Barack Obama Thinks You Can’t Count

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 21st at 02:18 PM  | 

[W]hat I’ve proposed, you’ll hear Sen. McCain say, well, he’s proposing a whole bunch of new spending, but actually I’m cutting more than I’m spending so that it will be a net spending cut. -Barack Obama, Second Presidential Debate, October 7, 2008. OBAMA: …[W]hat I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut. I haven’t made a promise about… SCHIEFFER: But you’re | Read More »

Obamises Watch: The Economy Will Now Get Worse

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  December 8th at 02:41 PM  | 

Flip – October 7, 2008: Brokaw: Sen. Obama, time for a discussion. I’m going to begin with you. Are you saying to Mr. Clark (ph) and to the other members of the American television audience that the American economy is going to get much worse before it gets better and they ought to be prepared for that? Obama: No, I am confident about the American | Read More »