Posted on 02/23/2009 2:29:15 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Did we elect a president—or hire some kind of Stuart Smalley-like facilitator of a national sensitivity-cum-corporate-motivation session?
Below you’ll find an unexpurgated excerpt from Pres. Obama’s closing remarks at today’s so-called “Fiscal Responsibility Summit.” Really. He actually said this. Not a parody. Read it and try to imagine a leader like Lincoln, Churchill, Reagan . . . Bush—in a billion years—sounding like this in a time of national crisis.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, I want to make sure that the conversation doesn’t end when we go home today. We’ve got a lot of hard choices to make, we need to build off this afternoon’s conversation and work together to forge a consensus. So, one of the things that I’m hoping to do, is that my team–each of whom were taking copious notes during the course of these respective break-out sessions–will issue a report, or a summary of the conversation. It will be distributed to each of the participants in those respective discussions. We will then ask for concrete ideas either about substance or process, and we will ask that you get those back so that we can then issue a final report coming out of this conversation in 30 days. And I think somebody just dubbed it “the fiscal sustainability project.” So, that’s as good of a name as any.
Agreed. Pretty much any name works for this pathetic farrago. The President of the United States of America wasn’t done, though . . .
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