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Let’s Not Cheer So Fast
Failure is good. Most people learn from their mistakes. But there are still risks.
For instance, Obama’s public option has failed, at least for today. So what does he learn?
Does he realize this isn’t what people want, and move on to what they do want, working in the “post-partisan fashion on which he campaigned? Or does [...]
It IS a Tax After All
When I first read the transcript of Obama’s interview with Stephanopoulos, the criticisms from the blogosphere looked hyperbolic. I only saw Obama getting mired in details that wouldn’t make much sense to most people. This quibbling has been his MO for obscuring parts of the debate he doesn’t want to have illuminated.
But then I read [...]
Bowing Obama
The White House claims:
The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.
“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said [...]
Trust Me!
I think that not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States… -Obama
This makes me as nervous as hearing from someone, in almost any context: “trust me.”
Why He Must Fail
It seems like the current administration thinks its proposed collectivist policies should be exempt from criticism. I get the sense that their position is the same for which they derided President Bush: “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” Does he expect us to stand behind his proffered policies just because he can orate [...]
Does he know what he’s saying?
This crisis is neither the result of a normal turn of the business cycle nor an accident of history. We arrived at this point as a result of an era of profound irresponsibility that engulfed both private and public institutions from some of our largest companies’ executive suites to the seats of power in Washington, [...]
More and More is not Better and Better
Obama said to McCain during Monday’s fiscal summit:
“And one of the promising things is I think Secretary Gates shares our concern and he recognizes that simply adding more and more does not necessarily mean better and better…” “…Those two things are not — they don’t always move in parallel tracks, and we’ve got to think [...]
Collection of Individuals
Obama said last night that we’re “Not a collection of individuals.”
Watch out. If we’re not a collection of individuals, than we’re a “collective mass.” This is not an auspicious beginnning.
Crisis Managed for Gain
Do you want Obama to be elected?
What better way than to make the economy look worse just before the election. Does that sound pretty cynical? Note how we have a finance committee led by democrats. These guys, we’ll assume, know something about finance. They would know, for instance, that large government expenditures on all sorts [...]