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February 12, 2009

Obama now proves himself to be an ideologized divider

Ross Mackenzie writes that the past week has confirmed -- among many things -- that as John McCain warned repeatedly, Barack Obama consists of leftist essence pure, and that by going postal, Obama has galvaized Republicans and raised the blinds for all to see: Going Postal, Obama Galvanizes Republicans and Raises the Blinds:

[...] In Obama's remarks you'll search in vain for any use of "leftist" or "liberal," and almost in vain for any mention of Democratic objections such as those of Clinton-era economist Alice Rivlin (the current plan needs more focus on short-term job creation) or Sen. Kent Conrad (many of the stimulus package's provisions fail to meet Obama's own stipulations for inclusion -- that they be temporary, timely and targeted).

Nor will you see the merest suggestion that Democratic luminaries Chris Dodd and Barney Frank directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lend vast sums to people who couldn't pay for houses they didn't need -- Fannie and Freddie thereby becoming principal causes of the mortgage liquidity crisis.

As Washington Post columnist David Broder has noted: "Nothing was more central to (Obama's) victory last fall than his claim that he could break the partisan gridlock in Washington. He wants to be like Ronald Reagan, steering his first economic measures through a Democratic House in 1981, not Bill Clinton, passing his first budget in 1993 without a single Republican vote."

As Obama now has demonstrated, this no longer is a bipartisan hour. Democrats and liberals won the election. Republicans and conservatives are the problem. There's a conservative ganglion that must be excised so progressive things can happen. The leftist Obama thus has shown himself to be neither the uniter nor the post-partisan healer of his campaign rhetoric, but an ideologized divider.

Yet by going postal, he may have galvanized conservative Republicans and recalled for them the adamant, and effective, liberal Democratic resistance to practically every Bush II initiative. In taking off the rhetorical gloves and delivering some roundhouse blows below the belt, the leftist Obama may have done conservatives a favor -- and, for a nation slow to awaken, raised the blinds.

Posted by Hyscience at February 12, 2009 7:04 AM

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