More on Obama's Speech

Yesterday, I wrote two posts about president Obama's big economic speech in Ohio. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am no fan of Obama or his policies, so, not surprisingly, I thought the speech was terrible both in content and form. What surprised me, however, was that my view was almost uniformly held by much of the liberal press as well.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is an influential writer whose description of the Obama speech is worthy of repetition. According to Milbank,

I had high hopes for President Obama’s speech on the economy. But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.

The falsehood is that he has been serious about cutting government spending. The fallacy is that this election will be some sort of referendum that will break the logjam in Washington.


There you have it; the Washington Post accusing president Obama of lying. The rest of Milbank's article goes on from there, but it never gets better in its view of what Obama said.

For Obama, reviews like these are a disaster. The president of the United States tells us that he has a plan to grow the economy and cut the deficit and the liberal press, instead of echoing that phony claim, is telling America that Obama is lying. If Obama keeps this up much longer, he runs a substantial risk that much of the country will stop listening to him. In other words, he runs a substantial risk that he will kill his chances for re-election just because of his own dishonest campaign. Let's hope he doesn't change.