Wednesday, November 25, 2009

To a man who does not know history, everything is "unprecedented."

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The White House's unprecedented use of 'unprecedented' Carol E. Lee
The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”
Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action."
What has followed is declaration after declaration of “unprecedented” milestones. Some of them are legitimate firsts, like the president’s online town hall at the White House in May.
But others the president wins merely on a technicality, and several clearly already have precedents...
****When it comes to things like stiffing our allies and pandering to our enemies, there is still a precedent in that Jimmy Carter preceded Barack Obama in doing these things. It will likely be the case that Obama will outstrip the feckless Carter in unprecedented ways.Obama does have an unprecedented lack of experience in preparation for the office of President; Carter was at least a governor for a term. Carter gave away the Panama Canal and it remains to be seen how Obama can trump this but we have confidence he will. Likewise, Carter presided over a disastrous economy with high inflation and unemployment and the invention of the "misery index" ( sum of inflation and unemployment rates ) to describe it. We have that to look forward to.****

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