Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Obama's speech: if this man is not a socialist, then what do you call him?

Barry Rubin; Obama’s Inaugural Speech Presents His New Strategy and Blueprint for Transforming America  "He just completely redirected the country, and no one seemed to notice."
"So here is Obama saying that the essential basis of American democracy is the Constitution, American exceptionalism, and the Declaration of Independence’s claim of unalienable rights granted to the citizen.
"Yet he is on record repeatedly rejecting each of these three ideas."

Ron Radosh; What Was the Meaning of President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address?  "In one fell swoop, President Obama moved from giving lip service to free-market ideology (thereby fooling people like Matthew Yglesias) to arguing against those supposed conservatives — strawmen, really — who supposedly want to do away with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and who, the president claims, argue that they “sap our initiative” rather than, as he would have it, “strengthen us.” "


A Perfect Example of Why I Hate the Media  "This guy explodes our debt, weakens our children’s futures, and Big Media publishes treacle like this.
"Sickening."
Comments on the Inauguration from the Orange County Register
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ed Bjork:  I hope the 47 percent who pay nothing for Obama’s grand ball remember that while he wines and dines, his troops are in godforsaken places all over the world, wining and dining on water and C-rations [“A quiet beginning,” Front Page, Jan. 21]. He is concerned about them only when he has no other choice but to address their existence.
The king and his court, the Democrats, have driven us into Third World-debtor status, created a medical plan that will break taxpayers, plans to legalize illegals at the expense of those who waited on lists for years and seeks to destroy the Second Amendment.
 
LA HABRA, Bobby Florentz: The president laid out his plan for his next four years. In essence, he said that climbing welfare rates, food stamp recipients, joblessness, union favoritism, government expansion and inflation will continue unabated.

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