Posted on 02/05/2009 6:53:00 AM PST by Michael Eden
Tonight Barack Obama ended his interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper with these words:
"Right now I'm learning an awful lot about the economy. I'm not a trained economist, but I'm spending a lot of time thinking about that so that I can make the very best decisions possible for the American people."Really, you gigantic, colossal hypocrite? "Learning an awful lot about the economy"? "Not a trained economist"? Pardon my language, but just where the hell was all that modesty and honesty when you were tearing out John McCain's throat for his similar admission offered at a time when people were making up their minds and when that little bit of honesty was most important?:
So far, Obama appears to have an edge in the economic argument, bolstered in part by McCain's candor on the issue when he said during the Republican primary, "I am not an expert on Wall Street. I am not an expert on this stuff."Oh, yeah, President O-bum-a, you and your propagandist media lackeys were all over that little outbreak of personal honesty and modesty:
"Mr. McCain … has been shadowed by his statements earlier in the campaign that he is not expert in the subject of the economy" bleated MSNBC.The mainstream media was all over McCain to help their messiah win:
Sen. John McCain's comment from last year that he doesn't understand economics "as well as he should" has dogged him all the way to South America today during a foreign trip meant to burnish his standing as a presidential candidate ready to be a world leader.Damn right, the media dogged him. Dogged him all the way out of the country, and right out of contention. And somehow none of them ever bothered to ask, "Just when the hell did Barack Obama ever become an expert in economics or Wall Street?"
But that didn't stop Obama and his worshipful media acolytes from throwing it in John McCain's face the way Muslims throw battery acid into the faces of their women, did it?
Obama had the "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should" quote memorized to attack John McCain at virtually every single rally. The Obama campaign had an ad that ridiculed McCain entitled, "Don't know much" [about the economy].
Too damn bad we have to find out only now that you don't understand it yourself, Barry. At least John McCain was honest and open about his strengths and weaknesses. You weren't. And in attacking him for his admission, you merely revealed that you don't know much about the virtues of honesty and of avoiding hypocrisy.
Right now, Obama's woeful MIS-understanding of the economy is beginning to seriously hurt us. While John McCain stressed the critical importance of free trade during the campaign, Barack Obama is now beginning to seriously undermine the vital US relationship with trade partners over his socialist union agenda to insert "Buy American" into the so-called stimulus package.
And now, an array of international economic experts (you know, the kind of people who ARE "trained economists") are predicting that Obama's "Buy American" agenda in his stimulus package could actually "stimulate" the next Great Depression.
Meanwhile, this same hypocrite who so dishonestly attacked John McCain for his acknowledgment that he wasn't an economic expert - only to now acknowledge the SAME THING himself after it's too late to do anything about it - has hypocritically appointed tax cheat after tax cheat to his cabinet in spite of all his lofty rhetoric about "changing Washington." He's changed it all right. Thanks to Obama, we now have our first tax cheat serving as Treasury Secretary and head of the IRS. And two of his cabinet appointments (Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer) had to withdraw the same day due to their tax status.
Mark Steyn quipped that this was Obama's version of "pay for play," given that Obama's cabinet picks had to decide how much of their unpaid taxes they would be willing to pay to serve as cabinet members in Obama's administration.
Barack Obama is most certainly not a "trained economist." Hypocrisy, on the other hand, is a subject in which he is clearly most expert, indeed.
Whoops should of kept reading
IYAS9YAS' 401k since Obama was elected in primaries - down 45%
Our only hope is that America can survive this until we can put the adults back in charge. He's counting on the Clinton retreads to bring back the "Clinton economy." Not going to happen.
Right - McCain said it before the election, and Obama after.
Imagine if the situation were reversed - Obama spoke before the election, lost, and then President McCain said what he said two weeks after the swearing in.
And then compare the coverage this statement will receive to the (hypothetical) coverage in my scenario.
Maybe a long way to go to make a point, but there it is.
So—how many of our presidents have been trained economists?
Right on... he's just the figure head (albeit not so bright) of big money thuggery that put him in. They just needed a puppet who dazzled the American idol crowd.
Any self-respecting person without training would just shut up when it comes to expressing opinions in a field in which he admittedly has no training. But O is too narcissistic to ever shut up about anything. His adoring fans in the MSM and the ignorant sheeple have been telling him how great he is for so long, he now believes his own press clippings, notwithstanding his lack of training. Scary.
He is a Saul Alinsky trained radical communist....
I remember an Obama voter in the Texas primary saying that questioning Obama’s lack of experience wasn’t fair because “you have to start somewhere”.
"Senator McCain, Senator Obama, I am providing you both with a large piece of oak tag and a black Sharpie marker. Please, without sharing your work, draw a basic supply and demand graph and label supply, demand, quantity supplied, quantity demanded and equilibrium."
I would put $1000 cash on the barrelhead that neither could do it.
0bambi is out of his league, over his head, and arrogant as hell.
Learning about the economy? He’d ought to start with some US History, IMO. We cannot spend our way out of recession/depression on the wallets of future generations. This was proven in the 1930’s under FDR’s New Deal.
0bambi’s version is properly the ‘Raw Deal’, and the whole country is poised for another BOHICA moment, thanks to arrogant gasbags like Barney Frank, Tim Geithner, Harry Reid, SanFranNan, and the rest of the LibTard DhimmiRats working so diligently to push the US into their utopian socialist mold.
$700 billion, last year. Talk of another $700 billion soon for the banks and such. And, nearly a trillion (not counting interest on the debt) for a Porkumongous LibTard Trip-to-the-Candystore spending nightmare.
For the sake of the nation, people, raise hell with ALL your elected representatives, city council to the US Congress and the White House. Let them know that this insanity will NOT be tolerated any longer.
We owe that much to our children and our grandchildren and all the future generations that will bear the burden of this foolhardy gamesmanship.
I can tell that a lot of people who are commenting only read the title.
Just take a moment. Get in your memory capsule. And rocket back to the unrelenting attack against John McCain by Barack Obama for saying, “I’m not an expert on the economy.”
And then ask yourself how much of a hypocrite Obama was - and is - for doing that.
What in the hell are you blathering about?
How in the world do you get “I’m a marxist” from my article?
Who let you out of that mental institution you’ve obviously been in?
I can tell that a lot of people who are commenting only read the title.Just take a moment. Get in your memory capsule. And rocket back to the unrelenting attack against John McCain by Barack Obama for saying, “I’m not an expert on the economy.”
And then ask yourself how much of a hypocrite Obama was - and is - for doing that.
I can't stand the guy but what do you expect...he's a politician!
In the event that you were talking about Obama, I apologize in advance for my earlier remark. The word “you” addressed to Michael Eden kind of fooled me.
If you were saying the guy who wrote the piece is a marxist idiot, well, I’m back to what I said in my last comment.
As angry as I am at liberals and Democrats, I’m even MORE angry at the media.
We are living in an age of propaganda. People are systematically being fed liberal horsesh!t. It’s just unrelenting. And democracy is doomed if it continues.
No free society can long survive the climate of propaganda we’re in today.
I think he’s referring to Obammy.
I think you’re right.
And most Representatives and most Senators couldn’t do it, either.
Btw, Timothy Geithner gave an interview in Forbes and confessed he “doesn’t like math.”
And now we’ve got a guy who apparently can’t even figure out how to use Turbo Tax running our whole damn economy - because apparently he’s the BEST guy we’ve got to run our economy.
“...not a trained economist...”
-But HE should be in charge of confiscating and spending OUR money for us?!?!?
is above the bamster’s paygrade
Rush is on vacation this week so Bambi gets to make and then step in all his “executive order” cowpies pretty much unchallenged
which is starting to wake up the MSM
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