President Obama’s response to the serious deficit reduction proposals was a petulant variation on two tired themes – class warfare and blaming George W. Bush
Barack Obama “Winning The Future” Does Not Even Match Charlie Sheen’s “Winni
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--April 14, 2011
President Obama likes to talk about “winning the future.” His version of ”winning” is not even as credible as Charlie Sheen’s. Case in point was Obama’s speech on the deficit yesterday. Obama invoked his “winning the future” mantra yet again, while offering a re-packaged, partisan version of his deeply flawed deficit-reduction plan and resorting to fear-mongering and exploitation of emotions in place of reasoned analysis.
President Obama’s response to the serious deficit reduction proposals put forth by House Republicans, led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), was nothing more than a petulant variation on two tired themes – class warfare and blaming George W. Bush for virtually every problem confronting Obama today — including the growing national debt. In fact, Vice president Joe Biden had heard this boring nonsense so many times before that he actually dozed off.
The New York Times, on the other hand, loved what its lead editorial today called the “reinvigorated” Obama. The Times will never get bored of trying to paint the Republicans as monsters trying to crush seniors and the poor,
while giving the rich $1 trillion in tax cuts
Let’s start with Obama’s attempt to blame his predecessors, most notably George W. Bush, for the deficits he is forced to tackle. Obama has racked up more deficits in his first two years in office than Bush did during his entire 8 years. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is a graph depicting the Bush and Obama years, as well as Obama’s own projections for future trillion dollar deficits:
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