President Barack Obama is campaigning, not leading, with his no-pain debt reduction plan

NY Daily News ^ | 9/20/2011 | staff

[tobyhill]

Judging by his combativeness Monday, President Obama has gotten the rhetoric of debt reduction down. As for the actual debt, not so much.

Obama's much-awaited plan for achieving long-term U.S. solvency proved to be less than met the ear. He followed what's becoming a depressingly familiar pattern of trumpeting supposedly hard choices while leaving the politically difficult measures to others.

Raise the Medicare retirement age? Not him.

Obama appears to believe that calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and on upper-income earners while claiming undeservedly to be an aggressive budget cutter will make for good campaigning. That it may, but there is far more for a President to be concerned about than the polls.

[Irenic]

Where is our Daniel Hannan? And why can Obama preach to congress from the pulpit and yet we can't see or elected congress critters dress down Obama...jerk a knot in his tail? If he had to actually withstand that, he might be more motivated to DO HIS JOB

" It's not just that you are not apologizing - like everyone else I've long accepted that you are pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things - it's that you are carrying on willfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left.

In the last year 100,000 private sector jobs have been lost and yet you have created 30,000 public sector jobs. Prime Minister, you cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."

Daniel Hannan

Sorry, reading this article made me recall Mr Hannan and how much I loved his backbone!

[Ann Archy]

BINGO!! Where IS our Daniel Hannan?? BUT even Hannan was pro-Obama!!

[Irenic]

BUT even Hannan was pro-Obama!!
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Seems the world was pro-Obama for a while. *grumbles*

I’m still trying to figure out why. I guess he did have a lot of charisma. Now, not so much.

Oh and he wasn’t Bush, but I think Obama will be finding his Bush pass has expired. I can hope...