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?
What about the country he is destroying, you jackass?
Excellent point, but then what do you expect from a left wing nitwit?
At least he got one thing right .... sorry ... the Food Stamp President is about as sorry and one can get.
That is why the author put quote marks before and after conservative
But we only win if we all stick together
Our first (and hopefully last) affirmative action president is a victim of whitey’s failure! It’s not his fault! Give him a promotion, anyway, America! Feel sorry for him. Com’on!
o’s not black. Nearly everyone in American has some black and white blood in them. O is mixed-race. Even more importantly, he has no relationship with the AFrican-Americans — his dad was Kenyan.
Yeah, we'll really love "fairness" when some Turd World kleptocrat delivers a couple of military-grade nuclear weapons in our big cities. And I do mean military-grade, not like the driveway demonstrators we test-drove for Emperor Hirohito.
Google up "nuclear weapons effects" and dial up some numbers for a 100-kiloton fission weapon, which is in the ballpark of the upper end of the "tactical" spectrum of violence. Then apply those numbers to your favorite large SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area), and try to form a mental picture of what will be left.
These guys are living in the military past. Guys like DinnerJacket aren't just playing around. They all want to be like the Domino's Pizza driver and deliver in 30 minutes or less.
What would you expect from an author that uses composites to hide the true identity of figures cited in Obama’s autobiography...
‘ANOTHER ALINSKYITE EMERGES FROM OBAMA’S PAST’
Disguised man in ‘Dreams from My Father’ may be 1st link to Ayers
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/another-alinskyite-emerges-from-obamas-past/?cat_orig=politics
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