Halftime in America: The Obama Campaign Now Has a Slogan

      Talk about a gift. This phrase is being compared to the 1984 Reagan Campaign's "Morning in America." The beauty of it is that it's not even the Obama team's slogan. They didn't come up with it like the Reagan team came up about Morning in America, or the FDR team came up with "A Rendezvous With Destiny!" in 1936.

      But the Republicans have been doing everything to give Obama ownership of this-truly inspiring-slogan. So guess he may have well take it. You have Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh claiming that somehow Clint Eastwood was duped into carrying Obama's water.  So Rove declared on Fox,

      "I was, frankly, offended by it. ... it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising."

       http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/100465/karl-rove-chrysler-ad-clint-eastwood-obama-detroit-bailout

      When Eastwood was asked he answered it wasn't meant to praise Obama-Eastwood is pretty clearly Republican-but that it was about the improving US economy and auto industry.

      As Krugman notes, the Republicans,

      "They hate any reminder that they were dead wrong on the auto bailout; and they hate any thought that the Democrats are becoming the party of optimism. Hey, only Republicans are allowed to celebrate American success!"

       The Obama Administration should adopt this as it's 2012 slogan. The GOP has nothing positive these days. They keep telling us how bad things supposedly are, unemployment, we're "drowning in death" the future "we're living our grandchildren" is terrible... It's true that unemployment is too high-I speak as one who has been unemployed or underemployed since 2008. But things are getting better, the unemployment rate is now lower than when Obama took office even when you go along with the GOP's misleading practice of blaming him for the huge job losses that started before he came to office and continued the first two months of his Administration.

        Things are bad, but they have been getting better during this Administration. It's Halftime in America.