President Bush, the free market, and the media

I've been fairly supportive of President Bush. I have disagreed strongly with some of his stances, such as the one on immigration, but overall I've thought he got a bad rap when it came to the way the media treated him. I give him credit for many things, primarily keeping us safe which I believe is the President's number one priority.

The way he and his cohorts have handled the economy is one where he and I part ways. In an interview with CNN he admitted he had abandoned free market principles to keep the economy from completely tanking (my paraphrase). I believe our country was founded on free market principles and that under no circumstances should we abandon those values. We have embarked on a slippery slope towards socialism and I believe Obama is standing at the bottom of the slope with his arms wide open.

We are headed for a different kind of trouble and we will look back on 2008 as the year our way of life collapsed.

In reading the article below (thanks Drudge Report and Michelle Malkin, Michelle being first to mention this one!), I noted that when they quoted President Bush they quoted him completely, including the gaps, the lapses that permeate his speech. I bring it up simply to contrast the way he is portrayed versus the way the press quotes uh, uh, Obama, uh. They don't include his hesitations, his skipping of words or his flaws. With President Bush they seem to highlight the flaws. Maybe I'm being over sensitive on this one, but I would be we won't be hearing skits on Saturday Night Live dissing' Obama.


US President George W. Bush is pictured at the White House i...
US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse."
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
Bush's comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented government intervention in the face of a dire financial crisis.
"I am sorry we're having to do it," Bush said.
But Bush said government action was necessary to ease the effects of the crisis, offering perhaps his most dire assessment yet of the country's economy.
"I feel a sense of obligation to my successor to make sure there is not a, you know, a huge economic crisis. Look, we're in a crisis now. I mean, this is -- we're in a huge recession, but I don't want to make it even worse." ...

The Issue with Ayers is that Barack Obama LIED

To me, the issue is trust, the issue is that Barack Obama is lying about his relationship with his neighborhood and fellow board member, Bill Ayers.

There have been so many issues that have been raised about Obama's honesty.

I have another problem with the fact that he won't release any information from his college years. What's to hide? Why can't we read his thesis? Who hides something like that if there's nothing inflammatory in it?

If you can't trust your President in the so-called "little things" how the heck do you trust him with the big things? Doesn't character matter anymore?

I wish someone would line up the things he's said in the past with what he's saying now and just show how he's done so many about-faces.

Sadly, I think we could prove he was an out and out liar and still half our country would vote for him.

Did you see that video of those school kids in fatigues pledging their allegiance to Obama and the doctrine of change? That is our future folks! Did you see the video of the school kids singing praises to Obama dressed in their light blue t-shirts? That is our future folks! Chairman Obama.

Anyone who compares Obama to a dictator, to Chavez, to Fidel Castro and their ilk is blasted, yet look at those videos and listen to the similarity of how dictators swayed the public to their side and Obama's speeches. It's not just dictators who do what Obama is doing, it's anyone who leads the masses through the rhetoric of empty promises.

Are we so easily led? Have character and integrity lost their meaning? Have we lost the ability to think independently?

Barack Obama is being shown to be a liar and yet he just brushes it off as though it's no big deal.

It's a big deal to me.