Obama's Vision

Charles Krauthammer isn't just a great columnist; he's master of boiling-down events and issues to their essence in his appearances on Fox News. Here, for instance, is what he had to say about this President's rather odd and alien way of looking at the private sector and free enterprise system:

"The real issue of the campaign is precisely what Obama said. That's precisely at the center of the division, left and right, between Republican and Democratic.

How do you see the free enterprise capitalism in American society? Obama said clearly that it's rooted in success as a result of government, infrastructure. And the worst part about it is he says it's because we're all in this together, it's society that ultimately supports you.

Yes, society but Obama always identifies society or collective action with the government. In fact, society is civil society. It's the family, it's the church. It's the little platoons that were talked about in Tocqueville about Americans organize themselves in organizations that are voluntary. That's society; that's what sustains us, it's not government.

And this emphasis on government and it's at the root of all good in America is what's wrong with the Obama vision and that's what Romney ought to attack. That's what the campaign ought to be about."

~ Charles Krauthammer

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/17/krauthammer_no_matter_how_many_tax_returns_romney_releases_obama_will_demand_more.html