Has The New Car Smell Worn Off?
By Ani on July 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM in 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, David Axelrod, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, New Yorker
Do we really want to nominate a candidate we have to protect, or someone who is going to protect us?
With the collapse of IndyMac and Bear Stearns, mounting home foreclosures, a tanking economy and no end in sight in Iraq, we need someone far smarter and more knowledgeable than we are on matters of foreign and economic policy, national security, and our place in the global community. Someone who regards as sacrosanct the role of the President in upholding our Constitution. Someone who will stand up for what is right. FISA comes to mind. Senator Clinton kept her word and voted against giving telecommunications companies retroactive immunity while Senator Obama blithely reneged on his, throwing the 4th amendment under the bus.
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Senator Obama’s campaign manager, David Axelrod, has done his level best to make you fear – not voting for his candidate. If you don’t vote for Obama, we will consider you a racist. If you don’t vote for him, they will overturn Roe v. Wade, they will nominate conservative Justices, they will keep us in Iraq for 100 years.
Most worrisome to me, however, is that whenever I speak to an Obama supporter, they can give me nothing to rest their hopes for change on. Their number one statement is: “He’ll surround himself with really great people.” This strikes me as code for ‘We are electing a symbol. We know he’s too inexperienced, but the old ‘pols’ will protect and help him.’ So perhaps their faith in his scintillating judgment is not as strong as they pretend.
Congressional approval is at an all time low. Nancy Pelosi, once elected Speaker, turned from a tiger into a pussycat, and with her pasty smile, said “impeachment is off the table.” Democrats have taken nary a bite out of Bush since they took back Congress, making their integrity suspect. Are these really the people you want whispering in Obama’s ear?
Now, apparently, we are not even allowed to poke fun at Senator Obama – so thin is his skin. Oh, let me not mention the word skin, lest that be taken the wrong way. What are his supporters so afraid of?
Do they secretly realize with all his policy flips flops, gross inexperience, and 20 years of nefarious, crooked and divisive associations that he is hanging on by a thin thread as it is?
This week, we saw more evidence of the thin-skinned Obama campaign.
The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle has everyone up in arms over the possibility that we are either offending or besmirching the chosen one. Regardless of whether one thinks this cartoon is great satire or misses the mark, if Senator Obama’s skin is that thin, what is he doing running for the highest and toughest office in the world?
Even the LA Times, and the NY Times’ otherwise inexcusable Maureen Dowd, both long on the Obama bandwagon, were making fun of the humorless Obama campaign.
What if Hillary Clinton had behaved this way, taking issue with every negative, smarmy or unfair depiction of her? She would never have had a moment to campaign, being too preoccupied fighting shadows. Only once did she come out swinging: when David Shuster of MSNBC piggishly asked if the Clintons were “pimping out their daughter Chelsea.”
Doesn’t it make anyone uncomfortable that Barack Obama has enjoyed political cover the likes of which have never been seen before? Hillary enjoyed no such advantage. In fact, it was exactly the opposite.
I don’t want to play tit for tat here. Honestly. But as disgusting as the disrespect and misogyny leveled at her was, and no matter how much her political rivals, aka, the “boys” piled on, no matter the Democratic Party elites stabbing her in the back for their own selfish gain – didn’t it make you feel better knowing that she could handle it?
She actually got taller and stronger the longer the campaign wore on.
The White House pressure cooker is a non-stop stress machine. The President has it coming from all sides, foreign and domestic, and must stand ready to take a pounding like the heavy bag at the gym. The honeymoon is over 20 minutes after the Inauguration, I can assure you. In fact, if the past couple of weeks are any indication, it looks like the bloom is already off the rose.
Are we really saying that Senator Obama does not have the intestinal fortitude to laugh off this magazine cover? That is preposterous. Or was this outrage merely feigned? Another tactic from the brain of Axelrod – get preoccupied about a cartoon, so that the damaging and/or unfavorable contents of the article itself would go largely ignored.
On Larry King Live, Senator Obama just commented The New Yorker cover was an insult to members of the Muslim community. Really? It seems the Muslim community was far more offended when two Muslim women, in traditional dress, were removed from sitting behind him at a photo op. Again, his comments are a diversion, more tactics of fear in order to protect and advantage himself. The only upset is the upset he is fomenting as another distraction from the real issue: him.
Watching how Senator Obama’s fans protect him and the party elites run political interference for him (remember Bush’s remarks at the Knesset), almost makes me feel like I’m at an Al-Anon meeting. We are not here to enable this man. He has to be ‘able’ without our help.
Do you really want to buy four years of this? How will you feel when your student loans keep you in indentured servitude and he has no plan to help but instead continues to be enamored of Reaganomics?
How will you feel when he keeps capitulating on the Constitutional protections this country is built on? How will you feel when women’s rights are further whittled away on Roe v. Wade because late term abortions should not be permitted when, as he so insensitively and cluelessly put it, a woman is “feeling blue”?
The fact that Hillary Clinton, out of the race for the past five weeks, is still polling better than Obama against John McCain should telescope something very significant here.
What will you do in the somewhat unlikely event that Senator Obama is elected? I promise, you will quickly tire of making excuses for him.
“Oh, he’s just running to the center.” The center of what? All his supposed political principles have been thrown out the window. Gun control, women’s rights, Iraq, FISA, the death penalty, NAFTA, and more.
Senator Clinton, as the true progressive in the bunch, evidenced once again with her FISA vote, would need to make no such adjustments. Whether or not you agreed with her on every point – her policy positions were straightforward from the beginning and she would require no waffling or fence-straddling now.
This is no time for a trainee. Fortunately, though the DNC would have you believe otherwise, this situation is not irreversible. There is a very clear path to the stronger candidate and if responsible Super Delegates have any courage, they will take it at the Convention.
Otherwise, please ask yourselves, how long can you protect someone who has shown he has no interest in protecting you?
Your first sentence says it all.
OBAMA CAMPAIGN SCRUBS YOUTUBE PAGE!
Is Obama calling for a National Civilian Stasi?
What is that? The new Democratic Party is the Communist Party? We already have the National Guard, Army Reserve, etc…just what is he promoting, and how does he intend to pay for this? What’s he planning firing squads for those who dare to question or disagree with him? I realize he likes to hang pictures of Che in his offices. I didn’t realize he was going to try and be the reincarnation of Che.
Obama calls for DRAFT
http://www.obama-wire.com/calltoservice.htm
—he also says public service in Military or Peace Corp will be key in his admin.
Standard, I ditto that thought!
Good read, thank you! Glad I was here to catch it.
I agree with you Ani. Obama’s lack of experience, reputation, character and iffy background are all suspect and unnerving. Precisely , in my opinion, why we need Hillary or even McCain on day one. As much as I am leery of another Republican after the last 8 horrendous years of Bush and Cheney, we need some experience at this point in time.
I foresee Obama compounding all the problems and NOT FIXING any of them. He has no skills of value that I can see.
I miss Hillary on the stump so much. I really trust her and value her opinion so much. I need Hillary’s policy “wonkiness” NOW. I want HER to tell me about the banks, foreclosure, oil, the surge, Iran, energy security and the economy. She was so fantastic! She was like a walking power-point presentation. “Here’s the problem. Here is how we fix it”. I need Hillary. We need Hillary. This country needs Hillary.
Tuppence a bag!
Loved that song! And I totally miss Hillary’s Leadership and Skill as well!
A LOT of people were NOT watching her so they have no idea how really TOGETHER and well briefed she generally is………….. just stellar in comparison with ANY of her counter parts in the Senate!
She’s light years ahead of any of them. jmo.
So true…I also miss her a lot.
No matter what the problem..she was able to define it succintly…able to offer a solution.
She exuded a deep understanding of all issues..and a deeper understanding on how to proceed to fix problems.
On the contrary, Obama still has that new car smell, and the smell grows stronger, but it is a very distinct and noticeable smell. Upon its initial use, the catalytic converter in the exhaust system of a new vehicle tends to give off an aroma akin to that of rotten eggs, which is very noticeable.
The new car smell may have worn off but he still stinks.
I talked to an Obama supporter who supports him because he believes he’ll be bipartisan and because of what he says in his speeches. This is someone close to me. It totally baffles me. I asked, on what basis do you believe he’ll be bipartisan, when he has no record of crossing the aisle? I’m convinced it’s white guilt.
What really ticks me off about ‘white guilt’ is that it inevitably afflicts those who like to repent from a distance but would never join the fight.
White people, myself included, who have worked, lived, interacted with, commingled with, communicated with and lived among other ethnic groups feel no such guilt.
The white-guilt-crew are typical NIMBY’S.
How about the military?
We’re all equal in that fox hole!
I second that emotion, Basil. Its not only sad and unforgivable, but I think this schism has been has been conjured up for self servicing purposes and sets our progress back almost 40 years.
I absolutely love the African race; cherish my black friends and family and admire them on a level that that rings the bell with a slight tap on the springboard.
I love soul food, I love the blues. I think the stories are poingnant and Ameicana in it all its glory. I admire the culture and I’m always proud to be invited to join in their celebrations as well those times in gathering to share their grief.
He has made our American brothers and sisters of African descent his personal pawns and has turned a wonderful peoples into a “them”.
He and Axelrod have been fomenting domestic terrorism since the day they got this bright idea.
He makes me sick. Picking scabs on a wound that has been healing for decades now. He’s finally found a use for our people.
Ani, what a great post on every point.
What in the world are we going to do if this opportunist/ imposter is voted into office?
P U M A, courage.
Obama turned AAs into “them” to you? I don’t buy any of that nonsense. If you’re prejudice it isn’t Obama’s fault. It was what was already in you and has been freed due to misplaced anger at the results of the primaries. If I applied your logic, I would dislike all older white women who supported Hillary just because she has fed and nurtured a sense of victimization in you that causes you to hate Obama and support a Republican candidate who shares none of Hillary’s ideas and would work to reverse much of the progress women have achieved in terms of personal rights.
I live in Austin, Texas, and just yesterday I saw a woman with a bumper sticker on her car: it was a picture of Obama with the words: *you will be disappointed.* At a red light, I told her that, given the tone of Austin (hipster) voters, she was very courageous. She told me that an Obama supporter had chased her down a few days earlier - nearly causing an accident - just so she could tell her she was a racist bitch. Unbelievable. Just because this woman had the *audacity* to speak the truth and say something against this joke of a candidate, she was labeled the most vile of terms. I don’t recall Republican supporters being this disgusting towards me, even when I spoke out harshly against Bush, Jr.
I will never vote for Obama. His flock are vitriolic… and unwise.
was she black or white?
I got run off of the road right after the 2004 election, because I still had a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my car. A lot of his supporters act like those 2004 Bushbots. That was one of the first things that gave me pause about his candidacy. Then the more I saw of him, the less I liked him. I thought that I might come around once he became the presumptious nominee, but no deal. I like him less every day.
I got almost run off the road and cursed at and called racist because I had an Edwards sticker on my car in the Winter.
I fear for those in Austin. Those nuts are crazed, and it is not just recreational use of drugs. I believe that the Austinites would become violent. UT was saturated with Obots prior to the primaries. Talk about organization.
How can I get one of those bumper stickers? I LOVE IT! I can slap it next to my “H”
I’m starting a new business selling white guilt credits, works the same as carbon credits.
Perfect!
How would that work (credits) could I be racist some days, as long as I bought 2 credits from the NACP?
Ya, you can buy the right to be racist or protection from being called a racist for no good reason.
I’m thinking also about credits for misogyny,antisemitism and general bigotry.
Absolutely! I had a white 50 year old guy tell me that we OWE it to black people to have BO as president! Never mind that our economy is in the toilet and we have 2 wars to work out…just as long as we do right by the AA community and those abroad who thinks America need a hipper image. Give me a f**king break.
Maybe he meant bisexual.
I want to clarify what was said previously posted.
Apparently Obambi has raised $52 million in June 2008, even though their own surrogates spouted they would raise $100 million or $500 million for the general election.
Obambi would have to raise $100 million/month (June,July,Aug,Sept,Oct)to get to the lofty goal of $500 million.
What many don’t know is that ONLY $2 million of the $52 million raised in June 2008 can be used in the general election, so lets re-crunch the numbers shall we.
Obambi Projection for 5 months to Nov 2008 =$500 mill
$500 mill minus $2 mill for June 2008 = $498 mill
$498 mill divide by remaining 4 months to Nov 2008 =
$124.5 mill a month for July,Aug,Sept,Oct is needed for Obambi to reach his $500 mill.
Me thinks the Obambi
foreignfund raising machine is NOT up to the task, lol.No, because they are now on Fantasy Island.
You wouldn’t know it by the media TOUTS making no mention that only $2 mill can be used for the GE and also their silence on the previous lofty Obambi goal of $500 mill for the GE.
Have faith Dave. Remember that song about the sun coming out tomorrow? We have to have faith. The efforts to dispell the myth are slowly paying off.
If Jesse Jackson can call him a “half breed n___,” then we all know something is amiss in Oz.
We are seeing the cracks. They may be slow, but they are there.
Wow, the new car smell has worn off. It starting to smell like a Katrina car.
He is soooo sensitive to jokes, to critics, etc.
Todays poll at MSNBC (snakes), 51% polled out of current 6992 responses states BO overreacts when it comes to negative comments about his wife as well?
Is there anything in this campaign that smells of roses and not of __________???
You must be trying to say “chit” , lol.
Is there a reason why only $2 is allowed?
Why do you support McCain? I don’t want to hear about his POW experience. What policy does he propose that draws you to him?
I support McCain because he’s not Obama. ‘Nuff said. LOL
I second that. They can call me racist all they want, the guy is a pandering flip flopping fraud.
Obama and his supporters are the racists.
And Hillary and her supporters are just sore losers.
John McCain is my fellow American. He knows where we’ve been and where we’re coming from. He knows where we want to go. His party matters but he doesn’t put it above his fellow Americans.
What is so hot about your race baiting, hate mongering rabbit out of a hat ever do for our country?
If I wanted a song and a dance I’d get tix on Broadway. And if I wanted a rock star I’d hang out at one the great venues/bars in Philly any night of the week.
P U M A is being a true blue American
We support McCain because we don’t support Obama.
The DNC pretends to give us Obama, we choose not to play.
We will not support Obama because of all the reasons stated to infinity.
There’s no reason to waste words or time to cajole any of us into voting for Obama.
We simply want the Ferrari (Clinton) instead of the mo-ped (Obama) for the DNC presidential candidate.
No need on your part to continue to try and sell us a Chicago thug.
No, not moped…rollerblades.
rollerblades LOL -good one or maybe I should have said:
We want the Ferrari (Clinton) instead of the FLIP FLOPS(Obama) for the DNC presidential candidate.
obama is the Yugo of candidates.
No, no. no@ CryBaby!
Not rollerblades (forget about the mo-ped!)
How about a TRICYCLE FOR PRECIOUS OBAMA! (Lou Dobbs called Him “precious” back in March–he can’t stand Barry!)
tricycle?
Baby Mama you beat me to it!
Little sissy la-a limp P O S
That new car smell is starting to reek.
TO INFINITY Buzz
LightyearLatte!haaaahahahah!
and YES to the Ferrari!
I support McCain’s policy of taking the oath of office instead of Obama. That’s about all I have to offer, but it is enough for me.
You can not elect Hillary in 2012, if Obama wins in 2008.
Its maddening, isn’t it, that we P.U.M.A.’s are so bullheaded.
Not everybody here supports McCain.
Read more posts!
Very few people here actually support McCain. We see McCain as a necessary lesser evil to insure that the greater evil (Obama) is not selected.
We are in a war in the middle east. Ob knows zilch. Mccain has EXPERIENCE you on idjit!
He does know his ‘friends’ there. I bet ya $5.00 a cave somwhere in the middle east is on the secret itinerary.
Alsammarae is counting the days and marking off his calendar. He’ll probably be ’spirited’ back into our country with his loot.
Perhaps Hawaii?
How about he loves this country.
Pelosi on CNN now, what a clown (see large necklace with huge multi colored balls, lol). She won’t let a vote on the floor in regards to offshore drilling, thanks a lot, I love paying over $800/month for fuel, azz! Maybe I’ll put a windmill on my vehicle, that’s it.
roflol Dave I want a windmill on my car!!
Good luck with the offshore drilling in California. HAHAHAhahahah
I live in CA and I’ve decided to vote for it. All my family and friends are also going to vote for it. We were going to vote against it. But, if other countries are drilling off our shores. I think American companies should also be allowed. Someone here sent the link to the articles(Thank you). I never realized that was happening. I’ll never agree to drilling in ANWR though. So they better take the compromise and not push it.
Dave,
Do you live in California? Have you ever seen the horrendous effects of oil spills? Do you remember Santa Barbara l969?
It may sound like fun, this offshore oil drilling, especially if you don’t live here by the beach. But we who live here no better. NO OIL DRILLING OFF SHORE! PERIOD!
If I put a windmill up, will I be allowed to use incandescent light bulbs instead of these horrid fluorescents? I’m just saying, if I’m making my own electric can I get these government mandaters off my back?
Are you all on drugs ? This kalidescope of anti-Obama comments - has it no end ?
Um,, this is an anti-Obama site…idiot. Now go back to the evil orange or the other phony progressive sites.
Do you call yourselves progressives, liberals, or just Clinton sycophants?
I have never taken drugs in my life, Obambi an admitted cocaine user can’t say that now can he, lol.
Go away…this is the NoQuarter link not Huffpo.
Why vote for the man who was never elected.
Not until after he is firmly defeatead and retired into the same seat in the Senate that he sprang from. Let him be Illinois’ problem. Here in Ohio we have job losses and home forclosures. Adding him to the mix isn’t in our best interests. NAFTA? Remember that little double speake? Just for some votes? He’s an axx! I can’t wait for that turkey to be deep fried!!!!!
Yeah McCain will be right there for the working family in Ohio. Man, I can’t wait to come back here after the election for the pity party.
Why no, it’s doesn’t have an end.
No Putz. Hang around a lttle longer.
All I request of this most wonderful of all who ever lived is one simple little thing and then I will go elsewhere to do the work that needs to e done.
With all due respect (and I am bowing my head with a pensive gaze into the moonlight) show me the original birth certificate for this contender.
Otherwise, he’s just a pretender.
No rhyme intended, I swear.
So far, he puts Piece Of Shit of the TU variety into the acronym.
Show me. Don’t tell me.
P U M A is not messin’ witcha.
kalidescope???
Are you trippin?
When our country is at war and our economy has dropped like a rock, it’s hardly time for on-the-job training. Thanks Ani, Americans should really think about what you wrote.
I think so, too. Please feel free to forward…
The presidency is not an entry level position.
So they are sure the “old pols” will guide and protect him, hunh? Uh, wasn’t their whole shpiel(sp?) that they were getting rid of old politics and getting something new? How’s that working out for them?
Denver Group Ad to Appear in Congressional Quarterly
http://countusout.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cq_pa_dg7_171.jpg
AWESOME!!
Wow gave me goose bumps! Feel like I’m watching history unfold!
Yay~! ?? I’m scared to be excited. How can they suppress this? Can they ignore it?
Ingenious! A matter of Fact…
I agree also. I’m a bit concerned the new car smell isn’t wearing off enough.
The June fund raising totals were officially released:
Obama $52 million
McCain $22 million
The bad news is he still raising that much.
The good news is it hasn’t increased, which means either he has lost supporters or none of Hillary big money supporters is working for him. Either way that is bad for Obama. And if it is ever proven he is accepting foreign donations, he won’t have a cent.
I don’t know if I agree the Democratic Party is salvageable. It’s not just because of all the undemocratic and terrible things they have done to Hillary and to us and to anoint Obama. It is also because the Democratic majority Congress has been worse than the Republican majority Congress. They have done absolutely nothing for the American people and have actually caused harm.
I fear we have lost the opportunity to start a new democratic (small d) party and take democracy. That is because of fear too - fear we wouldn’t have a chance of winning.
I understand why the Obama disciples are afraid. I don’t know why the Democratic Congress is afraid. I don’t know why Hillary is afraid. (We know Bill isn’t).
We are going to lose our hard won democracy because of fear - and it’s not the fear of not voting for Obama.
The Democratic Party is just fine. Go out there and vote for them down ballot, even if they supported Obama in the primaries.
We want and need a strong Democratic majority in Congress to check the power of our caretaker president, John McCain.
I absolutely agree with that. That has been one of my main reasons for voting for McCain if Hillary doesn’t get the nomination. Unfortunately, we have a Democratic majority in Congress but they are the biggest bunch of wimps I’ve ever seen. They can’t even stand up to a lame duck Pres who is a complete failure to 75% of the country. And Pelosi and Reid are total failures.
I will vote for Dems down-ballot. Where I am most of them supported Hillary anyway. I’m turning Republican - that’s like going from the frying pan into the fire.
Not on a bet. I will be voting straight republican all the way. The *democratic congress* has lost their opportunity, and by rigging this election to push that fool onto the country, they do not deserve more time. Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, all of them, out they go. I am ashamed to have been a member of this *democratic* party and will no longer vote for one of them.
When president Clinton was in the office, he got things done for the “ordinary American” which benefited all American even with the republican majority in the house.
Sen. Clinton, after all she went through, did more for New York, and reach out to the republic in the interest of the American people.
Sen. MacCain does not always vote with the republicans, he is conservative that is republican. He has record for represneting American first, that is a man that is not wastful, there are records that you can thumb through. For Sen. John MacCain, America comes first, and he is not afriad of admitting that he wrong.
What have Sen. Obama done, speeches, copying other people words and shouthing.
As for this
“If you don’t vote for Obama, we will consider you a racist. If you don’t vote for him, they will overturn Roe v. Wade, they will nominate conservative Justices, they will keep us in Iraq for 100 years”
You know the above quote is wrong.
What is worst than not allowing ‘folk’ to cast their votes, the supression of voters right in Michigan and Florida, handicaping Sen. Clinton, hidding behind the rules. Go check it, same thing happened in Chicago.
The same old Chicago politics. We have not forgetton.
What has the democrats dominated house done for you?
Well they did pass the FISA bill, so I can rest easy knowing that I am being spied on. I mean watched over.
Before you cast your vote for McCain, maybe you should consider what 12 continuous years of republican domination have done to you. Nearly every serious problem that the nation is currently faces is a direct result of republican policy and intransigence.
After all those years of republican domination, the democrats have had a majority in the House for only a year and a half. They lack a majority in the Senate.
During that short time they’ve had to contend with a president who governs by issuing classified executive orders and circumvents legistlation with signing statements.
Do you really think they could have somehow reversed the course the republicans have set us on in a mere 18 months?
If we want to see results, it’s also going to take a democratic president.
While Senator McCain may not always vote with the republicans, his votes have been alligned with the policies of George W. Bush fully 95% of the time.
John McCain has told us that “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.” His chief economic advisor, former Senator Phil Gramm, is perhaps the single individual most responsible for the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. It was his year 2000 bill that deregulated the financial industry and allowed for the sub-prime mortgage bundling and swapping that created the mess. It was that same bill that deregulated energy trading, created the “Enron loophole”, and led directly to the Enron disaster that bankrupted thousands. (If you don’t believe me, research it yourself. Look up the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. McCain, by the way, has gone on record defending the Enron loophole.)
Phil Gramm recently summed up America’s economic problems like this:
What’s John McCain’s economic plan? Well, good conservative that he is, he told us he plans to balance the budget by eliminating wasteful government spending. He also tells us he plans to make Bush’s tax cuts permanent–retaining their grossly inequitable favortism toward the very rich. Simultaneously he has plans for an enormously expensive private health insurance scheme, and plans to increase defense spending.
You tell me how the arithmetic works. I’ve looked at it closely, and my conclusion is that it just doesn’t add up to anything but more deficits, more debt, and the futher decline of the dollar and the American economy.
More debt that is Obama. He has stated that he has no plans to balance the budget. Just continue the drunken sailor spending habits that Republicans started.
America can’t afford Obama, he would finish off what Bush started. And we all know that Obamabush doesn’t actually help the little guy. He helps his money men.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0710chapmanjul10,0,7110404.column
“When it comes to spending, though, Obama is even worse. The National Taxpayers Union Foundation added up all the promises made by the two candidates and found that McCain’s would cost taxpayers an extra $68 billion a year. Obama’s add up to $344 billion a year.”
Uh uh.
Here’s part of McCain’s plan for bringing spending into line and reducing the federal deficit, taken directly from a policy paper released by his own campain staff about a week ago:
Got that? Reducing the federal deficit is contingent upon victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s equated the nation’s economic survival with the success of Bush’s war policy.
If that weren’t scary enough, there’s a fundamental illogic in the idea. What he’s saying is this: Once we win the wars, we’ll use the money we save by no longer borrowing to finance them to reduce the deficit.
It’s kinda like saying I’ll stop borrowing money with my credit card so I can use the money I’m saving by not borrowing to pay off my balance.
Psst…It is all borrowed money.
All of Obama’s programs will be funded on the Chinese credit card and he has NO plans to reduce the deficit. Got that?
Because it is right in line with your fundamentally illogical ideas.
Obama has stated he will find the money for his social programs by stopping the war in Iraq and increasing the effort in Afghanistan, with a bulls-eye on Pakistan.
Which is still more borrowed money….and no decrease in spending….and no plans to stop the drunken sailor spending.
Can you say bankruptcy? The dollar can’t handle another President who devalues it.
Bush wacked 40% off of it’s value. Obama is looking to wack another 40% with his printing press spending.
Nevermind what that would do to inflation and prices everywhere.