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February 25, 2009
Obama the miracle worker
Topics: Political News and commentariesScott at Powerline has Obama pegged for what he is - a huckster:
I shall not want. He is a miracle worker.It's becoming more and more clear that Planck's Constant had it right back in April of last year when he called Obama "The new Elmer Gantry" and noted that some people know when they're being sold a bill of goods. The flip side of course is that some people don't, and in the case of Obama there's a lot of folks who still don't get it.He promises to provide for Americans from cradle to grave, while lightening the load of government on the backs of ordinary Americans. He promises not to increase their taxes "one penny." He promises to reduce their taxes.
He must be quite sure that the ordinary American owns no stock and thus will be untouched by the expiration of rate cuts on capital gains and dividends. Perhaps he counts on the stock market to assure that ordinary Americans will remain unaffected by an increase in the capital gains rate.
He thinks that increasing tax rates on the most productive Americans who shoulder the lion's share of the income tax load will not retard economic growth. He does not count on Americans to respond to the incentives and disincentives he places on them. He does not account for them.
He promises to cut the deficit which He has just massively increased while building in further increases. He promises to make us healthy, wealthy and wise.
[...] He has confidence in his ability to peddle the faith. His confidence exceeds that of such hucksters as Father Divine, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammi Bakker, or Elmer Gantry. He says our day of reckoning has arrived. Yet it is a judgment from which He exempts Himself. His day of reckoning awaits.
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