Obama does not talk about the war on terror as a war we are winning, or about the surge as a strategy that has given us back control of much of Iraq. Instead he talks of our remarkable success against terrorist plots at home and Iraqi terrorists abroad as failures that have made our world more dangerous, and indicates that his different policies will save us from these new threats… “Let me tell you, don’t get sick in America,” Michelle Obama says about health care, despite the fact that countless people from all over the world actually come to America for the sole purpose of being sick here. She forgets that even Canadians would rather spend their savings in U.S. hospitals rather than suffer through Canada’s “free” single-payer health care system, which, incidentally, Obama’s plan moves a step closer to.
Democrats constantly argue that Republicans who warn of the dangers of terrorism are promoting ‘the politics of fear.’ Yet when John Kerry, or John Edwards, or Barack Obama tries to convince voters that the rich and powerful are out to destroy them, we’re supposed to regard it as what? Oh yeah, Hope and Change. Read Obama’s speech to the AFL-CIO last week and try to argue that he’s appealing to our better angels:
Think about it. The top mortgage lenders spend $185 million lobbying Congress, and we wonder why Washington looked the other way when they were tricking families into buying homes they couldn’t afford. Drug and insurance companies spend $1 billion on lobbying, and we’re surprised that our health care premiums, and co-pays, and the cost of prescription drugs goes up year after year after year. The big oil companies play the same game, and we wonder how they’re making record profits at a time when you’re paying close to $4 a gallon for gas…
On health care, trade, wage growth, home ownership, national security, and a range of other issues, Obama’s message seems to be: you got played. He tells the voters that there are powerful forces manipulating them, and he is going to make them pay. The good news is that it will only cost $300 billion a year.
