What is it about Barack Obama that gets some folks so riled up?
He can’t broach health care, doubtlessly one of the most pressing issues in the U.S. without opponents stirring up a bee hive of anger.
He can’t try to deal with economic recovery after one of the worst downfalls since the Great Depression without being skewered by every anti-tax, anti-spending yeah-hoo (or should I say “wahoo“) from Onancock to Big Stone Gap.
The economic crisis started in earnest about a year ago and it wasn’t Obama’s watch. And, lest we forget, George W. Bush introduced the largest expansion of Medicare since the 1960s without giving us one iota of thinking how we’re going to pay for it all. By the way, the financial meltdown happened when he was in office, too.
And we have our own beloved James A. Bacon beating a regular drum about the End of the World due to government spending.
And now, public school systems across the country are not going to broadcast Obama’s speech to school kids on Tuesday. Well Gee, every president since FDR has had his smiling mug photographed with a bunch of Boy Scouts, Brownies, grade school geniuses, etc., and no one has said anything.
Obama’s too partisan, too dangerous. Well, gentle readers, take a gander at the following and tell me just how dangerously socialistic it is. It is what Obama’s going to say tomorrow:
‘I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
“But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
“That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Do you really think this is a threat to our Constitution and our way of life?
Peter Galuszka
