Will the real U.S. president please stand up?

Vision to America:

President Barack Obama tried to make the argument today that he’s the real small-government leader, not Reagan and other Republicans.

“After there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up,” Obama said at a college in Albany, N.Y. “It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush. So each time there was a recession with a Republican president, compensated — we compensated by making sure that government didn’t see a drastic reduction in employment.”

“The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me,” he continued. “So I make that point just so you don’t buy into this whole bloated government argument that you hear.”

 

The purpose of the speech was for Obama to announce his “to-do list” for Congress — “just like when Michelle gives me a list, I check it off.”

 

“…(T)he realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.” — Michelle Obama

 

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.” — Barack Obama

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Socialism is the ideology that dares not speak its name. That Obama is a socialist is as certain as that a circle is round. Yet he never utters the word. Never. Instead, he masquerades as a small-government guy, which is as preposterous as a circle masquerading as a three-sided polygon. The Left can survive in only one way: by denying the essence of its own being.

[Élan]

Well, what do you expect him to do, given the shocking run-up of prices of unregulated arugula under his predecessor? Leave it to the private economy? Let all the profits stay with Big Arugula? Just stand there sipping a Slurpee?

[Mannie Sherberg]

Elan -- You may have given Obama something he desperately needs -- a winning campaign slogan. "Forward" hasn't done a thing to energize the troops, but I think "STAMP OUT BIG ARUGULA" might be just what's needed to get all those Lefties out there storming the barricades. But I do have one question: What do you have against all us Slurpee sippers?