Our Year of Obama

national review ^ | 12/30/09 | Victor Davis Hanson

[bestintxas]

America is at a day of reckoning that it never quite expected to face.

Not long ago, tired of eight years of Republican rule, terrified by the September 2008 financial panic, unimpressed by the campaign of John McCain, and mesmerized by the hope-and-change elixirs and landmark candidacy of Barack Obama, the American people voted for change.

But change of what sort?

I think voters wanted an end to the Bush deficits. Big government and Wall Street insiders sickened them. They were tired of the expense of two wars. By 2006, the scandals of the Republican Congress had turned them off. But mostly voters just wanted an end to the shrill politics that had torn the country in two.

Barack Obama saw all that. So he gave the crowds what they wanted: promises of vetoes of wasteful spending, no more lobbyists, an honest Congress for once, financial sobriety, and no more red-state/blue-state, at-your-throat politics. For millions of believers, Obama was to be our version of Truman or Eisenhower — centrist competence, but spiced up with 21st-century postracial pizzazz.

The people took Obama at his word, and here we are a year later with the largest drop in popularity of a first-year president in poll-taking history. A clear majority of the country is now opposed to almost all of the Obama program — more stimuli, bailouts, deficits, and takeovers; statist health care; cap-and-trade; and therapeutic-apology/reset-button diplomacy abroad.

[Jack Hammer]

One year of Obama...

...leads one to speculate whether the nation can survive three more.

[Jackknife]

[benewton]

Or if HE can, no threat issued or intended.

[gunnyg]

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-%E2%80%9Cmy-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks%E2%80%9D-on-a-direct-telephon-2/#more-11122

[yoe]

"Obama’s candidacy was “landmark” because he is the most inexperienced, left-wing candidate in history, with the most baggage coming into office in terms of his associations, his votes, and his views."

Perhaps an even better Snake Oil Salesman than Bill Clinton....he did and does have the MEDIA carrying water for him. V.D. Hanson sees pretty clearly where we've been with out the animus usually reserved for this lying, imposter of a president by sane Americans and very clearly where we are going if he is not stopped at the polls in November of 2010.