commentarymagazine.com - 10/27/2008
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Yesterday , Barack Obama spoke in Colorado, and said something that may be of interest to Joe the Plumber: Now, make no mistake: the change we need won’t come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight ...
commentarymagazine.com - 10/27/2008
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Much of the blogosphere is buzzing over a
2001 radio interview in which Barack Obama seems genuinely...
chagrined that redistributionist policies aren’t going to come from the courts. ( Ignore the captioning on the Youtube which is distracting and not ...
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Words from Barack Obama's mouth that should terrify the 'Joe the Plumber' in all of us '
Hyscience —
Jennifer Rubin writes at Commentary (emphasis mine):
Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke in Colorado, and said something that may be of interest to Joe the Plumber: >
Now, make no mistake: the change we need won't come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together. >
The tone is miserable, and the suggestion is vaguely collectivist. ...
NPR: WTF?
Nitpicker —
... piece on Morning Edition this morning about whether or not President Elect Obama could meet the expectations he has set for himself. With a little help from her friends, she pretty much decides that no, he cannot. Here are a few quotes from her negative, slanted story: "On the campaign trail (Obama) made it sound easy. The only sacrifice he asked people to make was turning off the lights and checking the air in their tires." Oh really, Mara? Do tell. It seems to me that he not only called for sacrifice, but repeatedly said change " ...
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