"In the long run we can't continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences, as if waste doesn't matter, as if the hard earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money, that's what we've seen time and time again … Washington has put off hard choices spending bill... after spending bill, budget after budget."
-Barak Obama (speaking to ABC this week)
This reminds one of Obama's claim early on as President that, "i don't believe in big goverment". Our President seems to have the disconcerting ability to say anything no matter how ridiclous. It's like he's a machine and David Axelrod just inserts the script into the back of Obama's head before every interview and speech he does. The alarming aspect of this statement is the questions it raises about Obama: does he believe the bullshit coming out of his mouth or is this all talking points & manuevering. I hope he isn't so deluded to be sincerely saying the above words but increasingly i believe Obama to be far less intelligent than everyone assumes him to be (partially to be honest, because Bush set the bar so low & partly because of Obama's skin color makes his statements seem smart when coming from a white guys mouth his words would sound like the un-remarkable, rather bland poltical-speak it is). My doubts about Obama's purported awesome intelligence were aroused chiefly during the campaign when Obama said that he thought American unviersitys were sorely lacking in "oppression studies classes". I don't even know a liberal in my own life so out of touch with reality to have made such a patently absurd claim. But on a deeper level, to think colleges need more black studies, metizo studies, womens studies b.s. classes is tanatmount to saying that college's are too conservative. It suggests, if not indeed, shows that Obama doesn't even realize what even most liberals today admit about colleges which is that they have way to many of these ridiclous "oppression studies classes" with names like "White supremacy and native american gay consciousness: the fight for social justice", which are the very classes Obama said that college's didn't have enough of.When you think about, it's a statement too dumb for the Obama we know. All the thing is that we don't know Obama. We know the guy who gives the pompous sappy speeches on TV, thats about all. But it sounds like something a 20 year memember of Trinity United Church would utter.
Whenever Obama makes these "is he serious?" type statements designed, i hope, to show how moderate and fiscally conservative he is, i always think "And they called Bush a liar for getting faulty intelligence about "yellow cake"?" Obama has been in office for a year and he has already blatantly lied, to my count, atleast 2-3 times. Does the above count as a lie? I hope so, i hope our President isn't so deluded that he believes the words coming out of his mouth when he says these things. I hope he's just devious.
The good news is that i am certain that Obama's bold face lying/posing is not going to work on the American people, as it did in the election when one poll showed 20 percent more people thought Obama was more fiscally conservative than McCain. Though that is was reflection as much on Obama's poltical savy as McCain's senility as a candiate with one foot in the grave.
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