Barack Obama continues to try to create panic. He keeps telling Americans that we have a lot to fear.
Making his case in the most dire terms, President Barack Obama said that if Congress does not quickly pass an economic stimulus package, the nation will slip into a crisis so deep that "we may be unable to reverse" it.
"We can't afford to wait. We can't wait to see and hope for the best," Obama said in Elkhart, Ind., a community reeling in job losses during the recession that has defined his young presidency. "We can't posture and bicker and resort to the same failed ideas that got us in into this mess in the first place."
Obama took the Washington debate Monday to a Midwest setting of everyday Americans, sought to build support for a massive infusion of government spending.
There's that "we may never recover" stuff again.
If we recovered after the Jimmy Carter years, I have confidence we'll manage.
This playing on the people's fears isn't working. Obama should cut it out.
The popular president got at least one biting question during a candid question question-and-answer session, when a woman who identified herself as Tara took Obama to task for some of the tax lapses of his high-level nominees.
"You've come to our county and asked us to trust you, but those that you have appointed to your Cabinet are not trustworthy and can't handle their own budget and taxes," she said. Others in the town-hall session booed her, but Obama interjected: "No, no, this is a legitimate question."
Of course, it's a legitimate question.
How boorish of the people in attendance to boo the woman!
Although this AP account doesn't mention it, the booing grew louder when the woman mentioned Sean Hannity's invite to have a beer with him.
It appears that Obama was addressing a very supportive, Democrat crowd. What good is preaching to the choir?
Obama said he has taken responsibility for the perception that some people shouldn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else. Two nominees, including Tom Daschle, who was in line to be secretary of Health and Human Services, withdrew from consideration after revelations of delinquent taxes.
But he added that the mistakes were honest ones and said: "If you're not going to appoint anybody who's ever made a mistake in your life, then you're not going to have anybody taking your jobs."
Yeah, we heard that on five networks last week.
On the economic crisis, Obama acknowledged that the legislation currently circulating in Congress is not beyond criticism, even poking fun at its authors at one point. Said Obama: "It's coming out of Washington. It's going through Congress."
"You know, look, it's not perfect," the president conceded. "But it is the right size, it is the right scope. Broadly speaking, it has the right priorities to create jobs that will jump-start our economy and transform the economy for the 21st century."
Wow. That's looking at the bill through rose-colored glasses.
Americans know better.
From Rasmussen Reports:
As Congress debates the economic stimulus plan initially proposed by President Obama, would you like to see the plan include more tax cuts and less government spending, more government spending and less tax cuts, or would you rather see the plan pass pretty much as it is today?
62% - More tax cuts and less government spending
14% - More government spending and less tax cuts
20% - Pass pretty much as it is today
5% - Not sure
Americans aren't happy with Obama's plan, not happy at all.
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