I haven't heard a single peep out of the very wealthy about how Obama is ruining their lives and livelihood, although I have heard very loud and clear via their desire to push for a Republican president with their exorbitant use of SuperPacs.
Meaning: They're happy that Obama, for the most part, left them the precious ground they gained during Bush's tenure but they want and expect more and more and more tax cuts and givebacks and corporate welfare and corruption and influence and control over the already corrupt government that they now have in their back pockets.
They want the Democrat Party to cease to exist. They want, as has been witnessed by the legislation the Repubs in Congress have been religiously pushing for, every Social Assistance Program the gov't has been providing either privatized or demolished so they can raid the treasury of those funds that go toward supporting such essential assistance that ironically, they themselves have a large part in creating by off-shoring jobs and other such "profit making" policies.
That the Repub Party, as witnessed by their legislative agenda, has been solely focused on helping the wealthy get wealthier while keeping their voting base happy with sloganeering and legislating hyped up single issue social crises, speaks to their purpose in life as an ideology and the pursuit thereof.
I hear nothing coming out the Repubs in Congress about how they plan to raise the living standards of their middle class and poor constituents, about how they are going to provide affordable health care for them, about how they are going to provide jobs for them, other than having their wealthy benefactors become so rich as to have the overflow of such wealth trickle down to their vassals and the peasants that support their way of life.
So to hear from Obama how, under his management, the economy has turned the corner, how efforts are being made to move the nation toward paying attention to the needs of the middle class and the poor, well, it gives me a little hope that things can and do get better for the nation.
I recall the doom and gloom, the visions of the nation sinking into abject poverty and despair, the prophesying of the nation losing its identity as a nation of Christians and upstanding moral values that came out of the Repub spin machine as Obama took office, when absolutely NONE of it came to pass.
This is what the Repubs have been offering the nation since Obama took office. This is what the Repubs in Congress want the nation to believe and to act in accordance with.
Well, too bad, so sad, the nation is moving on despite the visions of horror the RNC has been flooding the media with.
IMO, Obama painted a more accurate picture of what condition the nation is in.