tick for tack
This morning, Lisa Schiffren over at the National Review Corner says “this bumper sticker would be funny, if it weren’t so true.”
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An e-mail came in from a friend about this post, he ask me if I was
“making up stories. How is Obama similar to Carter?”
Well, sir, if you would pay as much attention to immediate history of this nation as you surely do to the talking heads of the mainstream news-media, you may perhaps know of how politics developed before 2000 A.D. Succinctly, Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, is really the most failed American who ever served in that office. We practically lost the cold war to a failing U.S.S.R. which shot his misery index through the roof of economics.
I think it is better to let the poster of the above bumper sticker state whey Carter and OBama are political twins.
Still, Barack assures us that John McCain’s and George Bush’s policy stances are indistinguishable, so let’s so stipulate. Is that worse than the alternative?
After all, what President in the modern era does Senator Obama’s agenda most resemble?
Huge expansion of the federal government? Check. Letting entitlement spending run wild? Check. “Windfall profit” taxes on oil companies? Strong desire to meet with dictators and state terrorism sponsors? Big doofy grin? Check, check, and check.
Do political fashions run in 30-year cycles? If so, then get ready for the fabulous comeback of energy crises, stagflation, high unemployment, and national malaise.
Source: Suitably Flip
Jimmy Carter, revisited!
