As expected,
the liberal Denver Post has endorsed Barack Obama in this election.
Denver’s
popular radio host, Mike Rosen, has rebutted elements of the Denver Post
editorial that announced that endorsement. Here are some extracts from
his rebuttals:
Rosen:
The endorsement is loaded with left-handed compliments. Barack Obama is
the worst president in our history. This guy is aggressively bad as a
president because he is leading the country in the wrong direction. Four
more years of Barack Obama, and he will set in place irreversible programs and
create such a level of government dependency from which we will never recover.
You will not recognize this country after four more years of him. His
agenda is simply wrong. Other presidents have been accused of
running an imperial presidency, such as Nixon, but none exceed Barack Obama’s
abuse of executive orders, and his refusal to include Republicans in this major
passage of health care reform. He is the most arrogant, naracisstic
president I can ever recall, and his foreign policy is absolutetly
terrible.
Post:
There have been notable accomplishments. He rescued the auto industry.
Rosen:
He did not rescue the nations’s auto industry. Much of the nations
auto industry, with the exception of GM and Chrysler, have been doing
relatively well, and done relatively well without being plagued by the auto
workers unions and their contract. Had GM and Chrylser been allowed to go
into a normal, traditional bankruptcy, they weould have recoverd from that bankruptcy
in a muych stronger position than they are right now without sacrificying the
bond holders who lost their investments while the unions were protected and are
still a huge financial problem for the companies.
Post:
Passing comprehensive (though contentious) health care reform.
Rosen:
It was not only contentious, it was wrong.
Post:
Obama is responsible for taking out Osama Bin Laden.
Rosen:
All the people and procedures that were responsible for taking out Bin Laden
were in place before Obama took office.
Post:
Less impressive are his efforts to tackle the debt and deficit, reducing
unemployment, and bolstering the housing market. A largely intrasagent
Republican Party shares in the blame however such as in the Jobs Act.
Rosen:
The so called Jobs Act was not a jobs act. It was more of the
same kind of deficit spending stimulus program that produced produced crappy
results the first time around. I don’t call the Republicans as
intransigent. I describe them as the loyal opposition, and thank you
loyal opposition for preventing Barack Obama from making things worse.
Post:
Romney has not shown that he is the kind of leader who will bring his party to
the center at a time fwhen that is what the country needs.
Rosen:
It is Barack Obama who moved his party way too far to the left and needs to
come to the center from his far left positions. I don’t see the
Post calling on Obama to come to the center as Bill Clinton did after the
1994 election when the Republicans took control of Congress because the body
politic thought he had moved too far left. Barack Obama didn’t move
to the center after the 2010 election cost him his Democrat majority in the US
House. But the Denver Post has moved so far left that it thinks
Mitt Romney is too conservative. You may recall that the Post
called Paul Ryan “radical.” That is absurd! Paul Ryan
is a mainstream conservative. Barack Obama is much further left of center
than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are right of center.
Post:
Obama has shown throughout his term that he is a steady leader who keeps a
broad array of Americans in mind.
Rosen:
Baloney! Steady leader, my foot. If there is one thing he is not,
he is not a leader.
Post:
From running to the far right on immigration and women’s health issues in his
campaign and saddling his campaingn with Paul Ryan’s extreme and
unrealistic budget, the Romney nominated in this election is not the Romney
elected governor of Massachusetts.
Rosen:
First, “far right” is not a term that applies to Mitt Romney, and why doesn’t
the Denver Post use the term “far left” to describe Obama? Because the
Denver Post is left of center. Just because the Post is left of
center doesn’t mean that Paul Ryan is far right. Ryan’s plan
is not extreme. In fact, he has been criticized by a conservative group,
Club For Growth, because Ryan’s plan doesn’t balance the budget anytime within
the next 10 years.
Post:
Romney’s plan is for tax cuts for all.
Rosen:
No! It is for tax rate cuts. There is a huge difference. Whoever
wrote this endorsement editorial is either woefully ignornant or so committed
to Obama as to stretch the truth.
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