Obama’s entire political program represents a bid to show that government can work, despite inbred US skepticism about federal power...
Our very ideals of government WARN us to be skeptical.
History WARNS us to be skeptical of over weaning government.
Then we have democrats whose only goal is more government,
we are right to be skeptical and to make our feelings
known to government. If government ignores us then we
have the right, the obligation to replace it with a
government that will listen and BE a government of
the people.
These socialists want that confrontation and they are
going to get it if they keep on. They want it thinking
that they will remain in control. Not going to happen.
Sometimes I think they dream of martial law.
Perfectly expressed.
And your tagline from Henry V also nails perfectly maybe the CENTRAL thing about Obama that is most troubling, since it’s at the core of his corelessness, and might even be
sensed ever so slightly now by even those gullible and “born-yesterday” enough to have voted for him:
namely, that there is nothing remotely American about him, there is no blood-tie to this country or its history, however messed up it might be (one doesn’t have to go any further than John McCain for this comparison).
This entire area is to me the most sadly fascinating thing about him-—how it is that we (d)evolved into the kind of society that would even CONSIDER electing a man like this, let alone electing him with all the eerie pomp and circumstance that attended the dreamy and tearful rituals of his election and inauguration/coronation.
I am working on expanding these ideas, along with , what to me is the ersatz icing on the cake: the idea that Obama, the “post-racial” Messiah, was sold ( and, worse, accepted)
as someone who came readymade, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, with a very large quotient of ‘moral authority’-—it was all part of the package, and no one ever questioned why, or where, or how all that moral authority was carried by this individual , why or how it was bestowed upon him, or what he in fact did to EARN it. (Was being a rabble-rousing community organizer enough? Why then has Jesse Jackson , someone way more accomplished in the mumbo-jumbo of grievance politics, not to mention identity politics, not even gotten close to being elected President?)
I hold the MSM, and its endless supply of talking heads/pundits responsible for the larger part of that: our larger project of ridding ourselves of incumbent Democrats and RINOS and political whackos calling themselves Independents, is going to have to include MSM news types, who continue to be able to ply their trade courtesy of a kind of reverse of an unfunded mandate:
the only reason they are there at all, foisting themselves on us, is because the REST of the programming they’re part of is still healthy enough to keep THEM going, even though NO ONE wants to listen to them.