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Obama in Crisis: Weak or Supportive?

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:31:29 PM
In his excellent NRO article "Right You Are, Joe", Pete Hegseth critiques Senator Biden's comments about an Obama administration's having to face an international crisis very early on.  I've read several articles discussing Biden's comments and all seem to focus on Barack's perceived weakness as encouraging our enemies to provocative action.  Indeed, Mr. Hegseth's article is subtitled "America's enemies will see Obama as weak".

I think it's more that, and worse.  I worry that Senator Obama actually agrees with the goals of some of those enemies.  After all, Hamas and Hugo Chavez aren't attracted to the idea of an Obama administration merely because he's weak.  It is quite possible that they believe Obama shares their ideals.  They may be incorrect in that belief, but Obama's ties to such people as Bill Ayres and Rashid Khalidi certainly make that belief plausible, to our enemies, and to informed Americans.

And when Senator Biden implies that we may not at first glance think Obama's responses to these crises are the correct ones, it suggests that, indeed, they won't be correct - that Obama will willingly accomodate aggressive actions.  By asking his audience to support Barack in his response, Biden seems to be saying that eventually we'll "come around" to Obama's way of thinking.
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A Government Tailor-made for Obama

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:20:18 AM
What irony. 

With the announcement that the Federal Government might take control of certain U.S. banks to deal with the global credit crisis, the current administration is paving the road with gold for Barack Obama, making easier his goal of setting the country on the road to Socialism - on the road to serfdom.

And the right won't be able to say much of anything in dissent as the new administration will be able to blame them for what Obama and his newly appointed leftist friends will have gleefully inherited.
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Walter Williams Agrees: Government Complicit in Financial Crisis

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:30:39 AM
This from Walter Williams today :
 
"Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is a federal law that intimidated lenders into offering credit throughout their entire market and discouraged them from restricting their credit services to low-risk markets, a practice sometimes called redlining. ..

The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy. In fact, what we see now is a market correction to foolhardy government policy. Congress' move to bailout lenders and borrowers who made poor decisions will simply create incentives for people to make unwise decisions in the future. English philosopher Herbert Spencer said, "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

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