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Some have suggested President Obama does not understand Americans. Some have said he is overwhelmed by the job an election victory gave him. Some say he is in over his head. And others say being President is beyond Obama’s brief resume’ in the US Senate, state office or community organizing. They may say such things given what we know, what we’ve seen and the way things are developing in the nation’s capital. As expected, George F Will has a column describing the current White House resident as well as a look at the President’s strategy for an agenda.

Barack Obama in August became a Huey [Long] for today, a rabble rouser with a better tailor, an unrumpled and modulated tribune of downtrodden Americans, telling them that opponents of his reform plan—which actually does not yet exist—are fearmongers employing scare tactics

Not unlike the President’s retreat to Martha’s Vineyard this August to avoid reaction to his agenda, his efforts to provide life support for a dying healthcare reform proposal resembles a chapter from the community organizer playbook. Not something that most Americans would embrace nor would most Presidents try to force feed the public.

Another reason that reasonable people are wary of any government plan for a grandiose rearrangement of the health-care sector’s 17 percent of the economy is that, regarding grandiosity, the president, after less than eight months in office, is a recidivist.

The subtitle for Mr Will’s column linked to above is ‘Washington is seriously unserious’. For an entertaining and insightful read on the state of Obamanomics follow the links to read the rest.

Stanford Matthews
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