Posted on 03/18/2009 4:35:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this:
"As we approach Election Day, the American people should not waste the crisis we find ourselves in.
"Consequently, if elected, I promise to get us over the Bush financial meltdown with a stimulus program that will borrow $787 billion — which, of course, will add to the already sizable deficit (nearly $500 billion) projected in the Bush administration's last budget.
"By March of next year, my new $3.6 trillion budget will include a spending bill with over 8,500 budget earmarks to target in-need constituents.
"In addition to the stimulus/borrowing plan, I intend to devote $634 billion to fund a new supplementary national health care system. But that is not all. Unfortunately, the initial Bush bank bailout of some $700 billion also may well have to be augmented by an additional $750 billion.
"Although my new spending proposals may raise the federal deficit in my first year to $1.75 trillion, I promise the American people that by the end of my first term, I will halve the federal deficit — albeit adding another $3 trillion to $5 trillion to the national debt.
"Those savings can be accomplished by upping the federal income tax to about 40% on those rich 5% of Americans who currently pay only 60% of our aggregate income taxes — as well as lifting Social Security caps on their payroll taxes and cutting out many of their tax deductions.
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He STILL would have won because of his cult following.
that’s the truth.
As I read the article, the recurring thought about the modern Democrats pops up once again. “The adults have left the room.”
“The adults have left the room.” Yup, they have and it is a problem in both parties.
I had the exact same thought yesterday, when mulling over the fiasco of Mr. Brown’s visit.
An adult led operation would not have insulted the Brits the way these bozos did.
Obama told us what he would do. Some of us listened and understood and some of us did not.
He's no mystery.
Exactly ryan71, Obama told us what he would do. The question is and has been for the last 6-9 months, what must be done to stop him? BO is the culmination of the steady advancement of Marxism in our institutions over the last 100 years. We better start listening to each other and quit blaming everyone except the root cause.
Can you imagine what damage this President will have done in the next 3 years?
Ummmm, he DID tell us. All you had to do was have your eyes and ears open. None of this is a surprise to me. the shocking thing is the number of people who are surprised. That willful hopey-changey ignorance sure is blissful...
Most FR threads, I'm hearing that GW Bush and the GOP is the root cause, not the marxists and the terrorists. Sad.
If Ronald Reagan were a Freeper today, his "11th commandment" would be his tagline.
Many of us aren't surprised at all at what Obama has done and how he has done it. It was obvious from looking at experience, voting record, associations, his actions during previous campaigns using every legal trick to get people knocked off the ballot, his murky, slimy affirmative action education and “business” record, and the empty rhetoric of a tin hat dictator, etc., that Obama was going to be a demagogue cynically using any manipulative device to push a lefty power grab.
Blacks would still have voted for him 96% no matter what he said and did because 1.) he is a democrat, and 2.) he is black.
White guilt neurotics and brain dead hopeychangers would still have voted for him because Obama was the empty vessel they filled with all their childish idealistic hopes and dreams, so there was never an correspondence with reality among those types.
If Obama had said plainly that he was going to use any crisis and manipulative misdirection to push the most radical earmark filled pork laden bloated legislation possible as fast as possible to attempt to change fundamentally the core relationship that all Americans have with government and what is left of the free markets, it might have swung maybe 1% of the vote. Maybe.
Oh yeah, I can. And I did while justifying voting for McCain despite my having sworn to NEVER vote for him again.
Former President George W. Bush, making his first public speech since leaving office in January, says he wants Barack Obama to succeed and that it's "essential" to support the new leader.
"I love my country a lot more than I love politics," Bush said. "I think it is essential that he be helped in office."
Excuse my ignorance, but what is VDH?
But he also said he was not going to criticize a sitting president. Only one that has no class will do that. The peanut farmer from Georgia, Billy Jeff come to mind
Victor Davis Hanson
policies of a sitting President who is dismantling your policies that kept this nation safe for 7 years against Islamic terrorists, then you are either a fool or an idiot who doesn't give a damn about the safety of this nation. Cheney had the cajones to do just that and I applaud him for it.
You’re right, and thank you for saying it. I feel like getting one of those bumper stickers that says “I’ll treat your Presiden with the same respect as you gave mine.”
Unfortunately, all those supposed conservatives that bashed President Bush contributed to the election of the man who will ruin this country beyond repair.
You never answered what you wanted him to say, so I'll demonstrate for you. You want this report instead:
"I love my country a lot more than I love politics," Bush said. "I think it is essential that he fail in office." Press Secretary Gibbs responded to the outburst, saying "I think the old politics speaks for itself, and that kind of angry rhetoric is why we're in the mess we're in now, etc etc blah blah...so now we see how important Mr Obama's healthcare, climate etc agenda is for change."
Former President George W. Bush attacked Barack Obama , in his first public speech since leaving office in January. Following conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's lead, Bush said it's "essential" for the first black President to fail, and that the GOP should oppose him at every turn.
Are you so blind that you cannot see that anything short of what Bush said would be used AGAINST our cause? Bush is not in a position to help the conservative cause, and the worst thing he could do is attack him. Period. Get over it.
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