Posted on 06/03/2012 4:24:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, both "conservative" David Brooks and liberal Mark Shields thought this was a tough, tight election for Barack Obama. Shields said "it becomes a race about disqualifying, a campaign about disqualifying your opponent. And that's not attractive or appealing. It's not hope and change. It's blood and guts."
But Brooks really felt Obama's pain: "So the president is obviously going to try. He is going to have. And to some extent, you have to feel sorry for him. This is in large degree not his fault. Things are happening way beyond his control. I don't believe a president has control over a quarterly economy in any case." He added:
But the European situation is certainly not his fault. The Chinese slowdown is not his fault. And the Europe thing cannot be underestimated. There was a study by some economists this week that, say, Greece leaves the euro peacefully. Well, that reduces growth to our 1.7. Say it brings Spain and Italy, and it as much messier. Then it is even worse. Obama has really very little control and he's sort of a victim of this myth that presidents control the economy quarter to quarter.
At least Brooks didn't see the point of further "stimulus" spending: "listen, we are borrowing a trillion dollars a year, we're borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. Do we really think if we borrow a $1.1 trillion a year, somehow, that is going to magically transform the economy? I'm a little dubious." So why not place some of the blame on Obama?
And I’m one of your milkmaids.
Send more mead.
Barack Obama is going to learn what unemployment is all about next year.
And don’t count him among the unemployed because he was FIRED for poor job performance and frequent absenteeism and untruthfulness.
The only way Brooks would ever become a Conservative is the day one of Holder’s People took out his entire Family with a Machete.
Either that, or he would start a new Think Tank, “Conservatives for Machete Control”.
The serfs need to work harder to pay more tax revenue to Obama so that his policies can work. It’s your fault.
I can't recall him being so charitable towards W.
Young Master David wants some man-love....
DON’T. HOLD. BACK.
Good rant!
Eggsactly!
If Bush’s Keynesian economic policies got us into this mess, how is Obama’s doubling down of the same policies going to save us?
These things keep me up at night!
“Stop making sense!”
Such a great movie! That was my first date with hubby, and 25+ years later, it still holds up!
Brooks also sat there mutely while the blatantly lying Shields characterized global warming skeptics as “people who don’t like the remedy, so they reject the science.” Recognizing the liberal penchant for projection, you could turn that inside out, namely, that leftists like the idea of crippling our economy, just out of “fairness” to the rest of the world and denying us the resources to maintain hegemonic military power, so they embrace seriously flawed and even demonstrably manufactured science. Of course, there are other reasons to embrace the “remedy,” like Gore’s millions.
It's a Greek Tragedy redux.
I’m sorry for Obama that I do not have the personal distance to kick him in the face.
Sorry for him? Not one bit. Didn’t he win “life’s lottery” . He will make millions for years in speaking fees and another book or two.
Get real. I don’t feel sorry for the usurper, nobama. nobama and his grifter, Free-America-hating family have the worse consequences I can imagine...they have to live with themselves. That is uber suffering...a life sentence of being worthless losers.
Sound like a Greek Tragedy.....
Brooks is also sorry that Barry is only 1/2 Black and Lizzie 0/32 Cherokee.
He is a media conservative who has never voted for a Repub.
Pray for America
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