Nightly Ramble: So, Now What?

What if? Months ago, I expressed my greatest concern about Obama on Talking Points Memo. “He is a new face and his ability to stir a crowd is riveting. But he reminds of how we all flocked to Jimmy Carter for a change – a breath of fresh air. We all loved Jimmy Carter, but he couldn’t lead the country.  I loved his sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton.  But he couldn’t lead the country.  What if Obama is the star in a movie in which the golden candidate is elected; his team celebrates; and he says, “Now what?”

Well, that’s exactly what’s going to happen now.

You may not remember the 1972 movie, called “The Candidate” starring Robert Redford. I did; I was staying at Ft. Meade, Maryland at the time. The poster you see Redford positioned over in this still, I still have somewhere; they gave them out to the first show. And that’s exactly what happens in the movie; Redford gets himself all the way through all the nonsense that one does to get elected,  including becoming a gaffe machine….” Can’t any longer play off black against old – young against poor. This country cannot house its houseless – feed its foodless. “… despite it all managing to get elected, and than says “now what?”  I saw so much of McKay in Obama, all through this cycle. We’re dealing with an empty suit, who only knows he wants power.

Give Watson credit; She dared to mention as a possibility what conservatives have been seeing in Obama all along. As I recall it, she caught some heat for it, too. Such is life on that side of the political realm, these days, and I’ve no idea it’s ever going to change, now.

Here’s the deal; Watson is right; Obama has been all over the place, his proposals for various issues changing by the moment and by whoever he happened to be focusing on winning votes from within that particular moment. It’s that lack of focus, that lack of conviction, that lack of beilief in the American system, that saying ANYTHING to get elected, that’s going to end us up back in Carter country in short order.

Oh, I know, given the narrow win in the popular vote there’s no real mandate for Obama’s left-leaning, and that of his party.  But if you will recall, it didn’t matter much to Carter, or to Clinton, either. They acted for all the world like they had some massive mandate from the people anyway, and promptly marched us down the road to disaster.

What happens to such people, invariably, is they are quicker to get caught up in the power of government, and thus become corrupted by it. I have no reason to think Obama will be any different, particularly with a quite leftist Congress.

I’m telling you.. the screams of buyer’s remorse from the voters will commence less than 6 months from right now.

Juan Williams is choking up at the significance of a black man being elected president. It is indeed quite incredible.

John McWhorter is making similar noises. So is Reynolds. This is depressing.

No, not what you’re thinking.  Consider, now; If as we’re told, race doesn’t matter, why on earth would anyone consider it incredible?  See, if you want to celebrate an individual’s achievement,  which it certainly is, then do so. But if race doesn’t matter, why would comments like John Mutha’s be of any import? If we’re really in a post racial society, don’t be telling me how this was a group success. Don’t be telling me about how you’re celebrating because someone of a particular racial makeup ‘made it’ being a great thing… because if that aspect is so central to you, it’s not such a great thing; You’ve clearly still not gotten over the color of their skin.

Re-read, please, the Ramble for October 20th, back when Colin Powell endorsed Obama, based on nothing but race. Prior to this, Powell was being called Bush’s ‘House N!%%3R”  The percentage of blacks voting for Obama would seem to confirm this. Oddly, these are the same folks who were not supporting Clarence Thomas. Remember? I don’t recall Michael Steele being hailed by the usually long line of race baiters as accomplishing great things. I don’t recall J.C.Watts being so hailed, either. So do blacks only get respected for their huge accomplishments if they’re LIBERAL blacks? Despite this, James suggests in another post that Obama won over racism. I suggest rather, that if this is to be taken as a  win for a particular racial group, that he won not in spite of racism, but because of it. What we’re seeing is party politics and hype.  I’ll point you to a mailnote to Jonah today:

As a black conservative, I can appreciate how far we have come in this country — I even felt a tinge of pain as my family and I went to the polls and voted against Obama — but we will not have truly transcended race in America until who you voted for is not assumed because of the color of your skin.
Just as being black and not supporting Obama’s candidacy was seen as traitorous by most in the black community, I can only imagine what being black and critical of his policies, once those policies are shown to be an abject failure, will mean.

Yeah, me, too. I hope we make it through those times. Do you understand this? Dr. King’s dream hasn’t been realized yet, people. Jonah also speaks to this issue, here.

This has been a “what’s in it for me” vote. Are you going to give me health care? Are you going to make sure my job is guaranteed? Are you going to cover my child care costs? You aren’t going to make me pay taxes, are you? How about all those evil rich people? Aren’t you going to take some of their money away from them and give it to me? After all … I work for my money, they cheated and stole for theirs. Make them pay their fair share of taxes. Me? I’m tired of paying any share.

Really. I mean for all Obama’s preaching about being ‘selfish’ tthat’s what motivated a lot of votes for him. I suspect he doesn’t mind that much.

• The end of the secret ballot in union elections
• A return of the Fairness Doctrine
• A tax code punishing the wealthy, businesses, entrepreneurs, achievers
• More federal government in government schools
• Universal healthcare
• Cap-and-trade policies on coal (no nuclear power, no drilling)
• Supreme Court justices who favor a vaporous idea of “fairness” over the Constitution
• The security of our nation and our allies (particularly Israel)

That doesn’t even scratch the surface. But I suppsoe it’s a start on what we have to look forward to. Jen Rubin has more on all this… It’s worth a read.