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America -- What Have You Done
The Spectator ^ | February 7, 2009 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 02/07/2009 4:21:46 PM PST by Iron Munro

President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.

He has been appointing one tax dodger, lobbyist and wheeler-dealer after another. After appointing one official ,Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who had unaccountably forgotten to pay his taxes, he then watched his designated Health Secretary Tom Daschle fall on his sword because he too had taken a tax holiday. Daschle was furthermore a prominent actor in the world of lobbying and influence-peddling. Leon Panetta, Obama’s nominee for Director of the CIA has also, according to the Wall Street Journal, consulted for prominent companies and sat on the board of a public affairs firm that lobbies Congress. The Weekly Standard reports that Secretary of Labour nominee Hilda Solis was not only involved with a private organization lobbying her fellow legislators on a bill that she helped sponsor, but she apparently kept her involvement secret and failed to reveal a clear conflict of interest.

In foreign policy, Obama has started by trashing his own country through grossly misrepresenting its history and grovelling to America’s enemies such as Iran, which has flicked him aside with undiluted contempt.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; buyersremorse; corruption; first100days; firsthundreddays; melaniephillips; neomarxism; obama; obamaregime; taxdodger
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The world has noticed that the swooning and uninformed American electorate has given them as US President a corrupt, incompetent, spoiled brat with nuclear weapons at his fingertips.
1 posted on 02/07/2009 4:21:46 PM PST by Iron Munro
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To: Iron Munro

Obama looks bored stiff in that photo. No wonder he went all pissy at his Dem playdate. He’s cranky, he needs a nap.


2 posted on 02/07/2009 4:23:54 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: Iron Munro

You have committed Obamacide. Similar to Hari-Kari except more painful.


3 posted on 02/07/2009 4:24:07 PM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: Iron Munro
This administration BEGAN after it first consulted enemies of the United States of America.

God help America.

4 posted on 02/07/2009 4:25:07 PM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Iron Munro

‘Twould be impossible for the loonies to admit that Sarah actually WAS more experienced and has already demonstrated infinitely more executive talent than the Obamaloon and his cadre of D- econ and science dunces.

Biden and the Obamaloon. Heh! And...things can only get worse.


5 posted on 02/07/2009 4:27:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Iron Munro

Maybe the rest of the world can provide ‘regime change.’ We’ve done it for some of them.


6 posted on 02/07/2009 4:28:46 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Iron Munro

I like Melanie Phillips, and I understand her dismay and bewilderment at what America has done in this last election. I share it.


7 posted on 02/07/2009 4:28:55 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: Iron Munro

Thanks to Obama, we now KNOW that DEMOCRATS ARE TAX CHEATS!!!! And NOW we KNOW WHY they ALways want to RAISE TAXES because THEY DON’T PAY THEM!!!


8 posted on 02/07/2009 4:30:26 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: Iron Munro

Great piece ~ thanks for posting it! Lady tells it like it is and good for her!

It’s too bad there’s so many idiots in this country that bought into his hope and change BS. I’m afraid this will be worse than Jimmy Carter II.


9 posted on 02/07/2009 4:31:27 PM PST by leapfrog0202
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To: TheWasteLand

Look into her book ‘Londonistan’. She has reason to worry at the way the USA is trending.


10 posted on 02/07/2009 4:33:03 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Iron Munro
America – what have you done?!

Well, for one thing we gave the Euros et. al. who they kept telling us the world wanted. I guess they've never heard the old saw, "be careful what you wish for..."

11 posted on 02/07/2009 4:33:17 PM PST by workerbee (If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
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To: Iron Munro
from the article: this is how I feel in a nutshell:

"And how did the 44th President react to the growing public dismay over the mess he was making? He threw his toys out of the pram -- or perhaps that should read, he got into the pram. For he fled the scene of the disaster and sought the company of seven year-olds instead. As the Telegraph reported:

"‘We were just tired of being in the White House,’ he told a group of excited of seven-year-olds before discussing Batman and reading them a book.

"Tired of being President – after two weeks!

"Tax cheats, pork-barrel politics, ancillary child abuse, incompetence, chaos, treachery and infantilism.

"America – what have you done?!"

12 posted on 02/07/2009 4:33:27 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: Iron Munro; All
For those of you who do not know Melanie Phillips is one of the best writers and political thinkers out there. I never fail to read her columns. It's rare to find so much intelligence coming from the UK. I encourage everyone to read her articles.

And Melanie we didn't all vote for the big fraud.
13 posted on 02/07/2009 4:33:33 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Iron Munro
swooning and uninformed American electorate has given them as US President a corrupt, incompetent, spoiled brat

Ha! The beer goggles have worn off!

There are some folks who are going to have to rethink that Obama tattoo decision. It's sort of like getting a Bernie Madoff tattoo right after plunking down the family fortune on one of his 'great investments'.

14 posted on 02/07/2009 4:33:47 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: Iron Munro
Tax cheats, pork-barrel politics, ancillary child abuse, incompetence, chaos, treachery and infantilism. America – what have you done?!

What we have done is put a person in the office of president who hates America. His entire past is replete with America hating dirtbags. If one has hate and contempt for something and is passionate about that, their intent is then to destroy it. In just three short weeks, it is clear that the agenda put forth by the current president is to destroy America as we have known it.

The sooner Americans wake up and decide not to participate the better chance we will have of salvaging what we can without losing it forever. My ultimate fear is America may be beyond it ability as a whole to have the courage to do what is right. I fear for my children and my children's children....

16 posted on 02/07/2009 4:39:19 PM PST by Born In America (Liberalism proves insanity can be learned....)
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To: Darkwolf377

“Obama looks bored stiff in that photo.”
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He looks like he’s dreaming of his days as a crackhead and stoner, hanging out in da hood with the Acorn thugs, sneaking off with the bimbo who was fired from his campaign. Those were the days, eh, chump?


17 posted on 02/07/2009 4:46:51 PM PST by Canedawg ( I object to taxation without proper representation.)
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To: Iron Munro

That article was harsh,but true.


18 posted on 02/07/2009 4:56:41 PM PST by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: Iron Munro

The cancer has spread and it’s terminal.


19 posted on 02/07/2009 4:57:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Elections have consequences.)
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To: F15Eagle

"Bye bye, America ... you chose ... poorly ........"

20 posted on 02/07/2009 4:58:14 PM PST by Enterprise (A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
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