{"id":8667,"date":"2015-09-18T03:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2015-09-18T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:08:04","slug":"obamas-utterly-hypocritical-response-to-trumps-criticisms-of-his-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-utterly-hypocritical-response-to-trumps-criticisms-of-his-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Utterly Hypocritical Response to Trump\u2019s Criticisms of His Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ NRO – The Corner<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Obama-Budget-Plan-jpg\"President Obama just said this about Donald Trump\u2019s disparagement of the last seven years: \u201cIn the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.\u201d Presidential candidates \u201cdon\u2019t seem to offer many solutions for the disasters that they perceive, but they\u2019re quick to tell you who to blame . . . I\u2019m here to say there\u2019s nothing particularly patriotic or American about talking down America, especially when we stand as one of the few sources of economic strength in the world.\u201d In 2008 candidate Obama, then in Trump\u2019s current contender position, said this about a lame-duck sitting president, while more or less kept talking down both America and its then-current government for most of the campaign: The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents \u2014 No. 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back \u2014 $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That\u2019s irresponsible. It\u2019s unpatriotic. In Obama\u2019s world, when you attack a sitting president, you do so on grounds that he is unpatriotic; when you are a sitting president you defend yourself from those who do what you did, also on grounds they are unpatriotic. In Obama\u2019s alternate universe, adding $4 trillion is unpatriotic and irresponsible, but adding $9 trillion \u201cby his lonesome\u201d is exactly what? And if Obama as a senator voted to shut down the government over that accruing $4 trillion, what should do the Senate do about double that amount?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ NRO – The Corner President Obama just said this about Donald Trump\u2019s disparagement of the last seven years: \u201cIn the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.\u201d Presidential candidates \u201cdon\u2019t seem to offer many solutions for the disasters that they perceive, but they\u2019re quick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[977,47,571,46],"tags":[1012],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2fN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8555,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-and-trump-two-of-a-kind\/","url_meta":{"origin":8667,"position":0},"title":"Obama and Trump: Two of a Kind","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Outwardly they couldn\u2019t be more different. 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