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To: Taro who wrote (459812)	2/27/2009 4:07:43 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576619

WHATEVER Matt Welch, editor-in-chief of Reason magazine, was astonished by the contradictions in President Obama's address to Congress. " 'But I also know,' President Barack Obama said [Tuesday] night, in his typically self-referential fashion, 'that in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger, or yield to the politics of the moment. My job - our job - is to solve the problem. Our job is to govern with a sense of responsibility.' "It was a pleasingly presidential sentiment for a subdued, not-quite-a-State-of-the-Union speech. Unfortunately for Obama - and us - it was also contradicted, and blatantly so, not four paragraphs prior, by a guy named Barack Obama. 'This time,' the president warned us the minute before, while giving that stern schoolmaster look of his, 'CEOs won't be able to use taxpayer money to pad their paychecks or buy fancy drapes or disappear on a private jet. Those days are over!' Democrats leaped to their feet. "Obama aims to be the president of all Americans, a position that appears to be sincere. But I wonder whether in the process he might also want to consider appointing himself chief executive of his own head. All night long, with equally sonorous vigor, he served up confident assertions, only to state moments later, with equal conviction, their near opposite," Mr. Welch said at www.reason.com. " 'We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,' Obama crowd-pleased near the beginning, in the slot normally reserved for lines like 'the state of our union is strong.' "Not long after, though, Americans learned that our very 'survival depends on finding new sources of energy.' Also, 'there will be no real recovery unless we clean up the credit crisis ... our recovery will be choked off before it even begins,' and if we don't do whatever Obama wants us to do about the banking system, 'it could result in an economy that sputters along for not months or years, but perhaps a decade.' Better! Stronger! Crippled for a decade!"