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Obama clueless on economic development; touts government instead

So President Barack Obama was in my fair city today.  No, I didn’t go hear him speak.  I have a cold that causes me to cough like I smoke 10 packs of unfiltered menthol cigarettes a day.  So instead, I figured I would do what all good bloggers do: criticize his remarks from the comfort [...]

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From Exceptionalism to Statism

Michael Franc, in reviewing the president’s non-SOTU speech last night, captures the frustration I have with Barack Obama:
We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett’s, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all that [...]

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