| By Portege on Saturday, July 09, 2011 - 11:06 am: Edit |
Admin: moved from "It had to happen sometime...Obama attacking Social Security!"
You guessed it. Obama is on the attack with Social Security and Medicare.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/09/partisan-rhetoric-may-shrink-deficit-aspirations/
Not that I was all that surprised. Eventually it had to fall. This couldnt have gone on forever...
| By Portege on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 06:11 pm: Edit |
Admin: moved from "Obamas Demagogic Style"
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271410
At various times, Barack Obama has lashed out at those who wished to refuse to raise the debt limit, although as a senator that is just how he voted. He deplored the polluting effects of big money in campaigns, only to raise more Wall Street cash than anyone else in presidential history — as he became the first candidate to reject the public financing of general-election presidential campaigns and the limitations on fundraising that such four-decade-old laws entailed. He once decried the very idea of not applying the War Powers Act that as president he has completely ignored. He insisted that drilling and increased supply had little effect on oil-price stability — but maintained that releasing a small amount of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve most surely would. The once-demonized Bush protocols — Guantanamo, tribunals, renditions, intercepts, wiretaps, Predators, Iraq, preventive detention — have been embraced or indeed expanded.
There is never a systematic agenda, a defined foreign policy. Instead, amid a fuzzy ideology of hope and change and spread the wealth, almost any position can be embraced one day and summarily rejected the next — no new taxes in December 2010, lots of them in June 2011; shovel-ready stimulus is once essential, but soon proves not so shovel-ready after all; new federal health care is mandatory, but so are 1,400 exemptions from it — depending on perceptions of what might win over a majority.
What impresses about Barack Obama is his ability to take an ancient art, refine it with an Ivy League veneer, and become a new, cool version of the old Cleon.