There's no mention of his opponent in the latest ad from U.S. Senate candidate and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Instead, he touts his business credentials and says, "I don’t think President Obama understands business" or "the potential of the private sector."
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Comments (7)
GS Crispus
I don't think Republicans understand that government is not a business.
Joe Deshotel
Ha well good thing businesses don't vote!
JC DemocratofTejas
and duhurt knows nothing about representing Texas. I understand David is a TP business man, and would sell Texans out for a buck, but don't drag YOUR president into your fray. Never voted for you never will!
Rudy Gonzales
President has much better understanding of business and the private sector than every TEA-Republican across the nation. It is that understanding of excessive profits on minimum wage employees with poor if any insurance coverage to maximize income while limiting tax liability. Obama wants to cut taxes for the middle class and lower wage earners while Dew hurst cut taxes for the well-to-do and business. Balancing the federal budget includes more than lowering the budget out flow, it should include raising taxes on the well-to-do to levels comparable to the middle class. RomneyCare, now called Obama Care, received the sanctioning from the highest court in the land, and TEA-Republican's still cannot accept it. The the PPACA(Health Care Act) has already benefited the people in insurance coverage for children, extending insurance over pre-existing conditions and making insurance companies use 80 to 85 percent of monies collected for insureds rather than compensation for CEO' and CFO's.
Tucano Fulano
It's quite true Obama does NOT understand anything at all about business, especially "mom and pop" business; but then Obama does NOT understand much of anything else either. Obama's interest is the advancement of Obama; nothing else matters to him, NOTHING.
Christine Lund
Instead or parroting things you hear on the Republican soap operas or just going with out and out hate and prejudice, why not really just follow the story from several different sources. To just believe any one is worse than not participating at all.
Read history and economics and know your issues because the wealthy have a highly paid, highly educated, highly, motivated bunch of scammers to turn this country into the United Corporations of America.
Our President is walking a fine line. And only in hindsight will he receive the great credit due him. What took a decade to recover from in the thirties (and it was a war that really did it) our President did in just several years despite a well funded opposition.
Don't let the GOP brainwash you because they have no loyalty to people. Just power and money. They took our savings, gambled it away and then got President Bush to bail them out with more of our money. He thought it was confetti.
For decades, big business flourished and made record profits while we all lost 40% of our wealth to banksters and military friends of the White House. Using terrorism against his own people to take funds, he couldn't have gotten any other way. Funneled to associates, in the name of 'National Security'. Strange, wasn't it President Obama that got Bin Laden? How many trillion did President Bush' private war cost us? And now our children and grandchildren?
By breaking us down and stealing our wealth and property, many people are simply so frightened they go with the rich Republicans and pray for mercy. Not likely. Look how we got here. They made record profits and few businesses shared it with the actual workers. Despite experience, education, seniority, employee loyalty. Nothing for us, the worker.
We fought this same war of economics, at least once this last century and too soon, we forget. Of course, with the constant pressure in this country to dumb down the population, to have enough cheap labor to abuse because labor doesn't even know they are being taken advantage of, most the time. Or too broke to complain about anything.
Happy2 Bealive
Dewhurst does not understand that he is not running against President Obama. Dewhurst should focus on his opponent. In addition, Dewhurst's commerical about tripling the border patrol agents is against his stand on big government. He does not understand that the border patrol are federal employees.