The Speech Obama Failed to Deliver

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The Speech Obama Failed to Deliver

 

By Ben Stein on 8.27.12 @ 6:11AM

A return to L.A. coincides with a growing sense of doom.

 

Friday

I keep thinking about our man, Barack Obama, and especially about his promises in 2008. There have been many Presidents. But has any President ever had a wider gulf between what he promised he would do and what he actually did or did not do?

What if, at his momentous moment at Grant Park in Chicago on the night of his win, he had said this speech:

"Now, friends, thank you for electing me. To tell you the truth, I am a good speaker as long as I have a prompter in front of me. But I have absolutely no clue at all as to how to get us out of this recession. None at all. I will, however, spend the money of the people who pay taxes to give out a lot of money to people who are either union members or do not pay taxes. I will spend a trillion dollars in a year and I have no idea of what, if any good it will do.

"I'll also get my captive Congress, led by the most pitifully