Remember when Barack Obama used to say thing like “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”? He was the candidate of hope, of change, of the future. His minions claimed that he would bring in a new age of togetherness, that he could reach across the aisle. He was the man of no no Red or Blue states. Of course, that was all a hoax and he is a doctrinaire Marxist, which should not have surprised anyone who bothered to look at the man’s associations. However, it is still amusing to see how far Obama’s rhetoric has fallen.
At a campaign rally speech in Wisconsin, President Obama observed that unemployment has stagnated at nearly 10%, even though his administration promised that the Stimulus bill would halt unemployment at 8%. Obama’s response to the evidence that his economic policies have been a complete and total failure: “Things aren’t as bad as they could have been, this could have been a catastrophe, in that sense it [the stimulus] worked…unemployment’s at 9.6%…but it’s not 12 or 13 or 15.” That sure sounds like the much maligned “politics of cynicism” Obama railed against. In fact, a cynic might say that the entire ‘hope and change’ campaign was a textbook example in the politics of cynicism.
The Obama administration has been a futile socialist experiment. Obama sycophants denounced Republicans for being stuck in the “old politics,” not accepting the new age ideas of The One. However, despite Obama’s rhetoric, it is his party that is stuck ion the past. See if this sounds familiar: “we’ve sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” That was said by Ronald Reagan in 1964 about the Johnson administration, but it could have been said by Sarah Palin last week about the Obama administration. The porkulus bill cost nearly $1 trillion and unemployment is still 10%. The solution: another stimulus. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac created the housing bubble. Solution: encourage them to continue their risky behavior. The government keeps on making new plans, to correct old plans, that invariably consist of throwing boatloads of money, that the country doesn’t have, at Democrat constituencies. But hey, at least unemployment isn’t “12 or 13 or 15.” Obama has been an unmitigated disaster – the number don’t lie. When defending his record in this year’s midterm elections and eventually in 2012 gone will be the false promises of ‘hope’ and ‘change,’ replaced by “it could be worse!”
