Fatal Flaw

Well, the fun’s about over. We’ve exposed this health care scam from the beginning. Obama and the rest of the left-wingers of his party offered up a monster of a bill which none of them read but which BO thought he could ram through in a few weeks - "trust me". Pretty quick, a few citizens called him on it, knowing they were about to be had. Neither he nor any of his cronies could explain or defend their bill, while most of the unwashed knew it was nothing more than an effort to emulate the failed Canadian system.

Want to understand the source of BO’s failings? Then recall our warning of last year - his critical flaw is that he has consistently demonstrated a lack of judgement. It is that simple. Take away the glib talk and slick presentation and you have near emptiness - a lack of preparation, a lack of research, a lack of focus. Couple that with his radical progressivism, and you know you’re in trouble. He does not understand America; he does not understand Americans. He gave the party’s far left the chore of sculpting the so-called stimulus bill. Stupid. He outsourced the health plan to the partisan left-wingers of his party who are key House chairs. Stupid.

Now BO looks to emulate and celebrate Senator Kennedy’s late presence in the effort the resuscitate his failed bill. This is no wonder - Kennedy anointed BO as the Fifth Kennedy Brother during the campaign. This will prove to be only one more mistake. From Michael Beran, a contributing editor of City Journal and author of The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy, "Obama may find it to his credit -- and his country’s – benefit to fix his gaze not on Ted, but on Jack. For in addition to his more superficial graces, President Kennedy possessed a degree of wisdom, which might be defined as grace of judgment. John Kennedy’s sentiments were liberal, but he knew that a wise president must have the country in his bones, must feel, as by instinct, the temper of the people, and must know what they will bear and what they will not. He was annoyed by those who, like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., urged him to be another FDR. Schlesinger, he said, wanted him to act as if it were 1932. But ..... the mood of the people, President Kennedy knew, had changed." For Obama, "At so critical a juncture he needs to emulate, not the intoxicated extravagances of the late senator, but the sober moderation of his older brother....."

Well put Michael.

Robert Craven