‘Having praised President Obama’s job performance in two recent columns, it is with regret that I now worry that he may be deepening what looks more and more like a depression and may engineer so much spending, debt, and government control of the economy as to leave most Americans permanently less prosperous and less free,’ writes Stuart Taylor for National Journal.
‘Other Obama-admiring centrists have expressed similar concerns. Like them, I would like to be proved wrong. After all, if this president fails, who will revive our economy? And when? And what kind of America will our children inherit?’
Although it’s logical that Taylor hopes he’s wrong, sticking your head in the sand out of fear isn’t exactly useful.
It’s awesome he “admires” Obama – I don’t quite understand why since Obama has proved to be anything but a centrist – but politics are about policies, not admiration. Obama is implementing far left policies; only the blind can’t see that.
I don’t quite get the need self professed centrists feel to tell the world how much they “admire” a man who is quickly proving to be the most liberal president in history. Stop this nonsense and just get down to business.
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Obama has got an albatross around his neck. No, not Iraq nor Afghanistan, and not the economy, per se, either — but Tim Geithner. Check out this commentary by the fine economic writer Henry Blodgett, Time To Fire Tim Geithner: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-time-to-fire-tim-geithner-2009-3
Here’s even more disturbing background on Geithner (h/t to Ed Morrissey.)
When Obama administration cheerleaders gave the ridiculous argument for ignoring Geithner’s tax problems (which were either the result of deliberate cheating or incredible ignorance, neither of which should be remotely tolerated for the head of the Treasury Dept.), I at least assumed that the premise of their argument had some basis in fact. Without knowing much about his background, I assumed there was some plausible reason that people said he was ‘uniquely qualified.’ With this information coming to light, it’s mindboggling that he was even considered for this position at all.