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Obama and Capgrass Syndrome

January 6, 2009 - 7:26 am - by Roger Kimball
typos_R_us
2009-01-10 10:18:08

Gracie said it best;

“When the truth
turns out to be lies
And all the joy
within you dies.”

The American (Constitutional) system of government is designed for incremental adjustments to the body politic.
Major change is impossible. Major “change” will destroy the system. So the Usurper can just make adjustments, in this precise case, those adjustments consist of turning back the clock to the Clinton administration.
That will lead to more terrorist attacks, since it was the Clinton administration policies that enabled the attacks in the first place.
Plus the CLinton administration. with it’s abuse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, created the current economic problems. So a resumption of those policies won’t cure the current depression. Obama is going the FDR road to cure the depression. It is a hard held liberal myth that the New Deal ended the great depression.
It was WW2 that ended the great depression.
So will the Usurper start WW3 to end the current depression? Nothing like a draft and putting 10 to 12 million men under arms to ensure full employment.