Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, August 17, 2009 7:50:53 PM
Victor Davis Hanson
lays it on the line, as usual. And I was gratified to read this line:
"Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had."
True. But there were those that warned Americans about who Obama is and what his viewpoints are. (And I was one of them.) And then:
"...there is a growing fear that Obamism is becoming cult-like and Orwellian. Almost on script, Hollywood ceased all its Rendition/Redacted–style films. Iraq — once the new Vietnam — is
out of the news. Afghanistan is “problematic,” not a “blunder.”
Tribunals, renditions, the Patriot Act, and Predators are no longer
proof of a Seven Days in May coup, but legitimate tools to
keep us safe. Words change meanings as acts of terror become
“man-caused disasters.” Hunting down jihadists is really an “overseas
contingency operation.” Media sycophants do not merely parrot Obama,
but now proclaim him a “god.” New York Times columnists who once assured us that Bush’s dastardly behavior was proof of American pathology now sound like Pravda apologists in explaining the “real” Obama is not what he is beginning to seem like."
Uh ...yeah. And I've been calling them the "
Pravda press" for over a year now.
VDH ends today's piece, as he usually does, with a modulated tone that avoids any predictions. Probably sensible. But I would go further (surprise, surprise) and argue that those who oppose Obama's big government takeovers must
see to it that the public knows exactly what Obama has planned (since the media sure as hell won't). If that happens - as it has with health care - Obama's popularity will continue to drop. A majority of this country does
not want a socialist country.