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March 10, 2009

Personally, I Would Have Said "Pay My Mortgage"

...but he's entirely correct, regardless.

Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I'm a jerk?

I ask because I'm trying to come to terms with Rule No. 1 of the Obama administration.

...Michael Kinsley famously said that a gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. As they say, it's funny because it's true.

But the White House tactic isn't funny at all. It's scary. Its amorality is outweighed only by the grotesque and astoundingly naked cynicism of it all.


Posted by tree hugging sister at March 10, 2009 02:11 PM

Comments

The worrysome thing is it's strategy for this administration. Emmanuel, I think, made the comment sometime around the inaugural and Hillary repeated it last week. Looks like it's policy, doesn't it?

Posted by: Retread at March 10, 2009 05:54 PM

Anything for the advancement of his agenda, even if that means wiping out trillions in people's retirement funds in the stock markets.

My son (who voted for Obama) was shaking his head today during a news item about the disposition of detainees at Gitmo. I looked at him and said "I hate to say I told you so..."

Posted by: Eric at March 10, 2009 08:04 PM

As I've said before, welcome to the United Socialist States of America..........

Posted by: JeffS at March 10, 2009 08:08 PM

In other words, "Always do what you can to personally profit from someone else's pain"?

Ugh.

I don't know; most of the people I know, if a child fell down a well, would be there with a ladder before the parents could even think to ask, and probably some of them would be forming a human chain to reach down and get her out.

I think the American people will continue to be who we are, regardless of the opportunists in Washington. We'll just have to be a little more careful not to let them exploit our natural tendencies to love our neighbors...

Posted by: ricki at March 11, 2009 08:35 AM