"I for one welcome our new Democrat overlords, and want to point out that as an influential blogger I can be useful in rounding up the others to work as labor in their new 'fairness' camps."
Well that’s that. For better or worse Barak Obama will be our next president. We are replacing an unpopular President who had good ideas but horrible execution with a popular President elect who has brilliant execution but horrible ideas. Obama ran a stunningly effective campaign which portrayed his far left roots as middle of the road centrism, and while John McCain foundered, he managed to fool some of the people some of the time. His animating principle is far left radicalism, but with the help of a complicit media, he managed to portray himself as a thoughtfully moderate centrist. OK … so be it… that’s politics. But it’s a fair question to ask what comes now? How will America react when they discover that the Obama they voted for isn’t the Obama they got?
To say that there will be some buyer’s remorse come 2009 is probably one of the greatest political understatements of all time. The level of deception in this election was absolutely unprecedented, but you can’t fool people forever. And even worse, those members of the far left who would still be comfortable with the new Obama when the curtain is pulled away will be just as disappointed as everyone else. He’s promised everything to everyone, and he can’t possible deliver for them all. The first time he tries to walk on water and sinks to his knees they’ll turn on him like wolves.
This is natural I suppose. The inevitable shattering of liberal ideals as they collide with the inescapable facts of reality is never pretty. But it’s a lesson I suppose we need to learn every generation or so. Obama was elected by the young; the most naïve portion of our electorate. And it’s in the disappointment of liberal children that conservatives are usually born. Carter’s malaise speech brought the Reagan conservatives to the fore, and Obama’s future version of it will no doubt do the same. Eventually everyone gets tired of making the same mistakes over and over. And when Obama starts raising taxes on those who would otherwise create jobs, driving businesses overseas, and massively increasing the cost of energy, the young will begin to get the point.
With that said though, it’s not like there aren’t good things about an Obama presidency, at least compared to a condescending John Kerry or sanctimonious Al Gore. It’s a good thing that America has elected its first black man, and the fact that he is so gifted an orator can’t hurt either. The Arab world will have a harder time portraying us as unequivocally evil, and even the French might give us a break for a few weeks at least. And since there’s no doubt that I’m one of the people who will be bearing the burdens of the Obama administration, there is no reason I can’t take some comfort from the good things as well.
In fact, my life and the life of my friends probably aren’t going to change much. Most of us live in the deep blue parts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, so we’re already being ruled by a an elected class that believes we exist to serve it, and that doesn’t care a whit what we think about it. Our government is already composed of people who believe they are our public masters not our public servants, so for us it’s just a question of the feds getting in line as well. One more layer who thinks I'm the problem with America isn't going to phase me. It’s my friends and family in Texas, and the folks in the other 'free' parts of America that can expect to see lots of “change”. And as I'm sure you can imagine, they aren’t going to like it.
But if they want to complain about president Obama, come February they’re going to have to get in line. He doesn’t walk on water. He can’t cure the sick with the laying on of hands, and he will not bring on the perfect world that his most liberal supporters are counting on him for. He’s just a politician, and a fairly inexperienced one at that. And just as his buildup in the media was hyperbolic, so too will be his fall from their protective grace. Barak the messiah says 'yes we can'... but it's going to be a rough day when his followers find out that most of the time, "no, they actually can't" after all.
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Sore loser, you should have listened to McCain's gracious words about Obama and the way he calmed the angry crowd at his concession speech instead of getting your panties in a bunch yourself. Live with the new reality that your 'conservative' ideas have failed miserably, proving them invalid. The GOP always runs a bigger bloated government and runs our economy into the ground with voodoo economics producing heavy deficits. They only SAY they want a smaller government and 'opportunity for all' as code words for tax cuts for the rich, but the amazing thing is that there are so many people lame enough to buy it. Again and again and again, hell there are still Nixon supporters voting Republican. It's almost enough to make you lose your faith in humanity, except when you see that the majority does get it eventually, look today we just elected Obama and we start a new day tomorrow in a climate of hope and change instead of hate and fear. That is the kind of world I want to live in and finally I can feel proud to be an American again after watching my country be sullied from within by war and torture and spying and lying and all the other crimes, real crimes, of the Bush administration. I want to see my country regain its morality and reject the Taliban-like thinking that comes from the right about how we should suffer for religious ideological reasons (i.e. embryo research, abortion). And I have a good feeling that Obama is going to deliver. McCain would have just been more hate and fear.
Maybe Obama's charismatic influence will inspire people to achieve more for themselves. Or more likely his welfare policies will just encourage people to become less responsible for themselves.
One thing is true: the Republicans have nowhere to go but up, and the Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.
We'll see...
Personally, I expect that there will be LOTS of change, but not for the better, and LOTS of very disappointed disciples. There's nothing worse than a big let down.
Why don't you check back in a year?
By the way, I, for one, have always been proud to be an American.
Anonymous, there are so many logical inconsistencies in your comment that I don’t know where to begin. As far as I can tell it’s just a mish mash of left wing sound bites that don’t make any sense at all. I guess a little gloating is to be expected from such a typically immature bunch, but if you think this election is a mandate on capitalism are simply wrong. Socialism has been tried countless times and has never produced even a whisper of fairness in any of its various forms. In the meantime free market capitalism has been the greatest engine of prosperity in human history. But now that the party in power has decided to go back to ignoring the lessons of history we’re going to have to teach you this fundamental human truth all over again.
Your comment is baseless in its assertions and totally unsupported by history. But please anonymous… why don’t you explain to me how conservative ideas have failed. Please provide me with even a little evidence that your assertions are right. Let us all benefit from your deep insights into the improvements brought by socialism and the collective.
Don't worry Tom, just as you have been wrong about everything else in this election cycle, you will be wrong here too.
It's interesting to note that the first thing Obama did was try to lower everyone's expectations by reminding us what a tough road we have ahead.
Haha, what a sore loser. Your Bush was a miserable failure (or cunning success in filling the pockets of the corrupt, take your pick), but you are so TERRIFIED of losing any of your material possessions, you're practically gurgling with fear. "Taxes! Socialism! Poor people!"
"Anonymous, there are so many logical inconsistencies in your comment that I don’t know where to begin"
Do you get paid more if you use big words?
"As far as I can tell it’s just a mish mash of left wing sound bites that don’t make any sense at all."
No sense at all huh? Kind of like how evolution can't be true if you lack the intelligence or motivation to learn a complex science?
"this election is a mandate on capitalism are simply wrong. Socialism"
Given the strangely ignorant nature of your blog, it's rather unsurprising that you think this election was about capitalism vs socialism.
"But now that the party in power has decided to go back to ignoring the lessons of history"
The party in power (when you made that post) was Bush. Did you know that?
"Your comment is baseless in its assertions and totally unsupported by history"
You really are saying "I'm right, so there, and I will stamp my feet now". But you imagine that if you dress it up with bigger words, you will fool someone.
I sure hope someone is paying you to write this stuff. Do you get paid by the word, or by the character?
Christopher, your comment is childish nonsensical ranting.
In a few years when you get to college you're going to be really embarrassed that you said something so foolish.
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