Obama wins, America loses
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Voters turned out in record numbers on Tuesday to chart what they're convinced will be a long-overdue "new course" for America. Unfortunately, it's likely to be a sloppy tack through the dire straits of rocky shoals that could scuttle this nation.
Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, 47, the junior U.S. senator of Illinois, was the longest of longshots when he announced his candidacy nearly two years ago. But yesterday he was swept into the presidency in commanding fashion by a nation blindly demanding "change."
And coupling President-elect Obama's gross inexperience with the liberal extremists he'll take with him to the White House, some very ugly "change" will be foisted upon America:
An economic policy of unprecedented and recession-solidifying tax-and-spend socialism. It will milk dry the investment so vital to creating and maintaining jobs and cripple the very people it professes to heal.
• An activist judiciary of unapologetic left-wingers that will mock the Constitution in pursuit of rule-of-law-defying social re-engineering
• A weak foreign policy of deferentialism that will endanger American sovereignty and invite aggression.
Rationalized 17th-century French essayist Marie de Sevigne, "There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone."
But can we abide the spectacle of a president dangerous for all?
It is customary to wish an incoming president the best of luck. But it's the American people on whom we bestow that wish today. For they'll need all the luck that can be mustered to weather what one can only hope will be a one-term anomaly.