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Has Obama’s luck run out?
Posted: July 23, 2009 10:30 pm Eastern
Pat Buchanan
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Obama is approaching such a moment of truth.
The universal health insurance plans being advanced all appear too complex, costly and non-credible to pass both houses. The cap-and-trade carbon emissions bill, with its huge costs to be passed on to U.S. producers and consumers, as China opts out, seems an act of national masochism.
The $787 billion stimulus bill has done zip to stimulate the economy. Less than 10 percent of the money has gone out the door, which makes one wonder why it was called a stimulus package. Unemployment is at 9.5 percent, well above what the Obamaites predicted, and rising.
As worrisome is the situation in Afghanistan. The United States has 66,000 troops in country or on the way, as our NATO allies look for the exit ramp. We are seven and a half years in and the Afghan army is not remotely capable of defending the nation or regime.
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While I’m not a Buchanan-ite, one has to recognize he is a perceptive political analyst.
Bill “it’s the economy, stupid” Clinton had a Waterloo with health care. Obama seems to be heading the same way.
Ron Paul, the only true peace candidate in the last election, was laughed at for the “first thing coming home”.
Everyone can say what they want, but we are heading in the wrong direction.
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