{"id":15763,"date":"2012-09-06T20:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15763"},"modified":"2012-09-06T20:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:09:42","slug":"simplifying-the-contrast-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15763\/simplifying-the-contrast-with-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying the Contrast with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/05\/the_hubris_of_central_planners_115340.html \" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a> on the difference between conservatives and liberals as stewards of the economy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least Reagan argued that the economy would prosper if he were allowed to liberate it from the scheming of self-styled experts. Clinton ran out in front of a parade of free-market successes and, like Ferris Bueller, acted as if he was leading the parade.<\/p>\n<p>In his manifest hubris, Obama believed it was just that easy. He, too, could simply will a vibrant economy into being through sheer intellectual force. But, unlike Bill Clinton, he wouldn\u2019t sully himself by playing \u201csmall ball.\u201d Obama would be \u201ctransformative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/30\/160357612\/transcript-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney\u2019s acceptance speech<\/a> last week when he said, \u201cPresident Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise\u2026 is to help you and your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Free markets and strong families.\u00a0 Sounds like a good combination to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Goldberg on the difference between conservatives and liberals as stewards of the economy: At least Reagan argued that the economy would prosper if he were allowed to liberate it from the scheming of self-styled experts. Clinton ran out in front of a parade of free-market successes and, like Ferris Bueller, acted as if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,501,1193,19,3808,160],"class_list":["post-15763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-campaign","tag-economy","tag-family","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15766,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}