It was but a single day shy of a perfect year from Barack Obama’s inauguration, when a previously unheralded, not emphatically gifted, Republican candidate, Scott Brown, won the Senatorial election in the state of Massachusetts. The Senate seat in question was not just any seat: It wasn’t so much held, as owned and occupied, stamped with the family coat-of-arms, taken under the political equivalent of copyright protection, by Ted Kennedy. This seat was Democratic in the same way we say water is wet, birds twitter, and reality TV grinds the living nerves.
Yet Scott Brown, a guy who campaigned in a five-year-old pickup truck (GMC Canyon), starting the race 30 points behind the Democratic candidate, stared down campaign jolts from ex-President Clinton, and President Obama, and won Tuesday night by a five-point margin. Truly, the planet has begun to heal, the rising of the seas has begun to slow.
Scott Brown’s win was the real report card on Barack Obama’s one-year presidency. He may have given himself, in an interview with Dame Oprah of Afternoon Fluff, a B+. Voters of Massachusetts were more clear-eyed and rigorous. They went, let us say, with a “gentleman’s D.”
How did this happen? Obama was a chandelier presence in a world of political moles. Just one year in, his grandest plan (health care reform) is in tatters, his political coat tails have been amputated, his tactical practices and policy initiatives have ignited low-key rebellion in an army of citizens (the Tea Party movement) and his once greatest asset, the soup of honeyed words (Hope, Change) and fortune-cookie mantras (You are the change you’ve been waiting for) that left crowds in a dreamy swoon, have not only staled — Barack Obama’s speeches are sometimes close to … boring.
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Typical Harvard grad, used to grade inflation. B+ for everyone else is actually C-
“His repair, if there is to be one, has to come from himself. He’ll get some hints where to start from Scott Brown. He should take a ride in that pickup.”
Elitists like Obama simply don’t ride in pickup trucks and since a leopard doesn’t change its spots, Obama will not be having a Damascus experience like Clinton had in his first term. Obama is a narcissist who must control in order to feed his addiction for adulation, which will not be repaired.
The repair would have to start with Obama having a belief in America whose middle class majority are conservatives who prefer the rights of the individual trumping the collective.
However, Obama is not a socialist. He is not well read enough to be a Trudeau type socialist. Instead Obama projects the illusion of being a collectivist or a statist because he has a personal need to control in order to get the adulation of the masses. Collectivism allows for more control. That’s why Obama tilts that way, not because he believes in equality of the masses. It is his handlers who are the statists and they have been using their teleprompter to evangelize the masses.
As the teleprompter becomes more of a handicap than an advantage, the left wing take over of the Dems will dump Obama. Obama will not be impeached, the choice of Joe Bidden was insurance against impeachment.
Finally, we cannot blame our problems of lousy politicians on the MSM. We must take some responsibility to become informed voters. Even busy people trying to pay taxes and fed the kids must invest a couple of hours a week in informing themselves about who runs our country or the middle class will slowly all end up like Haiti, with elitists hijacking us and treating us like peasants.
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