The Soul of America

Talking Points Memo points out this morning that Mitt Romney's

rhetoric casts [the 2012 presidential election] with Obama as nothing less than an existential struggle for America’s future.

Well, of course it does.

Didn't BO win the 2008 election in exactly the same way? By promising via "change we could believe in" to eradicate the excesses of the Bush years? This "change" was to include, among other things, ending the use of torture, ending spying on Americans, and ending two senseless wars. We all know how empty those promises turned out to be.

So Romney can talk about American entitlement programs all he wants. While it's obviously a smoke screen for Iowa Republicans' racism, his call for radical change is hardly unprecedented.