The Uniter
Scene: A President spends over 12 months in public, congressional, and fruitless international debate over an invasion of Iraq. The measure receives bipartisan majorities from both parties and America goes to war with warnings that it will not be easy. Our country invades Iraq.
Scene: A President leaves the public 5 days total to read an omnibus spending bill to combat an economic crisis billed as the worst since the Great Depression, despite inflation, jobless rates, and real wages all being significantly lower in Ronald Reagan’s first year in office. The measure receives nearly zero bipartisan support.
You know the actors, but isn’t it strange that one is demonized as polarizing whilst the other is a Uniter? Its only fair to view the Iraqi invasion at the time it started, as the spending bill hasn’t gone any farther. Both men utilized a “crisis” to politick their cause, and both wielded the subsequent fear of the situation to spur debate.
I’m not surprised that the politicians used fear to get what they want, but I will always be shocked how the media can take two stories and shape public opinion in the bent of their own bias. I’m confident that in a few years, Obama will
a) fail in several measures to govern differently than GWB (FISA intact, Guantanamo around, etc.)
b) fail to garner bipartisan support for much of anything (“I won,” he said triumphantly.)
c) endure very little of the slings and arrows his policies will inevitably have, even if everything goes better than it ever has
On c), I would say that every administration has their critics, but only this one is seeking to eliminate their voices by destroying the only mouthpiece it has in talk radio. I stand by the stance that the fairness doctrine will be an internal battle that eventually reveals Obama as what he claims to be in his lofty sermons, or the sinister political agent of a far Left oligarchy vying for revolution. Passage of the fairness doctrine is such a direct attack on free speech little doubt will be left if he gives this robbery of the 1st ammendment his authority. Talk about shredding the Constitution. Your move, Barack.
