Thread: John Boehner: the second of 12 kids from Ohio

By Toby Harnden, Reading, Ohio
Published: 8:09PM BST 17 Sep 2010

The White House is attempting to cling on to Democratic control of Washington by portraying an Ohio congressman who grew up in near poverty as an elitist country club Republican controlled by wealthy lobbyists.

President Barack Obama is doing his best to turn Representative John Boehner, the House minority leader, into Public Enemy Number One. If Republicans win back the House of Representatives in November, as polls indicate, he will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.

In a recent speech, Mr Obama mentioned Mr Boehner by name nine times. A fundraising email sent out from BarackObama.com this week stated that corporate interests and lobbyists “have put all their chips on one man: Congressman John Boehnerâ€

Go ahead, Obama, bring all this to light and you'll be shooting yourself in the foot.

From Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky:

[quote]Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.â€

Painting John Boehner as an "elitist" is going to backfire on the liberal progressives.

If they had done their homework, they would have discovered that Boehner has very humble roots. Unlike the current sitting POTUS, Boehner's life is an open book. He does not have a staff of high paid attorneys to keep his past sealed.

When this miserable excuse for a U.S. president is finally out of the whitehouse, I hope somebody finally investigates this fraud and exposes all of his sham of a life.

He gives me the creeps.