Defenders of President Obama have frequently asserted that it is too soon into the term of the new administration to fairly judge the policies and performance of our President. Well, nearly a full year has elapsed since the Obama administration took office and we’ve now all had plenty of chance to “give Obama a chance.”
The often repeated mantras that “It’s too soon to tell” and “It’s all George Bush’s fault” won’t hold beer any longer. If his plummeting poll numbers are any indication, many who fell for Obama’s neatly packaged utopian vapors of hope, change, and transformation are finally starting to emerge from their media-induced slumber. Many predicted that the shallowness residing at the core of Barack Obama would soon lead to a disillusionment, but the speed with which that is taking place is actually quite breathtaking.Americans are not entirely stupid. While the well-oiled hype machine of the news media and the air headed Hollywood crowd helped to induce the large scale brain freeze that got Obama elected, as his serious failures of policy have mounted and the significant impact of those failures is felt, no amount of propaganda will suffice to resurrect the messianic fervor that once surrounded the heady days of Obama’s campaign. Hardly a day goes by some new facet of the administration’s incompetence is displayed, and increasing numbers of those who initially fell to the hype are awakening to the profound danger Obama’s Presidency poses to both world peace and our American way of life.
Evil exists in every age and simply morphs from one guise into another. Make no mistake, those evil people are watching carefully as the Obama administration lurches between its ruinous domestic agenda and its catastrophic foreign policy decisions. This weak indecisiveness projected by the Obama administration is perceived around the world as a sign of America’s renewed vulnerability and it is not a coincidence that soon after castrating our intelligence forces, (is our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, truly as brain-dead as she appears?) Muslim fanatics have become reenergized and are beginning to probe our defenses again. We have been kept safe for the past eight years due solely to the dedication of those charged with protecting us and thanks to their extraordinary show of resolve, not for the systemic rot of political correctness and the corrosive impact of incompetent leadership we have now.
More than anything else, the 2008 election proved that who we elect has consequences. Not once during the run-up to that election did Democrat candidates mention the subject of Islamic terror in their debates, while it was discussed in every single one of the Republican debates. That said a lot. It underscored the fact that the feelings-based, childish worldview of the Left makes it impossible for them to understand what it takes to protect American citizens. Now, in the immortal words of President Obama’s mentor and spiritual counselor, Jeremiah Wright, “the chickens are coming home to roost” as the consequences of voting children into office are becoming painfully apparent.
Our first chance to begin to undo some of the damage will come in 2010. I just pray that enough Americans awaken in time.
