Of course I could be reading this statement the wrong way.

http://www.barackobama.com/taxes/
“Obama will ask the wealthiest 2% of families to give back a portion of the tax cuts they have received over the past eight years to ensure we are restoring fairness and returning to fiscal responsibility.”

It could be interpreted as Obama will ask Congress to repeal tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 2% of the population because he feels that would be the right thing to do. That would be an honest statement and might actually imply what is meant. How it reads now is Obama will ask the rich to pay more tax on prior-year’s incomes.