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NOW OBAMA TELLS US?
Tribune Media ^ | 3/11/09 | Victor Davis Hansen

Posted on 03/11/2009 2:35:47 PM PDT by pissant

Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this:

"As we approach Election Day, the American people should not waste the crisis we find ourselves in.

"Consequently, if elected, I promise to get us over the Bush financial meltdown with a stimulus program that will borrow $787 billion -- which, of course, will add to the already sizable budget deficit (nearly $500 billion) projected in the Bush administration's last budget.

"By March of next year, my new $3.6 trillion budget will include a spending bill with over 8,500 budget earmarks to target in-need constituents.

"In addition to the stimulus/borrowing plan, I intend to devote $634 billion to fund a new supplementary national health care system. But that is not all. Unfortunately, the initial Bush bank bailout of some $700 billion also may well have to be augmented by an additional $750 billion.

"Although my new spending proposals may raise the federal deficit in my first year to $1.75 trillion, I promise the American people that by the end of my first term, I will halve the federal deficit -- albeit adding another $3 to $5 trillion to the national debt.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: america2point0; babykiller; buyersremorse; change; cutandrun; first100days; hope; hopeandchange; infanticide; larrysinclairslover; marxistquisling; obama; obamalied; socialistagenda; vdh; victordavishanson; worst100days
Victor, I hope you did not expect anything better from the illegitimate commie.
1 posted on 03/11/2009 2:35:47 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Not sure what Victor's point is here. Had Obama actually made this speech, say in the last debate, or maybe right after Bush got the first $350 Billion TARP bill passed, how many Obama supporters would have changed their minds, to vote for McCain?

I think that number is miniscule. People were flat tired of Bush, and didn't want McCain starting up a 3rd Bush term. Almost all of Obama's supporters clearly know nothing of history, or economics, or law, or freedom, or American excellence, and were going to vote for Obama no matter what.

2 posted on 03/11/2009 2:40:48 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: pissant

votes bought with dollars that have unnamed donors tied to them .. and the flock expected a saviour? oops.

What a machine, well lubricated, refined in purpose over the years, now a ripe beast devouring 401Ks and capital gains and jobs like wild animals

The herd never learns, the burden they impose needlessly on themselves when, they let the foxes guard the henhouses and the rats the granaries.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 2:40:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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VDH understood.
Another masterpiece, even if he is a wide eyeed optimist.


4 posted on 03/11/2009 2:58:47 PM PDT by genghis
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To: pissant
Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president

He told you all this. You just were to dumb or too in awe to understand it!

5 posted on 03/11/2009 3:18:45 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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He told you all this. You just were to dumb or too in awe to understand it!

Yes he did.  And the sheep wanted it and they voted for it.

6 posted on 03/11/2009 4:21:07 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Definition of a sucker: Pay your bills like a responsible adult to compensate for those who didn't!)
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There is no work ethic anymore. The number of people who think the government exists to take care of them and redistribute money from the achievers to the slackers is close to the tipping point, if it isn’t there already.


7 posted on 03/11/2009 5:35:55 PM PDT by beagleone
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To: pissant; Tolik

bump & a ping


8 posted on 03/12/2009 11:30:49 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: pissant; neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; ...


    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

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9 posted on 03/12/2009 12:11:11 PM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik

Great article. Thanks.


10 posted on 03/12/2009 9:42:08 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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