ED MORRISSEY: Obama’s Big Spending Vision Gives Romney an Edge.

In contrast to his 2008 campaign theme of Hope and Change, Obama’s AP speech offered a defense of the status quo, as well as smirking attacks on his presumed foe in the upcoming presidential election. If anyone expected Obama to offer new directions for the US after a three-year period of economic stagnation and a seven-month strategy of class warfare, they would have come away profoundly disappointed.

One might have thought that the man who finally acknowledged over a year and a half ago the fantasy of his promised “shovel-ready jobs” would have a different economic plan for his second term. Instead, Obama offered more of the same.

From “Change” to “Same” in less than four years.