The Same Opinion Still

In 1923 Winston Churchill started publishing his six volume account of the First World War. It was called "The World Crisis". If one was in a library and saw these volumes without realizing the subject matter one could be forgiven for thinking that, due to the title, one was looking at a biography of Obama. The sheer bulk of the work would soon banish the thought but after Obama's performance last night it would still linger.

"A man convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still."

Mr. Obama is a stubborn man chained to his left-wing, liberal, ideology who refuses to admit that all of his problems are as a direct result of his bad policies which are increasingly being rejected by the electorate in large numbers and even by many of those who voted for him.

These problems will not be solved by the sops he threw at us last night during a speech punctuated with bursts of anger which he was unable to convincingly sustain. His newly found passion for fiscal restraint, his pandering to the middle class with tax credits, his aggressive stand on national security, his support of drilling off shore, and his claim to be the champion of American interests and prerogatives, were delivered with as much conviction as a chimpanzee reciting Shakespeare. Telling us things that are just not so and making false declarations about his intentions have become vintage Obama. In his constant effort to appear to be all things to all people he is swiftly becoming nothing to anyone except a huge obstacle to recovery and the main threat to our national security.

Significant defeats in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts have done nothing to dim Obama's desire to move America much farther to the left than anyone imagined prior to his election. It took a unique combination of perverse left-wing ideology, bad policies, and campaign bungling for the Democrats to lose the senate seat in Massachusetts considered by the Kennedys as something of an entitlement if not an actual heirloom, yet Obama still forges ahead in defiance of the facts believing that opposition to his destructive policies is entirely due to our woeful lack of understanding and his failure to explain them to us. At least, for the moment, he no longer thinks that those who disagree with him do so because he is black or half black or half white for that matter.

So far, Obama's stewardship proves that attending Harvard is not sufficient proof of brilliance. His administration confuses activity with achievement. It has become their habit and illustrates their preference for style over substance. Obama looks good and sounds good but, on closer examination, his policies are actually counter-productive much like Obama himself. It is all part of his moving curtain of lies on everything from the economy to health care reform to so-called global warming and to our national security. Obama is a political wrecking ball swinging violently out of control landing here, there, and everywhere, but seldom on the proper target.

Nothing he has done, from his extreme left-wing appointments to his administration to the stimulus bill to the omnibus bill to his world apology tours on our behalf to "mirandizing" captured enemy combatants to prosecuting CIA officers for doing their duty to exposing our intelligence methods to trying KSM in New York, really accrues to the benefit or the security of America and only makes sense when you realize he is determined to radically transform our country into something few people want and did not realize they were getting when they foolishly cast their vote for him. Furthermore, giving himself an "A" when anything goes right and George Bush an "F" when anything goes wrong is becoming tiresome. He is still unable to admit that it was the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the policies for which were all put in place by the Clinton administration, that led to the financial collapse in September of 2008. The mess he claims to have inherited was caused by Democrats in Congress. President Bush and the Republicans tried to rein in the excesses but were obstructed by Dodd, Obama, Frank, Pelosi, Walters, Boxer, et al but Obama still tries to make us believe that it was all the fault of greedy conspiratorial bankers and Republicans. He just can't draw a line without smudging it.

With all of its financial inaccuracies, false premises, misleading conclusions, misrepresented facts, a crass and inaccurate criticism of the Supreme Court and synthetic declarations of "hope" Obama's speech was hardly a model of impregnable logic. It was a fundamentally dishonest monologue given by a man seduced by his own public relations and for many of us just one more blow upon a wound.