The Anointed One

Perhaps more than any other phrase in Obama’s “playing President” exercise in Berlin, the one I found most repugnant was “freedom from want.” Nothing will ultimately ensure for every global citizen freedom from want. Like professing fondness for a “blended economy,” this is a frightening wish from someone who in the same breath pays lip service to free markets and points out the eventual failure of the Communists.

Are the posters of Ché that abound in his campaign offices nostalgic, or do Obama's supporters see him as the re-embodiment of Ché? Government can never have enough money, but citizens always have too much. Adults can’t be trusted to be responsible for themselves, yet government can be trusted to take care of them. Poor children must be inculcated into dependency in public education bureaucracies. People are discouraged from pursuing economic advancement in the private sector so that they're “free” to perform community service. Owning a gun to protect yourself and your family is frowned upon; aborting children even for mere inconvenience is encouraged.

Obama is a modern-day Communist running not so much for the presidency as for a Soviet premiership over the United States. Are Americans this desperate to be taken care of? Are we so helpless that we’ll willingly relegate ourselves to child-like dependency?