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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Barack Obama: change I can believe in!
I just watched Barack Obama's interview with Rachel Maddow (Part I, Part II). She's a good interviewer and using her powers of gushing admiration, gets him to talk more specifically about how exactly he would like to massively expand government and commit troops to unwinnable foreign adventures.
As this editorial in the Investor's Business Daily explains, Obama normally talks in code, he presents a smooth package and plays both sides of the fence. In his most publicized speeches and rallies, unlike in the Maddow interview, he avoids talking about specific policies by invoking high-minded rhetoric about 'hope' and 'change' and presenting himself as a non-ideological, post-partisan (even post-racial) candidate. In actuality that's a falsehood, he's just another redistributary leftist keen on Keynes and social democracy.
Lest all this 'change' talk appeal to libertarian or conservative voters (like our friends at Reason magazine) itching to punish the GOP for the Bush years of expansive federal government, overwhelming debt, and a disastrous foreign policy, let them take a close look at this summary from the IBD piece of some of Obama's proposals:
• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
• "Free" college tuition.
• "Universal national service" (a la Havana).
• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").
• "Free" job training (even for criminals).
• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).
• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
• More subsidized public housing.
• A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.
His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't.
If the chips fall tonight as they are expected to, and Barack Obama steps into the office of the U.S. presidency in January 2009, I will be ready for change: after all, I'm extremely tired of being anti-Bush, and though it may not make me any more popular with my smitten countrymen, I'm so very ready to be anti-Obama.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on November 4, 2008 in U.S. politics | Permalink
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"he avoids talking about specific policies by invoking high-minded rhetoric about 'hope' and 'change' and presenting himself as a non-ideological, post-partisan (even post-racial) candidate. In actuality that's a falsehood, he's just another redistributary leftist keen on Keynes and social democracy."
Also, ... In actuality, he remains a partisan, socialist-elitist, megalomaniacal, Chicago Negro with the most thuggish gang of pals in political show business today.
Posted by: John V | 2008-11-04 9:46:30 AM
• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
• "Free" college tuition.
• "Universal national service" (a la Havana).
• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").
• "Free" job training (even for criminals).
• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).
• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
• More subsidized public housing.
• A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.
All heavily socialist weighted programs in most cases removing "self sufficieny" from the language of reality.
As I have posted elsewhere, if Barak Obama is chosen to be President of The United States, America will have elected a de facto communist.
Posted by: Joe Molnar | 2008-11-04 9:47:02 AM
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