Consistent At Least

We are about to take a week off. (OK, ok, we can almost hear the sigh of relief out there as computers are freed up to go about their business.)

How will the political landscape be altered upon our return? Will Obama knuckle under and ape a 1994 Clinton? Will Rahm be reined in? Will foreign policy - BO’s key responsibility - undergo a major re-sculpting or simply continue on with apology, kowtowing, serially trashing of the prior administration, reaching out to thugs (thanks, but we’re gonna kill you anyway), neglecting allies and sucking up to the U.N.?

Will BO continue to lie about fiscal sobriety, lobbyists, and transparency?

That is, can we expect anything other that political promiscuity from BO?

The answer is no, nothing will change. And it is for the same reason that we have never called BO a "phony." No once, because he is not. He is acting 100% in character. We have already examined the chronic lassitude, the lack of scholarship at the voting booth that got us here. No use kicking these folk any further.

BO’s past is a precise mirror image of his present - simply on a different stage.

Hansen put it very succinctly: "We have in Obama & Co. an almost boring, traditional statist bent on redistribution (Obama’s words), updated with the belief that almost everything requires gov’t affirmative reactions (explaining why abroad we shun our allies and serenade our enemies) and frosted with the Chicago ends justifies the means approach."

Still, I can hear you lefties out there - he will see the light, he will move right to just left of center; he listens and cares about all of us. This is a crock. He cares not one iota about the "rest of us" as has been made crystal clear in his cynical comments of late, some highlighted in this blog. And he has/does live in a highly rarified atmosphere where his pals remind each other, daily, just how smart they are (ignoring the track record of past decades). None of them have a clue.

We said a year ago that Obama does not understand America. That, compouned by his notion that the majority of Americans, those who disagree with him, are flawed, guarantees the further implosion of his presidency.

Robert Craven