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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (30087)4/29/2009 4:16:15 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
        Instead of thinking outside the box, Obama is nailing 
        it shut from the inside.

Obama's Vision Deficit

Veronique de Rugy
The Corner

Reason's Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie offer a great retrospective of Obama's first 100 days.

<<< President Barack Obama is about as visionary as the guy who invented Dippin' Dots, Ice Cream of the Future. Far from sketching out a truly forward-looking set of policies for the 21st century, as his supporters had hoped, Obama is instead serving up cryogenically tasteless and headache-inducing morsels from years gone by.

On issue after issue, Obama has made it clear that instead of blasting past "the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long," (as he promised in his inaugural address), he's moving full speed ahead toward policy prescriptions that already had less fizz than a case of Billy Beer back when Jimmy Carter was urging us all to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostats. Instead of thinking outside the box, Obama is nailing it shut from the inside. >>>

They continue:

<<< In nearly every key area of policy concern, from industrial bailouts to massive deficits, from Afghanistan to the Middle East, from education to energy, the president's standard operating or reach back into the Carter playbook for ideas that didn't work back then, either. All while rhetorically valuing "good ideas ahead of old ideological battles. >>>

Their piece is packed with fun pop-culture references — most of them lost on me, I have to admit — and specific examples of Obama's lack of vision. Read the whole thing here.

corner.nationalreview.com
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