Obama Channels McCain

It's hard not to yawn at the 'right wingers' trotting out their tired old negativity, pre-judgements and prejudice in these comments. It reminds me of dyed in the wool Bolsheviks continuing to spew out their ugly, belligerent dogma, lost in a world that doesn't relate to their rigid mindset.

Doesn't the bile in your mouth get a little bitter to the taste? This country has been left in a nasty mess, time to pull your weight and stop your thumb sucking.

David H,
First of all I disagree that these are the people that got us where we are today. Some of them, yes, but the leadership behind where we are today, the Bush administration, will be gone. That makes a huge difference

Second, Obama never spoke specifically about changing the personel in washington. the change Obama spoke of was to get people working together and healing much of the bipartasanship we've seen in washington. He's already proving he can do that and I imagine he will continue to.

I'm still not sure why people on the right wouldn't be happy about Obama's leadership style so far. I would imagine it's a lot less scary to you than the Muslim, liberal, socialist, image that your talking heads painted of him during the campaign.

The title misspeaks, at least on technicalities. McCain cannot be channeled; because even though he's gone from our sight, he still kicks around on the planet. As an example, it would be technically correct if one said Krugman wishes Obama would channel moore of FDR's boldness.

David H, sorry but no one was conned. We had a choice between a republican and a democrat. With a not so popular republican in the white house for the last 8 years people wanted a change. That change was electing a dem. McCain didn't have a chance.

ObamaCONs -- Did someone say the election is over? Get over it? I think not. If you check your calendars closely you will find that the 2012 campaign began on November 5.

BTW -- The great thing about getting conned is that you will never admit you were conned, because it makes you look foolish. The refusal of his victims to admit they were conned is the best thing a conman has going for him.

Get over it. Admit it. You were conned.

ObamaCONs -- spin it all you want, but Obama promised change and what you are getting are the same old Washington hacks. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GOT US WHERE WE ARE TODAY!

Picking the supposedly smartest people for Executive and Cabinet posts does not guarantee the next administration will solve the problems we are facing. As Franklin Roosevelt pointed out when he was President -- most of what happens in life we cannot know, and so, the only thing to do is try something, and if it doesn't work, try something else. That was the basis of much of the New Deal. I absolutely respect FDR as a President, because although he wasn't always forthcoming with the American people, at least he was more grounded in reality. I am not so sure about our President-Elect's delusions of "the best minds to solve the problems of the day."

"Obama has been unrelentingly consistent in his message of fiscal prudence"

He has huh? ......

Hmmm...Farm bill....supported it against Bush's veto, but now wants to do EXACTLY the same thing the Bush veto would have done!

Yep...thats consistent!!!

Gentlemen,

So you believe he will veto any budget returned to him by Pelosi\Reid that gets fattened up ?

It is true that though McCain was trying to paint Obama as a socialist, tax and spender, Obama consistently campaigned on a platform of economic growth and fiscal responsibility. Republicans are the ones who open up massive deficits and spend like there's no tomorrow. Dems are the ones who turn deficits into surpluses. Obama has been unrelentingly consistent in his message of fiscal prudence. Government should do what it does well and get out of doing what it does not do well or should not be doing.

Sorry to disappoint you David H. Obama was going to pick Flava Flav for Defense Secretary just to please you, but he wasn't available either. You just wish Obama would pick losers for his cabinet positions and administration so you could harp on every appointment he makes and try to make him look bad. It just ain't happenin' is it? He is picking the best brains out there and if they happen to be from the Clinton administration, or if they happen to be Republicans, he will ask them to do the job. That's how he is. And we knew it from the beginning. You guys just didn't get it. But you're getting it now, aren't you?

David H,

Sour grapes again?????

When are you guys gonna wake up?

What will it take for you to admit Obama is doing something right?

Even Republicans harks are taking off their partisan cloths and acknowledging the CHANGE Obama is usheriing in.

Wake up buddy. The election is over.

He said all along during the campaign that we needed to cut wasteful spending. Now he's "channeling McCain"? Everytime I read a report from Jake Tapper, I'm struck as to the right wing bias and spin but on every story. What a joke.

David H., Only people who weren't listening or were listening only to right wing media expected Obama to govern as a liberal. Anyone paying attention to what he was saying knew that he is a centrist.

He's not being what others want him to be. He's doing what he NEEDS to do to fix this economy that Bush has left us with and putting the people with experience in place to get things done right away.

You would think that people like you would be happy that he's not catering to the left since he does have as much of a mandate to do that as Bush did to cater to the right.

Your "puh-lease" should go to the inflexible, "do whatever suits them no matter how badly it effects the rest of us" administration of the past 8 years.

The Dems are the Party of fiscal responsibility and accountability now. Remember Cheney's infamous line to Paul O'Neill: "Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter."
Well that's a crock. Obama's bringing in a team that is the economic equivalent of Gen. Petraeus. It's a very tough job, but they have the best shot to get it done right. And for cryin' out loud don't give Paulson another penny no matter how much he cries wolf. The only thing the Bushies have known how to do is squander taxpayer money. The Bush philosophy has always been get the money and a plan will follow. What BS.

So, who is the O-man going to be today? Clinton, Bush, Reagan? What must the ObamaCONs be thinking. He promises tax cuts -- nope, not gonna do it. He promises an end to the Iraq war -- but he plans to use Bush's man, Gates (what's the matter, wasn't Rummy available?) He promises change from Clinton and Bush -- except that his top level picks are all former Clintona and Bush people (you can't get any more Clinton than Hillary).

To get elected Obama said "I'll be whatever you want me to be." Now that he is in Washington he is going to the Clinton/Bush regulars and saying, "Heh, I'll be whatever you want me to be."

Can he be any more pathetic? Does he have any actual goals and beliefs? Oh yes, he believes in change. Puh-lease!

If I am not mistaken... in which I am NOT, Barack Obama spoke of these things in his campaign.