Obama is a man of the left. The left is interested in one thing: control of the economy and culture. They may use the Iraq war as a stick to beat their political enemies, but they care only about their domestic agenda.
Obama has “centrist” foreign policy appointments (as far as they can be called centrist) because his heart is not in it and he wants no distractions in his quest to change America. The gullible fools on the right will reflexively gather behind him (Obama kills terrorists, yay!) while the left will use the opportunity to marginalize them even more at home.
He has made very clear that he welcomes the opportunity the current recession offers him to change the country and its people, about which he never says a positive, loving or even respectful word.
Since it is not in his character to stick his neck out and lead from the front, he will use appointments, the courts, arcane legislation, environmentalism, transnationalism, health care, direct handouts and a pliant media to weaken the constitution, weaken federalism and expand government into every aspect of your life.
As a result, America will become like this: nominally socialist, but in reality corporatist, class conscious, basically unfree but intensely patriotic, ruled by a well credentialled and inbred elite of corrupt businessmen, politicians and their subsidized intellectuals and artists, highly taxed and regulated, with both a permanent underclass and a middle class having little economic opportunity or social mobility and looking to the government for any initiative and a few bread crumbs. A bit like France, you know.
And that is not a small insignificant thing. If Republicans find nothing to oppose there, they are not conservative and, like the rest of the country, will not have much of a future.
