January 20th 2009
Obama’s Big Day
B
eing a consummate politician is hardly rare, but being one with an electrifying personality is, so with credit to his presence, Barack Hussein Obama will assume the most powerful mantle in the known universe from George W. Bush today – and I suppose I wish him well. At least a little.
I certainly wishes he survives his presidency. Around the world, people who know even less about Obama than we do are thrilled to see what America has accomplished in electing someone black, young, exciting … and not Bush. There is an opportunity for Obama to do well with that, to increase America’s credibility. Lord knows, we have more than enough power; it’s credibility we’ve been running short of lately, in large part because the left and the media have made it so hard for Bush.
Obama will be excused from that scrutiny, so when he wants to follow something like Bush policy overseas, he will be able to get away with it, and in that I wish him well.
That’s about it. On everything else, Obama’s doing well is a nightmare.
If he does well with his economic policy, he will expand the federal government, raise taxes and impose new entitlements that will forestall recovery, cripple our motivation and immerse us nostrils-deep in debt.
If he does well politically, the GOP will flounder and will lose again in the 2010 mid-terms and in the 2012 presidentials will get no closer to the White House and see more slippage in Congress.
If he does well with his domestic policy, generations of Americans to follow will hold him and his vision of big government high, and a 58 year-old like me may not see a return to sane fiscal policy and small (even smallish) government in my lifetime.
If he does well on military policy, the forces of jihad will have time to heal their wounds and rebuild their networks, we will wound and not continue to build our military and intelligence resources, and the war against suicidal fanatical Islam will last longer than it needs to.
If he does well internationally, the U.N. will continue to build up repressive regimes, will remain powerless in the face of genocides it can’t quite bring itself to call genocides, and will squander far too much money and deliver far too little aid.
If he does well personally, he will be influential for decades to come and ultimately, we will be carving another face into Mt. Rushmore, which means, as I said above, our country will take a long, long time to come back from the social democratic brink, if it can, if it does.
So, God bless America for being an open democracy where Barack Hussein Obama can become president without a blood coup, and God bless Barack Hussein Obama and grant him a long life, a natural death, and most importantly, wisdom.
Because if he doesn’t get some wisdom sometime soon, I just can’t wish him well.
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March 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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January 20th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
In my most hopeful moments, I think back to the old saw that “only Nixon could go to China.” With all of the massive problems this country has, maybe only Obama can curb the deficit, reform Social Security and Medicare, while keeping us safe from terrorists. It could happen.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
You know, I was thinking today about one other topic I didn’t address above: If all he accomplishes is to re-establish the nuclear family in the black community by imbuing responsibility to young black men and women, he will have accomplished much.