Jennifer Rubin has a nice bit over at Pajamas Media about the hypocrisy in the media towards candidate Obama's rigid idealogy.
She points out his extreme protectionism via his dishonest claims about NAFTA cost the US jobs when we have, in fact, created over 26 million jobs in this country since its inception.
His insistence on universal health care ignores the fact that in Massachusetts and screamingly liberal California, gov't run health care is a disaster. RomneyCare in MA is losing money on the order of billions of dollars, and CA simply gave up on the idea.
Obama's pledge to raise taxes despite evidence that doing so would decrease tax revenues, ignoring progress in Iraq, and refusal to accept information not filtered through his campaign (something Bush has been repeatedly excoriated for) are all highlighted in the article.
Her closing remarks some it up best:
"The great irony of the Democratic nomination process has been that in an election year in which the public is supposedly fed up with extreme partisanship and ideological extremism, the Democrats selected the most liberal member of the Senate, who averts his eyes when confronted with data that does not match up with his ideological convictions. This does not seem to bother his media fan club, nor concern those who are convinced that he represents an entirely new approach to politics. Perhaps it should.
"The real test of an “ideologue” is not how strongly or how eloquently he expresses deeply held views, but whether he can account for new data and adjust policy designs to reflect the real world. If voters think the current administration has been unwilling or delinquent in doing those things, they may be sorely disappointed in an Obama administration."
Great stuff! Read the entire article here:
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