Friday, December 16, 2011
Cutting room floor
Apparently edited out of President Obama's most recent Sixty Minutes interview:
Sounds like something Newt would say. Unfortunately, the press will not protect Newt from himself with quite the same efficiency as it does Barack Obama.
10 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Dec 16, 11:20:00 PM:
Wow, it is stunning.
This cannot be pure denial, this has to have some misguided belief in there somewhere. Having watched his disaster for 3 years, it is possible he could be that clueless.
Of course it is easier to believe he is just an egotist, or is so dishonest, he feels some Americans are simply this gullible. In these other cases it is insulting.
Regardless, he is on track to be the worst of all time, right below Carter. He and his Administration, is a train wreck.
By 
Carolyn, at
Fri Dec 16, 11:52:00 PM:
"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history."
So is his standard for measuring accomplishment the AMOUNT of legislation and foreign policy activity or its SUCCESS? The Johnson choice as a possible rival to his record is particularly interesting. The Great Society program he set in motion has not lived up to the goals of its creators (at least I hope they expected better results). And his foreign policy led to protests against him. Obama's intentions may be just as good as Johnson's. But you know what they say about the road to hell . . . .
By , at
Sat Dec 17, 01:18:00 AM:
Wow. Is that real? Did he actually say something so outlandishly stupid?
I'm so tired of this time in our history. Can we please just move on...
By Gary Rosen, at
Sat Dec 17, 04:57:00 AM:
"with the *possible* exceptions of ..."
*Possible* exceptions. What can you say in response to this? I would say it's unbelievable but unfortunately it is all too believable.
By Gary Rosen, at
Sat Dec 17, 06:46:00 AM:
" this has to have some misguided belief in there somewhere"
People have been telling him this (how great he is) his whole life. What makes them do this is another story.
By , at
Sat Dec 17, 12:20:00 PM:
Every now and then Obama says something that's a tell about what he's really about. e.g., "I want to spread the wealth around".
Don't underestimate this guy. He plays a bit of a buffoon in public, and wants to look removed, but behind the scenes Obama's cold, calculating and at times quite effective. There's a lot of devils in the details of recent legislation.
On current trajectory, looked at from his perspective, Obama's got a point. At least on domestic matters.
Even if he loses in 2012, he's set several things in motion -- that if not reversed -- will radically change the relationship between citizen and state in these here United States. Much of this builds on what FDR and LBJ had done before, and not all of recent developments were of Obama's making, but think about what you're typical American spends most of his paycheck on:
Housing: 90% of mortgages run through Fannie and Freddie. That's over half the housing in the US. We have a variety of other programs for folks on the low end.
Healthcare: Obamacare. Most of us will get put into steerage cradle to grave, where we'll all be "equal". Separate upper decks for those in government.
Energy: Even greater control over utilities. Those pesky oil companies to get pushed offshore.
Autos: Get used to driving your new electric toaster, once the CAFE rules kick in.
Education: Even the private schools are increasingly being sucked into the Borg, always PC.
Food: Food stamp nation.
Unemployment: Checks until the end of time.
Retirement: All pretense that Social Security is some kind of forced savings plan is being thrown over. It's becoming means-tested welfare transfers.
Size of government: Plan has been to redline federal spending to unprecedented levels.
How to pay for it all: We can't. Not with historic financial methods. That's the end game.
The play is the expectation that a voting majority of Americans won't want to give up what they're getting. They'll tax the minority to death.
We're on track to become some kind of Borg State. Your station in life will be defined by your place in it, for most of us.
I don't get his foreign policy point though.
By , at
Sat Dec 17, 12:20:00 PM:
Every now and then Obama says something that's a tell about what he's really about. e.g., "I want to spread the wealth around".
Don't underestimate this guy. He plays a bit of a buffoon in public, and wants to look removed, but behind the scenes Obama's cold, calculating and at times quite effective. There's a lot of devils in the details of recent legislation.
On current trajectory, looked at from his perspective, Obama's got a point. At least on domestic matters.
Even if he loses in 2012, he's set several things in motion -- that if not reversed -- will radically change the relationship between citizen and state in these here United States. Much of this builds on what FDR and LBJ had done before, and not all of recent developments were of Obama's making, but think about what you're typical American spends most of his paycheck on:
Housing: 90% of mortgages run through Fannie and Freddie. That's over half the housing in the US. We have a variety of other programs for folks on the low end.
Healthcare: Obamacare. Most of us will get put into steerage cradle to grave, where we'll all be "equal". Separate upper decks for those in government.
Energy: Even greater control over utilities. Those pesky oil companies to get pushed offshore.
Autos: Get used to driving your new electric toaster, once the CAFE rules kick in.
Education: Even the private schools are increasingly being sucked into the Borg, always PC.
Food: Food stamp nation.
Unemployment: Checks until the end of time.
Retirement: All pretense that Social Security is some kind of forced savings plan is being thrown over. It's becoming means-tested welfare transfers.
Size of government: Plan has been to redline federal spending to unprecedented levels.
How to pay for it all: We can't. Not with historic financial methods. That's the end game.
The play is the expectation that a voting majority of Americans won't want to give up what they're getting. They'll tax the minority to death.
We're on track to become some kind of Borg State. Your station in life will be defined by your place in it, for most of us.
I don't get his foreign policy point though.
By , at
Sat Dec 17, 06:27:00 PM:
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: Obama's legislative and foreign policy acclomplishments hardly even rise to the level of Nixon's.
However, judging their records on the first two years, Obama *has* mucked things up quite considerably more.
By , at
Sun Dec 18, 12:12:00 AM:
60 Minutes did not air this footage? Why?
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sun Dec 18, 09:16:00 PM:
tyree, an excellent question to which you know the answer. Remember to keep asking out loud, rather than just shaking your head, as I often do.
Even if it were true, the only people who talk like this are athletes. "I am among the best point guards in the league, with the possible exception of..."
And narcissists.
