Don Surber is pointing to the idiotic Obama campaign strategy to run against a man who's been gone for nearly two years now:
Via Reuters, Barack Obama: "The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?"
Really?
So why did Obama continue President Bush's policies?
Why did Obama re-appoint Ben Bernanke?
Why did Obama continue the TARP?
Why did Obama follow up Bush's failed $150 billion stimulus with an $862 billion stimulus?
Why did Obama not only continue Bush deficits but quadruple them?
There is one difference though.
Bush cut taxes and ended the recession he inherited. Obama didn't.
There's more than one difference. And I'm now of the firm belief that much of it has to do with character.
Barack Hussein Obama hasn't any. George W. Bush had plenty.




Comments (15)
Sooner or later, Barry's go... (Below threshold)1. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 6:46 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Sooner or later, Barry's going to wake up and realize he's been elected President and the campaign is over. At that point he'll freak, because he doesn't know how to do anything BUT campaign.
1. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 6:46 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 06:46
2. Posted by Hank | August 11, 2010 7:44 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
A year and a half in, and Obama is still whining about the economy he "inherited".
He's in way over his head and he knows it.
What to do? Blame Bush, yet again. And the sad thing is, that is all he has to work with.
The good news? This isn't going to work any longer.
2. Posted by Hank | August 11, 2010 7:44 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 07:44
3. Posted by Adrian Browne | August 11, 2010 7:48 AM | Score: -13 (15 votes cast)
It's not "Miss Me Yet" it's "Never Forget!"
Luckily we have Sarah Palin, America's Backseat Driver® to fill the teeny tiny void left by the hapless Bush.
3. Posted by Adrian Browne | August 11, 2010 7:48 AM |
Score: -13 (15 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 07:48
4. Posted by 914 | August 11, 2010 7:49 AM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Barry sure seems to miss Bush a lot. Cant stop talking bout him.
4. Posted by 914 | August 11, 2010 7:49 AM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 07:49
5. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 8:29 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"The good news? This isn't going to work any longer."
Didn't work from the beginning, Hank - at least for the folks who paid attention. (Seriously - look at the "Cash4Clunkers" program. $24k spent to give out a $4k rebate. Think the same suggestion by Bush wouldn't have generated screaming at high decible levels by Adrian and the like?)
Obama could start wearing ermine robes and a crown, and the left would find some way to justify it.
5. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 8:29 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 08:29
6. Posted by epador | August 11, 2010 9:14 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
[slumming to the level of 3]
Ha, Ha Ha Ha AD.
Its so much fun to laugh at you continuously showing your idiocy while you're thinking you're cute and have a rapier-like wit. Nope, you are really a soft-noodled twit.
Nanny-Nanny Noo Noo. |-p
6. Posted by epador | August 11, 2010 9:14 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 09:14
7. Posted by Roy | August 11, 2010 9:14 AM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
He'll be blaming Bush for losing Congress next year and his job in a couple more. And that's OK with me.
7. Posted by Roy | August 11, 2010 9:14 AM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 09:14
8. Posted by Dane | August 11, 2010 9:55 AM | Score: -8 (10 votes cast)
This "idiotic" campaign strategy was called "idiotic" back in 2006 and 2008, and it helped win the elections for Democrats back then too. Of course Democrats will use it again.
8. Posted by Dane | August 11, 2010 9:55 AM |
Score: -8 (10 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 09:55
9. Posted by Tim | August 11, 2010 9:57 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Teh Messiah is such a miserable failure that pretty soon we'll start seeing those Miss Me Yet posters with Jimmah Carter.
9. Posted by Tim | August 11, 2010 9:57 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 09:57
10. Posted by Big Mo | August 11, 2010 10:04 AM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
2006 and 2008 were different because Bush WAS president. Now it's Obama, who has "owned" this mess -- and made it far worse -- for almost 2 years.
And that's the point. Things were relatively better under Bush as compared with 2 years under Obama and 4 years of a Democrat congress.
Remember, you don't fight the new war by preparing for and fightng the last war.
And the biggest reason -- the only reason, really -- why Dems seek to run against Bush is because they're running from their own "successes." Why not run on health care reform, financial reform, the "stimulus" boondoggle, etc. instead of a man who has been out of power for 2 years? It's because they know that much of what they've done is massively unpopular.
10. Posted by Big Mo | August 11, 2010 10:04 AM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 10:04
11. Posted by GarandFan | August 11, 2010 10:04 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Only the idiots expected so much from a demonstratively empty suit.
11. Posted by GarandFan | August 11, 2010 10:04 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 10:04
12. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 10:57 AM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Dane -
Journolist is gone. Without the coordinated messaging effort that's a 10% or more shift right there.
And Big Mo is right - folks are looking at 5% unemployment and moderate economic growth under Bush versus 10% and nothin' under Obama. The more he 'helps', the worse things seem to get. And there's only going to be so much 'protecting' the media can do.
Obama's record sucks, for all the praise the media gives. Funny how they're not pushing their 'successes', aren't they? Cash4Clunkers cost a total of $24k for each $4k rebate - and crashed the car market. And this little gem...
Government jobs... which create no private-sector value. And where, Dane, does government get the money to keep going?Can't hide the fail, Dane. The 'hero' of 'hope and change' who was going to fix things seems about as ignorant of what he's trying to do as a chicken is of calculus... if you figure he's trying to make things better for everyone.
But man, can't he campaign and read off a teleprompter... Darn shame the job requires a bit more, isn't it?
12. Posted by JLawson | August 11, 2010 10:57 AM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 10:57
13. Posted by WildWillie | August 11, 2010 11:06 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Obama has not record to run on. He didn't when he ran for president. The mentally challenged left thought Obama was the end all but he turned out to be what most of us knew. A cheap, inexperienced empty suit. He loves the trappings of the office but has not one iota of an idea on how to lead.
Dane, the pocket book and oversight of the US government has been in democratic leaderships hands for FOUR years now. I can confidently say that the economy crashed under democratic leadership. Dane, a little lesson in federal government, the president cannot appropriate any money. Did you know that??? ww
13. Posted by WildWillie | August 11, 2010 11:06 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 11:06
14. Posted by GarandFan | August 11, 2010 12:36 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Dane will be right back after he memorizes some more DNC talking points.
Then he'll accuse all of us of "hate".
14. Posted by GarandFan | August 11, 2010 12:36 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 12:36
15. Posted by daniel noe | August 11, 2010 7:59 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I suppose Bush caused the solar flare the other day too...
15. Posted by daniel noe | August 11, 2010 7:59 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on August 11, 2010 19:59