Friday, April 26, 2013

President Obama’s Harm Offensive

It wasn’t long ago that the media was hailing President Obama’s so-called (badly misnamed) “charm offensive” in which he supposedly reached out to lawmakers, including Republicans, to try to win more of them to his side. It was all for show, of course, because the substance of Obama’s actions hasn’t change one bit and his style remains divisive, angry, and blame-casting.
Now comes my friend Jim Guirard http://www.truespeak.org/contents/view/founderpresident , former longtime top aide to former Democratic Lousiana Senators Allan Ellender and Russell Long, to say that the administration’s hamhanded efforts to make the spending “sequester” seem as damaging as possible amount to a “harm offensive” meant to inflict as much pain or annoyance as possible on the American public. I understand that radio host Chris Plante already has picked up on this idea; more of us ought to do so. In truth, Obama really is doing all he can to inflict harm upon us, and it really is offensive.

Read more: http://spectator.org/blog/2013/04/25/president-obamas-harm-offensiv

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