Video: “Pragmatist” candidate lectures America on fiscal responsibility
posted at 8:48 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
Dedicated to David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, and the rest of the right-wing intelligentsia who knew a solution-minded centrist when they saw one. The occasion for this reminiscence is the news that this year’s deficit has now hit $1.4 trillion — a drop in the bucket compared to what we’re in for over the next decade, and rest assured, every last cent of it will be blamed on George Bush and the recession. But pay attention: The point of the clip isn’t simply to beat up on The One for his profligacy but to tie it to his warnings about military decline, a timely point given our new “arrangement” in Afghanistan. One would think that a guy who was planning a major escalation of a war if elected would be extra careful not to go passing any new budget-busting domestic programs in the meantime. And yet, somehow, we’ve arrived at the opposite outcome, with an almost trillion-dollar health-care bill on the table and the escalation on the brink of being canceled now that we’ve re-classified the enemy out of existence. Looking back, it almost seems as though he was deliberately lying on the trail about Afghanistan and fiscal responsibility to get elected, doesn’t it?
Oh, in case you missed it in the update to Ed’s post earlier: The Cato Institute says that Baucus’s supposed deficit-reducing bill is going to cost a bit more than expected.
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Allah – here’s some news – David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker are not conservatives.
Reboot.
TexasJew on October 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM
BUY STOCK IN PRINTING INK!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM
To be fair, I’m not sure if Parker supported Obama because of his pragmatism… I think it was more because of his “healing power.” Am I right?
MeatHeadinCA on October 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Dedicated to David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, and the rest of the right-wing intelligentsia who knew a solution-minded centrist when they saw one.
Who kidnapped Allahpundit!
Blake on October 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Wipes snot off computer screen…
tommylotto on October 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Nixon + Carter = Obama
MeAlice on October 8, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Is that snot from laughing too hard, snorting, or profusely crying? I’m assuming not the later.
MeatHeadinCA on October 8, 2009 at 8:57 PM
He’s trying to destroy America because he hates it.
And it’s not just him, but the leftists elites have been chipping away at this for some time.
And now it’s happening.
We can only watch our city walls collapse.
We are doomed.
therightscoop on October 8, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Buy Ammo!
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM
That video gets me all jiggered up.
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Yes, Mr. President. Everything is going exactly as planned, isn’t it.
outOfElement on October 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Wow. I’m listening to a tape of Arnie speaking at the Fairmont Hotel and everyone is booing him – loudly. One Calif. assemblyman, democrat, yelled “kiss my faggot a$$!”
Blake on October 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM
That’s not fair.
Obama is clearly the love child of FDR’s socialism and Carter’s ignorance. The waft of corruption could just as well be from LBJ as Nixon.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM
He’s not a Marxist. He’s not anti-American.
He’s just foolish.
Yeah, that’s even more dangerous.
SteveMG on October 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM
I’m not sure she even voted for Obama… she hated Palin and wrote 1 or 2 really over the top columns… she thought McCain should have picked Romney…
ninjapirate on October 8, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Compared to him, George Bush had a silver tongue. How can a man who stammers half his sentences be considered eloquent? Every accolade of obama is upside down.
keep the change on October 8, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Well isn’t that nice! The left bashed teaparties and often cancelled town halls on the excuse of uncivil behavior. Nice to know that the ability to object to elected officials doesn’t apply to those with faggot a$$es.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Obama is rapidly going from the worst US president ever to one of the worst world leaders ever.
How low can he go ?
/Pol Pot
At least I got 100% elections
/Saddam
William Amos on October 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM
I’m not sure who she voted for (or if she voted), but I recall an NRO column where she talked about the healing power of Obama… Just curious if anyone else remembered… Maybe I’ll have to Google it…
MeatHeadinCA on October 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM
We’re getting deep into Clover-Piven doctrine.
the_nile on October 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM
What a great pants crease. Perfect. He’s got my vote.
/Brooks
Ted Torgerson on October 8, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Precious metals lead and gold.
the_nile on October 8, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Not worth the BO droppings on Air Force One.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:08 PM
This b*st*rd will go down in history as The One Who Destroyed The United States of America.
It is chilling to read comments of folks who have given up, and all we have to do is sit back and watch our country crumble from within.
I predict a revolution, and it won’t be quiet like the tea parties.
Cleveland Steamer on October 8, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Barack Hussein Obama
mmm-mmm-mmm
I just love the sound
mmm-mmm-mmm
He’s set his sights on the USA
mmm-mmm-mmm
And he’ll run it into the ground
mmm-mmm-mmm
Barack Hussein Obama
mmm-mmm-mmm
I think you get the gist
mmm-mmm-mmm
One by one he will
mmm-mmm-mmm
Turn you and I into a marxist
mmm-mmm-mmm
mmm-mmm-mmm
mmm-mmm-mmm………………
Cleveland Steamer on October 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I ain’t clicking on that crap either. I see that buffoon on TV way to much anyway.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I think someone said it a few weeks ago — are they trying to start a Civil War here at home so as to declare Marshall law or something — Im 56 years young and never have I seen it like this — Hey lets give away free money in major cities ( Detroit) and not pay up — Man that’s a good idea..
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I predict a giant shrug; there aren’t enough of us to keep this from happening and after it’s done the populace will say “Oh well let’s make the best of it.”
Letterman is at the top of the news cycle while the demorats are cruising their health care destruction through committee. No one cares.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Kevin Jennings for Secretary of Faggots!
Cleveland Steamer on October 8, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Outta my head, Alice! Outta my head.
radioboyatl on October 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM
We can’t trust the CBO it seems, they’re either in the tank for zero or just don’t want to be bothered with yet another piece of crap legislation that isn’t going anywhere anyway, and even if it does it’ll be repealed in 2010.
CBO must now mean Curtsy to Barack Obama
Spiritk9 on October 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Meanwhile,Nancy Pelosi strutts back to the well for
another bailout scam,(and as she gets herself ready
for another passion plea,she mulls over in her mind
how to blame and screw-over the Republicans)and just
before she makes the pitch,keeps telling herself,
the deficient is only,
1.4 TRILLION!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Bishop, I hope you are wrong.
Cleveland Steamer on October 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I don’t like the ‘f’ word. It’s derogatory to the poor people afflicted with anti-nature syndrome.
Spiritk9 on October 8, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Nixon was demonstrably a better president, and arguably a better man, for all his faults, than either Carter or Obama.
Nixon, after his resignation, was fairly recognized by both sides for his depth of knowledge of foreign relations.
Can this be said of Carter?
Will it be said of Obama?
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM
That was totally not a cool thing to do here.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Wow. I’m listening to a tape of Arnie speaking at the Fairmont Hotel and everyone is booing him – loudly. One Calif. assemblyman, democrat, yelled “kiss my faggot a$$!”
Blake on October 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Got a link for that?
Archimedes on October 8, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I hope so too but look how the reaction to this has fallen off; even the tea parties are shrinking as people get back to school and prepare for the winter and the holiday season.
There are just too few Americans who are raising he1l, they are too concentrated on reality tv, American Idol and who Letterman is banging, and that indifference is just fine with the demorats. They will hear about this latest CBO number and say “hey it sounds good to me” and go back to the tv.
There will be no civil war, maybe a few states somewhere will try to fight this on Constitutional grounds, but Ogabe will leverage the power of the federal government against them.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Let’s face it….we won in 2004 when the entire war on islamofascism hung in the balance. We lost in 2008 when the nation’s financial future and capitalist viewpoint hung in the balance. This tremendously unprepared rookie is going to do a lot of damage while he’s in office. We’ll be dealing with the wreckage for decades just like the failures of Carter (mishandling Iran) and Clinton (mishandling Al Qaeda) haunted us for years. George W. Bush and the former GOP congress didn’t help by driving up the deficit and starting down the bailout road, but Obama has truly bad policy goals and very poor instincts on foreign policy. Ugh…
Jill1066 on October 8, 2009 at 9:21 PM
We have a dangerous guy in the White House.
cubachi on October 8, 2009 at 9:22 PM
The American people did not realize al queda and other muslims were at war with America until it was too late and we had 9/11.
I really hope that the people will wake up and realize our own president is at war with the America and wants it destroyed before it is too late.
ouldbollix on October 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM
So,Obama mentions,NEW WORLD ORDER,interesting!
And,now Obama has figured out how to DESTROY AMERICA!
A Military Power must also be an Economic Power!!!!!!!
Team Hopey/Changey has found the formula,annihilate the
American economy!
And,there is TWO OBAMA’S,I wonder wonder which Obama
believes in the “Silky’s Two Americans”!!!!!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Can’t imagine anyone mistaking the Ahnold for Bawney Fwank.
ICBM on October 8, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Karl Marx + Benito Mussolini + Joe Isuzu + Bozo the Clown = Barack Obama
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 9:27 PM
AP, ban?
Pretty close.
SteveMG on October 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM
There are just too few Americans who are raising he1l,
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Bishop: Thats whats missing,a special operations needs to be put into place,like more joker posters to upset the one,
as an example!
More graffiti,like “ObamaVoterbots,has your mortgage been paid yet”,”you voted for Obama,and your still awaitin for
those promises to materialize”!!
There has got to be a group of soured Leftys that feel aban
doned by Hopey!!:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 9:33 PM
With the stock market up, and with the lock-step-media-loving-Barry idiots touting an end of the recession, people have fallen back to sleep. They’ll wake up again when the market crashes for a second time (and it will), Israel smacks the crap out of Iran, health insurance premiums quadruple, and commodity prices soar. They won’t be Insentient for long.
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I for one am tired of calling the Politicians – I feel not alone — talking is doing no good — but the feelings remain — someone said — keep poking the Bull– sooner than later- you will get a reaction …From The Bull ( We The People )
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM
When Rome could no longer fund its military that was the beginning of its decline.
docdave on October 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM
bitsy on October 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Only FOOLS and CLOWNS believed him.
Upon listening to the tape for just a few seconds, I had the utmost urge to hurl. They call him the world’s best communicator? In that case our world deserves to go under.
Schadenfreude on October 8, 2009 at 9:36 PM
This should brighten Allah’s Day or nite as the case may be.
Page one of two.
Clyde5445 on October 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM
RELOADS WORK FINE!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:40 PM
The American people did not realize al queda and other muslims were at war with America until it was too late and we had 9/11.
I really hope that the people will wake up and realize our own president is at war with the America and wants it destroyed before it is too late.
ouldbollix on October 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM
macncheez on October 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM
As I Said — People in my area are very quiet about what they say and do — I smell underground sentiment — I’m in Charlotte N.C. they ( The British ) didn’t call us the Hornets for nothing ..
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I’ve been trying to understand this Obama guy for over a year.
I guess I’m one of those that just has a hard time believing that the stable America of soccer games, and politicians coming and going and nothing really world-shaking going on, has come to an end. I still am trying to come to grips with….
A. Oh, He’s just a fool.
2. Is he maybe just a tool?
3. Is he just a lame ignorant Liberal?
4. Is he really a committed Marxist dedicated to forcing America into decline because he really dislikes the Unjust America that we don’t see?
I guess it’s #4 for me because I just can’t see how any of the other choices really explains all the complete lunacy that we’re seeing.
And I’m sorry but Laura Bush is just a complete elitist idiot if she thinks that Obama is doing a good job. I guess when you’re in the RULING CLASS as long as your RULE is protected by other members of the club (Dole/Howard Baker/Clintons/Zbig Breshinski/etc.) you think everything is fine. When I hear RINO’s talking about WORKING TOGETHER WITH DEMOCRATS I just want to vomit.
I really, truly think that the GOP is now a lost cause. The party is so corrupt along with the Democrats that we’re slipping dangerously close to the point where something/someone outside politics is going to have to pull a CORAZON AQUINO, People power movement to save this country.
What are we going to do for the next 3 1/2 years people?
PappyD61 on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Page two
Clyde5445 on October 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Here is the link.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5976D020091008?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11604
Clyde5445 on October 8, 2009 at 9:53 PM
To do what, fight an armed insurrection? The same people who are too indifferent to call their legislators now are going to pick up a rifle and charge the Senate building later?
Individual states or a coalition might find success in resistance on a level that doesn’t include secession, but that’s probably it.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Who can believe anything this guy says, I mean it, seriously? Is it just a need to want to believe him when it is patently obvious what he says isn’t true? Is it just partisanship, loyalty to ideology above all else that makes one ignore what is actually said? Is it just the way he says his lies, the cadence of his lying speeches? How long does it take for someone who constantly contradicts themselves from speech to speech to lose all credibility? Or will it take for the jobs that are lost to be not just other citizen’s jobs but rather their own, to wake them up?
Dollayo on October 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Nixon was a piker compared to Obama.
faraway on October 8, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Non Violence resistance is what I hope will be an underground movement – during the Carter years my landlord was a dentist and the neighborhood did a lot of bartering with him and the grocery store … as I said Underground till the next round ..
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I go back and forth between utter amazement at such audacity (i.e. sheer lying) and anger. We are all going to pay such a huge price for his irresponsibility. Both financially and with foreign policies consequences.
It is so painful that so many millions of Americans actually believe this guy.
tomllewis on October 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
A man who has long associated with radical Marxists travels around the world denigrating America and makes destructive economic choices at home.
Golly…it’s almost like he’s doing it on purpose!
Django on October 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Obama, the Mad Marxist
faraway on October 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Has he said anything that has turned out to be true? Seriously, anything? I’ve been around for many an administration and I can’t recall a single one of them who told so many lies. Well, there’s Nixon of course. And Clinton comes to mind but those mostly related to his promiscuity.
scalleywag on October 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Obama is a disaster. He should be impeached and voted out of office for what he is doing to America.
What Clinton did is not in the same league as this bad egg.
Not even close.
Clinton was impeached but kept his presidency.
But what do we do with an American president who is committing veritable treason against his own country?
Felonious Obama.
Yes. It has come to that.
Sherman1864 on October 8, 2009 at 10:26 PM
It ain’t over till the “Fat Lady” eerrr Health and Human Services Lady Sings…. Kinda Sorta …. Gotta keep Some Humor … Till Football Season is over … Then we can rumble … Thanks for letting me post …
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Hoodwinked and bamboozled.
Buy Danish on October 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
From Rush’s site,
Sick. Just sick.
Yakko77 on October 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Again. Only a cursory reading of history would persuade you that Richard Nixon was a liar either in the class of Clinton, or of Obama.
Nixon only lied about Watergate, and the efforts to cover it up.
Obama lies when he says “good morning” or “nice to see you,” for crying out Pete’s sake.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 10:38 PM
You know….
… when this all blows up in every one’s face, and the survivors are looking around at the uncountable number of dead, I wonder what our “Free and Independent” press will admit to any of the blame?
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Nope. Bush’s fault.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 11:15 PM
You’ll need your winter coat in hell for that day I’m afraid.
Yakko77 on October 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM
To do what, fight an armed insurrection? The same people who are too indifferent to call their legislators now are going to pick up a rifle and charge the Senate building later?
Individual states or a coalition might find success in resistance on a level that doesn’t include secession, but that’s probably it.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM
I am certainly hoping Texas is one of those states you mention and that maybe we should actually be putting a border fence up on northern borders right now. Unfortunately your premise is pretty much what I have thought as well.
bluemarlin on October 8, 2009 at 11:26 PM
You know….
… when this all blows up in every one’s face, and the survivors are looking around at the uncountable number of dead, I wonder what our “Free and Independent” press will admit to any of the blame?
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
You are assuming they will be around to admit to anything. At some point even most of them will get sideways of the party line and have to go ………
bluemarlin on October 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM
I’m not going to argue that the media is not totally liberal but this is not 1990, the truth is out there for all to see. There comes a time when individual judgment must be questioned. I can’t blame the press for the foolishness from such a huge number of Americans.
Dollayo on October 8, 2009 at 11:36 PM
BWAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAA HAAAAA
SNORT
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Saltysam on October 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM
I am in a running debate with my friend, a very intelligent person, about the motives and agenda of Obama- and more importantly the people who picked him, promoted him, and protected him- and how can we explain, as he put it, why the water is now running up hill.
My friend is a good man, a solid police detective and very, very bright economist. I was more a direct line of sight person, but willing to climb into the minds of the criminal in an attempt to understand their motives. Sometimes it was obvious. Sometimes I realized there was no motive beyond “because they could.”
At my website I’m offering a challenge, the same I gave him. Stop trying to understand what his happening by forcing a square peg into a round hole. Look at the problem differently. Water is running up hill, that is the new reality. We see the answer, the challenge is finding the formula that makes sense of it.
Is it arrogance? Stupidity? Malevolence? Or, as I have said before, are we inside a revolution? Much like the poor people in South America and Central America.
Here’s the site-
http://www.truthandcommonsense.com
archer52 on October 8, 2009 at 11:43 PM
He has actually:
Early November 2008: We are only five days away from transforming America.
Christian Conservative on October 9, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Abortion. He’s still going strong with his record on that is he not?
Yakko77 on October 9, 2009 at 12:33 AM
We ain’t seen nothing yet, folks.
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 9, 2009 at 12:33 AM
A-
John the Libertarian on October 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Barrack Hussein Obama - Peace be Unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. All Worship and Adoration be Unto Him. Give Him your worries, your burdens, our cares, your troubles, and He will give you Peace. Devote your life to him at all times, in all ways, with every thought, word, and deed, and he will save you - has special powers.
I have seen this with my own eyes, and I have heard the stories.
He has caste out demons.
He has made the rich poor and the poor rich.
He has walked on water, made fire appear in the sky, and parted the clouds.
He has parted the seas, and made the stars dance in the sky.
He has brought the dead back to life and made the living dead.
He has destroyed the once Great Nation, the USA, and weakened the military, putting US soldiers in greater danger, betraying them. He has made the world hate the USA more and strengthened their disrespect as well as rewarded and encouraged bad behavior among other nations and nefarious world leaders.
Hail the Messiah, the Savior of Mankind, the Lord of the Uniserve, the Articulate One, Mister Hope and Change, Mister “Yes, We Can!”
He is our Master, the Source of all Love, Peace, Compassiona, Mercy, and Prosperity.
All the deities and “Masters” from history, Krishna, Rama, Buddha, Jesus, etc., were mere fantasies. Barrack Hussein Obama - Peace be Unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Worship Him as your Lord and Savior - is the Reality!
William2006 on October 9, 2009 at 2:28 AM
Obama relies on our discouragement, wishes for it, revels in it. All we can do is keep up the emails/letters/calls to our reps and senators, attend as many protest meetings as possible, fund organizations, keep informed, read, read, read and vote ‘em out in 2010! Please G-d! I just shot off an email to one of my uber-lefty U.S. Senators and decided not to be Miss Nice Gal anymore. Nothing…NO THING…will change her mind; and I can’t keep the anger under wraps one more day.
Just a little personal aside: you know how your spell check underlines a misspelling? I never “added” BHO into my dictionary so that each time his name is typed it comes up redlined.
Mae on October 9, 2009 at 3:10 AM
What are the odds…..
That instead of the 2nd Coming of Jesus that Obama is actually the Twelfth Imam?
Breaking News: Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination deadline was Feb 1, 2009, when he’d been in office less than a month.
RIGHT ON TRACK! Yeah, baby!
I predicted this jerkwad would make Carter look like a good President and he’s RIGHT ON TRACK!
I *****ing HATE being stuck with the curse of Cassandra.
Hyunchback on October 9, 2009 at 7:20 AM
I heard a guy on Laura Ingram’s show this morning talking about this. Not only had Obama only been in office for only 11 days when they nominated him for the prize, but he survived the next round of eliminations which happened in March – only about 80 days into his first term.
So, not only has he done very little (to this day) to merit the award, he had done even less at the time he was nominated (if you can imagine that).
UltimateBob on October 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM