House of Eratosthenes

Barack Obama is a petty little man whose grandiose sense of self importance has always far outstripped his abilities and accomplishments. Putting a man such as that in the most important job on the planet is like taking a five year old off an airplane ride at a carnival and putting him at the control of a jet airplane in mid-flight.

Contrition is not forthcoming from the shameless, so one would be mistaken to expect an apology from our nation’s first Holy President for any of these items. But if that were to come to pass, I would recommend to His Eminence that He should start with number six:

The unspoken promise behind Barack Obama’s campaign was that his election would enable America to finally achieve its long held dream of being a post-racial nation. Yet, Obama’s election has led to a flurry of finger pointing, grievance mongering, and race based accusations.

Some of that has come from Obama’s own administration. Eric Holder said America is a “nation of cowards” on race. Barack Obama even publicly sided with his friend Henry Louis Gates based on reasoning that really didn’t go much deeper than Gates [was] black and the cop was white; so the cop must be racist.

You know what I notice about this, is that if you were to make a list of what America does need & doesn’t need right now, you’d find it’s a mostly non-partisan list and very few people are going to disagree with anything on it. We need to make it easier to get a job in this country, which means we need to make it easier to hire people. We need to make it easier to buy, sell, start a business, transport goods, stock them, move them, provide services, acquire permits to do a variety of business-related things.

We don’t need more debt. We don’t need more wars. We really don’t need any more racial animosity or class animosity. We need friends. We don’t need enemies. We need respect. We don’t need a surge of illegal aliens streaming across our borders. None of this is right-wing or left-wing, it’s simply true.

The most brittle, hardcore whack-job leftist would agree with every single word except maybe the blurb about illegal aliens.

And it’s a simple, verifiable fact that Obama has buried us in the items on the “don’t need” list and done absolutely nothing to offer us anything on the “need” list. Yet at this late date, about one in three voters are still approving of Him. Not His personality, but His policies as well.

It’s just another case of liberals inventing their own reality.

Update: Sheer coincidence. Serendipity. A New York Times story (hat tip to Neal Boortz) illustrates precisely what I am talking about:

The Obama administration is acknowledging that its new offshore drilling safety regulations will raise costs for the oil and gas industry — and may also delay some offshore development, slightly increase gas prices and kill some jobs.

Another underwear-gnome policy.

Step 1: Raise costs, delay development, increase gas prices and kill jobs.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: We saved the economy!

We need to make it easier to get a job in this country, which means we need to make it easier to hire people. We need to make it easier to buy, sell, start a business, transport goods, stock them, move them, provide services, acquire permits to do a variety of business-related things… The most brittle, hardcore whack-job leftist would agree with every single word.

I have to disagree with this, sadly. Dear Leader and his ilk are academic leftists, and unless you’ve been immersed in campus culture lately, you’ve no idea just how hated the very idea of “business” actually is. When I say that perfessers’ ideal world is a giant collective farm with themselves as the Vanguard of the Proletariat, I am absolutely not kidding. “Jobs” are the tools of capitalist exploitation. “Hiring” is the means by which the bourgeoisie entraps the working class into a cycle of oppression. “Goods,” and the need to transport, stock, and sell them, are the technologies by which the elite retain their hegemony.

They actually believe this.

Most importantly, they believe that private enterprise (boo! hiss!) is poaching on the government’s turf. “Providing services” is, for them, the legitimate prerogative and main function of government, since we proles absolutely cannot be trusted with our own decisions. Why, we might even use our money on beer and NFL Sunday Ticket instead of vegan meals and transgressive performance art! Thus we must have our lifestyles dictated to us by our enlightened betters (every proletariat needs a vanguard).

Is it any surprise that Obama, a former law professor — that is, a member of one of the leftest-leaning segments of an ubiquitously far-left profession — is so implacably hostile to business in all its forms?
- Severian | 10/12/2010 @ 10:03
I’m probably guilty of taking them too seriously.

When I wear my “Hope He FailsN tee shirt I am occasionally confronted by the leftist who is aghast that I want America to fail. This is an example of 1) flip flop, flip & flop again, whatever it takes to win; or 2) loyal democrats who believe in the free market are being fooled by other dems who do not.

Nobody on the left, it seems, is ready to have an honest discussion about what an “economy” is.
- mkfreeberg | 10/12/2010 @ 10:45
That’s what I’m worried about — those loyal Democrats who believe in the free market really don’t have any clue what it entails, and thus are easily led by hardcore ideologues like Dear Leader who also don’t know what it is, but are determined to destroy it anyway.

To be fair, economic thinking (in which I’m by no means an expert, for the record) is hard. I have a colleague — a fair-minded, intelligent colleague — who simply cannot grasp that, when I buy a stock for $1 per share and sell it for $4, somebody somewhere isn’t being “exploited” for $3. When those are your baseline assumptions, it’s easy to buy into the claptrap about “spreading the wealth around.”

Ultimately it’s all about the liberal sense of entitlement. For some of us, getting our fancy-schmancy college degrees is all about proving that we have the potential to seize the opportunities presented us; our worth comes from what we actually do with those opportunities. For others, the degrees are ipso facto proof of one’s right, and duty, to boss others around. Seeing as how the real world rewards only results, the only psychologically sound thing for this type of person to do is to set themselves up as the vanguard of the proletariat… that way whatever they do will be vindicated by the iron laws of history, even if out in the real world they fail over and over and over again.
- Severian | 10/12/2010 @ 13:03

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