[92nina]

Our friend from Chicago, Mr. Obama, is ripping the pages out of the old Clinton playbook. Someone should sue for theft and/or vandalism.

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[library user]

They can play with numbers, such as talking about spending reductions—as yet largely unspecified—over 12 years.

As everyone who follows federal budget matters knows, budget outlooks come in 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year varieties.

So when President Obama mentioned 12 years in his speech last Wednesday, a lot of red-light political claptrap alerts started flashing.

This sort of statistical three-card monte works well enough with the Washington press corps and the New York Times editorial board, but it is working less and less with the economic press.

Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2706818/posts