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Obama prefers partisanship to problem-solving

Posted 26 Sep 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, economy, stupidity

“Yeah, there’s a looming crisis as bad as the Great Depression. But I need my TV time, dammit!”

That’s the essence of the recent shallow, egoistic grandstanding from Obama. But then again, what else should we expect?

While Obama makes with a disingenuous political maneuver to force the debate tonight in the midst of what he called “a financial crisis as profound as anything we have faced since the Great Depression,” Ed Morrissey takes him behind the woodshed for his selfishness and ignorance:

We’re in this crisis because government intervened to impose its ideas of “fairness”, “balance”, and “responsibility to one another”. Congress demanded that lenders lower requirements for borrowers and then mandated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy the bad paper and resell them as securities in order to encourage overzealous risktaking. This is not a free-market failure, it’s a government-mandated collapse, thanks to a Congress that forced “fairness” over discipline and responsible lending. The fact that Obama to this moment still doesn’t understand that shows that he would not just repeat the same mistakes that led to the collapse, but would redouble efforts to mandate “fairness”, “balance”, and “responsibility to one another” — and lead us into the same trap all over again.
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The debates themselves are nothing more than political stunts. They pit two candidates against each other to discuss complicated issues, and give them each 120 seconds to discuss them. The debates exist to produce sound bites, not public policy. They’re a game show aimed at people who don’t pay attention to policy and make up their minds by determining who delivers the best comeback.

Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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