Reading the posts by Obama supporters I’m reminded of something playwright David Mamet once said:
Democrats throw their trash AT the trashcans.
Democrats are great at identifying problems. Much better than Republicans who tend (IMO at least) to be so focused on their day to day lives and families that they aren’t as tuned into potential problems outside their immediate communities. But liberal Democrat solutions to those problems (big government interventionism) are at best inferior and at worst completely counter-productive. Yet, here come the liberals again, roaring back into power positions of the Democratic Party with the help of benefactors like George Soros. Here they are, proposing to do the same things that have failed in the past. Why would they do that? Do they think their quasi-socialism failed in the past because it wasn’t IMPLEMENTED properly? I don’t get it. Are they just ignorant of the past or simply insane (doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different outcome)?
Obama’s economic policies and foreign policies harken back to Jimmy Carter – not Bill Clinton as many Dems hope. (Bill Clinton with the Republican Congress brought us welfare reform. Obama’s 95% tax myth will bring back welfare on a scale we haven’t seen in years.) Why would anyone think it’s a good idea to go back to Carter’s stagflation 70s? That’s what your going to get if Obama follows through on his economic policies.
Don’t believe me?
100 economists, including 5 Nobel Prize winners agree that Obama’s policies are exactly what we DON’T need in the midst of this global financial meltdown:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/96557315-1694-4d8f-9b0a-c29f0f0872e6.htm
I want change just like most people. I hate that Republicans in Congress have sacrificed their principals to engage in the same tax payer funded spending spree the Democrats have engaged in for years. And even though I’ll always be grateful to President Bush for keeping us safe after 9/11, I think he’s done an enormous amount to harm the conservative and Republican brands. But change can be either positive or negative. Obama’s change, PARTICULARLY since it’ll be fostered by the two most ruthless, partisan hacks to ever control Congress – Reid and Pelosi – is the WRONG kind of change.
As for the country moving to the left?
On certain issues I think it has. Healthcare for example. But in general I don’t believe most Americans, even most Americans voting for Obama are REALLY as liberal as Obama is. Most Americans are not dreaming of more government intervention. Most Americans aren’t lazy people that want to suck off the nanny state’s teet.
However, there are alot of people out there that have lost faith in the conservative and Republican brands over things like Washington spending, Iraq War, the feds response to Katrina, etc. These people are voting for Obama because they feel like he can’t be worse than what we have now. (Trust me. It can get MUCH worse. Hell, I’d go so far as to say alot of us are pretty freakin’ spoiled by both world and US historical standards.)
Other Obama supporters I know are under the false impression he’s really a moderate like Bill Clinton. Still other Obama supporters like some of the more elitist conservative pundits like Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker, etc. are confident that Obama’s alleged brilliance will make him turn more to the center when he gets into office. Alot of these impressions are fostered by a naive public that still believes the media is unbiased and a media that has done an extraordinary job hiding Obama’s past and turning any critique of him into a charge of racism. He is the least vetted candidate in American history. He’s the biggest unknown since Jimmy Carter. Heck, even some of Obama’s supporters are clueless about him.
Sadly, so many folks have no idea they are on the verge of giving us the most liberal government in years.
But we’ll survive. I still have faith in the American people. We always rise up in the end.
