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Our Problems Exceed Barack Obama

Posted on | March 10, 2010 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Dan Riehl’s post looks into Rasmussen’s poll numbers and concludes that they are suggestive of BHO’s arrogance and that

Obama is completely out of step with America’s priorities right now.

Barack is the culmination of a century of centralization in American politics.
If you check out the non-snarky Twitter #thankaliberal entries, the Left is quick and unfailing to pat itself on the back for every single positive thing that ever happened in the US.
We have to be diligent until January 2013, and I don’t mean to distract from that task.
But do save a couple of brain cycles for the bigger picture. The Left hopes you do not. They, I infer, would gleefully let us think that BHO is the source of all ill, and all we need to do is vote him out. No’ so fast. The real threat is the underlying ideology.
It’s an open question, not to offend the HillBuzz lads, whether HRC would have been better than BHO. I suppose she’d have driven a bit closer to the median, as opposed to stacking her administration up in the port-side ditch. But is her underlying ideology significantly different? I’m not so sure.
The bigger strategic question is more than just how we fight off another unsustainable entitlement. No, it’s how do we take the rest of those sacred cow entitlements out back and butcher them, in a politically executable fashion.
The problem is not the names, but the ideology, and the entitlements it breeds.

Update: Rick Moran points out 8 myths about BHO that Conservatives push.  Again: ignore BHO the tool, and focus on saving the greater project that tool was harming.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

Comments

12 Responses to “Our Problems Exceed Barack Obama”

  1. The Big Picture | The Lonely Conservative
    March 10th, 2010 @ 9:40 pm

    […] Smitty reminds us not to lose sight of the big picture. We have to be diligent until January 2013, and I don’t mean to distract from that task. But do save a couple of brain cycles for the bigger picture. The Left hopes you do not. They, I infer, would gleefully let us think that BHO is the source of all ill, and all we need to do is vote him out. No’ so fast. The real threat is the underlying ideology. […]

  2. mysterian1729
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:18 pm

    Sir, please don’t waste pixels sending us to that font of msm conventional wisdom, Moran, again.

  3. mysterian1729
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:18 pm

    Sir, please don’t waste pixels sending us to that font of msm conventional wisdom, Moran, again.

  4. mysterian1729
    March 11th, 2010 @ 9:18 am

    Sir, please don’t waste pixels sending us to that font of msm conventional wisdom, Moran, again.

  5. Adobe Walls
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:23 pm

    The goal must be to destroy the left as a force in American economic, political or social policy. Just because they have a right to their opinions doesn’t mean we have to vote them to state or national office or as officers in the PTA or school boards.

  6. Adobe Walls
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:23 pm

    The goal must be to destroy the left as a force in American economic, political or social policy. Just because they have a right to their opinions doesn’t mean we have to vote them to state or national office or as officers in the PTA or school boards.

  7. Adobe Walls
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:23 pm

    The goal must be to destroy the left as a force in American economic, political or social policy. Just because they have a right to their opinions doesn’t mean we have to vote them to state or national office or as officers in the PTA or school boards.

  8. Adobe Walls
    March 11th, 2010 @ 1:23 pm

    The goal must be to destroy the left as a force in American economic, political or social policy. Just because they have a right to their opinions doesn’t mean we have to vote them to state or national office or as officers in the PTA or school boards.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    March 11th, 2010 @ 9:58 pm

    Smitty: You make some dead solid perfect points, but then nearly ruin it all by citing, approvingly it seems, Rick Moran’s insipid and flat-out false and horribly-reasoned posting.

    If you’re not grown up, or well read enough, or have been asleep for the last 50 years, you know that there are several things that America should be apologizing for.

    Guess I’m a f–king moron then.

  10. Bob Belvedere
    March 11th, 2010 @ 9:58 pm

    Smitty: You make some dead solid perfect points, but then nearly ruin it all by citing, approvingly it seems, Rick Moran’s insipid and flat-out false and horribly-reasoned posting.

    If you’re not grown up, or well read enough, or have been asleep for the last 50 years, you know that there are several things that America should be apologizing for.

    Guess I’m a f–king moron then.

  11. Bob Belvedere
    March 11th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

    Smitty: You make some dead solid perfect points, but then nearly ruin it all by citing, approvingly it seems, Rick Moran’s insipid and flat-out false and horribly-reasoned posting.

    If you’re not grown up, or well read enough, or have been asleep for the last 50 years, you know that there are several things that America should be apologizing for.

    Guess I’m a f–king moron then.

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