Media Uses Obama’s Words to Show His Emphasis Fiscal Restraint:
(giving shorter shrift to his deeds)
. . . not ready to call the guy a hero. So, what if he writes a letter? Obama promised to go line-by-line through the federal budget, rooting out waste, then to give us a “net spending cut.” Not seeing that, are we? Until he puts his money where his mouth is and breaks with his party on key votes, ending that, as you put it, “lock-step Leftist” voting recrod, I’ll see him as just another grandstanding Democratic politician, mouthing the words they know their constituents want to hear while spending our money like drunken sailors and regulating like self-righteous busybodies who “know,” due to their superior education, knowledge and innate wisdom what’s best for all of us.
It seems the media are trying to do the same thing with Obama that Polis tried to do with his Op-ed, cover up for spendthrift policies with the rhetoric of fiscal responsibility.
Last night, Yahoo! featured a news analysis on its main page, headlining Obama’s renewed emphasis on restraint:
At a critical moment in his presidency, Barack Obama finds increasing need to talk about taming federal deficits as he struggles with a dour economy.
Emphasis added. Kind of describes some of the coverage of his Administration, highlighting what the President says, giving short shrift to what he does. But, we should judge as a man as the great Geatish hero Beowulf was judged: by his deeds, not his words.
While the AP article Yahoo! featured does reference Obama’s statements about fiscal restraint, it doesn’t provide any examples showing how he followed through on such rhetoric. We’re just left with a lot of polling data showing skepticism about the “stimulus” and opposition to increased government spending.
When are more media going to stop praising Obama’s words and start judging him as the poet did Beowulf: by his deeds?
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Obama cut our military, so how could you call him a tax and spend liberal. Oh, wait.
Comment by eaglewingz08 — July 24, 2009 @ 6:19 pm - July 24, 2009
Obama is a typical product of the academic Left: he thinks “perception is reality”, discourse is reality, and that it is all about one’s words and (alleged) intentions.
Not to sidetrack, but one could do an entire post on Obama’s post-modern non-apology apologies. The most recent example, from the Gates case, is a beaut:
Let’s review. After admitting to ignorance of the facts, Obama nonetheless asserted that the Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates for disorderly conduct. (Note: I don’t claim that the Cambridge police were right; rather I admit, as Obama started to do and should have stayed with, that I don’t yet know all the key facts of what happened between Gates and the police.)
Now, stating that the Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” in the Gates case is not “in [one's] choice of words, unfortunately g[iving] an impression” of maligning them. Rather, it ***is*** maligning them. Obama maligned the Cambridge police. In a real apology, he would have said “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I was wrong to malign the Cambridge police.” But he’s Obama, so he doesn’t bother. Instead, he spews this post-modern non-apology rubbish that all but accuses the listener (wrongly) of having somehow mistaken the “calibration” of Obama’s superior wordsmithing.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 24, 2009 @ 6:23 pm - July 24, 2009
The other night, I was standing out in the driveway having a smoke and looking up at the stars. Two county sheriff vehicles raced past my street and went to the street behind me. Just as I was considering sliding back inside, a third deputy stopped in front of me and asked for ID. I said “yes sir” and got my wallet and license out and handed it to him. He suggested I go back inside and then he left after I said “yes sir” again.
I didn’t yell at or harass him in any way. Wouldn’t have done much good to shout “Why? Because I’m white?”. Evidently, Gates is an asshole and a product of “Never trust The Man”. Further, it’s evident that Chairman Obama’s an even bigger asshole for responding as he did to an apparent planted question.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 24, 2009 @ 8:52 pm - July 24, 2009
I get tired repeating myself…but her goes again. Why do White People believe they have to spend so much time allowing Black People to malign and misrepresent them. Obama is now THE MAN…and he is even whiter than white.
Comment by Duffy - Native Intellgence — July 25, 2009 @ 1:05 am - July 25, 2009
I have a friend, a black business man. He’s told me a couple stories about how he has been treated unfairly by white cops. Pulled over for no reason because of the kind of car he was driving. Spoken to like he was trash.I’ve a whole different attitude about this and don’t automatically defend cops and prosecuters after the kinds of things that have happened the past 10 years. However….
Juan Williams on Fox News the other night said, he’s told his teenagers, if pulled over by police, asked questions by police, to act right, act respectfully all because of the past history. He tells his kids, police are doing a difficult job, and there is alot of testosterone flying around. He even told his kids not to move quickly always keeping their hands in view. This is sad and the reality of the situation. But Juan Williams is trying to keep his children from becoming a statistic in a horrible accident. Safe not sorry. The prof Gates incident proves the opposite. In American now adays if you want to be offended, you can be. Just wait a minute. And by the way, if I want to be invited to the White House for a beer, should I cuss out my local sheriff?
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — July 25, 2009 @ 12:53 pm - July 25, 2009
What’s sad about teaching your kids the right thing to do?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 25, 2009 @ 5:08 pm - July 25, 2009
Again: I don’t say the Cambridge police were right. I say they *might* have been right, or might have been wrong, because none of us have all the key facts yet. And Obama confessed to being similarly ignorant, but then maligned the Cambridge police anyway. Then Obama gave an unmanly, post-modern bullsh*t non-apology for his stupid remarks; one that almost makes it the listener’s fault for having dared to notice Obama’s maligning them. He really thinks that (1) it’s all about him, and (2) discourse is somehow reality (to bring it back to GPW’s post).
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 25, 2009 @ 5:55 pm - July 25, 2009
On fiscal restraint:
As Obama’s approval ratings plunge, and the prospects of passing his massive tax-and-spend increases (Obamacare, cap & trade) diminish… business people have more confidence in the future and the stock market improves. Discuss.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 27, 2009 @ 1:31 am - July 27, 2009
[...] So, I was certain he was going to tell congressional Democrats that while he appreciated the hard work they put into the “stimulus,” he couldn’t sign it as it stood and asked them to come up with something far less costly. The piece of theater was never staged. He tried to maintain appearances through his rhetoric of fiscal prudence. [...]
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