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of John Gelles
November 6, 2009

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The myth of '08, demolished
Why Obama's 2008 sweep was a historical anomaly.
By Charles Krauthammer

See original column at the link above

Comments by johngelles :

If my favorite pundit, Charles Krauthammer is correct, and the dream of "we can overcome poverty, global warming, and risk of American decline to ordinary or less influence in the 21st Century", -- humanity will be the loser.

I do love Charles. But I hate this return to normal right of center  belief and outcomes -- based on the inaction of the poor and triumph of the uninspired.

It is not Charles who has failed. It is Obama, who has has been afraid to face and destroy unemployment and failed to mobilize the nation for asymmetrical war -- by outspending on robotic weapons systems what it will take to impress the forces of Hitlerian self-destruction to see merit in peace and prosperity.

Obama has lost Charles who would have befriended him if he had changed "we can" into "we shall".

He will lose us all if he does not embrace FDR's Bill of Economic Rights and bully us into financing it with the economic tools of WW II.

These were mostly money and sweat, not taxes and fear -- to face down the forces of timid spending -- with facts on the ground of industrial might development and delivery of permanent industrial preeminence Keynesian thought offers to the center-center -- not to the center-right.

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