A Fatherless Boy
2009-06-22 - by
Before Father’s Day Barack Obama (whose own father left home when Obama was two years old) speaking to a group of fatherless boys, said, “Just because your father wasn’t there for you, that’s no excuse for you to be absent also…you have an obligation to break the cycle and learn from those mistakes…”
No one hardly ever described President Bush as larger than life – but there are moments when President Obama’s voice echo’s a chord we haven’t heard from a President for twenty years.
But then the fatherless boy who learned from his own father’s mistakes returns to politics and, in the next breath, we find he’s also adopted the political mantras of Columbia and Harvard whole cloth – and we’re face to face with one of the most profound revolutionaries ever to sit in the White House.
Consider this: For the first time, Uncle Sam owns the biggest bank, biggest insurance company and biggest car company in America. The President pilloried the Yankee Philistines on Wall Street (no doubt quite correctly) but then put a gaggle of Washington politicians in charge of guarding the Wall Street henhouse (which may be even worse).
Congressman Barney Frank is an example. Congressman Frank helped shove Fannie Mae into bankruptcy by encouraging it to make billions in bad loans – so now he’s running General Motors. What kind of sense does that make? And stop a minute to think about government spending: The President has rolled up more deficit spending in just six months than the first 42 Presidents (combined) did in two centuries. That’s got to be a sign of something.
President Obama’s quiet revolution is sweeping through every a nook and cranny of American life: His government is giving terrorist their Civil Rights on one hand, and, on the other, is going all out to build windmills – but, ask yourself, is this an example of common sense or ideology run amok? After all, the wind’s been sweeping down the plains a long time and if it’s really the best way to keep the neon lights on Broadway burning twenty-four hours a day – why did it take a hundred and fifty years to figure out?
There is much to admire about Barack Obama the man but Barack Obama the politician – as the living breathing apotheosis of Ivy League ideology – is cut from a different bolt of cloth. Obama’s revolution ends with us being government owned, wind-powered and in debt up to our eyeballs, which may lead straight to the next Golden Age but, on the other hand, when the smoke clears the President may wake up to find out he’s opened Pandora’s Box.
Posted in General, National Democrats
A Fatherless Boy
2009-06-22/
Before Father’s Day Barack Obama (whose own father left home when Obama was two years old) speaking to a group of fatherless boys, said, “Just because your father wasn’t there for you, that’s no excuse for you to be absent also…you have an obligation to break the cycle and learn from those mistakes…”
No one hardly ever described President Bush as larger than life – but there are moments when President Obama’s voice echo’s a chord we haven’t heard from a President for twenty years.
But then the fatherless boy who learned from his own father’s mistakes returns to politics and, in the next breath, we find he’s also adopted the political mantras of Columbia and Harvard whole cloth – and we’re face to face with one of the most profound revolutionaries ever to sit in the White House.
Consider this: For the first time, Uncle Sam owns the biggest bank, biggest insurance company and biggest car company in America. The President pilloried the Yankee Philistines on Wall Street (no doubt quite correctly) but then put a gaggle of Washington politicians in charge of guarding the Wall Street henhouse (which may be even worse).
Congressman Barney Frank is an example. Congressman Frank helped shove Fannie Mae into bankruptcy by encouraging it to make billions in bad loans – so now he’s running General Motors. What kind of sense does that make? And stop a minute to think about government spending: The President has rolled up more deficit spending in just six months than the first 42 Presidents (combined) did in two centuries. That’s got to be a sign of something.
President Obama’s quiet revolution is sweeping through every a nook and cranny of American life: His government is giving terrorist their Civil Rights on one hand, and, on the other, is going all out to build windmills – but, ask yourself, is this an example of common sense or ideology run amok? After all, the wind’s been sweeping down the plains a long time and if it’s really the best way to keep the neon lights on Broadway burning twenty-four hours a day – why did it take a hundred and fifty years to figure out?
There is much to admire about Barack Obama the man but Barack Obama the politician – as the living breathing apotheosis of Ivy League ideology – is cut from a different bolt of cloth. Obama’s revolution ends with us being government owned, wind-powered and in debt up to our eyeballs, which may lead straight to the next Golden Age but, on the other hand, when the smoke clears the President may wake up to find out he’s opened Pandora’s Box.
Posted in General, National Democrats