Daniel Hannan: America! Don't copy Europe!

Telegraph Blogs ^ | September 27th, 2010 | Daniel Hannan

[Big Bureaucracy]

Barack Obama born in Kenya? Pah! If anything, he was born in Brussels. The policies his administration is pursuing amount to comprehensive Europeanisation: European carbon taxes, European foreign policy, European healthcare, European daycare, European disarmament, European industrial intervention and, inevitably, European unemployment rates....

[Ann Archy]

I DO LOVE Daniel Hannan EXCEPT that he said he would have voted for Obama!!

[cld51860]

Yes, I remember that. Didn’t he say that on GB? It makes absolutely ZERO sense....

[Ann Archy]

I KNOW.....BUT I think he has changed his mind....I PRAY he has!!

[Big Bureaucracy]

He officially apologized for that. here is the apology:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2534472/posts
I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack Obama

[iowamark]

His new book out Tuesday:

The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America by Daniel Hannan

[Leifur]

It just made perfect political sense for him to say, in Europe, as his claim had zero effect in America at the time, but thwarted accusations of him being to much of a rightist for Europeans.

[Ann Archy]

Hey...i LOVE Daniel Hannan!! He made a HUGE mistake saying he would support Obama~~

[Leifur]

Well, I mean, lot of people on the right of the european political spectrum supported him, of course many of them would be considered liberals in the US.

I believe it was just a political calculation that made him do that, a calculation that makes perfect sense in Europe. The media in most european countries portray´s the Republicans as cowboy baffons at best, dangerous fanatics at the worst, and even though many on the right secretly admire them (and publicly for many brave ones, which incidentally includes him), many are ashamed to say it out loud.

I have heard people on the center right here claim the setup as it is now to be the best one, that is a democratic president, but a republican congress. I think though most of those people just do not quite get what is going on.

[Billthedrill]

It’s just that the aspects of Euro-politics which your rulers seem most intent on copying are those which have demonstrably failed: the centralisation of power, higher state spending, welfare dependency, excessive regulation.

We don't have rulers. That's coming as a very rude surprise to those who think that they are. If you want a two-sentence summary of what's really going on in American politics at the moment, that's it.