| Timmah! said:
I wouldn't call those policies. It's not really explained how he'll pay for these things, most are just more lofty goals with no real plan to implement them. And wow, what great plans he has for MY MONEY. Big government getting it's hands into EVERY ASPECT of our daily lives. I'm sorry, but every government insitution I've ever visited, from the DMV, to social security offices, courthouses, etc has been poorly run, inneficient as hell, incredible wasters of money, etc, etc. All the problems government is currently trying to fix GOVERNMENT CREATED IN THE FIRST FREAKING PLACE! Lofty, impossible goals sound good on paper, but once the beaurocrats get their hands on this (which they will, Jesus-bama can't run all this by himself), it will be nothing but big crap from big government. Obama is young and a dreamer. He is well intentioned and I have no personal problem with him, he seems like a nice enough guy, but he is a tax & spend liberal who thinks governemt is the answer to all our problems (many of which, ironically, were created by government in the first place). The tax increases needed to pay for all this will far outweigh the 'benefits'... they always do. My favorite promise: cut CO2 emmissions 80% by 2050. Great, by that time he won't be in the oval office anymore. How? not really explained. Typical over the top campaign promises. |
Actually he has explained how he will pay for most of those things in many of his speeches. He said he would repeal the Bush tax cuts and close a lot of the corporate loopholes. Considering the Bush tax cuts have cost us more than double the cost of the ENTIRE Iraq war, his proposals are entirely feasible.
So presidents shouldn't try to set long-term goals? I think it is completely realistic to admit you can't do everything you want in one term, but that you should start a legacy, much like what Clinton was trying to do to reduce the national debt. Unfortunately, Bush derailed that pretty quickly.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
