Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Grow a pair, Barack

Last week I shot a print campaign with a New York photographer who just a few days before had shot George W. Bush. He said Bush seemed traumatized by the job (which is only fair -- Bush traumatized me). Last night on “60 Minutes”, I thought the same thing about Obama.

Geez, Barack, could you be even more defensive? “We did what we did to prevent an economic meltdown.” No, you didn’t. You did what you did because you wanted to do (and want to do) Big Things. And health care reform, financial reform, the education and energy bill (I’m going to start calling it that instead of the stimulus and see if it catches on), saving the US auto industry, and freeing up stem cell research are Big Things. So say it.

As my 12 readers know, I love the guy. I worked on his election campaign. I think he’s doing a great job in an almost impossible situation. But he really needs to find a way to talk about it. Otherwise in two years you may as well hand the asylum key to the inmates.

If he won't, this site will have to do:

www.whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com

12 comments:

Thom said...

Indeed. Given what a great communicator he is, I've been perplexed at his inability de-spin the relentless negative rhetoric.

Clark said...

Given the fact he had zero resume, zero accomplishments and was totally a marketing creation, I am not at all surprised. This great communicator needs a teleprompter to order a cheeseburger. Still, he has succeeded in his mission. He was raised as a socialist, or worse, and his best friends like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are criminal revolutionaries to this day. The great accomplishments you cite were all done against the preferences of the people. The Health Care bill could only be passed with no public scrutiny, against the promise he made of "transparency". Health care costs are rising now instead of going down, as he promised. And, people are being laid off in anticipation of the burden this places on business.

Of course, Obama vilifies private business every day as a greedy activity which must be regulated by him. This is the socialism that his defenders say he does not support, even though he has taken over private car companies, private banks, private student loan companies, and regulates all companies as if he owns them.

He promised to lower unemployment with his stimulus. It is up about 30% since he took office. He promised to reduce the Bush deficits. They are quadruple what he inherited.

He is now supporting a Federal Reserve policy that simply prints money, because his debts can no longer be funded with sales of bonds. Who would want them. So his economic plan is to just print a lot of Monopoly money.

He has not proposed a single policy to help the private economy grown. Instead, he favors the largest tax increase ever in two months in the middle of a period with Depression level unemployment (over 20% when you count those who have given up, which they sensibly counted in the Depression). So how will the economy do when every person and every business is forced to turn over a lot more money to the government, instead of use it to build their business.

These insane ideas are to be expected from a guy who has frequently publicly stated how much he dislikes the free capitalist American system. I expected all of this. What is interesting is the number of people who benefit daily from the fruits of the capitalist system who happily (and stupidly) go along with this Marxist wrecking ball. And even encourage him to do a better job of explaining why he knows so much more than everyone else, even though he has never worked at a real job in his life.

Clark said...

Given the fact he had zero resume, zero accomplishments and was totally a marketing creation, I am not at all surprised. This great communicator needs a teleprompter to order a cheeseburger. Still, he has succeeded in his mission. He was raised as a socialist, or worse, and his best friends like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are criminal revolutionaries to this day. The great accomplishments you cite were all done against the preferences of the people. The Health Care bill could only be passed with no public scrutiny, against the promise he made of "transparency". Health care costs are rising now instead of going down, as he promised. And, people are being laid off in anticipation of the burden this places on business.

Of course, Obama vilifies private business every day as a greedy activity which must be regulated by him. This is the socialism that his defenders say he does not support, even though he has taken over private car companies, private banks, private student loan companies, and regulates all companies as if he owns them.

He promised to lower unemployment with his stimulus. It is up about 30% since he took office. He promised to reduce the Bush deficits. They are quadruple what he inherited.

He is now supporting a Federal Reserve policy that simply prints money, because his debts can no longer be funded with sales of bonds. Who would want them. So his economic plan is to just print a lot of Monopoly money.

He has not proposed a single policy to help the private economy grown. Instead, he favors the largest tax increase ever in two months in the middle of a period with Depression level unemployment (over 20% when you count those who have given up, which they sensibly counted in the Depression). So how will the economy do when every person and every business is forced to turn over a lot more money to the government, instead of use it to build their business.

These insane ideas are to be expected from a guy who has frequently publicly stated how much he dislikes the free capitalist American system. I expected all of this. What is interesting is the number of people who benefit daily from the fruits of the capitalist system who happily (and stupidly) go along with this Marxist wrecking ball. And even encourage him to do a better job of explaining why he knows so much more than everyone else, even though he has never worked at a real job in his life.

Clark said...

Given the fact he had zero resume, zero accomplishments and was totally a marketing creation, I am not at all surprised. This great communicator needs a teleprompter to order a cheeseburger. Still, he has succeeded in his mission. He was raised as a socialist, or worse, and his best friends like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are criminal revolutionaries to this day. The great accomplishments you cite were all done against the preferences of the people. The Health Care bill could only be passed with no public scrutiny, against the promise he made of "transparency". Health care costs are rising now instead of going down, as he promised. And, people are being laid off in anticipation of the burden this places on business.

Of course, Obama vilifies private business every day as a greedy activity which must be regulated by him. This is the socialism that his defenders say he does not support, even though he has taken over private car companies, private banks, private student loan companies, and regulates all companies as if he owns them.

He promised to lower unemployment with his stimulus. It is up about 30% since he took office. He promised to reduce the Bush deficits. They are quadruple what he inherited.

He is now supporting a Federal Reserve policy that simply prints money, because his debts can no longer be funded with sales of bonds. Who would want them. So his economic plan is to just print a lot of Monopoly money.

He has not proposed a single policy to help the private economy grown. Instead, he favors the largest tax increase ever. So how will the economy do when every person and every business is forced to turn over a lot more money to the government, instead of use it to build their business.

These insane ideas are to be expected from a guy who has frequently publicly stated how much he dislikes the free capitalist American system. What is interesting is the number of people who benefit daily from the fruits of the capitalist system who happily (and stupidly) go along with this Marxist wrecking ball. And even encourage him to do a better job of explaining why he knows so much more than everyone else, even though he has never worked at a real job in his life.

tom lichtenheld said...

Spot-on with the insight, Chief, but what's up with the scarlet curtain? Hope you're not trying to tell us you're a commie, cuz we already knew that.

Thucydides said...

If you needed "a pair" you would have supported Hillary. Instead we all got an asshole with TelePrompter.

By the way, what is the liberal justification for making a primary reason for being enriching public workers, who are unionized, and whose dues go strictly to elect the people who will the again increase their pay and benefits. This seems to be pretty much the top Democrat agenda item. How does this fit with whatever there is of liberal philosophy? I guess this is social justice. Or post-modern pay and benefit structures. Or deconstruction of the private sector by superconstruction of the public sector. It is interesting to watch as vast sums are thrown at public employees who can't be fired while the rest of the country experiences job loss, stagnant wages, and 401k plans. It's an interesting obsession that Democrats have that they don't talk about much.

BoynGeorge said...

Yeah Barack. Grow a pair. Then go through airport security and have your TSA perverts fondle your pair. This will contribute to national security. Just lucky we don't have evil George Bush around violating peoples privacy. Now, take off your pants and bend over.

Wen Choa Li Luan Yang said...

Obama saved GM. Today, GM in talks to sell major chunk of company to China. Thanks Obama.

Video Archive - Greatest Leaders in History said...

Video and crowd response to Obama's most recent speech to the people.

www.economicnoise.com/2010/11/11/humor-how-socialism-works/

NVIDEA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said...

Gary Doyle is wrong about iPad.


http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/27437/

Ben Burnank said...

Very concise accurate description of the economic situation.

www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=5917

Clark said...

It's curtains.