Did Obama Really Just Invoke The American Revolution?
Did Obama – a class warrior and populist fond of massive, overbearing, centralized government – really just invoke the founding fathers and the American revolution?
PHILADELPHIA – President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Americans to live up to the courage and sacrifice of the country’s founders as they strive to redeem the promise of freedom.
In a speech to a crowd gathered in a flag-draped waiting room at Philadelphia’s 30th St. train station, Obama talked of the heavy challenges facing people now, including a staggering economy and global warming.
He said people must recognize that there will be “false starts and setbacks, frustrations and disappointments,” but argued that this is not the time to get discouraged.
Obama said the American Revolution “was — and remains — an ongoing struggle in the hearts and minds of the people to live up to our freedom.”
Obama needs to crack a history book.
The American revolution was fought against the tyranny of big government. Too many regulations. Too many taxes. Not enough respect for private property and individual liberty. The American government was fought for decentralized government and more local control. That’s what the American revolution was about.
In 1775 this country went to war over taxes and overbearing government. Obama, who wants to raise taxes and raise government spending and expand government power over everything from cow farts to what level you have your thermostat set at, is quite the hypocrite in suggesting that he is a proponent of that revolution.
People like Thomas Jefferson and even Alexander Hamilton would be spinning in their graves if they knew of policy such as social security. Nationalized health care. Congressional mandates on what kind of light bulbs we can use. A big, powerful central government that tells everyone how to live their lives while engaging in never-ending spending increases and spiraling levels of taxation was not what they had planned.
If Obama wants to compare his political agenda to a revolution, this one might be more fitting.
