The audacity of hype
"Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need in order to fulfill its fairy-tale promises." George Will, Aug. 24, 2008, WaPo, WSJ"Despite the incessantly repeated mantra of "change," Barack Obama's politics is as old as the New Deal and he is behind the curve when it comes to today's economy. . . Barack Obama's "change" is a recycling of the kinds of policies and rhetoric of the New Deal that prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s far beyond the duration of any depression before or since." Thomas Sowell, Aug. 30, 2008
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I agree with Will's assessment.
Bush has bankrupted America's coffers and we now owe a frighteningly large sum of money to the Chinese. Most of Obama's goals will be pipe dreams until we can restore the nation's economy and rebuild middle class prosperity, something that McCain fails to understand.
The main reason that I support Obama is because we need someone with a solid grasp of foreign policy back in the White House. If Gore or Obama were president, they wouldn't have ignored the warnings in the PDB's or sat and read My Pet Goat while the nation was under attack. And they wouldn't have invaded Iraq--which both Powell and Condi admitted was not a threat. They also would have caught bin Laden in Tora Bora instead of ordering our troops to stand down and let him escape.
McCain's uneven temperament, his jokes about bombing Iran--whose people are pro-America even though the government is not, and his incredible failure to understand the difference between Sunni and Shia frightens me.
Hurricane Gustav also offers painful reminders of the reason that we need competent government here at home, a need that I fear McCain and Palin are woefully unequipped to meet.
NOLA--Democrat's example of how to face a disaster.
You're certainly right about Bush and spending. He cut taxes and more revenue poured into the gov't coffers and he and Congress spent like a drunken Kennedy. Obama will raise taxes, and the rich will find the loopholes. He wants to punish ingenuity and risk. You and I will pay.
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