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America
Is Too Dumb to Know Obama Is
Always Right
By Michael Goodwin
Published July 13, 2011
When
President Obama started talking
at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or
so. Then I
got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown
whoppers. As
he droned on, I did something I never did before during an Obama
appearance: I
turned off the TV.
Enough.
He is the Man Who Won’t Listen
to Anybody, so why should anybody listen to him?
Tuning
out and turning off the
president does not fill me with gladness. He cannot be ignored.
But
for now, I will leave that unhappy
duty to others. I am tired of Barack Obama. There’s nothing new there.
His
speeches are like “Groundhog Day.”
His
presidency is a spectacular
failure, his historic mandate squandered by adherence to leftist
ideology and
relentless partisanship. His policies are crushing the prospects for
growth and
dooming the hopes of 24 million Americans who are unemployed or working
part-time.
Yet
he is not going to change. He
listens only to his own voice, which is why he has lost virtually his
entire
economic team.
The
biggest media myth is that he is a
centrist. Oh, please. It’s a theory without evidence, for there is not
a single
example on domestic issues where he voluntarily staked out a spot in
the
American middle.
Sure,
on occasion, Obama will be to
the right of the far, far left, but that is not the center. That just
means
he’s not Michael Moore.
Nor
is he a centrist because he’ll
make a deal under duress with Republicans, as he did last December. All
politicians have a pragmatic streak, otherwise they couldn’t get
anything done
in a divided government.
But
Obama’s default statist position
remains unmolested by facts or last year’s landslide that was a rebuke
to his
first two years. He continues to push bigger and bigger government,
higher and
higher taxes and more and more welfare programs.
He
will compromise if he must, but he
still wants what he wants and will come back for it again and again.
That’s
the subtext of the debt-ceiling
talks and his press conference. He voted against raising the ceiling as
a
senator, calling the need for an increase a “failure.”
Now
he is not embarrassed to demand a
hike of about $2.5 trillion, and more hair of the spending-and-taxing
dog. He
reveals his belief that your money is really the government’s and it
will
decide how much you can keep. The only cut he is comfortable with is in
the
defense budget.
He
says it’s time to “pull off the
Band-Aid” and “eat our peas.” Translation: It’s time for Republicans to
give
him everything he wants. That’s his definition of being an adult and
acting in
the national interest.
His
only concession to public will is
to pretend he’s got religion about the fiscal problems and wants a “big
deal.”
What he really wants is to get through the election.
In
answering a question about a poll
showing that two-thirds of voters don’t want the debt ceiling raised,
he blew
off 70 million Americans by saying they aren’t paying attention.
There’s
a novel campaign theme: Elect
me because you’re too dumb to understand how smart I am.
Harry
Truman ran against a
“Do-Nothing” Congress. Obama is running against a “Know-Nothing” nation.
He
can never be wrong. You always are,
unless you agree with him.
That’s
the story of his presidency.
That’s who he is.
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