On 5-Aug-2009, "Lu Powell" wrote:

From the Wall Street Journal online at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...267381152.html

"....The undeniable reality is that you can't run a European-style
welfare-entitlement state without European-style levels of taxation on the

middle class (and eventually without low European-style growth and high
jobless rates). It's looking more and more like Mr. Obama's
no-middle-class-tax pledge was one of the greatest confidence tricks in
American political history."

No, Obama was one of the greatest confidence tricks in American political
history, imposed on the mindless, in concert with his "take a fall" nobody
opponent, Mr. Magoo.