Posted on 05/20/2009 10:27:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barbour: Obama a snake charmer By: Andrew Glass May 20, 2009 12:53 PM EST
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) predicted Wednesday that despite his current popularity in the polls, President Barack Obama will eventually suffer the same reversal of political fortune that befell President Bill Clinton in 1994.
“What they have in common is that everything for them is political. They wage a perpetual campaign. They are both extraordinary politicians. Either one of them could charm the skin off a snake,” Barbour told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
Barbour, who was handily reelected to a second term in 2007, served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997. Barbour linked Clinton’s unpopular efforts to raise taxes and to reform health policy in 1993 to the GOP’s capture of both the Senate and House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years.
The difference, Barbour suggested, is that Clinton, in time, made his peace with the Ronald Reagan revolution, informing Congress that the era of big government is over.
“His policies were liberal, but not nearly as far left as those of Obama,” Barbour said.
By contrast, Barbour went on, “Obama has given up on capitalism. ... He is expanding the size of government beyond anything that anyone previously dreamed of. His efforts to deal with climate change by executive fiat would impose an enormous [energy] tax on the poor and the working class, dragging down the American economy.”
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I like Haley Barbour.
ROTFLMAO
that’s about the size of it
promise the idiot voters the moon
then do whatever the folk you please
fly the Air Force down the Hudson laughing your ass off
have a boyfriend in the White House
bow to the Saudi “king”
maul the ugly Queen of England, give a cheapo dvd set to the Prime Minister
apologize for being insulting to barbarian cultures
threaten investors with siccing the loser white house press dogs on them
need I go on
Barbour is making the (likely erroneous) assumption that Obama had ever believed in capitalism in the first place and just recently gave up on it. Looking at who his mentors have been, I doubt that he ever saw capitalism as anything but a host to his plans for a more totalitarian future.
Obama has never been for individual economic freedom, private property or the free enterprise system known as "capitalism." He has hated captialism because at his core he is a Marxist/communist tyrant. Welcome all to Mugabe Zimbabwe America.
Mr. Barbour holds back his punches. Obama never gave up on Capitalism as he has NEVER by education or associations been a capitalist advocate his entire life. He has been and is a revolutionary marxist with encultured Chicago political machine attributes, and it shows very clearly now in a blizzard of unprecedented actions and new associations world-wide.
Perhaps you could be the first Republican with the cojones to stand up and call
But no, you gotta play it cutsie.
replace the word Captitalism with Freedom in every context to get the rest of the country to notice it. The C word makes voters tune out. They think it means wall street and BMW’s. They do not get that it really means both Mom and Pop’s hardware store AND Home Depot. The kid’s lemonade stand, AND Bob’s new pizza business. The opposite of Capitalism is always the same as the opposite of Freedom.
When is the last time Obama mentioned personal freedom, freedom of movement, freedom to live where and how one wants, freedom to do what one decides for himself is best for his own interest. He only mentions these as evils.
Well said. Freedom is a much more powerful word. I hope Rush, Hannity, Steele and the boys pick up on this.
Screw you, Haley.
0bama’s gonna make Bill Clinton look like a piker when it comes to avoiding hard issues that could affect his poll ratings.
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