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Maureen Dowd at the New York Times Gives a Modern Twist to the Gaelic Saying : Never Bolt the Door with a Boiled Carrot : AIG Forces Obama "Change"

By Andis Kaulins

When a Presidential candidate runs on the slogan of "change", the first person who is going to have to prove that "change" has arrived is that same candidate when he gets elected.

The A.I.G. bonus scandal is proving to be the first precedent-setting playing field for determining whether Obama and his team mean serious business in diverting the country from the ruinous economic path taken by the Bush administration and the financial mercenaries it supported.

Maureen Dowd at the New York Times in No Boiled Carrots invokes the old Gaelic saying, "never bolt a door with a boiled carrot", in warning the Obama administration that they are in extremely serious trouble if they do not act quickly and effectively to assuage what Dowd calls "the fury of ordinary Americans ... at those who continue to plunder our economy."

Hat tip to CaryGEE.

Full post as published by LawPundit on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).