Bookworm on Sep 03 2012 at 9:46 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
Obama’s publicly stated second term agenda is identical to his publicly stated first term agenda:
The real worry about his re-election, though, is the agenda that he’s not stating.
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Book, he may also be out of money. I just opened my daily e-mail appeal from the Obama campaign to find a 25% off offer on all goods I order. They’re calling it a “Summer Sale.”
I smell desperation.
It should be pointed out that Obama’s 2008 public agenda was the same agenda as Carter, etc.
I wrote a quick post before bed last night giving my off-the-cuff reaction to Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech, arguing that, despite all the talk of “change,” it was basically a speech that Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, or John Kerry could have given.
But don’t base your entire campaign on “CHANGE” and give me warmed over ideas from the Carter administration.
Obama’s Acceptance Speech: The More Things CHANGE, The More They Remain the Same
I guess they feel they’ve got a winner. Or they feel they’ve got enough suckers in the crowd.
Yesterday, Obama said that all of the Republican ideas were so old that you could have first heard them on black and white t.v. It got a laugh from a crowd. The reality is that every idea Obama is pushing, with the exception of Keynsian economics, long predates black and white t.v., period.
Welfare programs – 1880
Unions – 1800
Crony capitalism – 1000 A.D. or futher back
Demonizing and warring on oil, inusurers, and the rich – 1920 (Lenin’s war on Kulaks)
Identity politics – 1848
War on Christianity – 1798
Contraception for all – 1915
Compare to . . . .
Tax cuts to stimulate the economy – JFK, 1961
Limiting the power of unions – Thatcher, 1984
Deregulation – Reagan, 1982
The only plank the Republicans are pushing that is older than t.v. is market capitalism, and unlike anything Obama is pushing, that is one that has a long history of success.