Lipstick on a Pig Policies

Interesting, Barack (The One) Obama using the lipstick on a pig rhetoric, supposedly to refer to failed policies that McCain is trying to pass off as something different. Well, Mr. Obama, do you really want to go there? Let's think about some Obama policies that have failed in the past, shall we?

How about health care?
Obama wants nationalized health care. Liberal Americans love to use Canada's nationalized health care system as a model for what they think we should have in the US. Well, if Canada's system is so wonderful, why are they shifting to a privatized system? Their system has failed. Time and time again, we have seen that government programs do not work. For example, has there been any correlation between the exorbitant amount of money thrown at the public school system and the education level of its students? No.

How about raising taxes?
It has been proven, over and over again that raising taxes on businesses causes businesses to raise prices, costing the consumer more. Who gets hurt the most with raised prices? The lower-income consumer. So much for protecting the little guy. Plus, it causes people to spend less, hurting the economy. It's not complicated, people.

How about "understanding" and "talking with" our enemies?
Sounds a lot like Jimmy Carter, who also ran on the mantra of "hope" and "change". Carter's belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy had many catastrophic results. What we encounter today as Islamic Terrorism, mostly backed by the current Iranian regime is largely a result a the failed Cater foreign policy. had he been tougher in the 1979 revolution and hte US embassy hostage crisis, things would be different today.

Obama loves to use Kennedy as his model for foreign policy. Kennedy, in 1961, sat down with the soviet leader, Nikita Krushchev, without any preconditions. After the meeting, Krushchev sized him up as naive, inexperienced, and a lightweight. He then built the Berlin wall, put missiles in Cuba and put the country at the brink of thermo-nuclear war. Kennedy, afterward, said it was a mistake, he shouldn't have done it and that Krushchev ran all over him. Why would Obama use Kennedy's meeting with Krushchev as a model is confounding. Why is no one talking about this?

How about opposing the surge?
Pretty sure that it worked amazingly. Pretty sure Obama voted against it. Pretty sure that he is FINALLY coming out and sort of admitting that it worked brilliantly.

And on a final note, I would love to know what foreign policy experience Obama has that would make him more qualified than Palin. Nevermind the fact that one is running for President and one is running for VP. Oh, I forgot about his stirring speach in Germany. Doesn't that count? They sure do love him over there. And I'm sure that the Germans really have the American's best interest at heart.