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The CATO Institute responds to Obama’s Pant’s on Fire SOTU Pontificating.

by Guest Post ( 205 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Libertarianism at January 29th, 2014 - 1:00 pm

Guest Blogger: Doriangrey


Nothing to say here except, watch the video

(Cross Posted @ The Wilderness of Mirrors)

Kirsten Powers: Obama used same 1960’s old cliches

by Phantom Ace ( 89 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Media, Progressives, Tranzis at February 14th, 2013 - 7:00 am

KRISTENPOWERS

Our phoney god-king gave a demagogue filled State of the Union Address last night. Rather than offer a positive vision and calling for national unity, he demonized his opponents and lied. His biggest lie was that al-Qaeda is defeated and smashed, despite the fact they have seized much of Syria and recently took over a major air base in Northern Syria. The American Pharaoh then called for more government control over people’s lives. There was no new ideas in Obama’s speech, it was all Progressive talking points. That said, the media is claiming it was a historic speech and one for the ages!

Kirsten Powers is a Moderate Liberal. Although I disagree with her on some issues, she’s not far Left and actually can be reasoned with. She’s a liberal out of naivete, not maliciousness like Obama or Charles Johnson. Recently Kirsten Powers has not been towing the Progressive talking pints. She’s called out the media for Obama worship and has criticizes the demagoguery of the regime. Now she picks apart the god-king’s SOTU address last night as nothing but the same old 1960’s Leftist cliches.

If the State of the Union address Tuesday night is any indication, it appears President Obama’s chief speechwriter has been replaced by a cliché-generator circa 1960. His erstwhile oratory was a melee of cringe-inducing lines ripped straight from a sit-in.

The commander in chief waxed about children being important for our future and how we should be a country where “if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead.” Which we are for the most part, anyway. Also, isn’t there a rule about how many times you can use the same line in a speech? Doesn’t basic etiquette and decency prevent us from ever hearing this again: “A tax code that ensures billionaires with high-powered accountants can’t pay a lower rate than their hard-working secretaries.” Yes, we know: Warren Buffett is your friend and his secretary pays a higher tax rate that he does. Is this really the only way to demonstrate the tax code needs to be reformed?

The president has only a few opportunities to speak to the nation, and he blew this one. It was so hackish, so devoid of any theme or purpose, that it makes one wonder whether part of Obama just wants to see how bad he can be before his cultists in the news media can see it.

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Contrary to the claims of both sides, Obama is not a liberal visionary with deep desires to institute a progressive agenda. If he is, he’s a miserable failure.

Kirsten Powers is spot on about Obaama’s speech and the fact he is a failure! He was neither innovative nor creative. Instead it was the same old demagogue nonsense that his adoring media loves to claim as awesome.

In a just world Obama would be a laughing stock, but we do not live in a just world. Thanks to the Media-Entertainment Industrial complex, Obama has been turned into a man-god who the majority of Americans adore despite his failures. I salute Powers for being one of the few Liberals who see through this charade. If there were more Democrats like Powers, this nation would be better off.

Obama’s spending cuts don’t add up

by Phantom Ace ( 145 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Democratic Party at January 26th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Good Morning Blogmocracy Netizens!

We really dodged a bullet in last night’s State of the Union Speech. Obama, who normally gives great 3rd world style speeches, fell flat last night. He really did seem out of it and possibly on medication. He contradicted himself on many occasions. He would call for cuts in spending on one hand and then propose new spending with the other. He did not explain how increasing spending, which he called investment, would allow savings. Obama implied that government central planning would lead to prosperity. This was tried in other places and has failed miserably.

WASHINGTON – The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other.

Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed “we redouble these efforts.” He coupled this with a call to “freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years.”

But Obama offered far more examples of where he would spend than where he would cut, and some of the areas he identified for savings are not certain to yield much if anything.

Read the rest: Obama and his imbalanced ledger

Barack Hussein Obama is not serious in getting the deficit under control. It’s time for the Republicans to call his bluff and propose real budget cuts, as well as tax and regulatory reform. Unless this is done American will continue to economically stagnate. His ideas of central planning have been proven to fail throughout history. You don’t micromanage economic prosperity. You remove a hindrance on capital formation.

What is every one’s take on his speech?

Update: Jonah Goldberg’s conclusion of the speech is the one I had. Obama is over confident because of the GOP’s surrender in the lame duck session and his rising poll numbers. He once again believes he has a mandate to push Progressive policies and is acting like November 2nd never happened.

I haven’t been poisoned by any of the post-punditry because I watched it all on the web. But I was truly surprised by how lackluster and clichéd Obama’s speech was. My suspicion is that because he had a good month or so (START, tax compromise, Tucson speech, uptick in polls) he thinks he can go back to his comfortable talking points: Investment, Sputnik moment, green energy, high speed rail, etc. One sign of that: he was, I believe, a full ten minutes shorter than last year’s SOTU but it felt twice as long.

It’s not as if this was a speech Obama would give if the Shellacking never happened, but it’s close.

Obama botched an opportunity to solidify his case for re-election. The Republicans have been given another opportunity to politically destroy his Presidency. The question is will they be smart enough to capitalize on Obama’s blunder?

The State of the Union 1/25/2011 Open thread Part III

by Phantom Ace ( 227 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Open thread, Politics at January 25th, 2011 - 10:16 pm

Obam’s speech has ended. It was really boring and he spoke in platitudes. It wasn’t the Home run the media expected.

He claims he’s open to tax reform, but we will see if the GOP calls his bluff. The GOP needs to propose deep cuts, if not Obama will eat their lunch.

Now Paul Ryan (R-WI) gives the response.

Update: I noticed he did not mention Israel, Colombia or the UK. When he said he would visit Latin America, Colombia was left out. He will visit two 3rd World Liberation governments in El Salvador and Brazil. Chile being the only Conservative nation. But our closest ally in the region Colombia, will be ignored.

Nice way to treat America’s allies Obama.