Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Will the abject hypocrisy continue for another four years?

Victor Davis Hanson writes about the startling disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality of the Obama Presidency.

The problem is not just that Obama took a model of reckless spending and doubled it in half the time — Washington is full of wild spenders, both Democratic and Republican — but that Obama was zealous in his castigation of Bush’s much lower spending (“unpatriotic”) and strident in his vows to stop the borrowing, going so far as to vote against the debt ceiling while in the Senate and to promise as president to halve the deficit by the end of his first term.

Will the abject hypocrisy continue for another four years? There is no reason to believe that Obama has become more circumspect and now understands that he cannot meet the very expectations he demanded of others, or that the media will try to salvage their tattered reputation by applying the same scrutiny to Obama that they did to others. But who knows — in 2016 we may see a young charismatic senator like the Barack Obama of 2007 who creates a messianic persona through hypnotizing the media, insisting that the incumbent is an utter failure, and promising “hope and change.”

Read more here: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/340376/obama-s-hypocritic-oath-victor-davis-hanson?pg=2

1 comment:

OMMAG said...

Yes.