Obama: You know, tax hikes in a recession may be a bad idea
posted at 10:35 am on September 8, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Barack Obama retreated on another key policy yesterday, and this one has repercussions for his entire economic and spending plan. Obama acknowledged in an interview on ABC that rescinding the Bush tax cuts in a recession — as he has described the economy — would be destructive. If so, Obama just eliminated a significant amount of the funding for his hundreds of billions in new government spending:
Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.
Nevertheless, Obama has no plans to extend the Bush tax cuts beyond their expiration date, as Republican John McCain advocates. Instead, Obama wants to push for his promised tax cuts for the middle class, he said in a broadcast interview aired Sunday.
“Even if we’re still in a recession, I’m going to go through with my tax cuts,” Obama said. “That’s my priority.”
Obama has proposed almost $300 billion in new spending in his presidential campaign. If he can’t raise taxes, at least in his calculation, all of that becomes deficit spending. He wants to accuse McCain of fiscal irresponsibility for supporting the extension of the Bush tax cuts, but his spending plans now have no revenue. How exactly does that express responsibility?
Not only that, but Obama has essentially conceded the Republican argument on those extensions. Obama says he’ll use his middle-class tax cut as a balance, but overall Obama will raise taxes on corporations and employers, all of which will indirectly hit middle-class buying power. It will also result in lower revenues overall as the dynamic effect of these tax increases will curb economic growth, resulting in lower profits and less tax revenue — a point Obama makes himself in this statement.
Obama has campaigned successfully on economics mostly through populist rhetoric and class warfare. He has cast the Bush cuts as egregious without explaining the five years of solid growth they produced. Now that he has to start getting past the slogans and start producing specifics, he seems lost and self-contradictory. Small wonder that McCain has closed the gap on economic stewardship from 19 points to three in the latest polling. Voters have begun to realize that Obama is making it up as he goes along.
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This is what happens when someone gets promoted too soon. He really appears to be out-of-his-league at this point; likely he wouldn’t have been in 2012. I’ll bet the Democratic leadership is really pissed at Hillary’s campaign planners.
exhelodrvr on September 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Piper: Mommy, why is Mr. Obama running so fast?
Sarah: Nevermind, sweety. Just reload like mommy showed you.
ManlyRash on September 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Ooops! Nothing like entering a room full of people and telling a joke someone just told 5 minutes earlier.
Waterboy on September 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM
In all seriousness though, the next administration is inheriting the mother of all ticking time bombs. But I believe someone like Palin as VP would have an obvious mandate and could then explain how the Maverick team was put in place for exactly that reason and it will be tough and messy for a time as they try to defuse it.
Say something like:
“Give the Dems 12 more years of tax insanity, corrupt Congressional pork and puffery, or give me 12 years of Palin Power and I will have America back on the path to genuine hard-earned wealth from the sweat of our brow and not fake inflated government-made paper wealth.”
econavenger on September 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Waterboy,
“Best in the DNC, sir!”
Oh, the Arctic Fox has eaten it!
exhelodrvr on September 8, 2008 at 11:17 AM
wait, wait! we’ll still save hundreds of millions of dollars by computerizing our medical records, right?
/sarc
DrW on September 8, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Cue commercials with the former DNC national chair saying “God is on our side with these storms”
The donks footbulleted too hard on Gustav to run with that meme…
sven10077 on September 8, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Banned, I trust.
Kralizec on September 8, 2008 at 11:20 AM
That ABC interview was one huge trainwreck. Dayum
lodge on September 8, 2008 at 11:20 AM
McCain’s camp has been running so well lately that I’m trusting they are saving stuff for the debates. This, plus Obama’s 740 mil in pork should make for some nice uhhh, uuhhhs.
BadgerHawk on September 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Well, one things for sure…it’s pretty clear Obama has never been under serious pressure before, and no it’s abundantly evident that he has real trouble handling it.
We’re all jesting and having fun, but seriously, this guy looks like a bully/big-man-on-campus type in an Afterschool Special that just got owned at the school prom or something.
If I were the Dems, I wouldn’t even worry so much about Palin the Tiger or Hockey Moms, I’d be worried about how my candidate looks like he’s looking for the exit!
Waterboy on September 8, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Waterboy,
“Nothing like entering a room full of people and telling a joke someone just told 5 minutes earlier.”
Think what Obama feels like. He was in an elevator by himself, and farted, and then the door opened and the rest of the country walked in.
exhelodrvr on September 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Let’s see, where are we on the Obama decision front, I am sure I haven’t covered all the bad ideas Obama has had. Limited time and space, you know.
OK, taking people’s guns after the SC rules the Second Amendment means what it says, may be a bad idea, not going to do it, unless he has the votes in Congress. There is always a ‘but’.
Then we have voting against the surge, bad idea. Hey who knew it was going to be so wildly successful, well, maybe John McCain did, maybe Bush did. Ouch!!
Against offshore drilling, bad idea. Now wants some offshore drilling, and huge windfall taxes on oil companies — a really bad idea.
Ethanol, voted for it, now it’s clear to all but Obama it was a really bad idea to burn food.
Saying you are against FISA update and then voting for it, bad idea, maybe good idea, err, uhh, ummm — oh well, let’s move on
Talking with dictators, without preconditions, bad idea, never said that. Hopes you forgot.
Partitioning Jerusalem, well let’s just skip that mess as well.
Cutting the US military, drastically, is a bad idea, Unilateral disarmament, oops Russia shows up, bad idea — Hey wait, I never said that, Obama wants drastic cuts, still.
…. and now raising taxes IN A RECESSION, bad idea.
Where does Obama get his ideas that turn out to be so screwy bad?
I come down to this, voting for Obama is a really bad idea.
tarpon on September 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
While we’re off-topic with hurricanes, there was a report on Great Van Susteren’s show the other night that a few days before Hurricane Gustav hit Louisiana, Gov. Palin called Gov. Jindal and offered to send Alaska National Guard troops to Louisiana to help with rescue efforts, which Gov. Jindal accepted. This was confirmed by the commander of the Alaska National Guard.
Not stuck on stupid, but getting it done. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gov. Palin did the same thing again for Hurricane Ike.
Steve Z on September 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
oops, that’s GRETA Van Susteren…
Steve Z on September 8, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Now Obama says we should cut taxes during a recession, the surge worked, we should not immediately withdrawal from Iraq, and we should add troops to Afghanistan. Plus, he voted for the FISA bill and Biden says life begins at conception.
If those two keep changing their minds, next thing we’ll hear is they are now planning to vote for McCain-Palin on Election Day.
Sergeant Tim on September 8, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Well, one things for sure…it’s pretty clear Obama has never been under serious pressure before, and no it’s abundantly evident that he has real trouble handling it.
Two more weeks of this trend, and Pelosi and Reid will be figuring how to hold onto the Senate and House, screw Obama/Biden, there is still room under the bus for them.
Pelosi and Reid’s jobs are on the line…
right2bright on September 8, 2008 at 11:29 AM
He was for taxing the working rich before he was against it
flyoverland on September 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM
I’ve come to the conclusion that Obama’s deliberately trying to lose this election. He knows he’s in way, WAY, WAY over his head. Watch for more self-destruction coming soon to a completely off-the-rails media outlet near you!
mr.blacksheep on September 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM
I believe it was 500 Guardsmen and a C-130. Governor to Gov. no fed were involved. Jindal requested, and Palin gave the order…decision.
right2bright on September 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM
The Obama Campaign: He tried to tell us it was the only actual experience that qualified him to be President. Now his confused campaign meltdown is hard proof for America he was never ready to lead. I’m John McCain and I approved this sad truth.
econavenger on September 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Don’t excuse his incompetence, Obama is losing because he is not the man he thinks he is. He wants it, he just is beginning to realize it ain’t so easy. This isn’t Chicago…
right2bright on September 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM
OK, the two biggest problems our economy has is the House Loan problem, and the Energy economy.
Lets see… Fannie May and Freddie Mac were both set up and restructured by Dem controlled Congress. Oversite of these institutions is done by the Federal Reserve Bank, and they follow rules set up by the Fed Res Board. Oversite of the Fed is supposed to be done by Congress. Both Fannie and Freddie have now been taken over by the Fed Government, and the bail out “could” cost Hundreds of billions of dollars…
So, Congress created institutions, did not provide oversite, and they have now failed.
Energy Policy… We now produce only 40% as much oil in the US as we did in 1970… why? Congress passed environmental laws making it very tough to get anything done, and will not allow drilling on huge chunks of Federal Land.
Obama is already a member of the SENATE, and is in the position to lead on these issues… but has not done anything… so now he wants a Promotion?
Of course, in fairness, McCain has been in Congress for a LLONNNNGGGGG time… and has been part of the problem as well.
Romeo13 on September 8, 2008 at 11:34 AM
That’s an analogy worthy of Reagan. Well done sven!
PackerBronco on September 8, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Before:
Si Si PuedeAfter: No Mas!
…of all ya boxing fans
Waterboy on September 8, 2008 at 11:35 AM
A thousand cousins of Chicago Aldermen are suddenly thinking they may have to find real work.
flyoverland on September 8, 2008 at 11:36 AM
He’s lying. His base knows this as well as his backers.
Bill Clinton promised ‘middle-class’ tax cuts when he first ran for President. When they failed to materialize, he said that things had changed in the few months he’d been in office.
Obama will do what every mainstream Democrat has wanted or tried to do for decades. Increase federal spending, increase taxes on everyone to pay for it, and try to deconstruct traditional infrastructure and replace it with European style morality and governance.
The reason these campaigns tend to end up being personality contests is that the issues Democrats support are anathema to average Americans. And it’s why it’s ’swiftboating’ to point out associations, statements and positions when you talk about Democrats and ‘vetting’ when you go after the 17-year old daughter of the Republican candidate.
Asher on September 8, 2008 at 11:37 AM
There just has to be a way to jack up the bus.
Rovin on September 8, 2008 at 11:38 AM
This is the telltale heart to me. If he actually believes what he said, then he is in full agreement with Bush/McCain on the tax cuts. But he is also hinting that he agrees with Clinton on his “economy is roaring – let’s raise taxes by $100 billion a year!” philosophy.
Liberals don’t get it. They still talking about Clinton’s “budget surplus” as if there was ever such a thing, not understanding that his tax increase torpedoed it. It was an illusion. I guess they’re stupid.
Jaibones on September 8, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Would anybody be surprised if Biden votes for McCain?
bloggless on September 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Thus far, not yet.
ManlyRash on September 8, 2008 at 11:51 AM
SO which one is is O! ???
Are you gonna get rid of the eeeeeeeeeeevil Booooooosh tax cut’s for the rich, introduce your own, do some of both…
Or simply do whatever polls best at the time???
Sounds like Billy Jeff redux to me
RocketmanBob on September 8, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Here’s the real problem kids:
We live in a functional democracy. We were supposed to live in a constitutional republic. Basic economical principles are not taught except in home schools. Government education is a fraud and a national shame.
Any changes that would allow the American economy to steel itself against the consequences of 80-90 years of economic insanity could all go away with a 50%+ 1 vote in Congress and one Presidential signature or one Supreme Court justice getting up on the wrong side of the bed. And poof! Everything changes just like that!
Freddie and Fanny, Bear/Stearns, et al are the canaries in the coal mine.
Social Security and Medicare are unfunded by tens of trillions of dollars. Not underfunded, but unfunded.
We have Dems (and some Repubs, witness the “Gang of Now 16″) who are flaming idiots when it comes to oil and energy-again, bitter fruit from the tree of a functional democracy.
We have received many warnings. It appears that Congress, with permission of the people who elect them, are tossing a live grenade from one Congress to another hoping that it explodes on the others’ watch.
The harvest of what we’ve sown is nearly at hand. We have a few precious years to get this squared away. No more than a decade. After that the pin has been pulled and the spoon released on the grenade.
Again, we’ve been warned.
Amendment X on September 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Try this…
right2bright on September 8, 2008 at 11:56 AM
When you can’t win on your own platform, adopt the platform of your opponent, repackage the ideas and call them your own.
I saw that too, very funny.
We must keep this man’s finger off the “maybe” button in the White House.
nyrofan on September 8, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Someone please alert me when he makes a logical and consistent case for any of his long held beleifs. That would be worthy of my time – otherwise – not so much.
Fuquay Steve on September 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Yakko77 reported on this already:
Link
right2bright on September 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM
thanks, explaining economics to people who haven’t studied it is a hobby of mine….
I have an old one about pegging how people feel about the capitalist system.
it goes on and on but the final question is “what generated the billion dollar conglomerate Wally Inc became wealth wise?”
My answer is the idea….hence IP law.
all the best,
sven
sven10077 on September 8, 2008 at 12:02 PM
I’m sending you a bill for a new keyboard.
NoFanofLibs on September 8, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Don’t forget about Teh One’s #2
(I know. Old Article)
Joe Biden’s just a barrel of gaffes
Money quotes:
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM
“You just don’t lead ‘em as much.”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 8, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Moving to the center a little early, isn’t he?
How can he call the last eight years an economic disaster, as the Bush tax cuts work? He wouldn’t prevaricate simply to win an election, would he? Oh my!
A little history lesson would be helpful. The economic boom ‘overseen’ by President Clinton’s administration had nothing to do with Clinton. A little thing called the personal computer, in conjunction with the explosion of the Internet, transformed the Global economy. President Bush came into office when the dot com bubble burst-the highs of the 1990s went back down, way down, but now have found their right level.
If Obama had been President for the past four years, he would be shouting our present economic numbers from the rooftops, as the economy has been strong, and will continue to be strong, unless the Democrats get in and tax us back to the stone age.
Doug on September 8, 2008 at 12:21 PM
My head is spinning, faster and faster every time he opens his mouth !! I guess he’s been caught up within “Hurricane Sarah” ??
This is just the most remarkable thing to watch.
Utterly breathtaking.
pambi on September 8, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Am I missing something here? I was sort of under the impression that extending the tax cuts beyond the legislated sunset date would require an act of Congress?
Isn’t one of the reasons we have this whole system of checks and balances so we don’t have one guy deciding who pays what for taxes?
Barry the Decider?
Stephen Macklin on September 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM
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If we had another 6 months, barry obambi would BE a republican. ( well, at least he would sound like one)
.
What an empty, unethical, immoral, unprincipled loser.
He’s even bad compared to Democrat nominee standards.
shooter on September 8, 2008 at 12:52 PM
shooter on September 8, 2008 at 12:52 PM –
Obama is the ultimate result of the Left’s tradition of being everything to everyone. When you try to be everything to everyone, you end up with nothing.
coldwarrior on September 8, 2008 at 12:56 PM
So that’s obama’s new strategic move? He wants everyone to feel sorry for him. The little boy in the corner with the dunce hat .
christene on September 8, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Word up, bro!
I wish someone in media or the Republican party had the guts to articulate this (with identical specificity) to the American public.
Calling Fred Thompson!
electric-rascal on September 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM
That’s KEEPER.
Now I have clean my monitor.
Old Hippie Vet on September 8, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Obama seems like a nice enough guy to me. He seems smart and thoughtful and reasonably hip. He just is not presidential material.
I think he is a closet Black Panther that wants to punish wite success and promote black victimhood.
If he would talk straight on the black culture train wreck and the catastrophy the welfare state is, he could get more white votes. The “Hip Hop” culture is at the bottom of every measure if human intellectual achievement, and at the top of every list of failure from education to unwed mothers to prison populations to violence to income.
There must be a legitimate reason for these realities, but the MSM always blames it on racial descrimination. That concept will only get you so far. History is replete with instances where people that are descriminated against step up and excell. Telling truth to power is one thing, telling truth to people is something different.
We must stop the welfare state and Obama should take the lead if he expects to get elected by whites.
saiga on September 8, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Obama could very well be the man that saves the US auto industry. They’ll have to keep on making busses. He seems to need an endless supply.
jeanie on September 8, 2008 at 2:14 PM
He is flipping and flopping on almost every issue.
Much like a man who is in serious trouble in his campaign.
Conservative_SAHM on September 8, 2008 at 2:16 PM
and it took 300 advisers to let him know that.
venicesurfer on September 8, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Whether John McCain’s lead over Barack Obama is 10 points, or 3 points, or somewhere in between doesn’t matter. Those numbers will shift and shift again over the next eight weeks.
What matters is the great divide that has been revealed, and whether or not the MSM tries to repair it or simply deepens it in the weeks ahead.
Will the MSM actually start covering Obama with the same level of scrutiny as has been applied to Sarah Palin these past ten days? Chicago Thugs, northern division, are swarming Alaska to try and smear Palin, while Obama’s MSM allies are pressing for a series of gotcha interviews to help in the process, so the full court effort by Obama’s media allies to destroy the Alaska governor will continue.
But still missing is a serious attempt by anyone sitting across from Obama to ask about his real views of and deep connections to Bill Ayers and the details of his years in close association with Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko. Wholly unexamined are Obama’s long ties to the deeply corrupt Cook County machine.
Still missing is any sustained questioning about the huge gaps in his understanding of how the world works and his planned meetings with Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Kim. Has he yet been briefed about the Russian veto on the Security Council? If Sarah Palin responded to the Georgian crisis as Obama did, she’d have been flayed for her unpreparedness. Obama got a pass. Yet he’s the one running for president, not vice-president.
Still missing is even cursory questioning about his vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, his deceptive answers about his bipartisan achievements –of which he truly has none– and the details of his legislative record in Illinois or D.C., which are laughable. Team Obama bristled at the derision directed at his “community organizer” experience, which reflects unease at the prospect of anyone actually pressing Obama on his life experiences.
Fore more follow the link…
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog
Will the MSM (or any portion of) actually do their job during this campaign, or will they leave it entirely up to the new media?
Keemo on September 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM
I believe McCain has already alluded to this. “Vote for McCain/Palin so they can get it right the first time. Obama will come to the correct conclusion sooner or later.” (Biden NEVER gets it right.)
jerseyman on September 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM
No worries.
Our children can pay for our optional wars, farm subsidies, bank bailouts, etc.
They won’t mind.
They won’t spit on our graves…
alphie on September 8, 2008 at 2:24 PM
They can not afford to let Obama lose at any cost. Things are so far gone that their only hope is to restore the Fairness Act and control information on the Internet.
jerseyman on September 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Ralph when you say “our” children what you mean to say is “your” children…..
we don’t suction cup our babies…..
bet it’d be nice to have some of those 40 million voting eh?
sven10077 on September 8, 2008 at 2:35 PM
ROFLMAO!!! Obama’s plane lands and there is ONLY ONE REPORTER THERE TO GREET HIM!! Just heard it on Fox Live Desk as Martha McAllum was introducing Carl Cameron’s report.
How long before BHO starts smoking again? Daily campaigning will seem like the death of a thousand cuts. By Nov 4 Barry may be feeling like Kenny on South Park. “You killed
KennyBarry! You bast*rds!”NightmareOnKStreet on September 8, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Maybe communism in general might be bad.
Hum?
TheSitRep on September 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Americans draw the line at an affirmative action president. Time to go home to mama Barry.
UnEasyRider on September 8, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Obama’s “net” tax cut for the middle class is a windfall profit tax on employers. When employers get their tax bill, they will fire employees. When US businesses can’t make a profit due to higher taxes, they will get taken over by their foreign competitors. It’s a no-win situation.
eigafan on September 8, 2008 at 2:43 PM
NightmareOnKStreet on September 8, 2008 at 2:37 PM
That’s funny, and also a dose of reality for the ego attached to Obama’s shoulders.
Palin is the rage now.
Keemo on September 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM
Sure we will. Line forms to THE RIGHT people…
And if you go out A) with flair B) BEFORE procreating we will nominate you for a Darwin Award…
We heart alphie.
NightmareOnKStreet on September 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM
It was formerly the left who praised the Americans’ fighting wars in which American interests were not at stake, and as far as I know, it’s still the left who talk about freeing Tibet and saving Darfur. Farm subsidies seem to be unpopular with everyone except farmers now, but I remember when left journalists and candidates were all about saving farmers. And I’m sure you know it’s a Democrat Congress that must approve any appropriations to “bail out” “Fannie Mae” and “Freddie Mac,” those two crusty old fossils from the Americans’ early welfare state.
However, since it’s the right, not the left, who are having children, it does seem you’re talking to the right people. The left’s children will not be producing very much spit.
Kralizec on September 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM
jerseyman on September 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Your take is the logical direction for these Liberal nutters; however, they must be looking at the huge lay-offs taking place in their own industry, and at least be thinking about the continued consequences for their total failure to do the job our government designed for them (free press). I know what they are saying and all of that, but I wonder what they are thinking in the privacy of their own homes. I had a client in Palos Verdes, Ca., who wrote for the LAT back some years ago. This man predicted what we are now watching, the total demise of the MSM due to Liberals having full control over the product. Liberals destroy everything in their path, like a swarm of locus.
Are they so nutty that they don’t see their paychecks getting flushed down the sewer? Maybe…
Keemo on September 8, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Let’s see:
-
End the war in Iraq and bring the troops home- no longer relevant-
500 billion in new federal programs- bankrupt already without Bush tax cut repeal-
Tax rebates for poor people- no money to fund it-
Hope- that we can end up like the derelict communities that you organized so well that they are sill derelict? Mmmmm… no.-
Change- with a 30+ year senate VP and you 97% partisan record? yeah… that’s likely.…so, why is anyone voting for this guy again?
Damiano on September 8, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Because he’s not in
Hitler’sBush’s party.Entelechy on September 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Heh, what’s good for the gander, is good for the goose too, Mr. Obama.
Obama on Palin: ‘You can’t just reinvent yourself’
Entelechy on September 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM
This flip has to the subject of the next ad.
That point has to be pounded home relentlessly.
Mig on September 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM
He`s heading down-field and is starting to fumble. Take him down Barracuda!
ThePrez on September 8, 2008 at 4:42 PM
I smell a Clinton finger in the pie.
Hmmm. give him bad advice so he looses and Hillary can run in 2012.
He’s just to much in Love with himself to see it.Or is it just his inflated EGO? ROFLMAO
Rick007 on September 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM
The title of “Waffles” officially transfers from Kerry to Oprama.
Whadda wooss this guy is…he was for tax increases before he was against them.
Bullwinkle the Moose in Sarah’s crosshairs.
Shirotayama on September 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Biden is cutting the very things Jackson was talking about off. LOL
Rick007 on September 8, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Where’s a link to that story I saw earlier today or yesterday that Oprama very recently went to visit Shrillary, hat in hand, asking for help?
After they originally appeared to agree that she’d back down and not challenge his right to the nomination in exchange for him throwing millions of $$ her way to help settle her campaign debts, only to totally STIFF her…now, and ONLY NOW, does he visit her, hat in hand…GROVELING for help fighting off MAC and the Huntress?
Shrillary must be relishing this moment.
And she has ZERO incentive to truly help, and PLENTY of incentive to screw his campaign behind the scenes, after he stiffed her and provided nowhere near the dollars he promised, what POSSIBLE incentive does she have to really marshall any forces to help?
More likely, she deploys as much leverage as possible to destroy the guy so she gets another run in 2012. MUCH more likely.
I guess Oprah should have been more willing to liquidate some of that billion-plus she owns to help Shrillary settle her campaign debts. By having not opened the pocketbook to help Barry Hussein earlier…MUCH earlier…her personal Messiah is doomed.
Say g’night, Captain Earmark!
Shirotayama on September 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Moron. Incompetent twit. He just exudes BS, and not even quality Clintonesque BS. Just making crap up as he goes along.
Pathetic.
spmat on September 8, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I like the way Drudge put the Obama headlines up on his site.
Now that’s funny.
Ronnie on September 8, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Obama-flipflop-a-rama-lama-dingdong
reshas1 on September 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Piper: Did Mr. Cheney teach you how to shoot Mommy?
Sarah: No dear, I was taught to shoot with my eyes open.
sorry, couldn’t resist.
Pcoop on September 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM
At this point in the Presidential race, you’d think, especially after the buzz and play following the Republican Convention, Team Obama would realize that running against Bush makes as much sense as a Presidential candidate running against a Vice Presidential candidate.
Team Obama is giving this election to the GOP.
We are more than thankful for their continued cost-free efforts.
coldwarrior on September 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I dunno, where I live I see single unwed mothers who share the same ethnicity as Barry’s Old Man, lugging along 3 or more kids at a clip. I really don’t think they are voting to the Right on Nov 4th. Then again, I don’t think they can find Election Day on a calendar anyway.
StatenItaly08 on September 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Well, if she is, she’s not showing it around my way. She was on Staten Island rallying support for Michael McMahon (D) to take Vito Fossella’s (R) seat in Congress. This is not good for us SI’ers. We have the only Red Seat in the 5 boros.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/hillary_clinton_visits_staten.html
StatenItaly08 on September 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Took the same strategy about troops in Iraq too. Went from get them out, to well we’ll see, talk to the generals….
Ozprey on September 8, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Is this Barack trying to reinvent himself.. AGAIN?
Changing again?
OMG..
Obama’s policies flip a coin. yes, no maybe so.
Come on how long has been telling us the economy has been the WORST EVER!
Now all of a sudden he changed his mind?
Chakra Hammer on September 8, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Hope, and Change…
I’m Hopeing that I get the Change right this time…
Romeo13 on September 8, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Paisan, ya gotta remember…and take this from a guy born in NYC but who moved down South as a young boy:
ANYTHING in NYC is a LOST CAUSE. I’m surprised you HAVE EVEN ONE red seat in the 5 boroughs.
BTW, whatever happened to Congressman King? Is he not there anymore?
Don’t get mad, Paisan. New Yawkers have this tencdency think NYC = the world. Ain’t so, buddy row.
Shirotayama on September 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM
All bets are off – Obama just praised Communist China again in his interview with O’Reilly.
He also basically said, “what’s the big deal” if you have to pay more taxes.
This guy’s dangerous.
dugan on September 8, 2008 at 8:13 PM
O’Reilly joking with Obama about his tax plan said he “didn’t mind living in a hut.” Not so veiled reference to Obama’s poor half brother George?
Disturb the Universe on September 8, 2008 at 8:22 PM
And somebody needs to bang Pelosi over the head with this fact. She now is softening on offshore drilling BUT Big Oil is not to have any tax breaks, according to her demented reasoning.
Another canard of the Left is that our country can ill afford tax breaks during a time of war. This is their convoluted way of exiting us from Iraq.
However, as radio commenter Jim Quinn said this morning, John Kennedy’s economic plan to decrease taxes was instituted posthumously and economically successfully…during the escalation of the VietNam War.
These Lefties cannot get their talking points straight.
onlineanalyst on September 8, 2008 at 9:07 PM
“The Judgement to Waffle“
29Victor on September 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM
Remember the movie “Say Anything“? When are the Dhimmis gonna wake up to this guy?
Mojave Mark on September 8, 2008 at 9:33 PM
You know what else is a great movie to re-visit these days? “Deep Impact.” I just caught it on cable. The president is black, the heroic spaceship sent to stop the world-smashing comet is called “The Messiah,” and one of the main characters is an MSNBC reporter who is chosen to survive the end of the world because “everyone knows you, and people trust you.” That, my friends, is science fiction right there.
Doctor Zero on September 8, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Keemo: All of your points are valid, to which I would add the disappearing funds for the failures of the Woods Foundation monies and those of all of the other education boondoggles in Chicago.
Obama’s game has been to play with OPM (other people’s money) while he ensconces himself in the role of righteous determiner of what is fair and just. He has never been accountable in any role that he has played.
onlineanalyst on September 8, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Never fear a Nada Obama tax hike.
You won’t have to pay it.
You just won’t get your pay check.
maverick muse on September 8, 2008 at 9:57 PM
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