Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter? Through the campaign, even a hermit would equate the word “hope” with the Obama campaign’s rhetoric. That was candidate Obama. Today, we hear talk of “catastrophe” and “dire consequences. This is President Obama. We heard talk of reaching above partisanship while representing stances far to the left of even some of the most liberal members of his own party but the public heard the rhetoric but remained ignorant of the record. (Of course the news media did a good job of carrying his water and keeping his record relatively cloaked.) Now when we hear President Obama address the problems of state, particularly on the economy, we hear lots of finger pointing and blame storming much of it aimed at former President Bush but also at members of his own party. We see little of him taking responsibility for solving the problem deferring responsibility to crafting the “stimulus” bill to Nancy Pelosi, responsible America’s worst nightmare.
Ronald Reagan inherited a dismal economy with high unemployment and double digit inflation by cutting taxes and offering constant encouragement to every one of us to be confident and to act responsibly. When one thinks of President Carter, the architect of the absolute collapse of the American economic system reshaping the financial landscape of the United States permanently as entire regions lost industries or saw others dealt fatal blows that would take decades of a slow dance of death to complete. Look at the auto industry. Its crisis didn’t start with the last two years of the Bush presidency, it has been wounded and crippled since the days of Jimmy Carter. Travel through Pennsylvania and Ohio and wonder whatever happened to the United States steel industry.
Meanwhile, the Reagan administration provided the incubator from which the technology revolution flourished. New industries and jobs have been rising ever since until the recent economic meltdown brought on by policies, some of which began during Jimmy Carter’s watch.
“The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” is blatant pandering to fear and is a bold-faced lie when we consider as bad as things are today, the economy has a long way to go before reaching the mess of the late 1970’s which would take most of Reagan’s first term to reverse.
While few would deny at his best, Barack Obama is capable of spectacular oratory skills, how quickly we see the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.
Not everything is rosy and the economy is a mess. The economy does go through roughly twenty year cycles, but what we’re seeing now is more complicated than that as some structures of the economy have been seriously weakened by such things as years of issuing improperly supported home mortgage loans and lack of oversight of the dreadful mismanagement and corruption on Wall Street. Still, the American economy affords so many opportunities for success if only the public and the financial markets have the confidence to invest wisely. Given all the talk of doom, who can blame anyone for holding resources tight to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The citizens of the United States have one legitimate fear, Islamic Terrorism. There is nothing else in the world brewing that has the potential of destroying more lives in the bat of an eyelash as what the Muslim fanatics are capable of thrusting upon us when we least expect it. In their world, human life means nothing where killing oneself to kill others is revered as heroic. How has the Obama administration addressed this concern? First, Obama announced his intention to close the terrorist prison compound at Guantanamo Naval Base on the Cuban island. He has also stopped the trial of the terrorist leader who instigated the attack on the USS Cole. Meanwhile, Pakistan has released one of its top nuclear scientists who has given nuclear secrets to North Korea. Yemen has released over a hundred prisoners jailed for terrorist activities. Have we heard a peep on those issues?
As reported earlier, it’s not too soon to talk of the “failed Obama Presidency.” His resume held the potential of a presidency far worse than that of Jimmy Carter’s as at least Jimmy Carter not only served as the Governor of Georgia, he ran his own business, and served in the Navy, while Obama has only limited legislative experience coming from the background of the Chicago political machine and the kind of community activism that filthy corrupt organizations like ACORN represent.
The public was seduced by the talk. Sadly, the folks seldom examine and question what the words say in favor of how the words sound. After eight years of President George W. Bush who could rarely speak a coherent complete sentence unless delivering a prepared speech surely made the public hunger for a more articulate President, but where President Bush was a man of principle and action; Barack Obama is not. We must still withhold judgment of the Bush Presidency as no one can clearly ascertain how his admniistration’s lack of necessary oversight allowed some of the horrible fiascos we are dealing with today to prosper. We do know that as early as 2002, his administration’s financial chiefs did report to the fools on Capitol Hill their concerns about problems with the mortgage industry practices particularly those of Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae whose meltdown helped provide the tipping point into recession. For the most part, few administrations have been more right on on policy matters than the Bush administration.
In Barack Obama, the American people have elected a President who is about as opposite as George W. Bush as could possibly be imagined though President Bush was essentially a centrist with some conservative sympathies where Barack Obama claims to be centrist but is a radical leftist through and through. In style and manner, the two men are about as opposite as two people could be. Obama is a capable talker whose actions are suspect. Bush was an oratory disaster who was heavy on action many of his successes such as aid to AIDS infested Africa being largely ingnored.
Thus we have a bizarre hybrid President, one capable of almost Reaganesque oratory skills with Jimmy Carter competence. If there was ever a recipe for disaster, here it is folks!!!!
Ronald Reagan inherited a dismal economy with high unemployment and double digit inflation by cutting taxes and offering constant encouragement to every one of us to be confident and to act responsibly. When one thinks of President Carter, the architect of the absolute collapse of the American economic system reshaping the financial landscape of the United States permanently as entire regions lost industries or saw others dealt fatal blows that would take decades of a slow dance of death to complete. Look at the auto industry. Its crisis didn’t start with the last two years of the Bush presidency, it has been wounded and crippled since the days of Jimmy Carter. Travel through Pennsylvania and Ohio and wonder whatever happened to the United States steel industry.
Meanwhile, the Reagan administration provided the incubator from which the technology revolution flourished. New industries and jobs have been rising ever since until the recent economic meltdown brought on by policies, some of which began during Jimmy Carter’s watch.
“The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” is blatant pandering to fear and is a bold-faced lie when we consider as bad as things are today, the economy has a long way to go before reaching the mess of the late 1970’s which would take most of Reagan’s first term to reverse.
While few would deny at his best, Barack Obama is capable of spectacular oratory skills, how quickly we see the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.
Not everything is rosy and the economy is a mess. The economy does go through roughly twenty year cycles, but what we’re seeing now is more complicated than that as some structures of the economy have been seriously weakened by such things as years of issuing improperly supported home mortgage loans and lack of oversight of the dreadful mismanagement and corruption on Wall Street. Still, the American economy affords so many opportunities for success if only the public and the financial markets have the confidence to invest wisely. Given all the talk of doom, who can blame anyone for holding resources tight to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The citizens of the United States have one legitimate fear, Islamic Terrorism. There is nothing else in the world brewing that has the potential of destroying more lives in the bat of an eyelash as what the Muslim fanatics are capable of thrusting upon us when we least expect it. In their world, human life means nothing where killing oneself to kill others is revered as heroic. How has the Obama administration addressed this concern? First, Obama announced his intention to close the terrorist prison compound at Guantanamo Naval Base on the Cuban island. He has also stopped the trial of the terrorist leader who instigated the attack on the USS Cole. Meanwhile, Pakistan has released one of its top nuclear scientists who has given nuclear secrets to North Korea. Yemen has released over a hundred prisoners jailed for terrorist activities. Have we heard a peep on those issues?
As reported earlier, it’s not too soon to talk of the “failed Obama Presidency.” His resume held the potential of a presidency far worse than that of Jimmy Carter’s as at least Jimmy Carter not only served as the Governor of Georgia, he ran his own business, and served in the Navy, while Obama has only limited legislative experience coming from the background of the Chicago political machine and the kind of community activism that filthy corrupt organizations like ACORN represent.
The public was seduced by the talk. Sadly, the folks seldom examine and question what the words say in favor of how the words sound. After eight years of President George W. Bush who could rarely speak a coherent complete sentence unless delivering a prepared speech surely made the public hunger for a more articulate President, but where President Bush was a man of principle and action; Barack Obama is not. We must still withhold judgment of the Bush Presidency as no one can clearly ascertain how his admniistration’s lack of necessary oversight allowed some of the horrible fiascos we are dealing with today to prosper. We do know that as early as 2002, his administration’s financial chiefs did report to the fools on Capitol Hill their concerns about problems with the mortgage industry practices particularly those of Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae whose meltdown helped provide the tipping point into recession. For the most part, few administrations have been more right on on policy matters than the Bush administration.
In Barack Obama, the American people have elected a President who is about as opposite as George W. Bush as could possibly be imagined though President Bush was essentially a centrist with some conservative sympathies where Barack Obama claims to be centrist but is a radical leftist through and through. In style and manner, the two men are about as opposite as two people could be. Obama is a capable talker whose actions are suspect. Bush was an oratory disaster who was heavy on action many of his successes such as aid to AIDS infested Africa being largely ingnored.
Thus we have a bizarre hybrid President, one capable of almost Reaganesque oratory skills with Jimmy Carter competence. If there was ever a recipe for disaster, here it is folks!!!!
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