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January 29, 2008: You do not have to travel any further than your nearest TV, newspaper, or radio to find adventure. Unfortunately, the adventure we've been undergoing the past nine days under the Obama administration is a pretty scary one, especially for those of us who have been around long enough to have the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Look, you can't call this a "liberal" administration - it's "progressive". But as the new Secretary of State advised, she's not a liberal - she's a progressive. Shades of Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt, there's not a heck of a lot of difference between those two labels, especially when it comes to the desire to control the populace.
Rather than sit here and aggravate myself while writing this missive, I refer you to a couple of blogs I wrote last year, and this is why:
1) Obama is a pretty "amazing" guy, who had some goals and has so far accomplished them. One of those was to be taken seriously as a black man (April 28, 2008 blog "We're Losing Perspective") Well, I just finished reading Senator Barack (Barry) Obama's ode, "Dreams from my Father". So what did I learn? Well, the Senator discovered that he wanted to be a black man, he learned that political hustling in Chicago is a given in the black community, that whites are evil, that being black in Southern states was difficult, and that the Senator thinks he's pretty hot stuff."
2) Obama believes that he has now established his "street creds" with the Muslim world, as per his interview with Al-Arabiya. After all, he stated, he has Muslim family members. Was that statemtn supposed to ameliorate any contention the Muslim world had for this country? If so, then our President is somewhat naive.
3) The President is the first who is not just an American , but an African-American, and not because his father was a a black man, but because in reality he is of both African and American parents. I don't know, but I always thought that our president should be called an American.
Now we all know that President Obama really likes to give speeches, and I'm sure we'll get many more from him everytime some issue arises. But the problem is that too many of his ideas and directives "is just shooting from the hip". As a lawyer, Obama should know that you do not ask questions to which you do not know the answer. Unfortunately, that's preciseely what he has been doing. Closing Gitmo, the so-called stimulus package, creation of several million jobs - all of these ideas sound great, but none of them come with a well-thought-out idea of how to actually achieve results.
Not only is the above a problem for the administration, but Obama now has to face up to his extreme left-wing supporters, people who claim that already he is backing down on legalizing marijuana, that capitalism is dead (long live progressive socialism), for instance, the online publication AlterNet, which is available via e-mail, This publication is loaded with blogs containing extreme leftist rants from well-known writers and publications (e.g., Huffington Post). Although on rare occasions I read something that sort of agrees with my classical liberal ideologies, most of the rants expressed fall into the make nice with bad guys, hate Bush, nationalize banks school of belief. Anyhow, go over to alternet.com and subscribe to the free publication. By the way, some of the better free greeting cards are found at Care2, but again, that organization's political stance if very left-leaning - today they call for the prosecution of Bush for crimes stemming from torture, etc. What was that chant during the cold war? Oh yeah, "better red than dead". Nothing ever changes, does it?
Anyhow, back to the President. Some may say he's only been in office for nine days. Well, if those nine days are an example of what the future will bring, conservatives and classic liberals in congress had better get their fighting dress on (as we may have seen in the Congress vote on the stimulus package).
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Posted by jchernic on 2009-01-30 14:21:44 | Rating: | Views: 62
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