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Time to Beam Down to Earth, President Obama
Bad and worse choices of governance.
By Victor Davis Hanson
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Njk1ZTI0NWYzZDc2Y2FhOGE5OGZjYzJmYWE0ZTdjNTM=&w=MA==
Bad and worse choices of governance.
By Victor Davis Hanson
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Njk1ZTI0NWYzZDc2Y2FhOGE5OGZjYzJmYWE0ZTdjNTM=&w=MA==
Why is Obama’s grand talk already at odds with his actions?
For one reason, he is unduly empowered by a media that too often roots for him, rather than reporting critically about his actions.
Second, in the last two years, Obama and his supporters advanced two general gospels that are coming back to haunt him:
First, that George W. Bush was a terrible president, and that his toxic policies had done irreparable damage to the United States.
Second, and in contrast, that Obama was an entirely novel candidate with fresh hope-and-change ideas that would bring a renaissance to the United States and the world.
Bush’s Texas twang and occasionally tongue-tied expressions strengthened the first supposition. Obama’s youth, charm, and multiracial background enhanced the second.
But we are already seeing that simplistic polarity was infantile—even if the enthralled media desperately wanted to believe in the mythology.
In truth, Bush, after the left-wing hysteria over the 2003 invasion of Iraq, governed mostly as a traditional conservative rather than a reactionary extremist. Meanwhile, newcomer candidate Obama predictably embraced old-style and well-known liberal orthodoxy.
The result is that President Obama is quickly discovering that many of those easy Bush-blew-it issues of the campaign really involved only bad and worse choices of governance. Most solutions now call for realism instead of doctrinaire leftwing bromides and catchy speechmaking.
Obama should decide quickly whether to beam back down to earth. If he doesn’t, at some point even a sympathetic media won’t be able to warn him that his all-too-human actions are beginning to make a mockery of his all too holy sermons.