The president's problem is not that he has "chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen." His sinking poll numbers are not caused by the fact that, " he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center." And finally, God knows, the fault is not that oil spill has betrayed his lack of competence. Peggy, you sound as pathetic as governor Dukakis.
The president's problem is that he is a radical Marxist who does not give a damn about the "center", or "competence". It is not that he does not have an idea about the "central concerns of his countrymen," rather it is that he does not give a damn about those concerns. He does not pursue his policies against the will of the American people because he does not get it, he pursues those policies because they advance radical socialism. Obama understands exactly what he is doing as he pursues these policies:
There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity.
Peggy you must understand that these policies were fundamental to radically altering the American Republic. The health care proposal is designed to control one of every six dollars spent by Americans; it was calculated to insinuate the government between the patient and his doctor. Ultimately, it was designed to render Americans the servile supplicants of their government over the preservation of their precious bodily health.
Likewise, Obama's actions on illegal immigration are for the same purpose. They were so predictable they were in fact predicted by many of us on Free Republic long before he took office. They are designed to so jigger the American electoral system as to render it impossible to democratically check his ambitions to radicalize America. His demagoguery on the subject of the Arizona law confirms the malignancy of his intent.
These actions are not the result of misunderstanding the mood of the American people. They are a calculated campaign to accept the distress of the American people to gain his desired goals. Peggy, you as a putative conservative who attains the position of columnist for the Wall Street Journal, ought to understand that failures of government are not the product of incompetence but the inevitable result of using the wrong tool for the job. But mostly, you ought to be able to spot a red when you see one.
Wake up, Peggy Noonan, for God's sake, wake up, the automatic warning is flashing and a claxon is sounding. Your glidepath is falling below the power curve you are destined to crash.
