Tag Archives: Obama
Women Wars
In his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama says that, as a young man, he took his white girlfriend to a play by a black playwright. After the play she complained that she couldn’t understand why black people were always angry. In the process of writing his own biography of the president, David Maraniss tracked down the girlfriend. She says she only attended one play with Obama and it wasn’t by a black playwright. Asked about this, Obama says he used composites in his book.
In this column about the Maraniss book, Byron York describes how Obama composited his own identity.
Another fictional female in Obama’s life is Julia, a government dependent cartoon gal appearing in a slide show created by the Obama election campaign.
Excessive Celebration
Arianna Huffington throws the flag on the Obama campaign for excessive celebration and taunting.
Amen
The president bonded with students over college loans.
The Feds took over the student loan market in 2010. Now Obama wants Congress to keep interest rates low so students and their parents can more easily go into debt to pay tuition.
Tuition has increased faster than fuel prices.
So far Obama hasn’t insisted that college president fat cats be hauled before Congress.
Fairness Doctrine
In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama if he would raise capital gains rates knowing it would cause a decrease in federal revenue. The Occupy White House candidate said,”yes”. Out of fairness.
The Buffet Rule is supposed to force all millionaires to pay a minimum 30% rate, but, according to IBD, the seven figure set could still shift their wealth to tax free municipal bonds.
Buffett Rule or not, the fattest fat cats still pay, by far, the most income taxes.
