August 26, 2014
The Madness of 2008
A nation became unhinged by trivialities like “hope and change.” It has now awakened.
On the campaign trail, October 2008 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
America
is suddenly angry at the laxity, incompetence, and polarizing politics
of the Obama administration, the bad optics of the president putting
about in his bright golf clothes while the world burns. Certainly, no
recent president has failed on so many fronts — honesty, transparency,
truthfulness, the economy, foreign policy, the duties of the
commander-in-chief, executive responsibilities, and spiritual
leadership.
For those who are “shocked” at the present
meltdown, of a magnitude not seen since the annus horribilis of 1979, in
their defense: Obama certainly did not campaign on a new health-care
plan that would force Americans to give up the doctors they liked and
their existing coverage, while raising premiums and deductibles, while
giving exemptions for insiders and cronies, and while raising the
deficit.
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