Barack Obama is Herbert Hoover
Phil Orenstein • October 10, 2008 • Uncategorized
With a little more than three weeks to go until Election Day, the major game-changer is yet to come. Obama’s radical associations, lack of experience and voting record of raising taxes on the middle class, will come into the equation as November 4th draws nearer and people start to use their brains. The major issue now is the economy and people who have lived through the depression or whose parents have, understand that Barack Obama is Herbert Hoover in many ways.
The consensus is that there were no game-changing moments in Tuesday night’s town hall debate in Nashville. The candidates traded jabs and talking points focusing on the economy, which is now distressing the McCain campaign, as he slips further in the polls and in battleground states. The economy dominated the debate as Obama continued to tie McCain to the unpopularity of the Bush administration which started with a surplus when President Bush came into office, as Obama remarked and now the national debt has nearly doubled. Some people saw what they wanted to see in each candidate as illustrated by the following exchange from a young unregistered undecided colleague:
We all know that McCain is equal to Bush. If you did watch the last night Presidential Debate you should have well noted that McCain is done for now. He repeated many many times the sentence “look at my record my friends” but he didn’t say a word on how he is going to change “in better” this country and how he is really different from Bush. It is like when I come to a job interview and you, the interviewer, ask me “Do you know how read blue prints?” and I reply “look at my resume”. What would you think about my professionalism? …Ok if you are good person you will probably give me a chance but guys, here we are electing the President of the United States of America not a McDonald Manager. Obama doesn’t have any important experience but he knows what to say and how to act, something that for someone like McCain, with is impressive record, doesn’t. I am sorry for who is blind in this country and doesn’t want to understand that the Bush (Republican) administration has destroyed the American and world Economy….Be a smart voter and do the best for your country.
Another colleague responded as follows:
I won’t share my political views with you, but in my opinion and with all due respect, if this is the logic you’re applying in your choice for the next President of the U.S., then I am hopeful that you are not a registered voter!
McCain and Obama aside, your decision to cast your vote should have little to do with an hour of sound bites on TV from these candidates and more about where the candidates stand on the issues through their past performance…..their track record, their voting record, their ability to get things done. If you believe only what you hear, then it is probably safe to say that you will hear only what you already believe.
Answer these questions for me…..What has Barack Obama done for America to deserve your educated vote for President?? What has John McCain done for America that deserves your educated vote for President?? When you have those answers I will listen to your opinion. Keep in mind that some of our greatest Presidents were not great debaters. I send your words back to you….Be a smart voter and do the best for your country……use your brain…..
International terrorism and national security issues were off the radar screen. The focus of the debate was on the economy and the unpopularity of the Bush administration. McCain never broached the topic of Barack Obama’s radical associations and unsavory friends, including terrorist William Ayers, Amerca-hating pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, anti-Semitic Minister Louis Farrakhan, convicted criminal Tony Rezko and many others. Neither did he attack Obama on his voting record of tax increases across the board and massive spending programs as the treatment for times of financial distress which would plunge the country into the likes of another depression. This is the game-changer.
I was speaking to my good freind, Professor Gerald Matacotta tonight and he explained that the major issue we are now facing is the economy and on this issue Barack Obama follows in the footsteps of Herbert Hoover, who was a Republican in name only (RINO). Rather, he was a progressive and a social engineer, who funded massive public works programs with monumental tax increases. The stock market crashed occurred in 1929 during the first year of the Hoover administration. Hoover raised corporate and income taxes and imposed tariffs which sunk the country deep into the Great Depression. He instituted the Revenue Act of 1932 which was the largest tax increase in American history raising the income tax from 25% to 63% on the highest earners. The result of his tax increases took money out of the economy decreasing consumer and business spending, as homelessness, poverty, and bank failures grew out of control and unemployment soared to 25%. Hoover’s prescription for the stock market fall was to tax the people more and use the funds for public works, as government took over more and more of the private sector.
This sounds similar to Obama’s prescription for the present financial predicament we are facing. Some of the details of Obama’s vague plan reveal that it would be the largest tax increase in over a decade, raising taxes on the incomes of those earning $250,000 or more. This would fund universal healthcare and other massive government programs. But looking at Obama’s record in the U.S. Senate where he voted for higher taxes at least 94 times, and his support for hundreds of tax increases in the Illinois State Senate, we see a dangerous character very much like Herbert Hoover emerge.
We should “use our brains” and not let history repeat itself. As we get closer to Election Day, people who now say they support Obama should wake up and realize that Barack Obama is mysterious and unknown. The worse thing for a troubled economy is to increase taxes on wage earners and businesses. Judging from his record, if Obama gets elected, he will increase income taxes across the board, raise corporate taxes, and impose tariffs when the revenues from those earning $250,000 or more fall short of the mark, not only to fund his massive government programs, but also to lift us out of a financial recession. He will blame the Bush administration and deliver a somber address to the American people on sharing the burden of sacrifice. He will declare that it’s the patriotic duty of all Americans to pay more taxes as his running mate Joe Biden has mentioned. We should learn from history and not let a repeat performance of Hoover’s perilous reaction to the stock market crisis of 1929 recur in 2009.
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Unfortunately, the president in power is the one who gets hung with the bad news, so the electorate is more likely to see George Bush as Herbert Hoover, and Barack Hussein Obama as Franklin Delano
RainesRoosevelt.Yeah, that’s thoroughly unfair and unwise, but I’ve never believed the electorate to somehow be fair, and wisdom by the voters is often missing.
A. VOTE FOR MCAIN, WE MAY HAVE A CHANCE TO RECOVER.
B. VOTE FOR O’BAMA, EXPECT YOUR SMALL BUSINESS EMPLOYER TO CUT YOU TO PART TIME BECAUSE HE IS FORCED TO GIVE YOU MEDICAL THAT HE CAN’T AFFORD IN TODAY’S ECONOMY. EXPECT A LAY OFF BECAUSE YOUR EMPLOYER NEEDS TO KEEP HIS INCOME UNDER $250K RISKING PAYING 40% OF TAX VS 15%. WHY SHOULD THE WORKING SMALL BUSINESS MAN TRY TO MAKE MORE THAN $250K? SO HE CAN GIVE IT ALL TO THE GOVERMENT AND OBAMA TO GO ON A VACATION AND GET HOOKERS FOR OUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS?
well if obama is like hoover, he will surely deal with the wage decreases and layoffs just like hoover did!!! a goverment mandated job security program, worked great for japan, which will without a doubt cause a huge amount of bankruptcies and cause unemployment to spiral out of control. and tell me why roosevelt has such a great image? which one of his new deal programs in not bankrupt today? fannie? social security? medicare? the damn voting population needs to get one simple concept, we can not legislate out of an economic downturn, the markets bring us out and like friedman said the best way to aid that… cut taxes across the board and increase the money supply. PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE ESPECIALLY YOU SO CALLED EDUCATED COLLEGE VOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well said. The problem is not in presenting reasonable arguments or points of view. Moreover, telling the truth of Obama and making him look bad are one in the same. The problem is his worshipers voting from emotion. Obamism is America’s latest religion, don’t dare question it.
This is a very very serious state of our economy. The only plan, to remove pork barrel spending from government, to make sure that the entitlements are being used all the way that are already out there, and to avoid increasing taxes, is really the only way out. This is John McCain’s plan.
Why doesn’t the world understand that Obama is a very very big spender. This article regarding the times of Hoover is all too true.
Listen, speaking and spending more then 600 million and a 30 minute commercial make you a president. Anyone who has spent any time in college has had to study some sort of economics or marketing. How is it that an educated democratic party, doesn’t see the exact thing happening here that sells us things we really don’t even like, on the television?
Please view the economic plan at this link.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Issues/jobsforamerica/
And compare the issues at http://www.johnmccain.com.
Please see why Sarah Palin is better for our government and more experienced then even Barack Obama at http://www.teamsarah.org
Election is over, Obama has won. It is now more important than ever for Americans to keep tabs on our government and oppose in unison the things that will cause further economic landslide.