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Friday, April 18, 2008

ABC Debate Wasn’t Biased, Barack Obama Is A Bad Candidate

Larry Kudlow:

It’s rather amusing watching the liberal media in full-scale attack mode on George Stephanopolis and Charles Gibson, with the Washington Post’s Tom Shales as the general leading the charge. Oh my gosh! Their hero Obama has been wounded!

What’s the problem here? Messrs. Gibson and Stephanopolis actually challenged Obama with tough, well-informed questions on tax policy and politics? That’s what they’re supposed to do. . . .

Look, here’s the deal: Obama bungled the tax question, big time. Period. End of sentence. End of story. To my liberal friends out there all I can say is: Get over it. Your guy has a very poor grasp of basic economic principles.

First off, you don’t raise taxes during a recession. That’s a no-brainer. Second, doubling the capital-gains tax affects Americans up and down the income ladder, not just rich hedge-fund managers. In addition, capital-gains tax cuts are self-financing, and they stimulate jobs and the economy. You want to raise budget revenues? Cut the cap-gains tax rate. That’s what history shows. Finally, hiking the payroll tax also affects people up and down the income ladder.

Pretty much everyone in the liberal media is sympathetic toward Barack Obama.  That goes without saying.  But among those sympathetic to him there is a divide between those that want to elect him President and those who want to anoint him President.

Electing a leader means asking that person tough questions and seeing how they respond.  Anointing a leader means putting him in office and attacking anyone who might get in the way.

Comments

"Electing a leader” assumes there is a leader there to be elected.  Rezko’s Rookie, Barack Obama, ain’t it!


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 18, 2008 at 09:43 am

Obama isn’t used to getting the kind of tough questions that most serious presidents get asked, and he’s sure not used to scrutiny of his choices.

Here’s a guy who’s sniffed around the the extreme left fringe, courting radicals for advice and support, but who now wants to be seen as someone who transcends politics.

The fact is he doesn’t transcend politics. He’s a hard left politico who is lying to the American people about who he is and what he believes in.

Wing Chun Geologist on April 18, 2008 at 11:30 am
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In addition to blowing the tax question, Barry froze like a deer in the headlights when asked about the Bittergate comments intimating that Pennsylvania rural whites were “crackers” or “rednecks” to the SF Dhimmicrats.  His facility for the language seemed to desert throughout the debate.  Too bad for him that debates don’t have teleprompters.

patriotic on April 19, 2008 at 05:25 am

The lower the capital gains rate the more incentive to disguise income as
gain.
Can you say “tax shelter, hedge fund manager”?
Gain revenue goes up while there is a larger loss of income tax revenues.
The commies at the CBO think lowering the gains rate has little
effect in the medium to long term and like the tax rate cuts falls way short of the revenue lost. Can you say “deficit”?

Kudlow long promoter of the deranged “Goldilocks Economy”. (just right according to Larry), seems to think
families that earn $200K/yr are just average folks, cops and teachers.

No one is more cheerful than the poor salt of the earth Americans.
Happily trading possum and squirrel
recipes on Saturday nights.

Groups of them joyously sing as they ponder together filling out medicaid forms and requests to forestall foreclosure.

Collecting littered cans to scrap for prescription medications as they walk to church shows the unending optimism and refusal to be ruled by elitists.

WOOF on April 19, 2008 at 07:13 am
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For those idiots who honestly think that those questions had any relevance than I am sad to call you a voter. Just stay home in the next election. Maybe some of you need a history lesson. Hmmm if I remember correctly Abraham Lincoln was the United States greatest president. I am not comparing Barack to him, I am not even a democrat. However pay attention to who you vote down because you could be passing up another great president simply by someone he may have talked to at one point. ABC was pathetic and I am not longer watching their debates.

fm1 on May 22, 2008 at 09:24 am
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