Obama Doublespeak
Great Communicator: Obama hides his double talk within his rhetoric
President Barack Obama gestures as he addresses the White House Forum on Health Reform, Thursday, March 5, 2009, in the East Room.
We all love to hear what we want to hear and it has never been easier than now with our silver tongued president.
When Obama says: “We have to look at offshore drilling”, the conservatives hear “Why of course we will have to open up these areas” and the liberal environmentalists hear “Why of course we will have to eliminate offshore drilling”.
In an era where we need to provide certainty and confidence to the markets, Obama and his real plans still remain an enigma to those listening to him talk.
On top of that investors are seeing a divide between what Obama says and what he does. Most obvious are the thousands of earmarks contained in the budget bill signed today. During the campaign Obama promised to eliminate earmarks if elected, however, his budget contains about 9,000 earmarks. Obama recently claimed that earmarks were taken care of when he was in the senate.
On top of all this, we still have a media that won’t allow anyone to challenge Obama, much less they themselves. The gullible press covering Obama are more like cheerleaders rather than hard-nosed reporters. I predict it will be said of the press that they let the country down at a time when they were needed the most.
Look at what happened to Limbaugh when he said he hoped Obama would fail and compare that to the reaction when James Carville said basically the same thing during a press conference in 2001 that he hoped George Bush would not succeed.
Barack Obama is a great pretender. He constantly says he’s doing things that he isn’t, and he relies on his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made “responsibility” a personal theme, and the budget’s cover line is “A New Era of Responsibility.” He claims that the budget begins “making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline.” It doesn’t. –Presidential Double-Talk Robert J. Samuelson