Peggy comes across as extraordinarily naive in this column. So much of what she asserts seems to be coming from the perspective of someone who has been viewing this administration through rose-colored glasses.
They didn't have their mind on what the American people had their mind on. The president had his mind on health care. And, to be fair-minded, health care was part of the economic story.
She talks about Obamacare as if the president's obsession with it was merely a misdirection of noble priorities -- as if the American people were more concerned with the general state of the economy, while he was too focused on improving the healthcare cost portion of the economy.
Does she still not comprehend the fact that Obamacare was not an attempt to reduce the cost of healthcare (since we are belatedly learning that it does the polar opposite, and in a big way), but rather an attempt to massively increase the power of government and (coincidentally) massively decrease the personal liberties of every American? Obamacare has little or nothing to do with economincs and everything to do with government over-reach.
I am not saying that the president has a terrible relationship with the American people. I'm only saying he's made his relationship with those who oppose him worse. In terms of the broad electorate, I'm not sure he really has a relationship.
'Those who oppose him' are generally those who are paying attention, and those who simply want government to get out of the way. Obama does have a strong and iron-fisted relationship with what appears to be about 40-45% of the American public who will support him no matter the atrocities he commits against the Constitution and the American people. It would appear that a large majority of those 40-45% is comprised of citizens who get their 'news' in the form of soundbite propaganda from the likes of ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN, and citizens who see government largesse as more valuable than individual liberty. Those 'relationships' may not be viewed as 'admirable' by those of us who oppose him, but they're strong and undeniable. And those relationships, along with massive voter fraud, may prove to be his ace in the hole, come November.
The constitutional law professor from the University of Chicago didn't notice the centerpiece of his agenda was not constitutional?
Obama was not a 'constitutional law professor'. His position at the University was comparable to that of a part-time instructor. Calling him a 'constitutional law professor' simply perpetuates one of the many myths regarding his qualifications for office. As far as Obama 'not noticing that the centerpiece of his agenda was not Constitutional' ... since when has unconstitutionality served as a roadblock in this president's policymaking?
Peggy needs to pay more attention, or step aside and allow those who are (Krauthammer, Sowell, Hanson, Williams, and others) to pick up the slack. |
