Posted on 10/05/2009 7:51:38 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world….” Shortly thereafter, he used the same phrase as the title of his 2010 budget, which Congress has passed with minor alterations. In these and other ways, the President has made it clear that responsibility is to be the theme of his administration, playing the same role in recruiting popular support that the theme of “change” did during his election campaign.
This theme does seem to resonate with the public. The financial meltdown that has wiped out savings and plunged us into a global recession brought an end to what many people now see as a binge of wild spending and wilder speculation, from which we have awakened with a ghastly hangover. Time to sober up. That was the message of a recent cover essay in Time magazine. During the twenty-five-year boom that began in the Reagan years, wrote novelist Kurt Anderson, Americans came to resemble Homer Simpson—“childish, irresponsible, willfully oblivious, fat and happy”—in our heedless consumption and pursuit of easy wealth. But now, after the meltdown, “We are like substance abusers coming off a long bender … taking the messes we’ve made as a sobering wake-up call.”
The economic problems we face are indeed the product of irresponsibility, at least in part. Politicians in Congress created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and forced them to make risky loans in the name of equality. The housing bubble was inflated by home buyers who took on mortgages far beyond their means, and by Federal Reserve policies that kept interest rates artificially low. Financial firms invested in new forms of debt …
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What a funny headline. This is the most “pass the buck” President in history as far as I can tell.
We have opaque transparency and unaccountable accountability and exemptions from the promises of clean ethics and whatever. I’m getting tired of thinking about it.
Zero is the LAST person to be talking about responsibility. He constantly blames others for his messes. I have seen many ads for the website responsibility.com. I just looked them up and they are untested sites that I won’t hit. Zero TALKS responsibility but doesn’t WALK responsibility.
Indeed.
Hard to imagine anyone taking his bloviations seriously.
Let’s face it. This president is without any real managerial and/or work experience that an executive needs. There was NO well-thought-out plan for this Chicago Olympic bid. No good economic strategy was evident.
There’s a lot more involved in having an idea for something one wants to achieve: High level of community enthusiasm for the project, creative, practical development, strategy for implementation, cost and recoup analysis, highly qualified and proven staff to consider all details.
Brazil had been working on its plan for considerable time.
Chicago and, particularly Obama, had not.
Oba-Mao stands behind his Kenyan cousin Raila Odinga in 2006.
Oba-Mao just forgets where he is. More photos search google images for "obama odinga photo".
Now, what about The One's responsibilities to us? To waste our hard earned money after He's taken it by threat of force, to live the high life at our expense, to plan every aspect of our lives to fit His vision, to spend our very blood without His support or even His bothering to read a proposed plan for effective action for months (what He expects from our troops), and to bask in our whoreship of Him. What's the difference between that and the responsibilities of a dictator? Again, THERE ARE NONE.
FUBO!!! And ditto to anyone who supports Him and propagandizes for Him!
/The use of capitalization for The One reflects His clearly apparent vain opinion of His messianic awesomeness, not any actual respect for the narcissistic POS.
Is there any transcript of the speech he was giving? Might be real informative.
The second part of the housing boom that helped fuel it on both ends was illegal labor, also encouraged by an irresponsible Congress and citizens who failed to see the problem of creating a subsidized labor class. In short, it was an artificial economy, driven by bad policy on both ends, and no amount of reason could crack the hard heads of the people defending it.
I haven’t seen video, it probably went into hiding ... But from the tone of the meeting and the crowd you can probably figure out what was being said. The crowd out front were dancing with machetes in the air ... My guess is we are lucky the photos are still there.
These photos were right before cousin Raila Odinga lost the election. After the election loss, Odinga and his angry mobs forced a power sharing settlement. There were multiple events, so the pictures don’t signify the same event, in case you are curios.... Google images has a whole lot of these.
It is illegal for any sitting Congressional office holder to lobby or campaign for any foreign official.
Odinga recently got his invite pulled from the White House guest list.
Responsibility is an item Obama has never owned and never will he’s weak and a idiot.
Time to sober up.
Yeah.. that’s right. Rather than raise the world to a civilized standard, what we all ‘really’ need is a bit of Africa-style poverty and social disintegration, courtesy of America’s first African president.
Right.
But, hey, why take half steps; isn’t Robert Mugabe available for America’s top spot?
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