@29 Steve P.
While not being part of the argument about Obama’s tendency to be “economical with the truth” I would like to explain a point about political science.
You cite those trsditionall Democrat voting states as the ones receiving the lest subsidy while the ones receiving most are traditionally Rupublican you claim (I don’t doubt you but can’t be bothered checking) Does it not occur to you that Team Obama are confident of retaining the support of the Democrat states and so are aiming to buy the votes of the Republican ones. Don’t forget, only a day after the inauguration Obama supporters were calling for a change in the law you allow him to serve as many terms as he wished rather than the statutory maximum two.
Obama is hardly the most deft political operator ever. When Adolf Hitler pulled the same stunt in Germany around eighty years ago he did it with much more subtlety.
