Obama’s “economic plan” (if you can call a pandering ad hoc system based on demagoguery and half-truths a “plan”) has now just entered its fourth version. At some point, you have to wonder if all the monkeys Obama has randomly pounding away on their keyboards really know what they are doing.
It was only a couple weeks ago that I wrote an article titled, “WSJ Obama Tax 3.0: When even 3 times is NOT a charm” from a Wall Street Journal story. I wrote:
The Wall Street Journal offered a publication-wide editorial that pointed out the fact that Barack Obama’s economic plan is now undergoing its third incarnation.
The Obama campaign has been attacking the Bush economic plan, and trying to label McCain’s economic plan for being a “third Bush term.” But at least they have a plan; Obama now has three.
A pandering-based economic plan that shifts as the winds blow is not one that is worthy of trust.
And now, great googly-moogly, there’s already an AP story about “Obama to meet economic advisers to offer new plans.”
The answer to your question is, “Yes, it DOES hurt being right all the time.” Tell you what; elect me President, and I promise to keep randomly throwing darts at the economic system until some of them actually stick.
The Associated Press article says:
Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, was to meet with advisers in Coral Gables, Fla., on the campus of the University of Miami and then announce his new proposals. Buffett and O’Neill and perhaps others were to participate by way of a telephone conference call.
Less than seven weeks before Election Day, the high-profile consultations appeared designed to portray Obama in a presidential-like setting, grappling with the nation’s gravest problems and making decisions with the help of a big-name team of experts.
This actually would be laughable if the stakes weren’t so enormous. Our economy is a point of genuine crisis, and we’re actually considering electing a candidate for President who has now thrown together four different economic plans – and still counting.
The same guy who has now needed four economic plans mocked John McCain for calling for a commission to study what went wrong in the financial meltdown, saying, “We know how we got into this mess.”
Barack, if you’ve got such a great handle on the economy, then why have you now needed four different economic plans, with two of those plans coming in less than a fortnight? Tell us exactly what DID go wrong – considering this situation has a lot of experts scratching their heads. And make sure not to overlook anything, because we don’t want to go through this again.
Obama also just said, “This is not a time for fear, it’s not a time for panic,” Obama said Thursday in New Mexico. “This is a time for resolve and it is a time for leadership.”
No, Obama, apparently it’s a time for naked fear, given the fact that you personally and deliberately contributed to fears in an already unstable speculative market just a couple of days earlier, when you said: the upheaval on Wall Street was “the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.” It was panic from just such fears that actually caused the Great Depression in the first place. RUN TO THE BANK, EVERYONE; GET YOUR MONEY NOW!!! John McCain, for his part, has presidential helped try to reassure nervous investors that the fundamentals of the economy are still sound. Obama’s response was to mock him further for that attempt at reassurance.
A vote for Barack Obama is a vote to put the most inexperienced, the most liberal, the most radical, the most “loyalty-to-party-first” candidate – who has voted with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid over 95% of the time – we’ve ever seen run for President. And he is hip deep in the pockets of the people who caused this mess. Obama is second on the list of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign money recipients only after fellow Democrat Chris Dodd; and he is second on the list of Lehman Bros’ campaign money recipients only after fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton. And Obama has key campaign advisors – such as Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, and Jamie Gorelick- who personally made tens of millions of dollars from these very institutions.
We can not afford a Barack Obama presidency. Aside from the fact that he is massively part of the problem he is now trying to hang on others, he simply doesn’t have a clue how to navigate the nation out of a crisis such that few have seen in their lifetimes.
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September 20, 2008 at 11:11 am
Wow! You’re a hard-hitter, Michael. I like the opening paragraph description about the ‘’monkeys Obama has randomly pounding away on their keyboards’’ and I would have liked to be a fly on the wall when Him the Messiah and Plouffe Pfeiffer and Burton read it.
Poor sods. They have been living high off the hog on private welfare [donation millions] I wonder what they are going to do after November.
September 20, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I kind of figure if you’re going to throw a punch at someone, you’d better hit them hard.
Obama – who has had plan after plan, and then DIDN’T have a plan yesterday when he paraded around with his “experts” (read, “monkeys”), is out saying McCain doesn’t know what to do. The guy who took more money from the financial institutions that were so corrupt that they now need a massive bailout is trying to say McCain is responsible because he was in Congress longer.
Obama has only been in the Senate since 2005 – yet he took the second most money (after Chris Dodd) of ANY politician since 1989. When it comes to feeding from the trough, Obama didn’t NEED twenty years. He took 20 years plus worth of contributions in only THREE years!!!
So punch him hard, and aim for the nose.
May 29, 2009 at 11:51 am
Arlene Joan Elshinnawy is going to hit the roof and rolling over her grave when she hears about putting a monkey book next to African-American books. Elshinnawy is black and she went bye-bye.