The American Spectator : Obama von Bismarck

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Obama von Bismarck

By Peter Ferrara on 6.18.08 @ 12:08AM

Where's the change, Chancellor Barack?

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FINALLY, OBAMA IS SO STUCK in the past that he would not even vote in favor of stopping the raid on the Social Security trust funds. He voted against Sen. Jim DeMint's proposed bill to stop that raid, and end the practice of using surplus Social Security funds to finance other government programs. John McCain, however, voted for the DeMint bill.

If Obama's rhetoric about change and post-partisan unity meant anything, he would consider personal accounts for Social Security, with their enormous benefits for working people. But his rhetoric is just meant to bamboozle the simple-minded. He has never departed from the standard liberal-left line on any policy issue, or reached across the partisan divide to work on any issue raised by the other side.

Rather, it is precisely John McCain who has done that. Conservatives disdain him for having done so. But at least he has the substantive audacity of Obama's false hope.

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topics:
Taxes, Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Economics, Business, Social Security, Books, Law

About the Author

Peter Ferrara is Senior Fellow at the Carleson Center for Public Policy, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, and General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is the author of America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, now available from HarperCollins.