Mother Jones : "With Paul Ryan, Romney Makes the VP Pick Obama Wanted", because from April 2011 Obama has been attacking the Ryan Budget plan to end Medicare and throw more tax breaks at the well-to-do

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For the last 16 months Obama, a very smart politician, understood that Paul Ryan's budget was an ideal target to show the Republicans as bigoted pro-Rich people that wanted a Plutocracy harming the Middle Class and the Poor.

Mother Jones
With Paul Ryan, Romney Makes the VP Pick Obama Wanted
By David Corn
Saturday August 11, 2012

With Paul Ryan, Romney Makes the VP Pick Obama Wanted

Some excerpts :

Throughout the 2011 battles over budget cuts (which nearly caused a government shutdown) and the debt ceiling limit (which nearly caused a financial crisis), Obama kept pointing to the Ryan budget as a plan that would cause hardship for many and reflected a pessimistic and Darwinian GOP vision of the future in which the United States could not afford to invest in education, infrastructure, and innovation—the ingredients necessary for a strong economy that would support a vibrant middle class.

While the Republicans praised individual freedom and the powers of the market (which didn't work too well in the run-up to the crash of 2008) and once again pressed the theology of supply-side tax cuts, Obama emphasized communal action, prudent investments, and responsible deficit-cutting.

The Ryan budget allowed Obama to do all that. Ryan's presence on the ticket will do the same.

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