The Un-Populist Populist
Here comes CHANGE!
Having suffered yet another humiliating political defeat, this time in Massachusetts the liberal Mecca of the eastern seaboard, at the hands of the great unwashed “teabaggers”, Barack Hussein Obama is about to bring on some more of that change he promised during the campaign. No, it won’t be a change in attitude. Nor will it be a change in direction. It will simply be a change in the way he says things, not a change in what he is saying.
Obama is set to do what he does best; give yet another speech. This one will be before both Houses of Congress and the entire nation as he delivers his first State of the Union address this Wednesday. This community activist qua speechifying leader of the free world will be where he is most comfortable; behind a podium with carefully crafted words flashing across teleprompters. Just like the other 422 times he has given a speech in his first year in office, Barack Obama will be in his element. He will talk at length about what must be done but will be scant with details of what has been done. He may take a new, stronger tone as he assures the American people that he will never quit “fighting” for them. But in the end it will be the same unworkable misconceptions he has failed with thus far packaged into a new set of verbiage.
He will talk about how the middle class has gotten the short end of the stick from Wall Street fat cats and how he plans to rein in these uncaring financial demons by creating new sweeping legislation dictating their future profits by restricting their ability to make any. He will not explain how his plan will work, he never does, only that it is necessary for the future of Main Street USA. He will also not take into consideration the damage these new, unconstitutional restrictions on the 15 largest banks will have on the 45% of Americans that are invested in the stock market either through direct investments or their 401K retirement plans.
Having been defeated for a third time in the past three months by a vocal and growing populist movement Barack Obama is about to become a populist himself. Or at least attempt to appear so. But don’t be fooled. Inside this pretty new packaging is the same socialist financial neophyte that tripled the national deficit in less than 12 months and focused all his political capital on nationalizing health care while actual unemployment rose to near 20% and business bankruptcies skyrocketed.
Using the same smoke and mirrors and misdirection that worked so well during his presidential campaign Obama will attempt to vilify the financial community and create a new rallying point for his failing Democrat minions. He will continue to be directed by his old community activist mentality, unable to recognize that it is the financial institutions that hold the key to our economic recovery, not sole responsibility for its failure. An inside peak into Obama’s intentions was given last week when instead of bringing new financial expertise and advise into his administration Obama rehired political guru David Plouffe as an advisor. Plouffe is credited as being the mastermind behind Obama’s presidential campaign and will likely attempt to bring the same meaningless mantra mentality to faltering Democrats in the 2010 midterm election.
Many analysts and pundits view the State of the Union speech as a critical turning point in Obama’s presidency. I do not. It will simply be more of the same delivered impeccably and convincingly by an accomplished wordsmith. But in the end it will be like a doctor, unable to cure your fatal illness and refusing to bring in a medical specialist that can help you recover, instead bringing in a public relations specialist to make your demise sound more appealing.
The question is; do the voters buy his new approach and allow the economy to slowly but surely expire or see through the deception and bring the Democrat control of the House and Senate to the political guillotine?
Obama may have some pretty new ribbons to put in what he’s spreading.
But you still don’t want to step in it.
