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发帖数: 29846 | 1 "This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even deceitful, divisive"
Andrew Malcolm is wondering what happened to the 2008 Obama:
Has anyone seen Barack Obama recently?
You know, the optimistic hopeful fellow with the charming smile who
promised so many positive things four and five years ago, how he was going
to change the harsh, partisan tone of our nation's capital and bring the
country together as its first African American president.
Even allowing for political hyperbole, his empty resume and the
invisible witnesses from the past, Obama was such a Real Good Talker that
even some who didn't vote for him still had hope that he could change some
things for the better in what seemed a sadly-splintered society.
WTH did that Obama go? Have you listened recently to this Chicago
Doppelganger who's replaced him? This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even
deceitful, divisive, telling half-truths after half-truths. He's using Air
Force One as his personal Brinks truck with wings to collect cash all over
the country, disguising the trips as official.
He tries to intimidate the Supreme Court, an equal branch of government,
when its thinking might stray from his. He distorts history, and if no one
calls him, then it's true. If he's caught, this Obama says you obviously mis
-heard. Because, as everyone knows, he could never mis-speak.
The economy, like everything else adverse, is someone else's fault. But
if only we borrowed and spent a trillion dollars, unemployment would stay
beneath 8%, Obama promised. It soared far above. It's still above. No
apology. No acknowledgment. Now, he hails any dip as proof of progress when,
in fact, it comes because so many just give up seeking work.
He chastises House Republicans for their draconian budget when his
Senate Democrats haven't written a single one in three years; so, the fiscal
drift abides. And wait till he exaggerates the frightening things the GOP
wants to do, instead of presenting his own ideas.
Obama claims credit for the bottom half of a pipeline he had nothing to
do with, when he killed the top half. He brags that domestic oil drilling is
up when the part he's responsible for is down.
He says no one should ever go to Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime. Then
his wife, daughters and entourage do just that.
This year's Obama talks of the importance of windmills, algae and green
energy, but he takes a 17-SUV motorcade to a photo op with an electric car.
He lambasts oil companies for getting the same legal tax incentives (he
calls them "subsidies") that other companies receive, hoping to aim anger at
them so voters won't notice that gas prices have doubled since his
inauguration.
Take this Tuesday. The 2012 Obama flew to Florida for an official
presidential speech on the economy, then three fundraisers. That way his
campaign only pays a fraction of Air Force One's $182,000 per flight hour
cost. All presidents do that, though none have done near as many.
But read the four speeches. You can't tell which is official and which
is political. They're all political. He can't be a real president for one
lousy speech? Why the phony presidential fig leaf? To chintz the United
States of America out of a few thousand bucks when he plans to raise a
billion?
There's more.
My bottom line?
The 2012 Obama is the real Obama. The 2008 Obama fooled only the gullible
and easily led.
Some of us saw through the charade 4 years ago.
The question of course is, when Obama reverts back to the 2008 Obama (and
presumably, he'll do so soon enough), will America be fooled again?
Fool me once, shame on you... |
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