All well and good Mr. Goodwin, yet you admitted to having voted for Obama in November 2008 so your Road to Damascus conversion (although a bit late) fails to impress me. I am amazed at how many intelligent people such as Goodwin, William Weld, Daniel Hannan (the British MP famous for his take down of Gordon Brown on youtube), fell for the Obama crap sandwich. He is right though – Obama never advances a practical idea, and he always overreaches. The logical thing would have been for Obama to concentrate on job creation instead of trying to transform America into a continental vesrion of Norway.
Watching Obama fail miserably as I predicted to so many liberals who would not listen, is akin to watching ones mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand new Honda Accord – a mish mash of emotions. I weep for my country (and for myself as he devastates my future), but there is that sly feeling of schadenfreude as those that were dumb enough to fall for the charlatan will go down with me..
by Michael Goodwin
We the people of the United States owe Scott Brown’s supporters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn’t merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency.
Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz,” the voters in Massachusetts revealed that, in this White House, there is no there there.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement.
At the center is a young and talented celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.
He never advances a practical idea. Every proposal overreaches and comes wrapped in ideology and a claim of moral superiority. He doesn’t listen to anybody who doesn’t agree with him.
After his first year on the job, America is sliding backwards, into grave danger at home and around the world. So much so that I now believe either of his rivals, Hillary Clinton or John McCain, would have made a better, more reliable and more trustworthy president.
They warned us he wasn’t ready.
Yes, we’re stuck with him, but we’re no longer stuck with his suffocating conformity. The second Boston Tea Party opened the door to new ideas and new people of both parties.
Obama’s reactions were predictable. More self-pity, blaming George W. Bush, and claiming that the voter revolt is due to ignorance about the health-care plan they hate.
Blah blah blah. Hasn’t he heard? The magic is gone.
Massachusetts changed everything. America’s spirit of independence has been emancipated and the cult of Obama-ism is finished.
The health-care debacle perfectly captured his utter lack of governing substance.
He embraced major provisions he rejected during the campaign, misled the public about costs and impact, and got competing versions through Congress only with a grab bag of outlandish bribes and exemptions.
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