Blankley: Brace For The Change You Do Not Believe In

[Terri]

By Tony Blankley
December 3, 2008

From The Huffington Post and Daily Kos to National Review and The Washington Times -- and all the mainstream media in between -- commentators are puzzling over who the dickens President-elect Barack Obama really is. On the progressive left, they are beginning to fear he may not be for "redistributive justice." On The Wall Street Journal free market right, they are seeing in his economic team the possibility that he is really as safe for capitalism as a banker. Karl Rove has concluded: "(The) announcement of Mr. Obama's economic team was reassuring. He's generally surrounded himself with intelligent, mainstream advisers."

Those impassioned by the anti-war slogan "no blood for oil" are getting nervous. According to Politico, Jodie Evans -- a CodePink co-founder who, with her husband, helped raise a lot of money for Obama during the primary and general elections -- recalled her interaction with Obama: "It has gotten to the point where he sees me coming and before I am close he just keeps repeating, 'Jodie, I PROMISE, I will end the war, I promise I will end the war.'"

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[welder4]

It will be a very informative four years for all of us , I just hope he can not do something that is not reversible. For the sake of all we need to study our way of life lest we lose it and bring to the fore front all meanings and intent of our Constitution.

[Dingbat36]

It is nothing new that Presidential candidates promise a great many things they know they can not deliver. Their entire campaigns are based on pandering to every special interest group they think they can cram under their umbrellas and gee whiz, if it doesn't "work out" it's not their fault, it the system under which they have to work.

I have a tip for Obama, even before he has delivered any "service". He can keep the change, and I am not talking about money!

[rthom]

Welder4 said: I just hope he can not do something that is not reversible.

Realistically nothing in politics is irreversible. It may be a very painful time but even the Communist regime in the USSR fell after 70 years. The biggest challenge to GOP is the Chemo treatment to get rid of so many so call Republicans; those who talk about government with a small g and then get behind the use of public funds to bailout everything from local news papers (M. Jodi Rell (R) Gov. Conn.) to states who have over spent on everything conceivable (The Governator (R) Calif.).

Take heart. While most of the countries who endured the "Workers Paridise" are fleeing overarching Government with a big G and America going the opposite direction, sanity will win in the end.

"History is philosophy teaching by examples."

"An individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next to no one left to borrow from-so must it be with a government." Lincoln Campaign circular- March 1843. So it is with the American economy and Government.

[thomas]

Right on Tony - a rose by any other name...unfortunately that also goes for dog doo!
The Old Chief

[papajaxxx]

The best we can hope for is that Obama is too scared to make decisions on his own and will listen to those whom he has appointed.

If he gets brave, we are all in trouble.

[JamesB]

After reading his article I sent an email to the author, I thought I would post it here too:

Dear Mr. Blankley,

There is one point I think you missed, though came close too, in your article "Brace For The Change You Do Not Believe In".

There is a belief that Obama will have to deal with the current economic crisis before he can implement his particular brand of socialism on the USA. However it's important to note that it's his belief that the economic policies you or I would make as a conservative/capitalist that are the root of the problem and that the only solution is to change these policies, not continue them.

It's by implementing his own particular brand of socialism that Obama will attempt to deal with this economic crisis!! He will begin this as soon as possible after taking office, and he has a strong enough Congress in his court to make it happen too. He will be doing it with the utter confidence that it is the right thing to do. His world is a completely different place than yours or mine, at least in his head...

When you listen to this guy's words, that's what he's saying.

James