are any indication, the president should spend less time campaigning to save the jobs of Democrats in Congress, and more time trying to create jobs for the American people," he said. “The Obama Experiment has failed."
Republicans are looking to keep the election focused on jobs and the economy before voters head to the polls on Nov. 2. Thune, a top Republican figure, focused on the GOP alternatives the party has proposed to legislation favored by Democrats and the president.
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“The president likes to say that when you want to drive forward you put your car in D, and when you want to go in reverse you put it in R," Thune said. "It’s a clever line, but when you’re speeding toward a cliff, you don’t want to keep the car in drive."
