What to Expect From President Obama
Robert A. Hall
John McCain’s jet couldn’t avoid the rocket that plunged him
into five years of Communist hell in 1967. It’s now clear that McCain’s
campaign can’t avoid another rocket, and the country will be plunged into four
years of an Obama Administration.
The rocket coming at McCain is Bush and the economy. Obama
must love the irony. McCain was Bush’s implacable enemy in the Republican
Party, an apostate to the far right. And McCain sought to rein in Fannie and
Freddie with S-190 in 2005, while recipients of Fannie contributions, like
Senators Dodd and Obama, defeated the attempt. Now McCain’s old nemesis Bush
and the Fannie-fueled economic implosion will bring McCain down.
What can we expect from President Obama?
1. It won’t be as bad as conservatives think. It’s hard to
move the bloated bureaucracy off the shining path of making bureaucrats
comfortable. Obama won’t be able to swing the country as far left as his base
hopes. Plus the economic meltdown will tie the hands of the next president,
regardless.
2. Despite his class warfare speeches, the most productive
members of society won’t suffer as much as Obama’s leftist supporters want. But
people without education and skills will hurt more. Taxing those who make over
$250,000 sounds sweet to the boobocracy, but the threshold for the upper 5% of
taxpayers is only $153,000. There just ain’t enough “rich” to pay for all the
goodies, so the rest of us will. And raising the Capital Gains Tax as Obama has
promised reduces revenue by driving job-creating capital from the market—just
what we need. Obama will have less experience and a stronger Democratic
congressional majority than Jimmy Carter. Remember interest rates, unemployment
and inflation in the Carter years?
3. Republicans will do well in the 2010 midterm, as the
corruption shoe fits the other foot. Democrats will now have more
opportunities, and Obama is tied to the Fannie Mae looters and the Daley
machine, all eager to get their hands back in the cookie jar. The fawning media
will have a huge emotional letdown when Obama turns out to be just another
Chicago politician, and will turn on him savagely. You read it here first.
4. Obama is deeply committed to multilateralism and working
with Europe and the UN. But they are deeply committed to inaction. So in
foreign policy, expect lots of talk and little action. He’ll push the war in
Afghanistan hard or look weak. And he’ll follow the Clinton Doctrine of firing
off a few missiles and talking tough after every terrorist attack.
5. There will be terrorist attacks. Watch for the Arab
street to go wild with joy after Obama’s win is announced. Doubtless a few Jews
and Christians will be murdered in celebration, creating hand-wringing and
empty vows to “bring them to justice.” But the inevitably cut-and-run and chaos
in Iraq, and the inevitable military cutbacks of an Obama administration will
embolden our enemies, who will strengthen and attack. Israel will have to take
out Iran’s atomic program alone, or die.
6. Watch for increasing accommodation to the stealth Jihad
at home. Criticism of Islam and Muslims will become illegal as “hate speech,”
though trashing Christians and Jews will still be fine. Every Muslim demand
acceded to will lead to new demands. Resistance will be labeled “racism” as
though Islam was a race, rather than a political-religious philosophy.
So what must we do?
Call out every speck of political corruption.
Call out politicians of both parties who push to spend
military dollars on high-tech weapons to get votes rather than on the trained
troops we need for this war.
Call out every attempt to silence dissent against creeping
Islamization and the tyranny of Sharia.
And fight to preserve the Republic for the next Reagan, who
will defeat this new Carter in four years.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran and former
Massachusetts state senator.
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