Useful Fools

Posted By John Moore on March 3, 2009

Here’s a few of the lessons we can learn from the first six weeks of the Obama administration:

1. If the media doesn’t do their homework, it is hard to tell who you elected. The MSM was so in the tank for Obama that he wasn’t asked hard questions and wasn’t tested. We are only now finding out who he is.
2. Obama is the most radical president since WW-II, if not longer. So far, he has signed off on or advocated every item that’s been accumulating on the liberal wish list for the last 30 years. For the first time since WW-II, the projected budget will be 30% of GDP – and not just during the recession. That’s up from a post-war average of around 20%.
3. Obama is a liar. Not just an exaggerator, but a liar. He said the “stimulus” bill contained no earmarks (hah!). The regular appropriations bill moving through congress even has earmarks put in by Senator Obama (with his name being scrubbed off as we write). He claims to only raise taxes on the top 2% of the population, but hides $700 billion of carbon offset taxes which will hit everyone in the US, has 1100% increases in cellular phone bandwidth fees, and who knows how many others in that 1400 page bill. He redefines “bipartisanship” to be “my way and only my way” and then crows about it.

Then, there’s the whopper – He claims to not believe in big government!

4. Obama is either weak or totally irresponsible: did he let Reid and Pelosi shove that piece of excrement called the “stimulus bill” down his throat, or did he really agree to all the excesses in there?
5. Obama is more moderate on terrorism. He is basically maintaining the Bush policies on Iraq, Afghanistan, Extraordinary Rendition, coercive interrogation (torture?), and CIA missile attacks in Pakistan.
6. Obama is weak on national defense. He is dramatically cutting the military budget (by folding the emergency war appropriations into the regular DOD appropriations, with the total just the same as the regular appropriations). He is wobbling on whether to stop the missile defense against Iran, soon to be placed in Eastern Europe.
7. Obama is weak on foreign policy. Since his election, he has been blatantly challenged by Russia (Abkazian bases), Iran (satellite launch, critical level of LEU), and North Korea (planned launch). He has rolled over for all of these. He let Hillary beg the Chinese not to disinvest in the US, a sign of weakness and ignorance, since the Chinese in no way can afford to disinvest, anyway.
8. Obama is either utterly incompetent in personnel selection, or completely Chicago-style cynical. His “most ethical” administration has had the greatest number of nominees with scandals in recent history. Just one, Geitner, responsible for collecting our taxes, does not even intend to pay back taxes he owes.
9. He’s clever enough not to let a crisis go to waste – so at least his appointment of Rahm Emmanuel appears to have been smart.

[Originally posted as a comment at The Volokh Conspiracy.]

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