OH DEAR, DID HE REALLY SAY IT? – AT 10:27 A.M. ET:  Is Obama losing his campaigner touch?  Out on the campaign trail he said this, from The Weekly Standard:

President Obama, speaking in Virginia, said, "We don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country."

"This country doesn’t just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top. It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy doesn’t grow from the top down -- it grows from the middle out. We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country," said Obama. "But we do believe in opportunity. We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules."

COMMENT:  If I were Romney I'd take that quote about success, frame it, and use it every day.  The Obama administration has utter contempt for success.   Everyone in America who's helped build a small business and is trying now should be exposed to that quote.

As far as the rest of it is concerned, yeah right.  Everyone sure is encouraged to play by the same rules by the Obamans.  Try drilling for desperately needed oil on public lands.  Every obstacle is thrown in your face.  If you're a woman trying to start a business and run into EPA bureaucrats, forget about it.  You're cooked.  But if you're on the Obaman "most favored" list, like certain public employees and members' of teachers' unions, you have protection, and I don't in any way mean to demean public employees who do an honest job.

What a bunch.  "We don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country."  Let's get a megaphone out there and use it.

October 6,  2012