Obama In Deval Patrick II, The Really, Really, Truly Crappy Sequel
by Brian Maloney, December 2nd, 2008 at 10:58am
Isn’t it amazing to watch Barack Obama follow Deval Patrick’s dodgy lead all the way to the wild post-election spending? For Bay Staters, it was bad enough watching Obama’s re-run, especially since the rest of the country didn’t seem to realize it was a mere cookie-cutter campaign template, with the airheaded slogans altered just slightly.
Now, the emerging $30,000 thank-you ring for Michelle is striking many as particularly tasteless, especially during a severe economic crisis. It’s the same kind of limousine liberal mentality that led to Deval’s Cadillac flap and the other spending controversies.
It’s certainly no surprise to see the ring report now denied, it’s a PR disaster for Obama.
For talk hosts and bloggers, the good news is that the Barack fodder machine is already warmed up and ready for action.
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1. Mr. Pragmatic | December 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
It is not at all like the Cadillac since the ring is not taxpayer funded. It is not even like Palin’s alleged RNC shopping spree either since Barack is buying his wife a gift. Big Whup.
In fact, the ring would probably be ghetto for someone like Cindy McCain who wore some incredibly pricey outfits and jewelry all while her husband was courting the likes of “Joe the Plumber”
Obama is already positioning us to move away from partisan politics and toward reason and diplomacy. We have a long, hard road ahead of us, but the right guy is driving.
2. NHradiofan | December 2nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Well, I guess now we know how much it cost Barack to shut Michelle up for the last couple of months of the campaign.
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OMG! He went to Jared’s !!!!!!!
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Remember kids: Diamonds are an America-hating leftist loudmouth’s best friend.
3. Cap'N Spackle | December 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Mr. Pragmatic:
Um, it was øbama who found Joe during a photo-op, McCain just used ø’s accidental truth-telling.
4. Mr. Pragmatic | December 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Cap’n…first, kudos for lifting and highlighting the quote. I’ll have to figure that one out someday.
That said, you make my point. I don’t think it is even debatable which candidate seized on Joe the Plumber as a talking point, regardless of who spoke to him first. Joe was on tour with McCain, not Obama. McCain and Palin invoked Joe, along with Tito the Builder and everybody else short of Brian the Blogger in an effort to obfuscate and follow the usual Republican blueprint that had been so successful in the past. My point remains that the trappings of Cindy McCain and their seven houses did not prevent the campaign from attempting to co-opt the everyman and seize the sympathies of the working men and women, the majority of whom will likely be better off under Obama than they would under another four years of Republican economic policies.
By the way, what is tax policy if not “spreading the wealth?” We’re not talking about radical concepts here, just a matter of method and degree. Finally, finally, (yes I meant to type it twice) the majority of the voters got beyond the soundbite and embraced the concept. Hopefully it is not too late to affect the change we need. If it is, cheer up, you’ll probably have Mitt in four years.
5. Cap'N Spackle | December 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
HOPE
CHANGE
YES WE CAN
Deep.
6. ladyjane | December 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Hope for the change of the hope of the change.
7. Chris | December 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Have you seen the diamond-encrusted ‘Office of the President Elect’ seal that ‘Dear Leader’ has on his podium? Then there is the purple velvet robe with the same seal on the back. I haven’t seen that yet, but if it is anything like Deval’s orchid-colored one, I’m sure it is keen!
8. Joe from Brighton | December 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
We can all rest assured that Mama Obama finally loves her country.
9. ladyjane | December 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Yes, now she can finally be proud.
10. NHradiofan | December 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Mr Pragmatic - you wrote:
By the way, what is tax policy if not “spreading the wealth?”
Unfortunately, I must agree that tax policy, as it is currently practiced, is a method of spreading the wealth. Would you not agree that it should be used as a method to fund the functions of government in the least onerous fashion possible?
Instead, tax policy is nothing more than a cudgel used to “get even with” one segment of society. We have allowed our politicians to buy the votes of the theoretical “have-nots” with cash confiscated from the “haves”.
Taxation, as you rightly point out as a matter of method and degree, always involves confiscating the wealth, in whatever amount, of individual citizens in order to fund the functions of government that benefit all. When Obama speaks of “spreading the wealth around” he is not talking about gathering funds to make sure the schools stay open and the roads are plowed in the winter. He is talking about the reordering of society through an attempt at social engineering via the tax system.
That which you punish, you get less of. That which you reward, you get more of. Obama has proved that he understands this concept because he has backed off of his stance of raising taxes on high earners, at least for the short term, because he has admitted that to do so would further imperil the already sluggish economy. This begs the question - if increasing taxes right now on those who are the highest producers would hurt the economy, when is it ever a good idea to do so?
11. ChrisNH | December 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
NHRadiofan, you have it spot-on. Great analysis of what the seeds of ‘trickle-up Poverty’ will sow.
12. Joe from Brighton | December 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Looks like Georgia voters woke up and realized that Barack *****HUSSEIN***** Obama didn’t need another vote in the Senate.
13. subman47 | December 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 am
All I know is everything BHO campaign on and against has suddenly gone by the wayside. The woman who voted for the Iraqi war is going to be his secretary of state. The man appointed by Bush to implement the surge is staying at the Pentagon. No tax on big oil which would be a dumb move anyway. Is this the change he was talking about. I guess so. But on a good note, the Obama Mamma got her bling. With the economy having it’s problems it’s good to know that BHO is helping the jewelry business. It’s going to be a fun four years.
14. NHradiofan | December 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
ChrisNH
Thank you for your comments on my post. You are obviously highly intelligent and have excellent taste.
15. abc1 | December 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Tacky indeed in comparison to those $600 earrings we were supposedly buying with our last government rebate checks.
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