Transformers 2 (Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" America)

Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept. 6, 2012 | WSJ Editorial Board

[Innovative]

For all the spin and deception of politics, sooner or later every politician reveals his true purposes. For Barack Obama, one of those moments came when he declared shortly before the 2008 election that "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Above all else, the President who asked voters for a second term Thursday night sees himself as destined to transform America according to his own progressive dreams.

To our mind, two events amid hundreds stand out as defining President Obama's first term. The first is his go-for-broke pursuit of progressive social legislation instead of focusing on economic recovery. The second is his refusal to strike a budget deal with Speaker John Boehner in 2011. Both reveal a President more bent on transforming America than addressing the needs of our time.

Re-election guarantees the implementation of ObamaCare, which means he would join FDR and LBJ in the pantheon of progressives who expanded the reach of government to "spread the wealth." Republicans may cavil, but over time they would have no choice but to agree to a value-added tax or some other tap on the middle class to finance a permanently larger, European-sized welfare state.

[posterchild]

WSJ grabs a clue!

[Vision]

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[bitt]

great article

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "great article."
Yes bitt. IMHO the same response. On one premise, the Kenyan promised, that he and his goons squads want to make a fundamental change (socialism to the nth degree in America), we could safely bet over a drink at a bar, was actually true.
So Freepers should not call the illegitimate POTUS a complete lier. He was honest on that one mission assignment.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[hoosiermama]

Yes it is a “great article” One that should be shared. Don’t know who is on everyone’s ping list so if you’re double pinged apologies in order.

[Diamond]

"Republicans may cavil, but over time they would have no choice but to agree to a value-added tax or some other tap on the middle class to finance a permanently larger, European-sized welfare state."

Sorry, but why couldn't any Congress just DECLINE TO FUND IT? They apparently don't have either the intelligence or the courage to simply de-fund it.

Cordially,

[penelopesire]

Thank you for the ping. Good article!

[ntnychik]

Thanks for pinging a great article written for a great newspaper by a truthteller.