{"id":5780,"date":"2016-02-07T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2016-03-02T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:55:15","slug":"marco-rubio-was-right-about-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/marco-rubio-was-right-about-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Was Right About Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every debate has a moment that everyone remembers long after the debate and campaign has ended. In 2012 it was Rick Perry&#8217;s forgetfulness, last night in New Hampshire it Marco Rubio&#8217;s &#8216;Obama knows what he&#8217;s doing&#8217; exchange with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQUThGwRFMM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The irony? Macro Rubio was right on the substance. Barack Obama set out to fundamentally transform America &#8212; to remake it into a European style social democracy and he has been remarkably successful in doing so. He has successfully transformed U.S. policy on health care, economics, financial regulation, energy, education, taxation, gay rights, Iraq, Iran, Cuba and more.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Senator Rubio&#8217;s point &#8212;\u00a0that President Obama\u2019s inexperience hasn&#8217;t prevented him from achieving what he set out to do was lost when he repeatedly went back to the same talking point right after Gov. Christie called him out on it.<\/p>\n<p>It was painful to watch, that said\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure it matters. It was Sen Rubio&#8217;s first real stumble in 8 debates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/articles\/65409\/rubio%E2%80%99s-debate-disaster#!\" target=\"_blank\">Rubio\u2019s Debate Disaster<\/a> &#8211; <span class=\"authors\">Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/02\/chris-christies-suicide-mission-may-make-this-a-good-night-for-trump-and-kasich.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Christie\u2019s suicide mission may make this a good night for Trump and Kasich<\/a> &#8211; <span class=\"author vcard\">Paul Mirengoff<\/span>, Powerline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every debate has a moment that everyone remembers long after the debate and campaign has ended. In 2012 it was Rick Perry&#8217;s forgetfulness, last night in New Hampshire it Marco Rubio&#8217;s &#8216;Obama knows what he&#8217;s doing&#8217; exchange with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: The irony? Macro Rubio was right on the substance. Barack Obama set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1353,57,1384,304,1357,1382,1383],"class_list":{"0":"post-5780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-2016-elections","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-debates","10":"tag-gop","11":"tag-marco-rubio","12":"tag-new-hampshire","13":"tag-primaries","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5737,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/08\/thoughts-on-donald-trump-and-the-first-gop-primary-debate\/","url_meta":{"origin":5780,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts On Donald Trump and The First GOP Primary Debate","author":"Jeff","date":"August 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, I just realized it\u2019s been almost a year since I\u2019ve posted anything here. 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McCain clearly won on foreign policy but on the economy it was at best a draw. McCain needs to drop the populist rhetoric and stand up for conservative economic principles... In particular\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4717,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/new-yorker-cover-to-feature-empty-chair\/","url_meta":{"origin":5780,"position":4},"title":"New Yorker Cover to Feature Empty Chair","author":"Jeff","date":"October 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just how bad was President Barack Obama's performance in the first presidential debate? This bad: Ouch, score one for Clint Eastwood. 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