Critics are harping that Barack Obama is running a campaign that in its coarseness, smallness, and pettiness[i]
marks a new low in American politics. Why are they so outraged? He
has behaved this way ever since he moved into the Oval Office.
Many people have criticized Barack Obama for his failures as president. His economic record is pathetic:
Many people have criticized Barack Obama for his failures as president. His economic record is pathetic:
- trillions of dollars in new debt;
- anemic growth juiced up only by massive deficit spending, endless printing of money;
- zero interest rates that have proven so harmful to senior savers;
- regulations that are smothering businesses;
- a stimulus bill that reward Democratic special interest groups with taxpayer dollars and money borrowed from the Chinese;
- ObamaCare, which is choking off job growth; a shriveling of future opportunities for our youth;
- a foreign policy that cravenly shrivels before our adversaries but insults, damages, and bullies our allies and friends
- circumventing Congress through executive orders (such as the de facto amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants that may very well win enough electoral votes in key states to drag him over the finish line);
- czars;
- an explosion of new regulations and damaging interpretations of old ones;
- the disreputable methods used to get votes in Congress to pass legislation that harken back to Cook County (bribery -- such as the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and Gator Aid employed to pass ObamaCare;
- threats used to intimidate even a Democrat to vote for the stimulus bill ("Don't think we are not keeping score, brother");
- legislative tricks, such as deeming a bill "passed" and declaring that the Senate is not in session when it is, to permit Obama to make "recess appointments" that would not normally receive approval by the Senate
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