Obama links McCain to unpopular Bush economic policies in campaign preview

from AFP and the same speech:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

now that is the Obama economic policy... let the rest the world decide US economic policy, what a maroon! Don't think Michelle will hang with that, it gets real hot in Washington DC.

george bush talks/negotiates with North Korea, Lybia and Iran, but when Barack Obama says he'll talk to our enemies, george bush takes pot shots from Isreal and John McCain does the tongue waggle at Obama repeating george bush.

I can't believe that the republicans bad mouth doing exactly what we've been doing for years.

Then we know that John McCain is no wiz in economics, he's already admitted to that. It's a little late in life to be taking math classes.

"Obama links McCain to unpopular Bush economic policies"

Real smart....real smart.

Lump McCain together with Bush, say it enough times and Americans will believe it as concrete fact. It's worked before!

Really, besides being a flip-flopping, Democrat-vote supporting, divorcee foreign born economic airhead, what other positive attributes does Sen. McCain have to offer up to the Republicans?

treebeard,

I don't think Obama was arguing that the rest of the world should decide US economic policy. Do you really believe that is what he is saying?

It seems to me that he is saying that the US needs to be a leader in this area and that unless we can lead the entire world to a chicken in every pot and an SUV in every driveway, the world is not going to accept our leadership. And I think he is suggesting that the price we will pay for not allowing ourselves to be influenced by what others think is not worth the benefits we currently imagine we are getting.

Great post, sushi -

the title reads "Obama links McCain to unpopular Bush economic policies" but as you point out McCain is in fact quite different from Bush.

And I think he is suggesting that the price we will pay for not allowing ourselves to be influenced by what others think is not worth the benefits we currently imagine we are getting.

That concept has to be sold to the American public very, very carefully. I remember Kerry using the words "global test" in the debates against Bush and it made me cringe. If Obama doesn't choose his words carefully they will come back to haunt him. He needs to make sure he doesn't frame it as "approval" from other countries.

Obama's own financial instincts are, by his own admission, "boneheaded."

If the Congress had any scruples he'd be under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee for the shady deal he cut with the indicted Syrian "financier" and fixer, Tony Rezko.

SuperLib,

Yes, you are right. However, Kerry's ineptness in stating that case and the difficulties that Obama faces in stating it make it no less true. People often reject correct ideas.

In any event, the words you are referring to are mine and not Obama's. Obama cast his argument in terms of a leadership problem. Our current strategies don't entitle us to lead. We aren't happy with the role of follower. So, we either go it alone with all that entails or, like many another leader, we see where the crowd is going and get out in front of it.

super_delegate,

McCain admitted to not understanding economics very well. Should we hold that against him and dismiss his ideas? or should we talk about actual proposals?

Mc Cain is an ethnicity hater. If I was anti American I would vote Mc Cain as I would enjoy seeing US sinking further than they already do and becoming a 3rd world country where their wages is less than a street bum in Scandinavia.