Armageddon

by Joseph Curl - February 8th, 2009 - Washington Times

Every president must walk a rhetorical tightrope when talking about the economy, a lesson Mr. Bush learned quickly, being bashed just after taking office for delivering somber news. The United States was just entering a mild recession - it had been in one, it turns out, for about nine months - and the new president said so.

Liberals went berserk.

"Every time we turn around, this guy is bad-mouthing the economy. Is that lifting our spirit or dumping on it in order to sell his tax cut?" liberal comentator Bill Press said on CNN. Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, in an article headlined "Thanks Ever So Much, President Poor-Mouth," said, "Even if Bush turns out to be right in his predictions of gloom, that doesn't mean he was right to make them."

Of course that was the news when it was the socialist press talking about someone who they did not think was socialist. How dare Bush say the economy was "slowing down"? Now when the socialist Obama says things like, "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe" and other Democrats talk about Armageddon, it is perfectly okay?

Let's see. Using words like "slowing down" drives liberals berserk. Saying failure to do what Obama wants "will turn crisis into a catastrophe" is perfectly okay. After all, it is the Magic Marxist Messiah who is saying the words this time. The unemployment that is creating such panic is exactly the same unemployment rate that Jimmy Carter passed on to Ronald Reagan in 1981. A month after Reagan took office the press blamed HIM for the problem. It is not likely that Obama will ever be held responsible for a high unemployment rate during his entire term in office. Even if it lasts eight years, it will NEVER be his fault ... as far as our socialist press is concerned.

By the way, it is also the unemployment rate during Clinton's first year as well, which probably has more to do with why the first George Bush got dumped by voters than any other single issue. The claim the economy is the worst it has been since the depression is simply a lie. Like his ignorance of the history of the middle east, Obama has shown he is ignorant of even being able to do a simple google search on unemployment rates.

Watching the MSM turn themselves into pretzels to try and make sure that Obama is not blamed for anything is really really funny!