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I think Obama has all the characteristics

of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the bad ones.

You mean to tell me that the greatest transition team in modern memory would not understand that their nominee for Treasury Sectretary had not paid any taxes?  And for the press to sit there and allow this man to skate by with a “eh, it’s just an oversight?” is appalling.  We need to beat this drumbeat as often as possible.

The stimulus seems to be geared to send us back to 1977-1981 when we had out of control inflation and intrest rates soared.  It was also the last time that unemployment hit 10%.  I suppose Bush will take the fall for the first six months or so, but we must make this Obama’s as soon as possible. 

As an aside, I noticed that Obama went to George Will’s house and had an off-the-record dinner with some of the “right”.  Now I give him credit for meeting with some of my favorite people in the right wing sphere, namely Larry Kudlow, but I hope they don’t lay off his horrendous policy choices.  Just because Obama meets with our people does not mean he will enact a restrained conservative policy alternative, or even give credence to such views.  He is the president, and I hope we are a bit more classy and respectful than the left over the previous eight years, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that what Obama and the Democrats want to do will destroy America as we know it.  I hope our columnists and “thinkers” on the right don’t fall for the “He acknowledged us!” meme and go light on Obama and his administration.

COMMENTS

  • docbob

    When I was growing up, I lived in fear of bringing home a bad report card. If we want to make the dems. own it, we need to run it an economic report card every Sunday in local newspapers, with pictures of Reid/Pelosi with the local Congressman and underneath have 3 columns. a) 2006 b)Nov. 2008 c)current. Then underneath 1)price of a gallon of gas 2)Dow Jones ave. 3) inflation rate 4)unemployment rate 5) deficit. This will enable us to present facts and stop the spin.

    • jonathanswift

      The right approach.

  • Rod_Patrick
  • izoneguy

    Yep, that is my take on it. After 6 months of sliding downhill the mantra of “it’s all Bush’s fault” will have no meaning. Just as they say everything the right says is racist. Well, I say the left is about to come up with big fat goose eggs on their “stimulus”. It won’t work and the interest we will have to pay on it will alone sink the economy.

  • CJB68

       You may have called it on this being the next Carter administration.  Obama does have the record of “voting ‘present’” enough times to make it clear that he does not make strong decisions.  Especially if his career is at stake.  It reminds me a little bit too much of what Jimmy Carter seemed to be allowing to happen when he was in the Oval Office.

       I may have been a little kid back in the day, but I was aware of a number of things that were taking effect.  One in particular (comicbooks) did touch me directly, while I was also aware of the media drumbeats on inflation, unemployment and gas lines.  Remember the “misery index”?

       Of course, expect today’s media to try calling it something else (what I call “reinventing the wheel”)…