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Obama's Double-Talk: While the President Talks Sobriety, His Policies Take America on an Economic Bender (From the Top) (Barack Obama)

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  • Title: Obama's Double-Talk: While the President Talks Sobriety, His Policies Take America on an Economic Bender (From the Top) (Barack Obama)
  • Author : Reason
  • Release Date : January 01, 2009
  • Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 59 KB

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HIGH-FLYING presidencies tend to reveal their base character in trivial moments. In March 2002, when the nation was still massively behind George W. Bush in the wake of the September IT attacks, he gave the first obvious signal that his administration would play cheap politics even in a time of grave global uncertainty by slapping a temporary new tariff on imported steel. If the world's fragile economy and the putatively bedrock principles of free trade could be sold out for a couple of percentage points in contested Rust Belt states, we shouldn't have been surprised to learn that the very "war on terror" would be subject to political manipulation, or that Bush's skin-deep economic philosophy could not be counted on in a crisis. The costs of what this move revealed became clear soon enough, and eventually Americans withdrew their benefit of the doubt. Barack Obama's revelatory moment may have come in his first week as president. On his first day of work, he signed an executive order prohibiting lobbyists from holding high-ranking administration jobs, thereby fulfilling a campaign promise to "close the revolving door" between K Street and government via "the most sweeping ethics reform in history." Two days later, the president granted a "waiver" from the new rules to install Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn as the No. 2 man in the Pentagon.


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