Number of times Obama mentioned deficit: Nine.
Number of times Obama mentioned cutting the deficit: One.
Number of times Obama referred to bringing the deficit down by healthcare reform: One.
Number of times Obama referred to bringing the deficit down by “making hard choices”: One.
Number of times Obama referred to lowering the deficit by enacting the stimulus bill: Two.
Number of times Obama referred to “the deficit we inherited”: Two.
Number of times Obama referred to a “deficit of trust”: One.
Number of times Obama enumerated specific ways to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term: Zero.
Reviews of last night’s speech, via CNN:
Eighty-two percent of speech watchers say they support the economic plan Obama outlined in his prime-time address, with 17 percent opposing the proposals.
Proving you can fool all of the people all of the time. Or at least 82% of them.
This on-point Wall Street Journal editorial hits hard on the twinned issues of big government and the deficit:
online.wsj.com/article/SB123275512887811775.html
Drew, don’t take this the wrong way, but do you work for the WSJ? Or are you just in the advertising business?
The answer is neither, and I provided a link to the editorial because it supports your final point. Most people do seem fooled by the outdated and/or inaccurate notion that Democratic presidents run up the deficit and Republican presidents are fiscal conservatives. They also don’t remember what they’ve heard or where they’ve heard it. Democracy is, indeed, the worst political system … except for all the rest. ;-)
Well, I’m convinced (that you’re not a spammer). But geez, that one line and the link, coupled with your registering recently, hit most of the warning bells in my “comment spammer” checklist. All we needed was a reference to medications or earning big money from home, and we’re there.
Well, you *made* me re-register.
I have been reading your blog for MANY years (first directed here by WSJ’s Opinion Journal when you were running the Arafat death watch … so how long ago is that?), once tried to set you up with my brother-in-law, and argued with you in numerous comments about Palin — while noting that I hated to see you go down that path. Given that long history, I even tried to connect on LinkedIn, but got ignored.
So yep, that’s me. Also, if you are interested in making money from home, free Cialis and Viagra, or losing weight while eating all you want … um, that’s not me.
And that one really DID go into the spam queue. Those are the magic words, all right.
Okay, I remember you now, Drew. But I’ve been getting new users registering right and left, and the Russian spammers have figured out that I’m on to them, I think. I’m now deleting nonsense names that have eponymous gmail or yahoo or hotmail accounts. If I get an angry email from a real person, well, I’ll explain.