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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (79659)	2/20/2010 9:36:44 AM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

Kenneth sure digs deep lol He doesn't see that once the curtai was opened on Obama that he did not represent anything near what the campaigner represented and that he actually doesn't know the American people at all.

To: tonto who wrote (79659)	5/12/2010 6:21:26 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224750

Or Just Get a Dog by Don Boudreaux on May 11, 2010 in Myths and Fallacies, Politics Here’s a letter to the New York Times: Today on your Blogginghheads, Daniel Schultz and Mark Kleiman debate “whether President Obama is a great moral leader.” A much more interesting question – one likely to probe, not facile disagreements over political strategy, but genuinely interesting phenomena such as human irrationality – is “Why on earth does anyone look to the President of the United States for moral leadership?” Barack Obama is a full-time politician. Like every member of this breed, he specializes in winning popularity contests called “elections.” To this end, he hones his skills at posing for cameras and at making pretty speeches in which he prattles platitudinously in tones that trick uncritical ears into hearing whatever it is they wish to hear. He specializes also at twisting arms behind closed doors in order to transfer taxpayer booty to those interest groups whose good favor is most crucial for his and his party’s future electoral success. Anyone earnestly searching for moral leadership would do better to spurn all counsel on ethical matters offered by the likes of Mr. Obama and, instead, pick the brains of a neighborhood plumber or hairstylist. These people, at least, specialize neither in deception nor in spending other people’s money. Sincerely, Donald J. Boudreaux cafehayek.com