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Obama’s Mondale Moment

President Obama today said that Republicans “will raise taxes, and so will I. They won’t tell you. I just did.”

Wait, no, that’s not quite right. Walter Mondale said it in 1984. (I’ve swapped “Republicans” in for “Mr. Reagan.”) How well did that work out for him?

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Jeremy Lott is editor of RealClearPolicy.com, RealClearBooks.com and RealClearReligion.org and associate editor of RealClearScience.com.

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/04/13/obamas-mondale-moment

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