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January 20, 2010 - 6:22 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mark
2010-01-20 19:19:34

Obama’s analysis is not far off the mark. He knows what Americans are concerned about, at least economically. But Richard had the correct analogy several posts ago: the Monkey Trap. Obama’s got his Chicago fist in the federal coconut and even if he knows how to get it out he can’t do it.

That St. Paul dude was all over the monkey trap thing, in Romans, chapter 7: “For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate . . . I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil that I do not want is what I do.” This may be true for a lot of politicians in D.C.

But actually I think Obama did exactly what he willed to do. He knew what the American people were anxious about, e.g. their retirement accounts, and he decided to spread their wealth around anyway. That’s wicked bad.

My only objection to the Bunker video is that Hitler is not depicted as Obama, only talking about Obama. Maybe someone will make the correction in a new “Bunker” video.