Obama's Tax Cut: Just Words.

You may recall one particularly impassioned speech (some of which was borrowed, with permission) Senator Barack Obama gave during the democratic primary race, decrying the claims of Senator Clinton's campaign that Senator Obama was merely a gifted speaker who had little more than words to offer. Here's a snippet.

Don't tell me words don't matter. 'I have a dream' -- just words. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -- just words. 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' - just words. Just speeches.

Sounds good, right? But Senator Obama's true regard for words and their meaning are exposed in this article by Phillip Klein.

[Senator] Obama is getting away with defining tax cuts so broadly, that future candidates will simply claim any form of increased government spending as a tax cut. Under Obama's logic, higher food stamp allowances and expanded state funding of the arts could be dubbed "food tax credit" and "arts tax credit" respectively, and also qualify.

Senator Obama's usage doesn't merely reduce the term "tax cut" to just words; it reduces it to words devoid of any meaning whatsoever.

P.S. And Philip Klein gets an A+ in journalistic questioning.