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March 8, 2010

The Obama Way Is Not the American Way

Quinn Hillyer's piece at American Spectator is right on the mark about what so many Americans have been seeing in Barack Obama, and what more and more Americans are beginning to realize: There is most definitely something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama and way he sees America is absolutely not the American way - and its the fundamental reason Obamacare is not selling with the American people:

There is something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama. Something in the realm of zealotry, with a touch of megalomania, and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too. He combines Alinskyite tactics and outlook with an air of self-assumed moral superiority in a way that fails to respect the usual, small 'r' republican limits on American presidents.

[...] ... One need not stretch too far to observe that one of the factors adding to public opposition to Obamacare is a growing public disquietude about the lack of responsiveness, the authoritarian certitude, and the zealous near-fanaticism of the government that would run the new health-rationing system -- all character traits as embodied by the president himself.

As Obama ignores public opinion while pushing for full-fledged Obamacare in one fell swoop, and as he insists that he knows best and that the public is too ill-informed to know what is good for it, he directly -- as the very symbol of the state -- reminds the public of what they distrust about government in the first place and of why they don't want government interfering in a realm as personal as health care. These feelings are especially fierce because Obama is trying not to change something with which most Americans are dissatisfied, but instead to change (and arguably take away) a system in which some four-fifths of the public remains generally satisfied with their own personal level of care.

For most Americans, Obama doesn't seem to be giving them something they don't have, but instead to be taking away something they already value.

[...] And it's not just on health care. They work against public opinion on matters of criminal justice, terrorist treatment, race preferences, bank bailouts and corporate takeovers, overall spending, domestic welfare requirements, fossil fuel development, missile defenses, advocacy of American interests (and pride!) abroad, and on the whole panoply of oft-unstated attitudes that cohere as American exceptionalism.
This is not the way the system is supposed to work. This is not the American government we grew up with.

To put it in a nutshell, America is faced with a nutjob in the White House - a narcissistic megalomaniac hellbent on "fundamentally changing America" - the wrong way - not the American way, and both he and his agenda must be stopped. Contact your senators and representatives, and let them know where you stand.

Related: Hidden Dangers - (If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve. ... Is your family being "targeted" for such home visitations? You might want to see if your family fits into one of these very broad categories.)

H/t - TPR

Posted by Abdul at March 8, 2010 7:18 AM

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