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Even a messiah loses his training wheels
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...aining-wheels/
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Disconnecting the training wheels is a scary prospect for every apprentice biker, even with Daddy standing close by. We can sympathize with Barack Obama's fright as his moment approaches. It's not easy suddenly being on your own, paying the price of falling with your own skinned knees and bruised elbows.
Nevertheless, the dreadful moment approacheth. Anticipating D-Day, Peter Orszag, the president's budget director, said Monday that the scarier than expected economic news - the deficit out of control, tax receipts down and costs of bailouts and "stimulus" plans up - is all the fault of George W. Bush: "It's an economic crisis President Obama inherited."
But Mr. Obama has already been president for more than a hundred days, and passing the hundred-day mark, irrelevant milestone as it may be, was cited as dead-solid proof that the president is the messiah he told everyone he was. Reality, however, has begun to cast a shadow over the White House, still as faint as the bright golden haze on the meadow but visible enough. "Blaming George" still makes a tingle run up the legs of all the hymn-singing true believers, but outside the embrace of the cult, that tingle is beginning to sting instead. This is Mr. Obama's government now.
The White House on Monday said the new estimate of the budget deficit would nearly reach $2 trillion - that's trillion, with a "t" - and that's nearly 13 percent of the entire gross domestic product. Pretty gross any way you spin it, and the president's men (and women) are spinning it as best they can. Alas, the country's predicament, if not yet the president's, is probably worse than it looks.
The projected budget deficit is four times larger than the deficit record set last year. We can blame that one on George, but George, big spender that he was, turns out to have been a tightwad. Maybe this is the "change" Mr. Obama promised. Yes, he did.
The administration insisted Monday that by the end of this year the gross domestic product will be growing at a rate of 3.5 percent, which would be good news so good that it's likely to be too good to be true, and it's certainly more optimistic than any private economic forecast anyone has seen beyond the White House fence.
The White House flogged this news in a statement studded with more weasel words than usual: "Although the economic downturn so far in 2009 has been more severe than the administration expected when the forecast was finalized, if the financial system begins to function more normally, there is every reason to expect a somewhat stronger recovery, given the depth of the current recession." Translation: "Don't blame us, nothing is ever the fault of the messiah, maybe everything will get a little better if it actually does get better. We hope. But don't count on it."
What shines through the spinning, bright and bold, is that Mr. Obama no longer believes in the pie in the sky he promised. He has obviously learned a few things in his first hundred days. "Wow! So that's where babies come from." But he still can't give up his teleprompter, his training wheels and good ol' George. Good ol' George is the president's teddy bear. He can't go to sleep without Teddy. George is his imaginary person, too, on whom he can blame everything. He feels very close to imaginary George.
George the imaginary person threatens everything Mr. Obama has in store for us - higher taxes (whether disguised as "user fees" or "investments"), Al Gore's vast scheme to combat global warming whether the globe is warming or not, and a health-care plan guaranteed to eventually assure every American access to medical care equal to the quality health care now available in France, Canada, Britain and maybe even Lower Volta.
The good news, such as it is, is that the remaking of America in a way that a Chicago street "activist" of a generation ago hardly dared dream of may be of such potent poison that the body politic will reject it, as a healthy human body might reject a massive dose of arsenic (perhaps administered by someone in old lace). Several of the president's Democratic allies in Congress are already balking at his scheme to extract killer taxes, such as curbing deductions for mortgage interest, gifts to churches and charities, and state and local taxes.
Soaking the rich, so-called, is OK, but marinating the rich may not be helpful. More than skinned knees and bruised elbows are in prospect as Barack Obama finally discovers that ready or not, he's the president now.
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Why do conservatives call him the messiah? Do you guys think he is?
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Originally Posted by
George Gervin's Afro
Why do conservatives call him the messiah? Do you guys think he is?
Not all conservatives do. It's just a dog whistle for Darrin's low info buddies.
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Payback is a bitch. It's no more moronic than calling GWB an idiot for eight years.
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Originally Posted by
Winehole23
Payback is a bitch. It's no more moronic than calling GWB an idiot for eight years.
God, you're easy to bait.
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Originally Posted by
DarrinS
God, you're easy to bait.
Well, you're easy to hit.
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It's amusing that we argue about these party labels as if they actually mean something.
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Conservative and liberal are party labels, but they also have discrete, knowable historical meanings.
Usage favors the labels. So much the worse for me.
Damned if I'll let the likes of Darrin and Yoni claim conservatism all for themselves though. It's too effing perverse.
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Winehole23
Payback is a bitch. It's no more moronic than calling GWB an idiot for eight years.
are you trying to say he isn't an idiot? gwb is a fuckin' idiot! "hey kids, i can read upside down."
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Marcus Bryant
It's amusing that we argue about these party labels as if they actually mean something.
in my opinion they're all the same evil... no less, no more. politics/politicians in whichever form = corruption, power-hungry & greed. that's it.
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I stopped paying attention when I read this strawman.
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But Mr. Obama has already been president for more than a hundred days, and passing the hundred-day mark, irrelevant milestone as it may be, was cited as dead-solid proof that the president is the messiah he told everyone he was.
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koriwhat
are you trying to say he isn't an idiot? gwb is a fuckin' idiot! "hey kids, i can read upside down."
Honestly, no. I don't think he is. Like his father, prone to verbal mash-ups. Not a genius, not a dunce, stubborn and incurious to a fault, but not an idiot IMO.
GWB was a very cunning political animal. You don't get elected President twice if you're not.
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Winehole23
You don't get elected President twice if you're not.
sure you do when you got a bunch of idiots voting.
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I got clotheslined by a mail box the first time I went without training wheels :depressed
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Originally Posted by
koriwhat
sure you do when you got a bunch of idiots voting.
Par for the course, no matter who wins. The trick is to get votes based on sly appeals to people's hopes, fears, prejudices and insecurities. That is why I emphasized cunning. It is a far more important political trait (electorally speaking) than intellectual attainment or political principle IMO.
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koriwhat
sure you do when you got a bunch of idiots voting.
That's racist.
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Not when the media is degrading your faux lack of intelligence 24/7
Thank you Jesus that my president has enough of an ivy league degree to be intelligent enough to expand government, increase ridiculous spending, push redistribution of wealth, and promote class warfare :rollin:rollin:rollin
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Originally Posted by
FaithInOne
Not when the media is degrading your faux lack of intelligence 24/7
Thank you Jesus that my president has enough of an ivy league degree to be intelligent enough to expand government, increase ridiculous spending, push redistribution of wealth, and promote class warfare :rollin:rollin:rollin
Bush degraded himself... :lmao
I know it's easy for conservatives to blame everything on the media..
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Originally Posted by
Winehole23
GWB was a very cunning political animal. You don't get elected President twice if you're not.
Squeaking by Gore was cunning. Beating Kerry was the political equivalent of the Clippers beating the Kings 61-59.
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i be damned to find out that a significant portion of our population does find that Obama is unquestionable and can do no wrong. I'd be surprised.
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is all the fault of George W. Bush: "It's an economic crisis President Obama inherited."
Yes, clearly W. was the one who authored the big auto bailouts, and that massive budget that just got passed. It's not like Obama's signature was on any of that...
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Originally Posted by
George Gervin's Afro
Why do conservatives call him the messiah? Do you guys think he is?
It's for you guys. The way many on the left treats him, and the media. We know he's not, if anything, he's one of the several anti-Christs mentioned.
Think about how many people call anyone a racist, or other bad words about president Obama. Most everything bad he does goes unnoticed by the left and the media.
You guys worship at the alter of Obama. That's why he's called your messiah.... he brought hope and change... right?
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
It's for you guys. The way many on the left treats him, and the media. We know he's not, if anything, he's one of the several anti-Christs mentioned.
I didn't know you were religious.
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Most everything bad he does goes unnoticed by the left and the media.
Everyone's blind but you?
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You guys worship at the alter of Obama. That's why he's called your messiah.... ?
I got something for you WC.
It's called the one poster challenge.
Can you name one SpursTalk poster who does that?
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Since you numbnuts worshiped at the altar of Bush, we ended up with Obama. Sooner or later you'll figure it out, I guess.
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Casting everyone else outside of their emaciated tribe as Obama cultists helps them to keep kicking the can of responsibility down the road for how they ended up becoming the unpopular, "oppressed" minority they always aspired to be.
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
It's for you guys. The way many on the left treats him, and the media. We know he's not, if anything, he's one of the several anti-Christs mentioned.
So was Bush messianic? And if we are supposed to stand aghast that someone might view a politician as a religious leader, is not the same due to someone who views a politician as a religious anti-leader, as it were?
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Originally Posted by
Winehole23
I didn't know you were religious.
Everyone's blind but you?
I got something for you WC.
It's called the one poster challenge.
Can you name one SpursTalk poster who does that?
Liberals as a whole. It's a comical view anyway about how popular he was and how people reacted before the election, and even now. Lighten up.
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
Liberals as a whole. It's a comical view anyway about how popular he was and how people reacted before the election, and even now. Lighten up.
Oh, it's a comedy bit.
If you have a joke that isn't too funny, you shouldn't repeat it too often.
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Re: Even a messiah loses his training wheels
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Originally Posted by
Winehole23
I didn't know you were religious.
Everyone's blind but you?
I got something for you WC.
It's called the one poster challenge.
Can you name one SpursTalk poster who does that?
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Originally Posted by
Wild Cobra
Liberals as a whole. It's a comical view anyway about how popular he was and how people reacted before the election, and even now. Lighten up.
Yes, if you add up all the liberal posters on this board, with their various gripes about Obama (Afghanistan, giving torture a free pass, etc.), it equals an Obama worshipping cult.
Meanwhile, everyone on this board who zealously defended Bush prior to the 2006 midterms now strikes a John Galt pose and clings to the "No True Scotsman" fallacy for dear life.
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Originally Posted by
PixelPusher
Casting everyone else outside of their emaciated tribe as Obama cultists helps them to keep kicking the can of responsibility down the road for how they ended up becoming the unpopular, "oppressed" minority they always aspired to be.
The irony is that the conservative critique of PC did not do away with it but only turned it upside down.
White conservative males now seek to outdo everyone else in being victims. They demand tribute for their marginalized status. They call others out for being racist. They even pretend to be feminists...
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Scathing, PixelP. You're on fire tonight.
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Re: Even a messiah loses his training wheels
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Originally Posted by
PixelPusher
Yes, if you add up all the liberal posters on this board, with their various gripes about Obama (Afghanistan, giving torture a free pass, etc.), it equals an Obama worshipping cult.
Meanwhile, everyone on this board who zealously defended Bush prior to the 2006 midterms now strikes a John Galt pose and clings to the "No True Scotsman" fallacy for dear life.
Oh man, you have no idea how many fits of laughter this gave me for it's zesty quality. I positively tittered. :lmao
