Media sold Obama on two key points, repairing the economy, and bringing new focus and ideas into the war in Afghanistan

There’s Only So Many Ways Obama Can Spin Failure

By Daniel Greenfield
Monday, August 9, 2010

During the 2008 election, the media sold Obama on two key points, repairing the economy, and bringing new focus and ideas into the war in Afghanistan. As the summer of 2010 fades, it’s painfully clear that Obama has failed completely in both areas.

Obama has come out on the wrong side of the economy. His administration’s economic policies are based on the insane notion that the private sector needs to be taxed more in order to fund more government spending. When it’s only private sector capitalism that has a shot at reviving the economy, not government spending. The Democrats mistook their own “tax and spendâ€