“They have suspicions…”
“They have a particular vision about what government should and should not do. So they are suspicious about government’s commitments, for example, to make sure that seniors have decent health care as they get older. They have suspicions about Social Security. They have suspicions about whether government should make sure that kids in poverty are getting enough to eat, or whether we should be spending money on medical research. So they’ve got a particular view of what government should do and should be.”
The next time Mr. Obama holds a press conference, somebody should ask him to identify by name those who want to repeal Social Security, steal food from orphans and cancel science funding. We’d like to meet these Visigoths. Otherwise, if the fiscal negotiations are going nowhere, perhaps it is because the President simply won’t make an honest argument.
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Straw populations
djl130 on January 15, 2013 at 11:25 AM
lol
Kataklysmic on January 15, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Four more years of this… Four. More. Years…
Gatsu on January 15, 2013 at 11:28 AM
As a Visigothian-American I resent the implication that we would steal food from orphans. It’s an outrage!
forest on January 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Mr. “first black President of the Harvard Law Review” has the “straw man argument” down really well, and is seemingly unable to go anywhere beyond that. Well … OK, the ad hominem argument, questioning the motives and character of Republicans. The “false choice” argument, which … well, that’s the “straw man” again.
Paris Hilton has better critical thinking skills than this guy. At least she started and runs a successful business.
Paul-Cincy on January 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM
We are all Mr Potter.
Limerick on January 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM
“We’d like to meet these Visigoths.”
I think Visigoths are angry because they keep being mistaken for Visiemos.
DethMetalCookieMonst on January 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM
I’m suspicious of a government that borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends. I’m craaaaaazy.
/racist, fringe Tea Partier; I’m destroying the GOP
Paul-Cincy on January 15, 2013 at 11:36 AM
In your dreams. He is king for life.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 15, 2013 at 11:37 AM
No matter how big a crown he puts on his fat head, he will never be my king.
Also, love the wordplay in your name!
Gatsu on January 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM
the journal just called the entire hotair commentariat (trolls excepted!) bloody visigoths.
bookmarked.
sesquipedalian on January 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM
I’m suspicious of a government that would run up $16.5 Trillion in debt (and growing) and claim we don’t have a spending problem. Would claim that people who want to cut spending and live within our means just “don’t want to pay their debts”.
LilyBart on January 15, 2013 at 11:52 AM
0bama will never be what I would call humble, but he needs a major political defeat (or two) to put him in his place.
I think the gun control debate will do it. He’ll come out with some piddly little EOs, but he knows he can’t ban guns or limit magazine capacity or start a national registry on his own. His poorly informed base will get upset that he can’t outright ban guns, they’ll lash out at him, and that will knock his ego down a much-needed notch or two.
At least, I hope it happens that way.
UltimateBob on January 15, 2013 at 11:55 AM
They’re not Visigoths, but here are some Goth kids for you.
Flange on January 15, 2013 at 11:57 AM
It’s like the alcoholic T-shirt:
I don’t have a drinking problem.
I drink, I get drunk, I fall down.
No problem.
We don’t have a spending problem.
We spend, we borrow, we crash.
No problem.
Paul-Cincy on January 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM
UltimateBob on January 15, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Gatsu on January 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM
It is with great pleasure that I plead guilty as charged.
platypus on January 15, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Absolutely shocking that Obama would resort to strawmen. That’s never happened before!
besser tot als rot on January 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Does that make you trolls the Roman hierarchy circa the fifth century AD?
besser tot als rot on January 15, 2013 at 12:13 PM
the barbarians are at the gate.
sesquipedalian on January 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM
I have suspicions about social security. The trust fund seems suspiciously like an accounting fraud. The projected revenues seem suspiciously short of projected expenditures. An $18 trillion shortfall, according to the trustees, is suspicious to me. I’m suspicious of the efficacy of Head Start, and all the myriad anti-poverty programs. It seems there may be a connection between the advent of these well-intentioned programs and the destruction of the family unit in our cities. It may be a factor in the rise in social pathologies from drop out rates to murder rates, drug addiction to teen pregnancy, and on and on and on.
I’m not suspicous of medical research. I’ve never heard anyone who opposes medicine. The only person who I know of that is suspicious of doctors was a buffoon who said doctors may opt to take out your tonsils for a profit, so we needed to pass a 3,000 page bureaucratization of the entire health industry.
Ted Torgerson on January 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM
CurtZHP on January 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM
/me raises my hand
Over here, WSJ! Look over here! I’m one of those Visigoths! Come meet me. I’ll explain to you in small words why the ‘federal’ government shouldn’t be doing any of those things, and why I therefore want them repealed.
GWB on January 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM