Obama’s “Change” Is Just The Same Old Worn Out Big Government Approach To Politics
Obama’s not offering anything new.
As President Obama takes our government into the automobile business, the mortgage and banking businesses, the health care business, the energy business, and the environmental planning business, he is working on a basic premise.
This premise, of course, is that we’ll be better off if we turn more of our lives and resources over to government bureaucrats to manage. Not only has this been tried many times. Every time it’s been tried, it’s been a complete failure.
But despite the consistent failures of government management, Barack Obama has America believing it will be different this time. He has turned up with an old, flea-bitten, worm infested mutt and everybody’s excited that they are getting a new puppy. Yes, the man can sell.
As Obama’s critics have been saying for a while now, he’s fantastic at stagecraft. When his teleprompter isn’t acting up, he can deliver one heck of a speech. He can hold audiences in thrall, and mold them like putty in his hands. If Obama’s job were to play a President in a move or on a television show, he’d be top-notch. He portrays exactly the sort of look and sound we’ve come to expect from Presidents.
The problem is that for all the stagecraft, posing and soaring rhetoric what Obama’s offering is failed policy. Pure and simple. It’s not anything new.
