02.25.09
Not Knowing to Hide It
Here’s an editorial in the TimesOnline about Obama’s supposedly tin ear and blind eye for corruption (emphasis mine):
Yesterday Mr Obama was forced to introduce his third nominee for Commerce Secretary, the former Washington Governor Gary Locke, after his two previous candidates dropped out – the first, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, because of an investigation into possible corruption, and the second, Republican Senator Judd Gregg, from New Hampshire, over ideological differences. As for Tom Daschle, the President’s nominee for Health Secretary, he had to bow out of a job in the White House to spend more time with his unpaid taxes: it was curious enough to have chosen a candidate with tax difficulties, curiouser still for Mr Obama to have assumed that his nominee’s oversight would be brushed aside.
But it’s not really all that curious, is it? Obama dwells in such rarefied circles of adulation and reflected narcissism that he is sure of his own untouchability. Which beckons the tyrant. And he assumes —rightly, as he has been protected against normal public examination of his life by the most meretricious press ever— that his best judgements will be praised and his worst deemed inconsequential. Thus, there is no balance to this man; there is only the asymmetry of his ambition in our democratic republic —skewed beyond all proportion in one direction only.
Big Media made Barack Obama what he is. They conceived of him as an instrument of so-called social progress and perpetrated him upon this country. And what will become of us? We will be forced through a protracted period of economic extremism at the hands of a very aggressive post-American neo-socialist executive. This President will continue to use the spectres of economic depression and class warfare until he has gained what he wants, which is a diminished American state where he is the local warlord who giveth and taketh away.
Just remember that: this is a President of the United States who would prefer to see the economy worsen because then he can take FDR and LBJ one step further and institute an ever larger welfare state where everybody is answerable to him and his cronies.
