An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Where Are The Grown Ups?
While sitting around, waiting for the sun to come back out, I was perusing a variety of news sites. I came across an opinion piece in The Telegraph that peaked my interest, so I read it. One paragraph in particular put my ears back.
But there is an even more significant distinction between the British and American scenes. The great mistake that Mr Obama is now believed to have made in his first year of office was to have ignored the concerns of the American middle-income population. This misjudgment has counted against him in a quite spectacular way, because no mature political leader of any party should have made it. It is engraved on the consciousness of all ambitious politicians in the US that the most basic principles of national life are rooted in the ethic of the confident, demanding, easily provoked middle class. What Mr Obama referred to repeatedly as “American values” in his speech to Congress are really the values of this class: self-reliance, self?improvement, industriousness – and, as the Obama White House has found to its cost, antipathy to being bossed around by Big Government.
Mature? One thing Barack Hussein Obama is NOT is mature. He’s more like a kid on Christmas morning who isn’t satisfied with the huge pile of present under the tree, and wants more, throwing a tantrum when told that is IT! Due to such bad behavior, mom and dad are now removing said presents, packing them up to return to the store. We are ‘mom and dad’, and are fed up with the little hooligan’s tantrums.
It has always been apparent to those who were actually paying attention that this man was not the right one for the job. Hell, I would have preferred Hillary Clinton to this toddler. At least she has a little common sense, and political savvy.
Obama bullied his way into the White House. Perhaps it’s time for We, THE PEOPLE, to bully his sorry self right back out. Or, at least, make sure he can’t do much more damage past the 2010 elections, and hopefully, reverse some of the damage already done!
