Posted on 01/18/2009 8:47:29 AM PST by Doc91678
The Only Thing We Have to Fear . . . is Obama. by Fred Barnes 01/26/2009, Volume 014, Issue 18
Barack Obama is the apostle of hope. But he also arouses the flipside of hope--fear. And while the fear he stirs may turn out to be unfounded, it's not irrational. People don't know who Obama really is or where his ideological center of gravity rests, to the extent it rests anywhere. He was a liberal in the Senate and the campaign, a centrist in the transition, and who knows what he'll be as president. He's elusive.
I count four separate fears. Whether he's a crypto-Marxist is not one of them. Neither is the absurd fear that he's secretly a Muslim, even a closet jihadist. Nor is the groundless claim Obama was actually born outside the United States and isn't really an American citizen. Forget all those. They're nonstarters.
He doesn't know what he's talking about. This is a legitimate fear. Obama throws around numbers like confetti. In the campaign, he said he would create 1 million jobs. After the election, he put out a plan he said would produce up to 3 million jobs. Then in a radio address on January 10, he said the number could reach 4.1 million and said 500,000 would be jobs in the alternative energy field, 200,000 in health care. Does he really believe he can achieve this? The fear is that he might.
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Barack Obama is the apostle of hope. But he also arouses the flipside of hope--fear. And while the fear he stirs may turn out to be unfounded, it's not irrational. People don't know who Obama really is or where his ideological center of gravity rests, to the extent it rests anywhere. He was a liberal in the Senate and the campaign, a centrist in the transition, and who knows what he'll be as president. He's elusive.
I count four separate fears. Whether he's a crypto-Marxist is not one of them. Neither is the absurd fear that he's secretly a Muslim, even a closet jihadist. Nor is the groundless claim Obama was actually born outside the United States and isn't really an American citizen. Forget all those. They're nonstarters.
He doesn't know what he's talking about. This is a legitimate fear. Obama throws around numbers like confetti. In the campaign, he said he would create 1 million jobs. After the election, he put out a plan he said would produce up to 3 million jobs. Then in a radio address on January 10, he said the number could reach 4.1 million and said 500,000 would be jobs in the alternative energy field, 200,000 in health care. Does he really believe he can achieve this? The fear is that he might.
"Social Security, we can solve," he told the Washington Post last week. Really? President Bush, freshly reelected, promoted Social Security reform in 2005 and got nowhere. Certainly Obama was no help. Obama "said his administration will begin confronting the issues of entitlement reform and long-term budget deficits soon after it jump-starts job growth and the stock market," the Post reported. When will this happen? Not next year or next summer but next month when he convenes a "fiscal responsibility summit."
Obama is smart, Ivy League-educated, and able to discuss issues knowledgeably and intelligently. He's put together a strong staff. The same was often said of Bill Clinton. Brains and advanced degrees, though they thrill Washington's journalistic elite, aren't enough. Clinton didn't have a magic wand and neither does Obama. True, reality often creeps in. Obama initially aimed to shut down Guantánamo instantly. Later his aides said it might take a year. Last week, Obama told the Post he'd consider it a failure if the prison hadn't been closed by the end of his first term.
He's a pushover. Who's tougher, Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi or Obama? The fear is that Reid and Pelosi are. Indeed they act like they are. Reid told ex-senator Joe Biden, Obama's vice president, he's not welcome at meetings of the Senate Democratic caucus. Neither Reid nor Pelosi is cautious about ramming the liberal agenda through Congress. Pelosi wants to raise taxes now, in the teeth of the recession.
The Only Thing We Have to Fear . . . “ARE” RINOs trying to make sense of it all.. Barnes can be bought.. RINOS are craven cowards.. positioning for advantage.. on either side..
One thing we know for sure is he hasn't an ounce of conviction.
Whether he’s a crypto-Marxist is not one of them.
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Really? This is a “nonstarter”?
We merely need to look at his entire adult career and associations wonder about this...and.. what he actually said in his campaign!
Someone inform this clown that Hussein will nominate two maybe three judges to the Supreme Court which will eliminate any chance of a reversal of Roe for at least another 20 years & another 20 million more dead babies...at least. And God help us if there is another muzzie attack in America in the next four years. “Change?”...the only “change” anyone is going to realize in the next four years is the “change” left in their pocket.
“Fear?”
Fear God!
Rush said it best: every statement Obama makes comes with an expiration date. Or a valid until... date.
I fear those who voted for Obama.
“One thing we know for sure is he hasn’t an ounce of conviction.” EGPWS
On the contrary. He’s homed in like a laser on one basic thing. Let nothing else he says and does distract you into forgetting that.
If you do, you’ll forget what it is we’re up against.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2166819/posts?page=33#33
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2166819/posts?page=34#34
“I count four separate fears. Whether he’s a crypto-Marxist is not one of them” ~ Fred Barnes
Exactly. There’s nothing “crypto” (hidden or secret) about his Marxism. He’s been up front with it from day one. (Who, other than the stupid or the ignorant, can’t see that?)
Peter Schiff has no qualm about identifying B.O. as a Marxist and explaining how Obama’s plans will put the final nail in our economy.
Peter Schiff 1/17/09 - Financial Sense News Hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82-m9AaLhE
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Schiff on WSJ Youtube clip:
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-stimulus-scam/30BBD59E-1582-4057-9EC0-51A5B4A65AA5.html
Fear of Ogoon won’t turn out to be unfounded. There has never been a Marxist goon that didn’t deserve fear and loathing, but the idea that Ogoon is all we have to fear is nonsense. The idea that our fear is of the unknown is nonsense. Anyone who isn’t blinded by the Omedia’s obsession with Oidolatry should know who and what Obama is all about. More so than fearing him, we should fear the Omedia that got him elected. Now that they have their Oidol, they will stop at nothing to make the rest of us worship him. The Omedia is the true brain of our enemy. We need to hate it and fight it.
I want answers to all these. There is good reason for following up on all of the issues listed above. But rather than forget them, I'm going to forget you Fred. Enjoy the beltway bunch Fred because that's all you got.
People like Fred are afraid of being taken out by the next Fairness Doctrine. They know they are facing true evil and are trying to get along rather than fight it to the bitter end.
you may think the lives of ten of millions of dead babies is “simple” but I don't and our Lord doesn't either!
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