Should we have much sympathy for the American people? Candidate Barack Obama literally told us everything he was going to do before Election Day — and we still voted for him.
He is demonstrably the most narrowly experienced chief executive since 1900: no military experience, no industry or commercial experience, lacking distinction in the legal field (never made partner, nor did he publish or achieve tenure at the University of Chicago Law School) and with minuscule legislative achievements (never chaired a committee in either the State Legislature or the Congress, never sponsored any significant legislation, didn’t even serve his full first term in the Senate).
So now we have a man who has never had organizational leadership of any stripe attempting to remake something as complex as the American economy (one testament to his management naïveté is the fact that he’s now named some 30 — yes, 30! — “czars” of one stripe or another. How do you coordinate these people?).
Just as he overestimates the ability of centralized direction and government management to control the economy (impossible), he is being cavalier about the risks he’s prepared to run on the national security sphere. He needs money for his socialist utopia, and he has enablers at the Department Of Defense who have a view equally as messianic as anything Rumsfeld dared to dream (a world with no true peers and an end to the need to prepare for interstate warfare). I look out at Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and a dozen other places and I don’t feel sanguine. With our neophyte chief executive, I can’t help but feel uneasy and — darn right — frightened.
I know it’s likely a sore point, but I have to ask: Do you, as I do, yet regret the flash of racial pride and economic desperation that led many of us to vote for this man? Bring on the hatred and ad hominem attack, you liberals who couldn’t be objective and fair if your life depended on it.
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