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The Bucks Never Stop with President What's-His-Name
Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2012 | John Ransom

Posted on 08/17/2012 6:47:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

There’s a millstone hanging around the neck of the US economy.

And his name is Barack Obama.

Blame Bush if you want, but post-9/11, Bush’s policies got the country moving in the right direction after a hard right hook.

Blame Bush if you must, but the “blame Bush” mantra doesn’t change some critical facts:

You see, George Bush isn’t running for president of the United States. Barack Obama is; and voters seem to be aware of this fact, to the dismay, no doubt, of the White House.

“A New York Times/CBS News poll released Thursday,” wrote the Washington Times in April of this year, “didn’t ask voters about blame for the economy, but whether they thought an Obama re-election would improve their financial situations. Thirty-eight percent said it would have no effect; 33 percent said it would make their situations worse. Only 26 percent said a second Obama term would improve their economic situations.

You know why they say this? Because while the buck is supposed to stop on the president’s desk, the buck- and the bucks- never seems to stop with Obama.

Every time Obama blames Bush, he just reinforces how irrelevant President Scholarship has become.

President Invest-in-Clean-Energy has pretty much had it his own way since his coronation. He spent the money he asked for. If he wanted more, he had two years to ask for it, and Congress would have given it to him.

And despite brave talk from President High-Speed-Rail, he was better at writing books than he has been at being president. Or at least he hired better people to write books for him. 

Ah, yes, this is just another thing Sarah Palin was right about that the mainstream media couldn’t sniff out for themselves. I guess going to all those colleges worked out better for Palin than having say, one journalism degree from one school and working at one job- journalism- your whole life.

Betcha five bucks that one year under a Palin presidency- or a Bachmann, a Perry, a Romney, or a [shudder, shudder, shudder] (Hillary) Clinton presidency- that the unemployment arrow would be pointing the right way. 

Only an ideologue, tied to academic leftist-dogma, could be proud of such a disastrous record as President-Eat-My-Peas-and-Like-it. And apparently he’s pursued all these goals on purpose.

And here’s the most damning thing about President Class-Warrior: The only people making money so far are the stock traders. Every time I turn around, the stock market is threatening to make new two year highs, companies are reporting record earnings and even evil banks are reporting profits. Things are going swimmingly on Wall Street thanks to zero interest rates and the certainty that the Federal Reserve will provide enough liquidity to make the seas rise along with commodity prices.

Oh, and did I tell you President Fundraiser broke a presidential fundraising record?

The man who claimed he’d raise a billion bucks for his reelection bid won’t make that lofty figure, but he’ll own the record for the number of fundraisers given by a president. 

“In the first 12 days of June,” reports ABCNews, “Obama has attended 21 fundraising events.  All told, he has now attended 163 re-election fundraisers for his campaign and the Democratic Party – almost double the number George W. Bush attended in his entire first term (86) and more than any other president in history.” 

And why doesn’t it surprise me that President Balanced-Budget raised $300 million and spent a record $204 million so far this cycle?

Spending money recklessly is the only thing President War on Women knows how to do. Imagine what Obama would do with himself if the bucks ever stopped.   

The people who are left out in the cold are the vast middle-class, and it includes people who make more than $250,000 a year. People like that, under the right president, can create jobs for the rest of us better than President Tax-the-Rich can with the entire power of the federal government at his disposal.

Whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican or a swing voter- I’m talking about voters here- President I-Killed-Osama-bin-Laden-Personally, either created this economy on purpose or created it by accident.

It’s time to pick one.

And let the buck stop where it may.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blameobama

1 posted on 08/17/2012 6:47:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The buck doesn’t stop with Obama because the media protects him...they block and tackle for him...regardless of how this election comes out...the MSM will NEVER recover from this.

Never.


2 posted on 08/17/2012 6:51:24 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: Kaslin

What a GREAT article! Ransom has outdone himself with this one.
A barack by every other name...is still a...


3 posted on 08/17/2012 6:58:25 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: kjo
Sitting at my dining room table, right now, working online and talking to my very conservative mother-in-law. She has an Ipad and is reading the news. We started talking about the possibility of another GM bail out and I mentioned the story about the 20,000 non-union employees who lost most of their benefits in the first bail out. She had never heard of it. I looked over at her Ipad and said, “That's because you get your news from USA Today”. I pointer her to some reliable news sites.
4 posted on 08/17/2012 7:08:53 AM PDT by ryan71
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To: Kaslin
Money Supply figures out Thursday... the Fed is orchestrating an increase in the M1 money supply at an 11.3 percent annual rate based on the three month run rate.
The M2 rate is also going up. A week or so back it was running a 5.3% annualized rate.

Getting ready to bail out Europe?
Artifically trying to boost the markets for Obomas campaign?
Hyperinflation because the fiscal cliff has arrived?

5 posted on 08/17/2012 7:10:59 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: ryan71

Completely agree...the job of the MSM is not longer to tell the news...it’s to spin news and create stories that show Obama in a pleasant light...especially true with Michelle Obama.

These people are completely in the tank...and I mean...nearly all of them. There are few notable exceptions. I still respect Jake Tapper at ABC, but he’s just about the last honest man/woman standing.

NBC is mostly an adjunct of the Obama campaign...from the TODAY show in the morning to NBC Nightly “news”. SIXTY MINUTES has been in the tank for Democrats for years...complete with using forged documents against Bush.

I actually wonder if some of these people have not been bought off? Do they have foreign bank accounts where Democrat operatives deposit money? I know they fear losing access. But I wonder if more than access is at stake?

This is a horrible situation. ABCBSNBCNNPRPBS are liberal propaganda organs...and nothing more.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 7:17:01 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: kjo
I actually wonder if some of these people have not been bought off? Do they have foreign bank accounts where Democrat operatives deposit money? I know they fear losing access. But I wonder if more than access is at stake?

Liberalism creates chaos. Chaos creates news. News brings ratings. Ratings lead to fame. Fame leads to money.

The more chaos created, the better it is for talking heads. (Plus, sucking up to the liberal side allows them access to some pretty rank, anything goes type parties. It's the icing on the cake.)

They're "self" oriented.

7 posted on 08/17/2012 7:38:04 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Kaslin

Have you ever met a Democrat/Socialist/Communist who was at fault for anything?


8 posted on 08/17/2012 7:48:12 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Kaslin
Blame Bush if you must, but the “blame Bush” mantra doesn’t change some critical facts:

You see, George Bush isn’t running for president of the United States. Barack Obama is; and voters seem to be aware of this fact, to the dismay, no doubt, of the White House.

Why do you think Obama asked Bill Clinton to give the Keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention? So Clinton can blame Bush!

I predict that Clinton is going to talk about how during his two terms he got the economy humming (a word with which he is intimately familiar). He takes credit for himself and says it was because he "worked hard" (remember that meme?) for the American people. He will say he left the country in good shape and then it tumbled into ruins because of Bush. He will steer people's thoughts away from what has happened to the economy as a result of The Won's term and claim that electing a Republican now will stop the momentum of the so-called recovery.

9 posted on 08/17/2012 8:09:54 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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Clinton walked into a booming Reagan economy. It carried Clinton through almost two terms. Because if the Clinton tax increase, it was lost. Bush inherited a looming recession. Bush fixed it with tax cuts. The lefts housing crash ruined it again.

Every time a democrat gets elected, the next guy, a Republican, is left to clean up the mess. Once he does, a democrat gets elected and screws it up again.

Imagine how great this country would be if the democrats lost all the time. There would be no more recessions.

10 posted on 08/17/2012 9:23:09 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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