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SPIN CONTROL: ?Michelle Obama?s Spanish vacation is evidently polling badly, so the administration ?

By Glenn Reynolds

SPIN CONTROL: “Michelle Obama’s Spanish vacation is evidently polling badly, so the administration decided to spin her visit by slipping the ‘inside story’ of the vacation to a friendly journalist. . . . Obama’s calls for sacrifice are much like those of Al Gore. It would be easier to take them seriously if Obama himself showed any inclination to set an example. . . . Next year, President Obama will ask you to make a sacrifice to address the fiscal crisis–he is going to raise your taxes. When that happens, bear in mind that he himself has not been willing to make even a token, symbolic gesture in the direction of economy.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).