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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (67456)	10/12/2008 3:11:10 PM
From: Oeconomicus	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Directing funding to Ayers' projects probably still speaks more directly to Obama's willingness to exchange favors with unsavory characters to further his ambitions than it does about underlying beliefs. I suspect Obama is, to some degree, philosophically agnostic and would ally himself with anyone. It just so happened that to rise in Chicago politics, Ayers, along with Wright and Rezko, could help him. BTW, all this reminds me of what REALLY worries me about an Obama presidency. That is, the certainty of a Democrat-controlled Congress for at least the next two years and likely longer. The dangerous Dems, IMO, are those in Congress and there's no telling what they might push through with an expanded majority and no veto threat. Taxes, spending, punitive regulation and taxes on business, laws further enabling trial lawyers to extort and expropriate, regulations forcing private businesses to conduct their business according to the priorities of the left (CRA many times over), etc. I could deal with Obama in the White House if the Repubs had control of at least one house of congress, but the Repubs blew that. And two years out doesn't look very promising, either. Obama, assuming he's elected, WILL be coming in at the bottom of the market and the beginning of a recession. Whatever happens after that, he has a free ride. The market will likely recover (at least for a while) regardless of who is elected, but that won't stop the left from crediting Obama. In the real economy, a short recession and he'll take credit for fixing the economy. A long one and it's all Bush's fault anyway, so he'll claim he needs to implement MORE of the left-wing agenda to fix it. He wins either way. And he'll even take credit for fiscal responsibility if the budget balance benefits from profits on the Paulson plan. Hard to imagine a better circumstance for him than to come in at the depths of a crisis.