Is Obama Ripping Off the Mask?

By James Lewis

American candidates for president have a predictable trajectory. They begin by telling the party troops that they are really coming from the honest-to-gosh right or left, and then they move steadily toward the great fuzzy middle, so that by election time they end up sounding like Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee. But Obama has been going off the standard script -- most recently by attacking capitalism in radical terms. Namely, "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Democratic senators are reportedly "horrified" by Obama's behavior. Last week, an Obama surrogate was accusing Mitt Romney of being a felon. This is a new low in presidential hardball politics -- at least since LBJ accused Barry Goldwater of wanting to explode nuclear weapons on little girls picking daisies. Ben Shapiro of Breitbart reports the following Obama transcript: Is any of this (use of tax havens) actually illegal? It appears not, but it's impossible to know for sure because Romney refuses to release enough information to let.... (Read Full Article)