Posted on 10/21/2014 6:05:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
Suppose you were the President Obama, in the Oval Office, or more likely at the golf course, wondering how to save the Obola administration before Ebola flushes it down the toilet. You would think: I need someone who is a cool head in a bad situation. He would be someone that has a history of turning around failing operations. He needs to be a man that inspires trust, and he needs to be the kind of person that would be prepared to set everything aside to help his country.
“There is only one man in public life who fits the bill,” the president might say to his golfing buddy. “And that man is Mitt Romney. So what if he's a Republican and thinking of running for president? If I ask him to be the Ebola czar he will do it because he is a mensch.”
Instead, of course, the president has chosen Ron Klain to be the Ebola czar. Because for Obama the best man for the job is always a political fixer.
Really, nobody should be surprised. Joseph Schumpeter said it all when he wrote in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy that the amazing thing is that politicians do any governing at all given the demands their real job, which is winning elections.
With Obama, we are spared the amazement. He spends all his time doing politics, raising money and dividing people, and sensibly resting up on the golf course in between his exhausting fund-raising gigs. To hell with governing.
It's not surprising that this average product of an Ivy League education thinks and acts this way. The whole culture of the modern university confirms the president in his worldview. His worldview even has a name. It is called “activism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In America ‘activism’ naturally implies bias
Ebola Czar Ron Klain was Janet Reno's Chief of Staff at the time of Waco.
Inactivism is more like it!
All they offer is, “hashtag solutions” and “raising awareness” and redistribution to, “level the playing field”
Platitudes and taxation, borrowing and spending, indoctrination and propaganda (spin) from the willing media and teachers unions do not solve anything. They offer pretensions to mask emptiness.
They believe it was government that made America great rather than America that made government better than it had ever been.
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