Reply #45: The Missing Link is alive and well here, unfortunately [View All]

[TheDoorbellRang]

Was a time here at DU when the first post replying to such an OP would have been "Link, please?"

Since others have responded to the egregious misrepresentation in the corporate tax cut portion of this post, let me address another portion of this link-free anti-Obama post. This part sounded familiar:

"Indeed yesterday an Obama supporting economist was asked about the spending proposed in Obama's speeches - which unlike with Hillary who in general specifies where the money will come from - is left out there for the listener to add up and for the GOP to scream about promising a grab bag of goodies with nothing to pay for them.

The economist - again an Obama supporter - said "Oh, those are just campaign promises" and discussed how Obama would not be a deficit disaster for the economy - implying that the promises are a con."

This sounded eerily familiar to me. Two weeks ago we had a similar link-free post:

"Obama's chief economic advisor Austin Goolsbee was being bombarded with questions on CSNBC's Kudlow and Company as to why he was supporting Obama's liberal policies that would disrupt the free market.

he responded "obviously Obama wouldn't be able to deliver on most of his promises." He reassured the others "that nothing was set in stone and that Obama was just campaigning.""

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4597785#4597853

Notice at least in this previous post we had a few clues so we could check it out ourselves. I checked out Goolsbee's appearance on Kudlow & Co here and found he had said no such thing. More telling, DUer sandnsea found the same post, almost word for word, here:

"The guy was being bombarded with questions about why he was supporting Obama's liberal policies that would disrupt the free market.

Of course the guy was some sort of lobbyist...but when the question was posed he responded that obviously Obama wouldnt be able to deliver on most of his promises. He reassured the other pundits that nothing was set in stone and that Obama was just campaigning.

He seemed to know alot"

Good to know we now defer to the political pundits over at MySpace.com.