Obama: "The Fiscal Conservative"

Having flip-flopped on FISA back in June, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by President-elect Obama's comfort with leaving his Senate website intact. I took this text directly from his website today - Nov 19, 2008:

Commonsense Budgeting Practices

Senator Obama believes that our current budgeting and borrowing practices are fiscally unwise and unsustainable. This is why he strongly supports and has voted for commonsense “Pay As You Go,” or “PayGo” rules, which would require any new increases in discretionary spending to be offset by a reduction in other areas of spending.

Federal Debt, Deficit Spending

Senator Obama voted against the most recent effort to raise the national debt limit. The current national debt has exceeded $8.6 trillion dollars, and nearly $4 trillion of that debt is now held by foreign governments. Our national debt and annual budget deficits effectively tax all Americans by adding to the amount of interest paid to service U.S. borrowing; Senator Obama would rather invest these hundreds of billions of dollars into national priorities, such as securing our homeland, improving our schools and providing needed benefits to our veterans.

Classic about-face I guess. Run on fiscal responsibility, get elected, then speak on the completely contradictory views you will use to govern. Unbelievable.

Here's an image of his Senate website as of today - Nov 19, 2008:
What I really don't understand is how President-elect Obama ran on a platform opposing President "Bush's failed economic policies."

What exactly is Obama doing differently?

Like Bush, Obama is clearly comfortable ignoring monetary policy and allowing the billionaire bankers to inflate the money supply and devalue our hard-earned dollars. And on fiscal policy, I guess Obama was suggesting that Bush's grossly irresponsible fiscal policy of deficit spending needed to be exacerbated?

Tim White