- February 21st, 2008, 8:29 pm
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Barack's not the Anti-christ. What he is though, is a slate upon which anyone can project their hopes and aspirations. He's young, well-spoken, good-looking... who wouldnt' want that as a leader? And if he can do it -- a black kid, raised in a single-parent home in a nation scarred by prejudice and slavery -- then why can't anyone else?
However, outside all of that, he's a radical liberal. Most liberal member of the Senate. And his words range somewhere from hollow to deceptive. A Newsweek writer puts it as such:
Americans 'are tired of hearing promises made and 10-point plans proposed in the heat of a campaign only to have nothing change,' he recently said. Shortly thereafter he outlined an economic plan of at least 12 points that, among other things, would: provide a $1,000 tax cut for most two-earner families, create a $4,000 refundable tuition tax credit for every year of college" -- which is only going to cause tuition to skyrocket, a little deal made under the table between the libs and Congress and the libs that run universities -- "expand the child-care tax credit for people earning less than $50,000 and 'double spending on quality after-school programs,' and enact an 'energy plan' that would invest $150 billion in 10 years to create a 'green energy sector.'"
Now, "[w]hatever one thinks of these ideas, they're standard goody-bag politics: something for everyone. They're so similar to many Clinton proposals that her campaign put out a news release accusing Obama of plagiari[sm].... A favorite Obama line is that he will tell 'the American people not just what they want to hear but what we need to know.' Well, he hasn't so far.
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