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Obama's bad ideas

Tue, 09/02/2008 - 2:29pm
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Though most of the campaign coverage this week has focused on candidates' personal failings and campaign blunders, the obvious fact remains that both Barack Obama and John McCain have proposed a host of dramatic new policies, and a lot of them don't make much sense. For this week's list, FP runs down ten of Obama's most misguided, pandering, and potentially disastrous policy ideas. Next week, it'll be McCain's turn.

Feel free to use this post to comment on the list. We would love to hear defenses of these proposals as well as more dumb ideas that we may have missed.

 
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what bad ideas, you mean any

by lucaswysocki on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 5:49pm

what bad ideas, you mean any worse than leaving an ignorant hockey mom in charge of the most important country in the world?

Is this really the level of

by jgarzik on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 6:56pm

Is this really the level of discourse we want? Sigh.

No but

by Lure D. Lou on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 10:44am

how else to respond to the reality of the Barracuda. You have to admit it does boggle the mind.

honestly...

by kidzib on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 8:38pm

most of this list is not about bad ideas so much as it is about impractical ideas and good ideas that he shouldn't be talking about! the only genuinely bad ideas are the two relating to energy, especially the ethanol one. i realize he wants us off middle east oil within 10 years (fat chance), but this isn't the way to do it! ethanol subsidies are a BIG component of the global food crisis we're seeing unfold...

Wrote an blog article a few

by Mr Hans on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 8:02am

Wrote an blog article a few days ago in Obama's defence.

Many of Obama's so called 'bad ideas' were in fact quite valid and some were even pretty good. It really depends on what perspective you are using. The points on violence in Haiti and Somalia are also questionable.

Anyway, do take a look if you have the time:

http://freelancerhans.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/think-again-obamas-top-10-worst-ideas/

Hope you can reconsider your points! :)