Obama gave another campaign speech tonight centered on a spending package.
What do you mean that wasn’t a campaign speech? You say he already won? Maybe somebody better tell him that. Every time you hear him speak from various functions it sounds just like he is still campaigning. Saying the same things and making the same promises he made last fall.
Well he is a very competent campaigner, as well he should be. He’s been doing nothing but campaigning now for almost 14 years. Maybe he’s just stuck in a loop that he can’t get out of. He still sends updates out through his e-mail campaign list to supporters using his campaign manager, although now it’s called “Organizing for America”. Maybe this is all we can expect from him, after all the next election is only four years away.
Several times during his speech he mentioned profiles of people, like the single mother living in Elkhart, Indiana, and how this spending package is what she needs. Reporters never nailed him on the specifics of how this would help her. He also tried to talk about his desire for bipartisanship, but that the other side is playing politics. What a crock! If others feel that what you are offering is detrimental to the country and want to fight for something better, then they should continue the fight. By the way Barrack, next time get your House members in line right from the start, working with the Republicans, instead of shutting them out, if you want a chance at bipartisanship. It really does take both sides working together to accomplish this. Obama says that what they have in the package isn’t perfect, but we need to pass it now or our country is finished. This is just more of his fear mongering. What’s in the package is still 90% pure pork.
I was amazed watching this on CBS, and hearing that even their news analysts get it, that his biggest problem on this isn’t the Republicans, but his own party members in the House adding every spending package that they have wished for, and trying to sell it as helping America. Yeah, helping us into an even longer and deeper depression than just doing nothing would accomplish.
President Obama, here is a suggestion. Please have one of your tax evading cabinet nominees give you a whack on the side of the head, or push your reboot button to get you out of this endless campaign mode. Your country needs you to stop campaigning, and start getting things done.
Update: The Congressional Budget Office has come out and said that the recession will end during the second half of 2009 without the stimulus. It also said that the stimulus would only make it worse and prolong the recession.The Democrats are liars and thieves. Stealing from your kids and grandkids.