Breaking Things

The Obama strategy of breaking things (or saying they're broken) and then responding with some oversize emergency measure has become painfully obvious. Whereas it is acceptable for a president to respond to problems with what may be regarded as unique or even unorthodox solutions, the problem appears to have become one of trust. Quite frankly, growing numbers of individuals no longer trust this president.

We all are flesh and blood. We all can forgive someone making an honest mistake. However, should the mistakes continue unabated, while the dismal results are routinely whitewashed with incomprehensible language (or language that belies the facts), then we are forced to consider that something is afoot.

This is where Obama's past associations again come back to haunt. Wright, Ayers, Pfleger and all the others who were kept in the shadows during the election campaign are suddenly re-emerging in the public mind as signposts to what may yet lie ahead. Many of Obama's current czar appointments themselves, we find, have played significant roles in radical, far left political organizations.

The Soviet Union never died a natural death. It merely set up shop inside a more spirited host, eating away at its entrails to quench its insatiable appetite for destruction.

It may well be that all we've glossed over in order to give a handsome, young, black man an honest chance to shine will come back to bite us. On the other hand, let us take comfort in the knowledge that when a leader - like Bush - makes mistakes, everybody loses. Bush can no longer torment us. When, however, a specific strategy is in play by which some win and others lose, at least the winners will have something to celebrate.