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“Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government. Take the economy. [Please! TBH] The 1980s implosion of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union proved that state control of the means of production guaranteed poverty and worse. The current insolvent and fragmenting European Union, and the stagnant economics of the exploding Middle East, remind us that state socialism does not work. Why, then, would Obama, in horse-and-buggy fashion, go back to such fossilized concepts as absorbing the nation's health care system, increasing the federal government's role in the economy by taking over automobile corporations, borrowing $5 trillion to spend on new entitlements, or proposing an array of much higher taxes -- all in a vain effort to ensure an equality of result? Almost every key indicator of the current economy -- unemployment, deficits, housing, energy -- argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse. […] "Hope and change" turned out not to be a liberal call to consider new ways of solving problems. It was not even a conservative slogan to keep all that has worked well in the past. Instead, Barack Obama proved to be an old-fashioned reactionary. He hoped to change things back to the politically correct 1960s and 1970s way of doing things -- whether it ever worked or not.” [emphasis added] [interjected by TBH]
— Victor Davis Hanson, 6/16/2011 (townhall.com)
The big news in the media today concerns Weiner pulling out, albeit far from prematurely (come to think of it, his father should have). Not surprising, really. It distracts for a few more precious moments from Obama's disastrous administration, if you'll pardon the expression.
The whole news-cycle scenario is reminiscent of the elaborate ghoulish spectacles in the Roman Colosseum as the barbarians were storming the gates. Or, for a more recent analogy, refer to the Wizard of Oz's, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". Move along; nothing to see here.
Well, go ahead. Enjoy the spectacle of Weiner letting it all hang out on the "reality is weirder than fiction" stage. The economic string of dominoes is about to chain-react in Greece ... Premonitions of what is to come may be seen in last night's riots in Vancouver and Toronto, over a hockey championship, no less! And, lest you forget, that happened in pseudo-European Canada, not in (supposedly) much less sophisticated real America.
Are we really going to allow the abomination to continue through 2016? Really?
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