With January 10 vote kicking off the Republican primary in the state of New Hampshire, President Obama and the current leader amongst the Republican candidates, Mitt Romney, are sparring for an advantage in discussing each other’s policies to deal with the impending economic crisis in the country.
During his speech at Manchester school in New Hampshire, President Obama said, “Some folks in Washington don’t seem to get the message that people care right now about putting folks back to work. Tell them, ‘Don’t be a Grinch,’ don’t vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays. Put the country before party.”
It was very clear that the President was pointing out that the Republican Party was not taking responsibility for the measures that he was taking when it came to adding jobs and reducing taxes. Romney, on the other hand, released a print ad saying that the President’s policies over his tenure have failed.
A television ad also compares the President’s promises with the current economic slump and rising debt suggesting that Obama had failed to deliver in his tenure what he used to criticize the Republican Party as a Presidential candidate.
As polarized as these sides are, the political rhetoric brings into question the ethics (read as: honesty) of both parties. While Obama continues to blame the Republican Party for not willing to budge on tax cuts, House Speaker Boehner responds by saying that they have already told the President since September that they are ready to discuss this issue openly and honestly.
The truth, however, is that Romney is currently ahead of Obama in a hypothetical poll conducted by Bloomberg for the state of New Hampshire.