ObamaWatch Bids Us Farewell... It's Still the Economy, Stupids

Get out Your Check Books
Retrieved/ Paraphrased by Pat Darnell
Like a span of mules, Democrats gathered on the lawn at Grant Park in Chicago last night to hear once again "a Speech," yes an acceptance speech from elected Commander in Chief Obama. Like an ostentation of peacocks, this watch of nightingales stood looking to the stage for the declared winner of the 2008 Presidential horse team race. What a spectacle; what a finish.

Famous faces were picked out of the bed of oysters and clams spreading out at the foot of the lectern. Tears glistened on cheeks of the company's parrots. Supporters of Obama who had vaulted him above the rafter of turkeys in Washington, DC. were weeping tears of joy.

Around 11 PM, the now familiar voice of the tall President Elect rang out to the troops, herds and gangs set like siege of cranes before him and his leash of foxes, the Obamas in sartorial splendor. Tidings of magpies aped rhetoric that won the day for Democratic Political Party -- too long denied election to the top position.

How brilliant the doctrines of yesteryear had been resurrected by Obama Camp to ring truthfully in the ears of old and young patriots and ex-patriots alike. It alludes to past clowders of political cats fighting it out, only to end in a riot or worse civil war like a murder of crows.

No riots, not last night -- most of us looked down on that peaceful sea of humanity in Grant Park as the next yoke of oxen to fall into indentured slavery... hey now -- it is the American Way. pd

ObamaWatch Says this: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | FINIS
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"As I write this in the early morning of the 5th...

"Whatever could be said and done to stop America falling into the hands of an ignoramus has been said and done. The more I have seen of Obama, the more I have become convinced that his academic qualifications are just bits of affirmative action paper. The man knows nothing and has no ideas. All he has to say is hoary old Leftist boilerplate and largely content-free generalities.

"So the die is cast and there will be no more posts here after today. This has been a campaign blog only. If Obama is more than a footnote in history tomorrow, his words and deeds will be discussed on my general political blog: DISSECTING LEFTISM.

"Just as a parting shot, however, a few last pieces of commentary below:

• Economic Illiteracy Is Not the Change We Need -- Barack Obama is campaigning for president under the slogan "Change We Need." Unfortunately, many of his economic policy proposals would move us in exactly the wrong direction... On the surface, environmental protection and labor standards sound noble, but actually harm desperately poor artificially raising the cost of employing them... effectively legislating them out of international marketplace... Restrictions on trade provide a short-run windfall for unionized American workers- powerful Obama constituency- this windfall comes at expense of other Americans who pay higher prices and at expense of poor people around the world who are then barred from the market.
• Obama wants to create millions of new jobs via various environmental schemes -- Where government intervention is involved, jobs created in one sector are jobs destroyed in another.
• Obama wishes to make it easier for workers to unionize -- In the late twentieth century, the government sowed the seeds of financial and social prodigality. Today, we're reaping what was sown.
• Obama proposes increasing the minimum wage -- Minimum wages reduce the number of workers businesses wish to hire and legislate some of them out of the labor market. If we wish to truly help the poor, we should eliminate the minimum wage, not increase it.

Obama would do well to reexamine the economics of the changes he is proposing. Especially in a turbulent economy, many of his proposals exemplify exactly the kind of change we don't need. (Art Carden; October 29, 2008 Alexandria Daily Town Talk Retrieved HERE: economic Illiteracy Is Not the Change We Need )