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Obama: 'We Don't Want to Tax All Businesses Out of Business'

"I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience,"
Obama said Friday at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
in Palo Alto, Ca. "If you talk to us, it turns out we're pretty
common-sense folks."

"We don't think government can do everything," he said. "We don't
think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in
the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to
regulations."

"We don't want to tax all businesses out of business," Obama said.
"But we do think that there's a role to play for government."

the light touch of regulation

another light touch

assclown

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Inconsistency after inconsistency.

I want to see ONE person who voted for Obama explain what Obama's guiding philosophy is. I want one person to not just list things he does, but to describe what process he uses to decide which decisions to make.

 

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Inconsistency after inconsistency.

I want to see ONE person who voted for Obama explain what Obama's guiding philosophy is. I want one person to not just list things he does, but to describe what process he uses to decide which decisions to make.

 

 

 

I read "Audacity of Hope" back in 2007 thinking that a 300 page book would be a good format for him to explain how he makes decisions or what his views on, say, politics were.  Absolutely nothing!  He starts the book right out with something like "this isn't a book about a list of policies I advocate for..." and then he basically holds true to that promise.

I have a progressive friend who very strongly believes a realativist POV (i.e., one where you take each situation and look at it without any pre-concieved mental rules, principles, process, etc) is the preferred and smart way.  He especially rejects the aspect of libertarianism that is 'dogmatic' in his words i.e., there should be a firm set of principles that should be applied to decisions.  In his view, the former is 'thoughtful' and the later is 'thoughtless'.

As an aside, I also tried to read McCain's book at the time but it was unreadable.  The first eight pages is a just a list of questions an airplane pilot might be thinking.  I think both books were engineered to not provide any information.  I read them knowing I'd be in a lot of dinner party type conversations with a lot of election talk.

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