Robert Samuelson dubs Barack Obama a “Great Pretender” because Obama is great at saying one thing while doing another.
To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician — more honest, more courageous — please don’t examine his administration’s budget. If you do, you may sadly conclude that he resembles presidents stretching back to John Kennedy in one crucial respect. He won’t tax voters for all the government services they want. That’s the main reason we’ve run budget deficits in 43 of the past 48 years.
Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he’s doing things that he isn’t, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made “responsibility” a personal theme; the budget’s cover line is “A New Era of Responsibility.” He says the budget begins “making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline.” It doesn’t.
Double talk is nothing new for a politician. But Obama does more of it, more blatantly than most. The media is giving him a free pass on it, too. The American taxpayers deserve more honesty and less contempt from their elected officials.
They said in college, “socialism works if it’s done the right way”.
The general public seems to be giving him a pass on it, too. Probably because the majority only know what they’re told by the MSM. That’s why the Obamessiah got elected in the first place. I’m afraid the whole country will already be down the toilet and headed for the sewer pipes before the majority of Americans even realize that the man is a liar and a fraud.
Some in the media are giving the president a free pass, but others – including Samuelson – are not. And, of course, you aren’t either. I consider BCB a outlet for the news. And likewise, some of the public is giving the president a free ride, but many others are not – you, me, the martian, and a bunch of folks standing around with teabags. No need to over-dramitize.
Samuelson is an exception. But, I should have said “the majority” of the media. Because that is certainly true.
This is becoming theatre of the absurd. How will this guy finish his term?
I have a friend who voted for the O who just weeks ago wanted to lynch Congress, bankers and brokers for the financial mess just tell me government gives us the policies we ask for.
The whole O Presidency will be untenable before Labor Day to one and all.
Obama should go.