Posted by
Chuck Hakes on Friday, February 06, 2009 12:35:28 PM
It's not going the way you thought it would, is it? You can't just open your mouth and have every American swoon as did your liberal supporters inside and outside of the main stream media.
You blame Congressional Republicans for holding America back from your vision of economic salvation by not falling in lockstep with you on your march toward socialism.
Their ears are deaf to your soaring rhetoric because socialism is an anathema to them. They know they can’t solve a problem by creating a bigger problem. I pray the Republicans stand their ground.
You promised clean programs, not laden with pork. Your party's economic stimulus program is packed with pork, and that's one source of partisan conflict. Cognizant voters understand what's happening. Democrats got elected and now it's time to start paying back debts and making good on promises to special interest groups.
You promised that you could improve relations with Iran. Ahmadinejad responded to your overtures by launching a satellite to demonstrate his rocket power. Rockets plus nuclear capability makes Iran an international threat. What are you going to do about this before it’s too late? The time is now.
You promised change in government, yet you recycle the same people from earlier Democratic administrations. This is not change we can believe in. It is not change at all.
You seem to count on Americans having short memories. Perhaps your supporters do. At any rate, your support came more as the result of affect than cognition.
It sounds like you're starting to lose patience and your true temperament is starting to show. What a pity? You wanted this job. If you didn't know what it entailed then you were naive. Every president has had to convince the opposition. So don't complain about it now.
You spoke many times of the "failed politics" of the last eight years. President Bush could have legitimately blamed the housing crisis, plus Global Crossing and Enron misdeeds on the Carter and Clinton administrations, during which they were seeded, and the Social Security funding problems on earlier Democratic administrations.
He could have legitimately blamed 9/11 on our failure to respond to earlier terrorism attacks during the Clinton administration.
But he didn't. He took full responsibility and worked to solve them. This is what a leader does. This is what a President does. This is what an adult does. In the words of your Biblical paraphrase, "It is time to put aside childish things."
If the problems besetting Bush had been as easy to solve as you seem to think don't you think they would have been solved?
When you won the election by a popular vote of 53% to 46% that is not a mandate as you have claimed.
Forty-six percent represents 60 million people who do not agree with you and didn't want you to be president. Their representatives in Congress oppose your programs. Those 60 million people who don't have a thrill run up their leg when they hear you speak are about equal to the combined populations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
You outspent your opponent by $168 million, or 48% yet only won by a voting margin of 15% over your opponent. Your margin of victory cost $17.53 per vote. Did you ever account for the sources of that money, by the way?
If you were truly preferred by the electorate why didn't you get 48% more votes than your opponent? This would have equaled your margin of spending.
Here's where you were fooled. You associated with the likes of communist William Ayers, black liberationist/Marxist Rev. Wright, members of the pseudo-intellectual liberal far left, and Oprah Winfrey and the Hollywood crowd. They all thought like you. Even in college when you sought discussion with far left professors, as you said you did, you were garnering reinforcement, not challenges, to your beliefs. No wonder you think socialism is the solution for economic problems. You were not confronted with different socio-political philosophies during the formative stages of your beliefs.
I suggest to you that a tenured professor is poorly qualified to recommend an economic system because tenure provides protection from economic consequences. He doesn't even have to teach to keep his job. A professor can afford to be a socialist. What does he care? If he wants to settle for what he has, he has it made.
You shouldn't be surprised at your rude awakening. As a lecturer in Constitutional law you are certainly acquainted with the concept of checks and balances in government.
What's going to happen to you? You are already on your way to being a one-term president, leaving office sorely rejected as was Jimmy Carter by the voters.
Your economic and defense programs will lead to disaster. You won't be able to "pay your bills" in terms of what voters expect and behind-the-scenes supporters are owed. The polyglot Democrats will self-destruct from within as factions attempt to "pay their bills" by promoting selfish provincial agendas, many of which conflict with each others' goals, your goals, and the priority needs of America.
As has happened in good times and in bad, the American voter will suffer the consequences of your poor administration, pick up the pieces, and hopefully make a better choice next time. I take heart remembering our history that four bad years of Jimmy Carter laid the groundwork for eight great years of Ronald Reagan.