Vincent Fiore
Obama-nation on parade
By Vincent Fiore
A question heard from many a non-Obama voter these days is this: "So, how's that hope and change working out for you?" The question, at once, is both funny, and serious. It also begs for an answer.
It is hard to put one's arms around just what President Obama has been doing these short, or long — depending on your perspective — six months in office. Certainly, not in a single op-ed will all questions be asked, and answered. But for the sake of space, and my editor's need for, ahem, efficient prose, let's try.
President Obama is, in effect, abandoning the work and principles that have been fashioned throughout the existence of the United States. He seeks to form an economic and moral oneness that only he can totally envision, and summarily, lead.
Running auto companies and banks are, we now see, a mere warm-up for this president. Making abortion easier and advocating "hate crime" law are also normal occurrences for this amazingly telegenic but radically disaffected man.
But now, some legislative heavy lifting is taking place. The House of Representatives ever so narrowly passed the president's "cap and trade" bill. In the bill are the seeds of an ever-expanding and oppressive government. The particulars of the bill are only now starting to come to light, as even those who voted for this punitive horror are not fully aware of its entire content.
Of course, if you don't know what you really voted for, how then can you know the consequences of that vote?
This does not seem to matter to President Obama and the statists that comprise today's Democratic Party. To them, it seems voting for such economically wretched legislation as cap and trade is merely the equivalent of voting for more toilet paper in the congressional rest rooms.
Still, cap and trade is just one in many bad bills this president will try to get enacted. Immigration reform, (read as: amnesty) is on the horizon. Higher taxes, but fewer services for those who pay them. More regulation in every facet of one's life.
Smothering, suffocating, retarding governance from the Obama White House.
But the big one, the king fish, the bill to end all bills, is health care reform. If this bill passes, well, life as we know it to be in America will radically change. For government will now have the means to tell you what to eat, drink, drive, wear, and more, all for the sake of your health.
Does an all-encompassing government that sound like a stretch? Hardly. This president has done more to destroy and redistribute private sector wealth and saddle future generations with mountainous debt than any other president in history.
News Flash, folks: This is President Obama's and the Democratic Party's economy, not former President Bush's.
From my perspective, America's future as of now seems penniless, and morally confused. Elections have consequences, and until those who voted for this media-induced "Messiah" realize that what they got instead was a massively ill-equipped and angry novice, beneficial change will be agonizingly slow to come.
Though I may run the risk of redundancy, let me ask again all those who voted for Obama: "How's that hope and change working out for you?"
It is not like you thought, is it?
© Vincent Fiore
July 6, 2009
A question heard from many a non-Obama voter these days is this: "So, how's that hope and change working out for you?" The question, at once, is both funny, and serious. It also begs for an answer.
It is hard to put one's arms around just what President Obama has been doing these short, or long — depending on your perspective — six months in office. Certainly, not in a single op-ed will all questions be asked, and answered. But for the sake of space, and my editor's need for, ahem, efficient prose, let's try.
President Obama is, in effect, abandoning the work and principles that have been fashioned throughout the existence of the United States. He seeks to form an economic and moral oneness that only he can totally envision, and summarily, lead.
Running auto companies and banks are, we now see, a mere warm-up for this president. Making abortion easier and advocating "hate crime" law are also normal occurrences for this amazingly telegenic but radically disaffected man.
But now, some legislative heavy lifting is taking place. The House of Representatives ever so narrowly passed the president's "cap and trade" bill. In the bill are the seeds of an ever-expanding and oppressive government. The particulars of the bill are only now starting to come to light, as even those who voted for this punitive horror are not fully aware of its entire content.
Of course, if you don't know what you really voted for, how then can you know the consequences of that vote?
This does not seem to matter to President Obama and the statists that comprise today's Democratic Party. To them, it seems voting for such economically wretched legislation as cap and trade is merely the equivalent of voting for more toilet paper in the congressional rest rooms.
Still, cap and trade is just one in many bad bills this president will try to get enacted. Immigration reform, (read as: amnesty) is on the horizon. Higher taxes, but fewer services for those who pay them. More regulation in every facet of one's life.
Smothering, suffocating, retarding governance from the Obama White House.
But the big one, the king fish, the bill to end all bills, is health care reform. If this bill passes, well, life as we know it to be in America will radically change. For government will now have the means to tell you what to eat, drink, drive, wear, and more, all for the sake of your health.
Does an all-encompassing government that sound like a stretch? Hardly. This president has done more to destroy and redistribute private sector wealth and saddle future generations with mountainous debt than any other president in history.
News Flash, folks: This is President Obama's and the Democratic Party's economy, not former President Bush's.
From my perspective, America's future as of now seems penniless, and morally confused. Elections have consequences, and until those who voted for this media-induced "Messiah" realize that what they got instead was a massively ill-equipped and angry novice, beneficial change will be agonizingly slow to come.
Though I may run the risk of redundancy, let me ask again all those who voted for Obama: "How's that hope and change working out for you?"
It is not like you thought, is it?
© Vincent Fiore
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