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May 16, 2008
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May 16, 2008
John Podhoretz thinks that the Obama campaign has gone completely nuts.
In a telephone interview on CNN just a few minutes ago, Robert Gibbs, the communications director for Senator Barack Obama, called Mr. Bush’s remarks “astonishing” and an “unprecendented political attack on foreign soil.”
An “unprecedented attack on foreign soil”? That is completely deranged. Not only did Bush not mention Obama by name, it is doubtful he or his people were thinking about Obama. The argument that negotiating with terrorists is appeasement akin to Europe’s appeasement of Hitler is a standard view among hawks on the Right — decades old, dating back even before Barry Obama found the audacity to hope in the pews of Jeremiah Wright’s church. It is exactly the sort of thing a man with Bush’s politics would say in a speech before the Knesset, whether Obama had run for president or not.
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And Michael Novak tries to imagine what America (and the woirld) would look like in 2012 -- if Obama is elected president.
Iran will thus have its nuclear weapon by 2012, secure in the knowledge that Americans have no heart to do battle to prevent it.
In Pakistan, forces of economic and political development will know that they can no longer count on the Americans as a last resort. They would soon — to save their families — begin to yield more and more space to jihadists, terrorists, and promoters of sharia law. Free nations by 2016 will be far weaker than now, with far less space in which to alter the direction of terrorism.
Meanwhile, if Obama keeps his pledge to raise taxes on the top 10 percent of income earners (or even on the top 2 percent), he will give them enormous incentives to alter their behavior, so as to show lower income. Since the top 1 percent of earners pay over 35 percent of all income taxes paid by all Americans, any decline in their income means a steep decline in tax revenues. Obama seems to have no comprehension that raising tax rates at the top dramatically lowers revenue coming in. He will learn the hard way.
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Monday, May 19 at 4:09 PM WI Conservative wrote ...
Obama is all about Totalitarianism. He thinks that he knows best, and if elected President he will micro-manage the lives of all Americans to match his ultra-liberal agenda. His latest speech quote says it all, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." This guy scares me, and we should all be scared of him.
Sunday, May 18 at 3:03 PM Crazy Politico wrote ...
Unfortunately, Jim, what's becoming more clear is that a large part of the electorate simply cares about being pandered to. Who do I think is going either give ME the most, or screw someone other than ME.
Saturday, May 17 at 11:36 AM ijeff wrote ...
Anyone running for the highest office in America should not have to learn the "hard way" the implications of tax policy on economic activity. Sadly, Obama seems to have no understanding of economics or history (note his distortion and misunderstanding of how Reagan dealt with the Soviets).
Saturday, May 17 at 10:57 AM Jim wrote ...
2008 will say more about us, as a nation, than anything else. Will the majority of people opt for a "change," even though it may be change for the worst. Is this country ready to elect a man who believes that "talking" is the best way to deal with evil people? That increasing taxes on the wealthiest is the best way to jump start an economy in recession? That government has all of the answers to all of our ills? If that's what we want, God help us all.
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