Thank You, Barack Obama

[formerlurker]

Thank You, Barack Obama
By Ben Stein on 9.14.09 @ 12:36PM

Dear Mr. President:

As a 64-year-old, lifelong fiscal conservative and Republican since Nixon, may I humbly thank you? In the eight months or so since you took office, you have succeeded in reviving a party, the GOP, that many had left for dead.

1) You have named men to office so wildly irresponsible, so extreme in their positions, so vulgar in their means of expression, that they have made the Republican Party regain its of gleam of gentility and good graces. I am not talking only about the tough guy/ballet dancer Rahm Emanuel, who screamed like a jilted drunken sorority girl at GOP leaders after Joe Wilson's outburst (itself a disgrace) last Wednesday night. I am talking about a high White House official who called Republicans by a barnyard epithet at a public speech recently. This is the same guy who signed a petition to investigate whether the government caused 9/11 -- itself a favored position of Neo-Nazis and other nut jobs. Thank you. I thought no one could outdo an appointment like Henry Paulson, Bush 43's Treasury Secretary -- but you have.

2) You have proposed a national health care plan so wildly extravagant, incomprehensibly complex and over the top that it makes President George W. Bush's budget gaffes seem like blips -- plus you have told fibs about it so immense that you have embarrassed yourself as a public figure:

• Obviously, no responsible leader in government thinks there are enough savings in Medicare to pay for national health insurance. That old canard -- that you'll pay for a huge program through cutting out "...waste, fraud, and corruption..." was old and lame and pitifully untrue in the days of John Adams. It is a bad joke now...unless, unless you really are planning to totally gut Medicare and basically end decent health care for the elderly. This has become a legitimate fear after last Wednesday's speech. If you really do believe you can squeeze enough out of Medicare to pay for your health plan, maybe the "death panel" myth wasn't really a myth after all.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/14/thank-you-barack-obama/print

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Just the other day I created a thread calling Obama the greatest president ever.

I like it when smart people agree with me.

[Chris_]

I wonder if he will now be called a racist because of this letter

[miskie]

I wonder if he will now be called a racist because of this letter

Yes.

If you disagree with Obama , your a racist. I'm sure they will call him a Zionist Neocon too because of his last name.

[Anomalous]

I think now you would be a dangerous racist and that "frightens" Madame Speaker.


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[NHSparky]

Poor Ben.  His neighbors in Malibu must HATE him.