Obama Takes the Low Road

Obama Takes the Low Road

WASHINGTON - It should be clear by now that Barack Obama will not be running for a second term based on his record over the past four years.

After presiding over the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression, with a wreckage of still high unemployment, reduced incomes, increased poverty and continuing home foreclosures in his wake, Obama's re-election campaign won't be running "morning in America" ads this year.

The kind of campaign he will be running became clear in his campaign speech at a community college in Ohio Wednesday when he leveled this personal jab at former governor Mitt Romney:...