You must remove all common sense to believe in Barack Obama.

In one breath, he tells you that the economy is weak with structural problems. Big problems that require a big solution. In the next breath he tells you that the recession will be over within a year. He would have us believe that he can get huge, fundamental changes to our economy implemented AND paying dividends within a year….or he is trying to have it both ways.

Obama repeats until my eyelids feel like a thousand pounds, that our future economic growth depends on government controlling health care costs. Don’t look now, but the Europeans have had government controlled health care for many years. They also have sluggish economic growth and high unemployment. Please explain to us mere mortals how it will have such wonderful benefits here while it has lead to economic sloths in Europe.

The president started out tonight’s press conference with a prepared speech…again…void common sense.  He spoke to us like unsuspecting children. He proclaimed he would fix our banking system and make it easy for us to borrow money again so we could purchase things now which we cannot afford today….and then told us that we needed to change our lifestyles to one of savings and frugality. He said we need to stop the cycle of boom and bust, after telling us how he was going to rebuild the institutions that created securitized loans that hid the risk of borrowing. He described the era of Obama as “Save and Invest”. (I had to yell at the TV over that line)

He repeatedly used a blame-propose-strawman template to sell his position. What do I mean? First, blame George Bush for all the country’s problems, make a proposal and follow up with some inane alternative. To Barack Obama, it is either his solution or an alternative solution proposed by drunk frat boys. We either move toward socialized medicine or we ignore the problem and buy a pack a smokes.  We can either move toward Barack Obama’s vision of green jobs or we do nothing while we wait for certain death caused by deadly CO2 pollution. We can either give the President the ability to take over private industry or we can do nothing and the economy will completely collapse.

How about we get government out of health care and we let people save their own money in health plans? Maybe we should tear down the walls that keep people from buying health insurance from out of state providers. We could do nothing about global warming…since it is a great hoax.  We could solve our energy problems by telling the environmentalists we are tired of their childish idealism. We could drill, dig and nuke our way to energy independence. Instead of letting the tax cheat in charge of the Treasury Department take over failing companies, we could do what has worked for years. Let them go bankrupt and have a court divide up the assets. There is a real conservative alternative proposal for every single one of Barack Obama’s socialist solutions, but he claims the alternatives to his plans are to do nothing and invite catastrophe.

Like every other liberal, Barak Obama appears to have no idea what conservatives believe or propose – or even that they have proposed plans at all. He argues against the conservative cartoon he has built up in his mind and then pats himself on the back for being so smart.

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