I enjoy listening to a good speaker. Hearing messages of hope and change spoken in a careful cadence of alliterations is very powerful stuff regardless of whether those words fail to include any specifics.
And when it is preached by a person who is filling a void of national purpose felt by today’s young voters and providing a glimmer of party allegiance to those typically not engaged in political elections, you have the recipe for a national mania.
An Obama mania that is. Just ask Hillary Clinton whose carefully planned political career was always supposed to end with her in the White House as President. Now her only connection to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may be that of having been First Lady for eight controversial years.
Hopefully the American voters will start to see beyond Obama mania and start listening to what he plans to do to the United States if he becomes our next President. Because if he is elected, and the train wreck that could be created if his coat tails brings veto proof majorities to Democratic control of Congress, I believe our country will begin the transformation to European style socialism which I have been predicting for years.
Barack Hussein Obama proudly tells his flock of faithful that he plans to transform the United States by requiring the “rich” to share more of their hard earned wealth with the rest of America which will pay even lower income taxes or get even bigger earned income tax credits and other government handouts.
This potential redistribution of wealth via government fiat, along with less focus on providing incentives to corporations so they can stay competitive in the world economy, could create a downward spiral of stagnation requiring even higher taxes to feed the ever increasing role of the federal government in our lives as is being promised by Obama.
I have been debating my friends for years about when the impact of the millions of new citizens who have come to the United States from countries with socialist governments will affect our voters’ expectations of the role of government. Unfortunately, I believe Obama will be the agent of change to fulfill that demand.
Funny that he wants to take us to the left while most major European countries have realized the failure of their ways and are moving to the right. Look at Germany and now France who are following the successes of Great Britain and Ireland in remaking their economies.
And when I say to the left, I mean to the far left. Obama was the most liberal U.S senator in 2007, according to National Journal’s 27th annual vote ratings. Obama actually makes Hillary Clinton look like a conservative (when she is not promising $ 5,000 checks to each baby born in our country).
If Obama becomes the Democratic candidate for President, there will be many months of media and voter scrutiny of his voting record and platform. Hopefully the American public will look beyond his laudable oratory skills and realize that his promise of change is to remake our government into a complete cradle to grave provider for all Americans paid for the most productive members of our society.
Let the general election campaign begin!
