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Obama is a Great Pretender
Real Clear Politics ^ | March 09, 2009 | Robert Samuelson

Posted on 03/09/2009 12:36:49 PM PDT by Scanian

WASHINGTON -- To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician -- more honest, more courageous -- please don't examine his administration's budget. If you do, you may sadly conclude that he resembles presidents stretching back to John Kennedy in one crucial respect. He won't tax voters for all the government services they want. That's the main reason we've run budget deficits in 43 of the past 48 years.

Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he's doing things that he isn't, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made "responsibility" a personal theme; the budget's cover line is "A New Era of Responsibility." He says the budget begins "making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline." It doesn't.

With today's depressed economy, big deficits are unavoidable for some years. But let's assume that Obama wins re-election. By his last year, 2016, the economy presumably will have long recovered. What does his final budget look like? Well, it runs a $637 billion deficit, equal to 3.2 percent of the economy (gross domestic product), projects Obama's Office of Management and Budget.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bho2009; budget; husseincanyousee; lies; obama; taxes

1 posted on 03/09/2009 12:36:49 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

The Acting President Obama is better at acting president than he is in doing President. It’s easy to read the teleprompter when the script is written for you.


2 posted on 03/09/2009 12:39:29 PM PDT by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: Scanian

FUBO


3 posted on 03/09/2009 12:39:33 PM PDT by shortstop (FUBO)
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To: Scanian

Yes, and our city is gone...


4 posted on 03/09/2009 12:39:36 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emporer has no pedigree.)
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To: Scanian
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5 posted on 03/09/2009 12:41:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Scanian
Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you might enjoy reading this...'Walking Eagle' Senator BARACK OBAMA was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upstate New York

HE spoke for almost an hour on HIS future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living, should HE one day become the President. HE referred to his career as a Senator, how he had signed 'YES' for every Indian issue that came to his desk for approval. Although the Senator was vague on the details of his plan, he seemed most enthusiastic about his future ideas for helping his 'red sisters and brothers'.

At the conclusion of his speech, the Tribes presented the Senator with a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name - Walking Eagle.

The proud Senator then departed in his motorcade, waving to the crowds.

A news reporter later inquired to the group of chiefs of how they came to select the new name given to the Senator.

They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly.

6 posted on 03/09/2009 12:41:54 PM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: Scanian

He stole the way he walks
He stole the way he talks
He stole the way he laughs so “genuinely”
No, they can’t make a believer out of me!

No, they can’t make a believer out of me!


7 posted on 03/09/2009 12:45:07 PM PDT by DGHoodini (God's gonna getcha!)
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To: Scanian

http://patriotroom.com/article/breakthrough—msm-calls-obama-a-liar—blames-him-for-economy


8 posted on 03/09/2009 12:46:19 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Scanian

From the people who sang it best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXnUEW_OXw


9 posted on 03/09/2009 12:55:10 PM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Scanian

Good article. He gets it.


10 posted on 03/09/2009 12:55:31 PM PDT by x
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To: Past Your Eyes

Little by little, as their wealth dribbles away, some MSM types are getting a clue.


11 posted on 03/09/2009 12:57:56 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

The Resident Pretending Usurper In Chief.


12 posted on 03/09/2009 12:58:55 PM PDT by bvw
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To: x

Zer0’s wall of MSM support is being chipped away by his own incompetence.


13 posted on 03/09/2009 12:59:02 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Go Gordon

Calling a “spade” a “spade”. Kudos to the Native Americans.


14 posted on 03/09/2009 1:03:47 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Scanian
Hussein is a confidence man the likes I have never seen. A criminal grifter.

And his press abets him stealing his citizens wealth, lying, and destroying reputations and lives.

What a sick nation we have become.

15 posted on 03/09/2009 1:04:15 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: 70th Division

This one might suit him better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlyn4XfHPQ&feature=related


16 posted on 03/09/2009 1:37:49 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: Krodg
OMG That was too funny. Back when Roy had hair before plugs. he was one hell of a guitar player. Thanks
17 posted on 03/09/2009 1:45:49 PM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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