Posted on 09/08/2008 8:55:42 AM PDT by markomalley
Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama had a change of heart yesterday about one of his major campaign issues; the Bush Tax Cuts.
The Associated Press quotes Obama as now saying that “he would delay rescinding President Bush's tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.”
Two things struck me about this comment.
First; he uses the term increase. This is the first time I’ve heard him admit that rescinding the Bush cuts would in reality be a tax increase.
Second; he admits that an increase would hurt the economy.
For about as long as he has been running for president, which seems like forever, Obama has been preaching the woes of the Bush Tax Cuts. For those of you in Alma, those are the tax cuts pushed through congress by President Bush that Obama and fellow Democrats claim were “tax breaks for the rich” and are “shrinking the middle class.” Repealing that work of the evil Bush administration was “job one.” So why the change of heart?
(snip)
The bloom is off the rose. The American people are too savvy to be fooled for very long. Obama is losing appeal and is getting desperate. Why else would he embrace one of Bush’s ideas?
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...
Obama makes Jean Kerry look like a pillar of stability.
“he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy”
First he knows there is NO F’ing recession!
Second he is a POS Marxist scumbag.
Obama is PANIC CITY!
You’ve got to be kidding me.
This guy is completely rattled.
Wonder how all his flip floping and heading for the right is playing at the left wing sites
We can now queue up Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Free Fallin
Electing Obama is 8 more years of George Bush
0bama and the dims are starting to look like an ant hill being attacked on a sunny day by a kid with a magnifying glass.
Obamanation ... the human weather vane
He was for the tax hike before he was against it.
If leftists weren’t immune to logic,
you could ask them why high taxes are bad for the economy in a recession but not otherwise.
Of course, 0bama style taxation isn’t about the economy or revenue,
it’s about “fairness”, ie, punishing success as any good Marxist likes to do.
Second he is a POS Marxist scumbag.
I agree with your two points but disagree with the order.
Can’t he just finish his waffle?
Hmmm, I thought it was this Bush tax cut that caused the recession? This is a major flip late in the game, one I don’t think Obama can recover from.
Think he will run this by the legislative branch?
Since they know he's lying (and that he is a Marxist at heart), they probably don't mind. I'm sure they are cheering him on to tell the public whatever it takes ... The problem is that he can't erase the past 2 years of tapes -- and even though the Media won't hold him accountable for his 'inconsistencies' - he'll get drubbed by his opponents...
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