Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Todays NYT campaign notebook has Obama sluicing the controversial Nutting Marketwatch chart straight off the Internet into a campaign speech, in which he proclaims Since Ive been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years. (The exact sequence seems to be Nuttings keyboard to Web to Carney to Obama to the world.) Obamas instantaneous embrace of Nuttings charta calculation so absurd even Ezra Klein tried to change the subject, since (among other things) it attributes most of Obamas $800+ billion stimulus to Bushraises an interesting pair of possibilities:
a) Does Obama really not have an intuitive feeling for how much hes been spending? Thats a little like not remembering how much sex youre having. Hes the one doing the spending, after all. Even if he wasnt, youd think an ordinary BS detector would kick in. Its one thing to expect MSNBC viewers to be credulous. Its another thing
or
b) Obama doesnt care if its BS as long as it might work.**
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