Obamaworld (VDH)

RealClearPolitics.com ^ | 6/18/2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Are you confused by all that has changed since President Barack Obama took office in January? If so, you're not alone. Perhaps, though, this handy guide to Age of Obama "logic" might be of some assistance.

1. The Budget. Wanting to cut $17 billion from the budget, as President Obama has promised, is proof of financial responsibility. Borrowing $1.84 trillion this year for new programs is "stimulus." The old phrase "out-of-control spending" is inoperative.

2. Unemployment. The number of jobs theoretically saved, or created, by new government policies - not the actual percentage of Americans out of work, or the total number of jobs lost - is now the far better indicator of unemployment.

3. The Private Sector. Nationalizing much of the auto and financial industries, while regulating executive compensation, is an indication of our new government's repeatedly stated reluctance to interfere in the private sector.

[WVKayaker]

My cat!

[Texas Fossil]

ObamaWorld = Classic Doublespeak

[Former Proud Canadian]

Kind of scary, isn’t it?

[netmilsmom]

KIND OF?

No, is.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

He's a natural born liar!

Just like his real dad...the truth just isn't in him.

[Former Proud Canadian]

These are not good times. Nevertheless, I can’t help feeling that there is some faction of dem house members who don’t want to lose the republic, or their seats. They have to come to their senses soon.

[Scotswife]

democrats?
Come to their senses?

BWAAAHAAAHAAA!

[Tolik]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:

Voting Present on Iran. Thugophilia Isn't Moral. The New Old Realism

Reflections on the Iranian Enigma. The World Turned Upside Down

Still a Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson on Letterman, Wright + Thoughts on a Creepy Culture]

Just Make Stuff Up. President Obama’s war on the truth

A Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson tears apart the creep, a.k.a David Letterman]

Our Historically Challenged President. A list of distortions

I No Longer Quite Believe ... [Victor Davis Hanson on Orwellian media & science, race relations]

It's Better When You Wake Up Body-Snatched . . .

The Reckoning. Obama Versus the Way of the Universe

The Age of Middle East Atonement. Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work

Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?

Multiculturalism Trumps Freedom?

Sotomayor’s Mistake. The diversity mess

The Affirmative-Action Aristocracy?

Lost in the Labyrinth of Race

Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis - All the Time ... if Iran gets the bomb

Ministers of Truth

Euroamericans?

Is America Premodern or Postmodern?

President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record

Cracks in the Facade. Fissures in the Obama Totem

Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal? And how can they get it back?

Americans Want It Both Ways Our Have-It-Both-Ways Generation

Our Jekyll and Hyde President. More radical than Jimmy Carter v smoother centrist than Bill Clinton?

Crazy Times — Crazier Times to Follow - when nonsense is passed off as wisdom

Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]

 President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense

Thoughts About Depressed Americans

Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]

 Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]

Just a partial list. More at the link:  http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index

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[dennisw]

GWBush was inarticulate...so they say

The American people got their hearts desire. A snake oil salesman. A charlatan. A man who will say any lie he thinks he can get away with

0bobo voters love to be lied to
“Tell me lies tell me sweet little lies” - Fleetwood Mac

[RU88]

Obama would make Orwell blush. All of his double speak is going to do come back and bite him right in the arse.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

” Nevertheless, I can’t help feeling that there is some faction of dem house members who don’t want to lose the republic, or their seats. They have to come to their senses soon.”
The only thing a DemonRAT fears is losing their power and privileges associated with their getting reelected. They have no other guiding principles, so don't make the mistake of attributing higher or more noble motives to them. Politicians, and primarily DemonRAT politicians no longer fear us, the citizens, it is we who now live more in fear of our government than we do of foreign terrorists.
They have created a larger balance of permanent voting block welfare recipients that are going to be very difficult to overcome. They have learned to game the system masterfully, and they have the majority of media outlets on their side.
They are stacking the courts in their favor, and they are expert at keeping conservatives off the bench when they are out of the majority. The Republicans are not only lost in the wilderness, they are being kept there by the media.
Who do you see the media interviewing for opposing viewpoints, if they even bother? John McCain. I've lost all respect for senator McCain, and the reasons are many. Primarily because he's more interested in maintaining the “collegial spirit” among his fellow legislators than he is on standing up for principles.
We see daily Unconstitutional power grabs by the administration, and not a peep of protest from the Republicans. How are we to take back control of an out of control government when no one in the government is on our side? We need not only bigger and better turnouts at “tea party” events, but we need undeniably large demonstrations in Washington. And they must be when congress is not out on vacation.

[SC Swamp Fox]

That list is double-plus good!

[gogogodzilla]

That’s not a cat, that’s a dogbird in Obamaland!

[netmilsmom]

Geez I hope so.

[WVKayaker]

I just had a coversation with my mechanic while replacing some wheel bearings. I asked if he had heard about the Walpin firing. He gets his news from local papers and tv. He had not!
I explained it to him (62 yo) and he shook his head. I shook mine, too. I will be in DC for the 4th. I hope to see lots of folk protesting. If those who see what is happening in Iran would get some fervor, we could take our country back without firing a shot!!!

[ThreePuttinDude]

GWBush was inarticulate...so they say

It appeared to me, "W" had a hard time reading the teleprompter.
When he was speaking from the heart off script, he was as good as any of them.
But that's just my opinion.

TPD