Posted by
Bryn T. Jones on Monday, March 09, 2009 11:11:00 PM
We are never too long from hearing how President Obama has inherited the economy he now must fix. What has become abundantly clear in record time is that Barak has spent his inheritance faster than the prodigal son. In fact, I dare say, he's become Bush II in regard to the economy that crashed around us all in 2008. When President Bush came forward with bailout after bailout for companies that were deemed "too big to fail" I opposed it. I saw a grim hand writing terrible omens against America at that time. After all, if the Conservatives are espousing Socialist solutions, then what are the Liberals going to do?
I am very grateful for President Bush and the work he did in office. I admire him as a man of integrity and humility and grace. While he certainly had any number of critics with much harsher words than Rush Limbaugh has ever leveled against Mr. Obama, he never answered them back. In his eight years, George Bush showed gave us the security that a government can provide--safety from our foes. He was, perhaps, singularly focused on that task, much to the detriment of our economy.
While Mr. Bush's critics state that the war in Iraq was the source of our economic doom, that just doesn't make sense. Sure, we spent money there, but it was ultimately securing our safety and financial ruin that would follow if we failed. Unlike, say, volcano eruption research that is allegedly so iminent a threat we needed it put into our Emergency Stimulus Package.
What W did not do enough of was to get tough on the domestic terrorists like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. He operated in a live and let live manner and a grace that allowed him to reach out to folks like Ted Kennedy who would rather cut off his hand. While he recognized the wolves howling at our shores, he chose to ignore the ones wearing sheep's clothing in our Congress. And this allowed them to sow the seeds of financial ruin around him.
To the extent that folks are trying to say that the poor folks living in tents are living in Bushville (after Hooverville of the 1930s), I say they are living in Reidville or Pelosiville and now Obamaville. The Marxist ideology and Humanist leanings of Barak Obama will lead to the destruction of the good character of America. I don't for a second wish for Obama to fail, as is the bait that liberals enjoy tossing out. I know for certain that he IS failing. His policies are tailor-fit to destroy the free market in favor of a corrupt government central system. His reversal on stem-cell research funding is merely the shot across the bow from a man who favored a facecious answer to when life begins over giving his true belief that life doesn't matter, it's merely a financial cost or burden on the environment, society, whatever. He has made good on every negative ad that John McCain put on the air.
During the campaign, the media skewered anyone who would claim Obama wished to do so many liberal things to our country. In fact, he did want to, and his past was a glaring reminder of the sort of things he'd want to do, if given the chance. After the election, many who should have known better let Mr. Hope and Change cloud them into thinking he might actually govern from the "center." What was true was that he was going to govern from the center of the Communist Manifesto.
It would be interesting if they do finally release Barak Obama's sealed and secret birth certificate. It may reveal his middle name is actually 'Castro."