13 July 2010

Zuckerman 2008: Wrote Obama Speech, Endorsed/Voted for Him. . .


"It is without question, the most hostile administration to business and to the role of business that we've had in decades"

This liberal editor of US News and World Report and owner of Long Island's New York Daily News has got to rank amongst the mostly deeply disappointed of Obama voters from the sound of it. Clearly an intelligent man, what happened then to Zuckerman and so many of these "thinking" individuals in 2008... when an unwritten affirmative-action agenda and marketing considerations took precedence over all sensible prerequisites and due-diligence... and in filling the most powerful executive position on Earth, good grief.
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But now that he's come out of the ether, Zuckerman is one of Obama's harshest critics- talking to Neil Cavuto on Fox this weekend, Mort noted his '08 vote for -and editorial endorsement of- Barack Obama, as well as the fact that he actually wrote a speech for him... maybe Zuckerman's a raaaaacist like all Obama's other opponents, but just didn't notice Dear Leader was a man of color until now, lol.
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Last week Mr Zuckerman also scoffed at Rahm Emanuel's nonsensical "pro-business" claims on MSNBC.  As the mindless Obot parrots there promptly dismissed the administration's waging class-warfare and reckless slandering of US businessmen as thieves, liars, and cheats as "just rhetoric", Zuckerman retorted hard that rhetoric matters, and it's one of the reasons that Obama has already lost the support of investors and entrepreneurs... 

Rhetoric is damned important for investors, who have to concern themselves with the long-term prospects of their actions.  It doesn’t take EF Hutton for everyone to notice that the massive new regulatory regimes proposed and imposed by Democrats will hike costs and trim returns, as well as limit economic choices for investors and consumers alike.  
Why would anyone want to jump into a market while the White House is conducting class warfare and populist demonization of investors?  Why, that would be as stupid as those same folks contributing big dollars to class warriors and demonizers, and that wouldn’t … er … well, it won’t happen again. We hope...
Dan Riehl says Zuckerman -like Chris Buckley- is just a rube, conned by the silver-tongued devil and the same soaring rhetoric that sucked in millions of less-cerebral plebes.  He's probably plenty embarassed, or so you'd think.  But I for one respect Zuckerman's manning-up and making it plenty clear he made a big mistake, as did the whole country... unlike the Buckleys and Colin Powells who've slithered-off somewhere. 
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As far as I'm concerned, Zuckerman's joined our fight to rid our country of the influence of Barack Obama and his allies now, and that makes him my ally for the foreseeable future... as he's long been on matters concerning Israel. Zuckerman's retained far more credibility than his competitors at Time and Newsweek as well, who are of course still running Obama Administration propaganda on a continuous loop... 
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This from Zuckerman's editorial column last week:

The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval rating.
 Foreign policy?  Zuckerman says the world sees Obama as incompetent and amateur, ouch... that must hurt coming from an avowed NYC liberal and national opinion leader... last one out please turn-off the lights!