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Obama's Hypocritical, Incoherent, and Unpresidential Economic Speech

Published December 08, 2011

President Obama blames America’s rising income inequality on tax cuts, insurance companies, banks, and weak regulation – ignoring the overwhelming evidence that the same shift is occurring globally under a wide variety of policy regimes.
Obama's Jobs Speech Long on Promises, Weak On Substance

Published September 08, 2011

From President Obama on Thursday night we got another speech with more promises and fundamentally mediocre substance.