Obama Set To Disappoint Extreme Left, May Surprise Right
Will Malven
11/08/2008
While it's far too early to make any serious attempt to evaluate what his Presidency will be like, Barack Obama is making some interesting noise from the lectern and mentioning some interesting names as prospective cabinet members in these early, post election days.
No, I haven't lost my mind, I do not expect him to govern from the Right, nor even the Center, but he may surprise a lot of us by becoming a far more moderate President than his personal and political history indicate.
Rahm Emanuel, while acutely partisan, is no wild-eyed Left-wing moonbat, he is by all accounts a pragmatist with higher aspirations and his selection by President-elect Barack Obama to be his White House Chief of Staff has some of those on the far Left shaking their heads and complaining.
Information has a way of changing a person's views, assuming that person is at least semi-rational, and I am certain that President Elect Obama is receiving a rude awakening as to the threats America faces as he begins to get those uncensored intelligence briefings.
We are already hearing grumbling from those on the extreme Left who, in their usual delusional way, believe that they were responsible for Obama's election.
I have always maintained that one of the differences between Conservatives and Liberals is that Liberals hate the messenger and Conservatives hate the message of their opponents. Unfortunately there has arisen, among some on the Right, a nasty strain of extremists who appear to hate their political opposites on the Left. This is very disturbing to me.
I neither hate, nor wish for the failure of, President-elect Barack Obama. I hope that his is a wildly successful Presidency. I hope that he is able to strengthen our position with our allies, strengthen our national security, and lead our economy to unparalleled prosperity at home. I hope that what he plans to do as President is good for the nation and our citizens. To do otherwise is, to me, irrational and dangerous.
But, I am a realist, and while that is my fervent hope, I fully expect his administration to be somewhat akin to that of Jimmy Carter's abysmal failure. Of President Carter's good intentions, I have no doubt, but running a nation entails far more than good intentions and intelligence, it requires wisdom. It requires the ability to see and move beyond the feel good rhetoric that usually accompanies Democrat candidates.
Good intentions are the stuff that dreams and Liberal rhetoric are made of and do not automatically (or often) translate into either good or successful policies.
So I will hope for the best, expect the worst, and if we're lucky, we will come out somewhere in the middle. But, come what may, we will survive and move forward. After all, we survived the "malaise" of the Carter years; we will survive President Barack Obama.
Long Live Our American Republic.
11/08/2008
While it's far too early to make any serious attempt to evaluate what his Presidency will be like, Barack Obama is making some interesting noise from the lectern and mentioning some interesting names as prospective cabinet members in these early, post election days.
No, I haven't lost my mind, I do not expect him to govern from the Right, nor even the Center, but he may surprise a lot of us by becoming a far more moderate President than his personal and political history indicate.
Rahm Emanuel, while acutely partisan, is no wild-eyed Left-wing moonbat, he is by all accounts a pragmatist with higher aspirations and his selection by President-elect Barack Obama to be his White House Chief of Staff has some of those on the far Left shaking their heads and complaining.
Information has a way of changing a person's views, assuming that person is at least semi-rational, and I am certain that President Elect Obama is receiving a rude awakening as to the threats America faces as he begins to get those uncensored intelligence briefings.
We are already hearing grumbling from those on the extreme Left who, in their usual delusional way, believe that they were responsible for Obama's election.
I have always maintained that one of the differences between Conservatives and Liberals is that Liberals hate the messenger and Conservatives hate the message of their opponents. Unfortunately there has arisen, among some on the Right, a nasty strain of extremists who appear to hate their political opposites on the Left. This is very disturbing to me.
I neither hate, nor wish for the failure of, President-elect Barack Obama. I hope that his is a wildly successful Presidency. I hope that he is able to strengthen our position with our allies, strengthen our national security, and lead our economy to unparalleled prosperity at home. I hope that what he plans to do as President is good for the nation and our citizens. To do otherwise is, to me, irrational and dangerous.
But, I am a realist, and while that is my fervent hope, I fully expect his administration to be somewhat akin to that of Jimmy Carter's abysmal failure. Of President Carter's good intentions, I have no doubt, but running a nation entails far more than good intentions and intelligence, it requires wisdom. It requires the ability to see and move beyond the feel good rhetoric that usually accompanies Democrat candidates.
Good intentions are the stuff that dreams and Liberal rhetoric are made of and do not automatically (or often) translate into either good or successful policies.
So I will hope for the best, expect the worst, and if we're lucky, we will come out somewhere in the middle. But, come what may, we will survive and move forward. After all, we survived the "malaise" of the Carter years; we will survive President Barack Obama.
Long Live Our American Republic.
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