Barack Obama ripped off key components of Jon Huntsman's stump speech during his State of the Union address. Obama also recycled Rick Perry's rhetoric and borrowed from Newt Gingrich.
Manufacturing Renewal
Huntsman "made increasing American manufacturing a central tenet of his economic platform" according to Shira Schoenberg of the Boston Globe. It was a centerpiece of his stump speech when he crisscrossed New Hampshire prior to the primary. Huntsman predicted that jobs that had been off-shored were going to be repatriated to the U.S. as foreign countries were losing their cost-competitiveness.
In Peterborough, Huntsman said, "That window is open and we need new policies to take advantage of it," according to the Bangor Daily News.
During his State of the Union address, Obama talked about his "blueprint for an economy that's built to last -- an economy built on American manufacturing," according to the White House transcript.
Obama also adopted Huntsman's "nation building here at home" theme. Huntsman had said the U.S. should not remain behind in Afghanistan for the purpose of nation building. Praising a "new greatest generation" of military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, Huntsman called for nation building here at home.
Talking about the military and his boosting of the Veterans Administration budget, Obama said, "it means enlisting our veterans in the work of rebuilding our nation."
Trust Deficit
Obama also borrowed the climax of Huntsman's stump speech, his "Trust Deficit" theme. Obama vowed to levy a fee on banks to aid mortgage holders whose homes are underwater as it "will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust."
Huntsman took a hard-line against big banks, denouncing the "too big to fail" ethos, according to the Bangor Daily News. Huntsman proposed taxing America's six largest banks to raise revenue to reduce taxes on non-financial corporations, according to Time Magazine.
Obama adopted the same policy, but named a different beneficiary.
Later, Obama said, "I've talked tonight about the deficit of trust between Main Street and Wall Street. But the divide between this city and the rest of the country is at least as bad -- and it seems to get worse every year."
During the January 7 GOP presidential debate, Huntsman said, "...[W]e have a serious trust deficit in this nation. The American people now longer trust our institutions of power. And they no longer trust our elected officials," according to the Washington Post transcript.
Perry & Gingrich
When articulating his energy policy, Obama used Rick Perry's "all-of-the-above" phraseology.
In a May 2010 speech on educational financing, Perry said, "Texas has more nuclear power plants under development than any other state?as we continue to pursue our all-of-the-above strategy to meet our state's power needs," according to his official Web site. It's a phrase Perry used during his presidential campaign.
According to Time, Obama purloined the title of Newt Gingrich's book, "Winning the Future" when he told Congress "Don't let other countries win the race for the future."
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