Obama’s got some enlightened economic advisors there, eh?
By shag carpet bomb • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Dismal Science, Election 2008, ObamaIt’s so freakin’ agonizing watching my friends drop like flies for Obama without knowing ONE lick about the dewd — and not caring either! They just seem to want to cover their ears and eyes and sing “la la la!” really loudly because they don’t want to know? I don’t know what it is, but they’re not especially political in so far as interested in conventional politics.
Austan Goolsbee: U. of Chicago neoclassicist and “Sicko” critic
David Cutler: Harvard economist who believes that high health costs are good for the economy
Jeffrey Liebman: another Harvard economist and former Clinton adviser who favors privatizing social security
h/t LNP3.exe who writes further:
Despite the intense rivalry between Obama and Hillary Clinton, they both are cut from the same mold, namely the Bill Clinton presidency. In his 2004 speech to the Democratic Party convention titled “The Audacity of Hope”, Obama adopted the bipartisan, centrist pose perfected by Hillary’s husband during his regime:
The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an “awesome God” in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States.
Since Obama’s speeches are rather thin on substance, you have to extrapolate their meaning from sentences such as the following, which occurred in the same 2004 address:
Now, don’t get me wrong. The people I meet — in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks — they don’t expect government to solve all their problems. They know they have to work hard to get ahead, and they want to. Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don’t want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon.
Be sure to read the rest of LNP’s piece on Obama’s less than “change”ful and “hope”ful policies, which he shares with Clinton.
And why or why the handwringing and *shock**shock* that the Obama team was sexist. WHAT. THE. FUCK. is up with that — from people who claim they understand the we live in a sexist society? WHAT. THE. FUCK? Remind me why the hell anyone bothers again if they can’t keep that in mind and pin the lable radical or progressive on themselves? Christ on a broken pogo stick.
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