Here’s President Obama on 60 Minutes tonight:
“Well, I think that— as a general proposition, you don’t want to be passing laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals…And as a general proposition, I think you certainly don’t want to use the tax code—is to punish people.”
And here’s candidate Obama last year:
Mr. Obama, by contrast, started out much more directly, suggesting that if you make $150,000 or less you may be poor or middle class. A family with an income above $250,000, he went on to say, is “doing well.” And if you find yourself in that category, he’s going to target you for a tax hike — all in the name of creating “a sense of balance, and fairness in our tax code.”
So — what will Obama actually do? He talks a great centrist game, even to the point of hiring all kinds of former Clintonites. But when push comes to shove — and these days, that happens almost hourly — President Obama rarely misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to swing to the left.
Taxes are going up. Sometimes directly, as “on the rich.” Sometimes indirectly, as the savings of the middle class are inflated away. And mostly way-indirectly, as the poor are kept poor thanks to Obama’s budgets putting the economy on permanent slowdown.
Deal with it: He won.
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1. Mark L:The days pass slowly but the years blow by.
Mar 22, 2009 - 11:08 pm 2. RobertG:2010: Get a filibuster able senate and pick up a bunch of house seats.
2012: Throw Prez Obama out. Replace him with someone with the stones of Palin but doesn’t spook the RINO elitists. Take back the Senate and the House. Try and undo the damage done by the donkeys.
Oh I do believe the Real Obama stood up writing his racist, socialist screed “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, when he befriended Weather Underground Founder William Ayres, when he sat in Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Black Supremest-God D–n America Church for twenty years; yes I do believe Presidential Candidate Obama was being quite honest talking of Bitter Clingers, referring to our Constitution as a Bill of Negative Rights.
We KNOW who he is: a bitter, resentful out for revenge thug. When his wife referred to America as as “Down right mean country” there was no disconnect. The Obama’s have a chip on their mutual shoulder as does their mentors David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel and Eric Holder. They want payback against “the man” and will do what it takes to get it.
Will the Real Obama Please Shut Up? Not until he crows over our prostate corpse he won’t-Obama is a true believer.
Mar 23, 2009 - 6:43 am 3. AlanJW:RobertG is 100% correct. If the MSM had done its proper job of vetting the candidate we would not be in this mess. I hope they’re satisfied!
Mar 23, 2009 - 8:49 am 4. HRPKathy:“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”
Mar 23, 2009 - 8:55 am 5. ked5:I grew up with the understanding actions speak louder than words.
well, this guys actions before the election screamed, someone to stay away from! Pity more weren’t listening.
Mar 23, 2009 - 8:57 am 6. BackwardsBoy:We’ve just elected our first Un-American President into office.
Mar 23, 2009 - 8:59 am 7. ITOLDUSO:The unqualified elected by the uninformed and the ignorant.
Mar 23, 2009 - 10:30 am 8. arhooley:I don’t want to wait four years. We’ve got to catch this guy in a crime. It shouldn’t be that hard, actually.
Mar 23, 2009 - 10:32 am 9. Carolb:“If the MSM had done its proper job of vetting the candidate we would not be in this mess.”
I’m not so sure about that. “America” wanted its black president. Even now, I know people who know the truth about Obama but still support him wholeheartedly. Their excuse is always, McCain would have been worse.
Mar 23, 2009 - 10:53 am 10. RobertG:McCain would have been worse? Not much better anyway–2008 was not a good year-2009 will be worse.
Mar 23, 2009 - 12:15 pm 11. Tito:6. BackwardsBoy:
We’ve just elected our first Un-American President into office.
He’s actually the second. The first was also a novelty candidate, a “born again” Southerner who never met an enemy he didn’t trust or a friend he didn’t betray.
Mar 23, 2009 - 4:34 pm 12. Mark L:Arhooley: What kind of crime to you have in mind? Most polical corruption outside of Chicago is done in the open, like earmarks and for campaign contributions. Maybe Prez O will sell off an ambassadorship and get caught?
Mar 23, 2009 - 5:12 pm 13. jerry:Obama, another tax & spend lefty & bla bla bla..
socialist…class warefare & bla bla bla.
This is what you’re left with when you are a water carrying ideologue.
Everyone lies but when you are part of The Lying Rug
republican party it becomes compulsive by necessity.
Of course, Obama is actually including the Iraq war
in this “big Govn’t” spending budget.
Let’s see, 1989 Daddy Bush 41 spends 75 billion
bailing out Texas S&L’s, half the national S&L expenditure.
Socialism for rich Texans. 2008 Bush 43 not only
“drowns the beast” but takes the
entire domestic & global economy with him.
This is no coincidence, this has been the republican creed since
the cold war ended. Socialism for the rich, again.
Blame George Soros & Dodd. It’s better than thinking.
Mar 23, 2009 - 5:29 pm 14. FreedomLover:Picture VP Palin & the side show President McCain
in office right now. Now that’s some painful s**t.
Thank you, non-taxpaying ignorant voters, for our current President. We can only hope that a few years of undiluted liberalism results in a long conservative backlash that restores America.
Mar 23, 2009 - 5:34 pm 15. Class Clown:I have a short term solution. He can be president, while we hire someone competent to actually do the work. Obama could then hold the office, but just function as the national spokesman. Granted, he isn’t doing a great job of that either (see: Gordon Brown gift, message to Iran), but since he would no longer have any real power, he couldn’t cause as much damage.
Instead, he could be like a sports team mascot. Every time there is a lull, he comes out and leads a cheer, but in the end his antics are harmless because everyone knows they don’t have to take him seriously.
Now c’mon everyone! Let’s do the Wave!
Mar 23, 2009 - 6:18 pm 16. Jeff Perren:Clintonites are about as centrist as Chavez. Sheesh.
Mar 23, 2009 - 6:50 pm 17. JackJ:RogertG, you might change the prostate to prostrate. Unless you were talking about male corpses, most of which have prostates.
Mar 23, 2009 - 7:07 pm 18. kenny komodo:Maybe what we need to do is create a new position, call it Prime Minister of National Policy or something and give that to Obambi and then hold a new election. I don’t want Biden as President either cause he’s even dumber then Obambi if that’s possible.
Mar 23, 2009 - 10:20 pm 19. jon:Yeah, impeach him. President Biden will so be your favored enemy of the Left. And third in line? President Pelosi. Next? I guess Robert Byrd may not quite be your man, but I guess he might be getting closer to what some of you may wish for. And if he gets run off on a rail, we get another President Clinton. After that, T-Bill Timmy.
I don’t see many Republicans in line to be President, so take Mr. Green’s advice and deal with it.
Mar 24, 2009 - 6:16 am 20. McGehee:Jon, that’s why I’m thinking we should wait until after the 2010 elections.
Although, if a Congress headed by Pelosi, et al, were to vote to impeach their own guy, that would suggest things are actually worse than we here think. Wouldn’t you say? So maybe trading in President Bonehead Teleprompterpants for Spongebob Hairplugs might actually be an improvement even from the Dems’ point of view?
Mar 24, 2009 - 9:50 am 21. jon:I’ve seen two successful impeachments in my lifetime: Governor Evan Mecham in Arizona and the recent Governor Blegojevich (did I spell in correctly? does it matter anymore?) from Illinois. In each case, their own party had to turn on them for it to be successful. And in each case, the next guy wasn’t like the old guy (or a guy at all, in the Arizona example.) Impeachment is a showtrial: it’s intended to either make the politician embarrassed if there aren’t enough votes to convict, or it’s to get rid of political deadweight if there is.
Obama is far from being dead weight for the Democrats. Impeachment just isn’t going to happen unless Obama is caught with a dead girl or live boy, and even then the votes might not be there. This is the United States Senate we’re talking about, after all.
Mar 24, 2009 - 10:23 pm 22. Stephen Green:Jon has this on dead to rights.
Not even the Republican Senate could remove Bill Clinton from office. Of course, I think that was a good thing, legally, morally, and politically.
But take that with a grain of salt, because I might have been the only person in the world happy with the outcome of Clinton’s impeachment. He stained the Oval Office, Congress stained his record. Karmic perfection, if there is such a thing.
Anything more lenient, and Clinton would have gotten off too easily. Anything more stringent, and we’d have gotten saddled with President Gore, maybe until 2004.
Shudder.
Anyway.
Nixon didn’t resign until Barry Frickin’ Goldwater, Mr. Republican himself, went to the White House to tell him he didn’t have the votes. Does anyone here honestly think there’s a powerful Democrat on the Hill with that kind of moxie?
Furthermore, while I think Obama is wrong, wrong, wrong on everything regarding pretty much anything, he hasn’t (unlike Nixon) committed any crimes.
Obama is here to stay. For at least four years. Deal with that fact rationally, and you’ll maintain some slim chance of preventing his worst excesses.
Mar 24, 2009 - 10:33 pm 23. jon:I honestly think that the GOP Senate didn’t want President Gore. He could have been okay, and running against Clinton was the best thing they had going for them. George W. Bush didn’t come from a distinguished field, after all. (Nor did Gore, but that’s another story.)
Mar 25, 2009 - 5:29 am 24. jrp61356:As much as I disliked Clinton, I did not support the attempt to remove him from office. I believe that if it had succeeded, it would have given the Democrats the precedence they would need to remove a future Republican from office, if for no other reason than spite and revenge. That being said, I see it as an extremely small probability that the Pied Piper will be removed prior to the 2012 elections. We can only hope that by that time, enough people in this country will have seen him for what he truly is to know that we could not bear another four years of “Hope and Change.”
Mar 26, 2009 - 1:14 pm 25. CB:Jerry you’re not too bright to bring what you brought into the debate.
The S&L, BLAH BLAH BLAH – That’s right because of his father GW was elected – happy? Moronic but that’s all you have, right?
Six-years of economic growth by GW – it could have been eight if not for your thieving bastards in congress – you know them well – Frank, Dodd, Pelosi and the rest of the gang – you know the lowest rated congress in recent history.
Imbeciles like yourself are apologists for Obama and his lackeys because you voted for a bumper sticker and the color of skin, not the content of the character – hmm where did I hear that before?
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