I just can't believe the delusion of so many American people. Here we have a president who is transparently using the current crisis as a wedge to ram a liberal agenda down the throats of the nation, and so many people are so starry-eyed about him that they are willing to accept anything he says or does.
On Facebook we can see slavish tools that have Obamasized their Facebook picture by Photoshopping it to look like Obama's campaign poster. I have seen others whose status reads "So and so is in love with Obama." It's like an abusive relationship - the president is dismantling the engine of capitalism that is our only hope of digging out of this mess, and as we watch the stock market spiral down and the economy get worse and worse, these tools line up to praise him with fawning devotion.
The most ironic thing is that these are people who think they are so smart and Bush, as well as almost any conservative, is so dumb. Never mind that simple economics as well as history shows that tax cuts stimulate the economy and spending hurts the economy; that doesn't "feel right" to them. The Bush tax cuts were a pariah to them - it doesn't matter that they helped keep the economy chugging along for six of eight years of his presidency. Somehow, the tax cuts must be partly responsible for the mess we're in now, so repeal them!
And so we are now going to have a tax increase on the very sector of the economy that could dig us out of this mess - the people who have the economic power to employ others and grow the economy. The people who make more than $250,000 a year include more than just "idle rich" - this group includes thousands of small businesses whose taxes are about to go up, further stifling the economy.
"We cannot repeat the failed policies that got us into this mess," rails Obama. Well, of all the policies that I can pinpoint that caused the current mess, it was the liberal policies of Bill Clinton and Barney Frank that stand out. A close relative of mine was a banker for a large US bank, and he complained to me - years ago - that the policy of forcing banks to give loans to people who couldn't pay them back was one day going to cause a big problem. He told me about groups like Acorn demonstrating at his very bank and trying to intimidate them into giving bad loans. And then Bill Clinton made it law, so bad loans they were forced to give.
When the Bush administration actually sounded an alarm, butt-banging Barney Frank stood up and defended the practice and the Republicans were unable to pass the proposed regulation that may very well have avoided this catastrophe.
So now we have Barack Hussein Obama excoriating a problem he "inherited" from the Bush administration. And too many American people believing him. Because these people are so blinded by ideology, and their hatred of Bush, they are willing to sell themselves out for an abusive butt-kissing relationship with the very man who drag us further into the mire.
