Posted on 01/25/2011 8:10:20 AM PST by KeyLargo
IBD Editorials
Editorial: Our So-Called 'Centrist' President
Posted 01/24/2011 06:59 PM ET
Politics: Will the man who conned the public into believing he was a moderate, but who has governed as the most immoderate leftist in the country's history, now try to pull the same con so he can be elected again?
How naive does he think we are? Well, pretty darn naive, given the polls that everyone is bending over backward to cite. They show President Obama's approval rating turning up in large part because he didn't let the Bush tax cuts expire, enlisted cronies to help him appear more "business friendly" and paid lip service to regulatory reform.
Such moves, according to the spinmeisters, are part of a grand "repositioning" of the president as a "centrist" who "got the message from the November election" and who is now less hostile to the free-enterprise system he's been trashing for more than two years.
Give us a break. Does anyone think that the Barack Obama who set out to "transform" the America that he found so distasteful has himself been transformed? Does anyone believe that if the mid-terms went the other way and the odds of his re-election hadn't gone south, Obama would be considering any detour whatsoever on the leftist low road he has charted?
Call us skeptics, but we don't. But then, we were among the few in the media who saw through Obama's facade in 2008, who feared he'd put the U.S. on a path that could only be described as socialist (the day after the Nov. 5, 2008 presidential election, we expressed our concern that "we may be installing the first president who openly favors 'change' that ... can only be described as socialistic") and then watched as it all came to pass.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
“Will the man who conned the public into believing he was a moderate, but who has governed as the most immoderate leftist in the country’s history, now try to pull the same con so he can be elected again?”
http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3
Centrist?
I’ll call the Kendonesian, man who culturally is not one of us, the most powerful muslim in the world. And there he is, sitting in our White House. Now, Aint that something for America to bragg?
Centrist? My A$$!
Look out, America!
How many times have we ever seen A Leopard change it’s spots??? If B.O. pulls this one off, it will be a First!!!
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